na'vi and pandora
characters and cast
wildlife
technology
behind the scenes
100

This is the name of the towering, blue-skinned native species that inhabits Pandora.


Na'vi?

100
  • This paralyzed former Marine is the main protagonist who falls in love with the Na'vi way of life

 Jake Sully


100
  • These winged, dragon-like predators are bonded with Na'vi hunters for aerial combat.

 Banshees or Ikran


100

The human military forces on Pandora belong to this mega-corporation, abbreviated as the RDA.


 Resources Development Administration? 

100

This visionary director spent over a decade developing the performance-capture technology needed to make the film.


James Cameron? 

200
  • This giant, glowing tree serves as the spiritual heart and home for the Omaticaya clan.

Hometree (Kelutrel)


200

Played by Zoe Saldaña, she is the fierce Omaticaya princess who teaches Jake how to survive on Pandora.


Neytiri

200

Jake earns the ultimate respect of the clan by taming this massive, legendary orange-and-black flying apex predator.


 Toruk Mato

200
  • Humans originally came to Pandora to mine this highly valuable, room-temperature superconducting mineral.

Unobtanium


200

To film the underwater scenes for The Way of Water, the crew built a massive tank filled with millions of gallons of this.


 What is water

300

This biological neural network connects all living things on Pandora, serving as their goddess.


 Eywa

300

This ruthless RDA Colonel serves as the main villain across both the first and second films.


Miles Quaritch

300
  • In the second movie, Neytiri and her children ride these long-necked, flying creatures that can dive underwater like birds.

 Skimwings

300

This is the type of vehicle Jake Sully uses to get around on Earth because he is paralysed from the waist down.


wheelchair

300
  • James Cameron hired Paul Frommer, a professional linguist, to completely create this aspect of the film from scratch.

Na'vi language? 

400

The Na'vi use this specific physical connection—linking their hair braids to creatures—to share thoughts and feelings.


Tsaheylu (The Bond)

400

Sigourney Weaver plays this lead xenobotanist who runs the Avatar Program and writes a book on Pandoran botany.


Dr. Grace Augustine

400

These six-legged animals look and act just like Earth horses.


Direhorses

400
  • To enter their Avatar bodies, humans must lie down inside these high-tech, coffin-like sleeping capsules.

link beds or avatar pods

400
  • James Cameron had the cast do a real-life camping trip in this type of dense, tropical environment to prepare for filming.

 rainforest or jungle


500

This is the name of the Ocean clan introduced in The Way of Water, known for their greenish skin and wide tails.


Metkayina

500
  • This teenage human boy, born on Pandora and raised by the Sully family, is actually Colonel Quaritch's biological son.



Miles "Spider" Socorro



500

These small, glowing, floating spirits look like tiny jellyfish and land on Jake in the forest.


woodsprites

500
  • This is the basic weapon used by Na'vi warriors, which Jake must learn to shoot to protect himself.

bow and arrow

500
  • Jake Sully's Avatar body was originally grown for this specific person, his identical twin brother who was murdered on Earth.


Tommy Sully?