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Character page for ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', ''Film/AvatarTheWayOfWater'' and related media.

* [[Characters/AvatarPandoranWildlife Pandoran Wildlife]] -- The wildlife of Pandora and the planet's sentient force, Eywa.

* [[Characters/AvatarResourcesDevelopmentAdministration Resources Development Administration (RDA)]] -- The human forces that aim to exploit the resources of, and ultimately colonize, Pandora.

!Pandoran Wildlife
[[folder:In General]]
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Justified since the wildlife thrives on an alien world. Many of them possess colors that are far more eye catching than most Earth creatures.
* BioluminescenceIsCool: Every Pandoran lifeform, whether flora or fauna, has at least some bioluminescence, ranging from freckle-like glowing spots to fanlike glowing appendages. The primary environmental reason for this is that there are long periods when Pandora orbits behind the dark side of Polyphemus, making the bioluminescence the only major source of light.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Most have bioluminescent hairless skin, six limbs, four eyes, spiracles (breathing nostrils located on their torsos) and a pair of antennae that can interface with those of other creatures.
* ExtraEyes: Many have four eyes, though some, such as the banshee and direhorse, have the second pair much smaller and less developed.
* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: A lot. Titanotheres are rhinos, Thanators are big cats, Direhorses are...well, horses, and Sturmbeest are buffalo, to name a few.
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: Most of them have six limbs. Notable exceptions include the Na'vi (implied by the prolemuris to have had their two pairs of arms fuse together) and the Banshee, which have four legs with both front and hind ones modified into wings.
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[[folder:Eywa]]
!!Eywa
The Na'vi's Great Mother and Goddess of life, effectively their equivalent to Gaia or Mother Earth, central to their monotheistic faith. Eywa is scientifically explainable as the sapient superintelligence created by the electrochemical interactions of Pandoran life, creating a giant world-spanning neural network. This biological internet is analogous to at least 20-100 times the connections between neurons on a human brain.
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* GaiasVengeance: Of the Gaia's Vengeance Proper variety. With the interconnected, interfacing nature of Pandora's flora and fauna, Eywa can in effect relay commands to vast hordes of ferocious wildlife. In this case, the command is "Put a stop to the human incursion. Violently."
* GeniusLoci: Being an unimaginably vast and intricate "brain" that stretches across Pandora, Eywa is perhaps best described as a sentient ''biosphere''.
* {{God}}: While she mainly resembles Gaia in function, she has some elements of big-G God, being the benevolent source of all life who they worship in a monotheistic religion. And it's implied she even has her own Jesus, [[MessianicArchetype in the form of]] Kiri.
* NeutralNoLonger: Na'vi do not call upon Eywa to aid them in conflicts, seeing her as the protector of the balance of life who is above taking sides. Neytiri warns Jake as much when he beseeches Eywa for help against the RDA's forces. However, his warning - and, it's implied, Grace's memories of a devastated Earth - are sufficient to finally spur her to coordinated action against the invaders at the climax of the first film.
* RealAfterAll: The humans initially dismiss Eywa as just a myth. But Grace's studies of Pandoran biota, particularly the trees, convinces her that Eywa is tangibly real as a "superbrain" governing all life on the moon.
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!!!Forest Creatures

[[folder:Great Leonopteryx]]
!! Great Leonopteryx (Na'vi name: Toruk)
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A draconic aerial apex predator that plays an important role in the Na'vi culture.
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* TheDreaded: It is feared by the Na’vi just as much as it is revered. When [[spoiler: Jake arrives to the Tree of Souls on the back of the Toruk, all of them are startled by its presence and immediately back away before realizing he tamed it.]]
* GiantFlyer: It is much, much bigger than any Ikran. For scale, it also happens to be bigger than the Scorpion helicopters.
* LogicalWeakness: {{Discussed|Trope}} -- Jake notes that [[spoiler:it being unable to see directly above itself makes sense since it's an apex predator. It can't look up because it has no reason to fear attack from above]].
* MeaningfulName: As Jake points out, Toruk’s name meaning "Last Shadow" is appropriate for a creature who is more than likely the last shadow any unfortunate prey will ever see.
* OnlyTheChosenMayRide: The fearsome Toruk has only been ridden five times in recorded Na'vi history, only by the greatest and most courageous warriors, called Toruk Makto, who came to unite the clans in times of great sorrow. [[spoiler: Jake himself tames the Toruk to regain the Na'vi's trust, becoming the sixth Toruk Makto.]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Takes inspiration from birds of prey and pterosaurs.
* PowerUpMount: [[spoiler: In order to return to the remaining Omaticaya tribe without being slain on sight, Jake is forced to fly his Ikran above the Toruk so he can land on it from above to perform ''tsaheylu'' on the creature. After he uses it as his mount for the final battle, he sets the Toruk free.]]
* ShadowOfImpendingDoom: Its favorite method of attack is to drop down on its prey from above with the sun directly behind it, hence its Na'vi name.
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: Has four wings and two legs, like most of Pandora's six-limbed animals.
* WeaksauceWeakness: [[spoiler: Its prominent bony eyebrow ridges make it unable to see directly above itself, allowing Jake to jump it from above and easily tame it.]]
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[[folder:Mountain Banshee]]
!! Mountain Banshee (Na'vi name: Ikran)
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Smaller relatives of the Leonopteryx, and standard aerial mounts of the Na'vi.
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* BondCreatures: Forms a lifelong bond with their rider. Once ''tsaheylu'' is forged between the Ikran and its rider, it will only fly with one rider for its entire life.
* EyesAlwaysAverted: It is best not to look an Ikran in the eye, otherwise they will accept your gaze as a challenge.
* IfItSwimsItFlies: ''The Way Of Water'' reveals that they are capable of swimming quite deftly. However, [[ShownTheirWork like seabirds, they have to fold up their wings to do so]], instead using their undulating bodies to swim like eels.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Have teeth reminiscent of certain Earth bony fish, as well as similarly-prognostic jaws.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Pterodactyl-like fliers with some [[FairyDragons fairy dragon]] elements like the transparent, almost insect-like translucent wing tips, and prismatic color shading. They're a [[DragonRider primary aerial transport]] as well.
* PteroSoarer: Has a distinctly pterosaurian influence in their design. Funnily enough, they eventually had an actual pterosaur named after them called ''Ikrandraco avatar''.
* UndyingLoyalty: They only ever bond with a single Na'vi in their lifetime. It's so prevalent that they even listen and stick with their masters even without ''tsaheylu'' active. Neytiri's ikran Seze waits for her to return when she walks with Jake to tame an ikran of his own. Jake's ikran flies in to pick him up after seeing him wake up [[spoiler:among the ruins of the destroyed Hometree]], implying that it was flying around watching him and waiting for him to wake up..
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: One of Pandora's few exceptions, having four wings that all function as legs on the ground, and no visible trace of a third pair of limbs.
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[[folder:Thanator]]
!! Thanator (Na'vi name: Palulukan)
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A six-legged panther-like creature that is Pandora's apex land predator.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: Jake taunts a titanothere, which acts frightened and runs away. Turns out it wasn't afraid of Jake himself...but the Thanator creeping up from behind him.
* CatsAreMean: It is a large predatory animal with very feline characteristics. It is also relentless and very aggressive.
* MeaningfulName: Its name is one letter away from Thanatos, the Greek personification of death, which is very fitting for an apex predator of the Pandoran jungles.
* NightmareFace: It can raise its lips to expose its gums and extra teeth just like a gelada baboon.
* PantheraAwesome: Resembles a panther or a big cat of sorts.
* PowerUpMount: Is ridden by [[spoiler: Neytiri to battle Quartich in his mech suit. Unfortunately, the Thanator is killed in the battle.]]
* SuperPersistentPredator: Chases Jake for far longer than is reasonably possible, though at the very least it decides that a waterfall is going too far.
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[[folder:Hammerhead Titanothere]]
!! Hammerhead Titanothere (Na'vi name: Ang'tsik)
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A large, powerful Pandoran herbivore akin to a rhinoceros.
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* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Sports a brightly-colored frill on its head that sharply contrasts with its more muted gray body, which it uses for display.
* TheCavalry: [[spoiler: A massive herd of them charges the RDA during the final battle, when Eywa decides to respond to Jake's petition.]]
* MightyGlacier: A massive beast twice the size of an African elephant, it relied more on its sheer strength and bulk, though it's still quite a bit faster than it looks.
* RhinoRampage: Resembles an oversized rhino, and is very territorial.
* SuperToughness: Its tough armored hide is impervious to bullets.
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[[folder:Direhorse]]
!! Direhorse (Na'vi name: Pa'li)
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The equine mounts of the Na'vi.
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* BornInTheSaddle: The Horse Clan of the Plains seems to rely on the direhorse far more than most tribes.
* DireBeast: It's basically a horse, but due to Pandora's lower gravity grows nearly to the size of an elephant. Its scientific name, ''"Equidirus hoplites"'', meaning "fearsome armored horse", certainly suggests this.
* LightningBruiser: Is incredibly swift of foot and thus one of the Na'vi's mounts of choice.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: It's a giant horse that is blue, has six legs, and has an anteater-like snout and a long tongue to feed on nectar.
* OverlyLongTongue: They have long thick tongues that they use to lick nectar out of flowers.
* VocalDissonance: Despite resembling a horse, it doesn't neigh, instead making honking sounds akin to a goose, or the raptors of ''Film/JurassicPark''.
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[[folder:Viperwolf]]
!! Viperwolf (Na'vi name: Nantang)
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A wolf-like predator that hunts in packs.
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* TheCavalry: [[spoiler: Many Viperwolves return in the climax to take down RDA ground troops.]]
* HumanlikeHandAnatomy: Their paws have grasping digits and opposable thumbs, allowing it to climb trees as well as hunt on the ground.
* HeinousHyena: They make some eerie cackle-like howls that are very reminiscent of hyena sounds while surrounding Jake in the forest.
* InnateNightVision: Their excellent night vision provides them an advantage when cornering Jake in the dark jungle. Their eyes even glow in the dark.
* MixAndMatchCritter: While mostly resembling wolves, they have prehensile hands and tree-climbing abilities like monkeys and have a laughing cackle similar to hyenas.
* MonsterIsAMommy: While their first appearance is a rather terrifying scene of them attacking Jake in the dark of night, a more gentle side of them is seen when Jake and Neytiri later encounter a mother viperwolf tending to her litter of pups, which play-fight like adorable Earth puppies.
* SavageWolves: Portrayed as such when they attack Jake in the darkness.
* ZergRush: A pack of them try to attack Jake from all directions.
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[[folder:Prolemuris]]
!! Prolemuris (Na'vi name: Syaksyuk)
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A gibbon-like creature theorized to be the Na'vi's closest evolutionary relative.
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* BizarreAlienLimbs: The Prolemuris has its upper pairs of arms fused together and bifurcating at the elbow, seemingly hinting on how the Na'vi evolved to have four limbs while most other Pandoran vertebrates have six.
* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Of monkeys and apes, with their relationship to the Na'vi as their closest relative being similar to that of humans and chimps.
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[[folder:Woodsprite]]
!!Woodsprite (Na'vi name: Atokirina')
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[[folder:Fan Lizard]]
!!Fan Lizard (Na'vi name: Kenten)
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* HeliCritter: These lizard-like creatures fly by fanning out their circular wings (with each wing making up half of a circle) and twirling them like helicopter rotors.
* SpectacularSpinning: Their bodies spin around whenever they fly so their wings do not get twisted. Makes one wonder if they ever get dizzy.
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[[folder:Stingbat]]
!!Stingbat (Na'vi name: Riti)
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cat Ear]]
!!Cat Ear (Na'vi name: Pamtseowll)
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hellfire Wasp]]
!!Hellfire Wasp (Na'vi name: Zize)
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[[folder:Hexapede]]
!!Hexapede (Na'vi name: Yerik)
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* ExplosiveBreeder: Since these little creatures are prey to just about every predator on Pandora, they breed like rabbits.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Panopyra]]
!!Panopyra (Na'vi name: Tawtsngal)
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sturmbeest]]
!!Sturmbeest (Na'vi name: Talioang)
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* LightningBruiser: As hefty as they look, they are pretty fast runners.
* ReCut: They are exclusive to the Extended version of the first movie.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tapirus]]
!!Tapirus (Na'vi name: Fwampop)
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tetrapteron]]
!!Tetrapteron (Na'vi name: Fkio)
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Arachnoid]]
!!Arachnoid (Na'vi name: Kali'weya)
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[[folder:Helicoradian]]
!!Helicoradian (Na'vi name: Loreyu)
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[[folder:Binary Sunshine]]
!!Binary Sunshine, or lucinaria fibriata, (Na'vi name: penghrrap meaning "danger-teller")
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[[folder:Atlas Beetle]]
!!Atlas Beetle
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[[folder:Crimsysoraus]]
!!Crimsysoraus
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[[folder:Fanged Mongrel]]
!!Fanged Mongrel
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[[folder:Flathead Ram]]
!!Flathead Ram
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[[folder:Glow Worms]]
!!Glow Worms
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[[folder:Grody Grueller]]
!!Grody Grueller
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[[folder:Kentrocapra]]
!!Kentrocapra
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Medusa]]
!!Medusa
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[[folder:Ostrich]]
!!Ostrich
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[[folder:Saber Hogs]]
!!Saber Hogs
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[[folder:Sharp-Horned Ram]]
!!Sharp-Horned Ram
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[[folder:Sharptooth Lizard]]
!!Sharptooth Lizard
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[[folder:Steervane]]
!!Steervane
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[[folder:Spider]]
!!Spider
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[[folder:Wolf Tick]]
!!Wolf Tick
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[[folder:Wind Scorpion]]
!!Wind Scorpion
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[[folder:Austrapede]]
!!Austrapede
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!!!Sea Creatures

[[folder:Skimwing]]
!! Skimwing (Na'vi name: Tsurak)
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A distant relative of the Ikran that is found in the territory of the Metkayina tribe.
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* BondCreatures: Like the aerial Banshee, Skimwings can be ridden through "tsaheylu". However, due to their temperamental natures, it takes much longer to develop loyal bonds.
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: At home in both the water and the air.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Visually resembles a flying fish, with the long snout of a gar and the body-shape of an Echovenator.
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[[folder:Ilu]]
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Plesiosaur-like creature who serve as the primary mounts of the Metkayina tribe.
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* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin: Despite their plesiosaur-like body plan, their chirping and whistling vocalizations and playful personalities are inspired by this trope.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: They are pretty much used as [[JustForPun sea horses]] for the Metkayina tribe.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Just look into those big eyes and listen to them chirp. D'awwwww!

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[[folder:Akula]]
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A large mosasaur-like creature and an apex predator of Pandora’s oceans.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Some can be seen swimming in an overhead shot spanning across a few reefs during the Sully family’s travel over the ocean.
** However, based on location and the fact that multiple individuals are seen in the shot, it's possible these could be [[https://james-camerons-avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Nalutsa Nalutsa]], a related species which is less aggressive, more social, and more common closer to shore.
* MeaningfulName: “Akula” is a Russian word for “shark”, which pretty much describes the creature nicely. This aggressive mosasaur-like SeaMonster will stop at nothing to devour its prey once it has its eyes on them.
* MixAndMatchCritters: It has teeth like an extinct Dunkleosteus fish, jaws that open up like a snake, and a body that has a mixture of traits from sharks, eels, and mosasaurs.
* SeaMonster: It's basically a Pandoran mosasaur.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Just like the Thanator, it is very committed to catching its prey. Even when it loses Lo’ak briefly in a thick entanglement of coral, it waits for him to swim out of it to catch him.

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[[folder:Tulkun]]
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Giant and very intelligent cetacean-like animals. They are one of the largest creatures on Pandora.
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* BilingualDialogue: Since neither side can physically speak the others' language, Na'vi use a signed language when underwater while tulkun sing.
* BloodBrothers: A variation. Bonding with a Tulkun requires a Na'vi to swim into their open mouth to access the queue in the back of their throat, which links their minds. After that point, they're considered spirit siblings. [[spoiler:Tonowari and the other Metakayina are infuriated when they learn that Lo'ak has bonded with Payakan, an outcast Tulkun.]]
* FlowerMouth: Like a number of other Pandoran creatures, they have multiple parallel jawbones that open out like petals. In their case, it gives them an impressively enormous gape for hoovering up fish and plankton.
* GentleGiant: In spite of their immense size, they’re completely averse to violence, and their annual migration to the coasts and islands of Pandora is treated by the Metkayina Clan like a reunion with close friends or family.
* GreatOffscreenWar: In the past, Tulkun warred over territory and for revenge, and nearly destroyed themselves. This led to the development of their pacifistic culture.
* HumanResources: The [=RDA=] knows full well that they're sapient beings, but hunts them anyway for a brain fluid they have that's used to create an anti-aging drug.
* ImmuneToBullets: Even more so than other Pandoran megafauna. Their armor plating can shrug off pretty much ''anything'' humans can throw at them, and even the massive explosive-tipped harpoons the RDA's whalers use to kill them have to be aimed at their underbellies to stand a chance of penetrating.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Being smarter than humans and being able to secrete a liquid that makes people immortal, you'd think they'd have been a bigger deal to human colonists than the Na'vi and unobtainium. Though it's possible that the Tulkun might not have been discovered by the time of the first movie.
* SapientCetaceans: Giant whale-like creatures that are revealed to be just as intelligent as humans or Na'vi, with their own culture, language, and religious beliefs.
* SuicidalPacifism: They refuse to engage in violence even though they're being actively hunted by humans. The Metkayena say that this is due to their species-wide DarkAndTroubledPast - their generational trauma from their history of warfare and bloodshed is so extreme that they really would prefer to die rather than resurrect it. Garvin further notes that their brains allow them to experience emotion with superhuman depth and complexity, which helps explain exactly why violence is so horrifying to them.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Or rather "What Measure Is a Non-''Humanoid''". Unlike the humanoid Na'vi, who are viewed as lesser beings, but ones who the RDA makes token efforts to be diplomatic with, the non-humanoid tulkuns are simply slaughtered.

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[[folder:Payakan]]
!!Payakan, the outcast Tulkun
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A Tulkun who has been shunned by his species and the Metkayina Clan who claim that he killed their fellow clan members. Lo'ak discovers him after he saves his life and forges a special bond with him.
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* AnArmAndALeg: He lost a fin in the [=RDA=] attack that killed his mother and pod.
* AndroclesLion: Inverted. Lo'ak helps him by dislodging a rusty harpoon head embedded in his fin... except that he saved Lo'ak from a hungry Akula and carries him to the surface earlier. Arguably, considering the sentience of the Tulkun, Lo'ak could in fact be considered the Lion to his Androcles.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's a GentleGiant like the other Tulkuns, [[spoiler: but when angered by the RDA, he singlehandedly racks up the highest body count of any characters in the movies except Eywa herself on the whalers.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:He suddenly leaps out of the water to attack the humans just before Quaritch gives the order to shoot Jake, causing a distraction long enough for Jake, his family and the Metkayina to regroup and launch an attack on the RDA whaling crew.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:An RDA whaling crew killed his mom. Angered by her death, he led a charge against his mom's killers, but the humans killed off his entire band of fellow Tulkun and their Metkayina Na'vi allies accompanying him, leaving him as the sole survivor of the attack. Because the Tulkun are averse to violence, they deemed him responsible for their deaths and cast him out of their company with the Metkayina shunning him as well.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:Tried to attack the RDA whaling crew accompanied by some reinforcements to exact revenge against the humans for killing his mom in the past, except that it didn't end well for him. He later manages to get back at the RDA and Captain Scoresby for real by sinking the whaling ship that was there when his mother died, severing one of Scoresby's arms in the process.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He is first introduced when he comes out of nowhere to save Lo’ak from an Akula by ramming it several times into a large rock, killing it. Since the Tulkun are later established to be extreme pacifists, showing Payakan killing something cements him as an outsider amongst the Tulkun.
* ItsPersonal: He's ''very'' angry with the humans [[spoiler:for killing his mom, which is why he tried to assemble a platoon of his fellow Tulkun and their Na'vi allies to get back at them. He finally gets recompense during the climax, sinking the ship that killed his mother.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: He's shunned by both the Tulkun and the Metkayina because [[spoiler: he violated the Tulkun's creed of non-violence. He led a band of young bulls and Na'vi against the whaling ship that killed his mother, leading to a massacre from which he was the sole survivor. Payakan is so ashamed of it that he only shares the memory with Lo'ak after Lo'ak insists he can be trusted.]]
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: He's outcast because he's the only Tulkun willing to be violent. He retreated from violence due to his grief, [[spoiler:but returns to fight in the finale to save Lo'ak, his spirit brother.]]
* NiceGuy: Despite his outcast status [[spoiler:due to wrong accusations]], he's a pretty friendly guy who wouldn't hurt a fly... unless the fly hurt him. [[spoiler:He accompanies Jake and Neytiri to the Metkayina's spirit tree after Neteyam's funeral, implicitly to give his best friend's grieving parents moral support]].
* ScarsAreForever: Lo'ak notices a scar just over his left eye, which came from the result of the RDA whaling crew attacking him in the past, [[spoiler:specifically when he led a platoon of Na'vi and Tulkun bulls against the humans]].
* TaughtByExperience: He survived a whaling crew attack from the RDA before and thus, he manages to develop a counterattack to use against them, [[spoiler:by avoiding their bullets, firearms and harpoons, using his hide to deflect an explosive harpoon into the RDA's whaling flagship and utilizing another harpoon's cable to sink the ship it was launched from.]]
* WrongfullyAccused: The Metkayina Clan claims that he killed some of their members. [[spoiler:Turns out, as Lo'ak discovers, he didn't kill anyone; his mom was killed and his fellow Tulkun and their Na'vi allies were all killed when they all attacked the humans in revenge. The poor Tulkun was blamed for their deaths and he never corrected them because he felt they were right.]]
* YouKilledMyMother: He's furious at the RDA for [[spoiler:killing his mom in the past. He manages to avenge his mom in the climax, making the first attack on their ships and sinking the one that directly killed his mom.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nalutsa]]
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A species of six-gilled behemoths that lives in the coastal regions of the Pandoran ocean, and can be seen leaping out of the near-shore waters. The nalutsa is the tamer and less elusive cousin of the akula.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gill Mantle]]
!!Gill Mantle (Na'vi name: Txampaysye)
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An invertebrate organism found in the oceans of Pandora. Through Tsayhelu, the gill mantle can be used as a "biological diving suit" that feeds oxygen to the Na'vi while diving.
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* ArtificialGill: The seashore dwelling Na'vi use them to breathe for extended amounts of time underwater.
[[/folder]]

* [[Characters/AvatarNaviTribes Na'vi Tribes]] -- The native humanoids of Pandora.

Character page for ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' and ''Film/AvatarTheWayOfWater''.

!Na'vi

%% Place all tropes directly relating to the Na'vi, their culture, particular characters or actions here.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Justified, since the younger Omatikaya learned English at Grace's school; also, the Avatar drivers have studied, or are studying, Na'vi.
* AllGenesAreCodominant: The Avatars look mostly like the Na'vi, but have five-fingered hands and smaller eyes like humans. Grace has a human-style nose and possibly smaller ears (hard to get a clear sighting), presumably as she was one of the first successful Avatars created. Also, male Na'vi have hard ridges at the base of their sternum in the middle of their chests, while Jake retains his human-shaped chest in his Avatar form. They may have just started with Na'vi genes and done the minimum amount of [[LegoGenetics tinkering]] needed to make them into something that a human would feel comfortable in. That would mean five fingers and eyes similar enough to normal human ones that a human could process the input from them.
* BishieSparkle: The Na'vi have bioluminescent 'sparkles' on their body (see the picture of Neytiri for the example).
* BrainUploading: Personalities of Na'vi, and humans, can be uploaded into the Pandoran collective consciousness from within the sacred groves. [[spoiler:Downloading into a new body is also possible, but we don't know how common.]] Large numbers of other Na'vi chant during the upload ceremony, although this seems no more necessary than, say, chanting while backing up your iPod. Unless [[spoiler:all of the chanting Na'vi that are noticeably linked into the local network are acting as parallel-processing units and local storage. While the global network is '''big''', it's also spread out over the entire moon; having the wetware locally available to act as buffer storage and additional processing during an upload would be pretty handy--especially if you're doing a transfer.]]
* CatFolk: Downplayed; they're no furrier than humans, but their noses, ears and tails are all very catlike and they (especially Neytiri) have a tendency to hiss when agitated.
* ConLang: Cameron hired an USC linguist to invent the Na'vi language, then let the actors endure boot camps and line-by-line rehearsals over and over again to learn to speak it flawlessly.
* DeathCourse: The Na'vi education system as experienced by Jake includes a lot of running and jumping in absurdly high places without safety nets or harnesses.
* DeathGlare: Jake gets a nice long one from almost ''everyone'' in the Omaticaya during his first night at Hometree.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: The Na'vi are perpetually barefoot. Due to the moon's lower gravity and denser atmosphere, it's extremely easy to lose footing and slip -- especially on dirt or soil. Because of this, the Na'vi are able to curl their large toes directly into the ground for traction. They also somewhat count under EarthyBarefootCharacter due to their extremely close connection to nature. During his training with Neytiri, it appears as if Jake was ''forced'' to go barefoot. It took him some time for his feet to get calloused before he could keep up with her and Tsu'tey.
* DoomedHometown: Hometree is [[spoiler:destroyed by Quaritch]].
* FantasyCounterpartCulture:
** The Omaticaya Na'vi and Native Americans, with their shared spirituality with the natural world.
** The Metkayina Na'vi and Indegenous Oceanic peoples especially the Māori people, both being ocean-associating tribes.
* FourFingeredHands: All Na’vi have four fingers on their hands. They can recognize artificial Avatar Na’vi by looking at the five fingers they possess.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: The Na'vi to the flora and fauna of Pandora. They are even able to [[PsychicLink neural link]] with them. Doesn't stop some of the flora and fauna from trying to kill them--nor does it stop them from killing said flora/fauna. They just apologize to it afterwards.
* GoalOrientedEvolution: The Na'vi are "more evolutionarily advanced" than humans (according to tie-in media), implying that evolutionary processes have 'levels' rather than just...results. Could also be taken to describe the level of integration with their surroundings (even if this wasn't intended, it still seems to hold). However it happened, they ''did'' evolve the ability to link into wildlife like [[Film/TheMatrix Neo plugs into the Matrix]], so one could argue an extreme amount of adaptation to their environment could qualify.
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: The Na'vi, being the epitome of good, naturally have enormous eyes.
* HalfHumanHybrid: The Avatars are specially built to be a hybrid of Na'vi and an individual human's DNA.
* HumanoidAliens: In a meticulously designed alien ecosystem full of truly bizarre creatures (for example, giant six-legged blue horses who drink plant nectar), the Na'vi are strongly humanoid, despite their otherwise BizarreAlienBiology.
* HumansAreCthulhu:
** The simple mining operation on Pandora has brought in a whole range of sanity- and reality-shattering stuff to the moon's inhabitants--swathes of land transformed overnight into [[{{Mordor}} burning, barren wastes]], [[GiantFlyer hovering monstrosities]] capable of deafening the ears and engulfing whole settlements in fire and choking fog, a city (itself an otherworldly concept) of unnatural spires and AlienGeometries, line-of-sight weaponry that can [[BoomStick spit instant death]] and, last but not least, [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Na'vi Hybrids]] serving as vessels for these supernatural beings' spirits.
** Which lends itself to DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu (or more accurately, [[spoiler:SummonBiggerFish]]) for the film's climax.
** For an added kick, the guy responsible for the Avatar Program is a MadScientist by the name of [[Creator/HPLovecraft Dr. Lovecraft]], who initially called his brainchild the "[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Dark Dreamer]]" project.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: We humans are the aliens to the Na'vi, and we [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters don't seem to come in peace]]. Rest assured, they do fight back.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Almost every Na'vi is very scantily clad and completely comfortable this way. A notable exception is Mo'at.
* IAmXSonOfY: Na’vi naming conventions follow a more complex version of this as they have a personal name followed by a family name prefixed with the word “te” basically meaning “of the (blank) family”, and then ending with this trope in the form of the name of the parent matching their gender, and a suffix also dependent upon their gender. So Neytiri’s full name “Neytiri te Tskaha Mo'at'ite” means she’s "Neytiti of the Tskaha family, daughter of Mo’at" (it’s unknown if her name changed at all once she married Jake). Interestingly, despite lacking a written language, names of human origin when they are written out are done phonetically in a Na’vi accent so her son “Lo'ak te Suli Tsyeyk’itan” is actually "Lo’ak of the Sully Family, son of Jake". This also allows adoptive children to honor both their birth family and their adoptive family like Kiri, whose full name “Kiri te Suli Kìreysì'ite” means she’s "Kiri of the Sully family, Daughter of Grace".
* KlingonPromotion: Referenced. This appears to have once been a tradition among certain tribes to ensure a clean, unchallenged line of succession, and may still be one if the chieftainship is contested, but a friendly abdication is a much more civilised affair these days. The new chief 'kills' the old chief by tapping his chest with the guard of his knife, confirming that he's permanently retired from the position.
* MagicSkirt: The Na'vi tend to wear nothing but a skimpy loincloth. There are improbably few wardrobe malfunctions.
* NobleSavage: Played straight, but justifiable as it is not Jake's status as a human (or HalfHumanHybrid) that makes him "special" but rather, his different cultural background allows him to view things from a different perspective.
* NonMammalMammaries: The original Na'vi concept art envisioned a reptilian-like species; at this point, Creator/JamesCameron said "Right from the beginning I said, 'She's got to have tits,' [[RuleOfSexy even though that makes no sense]] because her race, the Na'vi, aren't placental mammals." However, averted in that the final design of the Na'vi are mammalian, unlike the [[http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/8889/conceptg.jpg early concept art]].
* NoodlePeople: All the Na'vi have very lean bodies. They aren’t exactly scrawny though as they have well-built legs and upper bodies.
* NubileSavage: Only Jake ever gets dirty, and only because he's inexperienced. Every Na'vi has perfect teeth and skin.
* OnlySixFaces: Definitely averted. There are CG cartoons that can't seem to avert having most background characters or stars with extremely similar features, but most of the Na'vi all look as different as humans would. Except they're all blue. This is probably because the Na'vi, while CGI, are based on actual actors, particularly in that the Avatars look particularly like their human counterparts. ''The Way of Water'' goes further in this regard, introducing the Metkayina Na'vi, who aside from having unique faces, also have more muscular tails, fin-like structures on their arms, a more turquoise skin color, and curly hair, distinguishing them from the Omaticaya Na'vi.
* OurElvesAreDifferent: They are pointy-eared, blue-skinned cat-like people who live among nature, have a deity to worship, tame wild beasts and are armed, especially with arrows capable of impaling victims. Basically, they're less space elves and more wood elves. In space.
* PointyEars: All of them have thin, pointy ears that are also expressive based on their mood.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: All Na'vi show some level of skill in either fighting, hunting, or flying. Including pretty much every female Na'vi except Mo'at (who may have been one in her younger years).
* SerkisFolk: Every Na'vi and Avatar to appear onscreen.
* SuperStrength: The Na’vi are strong enough to one-handedly lift and toss humans as if they were made of paper.
* SuperToughness: The Na'vi have bones of carbon-fiber.
* ThongOfShielding: The loincloths basically don't cover their rears at all. Of course, since we see Jake's butt completely unobstructed when it's hanging out of his hospital gown, Na'vi butts probably just don't count.
* TranslationConvention:
** Averted in the first film. When Na'vi are talking among themselves, even ones who speak acceptable English, they speak in Na'vi (and we don't always get subtitles, only for critically important lines, although all the Na'vi lines are understandable to a speaker of the language). When Jake is speaking to the elders and to other clans, and it's really, really important, he asks Tsu'tey to translate for him.
** In ''The Way of Water'', the film starts out just like the first film with Jake's voice-over narration being in English, but all other Na'vi dialogue being in their language (with English subtitles when appropriate). But after a line in Jake's narration saying that he has now lived among the Na'vi long enough that their language sounds just as natural to him as English, the film abruptly switches to Na'vi speaking English except for scenes when human characters who aren't fluent in the Na'vi language are present.
*** Once this trope takes effect, Jake's bilingual kids throwing Na'vi words into their English dialog suggests that they are really doing the opposite.
* UnusualUserInterface: The Na'vi's tool of communicating with the creatures and the Tree works like a tentacle-y USB.
* VaporWear: Most of the Na'vi's clothing does little to conceal them from exposure. Little apparel is worn by the Na'vi. Cloth, most likely woven from native flora of the moon, is the basic garment worn by all Na'vi. It is possible that very little clothing is worn by the Na'vi because it is simply what is needed for the Na'vi to work and live taking minimally from the environment. Clothes appear to also show the ranking of one in the hierarchy of a clan.
* YouNoTakeCandle: The Na'vi (especially Neytiri) speak accented and broken English when addressing Jake at the start of the movie.

!!!Omaticaya Clan

[[folder:Tsu'tey]]
!!Tsu'tey
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/LazAlonso
->'''Dubbed by:''' [[note]]Bruno Choël (European French), Masanori Takeda (Japanese), Enrique Cervantes (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]]

The finest warrior of the Omaticaya. He is heir to the chieftainship of the tribe. At the beginning of the film's story, he is betrothed to Neytiri.

* ADayInTheLimelight: The comic miniseries ''Tsu'tey's Path'' retells the plot of the first movie from his perspective.
* TheAce: As mentioned above, the finest warrior of the Omaticaya.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: He suffers this in the extended cut, where he survives his great fall only to have his queue sliced off by Wainfleet.]]
* ArrangedMarriage: Or betrothal, anyway, to Neytiri. It was originally to her older sister Sylwanin, but she was killed by RDA soldiers and Neytiri was made her successor in the arrangement.
* BloodKnight: Is the most eager of the Omaticaya to fight the humans.
* DefeatEqualsFriendship: [[spoiler: He calls Jake "brother" as his suffering is put to an end by Jake in the extended cut]].
* FantasticRacism: He is initially dismissive of the human Avatars and humans in general as they killed his true love.
* HiddenDepths: He can speak some English showing that while he is (justifiably) very hostile towards humans, he was once a student at Grace's school
* JerkassHasAPoint: He's very hostile toward Jake from the moment they first meet. But he's had years of experience with RDA brutality, particularly the loss of his beloved Sylwanin, so it's understandable that he'd be wary of humans, especially one who admits to being a marine. And Jake ''does'' turn out to be a spy for Quaritch as part of the latter's plan to relocate the Omaticaya from Hometree, a revelation that makes the rest of the tribe just as hostile towards him as Tsu'tey.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Initially hostile and dismissive towards Jake, he slowly warms to the guy after he becomes Toruk Makto, accepts him as a member of the people and willingly fights at his command.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: In a deleted scene, he survives his fall from Quaritch's gunship but has his queue sliced off, leaving him in unspeakable agony. And he has Jake perform the ritual MercyKill on him that Neytiri performed on the viperwolves earlier in the movie.
* TheLostLenore: His true love was Neytiri's older sister before she was killed by the RDA. He occasionally communicates with her spirit and [[spoiler: reunites with her in the afterlife.]]
* TheNativeRival: He's well-respected among his people, is heir to the chieftainship and a marriage has been arranged to the chief's daughter. When Jake comes along, Tsu'tey instantly pegs him as someone he needs to take down.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Gets riddled with bullets and falls out the back of the bomb carrier during a failed assault on the bomb.
* TheRival: He strongly dislikes Jake, and is his main enemy among the Na'vi. Tsu'tey is the Na'vi that takes the longest to come around to liking Jake. Considering the entire reason Jake is there, you can't really blame him. And [[spoiler:Jake mated with his girl]].

[[folder:Mo'at]]
!! Mo'at
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/CCHPounder
->'''Dubbed by:''' [[note]]Michèle Bardollet (European French), Roko Takizawa (Japanese), Creator/LauraTorres (Latin American Spanish) [[/note]]
The spiritual leader, or Tsahik, of the Omaticaya. She is the mother of Neytiri and mate to Eytukan, the clan’s leader.

* CoolOldLady: Though not a [[NonActionGuy warrior]], she is a powerful and wise shaman and co-leads the Omaticaya.
* DeathWail: Lets out one when [[spoiler: Hometree is destroyed, killing a lot of her people, including her mate, in the process]].
* DemotedToExtra: She disappears from ''The Way of Water'' after the first act.
* DotingGrandparent: In the small amount of screentime she has in ''The Way of Water'', she is shown to be a loving grandmother to Jake and Neytiri's children.
* EtherealWhiteDress: During the attempted healing ritual to save [[spoiler: a dying Grace]], she wears what appears to be a white, translucent robe made from who knows what.
* IronLady: She is tough and stern, speaks with ringing authority, her very presence commands attention and she is greatly respected by the whole clan; even Eytukan cedes to her when it comes to spiritual matters. Jake himself refers to her as “the dragon lady”, though she’s actually not an example of [[DragonLady that trope]].
* LadyInRed: Usually wears a long shirt/dress made of red beads.
* NotSoStoic: She is usually very calm and even aloof…but when the RDA begin [[spoiler: firebombing her home]], she staggers over to Jake and Grace and tearfully begs the former to prove he’s one of them by helping them.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: In the extended edition [[spoiler: it’s revealed her eldest daughter was killed by soldiers at Grace’s school]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Rather than going straight to killing Jake, she demands to be allowed to inspect and question him first. She listens to what he has to say and upon deciding he isn’t a threat, orders her daughter to teach him their ways in the hopes of making him understand. She also agrees to let Grace back into the village due to her longstanding friendship to the clan and during [[spoiler: Hometree’s]] destruction, she frees Jake and Grace from their bonds, saving them and giving Jake a chance to redeem himself by helping them escape.
* RulingCouple: With Eytukan. She’s the clan Tsahik, in charge of spiritual matters.

[[folder:Eytukan]]
!!Eytukan
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/WesStudi
The clan chief of the Omaticaya. He is the mate of Mo’at and father of Neytiri.

* CoolOldGuy: He’s the leader of all the Omaticaya, implied to be pretty badass to have gotten the position, and bravely stands up to the RDA in defense of his clan, even though he has next to no chance of winning.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler: Dies in Neytiri’s arms]].
* DoesNotSpeakCommon: He is the only significant Na'vi to not speak any English.
* FantasticRacism: He has a low opinion of humans, banning them from entering his clan’s territory, making a derogatory comment about Jake’s “alien smell” and even considering killing him simply for getting lost on their turf. However, he has his reasons to be wary of humans.
* HonorBeforeReason: He chooses to stand and fight the far more powerful RDA rather than evacuate Hometree, refusing to be driven from his home. [[SubvertedTrope However]], when he realizes the futility of this, he instead orders a retreat to save his people.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: During the destruction of Hometree, he is impaled through the chest by a large splinter of wood, which ultimately kills him]].
* TheLeader: Of the Omaticaya clan. He’s of the Levelheaded variety, putting the safety and well-being of his people above all else and [[UndyingLoyalty commanding great respect]], to the point where Jake gets threatened at spearpoint simply for ''approaching'' Eytukan without permission.
* TheMenFirst: When he realizes they have no chance against the RDA gunships, he swiftly orders a retreat and stays behind to help his people evacuate, whilst urging his daughter to leave without him. [[spoiler: Sadly, this proves to be a fatal decision for Eytukan]].
* PerpetualFrowner: He is mostly seen with a stern frown on his face.
* RulingCouple: With Mo’at. He’s in charge of the clan’s everyday activities and leads them in battle, too.
* TakeUpMySword: [[spoiler: After being mortally wounded when Hometree is destroyed, he tells his daughter to take his bow and lead the clan to safety]].

[[folder:Tarsem]]
!!Tarsem
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/KestonJohn
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* PassingTheTorch: When Jake decides to step down as leader of the Omatikaya clan, he allows Tarsem to lead the clan for him so he and his family can relocate themselves.

!!!Metkayina Clan

[[folder:In General]]
* FantasticRacism: The [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure wise chief]] Tonowari respects Na'vis that are not from his clan/subspecies (and hybrids like Kiri as well), but it's far from being the case of everyone in the clan as demonstrated when the Sullys come at them to seek asylum.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: To various Pacific island cultures, most prominently the Maori with their distinct tattoos and pre-battle haka complete with the men doing the "whetero" tongue-pointing.
* FishPeople: When compared to forest Na'vis like the Omaticaya, in addition to their skin being a lighter shade of blue, their tail is more akin to a fishtail, and they have fin-like appendices on their arms to swim better.

[[folder:Tonowari]]
!!Tonowari
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/CliffCurtis
->'''Dubbed by:''' [[note]]Mathieu Buscatto (European French), Creator/TaitenKusunoki (Japanese), Beto Castillo (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]]

The clan chief of the Metkayina. He is the mate of Ronal and father of Tsireya and Aonung.

* AFatherToHisMen: Has the respect and loyalty of all the Metkayina and will do what it takes to protect his people, which he considers Jake and his family to be a part of as well.
* LargeAndInCharge: Tonowari is the tallest and most muscular member of his tribe and happens to be their imposing chief.
* NiceGuy: The sheer hospitality and kindness he shows to the Sullies go beyond being a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, with him rarely raising his voice and always eager to help/enlighten them, even when they make huge mistakes.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He's normally very calm and stoic unless he's fighting. When he learns that Lo'ak bonded with Payakan (who was WronglyAccused of the death of dozens of Na'vi), he [[SuddenlyShouting snaps]] for the first time.
* PapaWolf: Doesn’t think twice about going into battle when he hears his son and daughter are in danger along with Jake and Neytiri’s children.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Jake describes Tonowari as a great leader, and he's much nicer to Jake and his family than his wife and son, who shunned them. Throughout the movie, he did his best to honor his deal with Jake to protect him and his family.
* StaffOfAuthority: He is the leader of his tribe and often carries a huge spear with him.

[[folder:Ronal]]
!!Ronal
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/KateWinslet
->'''Dubbed by:''' [[note]]Anneliese Fromont (European French), Haruka Shimizu (Japanese), Creator/XochitlUgarte (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]]
The spiritual leader, or Tsahik, of the Metkayina clan. She is the mate of Tonowari and mother of Tsireya and Aonung.

* FantasticRacism:
** She doesn't quite approve of the 'Forest Clan' Na'vis like Jake and his family, thinking that they have no place in the marine-based Metkayina tribe. Not only that, she also dislikes how Jake and his children are technically half-human due to Jake's former life as one.
** She is also shown to be very unapproving of Norm and Max coming over to help Kiri, demanding they leave immediately before taking care of Kiri herself.
* TheMedic: Heals Kiri after she falls unconscious from a seizure after connecting with Eywa.
* PregnantBadass: Ronal is visibly pregnant with her and Tonowari's third child. This does nothing to hinder her effectiveness in combat or willingness to fight alongside the rest of her clan.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: After finding out her spirit sister tulkan was killed senselessly by the sky people, she is the first to call out for blood in revenge.

[[folder:Tsireya]]
!!Tsireya
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/BaileyBass
->'''Dubbed by:''' [[note]]Jaynelia Coadou (European French), Creator/MaayaUchida (Japanese), María García Hernández (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]]
The daughter of Tonowari and Ronal who helps Jake's kids learn the way of water in their clan.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Even though she does not like her brother teasing Lo’ak, she does laugh a little bit at Lo’ak’s failed attempt to ride one of their Ilu’s.
* AllLovingHeroine: She is the first to accept the Sullys without hesitation. She listens to Lo’ak and helps teach him and his siblings about the Metkayina customs, is willing to help save Payakan from the RDA despite her tribe considering him an outsider, disapproves of her brother’s bullying, and helps the Sullys against Quaritch.
* TheChiefsDaughter: She is the daughter of Tonowari, leader of the Metkayina.
* GenerationXerox: Is the Neytiri to Lo’ak’s Jake in this film being the one to show Lo’ak the way of the water as Neytiri taught Jake about the Na’vi. Unlike Neytiri, Tsireya is nice to her foreign friend for the entire movie.
* NiceGirl: Compared to how hostile the rest of the Metkayina clan are to Jake’s family, Tsireya does not look down on them and teaches Jake’s children the ways of her tribe. She is especially kind to Lo’ak.
* SexySurfacingShot: Tsireya surfacing out of the water certainly catches Lo’ak’s attention when his family arrives at Metkayina territory. It's complete with a little flip of her curly wet hair over her shoulder.
* ShipTease: With Lo’ak. The first time Lo’ak lays eyes on her, he sees her walking out of the water. They also have a few intimate moments together that potentially hints at a greater relationship between the two, particularly when Tsireya tells Lo’ak she sees him for who he is and does not consider him an outcast.

[[folder:Aonung]]
!!Aonung
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/FilipGeljo
->'''Dubbed by:''' [[note]]Pierre Boulanger (European French), Masaya Fukunishi (Japanese), Ivan Bastidas (Latin American Spanish[[/note]]
The son of Tonowari and Ronal who is rather snobbish. He looks down on Jake's kids, but softens up afterwards.

* TheBully: To Lo’ak. He looks down on him not just for being a forest Na’vi, but for being a half-human hybrid.
* DisproportionateRetribution: At one point, Aonung [[spoiler:tricks Lo'ak into following him to an Akula hunting ground and leaving him stranded there, hoping to get him eaten in retribution for Lo'ak beating him up earlier (because Aonung was insulting Lo'ak and his family). Even if Lo'ak did land the first punch and beat him up quite badly, leaving Lo'ak for a CruelAndUnusualDeath by a SeaMonster in revenge is a step quite too far.]]
* GangOfBullies: Aonung and his friends take part in bullying Lo’ak and calling Kiri weird.
* FantasticRacism: He makes a lot of rude jokes towards forest Na’vi, mostly by making fun of their tails and lack of skill in the water.
* HeelRealization: Seems to have one after Lo'ak puts the blame on himself [[spoiler:for nearly getting killed by an Akula rather than reveal that Aonung had intentionally stranded Lo'ak on its hunting ground. It leads to him being much nicer to Lo'ak and the latter's siblings afterwards.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Never really receives any real punishment from bullying Lo'ak and Kiri and [[spoiler:deliberately leaving Lo'ak stranded out in the open sea to be killed by an Akula]]. That being said, he does seem to realize the error of his ways later on, and Lo'ak did batter him quite badly beforehand.
* ReformedBully: Becomes one when Lo'ak proves to be a better man and takes all the blame for himself [[spoiler:for following Aonung out to the open sea and almost getting killed by an Akula. In later scenes, he becomes much nicer to Lo'ak and the rest of Sully's children]].
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: As Lo'ak is almost an exact mirror of his father Jake, Aonung serves a very similar role to Tsu'tey in Lo'ak's personal arc. Much like Tsu'tey's rivalry and eventually friendship with Jake, Aonung started out disliking Lo'ak for being an outsider and treats him horribly. He's close with a lovely young Na'vi that his rival is smitten with (though in this case, Tsireya is his sister, not his betrothed). And ultimately, Aonung comes to respect Lo'ak and becomes akin to brothers-in-arms with him.

[[folder:Rotxo]]
!!Rotxo
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rotxo_closeup.png]]

->'''Played By:''' Creator/DuaneWichmanEvans
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* SatelliteCharacter: He is usually with Tsireya and Aonung in scenes where they interact with the Sully children, but he has little defining traits.

!!!Ta'unui Clan

[[folder:In General]]
* HufflepuffHouse: The way the RDA villains talk about the Ta'unui as they discuss the inhabitants of the islands indicates that they are a culturally distinct tribe along the same lines as the Omatikaya and the Metkayina. But what little we see of them is barely distinguishable from the similarly maritime Metkayina; Tonowari has even given them direct orders to stay quiet about the whereabouts of the Sullys, putting their supposed distinctiveness into question.

[[folder:Ta'unui Olo'eyktan]]
!!Ta'unui Olo'eyktan
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chrome_screenshot_16745191414582.png]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/RobertOkumu

[[folder:Ta'unui Tsahìk]]
!!Ta'unui Tsahìk
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/taunui_clan_tsahik.png]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JennStafford

!Pandoran Wildlife
[[folder:In General]]
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Justified since the wildlife thrives on an alien world. Many of them possess colors that are far more eye catching than most Earth creatures.
* BioluminescenceIsCool: Every Pandoran lifeform, whether flora or fauna, has at least some bioluminescence, ranging from freckle-like glowing spots to fanlike glowing appendages. The primary environmental reason for this is that there are long periods when Pandora orbits behind the dark side of Polyphemus, making the bioluminescence the only major source of light.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Most have bioluminescent hairless skin, six limbs, four eyes, spiracles (breathing nostrils located on their torsos) and a pair of antennae that can interface with those of other creatures.
* ExtraEyes: Many have four eyes, though some, such as the banshee and direhorse, have the second pair much smaller and less developed.
* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: A lot. Titanotheres are rhinos, Thanators are big cats, Direhorses are...well, horses, and Sturmbeest are buffalo, to name a few.
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: Most of them have six limbs. Notable exceptions include the Na'vi (implied by the prolemuris to have had their two pairs of arms fuse together) and the Banshee, which have four legs with both front and hind ones modified into wings.

[[folder:Eywa]]
!!Eywa
The Na'vi's Great Mother and Goddess of life, effectively their equivalent to Gaia or Mother Earth, central to their monotheistic faith. Eywa is scientifically explainable as the sapient superintelligence created by the electrochemical interactions of Pandoran life, creating a giant world-spanning neural network. This biological internet is analogous to at least 20-100 times the connections between neurons on a human brain.
----
* GaiasVengeance: Of the Gaia's Vengeance Proper variety. With the interconnected, interfacing nature of Pandora's flora and fauna, Eywa can in effect relay commands to vast hordes of ferocious wildlife. In this case, the command is "Put a stop to the human incursion. Violently."
* GeniusLoci: Being an unimaginably vast and intricate "brain" that stretches across Pandora, Eywa is perhaps best described as a sentient ''biosphere''.
* {{God}}: While she mainly resembles Gaia in function, she has some elements of big-G God, being the benevolent source of all life who they worship in a monotheistic religion. And it's implied she even has her own Jesus, [[MessianicArchetype in the form of]] Kiri.
* NeutralNoLonger: Na'vi do not call upon Eywa to aid them in conflicts, seeing her as the protector of the balance of life who is above taking sides. Neytiri warns Jake as much when he beseeches Eywa for help against the RDA's forces. However, his warning - and, it's implied, Grace's memories of a devastated Earth - are sufficient to finally spur her to coordinated action against the invaders at the climax of the first film.
* RealAfterAll: The humans initially dismiss Eywa as just a myth. But Grace's studies of Pandoran biota, particularly the trees, convinces her that Eywa is tangibly real as a "superbrain" governing all life on the moon.

!!!Forest Creatures

[[folder:Great Leonopteryx]]
!! Great Leonopteryx (Na'vi name: Toruk)
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A draconic aerial apex predator that plays an important role in the Na'vi culture.
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* TheDreaded: It is feared by the Na’vi just as much as it is revered. When [[spoiler: Jake arrives to the Tree of Souls on the back of the Toruk, all of them are startled by its presence and immediately back away before realizing he tamed it.]]
* GiantFlyer: It is much, much bigger than any Ikran. For scale, it also happens to be bigger than the Scorpion helicopters.
* LogicalWeakness: {{Discussed|Trope}} -- Jake notes that [[spoiler:it being unable to see directly above itself makes sense since it's an apex predator. It can't look up because it has no reason to fear attack from above]].
* MeaningfulName: As Jake points out, Toruk’s name meaning "Last Shadow" is appropriate for a creature who is more than likely the last shadow any unfortunate prey will ever see.
* OnlyTheChosenMayRide: The fearsome Toruk has only been ridden five times in recorded Na'vi history, only by the greatest and most courageous warriors, called Toruk Makto, who came to unite the clans in times of great sorrow. [[spoiler: Jake himself tames the Toruk to regain the Na'vi's trust, becoming the sixth Toruk Makto.]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Takes inspiration from birds of prey and pterosaurs.
* PowerUpMount: [[spoiler: In order to return to the remaining Omaticaya tribe without being slain on sight, Jake is forced to fly his Ikran above the Toruk so he can land on it from above to perform ''tsaheylu'' on the creature. After he uses it as his mount for the final battle, he sets the Toruk free.]]
* ShadowOfImpendingDoom: Its favorite method of attack is to drop down on its prey from above with the sun directly behind it, hence its Na'vi name.
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: Has four wings and two legs, like most of Pandora's six-limbed animals.
* WeaksauceWeakness: [[spoiler: Its prominent bony eyebrow ridges make it unable to see directly above itself, allowing Jake to jump it from above and easily tame it.]]

[[folder:Mountain Banshee]]
!! Mountain Banshee (Na'vi name: Ikran)
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Smaller relatives of the Leonopteryx, and standard aerial mounts of the Na'vi.
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* BondCreatures: Forms a lifelong bond with their rider. Once ''tsaheylu'' is forged between the Ikran and its rider, it will only fly with one rider for its entire life.
* EyesAlwaysAverted: It is best not to look an Ikran in the eye, otherwise they will accept your gaze as a challenge.
* IfItSwimsItFlies: ''The Way Of Water'' reveals that they are capable of swimming quite deftly. However, [[ShownTheirWork like seabirds, they have to fold up their wings to do so]], instead using their undulating bodies to swim like eels.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Have teeth reminiscent of certain Earth bony fish, as well as similarly-prognostic jaws.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Pterodactyl-like fliers with some [[FairyDragons fairy dragon]] elements like the transparent, almost insect-like translucent wing tips, and prismatic color shading. They're a [[DragonRider primary aerial transport]] as well.
* PteroSoarer: Has a distinctly pterosaurian influence in their design. Funnily enough, they eventually had an actual pterosaur named after them called ''Ikrandraco avatar''.
* UndyingLoyalty: They only ever bond with a single Na'vi in their lifetime. It's so prevalent that they even listen and stick with their masters even without ''tsaheylu'' active. Neytiri's ikran Seze waits for her to return when she walks with Jake to tame an ikran of his own. Jake's ikran flies in to pick him up after seeing him wake up [[spoiler:among the ruins of the destroyed Hometree]], implying that it was flying around watching him and waiting for him to wake up..
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: One of Pandora's few exceptions, having four wings that all function as legs on the ground, and no visible trace of a third pair of limbs.

[[folder:Thanator]]
!! Thanator (Na'vi name: Palulukan)
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A six-legged panther-like creature that is Pandora's apex land predator.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: Jake taunts a titanothere, which acts frightened and runs away. Turns out it wasn't afraid of Jake himself...but the Thanator creeping up from behind him.
* CatsAreMean: It is a large predatory animal with very feline characteristics. It is also relentless and very aggressive.
* MeaningfulName: Its name is one letter away from Thanatos, the Greek personification of death, which is very fitting for an apex predator of the Pandoran jungles.
* NightmareFace: It can raise its lips to expose its gums and extra teeth just like a gelada baboon.
* PantheraAwesome: Resembles a panther or a big cat of sorts.
* PowerUpMount: Is ridden by [[spoiler: Neytiri to battle Quartich in his mech suit. Unfortunately, the Thanator is killed in the battle.]]
* SuperPersistentPredator: Chases Jake for far longer than is reasonably possible, though at the very least it decides that a waterfall is going too far.

[[folder:Hammerhead Titanothere]]
!! Hammerhead Titanothere (Na'vi name: Ang'tsik)
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A large, powerful Pandoran herbivore akin to a rhinoceros.
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* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Sports a brightly-colored frill on its head that sharply contrasts with its more muted gray body, which it uses for display.
* TheCavalry: [[spoiler: A massive herd of them charges the RDA during the final battle, when Eywa decides to respond to Jake's petition.]]
* MightyGlacier: A massive beast twice the size of an African elephant, it relied more on its sheer strength and bulk, though it's still quite a bit faster than it looks.
* RhinoRampage: Resembles an oversized rhino, and is very territorial.
* SuperToughness: Its tough armored hide is impervious to bullets.

[[folder:Direhorse]]
!! Direhorse (Na'vi name: Pa'li)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/20200416_171613.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:]]
The equine mounts of the Na'vi.
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* BornInTheSaddle: The Horse Clan of the Plains seems to rely on the direhorse far more than most tribes.
* DireBeast: It's basically a horse, but due to Pandora's lower gravity grows nearly to the size of an elephant. Its scientific name, ''"Equidirus hoplites"'', meaning "fearsome armored horse", certainly suggests this.
* LightningBruiser: Is incredibly swift of foot and thus one of the Na'vi's mounts of choice.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: It's a giant horse that is blue, has six legs, and has an anteater-like snout and a long tongue to feed on nectar.
* OverlyLongTongue: They have long thick tongues that they use to lick nectar out of flowers.
* VocalDissonance: Despite resembling a horse, it doesn't neigh, instead making honking sounds akin to a goose, or the raptors of ''Film/JurassicPark''.

[[folder:Viperwolf]]
!! Viperwolf (Na'vi name: Nantang)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/20200416_174645.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:]]
A wolf-like predator that hunts in packs.
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* TheCavalry: [[spoiler: Many Viperwolves return in the climax to take down RDA ground troops.]]
* HumanlikeHandAnatomy: Their paws have grasping digits and opposable thumbs, allowing it to climb trees as well as hunt on the ground.
* HeinousHyena: They make some eerie cackle-like howls that are very reminiscent of hyena sounds while surrounding Jake in the forest.
* InnateNightVision: Their excellent night vision provides them an advantage when cornering Jake in the dark jungle. Their eyes even glow in the dark.
* MixAndMatchCritter: While mostly resembling wolves, they have prehensile hands and tree-climbing abilities like monkeys and have a laughing cackle similar to hyenas.
* MonsterIsAMommy: While their first appearance is a rather terrifying scene of them attacking Jake in the dark of night, a more gentle side of them is seen when Jake and Neytiri later encounter a mother viperwolf tending to her litter of pups, which play-fight like adorable Earth puppies.
* SavageWolves: Portrayed as such when they attack Jake in the darkness.
* ZergRush: A pack of them try to attack Jake from all directions.

[[folder:Prolemuris]]
!! Prolemuris (Na'vi name: Syaksyuk)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/20200416_174711.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:]]
A gibbon-like creature theorized to be the Na'vi's closest evolutionary relative.
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* BizarreAlienLimbs: The Prolemuris has its upper pairs of arms fused together and bifurcating at the elbow, seemingly hinting on how the Na'vi evolved to have four limbs while most other Pandoran vertebrates have six.
* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Of monkeys and apes, with their relationship to the Na'vi as their closest relative being similar to that of humans and chimps.

[[folder:Woodsprite]]
!!Woodsprite (Na'vi name: Atokirina')
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/atokirina2.jpg]]

[[folder:Fan Lizard]]
!!Fan Lizard (Na'vi name: Kenten)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fanlizard2.png]]
----
* HeliCritter: These lizard-like creatures fly by fanning out their circular wings (with each wing making up half of a circle) and twirling them like helicopter rotors.
* SpectacularSpinning: Their bodies spin around whenever they fly so their wings do not get twisted. Makes one wonder if they ever get dizzy.

[[folder:Stingbat]]
!!Stingbat (Na'vi name: Riti)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/a_avatarpandorapedia_tetrapteron_16x9_1246_08_9051da8b.jpeg]]

[[folder:Cat Ear]]
!!Cat Ear (Na'vi name: Pamtseowll)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cat_ear.jpg]]

[[folder:Hellfire Wasp]]
!!Hellfire Wasp (Na'vi name: Zize)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hellfirewasp.jpg]]

[[folder:Hexapede]]
!!Hexapede (Na'vi name: Yerik)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hexapede_art.png]]
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* ExplosiveBreeder: Since these little creatures are prey to just about every predator on Pandora, they breed like rabbits.

[[folder:Panopyra]]
!!Panopyra (Na'vi name: Tawtsngal)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/panopyra3.png]]

[[folder:Sturmbeest]]
!!Sturmbeest (Na'vi name: Talioang)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/beestdrinking.jpg]]
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* LightningBruiser: As hefty as they look, they are pretty fast runners.
* ReCut: They are exclusive to the Extended version of the first movie.

[[folder:Tapirus]]
!!Tapirus (Na'vi name: Fwampop)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tapirus.jpg]]

[[folder:Tetrapteron]]
!!Tetrapteron (Na'vi name: Fkio)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sheeray.jpg]]

[[folder:Arachnoid]]
!!Arachnoid (Na'vi name: Kali'weya)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arachnoid_movie.png]]

[[folder:Helicoradian]]
!!Helicoradian (Na'vi name: Loreyu)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/helicoradians.jpg]]

[[folder:Binary Sunshine]]
!!Binary Sunshine, or lucinaria fibriata, (Na'vi name: penghrrap meaning "danger-teller")
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/binarysunshine.png]]

[[folder:Atlas Beetle]]
!!Atlas Beetle
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/atlas_beetle.png]]

[[folder:Crimsysoraus]]
!!Crimsysoraus
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crimsysoraus.png]]

[[folder:Fanged Mongrel]]
!!Fanged Mongrel
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fanged_mongrel_in_highlands.png]]

[[folder:Flathead Ram]]
!!Flathead Ram
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[[folder:Glow Worms]]
!!Glow Worms
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/glow_worms.png]]

[[folder:Grody Grueller]]
!!Grody Grueller
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[[folder:Kentrocapra]]
!!Kentrocapra
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aprkentrocapra.png]]

[[folder:Medusa]]
!!Medusa
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/medusa_big_android.png]]

[[folder:Ostrich]]
!!Ostrich
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alpha_ostrich.png]]

[[folder:Saber Hogs]]
!!Saber Hogs
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sharp-Horned Ram]]
!!Sharp-Horned Ram
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sharp_horned_ram.png]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sharptooth Lizard]]
!!Sharptooth Lizard
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Steervane]]
!!Steervane
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/steervane_modelpng.png]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Spider]]
!!Spider
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spider_6.png]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Wolf Tick]]
!!Wolf Tick
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wolf_tick_in_a_visual_exploration.png]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Wind Scorpion]]
!!Wind Scorpion
[[quoteright:285:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wind_scorpion.png]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Austrapede]]
!!Austrapede
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/austrapede_ave.jpg]]
[[/folder]]

!!!Sea Creatures

[[folder:Skimwing]]
!! Skimwing (Na'vi name: Tsurak)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/a_avatarpandorapedia_skimwing_16x9_1032_08_7ee0d6ed.jpeg]]
A distant relative of the Ikran that is found in the territory of the Metkayina tribe.
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* BondCreatures: Like the aerial Banshee, Skimwings can be ridden through "tsaheylu". However, due to their temperamental natures, it takes much longer to develop loyal bonds.
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: At home in both the water and the air.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Visually resembles a flying fish, with the long snout of a gar and the body-shape of an Echovenator.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ilu]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ilu_render.png]]

Plesiosaur-like creature who serve as the primary mounts of the Metkayina tribe.
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* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin: Despite their plesiosaur-like body plan, their chirping and whistling vocalizations and playful personalities are inspired by this trope.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: They are pretty much used as [[JustForPun sea horses]] for the Metkayina tribe.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Just look into those big eyes and listen to them chirp. D'awwwww!

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Akula]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/akula.jpg]]
A large mosasaur-like creature and an apex predator of Pandora’s oceans.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Some can be seen swimming in an overhead shot spanning across a few reefs during the Sully family’s travel over the ocean.
** However, based on location and the fact that multiple individuals are seen in the shot, it's possible these could be [[https://james-camerons-avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Nalutsa Nalutsa]], a related species which is less aggressive, more social, and more common closer to shore.
* MeaningfulName: “Akula” is a Russian word for “shark”, which pretty much describes the creature nicely. This aggressive mosasaur-like SeaMonster will stop at nothing to devour its prey once it has its eyes on them.
* MixAndMatchCritters: It has teeth like an extinct Dunkleosteus fish, jaws that open up like a snake, and a body that has a mixture of traits from sharks, eels, and mosasaurs.
* SeaMonster: It's basically a Pandoran mosasaur.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Just like the Thanator, it is very committed to catching its prey. Even when it loses Lo’ak briefly in a thick entanglement of coral, it waits for him to swim out of it to catch him.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tulkun]]
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Giant and very intelligent cetacean-like animals. They are one of the largest creatures on Pandora.
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* BilingualDialogue: Since neither side can physically speak the others' language, Na'vi use a signed language when underwater while tulkun sing.
* BloodBrothers: A variation. Bonding with a Tulkun requires a Na'vi to swim into their open mouth to access the queue in the back of their throat, which links their minds. After that point, they're considered spirit siblings. [[spoiler:Tonowari and the other Metakayina are infuriated when they learn that Lo'ak has bonded with Payakan, an outcast Tulkun.]]
* FlowerMouth: Like a number of other Pandoran creatures, they have multiple parallel jawbones that open out like petals. In their case, it gives them an impressively enormous gape for hoovering up fish and plankton.
* GentleGiant: In spite of their immense size, they’re completely averse to violence, and their annual migration to the coasts and islands of Pandora is treated by the Metkayina Clan like a reunion with close friends or family.
* GreatOffscreenWar: In the past, Tulkun warred over territory and for revenge, and nearly destroyed themselves. This led to the development of their pacifistic culture.
* HumanResources: The [=RDA=] knows full well that they're sapient beings, but hunts them anyway for a brain fluid they have that's used to create an anti-aging drug.
* ImmuneToBullets: Even more so than other Pandoran megafauna. Their armor plating can shrug off pretty much ''anything'' humans can throw at them, and even the massive explosive-tipped harpoons the RDA's whalers use to kill them have to be aimed at their underbellies to stand a chance of penetrating.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Being smarter than humans and being able to secrete a liquid that makes people immortal, you'd think they'd have been a bigger deal to human colonists than the Na'vi and unobtainium. Though it's possible that the Tulkun might not have been discovered by the time of the first movie.
* SapientCetaceans: Giant whale-like creatures that are revealed to be just as intelligent as humans or Na'vi, with their own culture, language, and religious beliefs.
* SuicidalPacifism: They refuse to engage in violence even though they're being actively hunted by humans. The Metkayena say that this is due to their species-wide DarkAndTroubledPast - their generational trauma from their history of warfare and bloodshed is so extreme that they really would prefer to die rather than resurrect it. Garvin further notes that their brains allow them to experience emotion with superhuman depth and complexity, which helps explain exactly why violence is so horrifying to them.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Or rather "What Measure Is a Non-''Humanoid''". Unlike the humanoid Na'vi, who are viewed as lesser beings, but ones who the RDA makes token efforts to be diplomatic with, the non-humanoid tulkuns are simply slaughtered.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Payakan]]
!!Payakan, the outcast Tulkun
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/avatar_the_way_of_water_payakan2.jpg]]

A Tulkun who has been shunned by his species and the Metkayina Clan who claim that he killed their fellow clan members. Lo'ak discovers him after he saves his life and forges a special bond with him.
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* AnArmAndALeg: He lost a fin in the [=RDA=] attack that killed his mother and pod.
* AndroclesLion: Inverted. Lo'ak helps him by dislodging a rusty harpoon head embedded in his fin... except that he saved Lo'ak from a hungry Akula and carries him to the surface earlier. Arguably, considering the sentience of the Tulkun, Lo'ak could in fact be considered the Lion to his Androcles.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's a GentleGiant like the other Tulkuns, [[spoiler: but when angered by the RDA, he singlehandedly racks up the highest body count of any characters in the movies except Eywa herself on the whalers.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:He suddenly leaps out of the water to attack the humans just before Quaritch gives the order to shoot Jake, causing a distraction long enough for Jake, his family and the Metkayina to regroup and launch an attack on the RDA whaling crew.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:An RDA whaling crew killed his mom. Angered by her death, he led a charge against his mom's killers, but the humans killed off his entire band of fellow Tulkun and their Metkayina Na'vi allies accompanying him, leaving him as the sole survivor of the attack. Because the Tulkun are averse to violence, they deemed him responsible for their deaths and cast him out of their company with the Metkayina shunning him as well.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:Tried to attack the RDA whaling crew accompanied by some reinforcements to exact revenge against the humans for killing his mom in the past, except that it didn't end well for him. He later manages to get back at the RDA and Captain Scoresby for real by sinking the whaling ship that was there when his mother died, severing one of Scoresby's arms in the process.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He is first introduced when he comes out of nowhere to save Lo’ak from an Akula by ramming it several times into a large rock, killing it. Since the Tulkun are later established to be extreme pacifists, showing Payakan killing something cements him as an outsider amongst the Tulkun.
* ItsPersonal: He's ''very'' angry with the humans [[spoiler:for killing his mom, which is why he tried to assemble a platoon of his fellow Tulkun and their Na'vi allies to get back at them. He finally gets recompense during the climax, sinking the ship that killed his mother.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: He's shunned by both the Tulkun and the Metkayina because [[spoiler: he violated the Tulkun's creed of non-violence. He led a band of young bulls and Na'vi against the whaling ship that killed his mother, leading to a massacre from which he was the sole survivor. Payakan is so ashamed of it that he only shares the memory with Lo'ak after Lo'ak insists he can be trusted.]]
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: He's outcast because he's the only Tulkun willing to be violent. He retreated from violence due to his grief, [[spoiler:but returns to fight in the finale to save Lo'ak, his spirit brother.]]
* NiceGuy: Despite his outcast status [[spoiler:due to wrong accusations]], he's a pretty friendly guy who wouldn't hurt a fly... unless the fly hurt him. [[spoiler:He accompanies Jake and Neytiri to the Metkayina's spirit tree after Neteyam's funeral, implicitly to give his best friend's grieving parents moral support]].
* ScarsAreForever: Lo'ak notices a scar just over his left eye, which came from the result of the RDA whaling crew attacking him in the past, [[spoiler:specifically when he led a platoon of Na'vi and Tulkun bulls against the humans]].
* TaughtByExperience: He survived a whaling crew attack from the RDA before and thus, he manages to develop a counterattack to use against them, [[spoiler:by avoiding their bullets, firearms and harpoons, using his hide to deflect an explosive harpoon into the RDA's whaling flagship and utilizing another harpoon's cable to sink the ship it was launched from.]]
* WrongfullyAccused: The Metkayina Clan claims that he killed some of their members. [[spoiler:Turns out, as Lo'ak discovers, he didn't kill anyone; his mom was killed and his fellow Tulkun and their Na'vi allies were all killed when they all attacked the humans in revenge. The poor Tulkun was blamed for their deaths and he never corrected them because he felt they were right.]]
* YouKilledMyMother: He's furious at the RDA for [[spoiler:killing his mom in the past. He manages to avenge his mom in the climax, making the first attack on their ships and sinking the one that directly killed his mom.]]
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[[folder:Nalutsa]]
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A species of six-gilled behemoths that lives in the coastal regions of the Pandoran ocean, and can be seen leaping out of the near-shore waters. The nalutsa is the tamer and less elusive cousin of the akula.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gill Mantle]]
!!Gill Mantle (Na'vi name: Txampaysye)
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An invertebrate organism found in the oceans of Pandora. Through Tsayhelu, the gill mantle can be used as a "biological diving suit" that feeds oxygen to the Na'vi while diving.
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* ArtificialGill: The seashore dwelling Na'vi use them to breathe for extended amounts of time underwater.
[[/folder]]

!Resources Development Administration (RDA)

%% Place all tropes directly relating to the RDA, their culture, particular characters or actions here.

* FutureCopter: The RDA Sec-Ops is an absolute fan of these due to Pandora's high magnetism and low gravity. In the first movie, the majority of the RDA's air forces are made up of light machine gun Samson aircraft, supplemented by more heavily armed Scorpions and a single one of the colossal Dragon Assault Gunship.
** The second movie has the RDA bring in more of their advanced ships, namely the ocean-adapted Seawasp and the Samson's successor, a gunship known as the Kestrel.
* HumansAreAverage: Humans are absolutely tiny compared to Pandora's massive wildlife, and even Na'vi children manage to tower over human adults. Despite this, the RDA manages to leverage its advanced technology and funding to adapt to Pandora's toxic atmosphere and even the playing field by fighting bows and wildlife with advanced ballistics, and are gradually becoming a massive threat to Pandora's planetary health due to their rapid industrailization.
* MegaCorp: The RDA is described to be the largest NGO in human existence, wielding the political influence and spending budget of multiple countries due to their monopoly on human space colonization and resource gathering. Expectedly, most of their leaders and motives are aligned with Greed, where they are willing to target foreign planets to strip mine them and exploit their natural fauna and flora. [[spoiler: Their influence as an NGO only grows bigger in the sequel when Earth is revealed to be dying, resulting in the RDA taking the reins on humanity's continued survival through colonizing other planets.]]
* MiniMecha: A.M.Ps, or Amplified Mobility Platforms are a common sight around RDA bases. Four-meter tall motion capture vehicles, they act as both workhorse and heavy infantry for the RDA, and can be equipped with anything to repeater cannons to massive combat knives for their mission in the jungle. The Na'vi refer to them as "the shield that walks", as a nod to their durability and power.
* MoreDakka: This is essentially the RDA's go to tactic whenever they clash with the Na'vi who have greater numbers and better knowledge of the terrain. Combined arms tactics involving mechanized infantry and heavy aircraft, combined with a slow advance into enemy territory and organized firing lines, have twice left the Na'vi reeling with casualties due to them charging into overwhelming firepower.
* PrivateMilitaryContractor: Most of the RDA's military is comprised of these rather than any soldiers of a national defense force due to their status as an non-governmental organization. The majority shown through the movies are ex-marines or experienced mercenaries, though some such as Scoresby in ''Film/AvatarTheWayOfWater'' could just be insane hunters.
* PoweredArmor: In the sequel, many humans wear Skel-Suits, which are a more bare-bones variant of the A.M.Ps. A rigged exoskeleton on stilts, they provide their wearer greater height, reach, and lifting power, but also provide essentially no protection otherwise, trading the A.M.P's size and durability for utility.
* TaughtByExperience: By the time of their return in ''The Way of Water'', the RDA prove they have learned from their past failures. The forest around their base has been paved down to the dirt and the main compound is surrounded with heavy turrets that can almost certainly kill anything that might dare charge out of cover. No stampede of wild animals is going to force them out this time. And the commando they send to get rid of Jake Sully is made of Recombinants -- autonomous Avatars with cloned minds of fallen Marines (Quaritch and his men), who can breathe without oxygen masks, are much stronger than humans and more agile than [=AMPs=] and are able to use Na'vi tactics, such as flying on mountain banshees.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: What they do is for what they believe to be the benefit of the human race, which is living on a dying planet. They're still trying to oppress sentient races though.

!!!'''RDA Pandora Operations Leadership'''

[[folder:Selfridge]]
!!Parker Selfridge
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/GiovanniRibisi
->'''Dubbed by:''' [[note]]Damien Witecka (European French), Creator/KeiichiNanba (Japanese), Creator/JoseAntonioMacias (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]]

The corporate administrator for the RDA mining operation.

* AuthorityInNameOnly: [[spoiler:A deleted scene reveals that he actually has very little authority over the military operations on Pandora, though he isn't aware of this until he rightfully threatens to remove Quaritch from his post for escalating the war with the Na'Vi, only for Quaritch to [[NeckLift forcefully]] remind him that Selfridge's jurisdiction means nothing when they're light years away from Earth.]]
* BigBadWannabe: In theory, he is the one in charge of the mining on Pandora, but it's Quaritch that actively antagonizes the protagonists and Na'vi. Best shown in deleted scenes, where Quaritch unquestionably establishes who is really in command.
* TheCameo: In ''Way of Water'', Selfridge only makes a brief appearance in a video recording where he has to explain to Quaritch how the [[spoiler:memory storing device to be reborn as a Recombinant]] works.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The only reason he didn't want to initially genocide the natives is he was afraid of a publicity backlash, though he is quite visibly [[spoiler:disturbed by Hometree's destruction]].
-->'''Selfridge''': Killing the indigenous looks bad, but there's one thing the shareholders hate more than bad press, and that's a bad quarterly statement.
* DeadpanSnarker: "¿Comprende?"
* ExtremeDoormat: He is a passive aggressive man after all and he is implicity brownbeaten into backing down by Quaritch into letting him slaughter the Na'vi.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's nowhere near as brutal and bloodthirsty as Quaritch, and is persuaded to allow Grace and Jake one last try to convince the Omaticaya to evacuate Hometree when they ask Selfridge if he's willing to stand by, let Quaritch massacre innocent people and live with that blood on his hands.
-->'''Grace''': There are families in there! There are children, babies! [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Are you going to kill children]]?
-->'''Jake''': You don't want that kind of blood on your hands, trust me. Just let me try to talk them out. They trust me.
-->'''Selfridge''': You've got one hour. Unless you want [[TheChiefsDaughter your girlfriend]] in there when the axe comes down, get them to evacuate. One hour!
** In a DeletedScene, he objects to the idea of arming the miners, stating that he didn't hire them to become an armed militia. He even threatens to fire the people in charge for going down such a warpath. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for him, he is a long way from Earth, and Quaritch has the power by then.]]
* EvilColonialist: He is tasked with turning Pandora into a trading post, he doesn't really want to kill or upset the indigenous race but having nothing to offer he resorts to violence.
* FantasticRacism: Not to the extent of Quaritch, but he's still dismissive of the Na'vi.
-->'''Grace''': Parker, these are people you're about to--!
-->'''Selfridge''': NO! No, they're fly-bitten savages who live in a tree! Look around! I don't know about you, but I see a lot of trees! They can move!
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:It is shown that he feels guilty about Hometree's destruction.]]
* ItHasOnlyJustBegun: In a scene added into the 2022 rerelease, while he's being escorted off-world, he takes a moment to warn Jake that the conflict is not over as a SequelHook.
* {{Jerkass}}: Though slightly downplayed. He may only care about getting the minerals for money, but is still clearly reluctant about more extreme methods being used for it.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:His only punishment was being made to leave Pandora. To be fair, he did seem to regret everything he did, but still.]]
* MeaningfulName: His surname ''Selfridge'' sounds rather similar to "selfish". It's also probably a reference to retail tycoon Harry Selfridge.
* MrExposition: Selfridge explains to Grace why they're on Pandora--the $20m/kg Unobtanium. Of course, Grace would already know this, yet she doesn't tell him to stop treating her like an imbecile. It's probably more of a sarcastic reminder that Unobtanium is the only reason Grace gets to do what she does, so she shouldn't neglect it. It's condescending, but still reasonable for someone to take such a tone in RealLife.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Not stated, but implied with a few instances of Parker feeling some slight guilt over the actions he's taken. [[spoiler:Watching on a monitor, he's forced to look away at the bloodshed of the final battle and Grace and Jake get through to him enough that he allows them a final chance to negotiate peace before Hometree is destroyed]]. [[spoiler:It's expanded on further in a deleted scene, where he reacts with horror upon realizing that the colonel is bloodthirsty enough to turn all of the [=RDA's=] workers into his own personal militia.]]
* NonActionBigBad: He may be in charge but it wasn't his idea to [[spoiler:destroy Hometree]]. Ultimately, Quaritch is the main antagonist.
* NoSell: In a deleted scene, he tries to force Quaritch to stand down by threatening to report him to the [=RDA=] higher ups. [[spoiler:Quaritch [[NeckLift seizes Selfridge by the throat]] and shrugs off his threats with a sneering "[[VillainHasAPoint You're a long way from Earth]]".]]
* ObliviouslyEvil: Selfridge isn't actively malicious or evil; just frustrated and wilfully blind.
* OfficeGolf: Selfridge is the boss of RDA... who doesn't mind practicing his putt on the worksite as shown in the film's start.
* SmugSnake: Honestly, the guy seems completely oblivious (quite possibly willfully) to anything that doesn't have metaphorical dollar signs painted on it. To the greedy bastard's credit, his humanity finally bled through when Grace reminded him that Quaritch was going to [[spoiler:kill babies if he didn't stop the bloodthirsty general, and showed genuine horror and sadness when Quaritch did, but was absolutely powerless to stop it from happening]].
* WeWillMeetAgain: His last words towards Jake Sully in the 2022 rerelease of the first film, warning him that the RDA will come back to Pandora sooner or later, sounds like this kind of threat.

[[folder:Ardmore]]
!!General Frances Ardmore
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/EdieFalco
->'''Dubbed by:''' [[note]]Marianne Leroux (European French), Yukari Nozawa (Japanese), Rebeca Patiño (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]]

The officer in charge of the RDA's renewed operations on Pandora.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: She vastly contrasts the civilian mindset of Parker Selfridge. Ardmore's goals are nothing less than to secure all of Pandora for human colonisation and she has far fewer reservations about using force to do so. Just to underline it, her intro scene shows her boxing in an exoskeleton, and she later drinks coffee (in the same exoskeleton), much like Quaritch famously did during the Hometree bombing in the first movie.
* GreaterScopeVillain: She has her sights set on colonising Pandora so humans can come to live on it and has already established a huge operation, but she is not directly involved in much of the plot for ''The Way of Water'' (recombinant Quaritch is TheHeavy) and seems to be set up for later stories.
* IronicName: A warmonger general out to conquer an unspoiled world shares a name with St. Francis, a Christian icon of ''peace'', who is revered by the Catholic Church as the patron saint of ''ecology''.
* WouldHurtAChild: Has Spider tortured with a MindProbe for information on Jake Sully.

!!!'''RDA Military'''

[[folder:Quaritch]]
!!Colonel Miles Quaritch
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/StephenLang
->'''Dubbed by:''' [[note]]Jean-Bernard Guillard (Avatar, European French), Xavier Fagnon (The Way of Water, European French), Creator/TakayukiSugo (Japanese), Creator/JoseLavat (Avatar, Latin American Spanish), Creator/JoseLuisOrozco (The Way of Water, Latin American Spanish)[[/note]]

The head of the RDA mining operation's security detail. Fiercely loyal to his military code, he has a profound disregard for Pandora's inhabitants that is evident in both his actions and his language.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: He laughs when Jake tells them how he told the Na'vi that he belonged to the "Jarhead Clan."
* AffablyEvil: He's a nice -- if strict -- person to have around if you're on his side, a BenevolentBoss to his troops. Nonetheless he is utterly ruthless and unsympathetic towards the Na'vi, to remind the audience of the ''evil'' part.
* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: Quaritch has a habit of using older weapons despite the technology at his disposal, such as a souped-up revolver and an [=AMP=] blade based on a 21st century combat knife.
* ArmiesAreEvil: The [=SecOps=] troops are a [[PrivateMilitaryContractors private security detail]] retained by RDA, but many of the same aspects apply, and they are obviously meant to draw parallels with Blackwater.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: During the pause in the final battle, [[spoiler: he asks Jake how he feels betraying his own race, to which Jake hissed in response.]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Head of security and the most hardened human on Pandora.
* BadassBoast:
** Gives out one during his LastVillainStand against Jake.
--->'''Quaritch:''' Nothin's over while ''I'm'' breathin'!
** ''The Way of Water'' shows that he made another one right before the final battle of the first film directed at his potential future Recombinant copy:
--->'''Quaritch:''' You're a recom now, Colonel... loaded with my memories and my charm. What you won't remember is my death because it hasn't happened yet... and it ain't gonna!
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Averted. Pandora's atmosphere will painfully kill him as much as anyone, but he seems to have a fairly impressive lung-capacity. He can hold his breath for a pretty long time if exposed to the air. What's more curious however is that his eyes don't seem to be too affected. Hydrogen sulfide is abrasive as hell to the eyes, [[MadeOfIron but he handles it without any problem.]]
* BenevolentBoss: He is not an objectively good guy by any measure, but he is still a very caring commander who genuinely looks out for the men under his command, and true to form, his word is his bond. Despite his initial briefing being quite stern, he's also shown to be remorseful over the fact that Pandora will still take the lives of some of his men despite his best efforts. He also shows some level of tact with Jake, even promising to give him back his legs when the job is done. That said, when he gets properly riled up, he can display a level of callous indifference towards his men. When he realizes Jake’s party is escaping, he breaks through the glass of the doors to his command center, with the people inside having next to no warning and being forced to scramble for oxygen masks while Quaritch keeps attacking.
* BigBadSlippage: He begins as a security chief, but by the end, says "I will blast a hole in their racial memory so deep they won't come within a thousand clicks of this place ever again" before leading a bomb raid against the Na'vis holiest location.
* BloodKnight: The good colonel seems to love combat [[ColonelKilgore as much as the Na'vi]]. For about the half of the movie, he keeps talking about going to war. You can feel the tension between Selfridge (who is going for a peaceful solution) and Quaritch (who very obviously resents being kept on a leash and is looking for an excuse for some good old violence).
* BrokenArmorBossBattle: He battles Jake in a powerful AMP suit mecha. Since Jake's arrows are poorly suited for dealing harm to it, Jake attacks the windshield and cracks it until Quaritch can't see out of it. This forces him to open the suit's canopy and therefore expose himself to incoming arrows.
* ColonelBadass: This man demonstrates the truth of his rank (and this trope) by his ruthlessly efficient leadership style and personal combat.
* ColonelKilgore: Of course. It helps that the character was based off him. Right down to the [[spoiler:casual coffee-drinking while leading an airstrike against Hometree]].
* ColonelKurtzCopy: He's a charismatic military leader stationed on a distant jungle moon who commands a small army of loyal followers and spends most of his time tormenting the natives. Somewhat unusually for this trope, Quaritch ''isn't'' a DangerousDeserter -- however, he has practically usurped command from Selfridge, his nominal superior, and is only really interested in aiding the RDA's goals because it enables him to continue his personal war with the Na'vi.
* {{Determinator}}: Quaritch ''never'' gives up, not even when he's on fire, lacks breathable air or when all the other soldiers have been killed and he's the last of them standing.
-->'''Quaritch''': [[BadassBoast Nothing's over while I'm breathing!]]
* DeviousDaggers: He keeps a AMP suit sized combat knife in a quick draw position on his AMP suit as a backup weapon. Pandorapedia states this is an optional feature, as well as having shades of SimpleYetAwesome[=/=]RuleOfCool about its design ''in-universe''.
* DissonantSerenity: During the attack on Hometree, while incendiary missiles are going off left and right and Na'vi are being slaughtered, Quaritch calmly observes the carnage from the flight deck of his gunship, enjoying a steaming cup of coffee.
* TheDragon: Initially to Selfridge, being the head of the army whilst Selfridge is the highest ranking source of the conflict.
* DragonAscendant: Ultimately, he takes all of Selfridge's power over the mining and becomes the main antagonist.
* DragonInChief: Selfridge may be nominally in charge, but Quaritch is the biggest threat, and by the end of the movie, he's effectively calling all the shots on the human side--and it's clear they both know it.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The sequel reveals that he [[spoiler: fathered a son during his time on Pandora, sometime before his death.]]
* EvilIsBigger: He [[ZigzaggingTrope zig-zags this trope]] during the final battle. Quaritch ''is'' bigger and much more physically dangerous than the wheelchair bound Jake, but is smaller than Jake's Avatar form, which is smaller than the Mini-Mecha Quaritch pilots.
* FantasticRacism: Fantastic Institutional Racism, as he is being paid to lead a private security force against a whole species of war-like aliens.
* AFatherToHisMen: He's genuinely caring for his men right from the get-go with an impassioned speech of "It's my job to keep you alive...I will not succeed" with genuine remorse. He's also sincere in his offer to get Jake's legs fixed and is respectful of his men, cautioning them, congratulating them and never resorting to [[WeHaveReserves using them as throwaway pawns.]] Of course, besides sentimental reasons, he has very practical reasons for this as well: he's not getting any reinforcements for several years to come.[[note]]While the starship train in action means that a transport comes each year, their personnel capacity is quite limited, and miners and mechanics are actually ''more important'' to bring than soldiers.[[/note]] Every soldier lost is gone for good. Having good relations with your men in such situation means a difference between life and death.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He dips into mock-politeness territory when taunting Jake during their final battle.
* FearsomeFoot: The first scene of the Colonel is an establishing shot of his combat boots striding purposefully towards the main window of Hell's Kitchen (Hell's Gate's main cafeteria/briefing area) as he addresses the new recruits.
* GeneralRipper: He just wants an excuse to cower the Na'vi into submission and burn their villages to the ground.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has three scars across the side of his head from his first day at [[DeathWorld Pandora]]. He claims that while the doctors could fix it, he decided to keep them to remind him of EverythingTryingToKillYou and to not get soft.
* HandCannon: Quaritch always carries a [[RevolversAreJustBetter massive revolver]] with a laser sight and high-powered scope.
* TheHeavy: He doesn't run the RDA, but Jake and the Na'vi must fight Quaritch and his army to save the day.
* IdiotBall: He seems to be holding one in regards to Trudy and her actions before her Neutral Face Turn. When she refuses to fire her missiles on the Home Tree and breaks formation to return to base, he takes no action against her. This is ''mind-boggling'' in light of his ColonelBadass and GeneralRipper personality. A military pilot refusing orders to open fire on a target and subsequently breaking off and returning to base without permission would be subject to immediate grounding and court-martial. Given his FatherToHisMen character, he may not have been willing to go that far. She still would have been reprimanded at the very least, and he likely would have ordered that a close eye be kept on her because she's already demonstrated that she can't be trusted to follow orders. Instead she suffers no consequences, no mention is made of it, she's keeps her flying status and access to her gunship, and she's allowed to access three prisoners who've gone against orders and that ''everyone knows she's friends with...''
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Killed by two Na'vi arrows (each about the size of an Olympic javelin) to the chest, courtesy of Neytiri.]]
* IncendiaryExponent: [[spoiler:Quaritch climbing into his AMP suit inside of the crashing Dragon gunship with everything on fire. Including his shoulder.]]
* ItsRainingMen: Bails out of a burning gunship while inside an AMP suit that has no parachute, yet lands on its feet none the worse for wear.
* KingpinInHisGym: Col. Quaritch's second scene has him lifting weights, commenting on the fact that he needs to keep his muscles in top condition in Pandora's low gravity.
* LackOfEmpathy: The only reaction he has to brutally slaughtering Na'vi is happily sipping his mug of coffee.
* LargeHam: It's Stephen Lang, so Quaritch will sometimes go melodramatic in his speech.
* LastVillainStand: After Eywa's intervention turns the tide against him, he escapes from his burning aircraft in his AMP Suit and goes straight for Jake's human body.
-->'''Jake''': Give it up, Quaritch! It's all over.
-->'''Quaritch''': [[{{Determinator}} Nothin's over]] [[BadassBoast while I'm breathin'!]]
* MadeOfIron: Survives being set on fire and dropping out of a burning gunship to land feet-first in his AMP suit. In several scenes he even takes a deep breath and purposefully exposes himself to Pandora's air without a mask. The hydrogen sulfide in the atmosphere is quite irritant to soft issue ([[EyeScream like the eyes]]), which would've felt a lot like getting pepper-sprayed non-stop. ''It doesn't even bother him.''
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: At one point, he ignores that he is ''on fire.'' He triages the problem of first and second degree burns to his arm to focus on a complex bailout from a crashing aircraft. Then he puts the fire out.
* MechVsBeast: The fight between Quaritch in his MiniMecha and Neytiri's thanator.
* MythicalMotifs: He puts a lot of work into comparing himself to a dragon. He's an aggressive, dominating figure who gave himself the callsign "Papa Dragon", rides the Dragon Assault Ship in battle, and has a dragon painted on the side of his mech's gun. [[spoiler: Trudy, who betrays him to join the heroes, [[TigerVersusDragon has a tiger on her own craft]]]].
* NotInKansasAnymore: He warns the newly arrived soldiers "You are not in Kansas anymore!", saying this trope word for word.
* OutRunTheFireball: He does this to escape the exploding gunship. Granted, he's in a giant robot suit, which should help to protect him from the heat, though it gets some burning fuel on it.
* PetTheDog:
** While he's a ruthless ColonelKilgore responsible for numerous heinous deeds, his [[BenevolentBoss very real concern for his subordinates]] and desire to protect the RDA personnel prevent him from being completely unsympathetic. Compare his racist disdain for the Navi to his speech to his soldiers how he clearly regrets he won't be able to save all of them for what's coming for them on Pandora.
** He gets Jake corporate clearance to get his spinal cord repaired in return for Jake being his source in Grace's program [[IGaveMyWord just like he promised him he would.]]
* PostClimaxConfrontation: After the humans' assault on the Tree of Souls fails, Colonel Quaritch suits up in an AMP mech to battle Jake Sully personally.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
-->'''Quaritch''': Nothin's over while I'm breathing!\\
'''Jake''': I kinda hoped you'd say that.
** "Come on, come to papa!" Said before [[spoiler:stabbing Neytiri's attacking Thanator to death with his AMP suit's machete.]]
* RatedMForManly: Customized his AMP suit and his personal gunship with dragons, stays beefy despite the low gravity by lifting heavier weights and is fond of solving problems with heavy ordinance.
* ReverseGrip: He holds a knife not only in reverse grip, but with the edge towards the arm, too. While in a [[MiniMecha three-meter-tall]] suit of PoweredArmour.
* RevolversAreJustBetter: His sidearm of choice is the revolver when clearly higher tech options are available.
* ARoundOfDrinksForTheHouse: He proclaims that the first round's on him tonight to celebrate after [[spoiler:Hometree is destroyed]].
* RuggedScar: Has a three-claw scar on his head, most likely from a viperwolf. After several military tours in actual war-zones, completely unscarred, he came to Pandora and [[DeathWorld got this on his first day outdoors.]] He points out that he could have had it removed but chooses not to, as a reminder to himself not to underestimate the dangers of Pandora.
* SemperFi: He specifically mentions he did 3 tours in Nigeria as a member of Force Recon.
* SmarterThanYouLook: At first glance he may come across as just an arrogant jarhead, but Quaritch has the brains to back up his brawn. He pays close attention to Jake’s intel to prepare for what he assumes is an inevitable attack, and also takes the time to watch and listen to Jake’s video logs to also keep tabs on Jake’s mental state. It’s strongly implied his conversation with Jake where he tells him his new legs are coming was a means to remind him of the mission as he recognized Jake was falling in love with Pandora.
* TheSnackIsMoreInteresting: When his flagship is barraging the Na'vi Hometree with missiles, sipping coffee in the flagship's cockpit.
* SociopathicSoldier: At the core Quaritch is just a BloodKnight aching for a good war, he took multiple military tours, keeps scars as mark of pride more than a reminder and isn't above attacking the enemy's sacred ground as part of psychological warfare.
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:In a deleted scene, he's all but usurped command from Selfridge by the end, even giving his boss a NeckLift when Selfridge rightfully threatens to fire him.]]
* UnflinchingWalk: [[spoiler:When Quaritch jumps out of the Dragon gunship before it explodes. It lands, burning behind his AMP, and he takes a second to look at it before walking off.]]
* VillainHasAPoint:
** He made sure to watch Jake's video logs to keep an eye on his mental state, and when Jake pleads for another chance to convince the Na'vi to relocate, Quaritch is able to pull up a specific log where Jake admits that they’ll never leave Hometree, cutting the knees out from under his argument.
** He notices Jake and Grace being taken hostage and being left to die after Jake confesses to having known about the impending invasion for months. In the moment, it certainly helps the RDA’s case.
** [[spoiler:He points out to Selfridge in a deleted scene that they’re too far from Earth for him to have any meaningful jurisdiction by the time the attack on Pandora begins.]]
* VillainousValour: There's certainly no denying his courage when he leads attacks on someone's home.
* WhatTheHellHero: Quaritch directly asks Jake what it feels like to betray his own race for a bunch of aliens. To which Jake [[ShutUpHannibal replies with a hiss]].
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: While fighting Jake Sully at the climactic battle of The Tree of Souls, Quaritch says this line.
-->'''Quaritch:''' Hey, Sully, how's it feel to betray your own race? You think you're one of ''them''? Time to ''wake up''.
* WorthyOpponent: He seems to have a degree of reverence for the Na'vi's combat prowess and ingenuity. The problem is that he refuses to see them as anything ''but'' opponents.

[[folder:Lyle Wainfleet]]
!!Cpl. Lyle Wainfleet
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/MattGerald
->'''Dubbed by:''' [[note]]Creator/BorisRehlinger (European French), Mario Arvizu (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]]

A mercenary working for the RDA.
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* BaldOfEvil: He's a shaved bald sadist. Even in his Recombinant body, he has a mostly bald head with the only hair on his head forming around the back part of it around his queue head tail.
* BloodKnight: Is quite enthusiastic at the prospect of fighting the Na'vi in the attacks on Hometree and the Tree of Souls.
%%* TheBully: Toward the new marines.
* TheBrute: Of the Earth forces. He doesn't seem all that smart, but he can shoot a gun well enough.
* DumbMuscle: He is an RDA soldier who does not seem to be that smart. He doesn’t even seem offended when Grace basically calls him an "idiot with a gun".
* GiantFootOfStomping: [[spoiler: He ends up on the business end of a Titanothere's foot which lands on top of him]].
%%* {{Jerkass}}: Wainfleet is a basic asshole.
* MookLieutenant: Is only a low ranking soldier but is much higher up the army ranks than the other guys (other than Quaritch), giving them orders to attack or retreat during the RDA attack on the Tree of Souls.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Makes a few nasty comments about Jake's paraplegia.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: [[spoiler:Realizing that he is about to be crushed under the foot of a titanothere, he lets out a silly high-pitched scream.]]
* TriggerHappy: This man is just itching to shoot something. He usually has a big gun at his side and is always ready to fire on command.

[[folder:Recombinant Quaritch]]
!!Miles Quaritch
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/StephenLang

The Avatar clone of Col. Miles Quaritch introduced in ''The Way of Water'', made with the man's DNA, and a scan of his memories from before the FinalBattle of the first movie.

* AlasPoorYorick: He does this pose with ''his own'' human skull when finding the remains of the original Quaritch.
* AndYourLittleDogToo: [[spoiler: During their final showdown in the sequel, Quaritch threatens he won't stop coming after Jake no matter what, and after he's done with him, he'll kill his whole family.]]
* ArchEnemy: Firmly grows into one for both Jake and Neytiri and is looking for payback against both of them, the former for betraying humanity and the latter [[spoiler: for personally killing his human self in battle]]. The sentiment is firmly returned by both of them.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He is in charge of the other Recoms the RDA had made, and is easily the hardest one to take down in a fight.
* BackFromTheDead: He is effectively Quaritch revived in the form of a Recombinant, a Na'vi Avatar with all of his memories from shortly before he was killed in battle.
-->'''Quaritch:''' Remember kid, a marine can't be defeated. Oh, you can kill us, but we'll just regroup in hell.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: While still needing a Pandoran air mix to breathe the air in human buildings/vehicles, he's significantly less dependant on it than other Na'vi and Avatars.
* BloodKnight: Loves to fight as much as the original, with his avatar body allowing him to fight evenly with the Na’vi one-on-one. He even starts his attempt to tame his Ikran without RDA tech by going up to it and punching it in the face.
* CameBackStrong: He's essentially Quaritch returned to life, merging his memories and combat experience as a human with the enhanced biology and heightened senses of a Na'vi avatar. [[spoiler: Soon after taming his own Ikran, Quaritch was able to duel both Neytiri and Jake in the air, as well as fight them in single combat, now that he was no longer vulnerable to his oxygen getting cut off or his mechanical suit being damaged the way they were in the first film. Additionally, his forces are supplemented this time with more advanced Sea Wasp gunships and an entire squadron of other Recoms, which despite being fewer in number, are far more lethal than the average human grunt.]]
* DemotedToDragon: Despite firmly remaining the main antagonist and direct source of conflict like his predecessor, it's very clear that this Quaritch is not the highest authority in charge and is just another cog in the RDA's colonial-imperialism machine.
* {{Determinator}}: He is so hell-bent on killing Jake that [[spoiler: the possibility of drowning to death in a sinking ship doesn’t stop him from continuing their fight underwater, rather than getting himself to safety]].
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Even before it's totally clear that the avatar being woken up near the beginning of ''The Way of Water'' is Quaritch, the fact that his first instinct is to punch everyone in the room shows that this guy is a hot-tempered BloodKnight.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Although he denies it, he has a soft spot for his "son" Spider, even if he doesn't exactly reciprocate the relationship. This ends up being double-subverted when Spider is held hostage by Neytiri -- when threatening her daughter, he initially states that there's no relation between his Recombinant self and the child, but he very quickly releases her when he realizes that Neytiri is willing to strike a killing blow on Spider. He later offers to take Spider in after being rescued, and he sounds audibly hurt when Spider angrily rebuffs him.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** [[spoiler:Quaritch is disturbed by the torture session that's inflicted on Spider and defies his superior to have it stopped. While he tries to portray this as PragmaticVillainy (playing the good cop to Ardmore's bad cop), the film does show him to have a soft spot for Spider which likely caused him to step in.]]
** As much as he absolutely detests all Pandoran wildlife, even he's disturbed by the whaler's cruelty and wastefulness in hunting down and disposing of the Tulkun.
* EvilCounterpart: His actions and character arc closely resemble Jake's in the first movie. He awakens as an avatar with doctors shining a flashlight into his eyes, he immediately disobeys their instructions as he stumbles about in his new body, he receives orders to infiltrate a Na'vi settlement from a superior officer in a human-built settlement, he clumsily learns Na'vi language and culture, and he tames his own ikran. The big difference is that he does all this for the conscious purpose of brutalizing the Na'vi and getting revenge against Jake and Neytiri, whereas Jake made a genuine effort to respect the Na'vi and their ways even before he made a HeelFaceTurn and turned against the RDA.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: "Now... I know you're all asking yourselves the same question. Why so blue?"
* FantasticRacism: Initially doesn’t care much for the Na’vi and their ways thanks to having Quaritch’s memories, although [[spoiler: having Spider around]] makes him more open to learn and do things their way.
* FountainOfYouth: Being brought back in a newly-grown Avatar body means that he's physically younger than his old and grizzled human self.
* HiddenDepths: Despite having a murderous grudge against the Na'vi thanks to his memories, Recombinant Quaritch is quite adaptive and eager to learn the ways of the Na'vi, to the point he tames a Mountain Banshee with his bare hands just because he heard that Jake Sully did it without a RDA tranquilizer.
* InstantExpert: He takes to living as a Na'vi quite quickly, even being able to understand some basic Na'vi language and tame a Mountain Banshee with his bare hands on his first try. Even Jake Sully has to take a while to get it right.
* ItsPersonal: The grudge he has against Jake and his family from the original Quaritch’s memories are further solidified [[spoiler:when he learns that they were the ones who killed "him" once before]], and wants to settle the score.
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: Quaritch might be under General Ardmore's command, but as far as Jake and Neytiri are concern their conflict is with him while the two have yet to meet Ardmore.
* MadeOfIron: The original Quaritch was hard enough to kill, and now there’s an avatar clone of him running around.
* PapaWolf: PlayedWith. While being Quaritch’s clone means that [[spoiler:Spider technically isn’t ''his'' son]], and he acknowledges as much, he still tends to get protective of him.
* PetTheDog:
** He treats Spider better than anyone else does in the RDA, due to him being [[spoiler:the son of the human Quaritch. This ends up saving his own life.]]
** He's generally reluctant to actually ''kill'' any Na'vi not named Jake Sully and Neytiri, unless they're actively attacking him. [[spoiler: It's possible he was "going native" from trying to imitate the Na'vi, or he didn't want to murder Na'vi in front of Spider, or both. When searching villages doesn't work, Quaritch comes up with a plan to lure Jake and his family out with minimal Na'vi casualties.]]
** An {{implied|Trope}} example, but while he did take his banshee by punching it in the face, the fact that [[spoiler:it returns to pick him up after the final battle]] implies he treated it well enough to earn its respect.
* ResurrectTheVillain: Quaritch gets brought BackFromTheDead, in a way, through cloning into a Na'vi Avatar body with memories of the previous one up to shortly before his death, which is called a Recombinant.
* WouldHurtAChild: He holds Jake’s children captive and threatens to kill them. [[spoiler: Downplayed, as he is not willing to see his own son hurt.]]
* YoungerThanTheyLook: He is technically at most only 5 years old when he wakes up/gains consciousness for the first time, but looks and acts like the adult man he was effectively cloned from and given the memories of.

[[folder:Recombinant Wainfleet]]
!!Lyle Wainfleet
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/MattGerald

The Avatar clone of Cpl. Lyle Wainfleet introduced in ''The Way of Water''.

* BackFromTheDead: In ''The Way of Water'', Lyle's revived as a Recombinant alongside Quaritch.
* BaldOfEvil: Compared to the other Recombinant soldiers who all have hair, Lyle remains the bald one just like his original human self.
* TheDragon: As a Recombinant, Lyle acts as the second-in-command to the Recombinant Quaritch in ''The Way of Water''.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The notion of killing the unarmed Na'vi seemed to make him at least somewhat uncomfortable. He openly questioned Quaritch if they were truly going to follow through with the threat.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: When Recombinant Quaritch first wakes up in a state of confusion and starts fighting his nearby Recombinants, it's Recombinant Lyle who manages to get Quaritch to calm down once the latter realizes that he's speaking to Lyle.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the first film, Wainfleet could only fight within an A.M.P suit, and got trampled down by Pandoran wildlife as soon as things heated up. Recombinant Wainfleet manages to tame his Banshee and fight Jake Sulley briefly in melee (notable since most of the other recombinants died rather quickly whenever they got close to him) before getting knocked off the Sea Dragon.
* TookALevelInKindness: Downplayed. In ''The Way of Water'' Lyle's major {{Jerkass}} tendencies are toned down and the film emphasizes his professionalism and loyalty to Quaritch. When Quaritch is revived and starts a fight, Lyle has the medical staff get to safety before working to calm his CO down.
* UncertainDoom: Is last seen [[spoiler:knocked overboard by Jake Sully during the climax of ''The Way of Water,'' but unlike all other [[FakeUltimateMook Recombinants]], his death is not shown on-screen.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: During the climactic battle of the second film, Lyle [[spoiler:shoots and kills Jake and Neytiri's eldest son, Neteyam]].

[[folder:Recombinant Soldiers]]
!!Recombinant Soldiers
Other RDA soldiers brought back to life in Avatar clone bodies to aid Quaritch in his objective to hunt down and kill Jake Sully.

* AllThereInTheManual: Most of their names are exclusive to the tie-in visual dictionary for ''The Way of Water''.
* {{BFG}}: Quaritch's Recombinant squad are light infantry, and don't carry much human tech, but they do get to play with a brand-new line of human weaponry upsized for their massive Na'vi bodies, including rifles, grenade launchers, and a colossal mounted Gatling gun.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: They initially move out with combat boots, but soon opt to operate barefoot as they learn to move and behave like Na'vi in their native environment (due to guidance from Spider).
* DwindlingParty: [[spoiler: Beginning off as a group of twelve, Fike, Brown, Walker, Warren, and Zhang are all killed during the first clash with the Sullys, and the remaining members are picked off one by one during the climax of the final battle. By the end, Quaritch, Mansk, and Wainfleet are the only ones not confirmed to be dead.]]
* EliteMook: They are all assigned members of Quaritch’s team, and are meant to be stronger and faster than regular human RDA soldiers thanks to their new artificial Na’vi bodies.
* RedBaron: By the RDA, they are referred to as Project Phoenix or "Blue Team", both to highlight their revival and enhanced physiology.
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: Their official team emblem is a dark blue Na'vi skull with several scars similar to original Quaritch's in the first film, a reference to how they are dead soldiers returned to life in the body of Na'vi Avatar. Fittingly, the accompanying motto is "Deja Blue, We will Tread Over You".
* SuperSoldier: The idea behind them is to combine the superior physical abilities of the Na'vi with human military training and technology to let the RDA finally fight on equal-or-superior terms with their foes. Notably, Recombinants do not need oxygen masks or specialized equipment to survive on Pandora, and they are capable of taming the wildlife and avoiding Eywa's immune response due to their Na'vi physiology.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Zdinarsk and Walker are the only women on the team.
* UndyingLoyalty: Unlike Jake or the other RDA defectors who had their own Avatar body, none of the Recombinants even consider defecting, and remain by Quaritch's side on his quest to take down Jake even when they're marooned on a burning ship with little reinforcements left.
* VillainOfAnotherStory: While only Fike, Wainfleet, and Quaritch are present in the first film, it is heavily implied that the other members were also military operatives in the RDA, and were similarly killed either during the final assault on Hometree or in other clashes with the Na'vi.

!!Zdinarsk
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zdinarsk.png]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/AliciaVelaBailey
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: When she attempts to intercept and kill Jake, Neytiri intervenes by first firing an arrow into Zdinark's hip and then finishing her off with another arrow to the face.]]
* BubblegumPopping: Constantly chews bubblegum and blows pink bubbles.
* DarkActionGirl: The most prominent female member of Quaritch's Recom squad.
* InSeriesNickname: Wainfleet nicknames her "Z-dog".
* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler: Compared other Recombinants, Zdinarsk is this. She manages to take a giant arrow through the back that pierces through her waist, and still attempts to stagger around to kill Neytiri. Even after receiving an arrow to the face, she fires off a few last shots.]]
* RememberTheNewGuy: Although Recombinant Wainfleet reintroduces himself, Fike, and Zdinarsk to Recombinant Quaritch, Zdinarsk was the only one out of the three calming down Quaritch to not be in the first movie.
* TattooedCrook: She is an antagonist with several tattoos on her body.

!!Fike
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/SeanAnthonyMoran

* BackFromTheDead: He is brought back to life in a Recombinant body. [[BackForTheDead He ends up being one of the first soldiers killed though, on his first mission no less.]]
* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Gets an arrow to his right eye by Neytiri, killing him instantly.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: With an arrow to the eye.]]

!!Brown
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Gets hacked in the collarbone with a tomahawk before being stabbed in the chest with a combat knife by Jake.]]

!!Ja
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/JohnnyAlexander
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* SquashedFlat: [[spoiler: He's killed when Payakan jumped onto the [=SeaDragon=] vessel and smashed him.]]


!!Lopez
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/VictorLopez

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Takes an arrow to the chest while on his banshee from Neytiri causing him to fall into the sea.]]
* TattooedCrook: He has a few tattoos on his upper body.


!!Mansk
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/KevinDorman
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* SinisterShades: He wears sunglasses that conceal his eyes.
* UncertainDoom: He was last seen getting knocked unconscious by Jake during the final battle on the [=SeaDragon=], but is not shown dying. It is more than likely he ended up drowning as the boat was sinking into the depths of the ocean.


!!Prager
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/AndrewArrabito
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* BadassesWearBandanas: He is a tough Recombinant soldier who wears a bandana.
* PetTheDog: One of his notable actions is running through the blazing inferno to save another RDA soldier who was on fire. Unfortunately, that directly leads to...
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Jake running a spear through his chest and pinning his corpse to the deck of the SeaDragon.]]

!!Walker
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/MariaWalker
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%%* DreadlockWarrior: Sports a cornrow hairstyle
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Gets an arrow to the chest by Neytiri.]]


!!Warren
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Killed by Jake with tomahawk spike.]]


!!Zhang
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/KimDo
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Gets an arrow to the back from Neteyam.]]

!!!'''Sea Dragon Crew'''

[[folder:Mick Scoresby]]
!!Mick Scoresby
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mick_scoresby.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/BrendanCowell
-> '''Dubbed by:''' Manuel Campuzano (Latin American Spanish)

The captain of the [=SeaDragon=] leading the RDA's tulkun whaling efforts, under the jurisdiction of Cetacean Operations/Cet-Ops.
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: His right arm is severed by the cable of his own harpoon when Payakan sinks the ship he is on]].
* EvilPoacher: Exaggerated. He's a ruthless, mercenary EgomaniacHunter who doesn't just unlawfully kill animals - he kills sapient, civilised (and culturally pacifist) aliens to harvest their brain fluid.
* FantasticRacism: Views the fully sapient tulkuns as little better than animals - conversely, he doesn't seem to be especially prejudiced against the Na'vi themselves, at least by the standards of the RDA. The general implication is that it's largely motivated by avarice and PragmaticVillainy - if he could make himself filthy rich by harvesting Na'vi brains, he'd treat them like animals to be slaughtered too, but he can't, so he treats them as a sapient threat to be avoided and not antagonised.
* HateSink: He's portrayed to be unpleasant as possible, from his sadistic methods of hunting [[SapientCetaceans tulkun]] (which [[FantasticRacism he regards to be dumb animals]]) to his rude personality to his bottomless greed at wasteful expenses. Even RDA villains like Ardmore and Quaritch have sympathetic moments, namely ensuring the survival of the human race. Scoresby only cares about the millions he'll make profiting off of the Amrita harvested from the tulkun [[spoiler:and thus, gets what's coming for him when [[LaserGuidedKarma Payakan wrecks his boat and cuts off his arm using the harpoon line meant for whaling]].]]
* PragmaticVillainy: He's a ruthless, greedy EgomaniacHunter, but he goes out of his way to avoid hunting the tulkuns under the Metkayina's protection because he knows that doing so would cause unnecessary conflict with the Metkayina. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, "unnecessary conflict with the Metkayina" is what Quaritch wants]].
* UnderestimatingBadassery: [[spoiler: He severely underestimates just how ''absurdly'' intelligent and powerful Payakan (and the Tulkun in general) is, and it ends up being the death of him]].
* VillainousValour: For a sleazy businessman who makes a living killing things that completely refuse to fight back, he shows impressive coolheadedness and fighting spirit once he's in an actual battle against an entire Na'vi tribe and a gigantic sea monster while stuck on a not-especially-large harpoon boat. [[spoiler:It keeps him alive for a respectable amount of time, although Payakan's wrath catches up with him in the end.]]

[[folder:Dr. Ian Garvin]]
!!Dr. Ian Garvin
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-> '''Played By:''' Creator/JemaineClement
-> '''Dubbed by:''' Creator/RaulAnaya (Latin American Spanish)

A scientist who assists the crew of the [=SeaDragon=] in hunting down the Tulkun.
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* BeingEvilSucks: Clearly feels uncomfortable hunting down and harvesting the Tulkun, but goes along anyway because that's how he gets paid.
* DrowningMySorrows: Garvin mentions doing this because of his participation in the hunting of the Tulkun, which he personally disapproves of, but is how his research is funded.
* PunchClockVillain: Not as borderline psychotic as Scoresby, but still helps in harvesting the Tulkun because it's what funds his research.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Feels this way about the rest of the Sea Dragon crew, especially Scoresby.
* TrappedInVillainy: He clearly wants nothing more than to study the Tulkun, much like how Grace wished to study Pandora's ecosystem, but he's a member of the Sea Dragon crew because his knowledge of the creatures makes it easier to hunt them.
* UncertainDoom: Last seen taking cover from the harpoon line attached to Payakan. After that, we don't see him, leaving his fate up in the air.

!Na'vi

%% Place all tropes directly relating to the Na'vi, their culture, particular characters or actions here.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Justified, since the younger Omatikaya learned English at Grace's school; also, the Avatar drivers have studied, or are studying, Na'vi.
* AllGenesAreCodominant: The Avatars look mostly like the Na'vi, but have five-fingered hands and smaller eyes like humans. Grace has a human-style nose and possibly smaller ears (hard to get a clear sighting), presumably as she was one of the first successful Avatars created. Also, male Na'vi have hard ridges at the base of their sternum in the middle of their chests, while Jake retains his human-shaped chest in his Avatar form. They may have just started with Na'vi genes and done the minimum amount of [[LegoGenetics tinkering]] needed to make them into something that a human would feel comfortable in. That would mean five fingers and eyes similar enough to normal human ones that a human could process the input from them.
* BishieSparkle: The Na'vi have bioluminescent 'sparkles' on their body (see the picture of Neytiri for the example).
* BrainUploading: Personalities of Na'vi, and humans, can be uploaded into the Pandoran collective consciousness from within the sacred groves. [[spoiler:Downloading into a new body is also possible, but we don't know how common.]] Large numbers of other Na'vi chant during the upload ceremony, although this seems no more necessary than, say, chanting while backing up your iPod. Unless [[spoiler:all of the chanting Na'vi that are noticeably linked into the local network are acting as parallel-processing units and local storage. While the global network is '''big''', it's also spread out over the entire moon; having the wetware locally available to act as buffer storage and additional processing during an upload would be pretty handy--especially if you're doing a transfer.]]
* CatFolk: Downplayed; they're no furrier than humans, but their noses, ears and tails are all very catlike and they (especially Neytiri) have a tendency to hiss when agitated.
* ConLang: Cameron hired an USC linguist to invent the Na'vi language, then let the actors endure boot camps and line-by-line rehearsals over and over again to learn to speak it flawlessly.
* DeathCourse: The Na'vi education system as experienced by Jake includes a lot of running and jumping in absurdly high places without safety nets or harnesses.
* DeathGlare: Jake gets a nice long one from almost ''everyone'' in the Omaticaya during his first night at Hometree.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: The Na'vi are perpetually barefoot. Due to the moon's lower gravity and denser atmosphere, it's extremely easy to lose footing and slip -- especially on dirt or soil. Because of this, the Na'vi are able to curl their large toes directly into the ground for traction. They also somewhat count under EarthyBarefootCharacter due to their extremely close connection to nature. During his training with Neytiri, it appears as if Jake was ''forced'' to go barefoot. It took him some time for his feet to get calloused before he could keep up with her and Tsu'tey.
* DoomedHometown: Hometree is [[spoiler:destroyed by Quaritch]].
* FantasyCounterpartCulture:
** The Omaticaya Na'vi and Native Americans, with their shared spirituality with the natural world.
** The Metkayina Na'vi and Indegenous Oceanic peoples especially the Māori people, both being ocean-associating tribes.
* FourFingeredHands: All Na’vi have four fingers on their hands. They can recognize artificial Avatar Na’vi by looking at the five fingers they possess.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: The Na'vi to the flora and fauna of Pandora. They are even able to [[PsychicLink neural link]] with them. Doesn't stop some of the flora and fauna from trying to kill them--nor does it stop them from killing said flora/fauna. They just apologize to it afterwards.
* GoalOrientedEvolution: The Na'vi are "more evolutionarily advanced" than humans (according to tie-in media), implying that evolutionary processes have 'levels' rather than just...results. Could also be taken to describe the level of integration with their surroundings (even if this wasn't intended, it still seems to hold). However it happened, they ''did'' evolve the ability to link into wildlife like [[Film/TheMatrix Neo plugs into the Matrix]], so one could argue an extreme amount of adaptation to their environment could qualify.
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: The Na'vi, being the epitome of good, naturally have enormous eyes.
* HalfHumanHybrid: The Avatars are specially built to be a hybrid of Na'vi and an individual human's DNA.
* HumanoidAliens: In a meticulously designed alien ecosystem full of truly bizarre creatures (for example, giant six-legged blue horses who drink plant nectar), the Na'vi are strongly humanoid, despite their otherwise BizarreAlienBiology.
* HumansAreCthulhu:
** The simple mining operation on Pandora has brought in a whole range of sanity- and reality-shattering stuff to the moon's inhabitants--swathes of land transformed overnight into [[{{Mordor}} burning, barren wastes]], [[GiantFlyer hovering monstrosities]] capable of deafening the ears and engulfing whole settlements in fire and choking fog, a city (itself an otherworldly concept) of unnatural spires and AlienGeometries, line-of-sight weaponry that can [[BoomStick spit instant death]] and, last but not least, [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Na'vi Hybrids]] serving as vessels for these supernatural beings' spirits.
** Which lends itself to DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu (or more accurately, [[spoiler:SummonBiggerFish]]) for the film's climax.
** For an added kick, the guy responsible for the Avatar Program is a MadScientist by the name of [[Creator/HPLovecraft Dr. Lovecraft]], who initially called his brainchild the "[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Dark Dreamer]]" project.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: We humans are the aliens to the Na'vi, and we [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters don't seem to come in peace]]. Rest assured, they do fight back.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Almost every Na'vi is very scantily clad and completely comfortable this way. A notable exception is Mo'at.
* IAmXSonOfY: Na’vi naming conventions follow a more complex version of this as they have a personal name followed by a family name prefixed with the word “te” basically meaning “of the (blank) family”, and then ending with this trope in the form of the name of the parent matching their gender, and a suffix also dependent upon their gender. So Neytiri’s full name “Neytiri te Tskaha Mo'at'ite” means she’s "Neytiti of the Tskaha family, daughter of Mo’at" (it’s unknown if her name changed at all once she married Jake). Interestingly, despite lacking a written language, names of human origin when they are written out are done phonetically in a Na’vi accent so her son “Lo'ak te Suli Tsyeyk’itan” is actually "Lo’ak of the Sully Family, son of Jake". This also allows adoptive children to honor both their birth family and their adoptive family like Kiri, whose full name “Kiri te Suli Kìreysì'ite” means she’s "Kiri of the Sully family, Daughter of Grace".
* KlingonPromotion: Referenced. This appears to have once been a tradition among certain tribes to ensure a clean, unchallenged line of succession, and may still be one if the chieftainship is contested, but a friendly abdication is a much more civilised affair these days. The new chief 'kills' the old chief by tapping his chest with the guard of his knife, confirming that he's permanently retired from the position.
* MagicSkirt: The Na'vi tend to wear nothing but a skimpy loincloth. There are improbably few wardrobe malfunctions.
* NobleSavage: Played straight, but justifiable as it is not Jake's status as a human (or HalfHumanHybrid) that makes him "special" but rather, his different cultural background allows him to view things from a different perspective.
* NonMammalMammaries: The original Na'vi concept art envisioned a reptilian-like species; at this point, Creator/JamesCameron said "Right from the beginning I said, 'She's got to have tits,' [[RuleOfSexy even though that makes no sense]] because her race, the Na'vi, aren't placental mammals." However, averted in that the final design of the Na'vi are mammalian, unlike the [[http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/8889/conceptg.jpg early concept art]].
* NoodlePeople: All the Na'vi have very lean bodies. They aren’t exactly scrawny though as they have well-built legs and upper bodies.
* NubileSavage: Only Jake ever gets dirty, and only because he's inexperienced. Every Na'vi has perfect teeth and skin.
* OnlySixFaces: Definitely averted. There are CG cartoons that can't seem to avert having most background characters or stars with extremely similar features, but most of the Na'vi all look as different as humans would. Except they're all blue. This is probably because the Na'vi, while CGI, are based on actual actors, particularly in that the Avatars look particularly like their human counterparts. ''The Way of Water'' goes further in this regard, introducing the Metkayina Na'vi, who aside from having unique faces, also have more muscular tails, fin-like structures on their arms, a more turquoise skin color, and curly hair, distinguishing them from the Omaticaya Na'vi.
* OurElvesAreDifferent: They are pointy-eared, blue-skinned cat-like people who live among nature, have a deity to worship, tame wild beasts and are armed, especially with arrows capable of impaling victims. Basically, they're less space elves and more wood elves. In space.
* PointyEars: All of them have thin, pointy ears that are also expressive based on their mood.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: All Na'vi show some level of skill in either fighting, hunting, or flying. Including pretty much every female Na'vi except Mo'at (who may have been one in her younger years).
* SerkisFolk: Every Na'vi and Avatar to appear onscreen.
* SuperStrength: The Na’vi are strong enough to one-handedly lift and toss humans as if they were made of paper.
* SuperToughness: The Na'vi have bones of carbon-fiber.
* ThongOfShielding: The loincloths basically don't cover their rears at all. Of course, since we see Jake's butt completely unobstructed when it's hanging out of his hospital gown, Na'vi butts probably just don't count.
* TranslationConvention:
** Averted in the first film. When Na'vi are talking among themselves, even ones who speak acceptable English, they speak in Na'vi (and we don't always get subtitles, only for critically important lines, although all the Na'vi lines are understandable to a speaker of the language). When Jake is speaking to the elders and to other clans, and it's really, really important, he asks Tsu'tey to translate for him.
** In ''The Way of Water'', the film starts out just like the first film with Jake's voice-over narration being in English, but all other Na'vi dialogue being in their language (with English subtitles when appropriate). But after a line in Jake's narration saying that he has now lived among the Na'vi long enough that their language sounds just as natural to him as English, the film abruptly switches to Na'vi speaking English except for scenes when human characters who aren't fluent in the Na'vi language are present.
*** Once this trope takes effect, Jake's bilingual kids throwing Na'vi words into their English dialog suggests that they are really doing the opposite.
* UnusualUserInterface: The Na'vi's tool of communicating with the creatures and the Tree works like a tentacle-y USB.
* VaporWear: Most of the Na'vi's clothing does little to conceal them from exposure. Little apparel is worn by the Na'vi. Cloth, most likely woven from native flora of the moon, is the basic garment worn by all Na'vi. It is possible that very little clothing is worn by the Na'vi because it is simply what is needed for the Na'vi to work and live taking minimally from the environment. Clothes appear to also show the ranking of one in the hierarchy of a clan.
* YouNoTakeCandle: The Na'vi (especially Neytiri) speak accented and broken English when addressing Jake at the start of the movie.

!!!Omaticaya Clan

[[folder:Tsu'tey]]
!!Tsu'tey
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/LazAlonso
->'''Dubbed by:''' [[note]]Bruno Choël (European French), Masanori Takeda (Japanese), Enrique Cervantes (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]]

The finest warrior of the Omaticaya. He is heir to the chieftainship of the tribe. At the beginning of the film's story, he is betrothed to Neytiri.

* ADayInTheLimelight: The comic miniseries ''Tsu'tey's Path'' retells the plot of the first movie from his perspective.
* TheAce: As mentioned above, the finest warrior of the Omaticaya.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: He suffers this in the extended cut, where he survives his great fall only to have his queue sliced off by Wainfleet.]]
* ArrangedMarriage: Or betrothal, anyway, to Neytiri. It was originally to her older sister Sylwanin, but she was killed by RDA soldiers and Neytiri was made her successor in the arrangement.
* BloodKnight: Is the most eager of the Omaticaya to fight the humans.
* DefeatEqualsFriendship: [[spoiler: He calls Jake "brother" as his suffering is put to an end by Jake in the extended cut]].
* FantasticRacism: He is initially dismissive of the human Avatars and humans in general as they killed his true love.
* HiddenDepths: He can speak some English showing that while he is (justifiably) very hostile towards humans, he was once a student at Grace's school
* JerkassHasAPoint: He's very hostile toward Jake from the moment they first meet. But he's had years of experience with RDA brutality, particularly the loss of his beloved Sylwanin, so it's understandable that he'd be wary of humans, especially one who admits to being a marine. And Jake ''does'' turn out to be a spy for Quaritch as part of the latter's plan to relocate the Omaticaya from Hometree, a revelation that makes the rest of the tribe just as hostile towards him as Tsu'tey.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Initially hostile and dismissive towards Jake, he slowly warms to the guy after he becomes Toruk Makto, accepts him as a member of the people and willingly fights at his command.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: In a deleted scene, he survives his fall from Quaritch's gunship but has his queue sliced off, leaving him in unspeakable agony. And he has Jake perform the ritual MercyKill on him that Neytiri performed on the viperwolves earlier in the movie.
* TheLostLenore: His true love was Neytiri's older sister before she was killed by the RDA. He occasionally communicates with her spirit and [[spoiler: reunites with her in the afterlife.]]
* TheNativeRival: He's well-respected among his people, is heir to the chieftainship and a marriage has been arranged to the chief's daughter. When Jake comes along, Tsu'tey instantly pegs him as someone he needs to take down.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Gets riddled with bullets and falls out the back of the bomb carrier during a failed assault on the bomb.
* TheRival: He strongly dislikes Jake, and is his main enemy among the Na'vi. Tsu'tey is the Na'vi that takes the longest to come around to liking Jake. Considering the entire reason Jake is there, you can't really blame him. And [[spoiler:Jake mated with his girl]].

[[folder:Mo'at]]
!! Mo'at
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/CCHPounder
->'''Dubbed by:''' [[note]]Michèle Bardollet (European French), Roko Takizawa (Japanese), Creator/LauraTorres (Latin American Spanish) [[/note]]
The spiritual leader, or Tsahik, of the Omaticaya. She is the mother of Neytiri and mate to Eytukan, the clan’s leader.

* CoolOldLady: Though not a [[NonActionGuy warrior]], she is a powerful and wise shaman and co-leads the Omaticaya.
* DeathWail: Lets out one when [[spoiler: Hometree is destroyed, killing a lot of her people, including her mate, in the process]].
* DemotedToExtra: She disappears from ''The Way of Water'' after the first act.
* DotingGrandparent: In the small amount of screentime she has in ''The Way of Water'', she is shown to be a loving grandmother to Jake and Neytiri's children.
* EtherealWhiteDress: During the attempted healing ritual to save [[spoiler: a dying Grace]], she wears what appears to be a white, translucent robe made from who knows what.
* IronLady: She is tough and stern, speaks with ringing authority, her very presence commands attention and she is greatly respected by the whole clan; even Eytukan cedes to her when it comes to spiritual matters. Jake himself refers to her as “the dragon lady”, though she’s actually not an example of [[DragonLady that trope]].
* LadyInRed: Usually wears a long shirt/dress made of red beads.
* NotSoStoic: She is usually very calm and even aloof…but when the RDA begin [[spoiler: firebombing her home]], she staggers over to Jake and Grace and tearfully begs the former to prove he’s one of them by helping them.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: In the extended edition [[spoiler: it’s revealed her eldest daughter was killed by soldiers at Grace’s school]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Rather than going straight to killing Jake, she demands to be allowed to inspect and question him first. She listens to what he has to say and upon deciding he isn’t a threat, orders her daughter to teach him their ways in the hopes of making him understand. She also agrees to let Grace back into the village due to her longstanding friendship to the clan and during [[spoiler: Hometree’s]] destruction, she frees Jake and Grace from their bonds, saving them and giving Jake a chance to redeem himself by helping them escape.
* RulingCouple: With Eytukan. She’s the clan Tsahik, in charge of spiritual matters.

[[folder:Eytukan]]
!!Eytukan
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/WesStudi
The clan chief of the Omaticaya. He is the mate of Mo’at and father of Neytiri.

* CoolOldGuy: He’s the leader of all the Omaticaya, implied to be pretty badass to have gotten the position, and bravely stands up to the RDA in defense of his clan, even though he has next to no chance of winning.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler: Dies in Neytiri’s arms]].
* DoesNotSpeakCommon: He is the only significant Na'vi to not speak any English.
* FantasticRacism: He has a low opinion of humans, banning them from entering his clan’s territory, making a derogatory comment about Jake’s “alien smell” and even considering killing him simply for getting lost on their turf. However, he has his reasons to be wary of humans.
* HonorBeforeReason: He chooses to stand and fight the far more powerful RDA rather than evacuate Hometree, refusing to be driven from his home. [[SubvertedTrope However]], when he realizes the futility of this, he instead orders a retreat to save his people.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: During the destruction of Hometree, he is impaled through the chest by a large splinter of wood, which ultimately kills him]].
* TheLeader: Of the Omaticaya clan. He’s of the Levelheaded variety, putting the safety and well-being of his people above all else and [[UndyingLoyalty commanding great respect]], to the point where Jake gets threatened at spearpoint simply for ''approaching'' Eytukan without permission.
* TheMenFirst: When he realizes they have no chance against the RDA gunships, he swiftly orders a retreat and stays behind to help his people evacuate, whilst urging his daughter to leave without him. [[spoiler: Sadly, this proves to be a fatal decision for Eytukan]].
* PerpetualFrowner: He is mostly seen with a stern frown on his face.
* RulingCouple: With Mo’at. He’s in charge of the clan’s everyday activities and leads them in battle, too.
* TakeUpMySword: [[spoiler: After being mortally wounded when Hometree is destroyed, he tells his daughter to take his bow and lead the clan to safety]].

[[folder:Tarsem]]
!!Tarsem
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/KestonJohn
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* PassingTheTorch: When Jake decides to step down as leader of the Omatikaya clan, he allows Tarsem to lead the clan for him so he and his family can relocate themselves.

!!!Metkayina Clan

[[folder:In General]]
* FantasticRacism: The [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure wise chief]] Tonowari respects Na'vis that are not from his clan/subspecies (and hybrids like Kiri as well), but it's far from being the case of everyone in the clan as demonstrated when the Sullys come at them to seek asylum.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: To various Pacific island cultures, most prominently the Maori with their distinct tattoos and pre-battle haka complete with the men doing the "whetero" tongue-pointing.
* FishPeople: When compared to forest Na'vis like the Omaticaya, in addition to their skin being a lighter shade of blue, their tail is more akin to a fishtail, and they have fin-like appendices on their arms to swim better.

[[folder:Tonowari]]
!!Tonowari
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/CliffCurtis
->'''Dubbed by:''' [[note]]Mathieu Buscatto (European French), Creator/TaitenKusunoki (Japanese), Beto Castillo (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]]

The clan chief of the Metkayina. He is the mate of Ronal and father of Tsireya and Aonung.

* AFatherToHisMen: Has the respect and loyalty of all the Metkayina and will do what it takes to protect his people, which he considers Jake and his family to be a part of as well.
* LargeAndInCharge: Tonowari is the tallest and most muscular member of his tribe and happens to be their imposing chief.
* NiceGuy: The sheer hospitality and kindness he shows to the Sullies go beyond being a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, with him rarely raising his voice and always eager to help/enlighten them, even when they make huge mistakes.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: He's normally very calm and stoic unless he's fighting. When he learns that Lo'ak bonded with Payakan (who was WronglyAccused of the death of dozens of Na'vi), he [[SuddenlyShouting snaps]] for the first time.
* PapaWolf: Doesn’t think twice about going into battle when he hears his son and daughter are in danger along with Jake and Neytiri’s children.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Jake describes Tonowari as a great leader, and he's much nicer to Jake and his family than his wife and son, who shunned them. Throughout the movie, he did his best to honor his deal with Jake to protect him and his family.
* StaffOfAuthority: He is the leader of his tribe and often carries a huge spear with him.

[[folder:Ronal]]
!!Ronal
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/KateWinslet
->'''Dubbed by:''' [[note]]Anneliese Fromont (European French), Haruka Shimizu (Japanese), Creator/XochitlUgarte (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]]
The spiritual leader, or Tsahik, of the Metkayina clan. She is the mate of Tonowari and mother of Tsireya and Aonung.

* FantasticRacism:
** She doesn't quite approve of the 'Forest Clan' Na'vis like Jake and his family, thinking that they have no place in the marine-based Metkayina tribe. Not only that, she also dislikes how Jake and his children are technically half-human due to Jake's former life as one.
** She is also shown to be very unapproving of Norm and Max coming over to help Kiri, demanding they leave immediately before taking care of Kiri herself.
* TheMedic: Heals Kiri after she falls unconscious from a seizure after connecting with Eywa.
* PregnantBadass: Ronal is visibly pregnant with her and Tonowari's third child. This does nothing to hinder her effectiveness in combat or willingness to fight alongside the rest of her clan.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: After finding out her spirit sister tulkan was killed senselessly by the sky people, she is the first to call out for blood in revenge.

[[folder:Tsireya]]
!!Tsireya
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/BaileyBass
->'''Dubbed by:''' [[note]]Jaynelia Coadou (European French), Creator/MaayaUchida (Japanese), María García Hernández (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]]
The daughter of Tonowari and Ronal who helps Jake's kids learn the way of water in their clan.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Even though she does not like her brother teasing Lo’ak, she does laugh a little bit at Lo’ak’s failed attempt to ride one of their Ilu’s.
* AllLovingHeroine: She is the first to accept the Sullys without hesitation. She listens to Lo’ak and helps teach him and his siblings about the Metkayina customs, is willing to help save Payakan from the RDA despite her tribe considering him an outsider, disapproves of her brother’s bullying, and helps the Sullys against Quaritch.
* TheChiefsDaughter: She is the daughter of Tonowari, leader of the Metkayina.
* GenerationXerox: Is the Neytiri to Lo’ak’s Jake in this film being the one to show Lo’ak the way of the water as Neytiri taught Jake about the Na’vi. Unlike Neytiri, Tsireya is nice to her foreign friend for the entire movie.
* NiceGirl: Compared to how hostile the rest of the Metkayina clan are to Jake’s family, Tsireya does not look down on them and teaches Jake’s children the ways of her tribe. She is especially kind to Lo’ak.
* SexySurfacingShot: Tsireya surfacing out of the water certainly catches Lo’ak’s attention when his family arrives at Metkayina territory. It's complete with a little flip of her curly wet hair over her shoulder.
* ShipTease: With Lo’ak. The first time Lo’ak lays eyes on her, he sees her walking out of the water. They also have a few intimate moments together that potentially hints at a greater relationship between the two, particularly when Tsireya tells Lo’ak she sees him for who he is and does not consider him an outcast.

[[folder:Aonung]]
!!Aonung
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/FilipGeljo
->'''Dubbed by:''' [[note]]Pierre Boulanger (European French), Masaya Fukunishi (Japanese), Ivan Bastidas (Latin American Spanish[[/note]]
The son of Tonowari and Ronal who is rather snobbish. He looks down on Jake's kids, but softens up afterwards.

* TheBully: To Lo’ak. He looks down on him not just for being a forest Na’vi, but for being a half-human hybrid.
* DisproportionateRetribution: At one point, Aonung [[spoiler:tricks Lo'ak into following him to an Akula hunting ground and leaving him stranded there, hoping to get him eaten in retribution for Lo'ak beating him up earlier (because Aonung was insulting Lo'ak and his family). Even if Lo'ak did land the first punch and beat him up quite badly, leaving Lo'ak for a CruelAndUnusualDeath by a SeaMonster in revenge is a step quite too far.]]
* GangOfBullies: Aonung and his friends take part in bullying Lo’ak and calling Kiri weird.
* FantasticRacism: He makes a lot of rude jokes towards forest Na’vi, mostly by making fun of their tails and lack of skill in the water.
* HeelRealization: Seems to have one after Lo'ak puts the blame on himself [[spoiler:for nearly getting killed by an Akula rather than reveal that Aonung had intentionally stranded Lo'ak on its hunting ground. It leads to him being much nicer to Lo'ak and the latter's siblings afterwards.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Never really receives any real punishment from bullying Lo'ak and Kiri and [[spoiler:deliberately leaving Lo'ak stranded out in the open sea to be killed by an Akula]]. That being said, he does seem to realize the error of his ways later on, and Lo'ak did batter him quite badly beforehand.
* ReformedBully: Becomes one when Lo'ak proves to be a better man and takes all the blame for himself [[spoiler:for following Aonung out to the open sea and almost getting killed by an Akula. In later scenes, he becomes much nicer to Lo'ak and the rest of Sully's children]].
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: As Lo'ak is almost an exact mirror of his father Jake, Aonung serves a very similar role to Tsu'tey in Lo'ak's personal arc. Much like Tsu'tey's rivalry and eventually friendship with Jake, Aonung started out disliking Lo'ak for being an outsider and treats him horribly. He's close with a lovely young Na'vi that his rival is smitten with (though in this case, Tsireya is his sister, not his betrothed). And ultimately, Aonung comes to respect Lo'ak and becomes akin to brothers-in-arms with him.

[[folder:Rotxo]]
!!Rotxo
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/DuaneWichmanEvans
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* SatelliteCharacter: He is usually with Tsireya and Aonung in scenes where they interact with the Sully children, but he has little defining traits.

!!!Ta'unui Clan

[[folder:In General]]
* HufflepuffHouse: The way the RDA villains talk about the Ta'unui as they discuss the inhabitants of the islands indicates that they are a culturally distinct tribe along the same lines as the Omatikaya and the Metkayina. But what little we see of them is barely distinguishable from the similarly maritime Metkayina; Tonowari has even given them direct orders to stay quiet about the whereabouts of the Sullys, putting their supposed distinctiveness into question.

[[folder:Ta'unui Olo'eyktan]]
!!Ta'unui Olo'eyktan
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/RobertOkumu

[[folder:Ta'unui Tsahìk]]
!!Ta'unui Tsahìk
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/JennStafford

!Pandoran Wildlife
[[folder:In General]]
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Justified since the wildlife thrives on an alien world. Many of them possess colors that are far more eye catching than most Earth creatures.
* BioluminescenceIsCool: Every Pandoran lifeform, whether flora or fauna, has at least some bioluminescence, ranging from freckle-like glowing spots to fanlike glowing appendages. The primary environmental reason for this is that there are long periods when Pandora orbits behind the dark side of Polyphemus, making the bioluminescence the only major source of light.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Most have bioluminescent hairless skin, six limbs, four eyes, spiracles (breathing nostrils located on their torsos) and a pair of antennae that can interface with those of other creatures.
* ExtraEyes: Many have four eyes, though some, such as the banshee and direhorse, have the second pair much smaller and less developed.
* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: A lot. Titanotheres are rhinos, Thanators are big cats, Direhorses are...well, horses, and Sturmbeest are buffalo, to name a few.
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: Most of them have six limbs. Notable exceptions include the Na'vi (implied by the prolemuris to have had their two pairs of arms fuse together) and the Banshee, which have four legs with both front and hind ones modified into wings.

[[folder:Eywa]]
!!Eywa
The Na'vi's Great Mother and Goddess of life, effectively their equivalent to Gaia or Mother Earth, central to their monotheistic faith. Eywa is scientifically explainable as the sapient superintelligence created by the electrochemical interactions of Pandoran life, creating a giant world-spanning neural network. This biological internet is analogous to at least 20-100 times the connections between neurons on a human brain.
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* GaiasVengeance: Of the Gaia's Vengeance Proper variety. With the interconnected, interfacing nature of Pandora's flora and fauna, Eywa can in effect relay commands to vast hordes of ferocious wildlife. In this case, the command is "Put a stop to the human incursion. Violently."
* GeniusLoci: Being an unimaginably vast and intricate "brain" that stretches across Pandora, Eywa is perhaps best described as a sentient ''biosphere''.
* {{God}}: While she mainly resembles Gaia in function, she has some elements of big-G God, being the benevolent source of all life who they worship in a monotheistic religion. And it's implied she even has her own Jesus, [[MessianicArchetype in the form of]] Kiri.
* NeutralNoLonger: Na'vi do not call upon Eywa to aid them in conflicts, seeing her as the protector of the balance of life who is above taking sides. Neytiri warns Jake as much when he beseeches Eywa for help against the RDA's forces. However, his warning - and, it's implied, Grace's memories of a devastated Earth - are sufficient to finally spur her to coordinated action against the invaders at the climax of the first film.
* RealAfterAll: The humans initially dismiss Eywa as just a myth. But Grace's studies of Pandoran biota, particularly the trees, convinces her that Eywa is tangibly real as a "superbrain" governing all life on the moon.

!!!Forest Creatures

[[folder:Great Leonopteryx]]
!! Great Leonopteryx (Na'vi name: Toruk)
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A draconic aerial apex predator that plays an important role in the Na'vi culture.
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* TheDreaded: It is feared by the Na’vi just as much as it is revered. When [[spoiler: Jake arrives to the Tree of Souls on the back of the Toruk, all of them are startled by its presence and immediately back away before realizing he tamed it.]]
* GiantFlyer: It is much, much bigger than any Ikran. For scale, it also happens to be bigger than the Scorpion helicopters.
* LogicalWeakness: {{Discussed|Trope}} -- Jake notes that [[spoiler:it being unable to see directly above itself makes sense since it's an apex predator. It can't look up because it has no reason to fear attack from above]].
* MeaningfulName: As Jake points out, Toruk’s name meaning "Last Shadow" is appropriate for a creature who is more than likely the last shadow any unfortunate prey will ever see.
* OnlyTheChosenMayRide: The fearsome Toruk has only been ridden five times in recorded Na'vi history, only by the greatest and most courageous warriors, called Toruk Makto, who came to unite the clans in times of great sorrow. [[spoiler: Jake himself tames the Toruk to regain the Na'vi's trust, becoming the sixth Toruk Makto.]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Takes inspiration from birds of prey and pterosaurs.
* PowerUpMount: [[spoiler: In order to return to the remaining Omaticaya tribe without being slain on sight, Jake is forced to fly his Ikran above the Toruk so he can land on it from above to perform ''tsaheylu'' on the creature. After he uses it as his mount for the final battle, he sets the Toruk free.]]
* ShadowOfImpendingDoom: Its favorite method of attack is to drop down on its prey from above with the sun directly behind it, hence its Na'vi name.
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: Has four wings and two legs, like most of Pandora's six-limbed animals.
* WeaksauceWeakness: [[spoiler: Its prominent bony eyebrow ridges make it unable to see directly above itself, allowing Jake to jump it from above and easily tame it.]]

[[folder:Mountain Banshee]]
!! Mountain Banshee (Na'vi name: Ikran)
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Smaller relatives of the Leonopteryx, and standard aerial mounts of the Na'vi.
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* BondCreatures: Forms a lifelong bond with their rider. Once ''tsaheylu'' is forged between the Ikran and its rider, it will only fly with one rider for its entire life.
* EyesAlwaysAverted: It is best not to look an Ikran in the eye, otherwise they will accept your gaze as a challenge.
* IfItSwimsItFlies: ''The Way Of Water'' reveals that they are capable of swimming quite deftly. However, [[ShownTheirWork like seabirds, they have to fold up their wings to do so]], instead using their undulating bodies to swim like eels.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Have teeth reminiscent of certain Earth bony fish, as well as similarly-prognostic jaws.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Pterodactyl-like fliers with some [[FairyDragons fairy dragon]] elements like the transparent, almost insect-like translucent wing tips, and prismatic color shading. They're a [[DragonRider primary aerial transport]] as well.
* PteroSoarer: Has a distinctly pterosaurian influence in their design. Funnily enough, they eventually had an actual pterosaur named after them called ''Ikrandraco avatar''.
* UndyingLoyalty: They only ever bond with a single Na'vi in their lifetime. It's so prevalent that they even listen and stick with their masters even without ''tsaheylu'' active. Neytiri's ikran Seze waits for her to return when she walks with Jake to tame an ikran of his own. Jake's ikran flies in to pick him up after seeing him wake up [[spoiler:among the ruins of the destroyed Hometree]], implying that it was flying around watching him and waiting for him to wake up..
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: One of Pandora's few exceptions, having four wings that all function as legs on the ground, and no visible trace of a third pair of limbs.

[[folder:Thanator]]
!! Thanator (Na'vi name: Palulukan)
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A six-legged panther-like creature that is Pandora's apex land predator.
----
* AlwaysABiggerFish: Jake taunts a titanothere, which acts frightened and runs away. Turns out it wasn't afraid of Jake himself...but the Thanator creeping up from behind him.
* CatsAreMean: It is a large predatory animal with very feline characteristics. It is also relentless and very aggressive.
* MeaningfulName: Its name is one letter away from Thanatos, the Greek personification of death, which is very fitting for an apex predator of the Pandoran jungles.
* NightmareFace: It can raise its lips to expose its gums and extra teeth just like a gelada baboon.
* PantheraAwesome: Resembles a panther or a big cat of sorts.
* PowerUpMount: Is ridden by [[spoiler: Neytiri to battle Quartich in his mech suit. Unfortunately, the Thanator is killed in the battle.]]
* SuperPersistentPredator: Chases Jake for far longer than is reasonably possible, though at the very least it decides that a waterfall is going too far.

[[folder:Hammerhead Titanothere]]
!! Hammerhead Titanothere (Na'vi name: Ang'tsik)
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A large, powerful Pandoran herbivore akin to a rhinoceros.
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* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Sports a brightly-colored frill on its head that sharply contrasts with its more muted gray body, which it uses for display.
* TheCavalry: [[spoiler: A massive herd of them charges the RDA during the final battle, when Eywa decides to respond to Jake's petition.]]
* MightyGlacier: A massive beast twice the size of an African elephant, it relied more on its sheer strength and bulk, though it's still quite a bit faster than it looks.
* RhinoRampage: Resembles an oversized rhino, and is very territorial.
* SuperToughness: Its tough armored hide is impervious to bullets.

[[folder:Direhorse]]
!! Direhorse (Na'vi name: Pa'li)
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The equine mounts of the Na'vi.
----
* BornInTheSaddle: The Horse Clan of the Plains seems to rely on the direhorse far more than most tribes.
* DireBeast: It's basically a horse, but due to Pandora's lower gravity grows nearly to the size of an elephant. Its scientific name, ''"Equidirus hoplites"'', meaning "fearsome armored horse", certainly suggests this.
* LightningBruiser: Is incredibly swift of foot and thus one of the Na'vi's mounts of choice.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: It's a giant horse that is blue, has six legs, and has an anteater-like snout and a long tongue to feed on nectar.
* OverlyLongTongue: They have long thick tongues that they use to lick nectar out of flowers.
* VocalDissonance: Despite resembling a horse, it doesn't neigh, instead making honking sounds akin to a goose, or the raptors of ''Film/JurassicPark''.

[[folder:Viperwolf]]
!! Viperwolf (Na'vi name: Nantang)
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A wolf-like predator that hunts in packs.
----
* TheCavalry: [[spoiler: Many Viperwolves return in the climax to take down RDA ground troops.]]
* HumanlikeHandAnatomy: Their paws have grasping digits and opposable thumbs, allowing it to climb trees as well as hunt on the ground.
* HeinousHyena: They make some eerie cackle-like howls that are very reminiscent of hyena sounds while surrounding Jake in the forest.
* InnateNightVision: Their excellent night vision provides them an advantage when cornering Jake in the dark jungle. Their eyes even glow in the dark.
* MixAndMatchCritter: While mostly resembling wolves, they have prehensile hands and tree-climbing abilities like monkeys and have a laughing cackle similar to hyenas.
* MonsterIsAMommy: While their first appearance is a rather terrifying scene of them attacking Jake in the dark of night, a more gentle side of them is seen when Jake and Neytiri later encounter a mother viperwolf tending to her litter of pups, which play-fight like adorable Earth puppies.
* SavageWolves: Portrayed as such when they attack Jake in the darkness.
* ZergRush: A pack of them try to attack Jake from all directions.

[[folder:Prolemuris]]
!! Prolemuris (Na'vi name: Syaksyuk)
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A gibbon-like creature theorized to be the Na'vi's closest evolutionary relative.
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* BizarreAlienLimbs: The Prolemuris has its upper pairs of arms fused together and bifurcating at the elbow, seemingly hinting on how the Na'vi evolved to have four limbs while most other Pandoran vertebrates have six.
* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Of monkeys and apes, with their relationship to the Na'vi as their closest relative being similar to that of humans and chimps.

[[folder:Woodsprite]]
!!Woodsprite (Na'vi name: Atokirina')
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/atokirina2.jpg]]

[[folder:Fan Lizard]]
!!Fan Lizard (Na'vi name: Kenten)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fanlizard2.png]]
----
* HeliCritter: These lizard-like creatures fly by fanning out their circular wings (with each wing making up half of a circle) and twirling them like helicopter rotors.
* SpectacularSpinning: Their bodies spin around whenever they fly so their wings do not get twisted. Makes one wonder if they ever get dizzy.

[[folder:Stingbat]]
!!Stingbat (Na'vi name: Riti)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/a_avatarpandorapedia_tetrapteron_16x9_1246_08_9051da8b.jpeg]]

[[folder:Cat Ear]]
!!Cat Ear (Na'vi name: Pamtseowll)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cat_ear.jpg]]

[[folder:Hellfire Wasp]]
!!Hellfire Wasp (Na'vi name: Zize)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hellfirewasp.jpg]]

[[folder:Hexapede]]
!!Hexapede (Na'vi name: Yerik)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hexapede_art.png]]
----
* ExplosiveBreeder: Since these little creatures are prey to just about every predator on Pandora, they breed like rabbits.

[[folder:Panopyra]]
!!Panopyra (Na'vi name: Tawtsngal)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/panopyra3.png]]

[[folder:Sturmbeest]]
!!Sturmbeest (Na'vi name: Talioang)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/beestdrinking.jpg]]
----
* LightningBruiser: As hefty as they look, they are pretty fast runners.
* ReCut: They are exclusive to the Extended version of the first movie.

[[folder:Tapirus]]
!!Tapirus (Na'vi name: Fwampop)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tapirus.jpg]]

[[folder:Tetrapteron]]
!!Tetrapteron (Na'vi name: Fkio)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sheeray.jpg]]

[[folder:Arachnoid]]
!!Arachnoid (Na'vi name: Kali'weya)
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[[folder:Helicoradian]]
!!Helicoradian (Na'vi name: Loreyu)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/helicoradians.jpg]]

[[folder:Binary Sunshine]]
!!Binary Sunshine, or lucinaria fibriata, (Na'vi name: penghrrap meaning "danger-teller")
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/binarysunshine.png]]

[[folder:Atlas Beetle]]
!!Atlas Beetle
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[[folder:Crimsysoraus]]
!!Crimsysoraus
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crimsysoraus.png]]

[[folder:Fanged Mongrel]]
!!Fanged Mongrel
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fanged_mongrel_in_highlands.png]]

[[folder:Flathead Ram]]
!!Flathead Ram
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[[folder:Glow Worms]]
!!Glow Worms
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/glow_worms.png]]

[[folder:Grody Grueller]]
!!Grody Grueller
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[[folder:Kentrocapra]]
!!Kentrocapra
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aprkentrocapra.png]]

[[folder:Medusa]]
!!Medusa
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[[folder:Ostrich]]
!!Ostrich
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alpha_ostrich.png]]

[[folder:Saber Hogs]]
!!Saber Hogs
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sharp-Horned Ram]]
!!Sharp-Horned Ram
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sharptooth Lizard]]
!!Sharptooth Lizard
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Steervane]]
!!Steervane
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Spider]]
!!Spider
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Wolf Tick]]
!!Wolf Tick
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Wind Scorpion]]
!!Wind Scorpion
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:Austrapede]]
!!Austrapede
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[[/folder]]

!!!Sea Creatures

[[folder:Skimwing]]
!! Skimwing (Na'vi name: Tsurak)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/a_avatarpandorapedia_skimwing_16x9_1032_08_7ee0d6ed.jpeg]]
A distant relative of the Ikran that is found in the territory of the Metkayina tribe.
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* BondCreatures: Like the aerial Banshee, Skimwings can be ridden through "tsaheylu". However, due to their temperamental natures, it takes much longer to develop loyal bonds.
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: At home in both the water and the air.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Visually resembles a flying fish, with the long snout of a gar and the body-shape of an Echovenator.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ilu]]
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Plesiosaur-like creature who serve as the primary mounts of the Metkayina tribe.
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* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin: Despite their plesiosaur-like body plan, their chirping and whistling vocalizations and playful personalities are inspired by this trope.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: They are pretty much used as [[JustForPun sea horses]] for the Metkayina tribe.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Just look into those big eyes and listen to them chirp. D'awwwww!

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Akula]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/akula.jpg]]
A large mosasaur-like creature and an apex predator of Pandora’s oceans.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Some can be seen swimming in an overhead shot spanning across a few reefs during the Sully family’s travel over the ocean.
** However, based on location and the fact that multiple individuals are seen in the shot, it's possible these could be [[https://james-camerons-avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Nalutsa Nalutsa]], a related species which is less aggressive, more social, and more common closer to shore.
* MeaningfulName: “Akula” is a Russian word for “shark”, which pretty much describes the creature nicely. This aggressive mosasaur-like SeaMonster will stop at nothing to devour its prey once it has its eyes on them.
* MixAndMatchCritters: It has teeth like an extinct Dunkleosteus fish, jaws that open up like a snake, and a body that has a mixture of traits from sharks, eels, and mosasaurs.
* SeaMonster: It's basically a Pandoran mosasaur.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Just like the Thanator, it is very committed to catching its prey. Even when it loses Lo’ak briefly in a thick entanglement of coral, it waits for him to swim out of it to catch him.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tulkun]]
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Giant and very intelligent cetacean-like animals. They are one of the largest creatures on Pandora.
----

* BilingualDialogue: Since neither side can physically speak the others' language, Na'vi use a signed language when underwater while tulkun sing.
* BloodBrothers: A variation. Bonding with a Tulkun requires a Na'vi to swim into their open mouth to access the queue in the back of their throat, which links their minds. After that point, they're considered spirit siblings. [[spoiler:Tonowari and the other Metakayina are infuriated when they learn that Lo'ak has bonded with Payakan, an outcast Tulkun.]]
* FlowerMouth: Like a number of other Pandoran creatures, they have multiple parallel jawbones that open out like petals. In their case, it gives them an impressively enormous gape for hoovering up fish and plankton.
* GentleGiant: In spite of their immense size, they’re completely averse to violence, and their annual migration to the coasts and islands of Pandora is treated by the Metkayina Clan like a reunion with close friends or family.
* GreatOffscreenWar: In the past, Tulkun warred over territory and for revenge, and nearly destroyed themselves. This led to the development of their pacifistic culture.
* HumanResources: The [=RDA=] knows full well that they're sapient beings, but hunts them anyway for a brain fluid they have that's used to create an anti-aging drug.
* ImmuneToBullets: Even more so than other Pandoran megafauna. Their armor plating can shrug off pretty much ''anything'' humans can throw at them, and even the massive explosive-tipped harpoons the RDA's whalers use to kill them have to be aimed at their underbellies to stand a chance of penetrating.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Being smarter than humans and being able to secrete a liquid that makes people immortal, you'd think they'd have been a bigger deal to human colonists than the Na'vi and unobtainium. Though it's possible that the Tulkun might not have been discovered by the time of the first movie.
* SapientCetaceans: Giant whale-like creatures that are revealed to be just as intelligent as humans or Na'vi, with their own culture, language, and religious beliefs.
* SuicidalPacifism: They refuse to engage in violence even though they're being actively hunted by humans. The Metkayena say that this is due to their species-wide DarkAndTroubledPast - their generational trauma from their history of warfare and bloodshed is so extreme that they really would prefer to die rather than resurrect it. Garvin further notes that their brains allow them to experience emotion with superhuman depth and complexity, which helps explain exactly why violence is so horrifying to them.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Or rather "What Measure Is a Non-''Humanoid''". Unlike the humanoid Na'vi, who are viewed as lesser beings, but ones who the RDA makes token efforts to be diplomatic with, the non-humanoid tulkuns are simply slaughtered.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Payakan]]
!!Payakan, the outcast Tulkun
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A Tulkun who has been shunned by his species and the Metkayina Clan who claim that he killed their fellow clan members. Lo'ak discovers him after he saves his life and forges a special bond with him.
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* AnArmAndALeg: He lost a fin in the [=RDA=] attack that killed his mother and pod.
* AndroclesLion: Inverted. Lo'ak helps him by dislodging a rusty harpoon head embedded in his fin... except that he saved Lo'ak from a hungry Akula and carries him to the surface earlier. Arguably, considering the sentience of the Tulkun, Lo'ak could in fact be considered the Lion to his Androcles.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's a GentleGiant like the other Tulkuns, [[spoiler: but when angered by the RDA, he singlehandedly racks up the highest body count of any characters in the movies except Eywa herself on the whalers.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:He suddenly leaps out of the water to attack the humans just before Quaritch gives the order to shoot Jake, causing a distraction long enough for Jake, his family and the Metkayina to regroup and launch an attack on the RDA whaling crew.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:An RDA whaling crew killed his mom. Angered by her death, he led a charge against his mom's killers, but the humans killed off his entire band of fellow Tulkun and their Metkayina Na'vi allies accompanying him, leaving him as the sole survivor of the attack. Because the Tulkun are averse to violence, they deemed him responsible for their deaths and cast him out of their company with the Metkayina shunning him as well.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:Tried to attack the RDA whaling crew accompanied by some reinforcements to exact revenge against the humans for killing his mom in the past, except that it didn't end well for him. He later manages to get back at the RDA and Captain Scoresby for real by sinking the whaling ship that was there when his mother died, severing one of Scoresby's arms in the process.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He is first introduced when he comes out of nowhere to save Lo’ak from an Akula by ramming it several times into a large rock, killing it. Since the Tulkun are later established to be extreme pacifists, showing Payakan killing something cements him as an outsider amongst the Tulkun.
* ItsPersonal: He's ''very'' angry with the humans [[spoiler:for killing his mom, which is why he tried to assemble a platoon of his fellow Tulkun and their Na'vi allies to get back at them. He finally gets recompense during the climax, sinking the ship that killed his mother.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: He's shunned by both the Tulkun and the Metkayina because [[spoiler: he violated the Tulkun's creed of non-violence. He led a band of young bulls and Na'vi against the whaling ship that killed his mother, leading to a massacre from which he was the sole survivor. Payakan is so ashamed of it that he only shares the memory with Lo'ak after Lo'ak insists he can be trusted.]]
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: He's outcast because he's the only Tulkun willing to be violent. He retreated from violence due to his grief, [[spoiler:but returns to fight in the finale to save Lo'ak, his spirit brother.]]
* NiceGuy: Despite his outcast status [[spoiler:due to wrong accusations]], he's a pretty friendly guy who wouldn't hurt a fly... unless the fly hurt him. [[spoiler:He accompanies Jake and Neytiri to the Metkayina's spirit tree after Neteyam's funeral, implicitly to give his best friend's grieving parents moral support]].
* ScarsAreForever: Lo'ak notices a scar just over his left eye, which came from the result of the RDA whaling crew attacking him in the past, [[spoiler:specifically when he led a platoon of Na'vi and Tulkun bulls against the humans]].
* TaughtByExperience: He survived a whaling crew attack from the RDA before and thus, he manages to develop a counterattack to use against them, [[spoiler:by avoiding their bullets, firearms and harpoons, using his hide to deflect an explosive harpoon into the RDA's whaling flagship and utilizing another harpoon's cable to sink the ship it was launched from.]]
* WrongfullyAccused: The Metkayina Clan claims that he killed some of their members. [[spoiler:Turns out, as Lo'ak discovers, he didn't kill anyone; his mom was killed and his fellow Tulkun and their Na'vi allies were all killed when they all attacked the humans in revenge. The poor Tulkun was blamed for their deaths and he never corrected them because he felt they were right.]]
* YouKilledMyMother: He's furious at the RDA for [[spoiler:killing his mom in the past. He manages to avenge his mom in the climax, making the first attack on their ships and sinking the one that directly killed his mom.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nalutsa]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nalutsarender.png]]
A species of six-gilled behemoths that lives in the coastal regions of the Pandoran ocean, and can be seen leaping out of the near-shore waters. The nalutsa is the tamer and less elusive cousin of the akula.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gill Mantle]]
!!Gill Mantle (Na'vi name: Txampaysye)
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An invertebrate organism found in the oceans of Pandora. Through Tsayhelu, the gill mantle can be used as a "biological diving suit" that feeds oxygen to the Na'vi while diving.
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* ArtificialGill: The seashore dwelling Na'vi use them to breathe for extended amounts of time underwater.
[[/folder]]

[[foldercontrol]]

!Sully Family
[[folder:Jake]]
!!Jake Sully (Na'vi name: Tsyeyk Suli)
[[quoteright:234:[[Film/{{Avatar}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jake_sully_avatar2_6514.jpg]]]]
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/SamWorthington
->'''Dubbed by:'''[[note]] Creator/AdrienAntoine (European French), Creator/HirokiTochi (Japanese), Creator/IdziDutkiewicz (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]]

A disabled former Marine who becomes part of the Avatar Program after his twin brother is killed. His military background helps the Na'vi warriors relate to him.

* AccidentalMisnaming: On the receiving end of this by the Na'vi, but it's mild and AllThereInTheScript, as you wouldn't notice it without subtitles. Jake introduces himself by his full name, Jake Sully. While Neytiri calls him Jake, the other Omatikaya pronounce his full name as a single word, "Jakesully". For what it's worth, his na'vicized name is Tsyeyk Suli, and human surname customs don't match the Na'vi, so to them, this is in fact his given full name.
* AudienceSurrogate: Jake is this both to the Avatar Program and Na'vi society, introducing the audience to the world.
* AngerBornOfWorry: When his sons Neyetum and Lo’ak leave their posts to grab a few weapons from the derailed train that was targeted by Jake and a raiding party, and find themselves shot at by an unexpected gunship, Jake fears they were both hit, and lays into both of them when they return home relatively unscathed.
* AntiAntiChrist: He's one from the Na'vi's perspective, he was a human in a Na'vi body who was supposed to get the tribe to leave Hometree so that it could be destroyed by the humans to harvest the mineral mine beneath, similar to how TheAntiChrist is supposed to be a SemiDivine demon in human form who will lead humanity astray. Instead he ends the movie by becoming their MessianicArchetype and saving them from the human's AlienInvasion.
* AntiHero: Not the most overt one but the elements are there. He originally signed onto the Avatar program for a chance to heal his paralysis and commits espionage on behalf of Quaritch so that his mercenaries can eventually destroy the Home Tree if they can't negotiate (which ends up happening). {{Subverted}} when Jake realizes how treacherous he was with the Na'vi and makes a HeelFaceTurn against the Human occupation.
* BackupTwin: What kicks off the film. Jake is on Pandora because his deceased brother was involved in the Avatar Program, but now that he's dead, only his genetically identical twin can use his Na'vi body.
* BecomingTheMask: The last line you hear is his narration "I can't be late to my own party. After all, it's my birthday." He means he will be joined to his Avatar permanently. This a CallBack to the Navi belief that every member of their clan is born twice. The second time is when they join the clan. Jake's second birth was permanently swapping bodies, as well as becoming a full member of the clan.
* BookDumb: As he [[SelfDeprecation freely admits]] to his peers, his formal training is very limited and he doesn't consider himself to have much aptitude for scientific or anthropological work. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that he actually picks up the Na'vi language fairly well, has a strong grasp of military tactics and logistics, understands the politics of Na'vi tribal culture, and once he's trained he becomes an excellent hunter and leader for his tribe. It's worth remembering that his identical twin brother had a Ph.D. in biochemistry and was accomplished enough in the field to qualify for the Avatar program, which is implied to be highly competitive.
* DeadpanSnarker: Does this from time to time. One notable example occurs during Jake's attempt to bond with an ikran to become a full clan member; when he asks how he'll know which ikran is meant for him and Neytiri states it will "try to kill [him]", he responds with a dry "Outstanding".
* DumbMuscle: Of the self-deprecating kind, as he points out that his "cup" is definitely not full. In truth, it's very much averted as he's shown to be very savvy in tactics and diplomacy. Thinking he was nothing more than a jarhead eluded him from his own HiddenDepths.
* EarthyBarefootCharacter: The first thing he does in his new Avatar body is to go for a run, and enthusiastically digs his toes into the dirt. While he does put on combat boots later, after he joins the Na'vi he points out with some pride that his feet are getting tougher every day, and doesn't bother putting on shoes for the rest of the film.
* EvilCripple: The humans probably saw Jake as a paraplegic traitor when he [[HeelFaceTurn turned against them]] in favor of the Na'vi.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Jake's (Avatar) hair changes after he becomes ''Toruk Makto''. Also, how human Jake's hair grows out from the start of the film as he starts to live more in his other body.
* GoingNative: After falling for Neytiri and spending time with the Omatikaya, he comes to identify more with the Na'vi than the human soldiers. He even makes a full switch to his avatar, discarding his crippled human form.
* HealthcareMotivation: He agrees to take his brother's place in the Avatar Program because he can't afford spinal surgery on veteran's benefits.
* HeelFaceTurn: He ends up siding with the Na'vi against the Humans.
* IJustWantToBeBadass: Part of Jake's motivation. It starts as IJustWantToBeNormal (restoring his legs back to healthy condition), but Jake is [[{{Subtext}} implied]] to have been a pretty badass marine before his crippling wound, and embraces the life of a Na'vi hunter/warrior very quickly.
* IdiotBall: Jake has made some bad decisions that [[NiceJobBreakingItHero got a lot of people killed.]]
** In the first movie, he is supposed to ingratiate himself with the Omaticaya and earn enough goodwill to talk them into moving away from Hometree before the humans get there, a deadline the RDA is not willing to move on. He fails to inform them of this deadline at all until the dozers run over their nearby sacred grove, souring relations and making such negotiations impossible, though he privately admits in a log that they won't ever move even if he had the clout to make the ask. He also gets DistractedByTheSexy with Neytiri, impulsively disabling one of the dozers as it plows through, which sours his position as a negotiator for the RDA.
** After Kiri suffers a seizure and goes into a coma in ''The Way of Water'', he makes an emergency call to Norm and Max, who fly out to the islands in one of their stolen RDA gunships to provide medical assistance. Not only does their treatment not work, but the gunship suddenly flying far from friendly territory allows Quaritch to narrow down the area where Jake and his family are hiding.
* InstantExpert: In his very first run through the Avatar link, he syncs up with his new Na'vi body so quickly that within seconds of waking up he is off of the table and engaging in a 500 meter dash before the medics can meaningfully react. Norm, by comparison, had practiced on simulators prior to being shipped out.
* InterspeciesRomance: He (a human) bonds with Neytiri, a Na'vi girl. The "interspecies" is dropped when he is permanently transferred into his Na'vi body.
* ItsPersonal:
** After the sky people [[spoiler:try to squash him and his girl with a bulldozer, kill his future father-in-law and [[AndYourLittleDogToo an unspecified number of future distant relatives]] and burn down his new home]], you can be sure that Jake will be hell-bent on revenge.
** [[spoiler: After one of Quaritch’s men kills Neyetum, he goes out of his way to kill as many of them as he can before getting to Quaritch.]]
* MeaningfulName:
** Jake's departed twin's name was ''Tom'', or ''Thomas'', which means "the twin."
** ''Sully'' (which means to soil or tarnish) is also meaningful, regarding the human actions on Pandora, which is to tarnish its natural beauty by mining for Unobtainium.
* MessianicArchetype: [[spoiler:Jake uses a legend he heard to tame a dragon and become this in Na'vi eyes]]. It's implied that this is what all the previous "messiahs" did as well: [[spoiler:They knew they needed to unite their people, so instead of sitting around waiting for their goddess to do it for them, they did the one thing they knew would get ''everyone's'' attention]].
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* NaturalizedName: Jake Sully when written as it would be pronounced in a Na'vi accent is Tsyeyk Suli.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Jake lectures Lo'ak for starting a fistfight with the son of a rival chief, but once he's out of earshot he asks Neteyam how the other side looked and commends him when he says they came out worse.
* OhCrap: Jake does this when he pisses off a Titanothere. He recovers...and then immediately does it ''again'' when attacked by a Thanator.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler:Outlives his eldest son, Neteyam.]]
* PapaWolf: He’s fiercely protective of his children, which [[spoiler: Quaritch tries to exploit to goad him into a dual alone.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: He loves all his children, but his military background leads to him raising them like a squad, with every child expected to fill out a role. It causes Neteyam and Lo'ak to develop complexes, with the former becoming overly protective at the expense of himself and the latter becoming a WellDoneSonGuy due to him constantly getting into trouble.
* RousingSpeech: Jake gives one to the Na'vi after becoming ''Toruk Makto'', telling the Omaticaya clan to gather the other Na'vi clans to fight the humans. He also gets Tsu'tey to translate his words.
* SenseFreak: For his first spin in his Avatar body, he is ecstatic over having working legs again.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Jake at the beginning of the movie. [[spoiler:Surviving human soldiers at the end.]]
* ShutUpHannibal: During the final fight, [[spoiler:Quaritch asks Jake how it feels to betray the human race, to which Jake replies with a hiss characteristic of the Na'vi threat response]].
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: A major part of his motivation is getting his legs back; however, he discovers that he prefers his Avatar body anyway...
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: With Neytiri (the huge Na'vi girl) when he is in his human body. His head was around the size of her hand.
* TookALevelInBadass: Jake takes about ten levels during the movie, going from poking Pandoran flora just for the hell of it [[spoiler:to riding the moon's biggest aerial predator and taking out two huge gunships, almost single-handedly]]. It's possible that he is simply restoring his badass levels from his human life; he used to be [[SemperFi a tough marine]] who served in [[BananaRepublic Venezuela]] before his spinal injury left him wheelchair-bound.
* TrainingMontage: When Jake goes native and learns Na'vi customs [[TrainingFromHell the hard way]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Jake jumps off his Banshee, which has paired with him ''for life'', to [[spoiler:catch a bigger ride]]. His Banshee is never seen again for the remainder of the film. Made even more obvious by [[spoiler:Neytiri's obvious distress at the death of her own Banshee]] later in the film. At the end, [[spoiler:Jake narrates that the ''Toruk Makto'' is no longer needed, and indeed the ''Toruk'' is shown flying away. Jake probably "explained" the plan to his Banshee ("You're not gonna like this...") and they reunited after ''Toruk'' left.]] This gets confirmed come ''The Way of Water'', where Jake is shown riding his Banshee once again.
* WhatTheHellHero: He gives a succinct one to Grace at their first meeting when she complains about his presence, reminding her it's due to the fact his brother was murdered.
-->'''Grace''': I know who you are and I don't need you. I need your brother, the [=PhD=] who trained for three years for this mission.\\
'''Jake''': He's dead. I know that's a big inconvenience to everyone here.
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Quaritch thanks Jake for giving him a perfect excuse [[spoiler:to blast the Na'vi and their tree to smithereens by saying that the humans don't have anything the Na'vi want and the Na'vi will never agree to leave Hometree]]. Naturally, Jake is not amused.

[[folder:Neytiri]]
!!Neytiri te Tskaha Mo'at'ite
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/ZoeSaldana
->'''Dubbed by:'''[[note]]Creator/IngridDonnadieu (European French), Creator/YukaKomatsu (Japanese), Jessica Ortiz (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]]

The daughter of the leader of the Omaticaya (the Na'vi clan central to the story). She is attracted to Jake because of his bravery, though frustrated with him for what she sees as his naiveté and stupidity.

* ActionGirl: She's a highly skilled hunter and warrior, capable of fighting off several viperwolves at once singlehandedly, outflying a [[TheDreaded Toruk]] and holding her own against soldiers with far superior weapons and armour.
* BerserkButton: Hurt anyone Neytiri cares about, be it her home or family, she won’t waste time making you bleed.
* BigDamnHeroes: More than once. When Jake is attacked by viperwolves, she leaps in out of nowhere and fights off several of them at the same time. During the climatic battle, she bursts onto the scene, riding a ''Thanator'', to attack Quaritch when he tries to destroy the trailer containing Jake's link chamber. Then, when Quaritch has an incapacited Jake in his grasp, she [[spoiler: pulls herself from under the Thanator's corpse and grabs her bow in time to shoot Quaritch straight in the chest to save Jake]].
* BrokenBird: The hostilities between the Na'vi and the RDA and the damage to her home [[spoiler: and the murder of her sister in the extended edition]] have made her rather distrusting and cynical of humans. It only gets worse for her; she very nearly crosses the DespairEventHorizon after [[spoiler: Hometree is destroyed and her father is killed]]. Gets worse in the second film when she is [[spoiler: made to flee her home when her family is in danger and nearly enters DespairEventHorizon again when Neteyam, her eldest son, is shot and killed.]]
* TheChiefsDaughter: The romance of Jake and Neytiri follows the classic Chief's Daughter trope, complete with [[LoveTriangle Jealous Betrothed Warrior Prince]]. Jake even calls her this at one point, word for word.
* DeathWail:
** Her reaction to [[spoiler: her son’s death is a gut-wrenching scream after shouting her son’s name and pleading with Eywa for it to not be true.]]
** In the first film, [[spoiler: she lets out an equally agonizing one [[SkywardScream towards the sky]] when her father dies.]]
* DefiantToTheEnd: When she is surrounded by soldiers, she ignores Jake's rather futile order to retreat and prepares to give away her position to go down fighting; fortunately, it doesn't come to that due to [[spoiler: the local wildlife attacking the soldiers]]. Later, when Quaritch has her trapped, she simply hisses menacingly at him whilst struggling to free herself.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She acts quite hostile towards Jake at first, but she softens up to him once they get to know each other better, and eventually she falls in love with him.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: She is introduced hiding in the trees and preparing to kill an unwitting Jake with an arrow...until a woodsprite flies down and lands on her arrow, which she interprets as a sign from Eywa to let him live.
* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter: She is able to discern that Jake is brave but ignorant right away, and is ultimately vindicated when Jake is pivotal in winning the war against the RDA and permanently joins the Na'vi, wiser from the errors he made in the film. A sign from Eywa tells her that she is making a correct choice.
* FreudianExcuse: She initially hates humans (except for Grace) for destroying her home and killing her people. In the extended edition it's also revealed that RDA soldiers [[spoiler: murdered her sister]]. She [[CharacterDevelopment becomes friendlier and warms up to humans (or some of them, at least)]] after getting to know Jake.
* GetOut: Hatefully screams essentially this [[spoiler: at Jake in the wake of learning the truth about him and in the aftermath of the attack on Hometree (including her father's death)]].
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Or blue-skinned as the case may be. TheHero falls for her, of course.
* HotForStudent: Falls in love with Jake as she's mentoring him in the ways of the Na'vi.
* InterspeciesRomance: With Jake, a human.
* MamaBear: She is quick to resort to threats to getting anything threatening anyone she cares about to back down, but anyone who harms or threatens to harm her children and she’ll turn the offender into pin-cushions without a second thought. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown If she has any arrows left, though]].
* MagicSkirt: {{Averted}} in that Neytiri's nipples are clearly visible in many scenes.
* NotSoAboveItAll: She's very composed by nature, and carries herself with elegance, grace, formality, and aggression with a very no-nonsense attitude. But even she's not too dignified to happily run through ferns to make a bunch of fan lizards fly upwards and play with them.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler: Outlives her eldest son, Neteyam.]]
* ProudWarriorRaceGirl: Neytiri, like all the Na'vi, is extremely proud of her culture and takes great offense when people don't understand it.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:Neteyam’s death sends her into a vengeance fueled rage and she viciously cuts down every single one of Quaritch’s men before threatening to kill Spider to get Quaritch to release Kiri.]]
* SageLoveInterest: She is the embodiment of New Age "natural wisdom", and educates Jake on the beliefs of Pandora natives.
* StatuesqueStunner: Much like the other Na'vi, she's nine feet tall; Jake clearly thinks she qualifies, and quite a few viewers would agree.
* TearsOfJoy: [[spoiler: Has these upon saving Jake's human form near the end of the first film.]]
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: With Jake in his human body. His head fits quite easily into the palm of her hand.
* {{Tsundere}}: For Jake. She saves his life and he tries to thank her for the assistance, but Neytiri angrily rejects him as she is forced to kill three of the viperwolves to protect him (all creatures are considered by the Na'vi to be children of Eywa). Jake asks why she saved him, and she says it is because he has a strong and fearless heart. While also calling him a child.
* VaporWear: Neytiri's "top" is basically an extra-large necklace made of string and some beads.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: When Tsu'tey is about to kill Jake, Neytiri attacks him and crouches protectively over the latter while ''snarling''. She does the same thing after shooting Quaritch.
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:She threatens to slit Spider's throat to get Quaritch, Spider's birth father, to free Kiri. Considering how overwhelmed with grief-induced rage she was over losing Neteyam, and considering her cold relationship with Spider beforehand, there's no reason to believe she was bluffing.]]

[[folder:Kiri]]
!!Kiri te Suli Kìreysì'ite
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/SigourneyWeaver
->'''Dubbed by:'''[[note]] Ninon Moreau (European French), Creator/SaoriHayami (Japanese), Lupita Leal (Latin American Spanish)[[/note]]

Jake and Neytiri's oldest daughter, second child, and first adopted child, born mysteriously from Grace's avatar and possesses a strange spiritual connection to Eywa and Pandora's rich biosphere.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Due to her strange connection to Eywa, Avatar heritage, curious nature, and status as somewhat of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} she is made fun of for being a “freak” by the Metkayina children. Norm and Max also dismiss her connection to Eywa as part of epileptic brain activity[[note]]to be fair, they do so while she is unconscious from having had a ''seizure'' while communing with Eywa underwater, with the symptoms very closely mirroring classic epilepsy[[/note]]. This causes some insecurity as she asks her father if she is crazy.
* TheBeastmaster: She has a strange connection to Eywa and the natural world around her, which allows her to influence and even outright control Pandora's flora and fauna without needing to link with them, something no other Na'vi is capable of.
* BigLittleSister: She absolutely towers over her adoptive older brother Spider, making her seem like the big sister; justified, given that she's a Na'vi and he's human.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Downplayed somewhat but she's certainly a unique individual, with her at one point just laying face down in the water staring at sand for no particular reason, and according to the tie-in comics, got her Ikran at an incredibly young age, simply by asking it to be her friend.
* CoolBigSis: Sweet, affectionate, playful, and protective, she very much fits this trope to her adoptive siblings, especially Tuk and Spider, despite the latter being about a year older than her and the two reviving a bit of ShipTease.
* DamselInDistress: PlayedWith, she's captured and put in danger even more often than her little sister Tuk, who noticeably complains about the trope, however, while Kiri's not a warrior by any stretch of the imagination, her [[TheBeastmaster abilities]] [[GreenThumb are such]] that in the right circumstances she can take down an entire army.
* DreamCrushingHandicap: Her attempt to link to the submerged tree of life in the Metkayina waters results in her having a seizure. Jake is warned that, based on the symptoms presented, she likely has a form of epilepsy and would die if she attempted it again.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Kiri’s kindhearted nature as well as her connection to Pandora makes her this.
* GodInHumanForm: The film implies she is the living Avatar of Pandora itself.
* GreenThumb: She is able to link to some underwater flora and command it to ensnare and smash open a sub, then grab the pilot when he attempts to flee.
* MeaningfulName: Her name is almost certainly a diminutive of atokirina—the Na'vi word for the seeds of the sacred tree.
* MessianicArchetype: Very strongly implied, she has a deeper spiritual connection than any other Navi, can directly influence and manipulate Pandoran life with even the grass moving in sync with her breath, adapt to new environments ridiculously easily, and most notably had a completely mysterious and seemingly impossible conception, where no one has any idea who her birth father is or if she even has one in the first place.
* MissingMom: Her mother died before Kiri was born in her Avatar body. She still visits her mother's Avatar body and is able to temporarily connect to her through the spirit tree.
* PowerGlows: She possesses the natural bioluminescence of all Na'vi in dark or low light conditions. However, when using her unique abilities such as controlling a giant sea anemone, her bioluminescence fairly ''pulses'' with light subtly strobing across her entire body.
* SociallyAwkwardHero: She has seemingly supernatural powers over life, but with the exception of her family, Tuk and Spider in particular, she's not really a people person. She much prefers being in the lab learning about her birth mother or surrounding herself in nature, in large part due to her being of a different kind from everyone else.
* VocalDissonance: Due to her actor being over 50 years older then her, Kiri has a very deep and mature voice for her age. [[RealityIsUnrealistic However]], this is the case for some teenagers, and otherwise comes off as rather convincing.