Avatar 2 Ending Explained: The sequel to James Cameron’s groundbreaking film Avatar has finally arrived 13 years after the original showing. The follow-up, Avatar: The Way of Water, introduces viewers to a brand-new tribe, the aquatic Metkayina, Jake (Sam Worthington), Neytiri (Zoe Saldaa), and the rest of the tribe 15 years after the events of the first film.
The pressure to be the follow-up to the highest-grossing movie is undeniable. Still, early reviews of the new movie have been overwhelmingly good, with critics particularly taken aback by the breathtaking sights.
Notably, The Way of Water only really represents the beginning of Cameron’s ambitious intentions; two additional sequels are now planned for December 2024 and 2026, and 2028, respectively.
How does The Way of Water prepare the audience for the sequel? Continue reading to learn everything you need about the conclusion and the answers to important questions concerning the most recent installment, such as how Sigourney Weaver made a comeback. However, her character died in the first movie.
Avatar 2 Ending Explained
The news that recombinant Quaritch and his army, the sky people, have returned to Pandora with a twofold objective signals the movie’s start. On the one hand, they wish to create the moon a new home for mankind because the Earth is dying, but to do that, they must first find and assassinate Jake Sully, the insurgent Na’vi leader.
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The human infant Spider, who Quaritch and his men capture during an early skirmish with the Omatikaya clan—of which Jake is now the leader—starts destroying large portions of the forest they call home, unknowing to Quaritch at the time. Jake and Neytiri decide it is best for the Sullys to flee their home country and seek refuge in the far-off atolls of Pandora when they realize he is the target.
As a result, they make the arduous journey to the Metkayina clan’s house, where they are welcomed despite initially being treated suspiciously. Here, they are instructed in “the way of the water,” a set of rituals and practices that include knowledge of the clan’s spiritual ties to the tulkun, a type of sentient whale-like creature that may reach lengths of 300 feet.
Due to their similar status as outcasts—Lo’ak considers Payakan to be just misunderstood while Payakan believes he is a murderer—one of Jake and Neytiri’s children, Lo’ak, develops a solid friendship with tulkun named Payakan.
The Metkayina clan takes the Sully children to the Spirit Tree, where Kiri can briefly talk with her mother while they are being taught the way of the water. But when she asks who her father is, something strange occurs, and she appears to be having a seizure. Medical professionals attribute this to epilepsy, but it appears to be something more significant.
Anyhow, Quaritch has persisted in his pursuit of Jake and has paired up with a captain named Mick Scoresby who is chasing the tulkun to obtain a highly valuable substance that supposedly prevents aging in humans. Scoresby is hunting the tulkun. To persuade Jake to come to their aid and reveal their location, they collaborate to terrorize a neighboring island and kill the clan’s tulkun.
Ronal learns that her tulkun has been slain as Quaritch gets closer to Jake’s location; nevertheless, the Metkayina clan is unwilling to accept the Sullys’ advice to move their tulkuns as far away as possible to save them.
After arguing with each other and coming under attack from Quaritch and his troops, Lo’ak and his siblings leave to alert Payakan of the approaching danger. The kids are captured after a lengthy underwater chase, ultimately inspiring Jake to pursue them and take on his adversary, setting off yet another fierce battle.
In the midst of all of this, Quaritch kidnaps Kiri and Tuk, the youngest Sully child, while the other kids band together to save Spider, tragically losing Neteyam in the process. When Jake and Spider arrive to rescue the kidnapped children from Mick’s ship, there is a significant altercation during which Neytiri, driven by her rage about losing her son, exhibits particularly ruthless behavior and kills several of Quaritch’s men.
As Jake approaches, Quaritch tries to intimidate Kiri with a knife, but Neytiri responds by stabbing Spider. Quaritch argues he doesn’t care because Spider is “not even the same species” as his kid. However, after Neytiri stabs Spider in the chest, Jake and Quaritch engage in a hand-to-hand battle after Quaritch initially appears to back down. Neytiri and Kiri pursue Tuk as she is carried away by a current on the now-flooding ship amid the subsequent chaos.
By the end of the fight, Quaritch appears to be drowning and Jake is also trying to survive; nevertheless, both are eventually saved by the assistance of their respective sons, Spider and Lo’ak.
After connecting to the Spirit Tree, Kiri is shown to have the extraordinary capacity to summon the spirit of the Pandoran deity Eywa, saving Neytiri and Tuk and enabling the group to swim to the surface where they are reunited with Jake and Lo’ak. Spider also brings Quaritch to the surface, but despite saving him, Quaritch rejects him and returns to the Sullys instead of staying with him.
At the film’s conclusion, we see the Sullys and the Metkayina clan hold a ceremony for Neteyam – during which Jake and Neytiri are told: “Your son lies with our ancestors. You are one of us now.”
Jake then announces: “We are sea people now. This is our home.” They pay a visit to the Spirit Tree to briefly be reunited with their deceased son.
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With Quaritch still at loose and seemingly unwilling to give up on his negative tendencies towards the Na’vi any time soon, there is undoubtedly much more to discover about the mysteries of Kiri for the upcoming sequel. Expect both of these elements to play a significant role in the forthcoming movie, and it also seems likely that we’ll see other Na’vi clans and locations in Pandora.
How is Sigourney Weaver back in Avatar 2?
Fans of the Avatar series will recall how Dr. Grace Augustine, played by Sigourney Weaver, met a tragic end in the first movie when she was shot by Colonel Quaritch’s men as they attempted to flee.
Therefore, eyebrows were raised when it was announced that she would return for the new movie. However, it was soon made apparent that Grace would not return from the dead and would be playing a different role.
Instead, she portrays Kiri, a Na’vi teen adopted by Jake and Neytiri and grows up to become a full-fledged member of the Sully clan. Kiri’s conception and the identity of her father are both regarded as complete mysteries, especially given that she was born after Grace passed away. Still, they are revealed very early in the movie to be the biological daughter of Grace’s avatar.
Weaver does make a few appearances in the movie as Grace, both in a few flashback moments and in a scene where Kiri visits a Spirit Tree so she can speak with her ancestors.
How is Stephen Lang back in Avatar 2?
The evil Colonel Miles Quaritch, played by Stephen Lang, was another character who was abruptly killed off in the first movie but made a comeback in the sequel.
Lang is portraying a “recombinant” version of the character, an autonomous avatar created using his DNA and embedded with his memories, though without memory of his death (one scene in the movie shows the new Na’vi version of Quaritch discovering his corpse). Still, once again, this does not imply that James Cameron has chosen to retcon previous events.
Therefore, Lang is effectively portraying a Na’vi version of the same character. As he puts it, the combination of his military expertise with the power and agility of a Na’vi is “quite a potent mix.”
Avatar 2 Trailer
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Closing
After the battle, Sully and Neytiri lay their lost son Neteyam to rest in the ocean. His body is embraced by the algae, hinting that he’s returning to Eywa. As a result of their loss, the ocean-dwelling Metkayina clan also accepts the family as their own. Our heroes endure a heartbreaking loss.
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