Line #22 NightmareFuel/Avatar


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5	[[caption-width-right:350: ''"Every living thing that crawls, flies, or squats in the mud wants to kill you and eat your eyes for jujubes."'']]
6	* The scene of Hometree being burned and brought to the ground. It's heartbreaking and terrifying at the same time, especially since it's inevitable that many Na'vi, including children, were killed.
7	** The 9/11 parallels, said to be unintentional, are extremely eerie. From the collapsing tree trunks to the ash and smoke after the collapse, it really does resemble September 11th.
8	* Colonel [[BloodKnight 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 fight has got him now.
9	** And the fact that Neytiri, bonded with the Thanator at the time, ''felt all of its dying pain as her own.''
10	* Banshees and Thanators and Viperwolves...As beautiful as Pandora is, it's home to some terrifying lifeforms.
11	** The [[WhatCouldHaveBeen earlier scripts]] had a bunch of much nastier creatures that never made it into the film proper, such as the Snake Tree, a ManEatingPlant with six fanged heads like a hydra that baited it prey with half-eaten carcasses of its previous victims, the Slinth, a feline-like creature with a venomous harpoon for a head, or the Manticore, an earlier beta version of the Thanator that was equipped with a venomous stinger tail and scythe-like mantis forelimbs...
12	** 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. ''
13	* When the Na'vi are shown losing the battle... that flaming direhorse...
14	** What makes those few minutes when the Na'vi are being massacred indiscriminately even more horrifying & tearjerking is that things like this have actually happened in the real world. Not the mini mechas & the 10-foot-tall humanoids, but time & time again in our history indigenous people have gone up against a foreign power armed with vastly superior military technology in defense of their lands. Many of them fought bravely, sometimes extremely so. Yet, except for a handful of times, they lost. Very badly.
15	* What happened to Norm's Avatar. What really makes it freaky is when he's forced out of his chamber, clutching his heart, shuddering and breathing...
16	** A deleted scene reveals that Wainfleet walks up to him and shoots him at point blank range with that massive gun of his. Imagine the outcome of that...
17	** Even if Norm's Avatar had a painless and pacific demise (which he hadn't, but that's beside the point), poor Norm actually experienced death. Not a near death thing, but for a moment he felt how it feels to die. Think about it.
18	*** So does Neytiri when her ikran Seze is fatally shot.
19	* Much of the final battle is a MookHorrorShow 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.
20	** The soldiers on the ground when the Pandoran wildlife comes crashing down on them, literally in a few cases, and are crushed, gored or eaten alive.
21	* 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.
22	* This didn't make it into the final cut, but in the draft of the script, Tsu'tey survives his fall out of the Valkryie Bomber. Wainfleet, loaded up in his [[HumongousMecha AMP suit]] comes across him. He doesn't shoot him. He doesn't stomp on him. Instead, ''[[AndIMustScream he brings out a knife, picks up Tsu'tey by the queue and slices it off at the base]]''. Keep in mind that a queue is akin to a Na'vi's nervous system. Tsu'tey's screams are said to be agonizing. Make matters worse, he holds it up like a trophy.
23	--> '''Wainfleet:''' [[FateWorseThanDeath I hear this is worse than death for you]], chief.
24	* The scene where Neytiri tries to drag Jake's unconscious body through the forest while massive tree clearing machines roll towards them. Think about it: desperately trying to carry someone you just realized you love away from these machines that are so massive they are clearing away 20 ft tall trees like they were nothing. It's particularly heart wrenching to hear her screaming at Jake to wake up.
25	** Not to mention that particular grove of trees was a direct link to her ancestors. The RDA was essentially bulldozing a graveyard and cathedral at the same time.
26	* [[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 ''[[CorruptCorporateExecutive 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.
27	!!The games
28	* 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.

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