Avatar 3 Is Officially Breaking A Franchise Trend After The First Two Movies’ Biggest Criticism

Zoe Saldana as Neytiri and Sam Worthington as Jake Sully from Avatar: Way of Water

James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash looks set to address the movie series’ overly simplistic villains, which has been a problem in both previous Avatar movies. The groundbreaking Avatar franchise gave viewers a new and different experience in their worldbuilding and use of visual effects, which has mostly overshadowed any criticism of the films. The landscape and creatures were unlike any seen before, and Avatar‘s many Na’vi clans were designed well. That said, James Cameron has needed to make some significant changes to his ambitious franchise, which currently has three upcoming Avatar movies.

Despite being visually stunning, the original Avatar movie was heavily criticized as being derivative, with plot elements taken from many movies, like Disney’s Pocahontas and Dances with Wolves. The plot of the sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, was much better received, opening up new parts of the planet Pandora, but still attracted the same complaints about the villains. The story of Avatar: Fire and Ash appears to address this issue, introducing a new antagonist and a clan of menacing Na’vi. James Cameron has confirmed that these characters will be complex, bringing a new dynamic to the clans.

Avatar 3’s Villains Won’t Be As Simplistic As In The First Two Movies

An Alliance Between The Fire Na’vi And Quaritch Could Introduce More Depth To His Character

Stephen Lang's Quaritch looking unhinged in Avatar's final scene

The villains in the first two Avatar movies are the opportunistic humans, who arrive on Pandora to mine unobtainium with no regard for the ecosystem. Unlike Avatar‘s Colonel Miles Quaritch, whose motivation seems to be pure greed, the new villains in Avatar: Fire and Ash will be more complex. James Cameron told Empire. This is a new concept for the Avatar franchise and may see the Na’vi making an unlikely alliance.

Cameron: “One thing we wanted to do in this film is not be black-and-white simplistic. We’re trying to evolve beyond the ‘all humans are bad, all Na’vi are good’ paradigm.”

The concept art for Avatar: Fire and Ash shows Quaritch being led into the home village of the fire Na’vi, though whether he is a prisoner or the clan is just taking precautions is currently unknown. Quaritch has a long-standing and bitter history with Jake Sully and his family, so if the fire Na’vi have the same enemy, this could set up an interesting partnership. Avatar‘s potential Quaritch and fire Na’vi alliance could give Quaritch’s character some more depth, which would build on the introduction of his relationship with Spider in Avatar: The Way of Water.

What Avatar 3’s Na’vi Villains Mean For The James Cameron Sequel

The Conflict Between Avatar 3’s Na’vi Clans May Be Complicated

A group of Na'vi people on horses, running through a battleground completely on fire.

Introducing the antagonistic fire Na’vi shows that James Cameron appears to have heard and addressed the criticism leveled at the earlier Avatar movies, and that Avatar: Fire and Ash will build on the success of the previous sequel. As Avatar: The Way of Water was a critical and commercial success, this is exciting news. One of the most compelling things about the Avatar movies is the insight into the creatures and Na’vi clans of Pandora, so including a very different kind of Na’vi shows that there is much more of James Cameron’s world left to explore.

The conflict between the fire Na’vi and the other populations on Pandora will likely be complicated, which would continue Cameron’s approach in adding more nuance to the antagonists. While the humans’ pursuit of unobtainium caused a natural conflict, there are many more reasons for a bad relationship between Na’vi clans. James Cameron has not yet confirmed why the fire Na’vi and its leader, Varang, are villains. Still, he has hinted that there is more to the story, telling Empire, “Varang is the leader of a people who have gone through an incredible hardship.”

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