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The Way Of Water Sets Up Total War On Pandora For Avatar 5
Various plots are established in Avatar: The Way of the Water, but the film also sets up the inevitable upcoming war for Pandora in Avatar 5. Avatar 2 has become a massive success at the box office, and no small part of that is due to the story being told about the beautiful Pandora and the indigenous Na'vi. Like the first Avatar, the humans are back on the planet and seeking to drive out the Na'vi for their own selfish purposes, viewing the living creatures as Pandora's "immune response" and the Na'vi as an "insurgency." However, it's been foreshadowed that things will get much worse.
In the first Avatar, the human's goal was to get the Na'vi's trust and ask them to relocate from Home Tree. This was because the humans wanted to access a large amount of Pandora's unique substance, unobtanium, underneath Home Tree, mine it and bring it back to Earth for their own purposes. Initially, the humans did not want to kill the Na'vi as it would cause a political upheaval, but after Jake switches sides, the humans feel they have no choice but to attack to get what they want. Jake helped the Na'vi to win the battle, and the humans were sent back to Earth, while just a few remained behind on Pandora.
Humanity's Goal For Pandora Is Occupation, Not Exploitation
In Avatar 2, a conversation between Quaritch and General Frances Ardmore, the commander in charge of the new human station on Pandora, revealed the humans’ plans, which will probably be explored in Avatar 3, Avatar 4, and Avatar 5, and they are much more heinous than what came before. Ardmore tells Quaritch that Earth is dying and that the remaining humans are preparing to relocate to Pandora to live there. Their mission now is to eliminate all life on Pandora so that humans can start fresh on the planet and make it their own. This plan is genocide, and a full occupation of Pandora is a thousand times worse than their attempt to exploit the Pandoran minerals.
The scale of this reveal is extremely disturbing, and it also raises the stakes of what the Na’vi and others need to fight for, but also foreshadows an all-out war on Pandora. This eventual plan of the humans is not the focus of Avatar 2's villain Colonel Quaritch, instead, his main goal is to find and eliminate Jake Sully, so he cannot lead another battle to victory against the Sky People. However, if the Na’vi does not unite with the other tribes on Pandora to fight back against the humans wanting to invade, not only will Pandora be lost, but everything that makes it special and beautiful will be gone.
Bridgehead City Represents Humanity's Vision For Pandora
The Sky People who came to Pandora set up a military base called Bridgehead City. It is an example of what humanity wants to turn Pandora into once they have occupied the planet. Upon arriving, the Sky People's ship emits a fire destroying all the land around them and several Na'vi, an injustice that results in some of Avatar 2's biggest Na'vi battles. Ardmore also shows Quaritch around the Bridgehead City base, showing how they can build tall buildings in six days and have accomplished more in one year than they usually would have in 30 years. This technology will be the building blocks of the human society of Pandora.
This is just the beginning of the destruction the humans will bring with them when they relocate to Pandora. Later in the film, Quaritch teams up with a whaling crew as they kill a Tulkun whale. Afterward, Quaritch and Spider witness the scientists extracting a brain substance called amrita which stops humans from aging. Selling this substance to humans back on Earth pays for the whaling, Bridgehead City, and the pilgrimage to Pandora. This immortality serum is another sign of the Sky People's desire to not only take Pandora as their own but decimate Pandora's living creatures for their own selfish desires.
Jake Sully & The Na'vi Are Fighting To Prevent Mass Extinction
Jake and Neytiri will have to be the leaders uniting the Na'vi and all the clans on Pandora into a war come Avatar 5. With so much at stake for their planet and people, the Na'vi will have no choice but to defend and protect at any cost. As seen with Jake and his family in Avatar 2, this will not be an easy road as other clans are skeptical about how Jake and his children are not fully Na'vi. However, if Avatar 3 and Avatar 4 focus on bringing all the clans together, then by Avatar 5, there will be a whole army ready to face off against the inevitable invasion of the Sky People.
The war also may end up coming to Pandora in Avatar 5 if Jake cannot negotiate peace on Earth. As teased by James Cameron, Avatar 5 could feature Na'vi going to Earth, and it may be the conclusion of events on Earth that will be the last straw leading to war. Perhaps if Jake travels to Earth in Avatar 5, it is to determine a peaceful resolution, and his absence will be seen as an opportunity to strike Pandora. Avatar 2 showed the lengths the humans would go to in order to eliminate Jake by attacking innocent clans and burning their homes. This invasion has affected all of Pandora, and they will join the fight.
This ultimate Na'vi vs. Sky People final battle would be the epic conclusion of five films of the Na'vi fighting to keep their home safe. So it makes sense that the ultimate fight for Pandora in the final Avatar film would be set up way in advance to give the battle more weight when it finally arrives. With the massive box office success of Avatar 2, it is more than likely that audiences will get to see Avatar 5 and the total war on Pandora on the big screen. Avatar: The Way of Water was only the beginning, and now the real story of Pandora is about to begin.
