Opinion: Are Human Avatars Being Used In James Cameron's Avatar?

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The Avatar sequels are currently in production and many characters that supposedly died in the first film are returning.

Since these movies are based on science fiction, there has to be some type of reason they can come back. Obviously normal human beings would be dead dying from combat wounds and more.

The biggest villain returning for the Avatar sequels is Miles Quaritch played by Stephen Lang. James Cameron said in a recent interview that he's the villain in all of the four sequels being made.

If you watched the first movie, you would have seen him get impaled twice by two big arrows. Surely a normal human being would have died from wounds that big.

Another character returning is Dr. Grace Augustine played by Sigourney Weaver. In the first film, she was shot by a bullet wound.

Her consciousness was supposed to be transferred into a Na'vi body, but they were unsuccessful. She was thought to be dead. However, Sigourney Weaver is confirmed to appear in the sequels too.

The last "dead" character returning in the sequels is Corporal Lyle Wainfleet played by Matt Gerald. This was just a minor character that served under Quaritch's mililtary.

His character got crushed to death by a huge Hammerhead Titanothere. Deadline though reports that Gerald is back playing the same character. Something fishy is going on with all these "dead" human characters coming back.

All this evidence leads me to believe that the "humans" in the first movie were not using their real bodies. This could be considered a potential spoiler for the sequels, but they could have been using human avatars in the first movie.

Their real bodies could have been on Earth all along as they control their bodies remotely.



The only flaw to this is the fact that the humans needed oxygen to breathe in the first movie.

Maybe (just maybe) the human avatar bodies are more organic to make them look and act like real humans. Remember, this is just my own theory since James Cameron only knows the real reason why these characters can come back.

This can be the only way I feel why these characters could come back. This concept has been done before as the Nintendo Wii U game Xenoblade Chronicles X used human avatars too.

The movie Surrogates also explored this type of thing too. I feel using human avatars could be a good twist as opposed to the characters getting magically revived for some reason.

Another theory could be the planet of Pandora itself. If human avatars are not used, maybe the planet revives everyone that dies on the planet.

This theory seems more far-fetched, but there has to be a reason why all these characters are coming back. All these characters had on-screen deaths so a good explanation is needed for them to return.

We will have to wait a long time for all of these answers. Avatar 2 and 3 are about in 2020 and 2021 respectively while Avatar 4 and 5 are out in 2024 and 2025 respectively.

James Cameron is hoping to make you watch the movies in 3D without the use of any glasses.

This technology could be pulled off in time as the small Nintendo 3DS console has been doing this for quite a while now.

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