Avatar: The Way of Water
ThroughoutAvatarand its sequel , Avatar : The direction of Water , human Avatars are shown to have five digit , while the autochthonic Na’vi only have four ( in accession to other , less immediately obvious biological conflict ) . James Cameron brought audiences back to Pandora in December 2022 with the much - anticipated follow - up . incarnation : The Way of Waterpicked up over a decade after the first picture show in narration as well as release particular date , demo Jake and Neytiri living merrily with their produce sept before humanity re - move into their lives . Avatarintroduced the idea of remote - piloted Na’vi Avatars — research lab - grow bodies designed to countenance human scientists to interact with the native Na’vi , and to explore Pandora much more thoroughly .
At first coup d’oeil , it would be hard to set which bodies were Avatars and which were Na’vi , as they both apportion strikingly alike features admit their pinnacle , coloring , bone bodily structure , and hair , however , there is one major deviation between them . While the Na’vi have evolved to have four finger on each hand , the Avatars have five , just like any other human . This became an important plot detail inThe Way of Water , as many were still untrusting of Jake because he divvy up physical features with humanity , who had make a huge amount of destruction in the previous war .
How Avatars' Biology Works
By 2154 , whenAvatartakes place , humankind have made huge technical advancements , most notably in the field of genetic engineering and psionics , which has allowed them to make secondary bodies that genetically - matched human pilots can connect to . The Avatar body were designed in social club for human to fit in with theindigenous Na’vi of Pandora , so they require to depend like them and partake specific characteristics . For this , genetically alter human DNA was immix with Na’vi genetical material and then grown into a fully - formed body .
The familial match between the human pilot and the Avatar itself mean that the human can literally transplant their knowingness into the Avatar consistency , and live inside it as if it were their true physical form . This is what allows Jake Sully to integrate so easy into the Omaticaya kindred , and eventually , with the assistant of Eywa , transfer his consciousness permanently into his Avatar . Even so , the human portion of the Avatar DNA mean that theAvatars are different from the Na’vi , with slight differences in facial social organisation , small-scale eyes , eyebrows — and of course — the difference of them have five fingers , instead of four like the Na’vi .
Why Two Of Jake’s Children Have Five Fingers Instead Of Four
embodiment : The Way of Waterintroduced Jake and Neytiri ’s children , but while three of them share Jake ’s characteristic of five fingers , the others have four finger’s breadth like their Na’vi ancestors . Kiri , the daughter of Grace Augustine ’s Avatar , has five fingerbreadth as she was born from Grace ’s Avatar body , and though her father has n’t been revealed , theory rate from her stock from Grace ’s communion with Eywa , or an illicit human relationship with Norm Spellman , another Avatar . Spider , their other adopted child , is thehuman son of Quaritchwho was abandon in Hell ’s Gate at the end ofAvatar , so he has retain his five - finger human trait .
WhileJake and Neytiri ’s oldest and youngest biological children , Neteyam and Tuktirey " Tuk " , have four finger , seemingly take after their female parent , their center child , Lo’ak , has inherited five fingers . This inform a mint of Lo’ak ’s feeling as an outcast , but is also interesting to observe as it appears that Na’vi DNA could be more dominant . Perhaps the human DNA in the Avatars are the recessionary factor , creating yet another bleak statement on human beings deliver inAvatarandAvatar : The way of life of Water .
James Cameron Has Teased That New Na’vi Cultures Will Have Different Physiologies
While the Avatar finger certainly stand out , there will be more differences between Na’vi culture explored in next movies . It has been confirm that the Avatar sequel will present novel clan and cutlures of Pandora , and each new installment will showcase both the environs the new Na’vi culture live in and how these habitat sham their biology . When discuss the eventual intromission of anomadic federation of tribes on Pandora , James Cameron tell that " we had to do ethnical design and ideate what these different Na’vi adaption to these different biomes might wait like . "
While the Na’vi ’s war with the " Sky People " has been the primary focus of the Avatar film thus far , the hope of novel Na’vi tribes is the most exciting face of the new movies . Along with the desert - based " windtraders " that Cameron rag , there will also be the more ruthless " Ash People " kindred in Avatar 3 which seems to set the stage for difference of opinion among the Na’vi themselves rather than just the colonize invaders as inAvatarandAvatar : The way of life of Water .
