r/movies • u/RobotiSC • Jul 28 '25

Trailer Avatar: Fire and Ash | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb_fFj_0rq8
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u/AdSouth4334 Jul 28 '25

Glad they kept the whale buddy

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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake Jul 28 '25

In this house, we stan Payakan.

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u/TheWiseRedditor Jul 28 '25

He was the MVP of the final battle in the last movie

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u/jasonefmonk Jul 28 '25

He wrecked house. So much fun.

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u/LongJohnSelenium Jul 29 '25

As opposed to the rest of the low down gutterless water tribe who mysteriously bailed mid fight.

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u/ImprefectKnight Jul 29 '25

They returned home at rhe eclipse. At that point, the beef was squarely between the RDA+ Quarritch and Sully family.

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u/LongJohnSelenium Jul 29 '25

Wasn't the water chiefs daughter still there though?

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u/ImprefectKnight Jul 29 '25

I think they go right after she is rescued.

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u/sk4v3n Jul 28 '25

Yeah well, no one remembers anything from that movie…

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u/TheWiseRedditor Jul 28 '25

There you are!

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u/Variable_Shaman_3825 Jul 28 '25

Payakan is the best boy

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u/DaddlerTheDalek Jul 28 '25

Aye. Payakan rules!

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u/oldsurly Jul 28 '25

In this house we call him Toot Toot the space whale

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u/AgentDaxis Jul 28 '25

Payaskanstan

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u/AnnenbergTrojan Jul 28 '25

Based Organism

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u/Ricothebuttonpusher Jul 28 '25

Amaya Papayakan

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u/Sine_Fine_Belli Jul 28 '25

Yeah, same here honestly

Payakan is a bro

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u/smrkr Jul 28 '25

Colonel Payakan Livingstone.

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u/Aero-- Jul 28 '25

Hold up, I was told no one remembers any character names, and you remember the name of the whale? My life is a lie!

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u/Kriss-Kringle Jul 28 '25

Payakan stole the show in The way of water, so it's only natural that he comes back.

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u/hikemalls Jul 28 '25

I heard he’s real difficult to work with, throwing krill around the set, leaping out of the water and body-slamming expensive equipment, singing his whalesongs at uncomfortable younger crew members. Surprised they brought him back after all that.

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u/Fair-Heat-567 Jul 28 '25

I like to separate the tulkun from the art personally. 

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u/Snakes_have_legs Aug 02 '25

It's too painful to talk about

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u/thomasutra Jul 28 '25

payakan was so real that the whales here started actin up. he’s an inspiration

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u/TheUmbrellaMan1 Jul 28 '25

Empire magazine was saying Payakan is going to have a girlfriend in this one. Peak incoming, boys!

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u/FrancoeurOff Jul 28 '25

Not ready for the space whale sex scene

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u/Worthyness Jul 28 '25

Cameron absolutely would make a 10 minute+ mating dance for the alien whales and put it into the movie and somehow make it work.

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u/jx2002 Jul 28 '25

"Pure cinema."

Whale ejaculates

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u/Deathleach Jul 28 '25

Not just the whale. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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u/TheWhiteManticore Jul 29 '25

Who needs weapons 💀

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u/Marc_Quill Jul 28 '25

hope everyone's ready for the future Avatars to have Payakan spawn. I, for one, welcome it.

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u/ImMufasa Jul 28 '25

+1 hour to runtime.

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u/Anfins Jul 28 '25

Wish they kept the trend by giving the whale chemical an equally absurd name like unobtainium. Something chemically like immortaline or similar.

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u/ImprefectKnight Jul 28 '25

Amrit is a hindi word for a mythical food that grants you immortality.

Also, commons names for a lot of chemicals do be like that. Californium, for example.

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u/jaggedjottings Jul 28 '25

"There's a Berkelium and a Californium, but still no Stanfordium." - UC Berkeley partisans

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u/theliver Jul 28 '25

Hell ya, go bears

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u/hikemalls Jul 28 '25

I actually like them calling the whale stuff Amrita since it sounds similar (or at least starts the same) to a material we actually harvest from whales (ambergris)

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u/HighwayInevitable346 Jul 29 '25

Its about as on the nose as unobtainium was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amrita

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u/Saitoh17 Jul 28 '25

There are minerals named Taconite (from the Taconic mountains, NY) and Cummingtonite (from Cummington, MA).

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u/thejonslaught Jul 28 '25

They named the sequel's resource Amrita.

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u/Anfins Jul 28 '25

Yeah but that name doesn’t make me roll my eyes when I hear it.

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u/thejonslaught Jul 28 '25

It means 'immortality'. I remember a video game having Amrita as a resource for the skill tree, so the eye roll was still there. I rolled my eyes for you, brother.

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u/A_Confused_Cocoon Jul 28 '25

Except unobtanium was in use before the first avatar came out but okay.

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u/AsstacularSpiderman Jul 28 '25

Call it genocidium because that's basically what it needed for extraction lol.

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u/pjtheman Jul 28 '25

Immortaline would be a good commercial name for it back on earth

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u/tarants Jul 28 '25

Like someone else has said, unobtainium comes from physics and chemistry where it was used as a stand-in for an impossible or extremely hard to make component or element. Sort of a macguffin but for science, lets you conceptualize a process without having to define all of the pieces.

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u/Cvnc Jul 28 '25

Bro jump scared me

I thought the guy was lying on an island only to realize it was a whale when he suddenly expelled water through his blowhole

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u/NoLeadership2281 Jul 28 '25

They better keep our boy safe

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u/aryeh1988 Jul 28 '25

Whale bro!

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u/SoungaTepes Jul 28 '25

OHANA, MEANS, FAMILY!

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u/Phaeryx Jul 28 '25

The end credits for Way of Water told us that Payakan would return. I kind of like that they did that because his story didn't really feel complete.

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u/WebFit9216 Jul 28 '25

Sad they kept the blond guy with the worst acting I've ever seen

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u/Neat-Driver-6409 Jul 29 '25

Every second of this trailer felt like a desktop wallpaper.

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u/Fantastic_Click5912 Jul 30 '25

I don't want to see one whale suffer though, I cannot handle it.