20 Most WTF Movie Moments Of 2022

9. Scorseby Loses An Arm (And His Life) - Avatar: The Way Of Water

Triangle of Sadness
20th Century Studios

Avatar: The Way of Water offers up one moment of jarringly insane violence in the third act, when the humans hunting the whale-like tulkuns on Pandora get their brutal just desserts.

In particular, we're made to loathe the head of the hunting operation, Captain Mick Scoresby (Brendan Cowell), who instigates the tulkun massacre at the behest of Colonel Quaritch (Stephen Lang), and is clearly motivated by nothing more than the callous pursuit of money.

But when the outcast member of the tulkun, Payakan, decides to fight back against the whalers, Scorseby suffers a most outrageously over-the-top death indeed.

A steel cable ends up snagged on his boat, eventually tearing through the whole boat, pinning Scorseby to it, and then proceeding to tear Scorseby's arm off with enough force to catapult his lifeless remains into the ocean. Given that Payakan himself lost a fin to the whalers, what fitting revenge.

Trust James Cameron of all people to slip something so hilariously violent past the censors.

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