Editing Avatar (section)

===Plot Holes===
The film is rife with plot holes.  Some of them are so big, you could fly a [[Manta]] through them, and others are small yet still big enough to detract from the plot.
* Since the humans understand the blue furries' biology well enough to clone them, they should be able to synthesize the Na'vi equivalent of chloroform.  They could've used this to knock 'em all out, load 'em on a transport and dump 'em 1000 kilometers away with six months' supplies.  Problem solved.
* If humanity is coerced into seeking new refuge in the stars due to Earth’s biosphere being ruined, where the heck is any presentation of valid space habitat in the Solar System such as rotation space colonies at the asteroid belt, subterranean Lunar or Martian settlements, or even cloud cities on Venus or the Gas Giants? All of which have useful minerals or gases for consumption or terraforming! And the reason Unobtanium is such a wonder mineral at 40 million dollars per kilogram for being a hyper effective superconductor vital for human civilization? Apparently global mass rail transportation, hyper effective computers, and FTL travel. Which leaves the question of how said efficiency is important if humans can just scale up base-load power. Honestly, Hollywood is infamous for having a hate boner against nuclear fission or fusion technology, but JFC!
* Power armor would've worked better than clone bodies in these circumstances.  The Na'vi know the Avatars are fake bodies being controlled by humans aka "the Sky People", and each side knows the other's languages.  They could've used pre-existing power armor and spoke to them face-to-face, while also being able to breathe, fight off the native wildlife and save the cost of whatever was put into genetically engineering the Avatar bodies.  They could've even kept the same main character, as power armor could've acted as a brace to let him walk again.  In addition, the main characters offset the "sameness" the Avatar bodies are supposed to provide by ''wearing tailor-made human clothes rather than dressing like the Na'vi!'' (they don't even have the excuse of putting armor on the Na'vi bodies).  
* Many bodily functions of the human body while that person is in an Avatar form aren't addressed.  While eating and drinking is shown, the main character spends a sixteen hour stint at one point and it's not shown how he, or anyone else, handles things like numbness from not moving or going to the toilet in that form, nevermind water and food intake.
* The fact that a bunch of furries using bows and waves of expendable infantry should not be enough to defeat a well trained army, no matter how powerful you think they are. A good example from actual history is the scramble for Africa in the latter part of the 19th century. Despite having superior weapons and technology compared to the Africans, for years they could not actually take over the continent due to diseases like Malaria (which locals are resistant to), the varied terrain, the locals' knowledge of where everything beneficial or dangerous is and their superior numbers.  What few footholds the Europeans gained were from taking territory through sneaky political work, superior training against the natives or exploiting existing social/political strife among them.  However, the inventions of Quinine(an anti-malaria drug), repeating and bolt action rifles, and early machine guns eventually wiped out the advantage the Africans had.  In short, it should be impossible for a technologically inferior enemy to defat you, even if they have superior numbers on their side. And even then, the [[Dark Eldar|technologically advanced culture often has the higher population anyway.]]
** Although, to be fair, Na'vi themselves are demonstrably ''not'' able to defeat a well trained army. In a full scale battle, they get their blue asses kicked so hard that it ''wasn't'' a battle as much as it was a massacre, at least until the planet itself intervenes on their behalf and zerg-rushes the humans with the entire ecosystem. Without a blatant Deus Ex Machina to save them, the Na'vi would've been annihilated.
* Despite the Na'vi being big on respect for life and interconnected by their planet-goddess, they still have separate tribes and no-one attempts to unite them, or undergo the "Turok" tradition until the non-native Jake does so.  
* On the subject of the Turok/Great Leonopteryx creature (from now on called the Leonopteryx), how Jake captured it makes no sense.  He figures since it's an apex predator it doesn't fear attack from others so it won't look up and is vulnerable to an attack from above.  While it makes sense that Jake might think this, not being a biology expert, that's not how animals work (especially since Pandora's animals work similarly to Earth animals).  We don't know much about the Leonopteryx, but every other animal on Pandora and the Na'vi reproduce sexually, so it's likely there's more than one Leonopteryx as they have to breed.  That means the Leonopteryx would have to be wary of attacks from others of its own kind (apex predators do fight among themselves and can even kill each other - being an apex predator just means being at the top of a food chain with no natural predators and juveniles still have to be wary of adults in case of cannibalism during famine times).  Even if there is only one Leonopteryx, this doesn't address the fact that the smaller flying creatures (Mountain Banshees) could still gang up on it (in real-life smaller bird species often gang up on and chase away larger birds - sometimes even predatory ones) as they're shown living and hunting together in large groups, so the Leonopteryx should still be aware of the possibility of attack.    
* Jake is not given any prior knowledge or research about Pandora before being sent to the Avatar project.  He impulsively pokes alien plants, doesn't learn about the animals he's supposed to be protecting his team from (having to ask his team if the Thanator - the giant, predatory-looking animal snarling right in front of him that scared the not-elephants away - is a threat), nor does he learn about Na'vi customs or important individuals among them; the closest he gets is a crash course on important Na'vi and their goddess AFTER he's met them and made a bad impression on an important one - Tsu'tey, the chief's successor and Neytiri's fiance.  
* The villains' characterization is all over the place, and the arc could be described as follows;  "OK we have the carrot and the stick, so we're going with carrot.  We spend Lord knows how long and how much - but it's easy to bet more than a couple of months and some spare change - to make clone bodies and arrange a scientific team to "blend in".  We're willing to haul a drunk cripple across the stars just to keep that project afloat.  OK, it's afloat.  Our cripple is considered one of them and is '''banging the local princess'''!  Surely we're on the verge of diplomatic breakthrough.  Wait a minute, banging the princess was bad diplomacy because that ruined an arranged marriage and pissed off their future leader.  And he smashed our equipment.  Damn!  Oh well, despite his betrayal and the diplomatic incident, let's send him back on the off-chance they'll listen to him... BUT, let's also give him an utterly unrealistic time limit to regain all that broken trust.  Forget that, let's go on in with the stick.  Forget all those years learning Na'vi biology and culture and preparing insert-clones and stuff, we just itched to bomb them back to the pre-stone age, or whatever the primitive state that would sound scary to them is.  We're using gas to drive them out and minimize casualties, but let's also blow up their big home tree which will cause untold carnage when it falls!  Genius!  So now they're marshaling forces against us and will eventually overwhelm our defenses through sheer numbers?  Instead of doing bombing runs to thin their numbers, let's be terrorists and blow up their most sacred place BUT instead of being smart and bombing it from orbit, let's fly in at a level where they can try and stop us."
* They can't track the Avatar bodies.  Despite being able to put small tracking chips in animals in real-life (and people, but there's human rights, plus most people can figure it out and remove it) and technology, they don't put a tracker on the Avatar body.  Because of this they lose it numerous times, having to personally scour the woods to find him.  The characters can barely identify them in the film when they show up on a vehicle's camera.  
* Avatar takes place in 2154, but planetside, apart from vehicle design and the bipedal mechas, the military is only as equipped as one from the Noughties.  
* The movie's premise is rendered redundant by a technology and practice that exists in real-life, namely sub-surface mining techniques.  All the humans had to do was dig under the trees without damaging the roots or destroying them, and bring the marines in case the Na'vi got uppity (a scan in the movie shows the plotdevicium extends to at least 2km below their home tree's roots).  If people can mine like that today, it should still be possible in an industrialized future capable of interstellar travel.  They could've saved themselves a lot of time and money and saved us from a fursona movie.
* Then there is the biggest plot hole of all.  Jake, and no-one else, ever just tells the Na'vi what the humans want (the magnetic rocks) and why (starship fuel to find a new planet to live on since humanity's ruined Earth).  Since that was sort of his job, and since despite being CORPORATE GREED stereotypes the humans still understand diplomacy (even worse, since half of corporate greed is '''not''' risking military equipment/personnel billions of dollars worth with near-zero resupply and using tribes against each other/bribe-subvert key leaders), it's a huge amount of [[FAIL]] that makes no sense from the characters' or the plot's perspective.  Many others have commented on this [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXraSkgssFk or made fun of it].  
* Most of the animals are just blatant expy's of real life animals. Thanators? an oversize feline, those giant hammerhead beasts? a fucking elephant (they do not hide it well, listen to the noises they make), you get the fucking idea. Furthermore, most of these alien life forms are just biologically impossible, seriously if you want to add in a hexopodal organism correctly, [[FAIL|at least have a brain to distance each individual limbs proportionally or else they look like they will trip over one of their four forelimbs.]] There is a ''good reason'' why hexopodal and multi-limbed creatures on Earth such as insects and arthropods have their limbs spread out equally and proportionally in order to retain a center of balance. [[derp|Seriously Cameron get a biologist as your next designer.]]
* Made even worse when Cameron said that the Thanator (The oversize kitty cat) could "Beat a T rex and eat a Alien Queen for breakfast".  [[RAGE|Words cannot describe the sheer fanboyism, and blatant ignorance at his own works, in this statement.]]  
** First of all, the Thanator was roughly calced at being the sized as an Indian Elephant which are around 5 tons, big yes, however compared to the above aforementioned two, it's still a dwarf. Just by looking at it, the Thanator is an obvious ambush predator, its long elongated front teeth are reminiscent to the sabre tooth cats which makes them excellent at slicing flesh but piss poor in both crushing bone and being as fragile as a stick, meaning that these teeth would literally snap in two against anything remotely armored.  This is further supported in its skull structure, with it being relatively streamline and light which means the Thanator must compensate muscle power for its fuck huge delicate teeth, which in turn supports the really feline dominate aesthetic of the creature and just like a feline it is dependent on its arm strength to bring its prey of equal weight down (note how in the film it regularly uses its forelimbs when attacking). Now compare this to the [[Dinosaur|T rex]], a 10 ton beast with a skeletal and muscle structure meant for brute strength, its teeth are serrated, short and thick allowing it to easily crush steel let alone bone like paper.  Additionally, not only was the T rex powerful in both bite force and mass, it was also gifted with a ridiculously powerful eyesight (As powerful as a Hawk), sense of smell (Just as good if not greater then a dog), an infectious bite and being just plain durable as fuck [[Awesome|'''''(Seriously this thing shrugged of blows from tanks like Ankylosaurus and Triceratops as well as other T rexes and survive, and it was still just in place 10 of most powerful dinosaurs.)'''''.]] If Cameron ever went into paleontology he should know that even if the Thanator manage to have a surprise attack on good old rexie, the tyrant lizard's superior mass and thick skin would just yell "LOL Fuck You!" and proceed to pummel and rip apart the ever loving shit towards the overgrown house cat, even a small nibble from the rex could prove fatal due to its highly infectious bite; [[Awesome|there was a good reason why the T rex was considered as the most powerful land super predator to date.]] Furthermore lets not forget that Earth has a higher gravity then Pandora, making the T rex even more denser and hence more powerful than the Thanator, [[rape|there is no kill like overkill.]] 
** And that was just the T rex. The Alien Queen can get at least the size of a T-rex implying similar strength and durability but also has longer upper arms, hands with opposable thumbs, greater intelligence (recent studies estimate T-rex's intelligence at the level of a squirrel or a crocodile while the alien queen's intelligence is between an elephant and human levels), the piston-like second mouth, a prehensile blade-tipped tail (that can be used as a slashing or stabbing weapon) and acid blood. The Alien Queen would slaughter it 10 ways to hell, and that is assuming that the QUEEN is fighting the Thanator. A praetorian (think special bodyguard xenomorph to the queen), or heck, even a [[Tyranids|swarm of warriors]] could probably kill it.