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15. The Protests - Avatar: Fire & Ash (2025)

Avatar: Fire and Ash
20th Century Fox

In James Cameron's stunning Avatar threequel Fire and Ash, Na'vi leader Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) is imprisoned by the evil RDA corporation and paraded around in chains for a gathering of civilians. 

Throughout the Avatar franchise, we'd never seen what life was actually like away from Pandora, or what the average person thought of the war and the Na'vi people. 

It's a great piece of storytelling, then, that when Jake arrives in shackles, he's greeted by protestors and jeering, suggesting that out in the real world, there is an entire movement of people who see Jake and his family as enemies of the people.

The implications here are vast, and easy to overlook given the depth of Fire and Ash's story. Are these people being radicalised by the RDA's military propaganda? How are the Na'vi really viewed by people removed from Pandora? There's a whole world out there, it seems, and it may hate Jake just as much as his greatest enemies. 

 
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