No but several characters use avatars to pretend to be a part of a group they do not belong to. In addition, one character is a previous member of this group, but assimilates and is accepted by the society.
Jake could be seen as verbally abusive to his children but is forgiven and loved by them. Spider saves his abusive father from dying but leaves him and doesn’t seem to forgive him. Not in a domestic sense but the Indigenous Na’vi forgive Jake Sully, a former white colonialist.
There are four children, including a toddler, an older child (pre-pre-teen range), and three teens, who are kidnapped and used as collateral multiple times in the movie. The older child is briefly tortured psychologically in order to obtain information and is briefly gaslit so as to get him to join forces with the villain (his father). All four children's lives are threatened individually at least once. The oldest child dies. The toddler is aggressively picked up and carried around by the villain. All four children are handcuffed to structures at least once.
No, depending on your opinion of the military. An ex-military man uses very militaristic language to speak to his children and while it protects their lives it clearly impedes their relationship with their father.
YES! When the whale hunting expedition scene is about to begin, take a bathroom break. There's a flashback scene that occurs when Jake's son enters the whale's mouth and bonds with it. Numerous Banshees and Ikran die (aquatic and flying drakes) in combat. When Jake and Naytiri look up into the sky near the start of the film and see the human ships, the ship landings start numerous fires and incinerate large chunks of forest and the creatures living in them. The deaths aren't shown up close but it's still sad. Lastly, when Quaritch and his gang interrogate the coast tribe citizens, instead of shooting the leader's wife like he said he would, he shoots one of the nearby animals and kills it.
There’s a long and traumatic scene in which one of the whale like creatures is brutally murdered. one of the underwater ikran creatures is executed by quaritch. The humans landing at the beginning causes massive fires in which animals are killed. Lots of fishing and killing fish. one of the whale like creatures kills a shark like creature. I would recommend planning on a bathroom break when the whaling expedition starts their hunt. Everything else is pretty short and easy to anticipate so you can look away.
Yes, dead Pandoran creatures equivilent to dolphins and whales are seen killed or dead. There is a scene where the humans enter the mouth of an already dead whale creature (see above) and they use some scary looking machines to drill into it's skull to extract a special liquid they want to sell. It was pretty hard to watch
There are moments where a soldier makes uncomfortable comments while a female character is trapped, but nothing actually happens. In another scene, a man slaps the butt of a woman.
A dead character is said to have “mysteriously” been impregnated. Her corpse is treated as an incubator and her child is a teenager in the movie. The implications are not good.
No but a child character is meant to be seen as beautiful/desirable to the audience (as seen through the eyes of another child). It’s a little weird but no adult/kid relationship is real or implied.
In one scene, an arrow is shot through one of the soldier's heads. It looked like it was the eye/close to the eye but you only see his back and no gore is shown.
This is really prevalent in the second half of the movie. Many run out of air underwater, so if this is a big trigger for you I would recommend not watching.
It seems as if Quaritch has fallen to his death but he gets back up on his Ikran and he ends up living. The only reason why I added this is incase someone is sensitive to seeing someone fall from so high.
Yes, one character have epilepsy. Im gonna spoil a bit of the movie here, but I'll do my best to keep it as small as possible. There was this part where the characters went to somewhere and one of them said "eclipse is the best time to be here".
Shortly after that, the movie cuts to a part where a character was shown to be talking to what looks like her mother, and they hugged. After the hugging scene, the next 15 mins said character had a seizure.
After that she was taken care of and other people discussed epilepsy. Avoid that part if such thing triggers you.
Thats the only part that features it, so you can rest assure that you won't see it again for the rest of the movie.
An older teen is killed, and his family (including young children) is there when he dies and is extremely affected by his death in a very realistic way.
A whale-like creature who had just recently given birth to a calf is brutally killed, and the calf is very obviously traumatized. The main cast later find the mother's corpse with the corpse of the calf close by (it is assumed that this was due to the death of the mother).
≈9 min (MODERATE): A man wakes up on an operating table; after someone says, "Can you hear me?" the man punches someone. ≈31 min (MODERATE): Kids run home after a stakeout; right after the littlest says, "It's almost eclipse come on!" something happens. ≈1 hr, 15 min (MINOR): During a chase scene with a scary shark-like creature, a boy hides behind some coral; there's a brief, false moment of calm before the creature smashes through the coral. ≈1 hr, 21 min (MAJOR): A boy wakes up on what seems to be a rocky surface and looks around; eventually a blowhole sharply erupts next to him. ≈1 hr, 34 min (MINOR): A girl has a vision and asks someone a few questions; before the person seen in the vision can give answers, they dissolve and are dragged away somewhat quickly. ≈2 hr, 15 min (MAJOR/BIGGEST SCARE): During an underwater chase, a little girl hides in an air pocket to catch her breath; seconds later, someone else pops up inside with a loud music sting.
There are several instances of creatures linking consciousnesses with people, but they are consenting and it's generally only a positive or neutral experience for the viewer.
*possible spoilers*: some run out of air underwater a few times and are brought back up, and even then there is no coughing up water or anything like that. during fight scenes no coughing up blood either
A cis character with a different preferred name is referred to by his birth-name by Quaritch once. After telling him he doesn’t go by that name, he’s never called it again.
Although there are, it was definally tollerable. None go in any humans or Navi (accept an IV that’s referenced but I couldn’t even see it). All are in animals, taking the form of trackers, tranquilizers, and one large one used to extract something from an animal. The only one that bothered me was the large one, but I just closed my eyes and it was all good.
*possible spoilers*: the large needle is when they are in the mouth of the giant creature they just killed, drilling into the top of its head, close ur eyes then and you’ll be good
Several characters are outcast or called names for their body differences; in addition, one character wakes up and panics in a new body. He is uncomfortable with his reflection. He quickly recovers.
There are brief and subtle moments where a clone is reminded of his original's death, and he seems to be affected by it more than it "makes sense" to, but it is very quickly brushed past by himself.
There are multiple under-water claustrophobia scenes. Boats are capsized with people still inside, and multiple people nearly drown (no deaths are shown from this)
Real life Indigenous cultures and clothing are taken and misused and appropriated to show the Na’avi as “other” and a mishmash of cultures that looks “alien” as well as the “white saviour” trope and the “Indigenous people forgive colonisers” trope. Real Native American, Polynesian and Indigenous African people have been rightfully upset of parts of their cultures being taken for this movie and profited off of, especially by a white director and have have advised people, especially allies, not to support the movie or it’s merchandise financially
No, some characters are criticized for being too skinny as it will impede their lives. This is the only mention of it, and it is related to muscle and bone structure more than fat.
NO and the bully characters who belittle, beat, and endanger the protagonists are maori-coded characters who wear Black or protective hairstyles. It’s not specific or explicit anti-Black rhetoric but it’s not great.
NO, but the na’vi connect with their various mounts (dragons, horses, water horses, etc.) in the same way they connect with sexual partners. It is not implied to be a sexual bond.
Yes, a character's nose bleeds in one scene, another character gets minor scratches on his face and has a bloodied lip in a fight, a character gets shot and we see the bullet wound and there is a good amount of blood. Another character is shown with blood on his hands in the same scene. Fantasy animals are killed (ilu, the ikran/dolphin like creatures and the whale creatures) and the water around them begins to turn red. Other characters lightly bleed underwater. One character's arm gets torn off by a wire but there is no excessive gore, but its still pretty gross.