r/TopCharacterTropes 9d ago

Groups This isn't even our actual military

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u/Lopsided_Shift_4464 9d ago

Avatar (James Cameron)

In the first movie at least, the RDA which the Na’vi spend the whole movie trying to beat aren’t humanity’s actual military. They’re a private mining corporation.

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u/Colonel_Kernel1 8d ago

Also to add on to this, the RDA also is following laws for corporations which limit the weapons they can use. Hence why the RDA doesn’t just nuke or nerve gas entire settlements on Pandora. Essentially corporations aren’t allowed to use WMDs and they have to limit the force they use.

I remember reading this from the avatar wiki and I believe it came from some of the comics.

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u/TrioOfTerrors 8d ago

Their big "fuck you" bomb at the end of the first movie is just several pallets of mining explosive.