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    Jake 

Jake Sully (Na'vi name: Tsyeyk te Suli)

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Played By: Sam WorthingtonOther Languages

Appearances: Avatar | Avatar: The Way of Water

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.


  • Accidental Misnaming: On the receiving end of this by the Na'vi, but it's mild and All There in the Script, 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.
  • Achilles' Heel: As an Avatar in the first film, he becomes a mighty warrior, but then Quaritch goes after the defenseless Avatar link unit and breaks the window, exposing Jake's human body to Pandora's toxic air...
  • Audience Surrogate: Jake is this both to the Avatar Program and Na'vi society, introducing the audience to the world.
  • Anger Born of Worry: 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.
  • Anti Anti Christ: 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 The Antichrist is supposed to be a Semi-Divine demon in human form who will lead humanity astray. Instead he ends the movie by becoming their Messianic Archetype and saving them from the humans' Alien Invasion.
  • Anti-Hero: 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 Heel–Face Turn against the Human occupation.
  • Backup Twin: 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.
  • Becoming the Mask: Initially, he was mentally linked to a Na'vi avatar for the profit of the humans, but over time, he grew to love Pandora, commenting in one video log that "out there was reality" and his life in his human body was "the dream". The last line you hear in his final video log "I can't be late to my own party. It's my birthday after all." is his reference to being joined to his Avatar permanently. This is a Call-Back to the Na'vi 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.
  • Book Dumb: As he 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. 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.
  • Deadpan Snarker: 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".
  • Dumb Muscle: 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 Hidden Depths.
  • Earthy Barefoot Character: 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.
  • Evil Cripple: The humans probably saw Jake as a paraplegic traitor when he turned against them in favor of the Na'vi.
  • Expository Hairstyle Change: 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.
  • Genius Bruiser: While he makes a few self-deprecating remarks about his own intelligence, Jake really doesn't give himself enough credit. He has a keen mind for tactics, has talked his way into acceptance by two separate Na'vi clans, and learned a new language to a native level in less than ten years after starting as an adult.
  • Going Native: 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. That said, he's not fully discarded his previous human side; his children take after the more casual human way of speaking English, he still relies on technology and human military tactics as his tribe's leader, and he's still overall very close with the human sympathizers allied with the Na'vi.
  • Healthcare Motivation: He agrees to take his brother's place in the Avatar Program because he can't afford spinal surgery on veteran's benefits.
  • Heel–Face Turn: He ends up siding with the Na'vi against the Humans.
  • I Just Want to Be Badass: Part of Jake's motivation. It starts as I Just Want to Be Normal (restoring his legs back to healthy condition), but Jake is implied to have been a pretty badass marine before his crippling wound, and embraces the life of a Na'vi hunter/warrior very quickly.
  • Instant Expert: 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.
  • Interspecies Romance: He (a human) bonds with Neytiri, a Na'vi girl. The "interspecies" is dropped when he is permanently transferred into his Na'vi body.
  • It's Personal:
    • After the sky people try to squash him and his girl with a bulldozer, kill his future father-in-law and 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.
    • 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.
  • Meaningful Name:
    • 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.
  • Messianic Archetype: 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: 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.
  • Naturalized Name: Jake Sully when written as it would be pronounced in a Na'vi accent is Tsyeyk Suli.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
    • 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 impulsively disabled one of the dozers's cameras 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.
  • Not So Above It All: 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.
  • Oh, Crap!: Jake does this when he pisses off a Titanothere. He recovers...and then immediately does it again when attacked by a Thanator.
  • Outliving One's Offspring: Outlives his eldest son, Neteyam.
  • Papa Wolf: He's fiercely protective of his children, which Quaritch tries to exploit to goad him into a dual alone.
  • Parents as People: 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 "Well Done, Son" Guy due to him constantly getting into trouble.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Alongside with Neytiri they gruesomely kill every ally of Quaritch to avenge their son Neteyam. Though unlike his mate, Jake is able to keep himself under control to not advocate for using Spider as a hostage.
  • Rousing Speech: 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.
  • Screaming Warrior: After adapting to the Omaticaya traditions Jake is more prone to the signature hisses and screams when in battle.
  • Sense Freak: For his first spin in his Avatar body, he is ecstatic over having working legs again.
  • Shell-Shocked Veteran: Jake at the beginning of the movie. Surviving human soldiers at the end. One of the comics goes even further when Jake is in a coma, where he has very disturbing hallucinations of visions of Quaritch and Tsu'tey haunting him, solidifying that the first film's events have not played nice with his already troubled mind.
  • Shut Up, Hannibal!: During the final fight, 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.
  • Stumbling in the New Form: Jake Sully's first use of his Avatar sees him awkwardly stumble around the medical bay and accidentally give one of the doctors a Tail Slap. This is an unusual case where his new form isn't radically different from his real human body (the Na'vi being Humanoid Aliens), but Jake had been so out of practice with walking due to his paraplegia that it's as good as a new experience for him.
  • Take Up My Sword: The film doesn't draw attention to it, but at the end of The Way of Water, Jake replaces his own lost knife with that of the fallen Neteyam.
  • Throwing Off the Disability: A major part of his motivation is getting his legs back; however, he discovers that he prefers his Avatar body anyway...
  • Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: With Neytiri (the huge Na'vi girl) when he is in his human body. His head was around the size of her hand.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Jake takes about ten levels during the movie, going from poking Pandoran flora just for the hell of it 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 a tough marine who served in Venezuela before his spinal injury left him wheelchair-bound.
  • Training Montage: When Jake goes native and learns Na'vi customs the hard way.
  • Tranquil Fury: His main way of expressing his anger. While he is no stranger to getting loud in the heat of battle, in usual Na'vi fashion, he usually displays his anger through a quiet yet demeaning glare.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Jake jumps off his Banshee, which has paired with him for life, to catch a bigger ride. His Banshee is never seen again for the remainder of the film. Made even more obvious by Neytiri's obvious distress at the death of her own Banshee later in the film. At the end, 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.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: 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.
  • Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Quaritch thanks Jake for giving him a perfect excuse 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.

    Neytiri 

Neytiri te Tskaha Mo'at'ite

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Played By: Zoe SaldañaOther Languages

Appearances: Avatar | Avatar: The Way of Water

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.


  • Action Girl: She's a highly skilled hunter and warrior, capable of fighting off several viperwolves at once singlehandedly, outflying a Toruk and holding her own against soldiers with far superior weapons and armour. She's even more amazing in the second movie, mopping the floor with enemies left and right and not even slowing down when her bow is broken. She doesn't even lose a single fight in either film.
  • Big Damn Heroes: 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 pulls herself from under the Thanator's corpse and grabs her bow in time to shoot Quaritch straight in the chest to save Jake.
  • Broken Bird: The hostilities between the Na'vi and the RDA and the damage to her home 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 Despair Event Horizon after Hometree is destroyed and her father is killed. Gets worse in the second film when she is made to flee her home when her family is in danger and nearly enters Despair Event Horizon again when Neteyam, her eldest son, is shot and killed.
  • The Chief's Daughter: The romance of Jake and Neytiri follows the classic Chief's Daughter trope, complete with Jealous Betrothed Warrior Prince. Jake even calls her this at one point, word for word.
  • Death Wail:
    • Her reaction to 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, she lets out an equally agonizing one towards the sky when her father dies.
  • Defiant to the End: 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 the local wildlife attacking the soldiers. Later, when Quaritch has her trapped, she simply hisses menacingly at him whilst struggling to free herself.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: 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.
  • Double Standard: While it's reasonable for her to hold a degree of resentment towards humans for what the RDA, she is also resentful towards her own human allies yet her husband and descended friend were human. The main difference between Jake, Grace and Spider is that Neytiri got to know them through their avatars while all she sees when she looks at Spider is another human face.
  • Establishing Character Moment: 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.
  • Et Tu, Brute?: In the first movie, she's already rather upset over the RDA's latest logging operation. But she's especially distraught when she finds out Jake, the man she has fallen in love with, was ordered to spy on the Omaticaya and get them to leave Hometree.
  • Excellent Judge of Character: 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.
    • Subverted in the sequel where her prejudice towards humans causes her to see Spider as "trouble" despite his clear aversion to his peoples actions and loyalty to her family.
  • Fantastic Racism: She hates humans for what the RDA did to her family and her home. This results in her being cold and resentful towards Spider, both for his species and who his biological father is. In a prequel comic she becomes impatient with a group of human scientists trying to save Kiri and drives them away saying "you've done enough". When Spider tries calling her out on her letting the actions of the RDA affect her perception on him and other humans she ignores him.
  • Freudian Excuse: She hates humans (except for Grace and Jake who permanently became an avatar) for destroying her home and killing her people. In the extended edition it's also revealed that RDA soldiers murdered her sister. She becomes friendlier and warms up to humans (or some of them, at least) after getting to know Jake.
  • Get Out!: Hatefully screams essentially this 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).
  • Green-Skinned Space Babe: Or blue-skinned as the case may be. The Hero falls for her, of course.
  • Hot for Student: Falls in love with Jake as she's mentoring him in the ways of the Na'vi.
  • Interspecies Romance: With Jake, a human.
  • Mama Bear: 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. If she has any arrows left, though.
  • Magic Skirt: Averted in that Neytiri's nipples are clearly visible in many scenes.
  • Not So Above It All: 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.
  • Outliving One's Offspring: Outlives her eldest son, Neteyam.
  • Proud Warrior Race Girl: Neytiri, like all the Na'vi, is extremely proud of her culture and takes great offense when people don't understand it.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: 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.
  • Sage Love Interest: She is the embodiment of New Age "natural wisdom", and educates Jake on the beliefs of Pandora natives.
  • Statuesque Stunner: Much like the other Na'vi, she's nine feet tall; Jake clearly thinks she qualifies, and quite a few viewers would agree.
  • Tears of Joy: Has these upon saving Jake's human form near the end of the first film.
  • Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: 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.
  • Vapor Wear: Neytiri's "top" is basically an extra-large necklace made of string and some beads.
  • Violently Protective Girlfriend: 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.
  • Unstoppable Rage: And how! Neytiri, already fed up with a long string of horrific traumas (going from her sister's death at a young age all the way to the destruction of her home, her father's death, her teacher Grace's death and her Ikran Seze's death in the first film alone) culminating with the death of her son Neteyam, Neytiri really goes off the deep end of an absolutely vicious Roaring Rampage of Revenge, hideously brutalizing much of Quaritch's team with murderous intent and pure, blistering hate unlike anything up to that point, snarling and hissing while sporting some utterly terrifying facial expressions of absolute rage, acting less like she usually does and more like a rabid wild animal freshly released from its cage, culminating with her planning to murder Spider.
  • Would Hurt a Child: 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.

    Neteyam 

Neteyam te Suli Tsyeyk'itan

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Played By: Jamie FlattersOther Languages

Appearances: Avatar: The Way of Water

The eldest son of the Sully family who is protective of all of his siblings.


  • The Ace: The Visual Dictionary for the film states that he "excels at everything". He is considered the Golden Child of the whole Omaticaya tribe, is said to be the best warrior of his age, his skills being comparable to his mother's, who herself is one of the best fighters in the franchise. He is also confident and has good social skills.
  • Always Someone Better: He is this to his younger brother Lo'ak. He is naturally better at almost everything, which somewhat contributes to Lo'ak's reckless desire to prove himself.
  • Affectionate Gesture to the Head: He has a habit of patting his little brother Lo'ak on his head.
  • Big Brother Instinct: Is the eldest son and is very protective of all his siblings. He stands up for Kiri when the others make fun of her and tries to keep Lo'ak out of trouble. He ultimately dies protecting his siblings attempting to rescue them from Quaritch.
  • Deceptive Legacy: Like his siblings Lo'ak and Tuk, Neteyam is technically the biological son of his deceased uncle, Tom Sully, as what became Jake's avatar body was originally grown from Tommy's DNA. As it's never brought up in either movie, there's no way of knowing if Neteyam and his siblings are aware that their father is actually their uncle or not.
  • Desperate Plea for Home: His last words are him asking his father to go home.
  • The Dutiful Son: He is the most willing to listen to his parent's orders and as the oldest, tries to act more responsible.
  • Fatal Flaw: Jake's "squad" attitude toward parenting results in him being excessively protective of his younger brother, even jumping into danger to save him. It ends up getting him killed.
  • Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The responsible sibling to Lo'ak's foolish sibling. It's also a cause for conflict between the two as Jake constantly admonishes Lo'ak for getting into trouble while stating Neteyam is responsible for protecting Lo'ak. Lo'ak calls Neteyam the "Perfect Son" while he calls himself an "outcast".
  • The Leader: Tends to take this role when there are no reliable adults around, as he is capable of making good calls in dire situations. For example, during their rescue of Payakan he urges Lo'ak to report their situation to Jake immediately and later effectively coordinates the Na'vi kids' efforts to remove the tracker on Payakan when their parents are too far away to help them.
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He joins Lo'ak in rescuing Spider, and gets shot trying to cover for their escape. He later bleeds out in his family's arms.
  • Sacrificial Lion: Gets killed to showcase how lethally dangerous the Recoms are.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: He looks a lot like Neytiri if she were male thanks to having a similar facial structure. He also doesn't inherit any hybrid features from Jake, looking no different from a native Na'vi.
  • Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Neteyam is a kind-hearted young man who puts his family above his own safety. He is killed when he is shot through the chest while rescuing his family, his last words just asking to go home again.
  • Wise Beyond Their Years: He is highly mature, possibly due to being the eldest child in the family and being expected to follow his father's footstep as a leader, as well as living in wartime.

    Kiri 

Kiri te Suli Kìreysì'ite

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Played By: Sigourney WeaverOther Languages

Appearances: Avatar: The Way of Water

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.


  • All of the Other Reindeer: 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 activitynote . This causes some insecurity as she asks her father if she is crazy.
  • The Beastmaster: 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.
  • Big Little Sister: 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.
  • Cool Big Sis: 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 Ship Tease.
  • Damsel in Distress: Played With, 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 abilities are such that in the right circumstances she can take down an entire army.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Like her biological mother Grace, she's shown to have a very dry sense of humor.
    Kiri: (In response to Lo'ak and Spider speculating Norm is her father) I would kill myself. I would drink acid.
  • Dream-Crushing Handicap: 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.
  • Friend to All Living Things: Kiri's kindhearted nature as well as her connection to Pandora makes her this.
  • God in Human Form: The film implies she is the living Avatar of Pandora itself.
  • Green Thumb: 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.
  • Happily Adopted: Despite not being one of the Sullys biologically, she's never shown to struggle with this and has a loving relationship with all of them. Though she does want a relationship with her late birth mother and is very insecure about not knowing the identity of her biological father.
  • Like a Duck Takes to Water: Out of all the Sullys, she has the least trouble holding her breath underwater as the Metkayina show them around the reef. She also gets along with the various underwater fauna very well.
  • Meaningful Name: Her name is almost certainly a diminutive of atokirina—the Na'vi word for the seeds of the sacred tree. It could also be one of Kìreysì, the Na'vi spelling of "Grace", making her a slightly obfuscated Dead Guy Junior.
  • Messianic Archetype: 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.
  • Missing Mom: 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.
  • Power Glows: 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.
  • Socially Awkward Hero: 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.
  • Squishy Wizard: She has a mysterious, mystical connection to Eywa that lets her control flora and fauna to overwhelm her RDA opponents and help her and her family survive the depths of the sea — but she's far less effective at physical combat.
  • Vocal Dissonance: Due to her actor being over 50 years older then her, Kiri has a very deep and mature voice for her age. However, this is the case for some teenagers, and otherwise comes off as rather convincing.

    Lo'ak 

Lo'ak te Suli Tsyeyk'itan

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Played by: Britain Dalton, Chloe Coleman (Younger Lo'ak)Other Languages

Appearances: Avatar: The Way of Water

The middle child of the Sully family and another Na'vi-human hybrid. However, he feels outcast by his family due to his attitude.


  • Big Brother Instinct: Like his older brother, Lo'ak is very protective of all his siblings. He punches Aonung for making fun of Kiri, risks his life to rescue Spider, and goes back when the vessel is sinking to help rescue his family.
  • Bilingual Backfire: When he and his siblings are being interrogated by Quaritch on Jake Sully's location, Lo'ak replies in Na'vi to make it seem like he can't understand ("I don't speak English...to buttholes"). Quaritch just asks the same question in near perfect Na'vi.
  • Birds of a Feather: Lo'ak manages to befriend a Tulkun named Payakan after the latter saves his life. He later forms a bond over being an "outcast" and stands up for Payakan when the others see him as a killer, understanding Payakan's tragic backstory.
  • Deceptive Legacy: Like his siblings Neteyam and Tuk, Lo'ak is technically the biological son of his deceased uncle, Tom Sully, as what became Jake's avatar body was originally grown from Tommy's DNA. As it's never brought up in either movie, there's no way of knowing if Lo'ak and his siblings are aware that their father is actually their uncle or not.
  • The Determinator: Once Lo'ak sets his mind on something (whether jumping head first into a dangerous situation, taking on a dare, or defying orders to rescue a friend or family member in danger) nobody can talk him out of it, as Neteyam can attest to.
  • Fatal Flaw: Jake's "squad" attitude towards parenting results in him feeling inadequate and always needing to prove himself.
  • Flipping the Bird: When Quaritch asks to show his fingers... he shows him both of his middle fingers.
  • Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The foolish sibling to Neteyam's responsible sibling. It's also a cause for conflict between the two as Jake constantly admonishes Lo'ak for getting into trouble while stating Neteyam is responsible for protecting Lo'ak. Lo'ak calls Neteyam the "Perfect Son" while he calls himself an "outcast".
  • Generation Xerox: His story of adapting to a new way of life with the Metkayina and growing as a person as a result is almost an exact mirror of his father's story of adapting to the Na'vi in the first film. His time with Tsireya also mirrors his parents' relationship from the first film as well.
  • Half-Breed Angst: Because he is the son of a Na'vi and an Avatar, he has some human-like traits like eyebrows and five fingers. At a few points in the movie, he is called a freak for being different.
  • Hot-Blooded: Lo'ak is quick to anger and impulsive, which often gets him into trouble.
  • Interspecies Friendship: Develops one with the tulkan, Payakan.
  • It's All My Fault: Blames himself for Neteyam's death after convincing him to go back to rescue Spider. Doesn't help that Jake lashes out at him by saying, "You've done enough".
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's quick to anger, reckless and impulsive... but he's a brave, kind-hearted boy who is fiercely protective of the people he cares about.
  • Knight Templar Big Brother: To Kiri. He starts a 2 vs 4 fight with the Metkayina teens because they called his sister a "freak".
  • Like Father, Like Son:
    • He clearly takes more after his father Jake in both looks and personality. Much like his father, he manages to befriend a creature that was considered too dangerous.
    • Like his father, he becomes close to The Chief's Daughter and have feelings for each other.
  • Middle Child Syndrome: While Neteyam is the reliable oldest sibling, Tuk is the adorable baby of the family, and Kiri is the adopted daughter with a special connection to the Pandoran wildlife, Lo'ak is the family troublemaker who believes himself to be The Unfavorite.
  • Turn the Other Fist: Attempts to walk away after Aonung taunts Kiri, but when he and his friends continue, Lo'ak turns back and explains what his freaky fingers can do...by making a fist and punching Aonung in the face.
  • "Well Done, Son" Guy: It's clear that Lo'ak seeks approval from his father. While Jake clearly loves him, he is constantly admonishing Lo'ak for getting into trouble. Because of that, Lo'ak sees himself as The Unfavorite compared to his older brother. When Jake nearly drowns, Lo'ak saves him by teaching him the way of the water. After which Jake gives Lo'ak a So Proud of You moment.
    Jake: I see you, my son.

    Tuk 

Tuktirey "Tuk" te Suli Neytiri'ite

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Played By: Trinity Jo Li BlissOther Languages

Appearances: Avatar: The Way of Water

The youngest child of Sully and Neytiri.


  • The Baby of the Bunch: She is the youngest member of the Sully family. Notably, when the family is flying to the Metkayina clan, Tuk rides with her mother on Neytiri's Ikran as she isn't old enough to have tamed one of her own yet.
  • Big Sister Worship: Is very close to her sister Kiri, who serves as something of a mentor to her.
  • Cheerful Child: The most playful and consistently happy member of the Sully Family.
  • The Cutie: Mostly there to look cute, be funny, and serve as a Damsel in Distress for her siblings and parents to rescue. Ironically, due to being a Na'vi she's already as tall as a full-grown human, despite being just 8.
  • Damsel in Distress: She gets captured a lot and even gets handcuffed twice within half an hour, as she herself lampshades.
    Tuk: I can't believe I'm tied up again!
  • Deceptive Legacy: Like her brothers Lo'ak and Neteyam, Tuk is technically the biological daughter of her deceased uncle, Tom Sully, as what became Jake's avatar body was originally grown from Tommy's DNA. As it's never brought up in either movie, there's no way of knowing if Tuk and her brothers are aware that their father is actually their uncle or not.
  • The Load: Her main role in the film is to get captured so that others have to rescue her.
  • Nightmare Fetishist: When exploring in the jungle with Spider, Kiri, and Lo'ak, she is curious to see if there are any dead bodies inside the crashed RDA vehicles.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Her parents, siblings and everyone that meets her refers to her just as "Tuk".
  • Token Mini-Moe: She is significantly younger than the rest of the main cast, which consists of adults of varying ages and teenagers.
  • Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb: She gets captured twice because she keeps trying to follow her siblings into dangerous situations. While her brothers are trained fighters and her sister has unusual psychic abilities, she's an eight-year-old. Trying to go back for Kiri just gets her tied next to her.

    Spider 

Miles "Spider" Socorro

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Played By: Jack ChampionOther Languages

Appearances: Avatar: The Way of Water

A human who was forced to remain on Pandora when the humans left, due to his young age not being suitable for cryosleep. He gets along well with the Na'vi, especially Jake's kids.


  • Ancestral Name: He was named after his father, Miles Quaritch. However, he deliberately defies the trope as he uses his mother's last name and almost exclusively goes by the nickname "Spider".
  • Conscience Makes You Go Back: Spider sees Quaritch do some really heinous actions, especially against his adoptive family. When Spider sees his father is about to drown, he contemplates leaving him to his fate. But ultimately decides to save him, because he still cannot allow his father to die because of him though he still rejects him afterwards.
  • Distressed Dude: He spends most of The Way of Water captured by the RDA Recombinants, who force him to be their guide and translator.
  • Happily Adopted: Played With. Spider grew up playing with the Sully siblings, and they all consider him to be like a brother to them. Similarly, Jake does show some concern for Spider given how much time he's spent with his children. However, Neytiri barely tolerates his presence. Also, Spider is arguably abandoned by the Sully family after he gets captured, with the exception of Kiri and Lo'ak, we don't see them even worry for him whilst Spider is being tortured for their whereabouts, which he doesn't give up.
  • Hates Their Parent: Given that his biological father is Miles Quaritch and he grew up with the Na'vi, it's pretty understandable why Spider would loathe him and refuse to acknowledge their relationship. And while he does save the Recombinant version of his father's life, Spider still chooses the Sully family over him.
  • Heroic Willpower: He is tortured by a machine that is designed to extract memories, and his will is so strong that he refuses to even think of giving up Jake's location. If Quaritch hadn't stepped in, the machine might have killed him before he broke.
  • Going Native: Granted, he was born and raised on Pandora but, compared to the other humans who were allowed to stay, he's the one who's embraced Na'vi culture the most.
  • I Just Want to Be Normal: Spider has spent his entire life living on Pandora among the Na'vi, but has always been treated as an outsider because he's human. Every time we've seen him past infancy, he's dressed like the Na'vi, worn his hair like the Na'vi, and had dyed blue stripes on his skin like the Na'vi, all in an attempt to be more like everyone else he grew up with.
  • Luke, I Am Your Father: Turns out Miles is named after his dad... Colonel Miles Quaritch.
  • Morality Pet: Quaritch is significantly less trigger-happy when he's doing Take Your Kid to Work Day. For instance, when Quaritch is about to order the encountered water tribe to be wiped out, Spider pleads for their lives upon which Quaritch only orders the burning of the hooches.
  • My Friends... and Zoidberg: It is evident that Jake and Neytiri do not consider him a true member of their family, Neytiri does not like him and only tolerates him because he is a friend of her children, while Jake seems to consider him more of a pet than a son.
  • Nice Guy: He's very good-natured and while captured does his best to try and convince the humans to spare the Na'vi. He doesn't hold it against Neytiri when she uses him as a hostage to get Quaritch to release Kiri, and later saves Quaritch because he can't bring himself to let him drown.
  • Nom de Mom: Considering that his father is Quaritch, it makes sense that he uses his mother's last name.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: By his admission no one calls him by his name, it's "Spider" to most or "Monkey Boy" to Kiri, considering that he's a Dead Guy Junior for the most hated human in Na'vi history that's understandable.
  • Primal Stance: He tends to crouch, balance on nearby high surfaces, and even hiss like a Na'vi, since he was raised among them. He's perfectly capable of walking and standing normally, he just likes to climb on things.
  • Raised by Natives: Downplayed. He was raised among the remaining humans, but he grew up playing with the Sullys and so knows Na'vi language and culture.
  • Remember the New Guy?: The first movie gave no indication that Quaritch had a son.
  • Save the Villain: Spider reluctantly decides to save the unconscious Quaritch from the watery grave Jake had condemned him to. Once Quaritch comes to, however, Spider makes it very clear that he will not be returning to the RDA with him.
  • Son of an Ape: A rare case where this isn't used as an insult. Kiri affectionately calls him Monkey Boy.
  • Stronger Than They Look: In the climax, he is able to drag Quaritch out of the water and onto dry land, saving his father's life. Keep in mind his father is in a Recombinant Avatar body, which means he is much bigger and a great deal heavier than he is. Doing it underwater takes some of the weight off, but it's still a very impressive feat.
  • Tarzan Boy: He grew up in the jungle (albeit not Raised by Wolves), he's always shirtless with a Loincloth and moves barefoot, is something of a Wild Child, adopts a Primal Stance sometimes, and manages to keep up with Na'vis when they swing and run in the canopies of Pandora's forests. And he's the son of a white human who died in the jungle.
  • Token Human: He is a young human living among the Na'vi even when next to his own "father", who in turn is a Recombinant.
  • Thicker Than Water: The main reason why he saves his father's life in the climax, despite all the evil things Quaritch has done. Ultimately Downplayed though, as even though he rescues his father, he refuses to join him and returns back to Jake and his family.
  • Wild Child: Subverted. The humans see him as such due to his Na'vi mannerisms and aggression, but he's a regular teenager who was simply raised partly within Na'vi culture and is reacting accordingly to being threatened and kidnapped.
  • Wild Hair: His hair is matted into locks.

    Tom Sully 

Tom Sully

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Played By: Sam Worthington

Appearances: Avatar

Jake's twin brother. Tom Sully was a scientist who joined and trained for the Avatar program before the events of the first film. Sadly, he was killed by a mugger before he could take off for Pandora, forcing the RDA to approach Jake as a substitute.


  • Meaningful Name: Tom's name means "Twin" and Tom was Jake's twin brother.
  • Polar Opposite Twins: He was a scientist, while Jake was a marine. Grace's early headbutting with and disappointment with Jake indicate that the differences also went further than just different occupations.
  • Posthumous Character: The first we see of him is as a corpse about to be cremated.
  • Plot-Triggering Death: It's his death that causes the RDA to turn to Jake since, as Tom's twin brother, he is the only one capable of Tom's avatar.
  • Rule of Symbolism: The coffin in which he is cremated has strong visual similarities to both Jake's cryosleep chamber on the spacecraft taking him to Pandora as well as the cradle he lays in to link with his Avatar. It emphasizes how Tom's death allowed Jake to start a new life on a new world both figuratively and, once he starts using his Avatar, literally. As Jake himself puts it: "One life ends, another begins."
  • Small Role, Big Impact: We first see him right after his death, and he's only briefly mentioned afterward in the first act; his own twin brother barely even mourns him. But his death paved the way for Jake, who previously didn't have the interest in or aptitude for journeying to Pandora, to join the Avatar program and become a vital actor in the battle for the moon.

Avatar Program

    Grace 

Dr. Grace Augustine (Na'vi name: Kìreysì)

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Played By: Sigourney WeaverOther Languages

Appearances: Avatar | Avatar: The Way of Waternote 

An exobiologist and head of the Avatar Program. She is also Sully's mentor and an advocate of peaceful relations with the Na'vi, having set up a school to teach them English.


  • Armor-Piercing Question: Delivers one to Selfridge before the attack on Hometree; "There are families in there. There are children, babies! Are you gonna kill children?". It's enough to convince the clearly uncomfortable Selfridge to allow them to attempt convincing the Na'vi to evacuate before the attack commences.
  • Better with Non-Human Company: Max says that she has a better connection with plants than people.
  • Brain Uploading: When she dies, she becomes one with Eywa. The movie as well as Na'vi mythology implies that this happens to all life on Pandora when they die. The second film implies this is more true for Grace than most, as she is seemingly self-aware within Eywa, while the dead exist as echoes of the people they once were.
  • Cynical Mentor: Grace plays this part to Jake, then warms up to him.
  • Deadpan Snarker: She's dry, sarcastic and sour in some of her speech. Not even being shot can stop her from snarking. "This is gonna ruin my whole day."
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: She gradually becomes friendlier to Jake, especially after he starts to empathise with the Na'vi.
  • Friend to All Children: She's clearly fond of the Na'vi children she used to teach at her school and they are quite affectionate towards her, even some of her older students like Neytiri.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Along with everyone else on the Avatar Project, although she was already very sympathetic to the Na'vi and strongly disappoved of what the RDA were doing.
  • Irony: A human scientist who looks for rational explanations for everything, is all but considered a saint by the Na'vi and by way of her Avatar undergoes a Mystical Pregnancy resulting in the birth of a Messianic Archetype with strange spiritual powers, thus basically becoming Pandora's equivalent of the Virgin Mary.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She takes her job very seriously and enforces a tight schedule, but deep down, she means well, she's just doing her job, and does care for the well-being and safety of her clients and partners.
  • Meaningful Name: A name like Grace Augustine is perfect for a merciful and caring character who is perceived as something close to a saint by the Na'vi.
  • Motherly Scientist: Grace is a xenobiologist and sociolinguist who advocates for and deeply cares about the indigenous alien population, unlike her colleagues.
  • Must Have Nicotine: Her very first scene has her demanding a smoke. "Where's my goddamn cigarette?!"
  • My Greatest Failure: In the extended edition, she clearly regrets her failure to stop Quaritch's men from gunning down several of her former students, including Neytiri's sister Sylwanin, inside the school, in front of the other children after they torched an RDA bulldozer in protest at RDA's clear-cutting of the forest.
  • Mystical Pregnancy: Heavily implied, following her death in the first film Grace's brain-dead avatar ends up mysteriously giving birth to Kiri who has some strange spiritual connection to Eywa and seemingly mystical powers over life that no one else possesses, all without any reasonable explanation for how Grace's avatar could have gotten pregnant in the first place. Considering she is practically considered a saint to the Na'vi, this actually makes sense.
  • Non-Standard Character Design: Her avatar body has a very human-looking facial structure compared to Norm and Jake's avatars, which pull off the Na'vi look a little better. This might be because hers was made using older technology.
  • Oh, Crap!: Grace almost literally does this when she learns Jake and Neytiri are mated.
    Oh, shit!
  • Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Grace wrote the book (literally) on Pandoran botany, but she also appears to be a sociologist. And a xenolinguist. And a schoolteacher.
  • Sacrificial Lion: The protagonist's mentor and supporter, she dies of a gunshot wound shortly before the big climax, motivating Jake to rally the Na'vi to fight back against the RDA.
  • Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: For a big name star, Sigourney Weaver gets no mention at all in at least some of the trailers. Even in trailers where Grace appears in, she is not given too much focus.
  • Sir Swears-a-Lot: Drops in a couple of swear words in most of her dialogue as the film goes on and before she is shot.
  • Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Grace, like Dr. Chiba, is considerably more comfortable—nay, downright joyful—as her Avatar alter-ego.
  • Skeptic No Longer: While she certainly believed in Eywa before, it was of the "one more alien" sense. It's not until she's dying and being brain uploaded that she says, "I'm with her, Jake. She's real."
  • Tempting Fate: He taunts Quaritch, saying, "You gonna shoot me?" not long before she is fatally shot by him as she and the rest of the Avatar program tries to escape detention.
  • Team Mom: A cynical, abrasive and downright rude mother figure, but a mother figure to her team nevertheless, trying to guide and educate the group and being caring and supportive of them (including carrying Jake to bed and tucking him in when he falls asleep at his desk).
  • You Monster!: Grace calls Selfridge one when Quaritch destroys Hometree.

    Norm 

Dr. Norm Spellman

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Played By: Joel David MooreOther Languages

Appearances: Avatar | Avatar: The Way of Water

A xenoanthropologist who studies plant and animal life as part of the Avatar Program. He arrives on Pandora at the same time as Sully and operates an Avatar. Although he is expected to lead the diplomatic contact with the Na'vi, it turns out that Jake has the personality better suited to win the natives' respect.


  • Badass Bookworm: After his Avatar body apparently dies, with him in it, he just picks up a gun, and an exopack, and keeps kicking ass. He went through "death" once, and it didn't stop him.
  • Demoted to Extra: His role in the sequel amounts to a few brief scenes.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Can be briefly seen during Quaritch's introductory scene briefing the new arrivals to Pandora.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Begins to be rather unpleasant after all his years of study, research, and training seem to amount to nothing when crippled jarhead Jake randomly stumbles his way into earning the Na'vi's trust instead of him. He is a Nice Guy in the end though, as he still helps Jake by giving him lessons on Na'vi language and culture. The destruction of Hometree is also implied to make him realize how petty he was being, and he risks his life and betrays his own race to save Pandora.
  • Mr. Exposition: He gives a lot of information to Jake about the Avatar Program, Grace, and Eywa.
  • Pair the Spares: Some deleted scenes and supplementary material indicate he and Trudy formed a relationship. It doesn't last due to Trudy dying.
  • The Rival: Norm understandably feels this way at the beginning, when he, the Ph.D who's spent years studying Na'vi culture and the Avatar Program, gets showed up by the unschooled, last-minute replacement jarhead. Eventually, he puts the research above his own ego and assists Jake.
  • Unexplained Recovery: His Avatar body appears to die in the climax of the first film, but he is shown to still possess one in The Way of Water. It's possible his Avatar was simply wounded severely enough to disrupt the link, but not fatally injured. With that said, the early scene of Neteyam's birth and the Expanded Universe comic The Next Shadow show that he had to interact with the Na'vi in his human body in the aftermath of the first film's climactic battle, implying that his Avatar was sufficiently damaged that he couldn't immediately start using it again.

    Trudy 

Trudy Chacón

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Played By: Michelle RodriguezOther Languages

Appearances: Avatar

A combat pilot assigned to support the Avatar Program who is sympathetic to the Na'vi.


  • Ace Pilot: She's one of the best pilots in the film, capable of navigating the Flux Vortex that surrounds the Hallelujah Mountains which interferes with the flying equipment.
  • Action Girl: She's a combat pilot, though she doesn't really start kicking ass until the latter half of the movie.
  • Blue Is Heroic: During the final battle, she puts blue warpaint on her face and even her Samson.
  • Cool Big Sis: Comes across as a bit of one to Jake, being one of the few military personnel to befriend him and taking him under her wing to an extent.
  • Cool Shades: Occasionally sports a pair when she's out flying.
  • Big Damn Heroes: Barges into the final battle against Quaritch's aircraft to save Jake from the enemy. It sadly doesn't stop her from getting shot down.
  • Face Death with Dignity: Once she's shot down, she appears quite calm, though regretful she couldn't do more, in her final moments.
    Trudy: Sorry, Jake.
  • Going Native: Although possessing no Avatar of her own, Trudy becomes a Na'vi warrior in spirit when she dons their warpaint on herself and her Samson to take on Quaritch's Dragon gunship.
  • Honor Before Reason: Lampshaded. "And I was hoping for some sort of tactical plan that didn't involve martyrdom. We're going up against gunships with bows and arrows."
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Goes down fighting to save the Tree of Souls, the Na'vi's most direct spiritual link to Eywa.
  • Ms. Fanservice: As expected from the beautiful Michelle Rodriguez, with her clothing being rather tight fitting to reveal her curves and expose some skin.
  • Nice Girl: Trudy is incredibly friendly, supportive and reliable and never waivers in fighting alongside Jake and the Na'vi.
  • Sacrificial Lion: She's killed in the last stand against Quaritch.
  • Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: She refuses to take part in the burning of Hometree and later fully defects, busting Jake, Grace and Norm out of jail and fighting alongside the Na'vi against the RDA.
    Trudy: I didn't sign up for this shit!
  • Spicy Latina: Her actor has a Latin American heritage, and Trudy is strong-minded and doesn't follow orders from anyone, let alone the RDA officers.
  • This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: "You're not the only one with a gun, bitch."
  • Vasquez Always Dies: The hardened military woman dies, whereas the Nubile Savage Green-Skinned Space Babe Love Interest lives. It's not even really spoiler worthy given Rodriguez is a Chronically Killed Actor.

    Max 

Dr. Max Patel

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Played By: Dileep RaoOther Languages

Appearances: Avatar | Avatar: The Way of Water

One of the senior scientists on the Avatar Program who oversees and assists with the links between human drivers and their Avatar bodies.


  • Demoted to Extra: He was already a minor character in the first movie, yet manages to have even less of a presence in the sequel.
  • The Mole: After Jake and co. escape, Max and the rest of the Avatar Program team stay behind at Hell's Gate and feed information to Jake regarding Quaritch's plans.
  • Nice Guy: The first person Jake and Norm encounter from the Avatar Project, he's consistently polite and friendly to both of them, even to the point of reminding the initially caustic Grace of Jake's presence.
  • Non-Action Guy: Does not take part in any action and spends most of his screen time in the avatar lab. He does lead a revolt in some deleted scenes, but not the finalized movie.
  • Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Helps Trudy bust Jake, Norm and Grace out of jail after the attack on Hometree.
  • Smart People Wear Glasses: He is a senior scientist in the Avatar Program who wears glasses.

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