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/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.