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10. The Toruk Chases After ONLY Jake

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It's made clear by Neytiri early on that Pandora's flying creatures choose their riders by first attempting to kill them.

It's a fact worth keeping in mind considering that when Jake and Neytiri are pursued by the fearsome Pandoran predator known as the Toruk (aka Great Leonopteryx), the Toruk actually only directly chases after Jake.

This would seem to suggest that the Toruk has chosen Jake as its rider, and so lo and behold, near the movie's climax, Jake ends up taming a Toruk - presumably this very same one - as earns him the title of Toruk Makto and convinces the assembled Na'vi to help him fight back against the RDA.

Isn't foreshadowing a wonderful thing?

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