10 Movie Characters You Didn't Realise Actually Survived
1. Colonel Quaritch - Avatar
And finally, we have Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), the primary antagonist of James Cameron's Avatar.
As the head of RDA's private security force, Quaritch spearheads human mining operations on Pandora with an iron fist, bringing him into immediate, violent conflict with the moon's indigenous lifeforms, the Na'vi.
At film's end, Quaritch appears to get his fitting comeuppance, as before he's able to slit the throat of Jake's (Sam Worthington) avatar, Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) kills him with a few well-placed arrows to the chest. Game Over, right?
Wrong.
With Cameron already deep into production on his four planned Avatar sequels, fans were surprised to hear that Stephen Lang will be reprising the role of Quaritch in all four sequels.
Though the particulars of his survival or resurrection are completely unknown for now, Lang has confirmed in interviews that he is indeed still playing the same character, saying:
"It's very satisfying to know that the character was valued enough and made enough of an impression to [bring him back]."
Lang did add that Quaritch has "evolved" since the events of the first film, so could it be that he's received some sort of cybernetic or biological upgrade in order to survive? We'll see, but he's evidently anything but dead.