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[[caption-width-right:350:Run! ''"If there is a Hell, you might want to go there for some R & R, after a tour on Pandora. Out there beyond that fence, every living thing that crawls, flies, or squats in the mud wants to kill you and eat your eyes for jujubes."'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:Run! '''''DEFINITELY RUN!!!''''']]

* Pandora's atmosphere is extremely toxic to humans, and yet it has ''just'' enough essential gases to make asphyxiation lengthy and quite painful - specifically hydrogen sulfide, which ''burns'' the mucous membranes lining the esophagus, and causes other nasty damage to the lungs. Even very limited and minor inhalation could result in permanent damage - luckily Jake tossed away his human body in the end. On average, a human asphyxiates from carbon dioxide build-up and poisoning while their head is trapped in a plastic bag from roughly 1 to 2 minutes. Due to Pandora's slightly lower C02 content (18%) and high enough presence of oxygen, it's stated that it takes roughly ''four minutes'' to fully suffocate. This is shown near the end where Jake is gasping for breath for quite some time before he collapses and starts convulsing, after the mobile lab was exposed to the Pandoran air by Quaritch in his AMP suit. If Neytiri hadn't shown up and quickly figured out how to operate the exopack, [[FridgeHorror Jake would've suffered a rather graphic and gruesome death.]]

* Colonel Quaritch stabbing the Thanator got a bit... violent. You can tell from the savage rage he has when twisting the knife into the Thanator's throat that the [[BloodKnight fight]] has got him now.

* Colonel Quaritch stabbing the Thanator got a bit... violent. You can tell from the sadistic glee he has when twisting the knife into the Thanator's throat that he outright ''hates'' all things Pandoran.

* Much of the final battle is this to the RDA troops who scream out in terror upon seeing their horrible imminent deaths, like the Samson aircraft doorgunner who sees the Scorpion gunship's rotors coming at him, or the soldier who falls when the Valkyrie shuttle is critically damaged before getting crushed between two heavy pallets of explosives.

---> '''Wainfleet:''' [[FateWorseThanDeath I hear this is worse than death for you]], chief.

* Much of the final battle is this to the RDA troops who scream out in terror upon seeing their horrible imminent deaths, like the doorgunner who sees the other helicopter's rotors coming at him, or the soldier who falls when the Valkyrie shuttle is critically damaged before getting crushed between two heavy pallets of explosives.

* Pandora's atmosphere is extremely toxic to humans, and yet it has ''just'' enough essential gases to make asphyxiation lengthy and quite painful - specifically hydrogen sulfide, which ''burns'' the mucous membranes lining the esophagus, and causes other nasty damage to the lungs. Even very limited and minor inhalation could result in permanent damage - luckily Jake tossed away his human body in the end. On average, a human asphyxiates from carbon dioxide build-up and poisoning while their head is trapped in a plastic bag from roughly 1 to 2 minutes. Due to Pandora's slightly lower C02 content (18%) and high enough presence of oxygen, it's stated that it takes roughly ''four minutes'' to fully suffocate. This is shown near the end where Jake is gasping for breath for quite some time before he collapses and starts convulsing, after the mobile lab was exposed to the Pandoran air by Quartich in his AMP suit. If Neytiri hadn't shown up and quickly figured out how to operate the exopack, [[FridgeHorror Jake would've suffered a rather graphic and gruesome death.]]

*** So does Neytiri when her ikran Seze is shot.
* Much of the final battle is this to the RDA troops who scream out in terror upon seeing their horrible imminent deaths, like the doorgunner who sees the other helicopter's rotors coming at him, or the soldier who falls when the Valkyrie is damaged and is crushed between two heavy pallets.

* Pandora's atmosphere is extremely toxic to humans, and yet it has ''just'' enough essential gases to make asphyxiation lengthy and quite painful - specifically hydrogen sulfide, which ''burns'' the mucous membranes lining the esophagus, and causes other nasty damage to the lungs. Even very limited and minor inhalation could result in permanent damage - luckily Jake tossed away his human body in the end. On average, a human asphyxiates from carbon dioxide build-up and poisoning while their head is trapped in a plastic bag from roughly 1 to 2 minutes. Due to Pandora's slightly lower C02 content (18%) and high enough presence of oxygen, it's stated that it takes roughly ''four minutes'' to fully suffocate. This is shown near the end where Jake is gasping for breath for quite some time before he collapses and starts convulsing, after his mobile lab was accidentally damaged and exposed to the air. If Neytiri hadn't shown up right then and there and quickly figured out how to operate the Exopack, [[FridgeHorror he would've died a rather graphic and gruesome death.]]

** Not to mention that particular grove of trees was a direct link to her ancestors. RDA was essentially bulldozing a graveyard and cathedral at the same time.

** His bio also mentions that the RDA is fully aware of “his extreme and potentially deadly side projects”, but the heads of the Transgenetics [=SciOps=] team look the other way because he’s very useful. So, not only is Pandora a DeathWorld with EverythingTryingToKillYou, it is the current home of a MadScientist who wants to play MixAndMatchCritters with it’s inhabitants.

* [[ColonelKilgore Quar]][[BloodKnight itch]] in general is absolutely terrifying once he's finally freed of the faint vestiges of a leash Selfridge has him on. Between casually sipping on coffee while having Hometree utterly destroyed (even ''[[CorruptCooperateExecutive Selfridge]]'' seemed to quietly show some remorse upon witnessing the carnage), his willingness to risk Pandora's human-unfriendly atmosphere just for a chance to land a killing shot, the sadistic pleasure he takes in slaughtering anything Pandoran as well as defectors like Jake or Trudy, and how much punishment he can and ''will'' take, and you have yourself one of the most monstrous {{General Ripper}}s in fiction.

** It's worse when you read the versions in the older scripts, where the constant predator attacks around the human settlement were not evidence of an over-hyped DeathWorld. Rather, it was due to Eywa, the global hivemind formed by all living things, ''deciding that humanity's presence on the planet was an infection, and the beasts attacking the camp were its immune system trying to keep the infection contained ''

* Colonel Quaritch stabbing the Thanator got a bit... violent.

** His bio also mentions that the RDA is fully aware of “his extreme and potentially deadly side projects”, but the heads of the Transgenetics [=SciOps=] team look the other way because he’s very useful.

** His bio also mentions that the RDA is fully aware of “his extreme and potentially deadly side projects”, but the heads of the Transgenetics SciOps team look the other way because he’s very useful.

* In ''Avatar: Pandora Rising'', in the background of the picture of the bio for Volodin, a Russian MadScientist who joined the RDA because he knew they wouldn’t restrict his genetic/bioengineering experiments like the governments on earth did, an Avatar can be seen in a tank, that looks like the genetic material for a ''Viperwolf'' was added to the usual human/na’vi mix, while Volodin himself is about to cut into a dead viperwolf on a table in front of him.

* In ''Avatar: Pandora Rising'', in the background of the picture of the bio for Volodin, a Russian MadScientist who joined the RDA because he knew they wouldn’t restrict his genetic/bioengineering experiments like the governments on earth did, an Avatar can be seen in a tank, that looks like the genetic material for a ''Viperwolf'' was added to the usual human/na’vi mix, while Volodin himself is about to cut into a viperwolf corpse on a table in front of him.

** Not to mention that particular grove of trees was a direct link to her ancestors. RDA was essentially bulldozing a graveyard and cathedral at the same time.

** Not to mention that particular grove of trees was a direct link to her ancestors. RDA was essentially bulldozing a graveyard and cathedral at the same time.
* At first glance Avatar could look like your typical Pocahontas-like movie telling you that respecting nature is good and genociding natives is bad. But the true message of it is actually much scarier. At the core the hero is a traitor to humanity who rejects his human nature to become an alien, and does this not for peace and understanding...but to actively declare war on the human race! Then, he personally leads an entire army of hostile aliens to purge all human presence from Pandora, remorselessly killing anyone in the way. On top of it, the film repeatedly describes Earth as a "dying planet", making the future of humanity look pretty bleak after all hope on Pandora is crushed. Jake single-handedly screwed over humanity just so that he could have kinky hair sex with an alien babe, and all along the movie acts like he did the right thing. Avatar is one of the extreme few fiction stories where humanity ''as a whole'' are the bad guys, and their demise is cheered on at the end.

* At first glance Avatar could look like your typical Pocahontas-like movie telling you that respecting nature is good and genociding natives is bad. But the true message of it is actually much scarier. At the core the hero is a traitor to humanity who rejects his human nature to become an alien, and does this not for peace...but to actively declare war on the human race! Then, he personally leads an entire army of hostile aliens to purge all human presence from Pandora, remorselessly killing anyone in the way. On top of it, the film repeatedly describes Earth as a "dying planet", making the future of humanity look pretty bleak after all hope on Pandora is crushed. Jake single-handedly screwed over humanity as a whole just so that he could have kinky hair sex with an alien babe, and all along the movie acts like he did the right thing.