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* WouldHurtAChild: Has Spider tortured with a MindProbe for information on Jake Sully.

* 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.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: As part of Spider's GoingNative training of the Recoms, Quaritch (and the rest of his team) ditch their combat boots in favor of going barefoot. After all, if a [[PunyEarthlings puny fleshy human like Spider]] can do just fine without them, Na'vi bodies with their significantly tougher skin are even more suited for it. In fact, due to the moon's lower gravity, shoes do far more harm than good in combat situations.

* 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).

* GoingNative: Ironically, they begin to adopt a number of Na'vi customs, to include the language, and bonding with their own banshee mounts through their own (somewhat simplified) version of the Iknimaya ritual (which the Na'vi perform to claim their banshees). Granted, this doesn't make them any less even handed to the Na'vi.

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: He was last seen getting knocked unconscious from Jake throwing an RDA soldier at him 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, even if they NeverFoundABody.]]

* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler: Compared to the 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.]]

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

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: He was last seen getting knocked unconscious from Jake throwing an RDA soldier at him 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.]]

* 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.

How do you figure that? In the video Human Quaritch leaves 15 years earlier Selfridge mentions his Recom is "already growing".

* 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".

* DoesNotLikeShoes: As part of Spider's GoingNative training of the Recoms, Quaritch (and the rest of his team) ditch their combat boots in favor of going barefoot. After all, if a [[PunyEarthlings puny fleshy human like Spider]] can do just fine without them, Na'vi bodies with their significantly tougher skin are even more suited for it. In fact, due to the moon's lower gravity, shoes do far more harm than good in combat situations.

Paz Socorro was the mother of Miles "Spider" Socorro and wife of Colonel Miles Quaritch. She was killed during the assault on the Tree of Souls in 2154, leaving Miles orphaned.

Paz Socorro was the mother of Miles Socorro. She was killed during the assault on the Tree of Souls in 2154, leaving Miles orphaned.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Head of security and the most hardened human on Pandora.

* 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.

* NotSoDifferent: For all the shit he gives Jake over his softness, tendency to [[GoingNative go native]], and weakness for others, Quaritch trips into the exact same pitfalls. All in an effort to kill Jake, he learns the ways of the Na'vi, find an appreciation for Pandora's wildlife, and ultimately relents at a chance to hurt Jake [[spoiler:to save his own son]]. At the end of the second film, there are signs that he's beginning to doubt his very mission.

* TemptingFate: He did mandatory video log to explain to his future Recombinant clone of his mission should he die in the FinalBattle. He's annoyed by the procedure, saying that his death is never gonna happen. All of this is caught on video and watched by Recombinant Quaritch years later, who realizes the {{irony}} of Quaritch's words.

* 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.

* 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.

* TheHeavy: While Ardmore has replaced him as the highest ranking personnel, she still tasks Quaritch with commanding the actual field work and it is him driving most of the actual plot while she takes a backseat.
* 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.

%%* TheBully: Toward the new marines.

* 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".