The Duality of Miles Quaritch Explained | Avatar: The Way of Water Explained 

I'm still stuck on the fact that theres a big chance that Neytiri may have been the one that killed Spider's mom

I feel like Spider was joking about the blue stripe thing. I think Eywas immune response is smart enough to tell which humans are friendlies. I think Spider only painted on blue stripes because he sees himself as a Na’vi or he just wants to fit in more with Jake’s kids. Edit: Also I agree. Quaritch 2.0 is way more interesting and I’m exciting to see his character develop alongside Spider.

Quaritch's face when spider laughs at him for trying to Tranquilize an Ikran Is The best face expression he has.

I am SO glad someone else pointed out Quaritch's facial expression in the amrita scene. It's so subtle yet so telling! Stephan Lang smashed it. I'm so hyped to see where Quaritch's story goes.

One of many reasons why I love Spider is that he constantly shoves Quaritch out of his comfort zone. Recom Q is bending backwards trying to keep the kid by his side. He stops Ardmore’s torture, despite the fact that they could have gotten to Jake faster if he cracked (though he wouldn’t). He spared the lives of reef Na’vi to appease him and then saved his life, both gestures that could have brought Miles closer to Jake if he wasn’t so focused on Spider. He’s not a good father by any means, but he’s *trying*.

Quaritch is by far the most underappreciated villain in cinema right now. I strongly believe he has the potential to be this generation's darth vader, given how many parallels there are between the two characters in Avatar 1 & 2 + A New Hope & Empire Strikes Back. Both characters started out as very one dimensional doing nothing more than stomping round and being scary before they were explored more deeply in their second movies.

About not breaking the glass though - you also gotta look at an angle. In the tree bombing scene na'vi were shooting from the ground at an angle, while in the final battle and also ever since, they shot through the glass when facing it straight forward. This is the same reason why throwing a rock into water makes it sink immediately, but when you throw it at a low angle, it can skip several times from the surface. At an angle, there's just not enough momentum to arrows/rocks to break the tension. After all, sharp edges of arrowheads DID leave a scratch at the glass so it's not like it was made from something else, that was obvious right from the start. I'm telling you, medieval arrows were also known for being able to blast through plate mail when hitting it right on. I have never seen this as a flaw at all. If anything, then it makes sense that na'vi learned this angle trick from Trudy when she was explaining them how to take out rotors of gunships.

I also thought it was interesting when Quaritch interrogated Spider. He referred to his original body, in third person. Mentioning stuff like "I am not your father" even though he had the memories and overall consciousness of the man who actually was Spider's father. Which I found rather interesting. We also see that when Neytiri held Spider at gunpo-I mean knifepoint, Quaritch looks genuinely scared, but tries to hide it under words like "He's not my son, we're not even related" which from a scientific standpoint, is true. But Quaritch still had the memories and consciousness of the person who WAS Spider's father, giving Quaritch the exact same emotional connection to him. So when Neytiri showed she was absolutely willing to kill Spider, Quaritch gave in because of that emotional connection. I will admit, when I first figured out they brought Quaritch back as the antagonist of Avatar 2, I was really skeptical. Flashing images of "Somehow Palpatine returned" made me scared of what that could do with this sequel. Yet, when I watched the movie, the way they brought Quaritch back made sense, and fit perfectly to the story and world-building. So I am happy they managed to actually pull it off like this. Can't wait for the 3rd movie. ^^

I think New Quaritch will have a really big role to play in the up coming films more than what we have seen so far

Quaritch as a recom is a far more nuanced and enjoyable character. He's still an asshole, but he's given a chance to grow and branch out as a person. He's not as invested in the RDA's bullshit as he was as a human. Partially because he's no longer a human. I think he knows this. And the hunting of the tulkun for amrita for rich people to become immortal just doesn't resonate with him as much as the unobtainium did in the first film, as the unobtainium was more geared towards helping humanity as a whole, whereas the harvesting of amrita is just immortality for sale for whatever rich dickheads can afford it. And Quaritch, having already died, crushing his own human skull in his bare hands, doesn't have much respect for people who fear death to the point where they're willing to put people up to the arduous task of harvesting this literally golden substance for their own interests. Hell, the idea of amrita in general doesn't interest him much at all. Plus, he can't use it to halt his own aging, so there's no real benefit to him at all. Quaritch is hungry for revenge, and the RDA's bottom line and their agenda just doesn't mean as much to him anymore. Also, his journey with Spider is a very interesting mirror to Jake's journey with Neytiri from the first movie. There's something in him that just wants to do right by his kid since he was an absent and neglectful father the first time around. He's tapping more into what it means to be alive and to connect to others. Maybe I'm just overthinking this.

In Universe: Quaritch's actions make more sense when you remember the arrows in the truck wheels. The Na'vi have been using the RDA for target practice so much that they don't even bother to take the arrows out any more. How often do they miss and kill someone? How often do they NOT miss and kill someone? Quaritch says they are very hard to kill. How would he know except via clashes wherein the Na'vi are being pretty damn violent? His conduct makes a lot of sense as a decades long slow burn, watching his soldiers die around him, and always having to hold back due to PR. If that were true, I would be utterly unsurprised that hew view Hometree as an opertunity to finally pull out all the stops, and teach the Na'vi why Bullying The Dragon is a stupid idea. Future film? If the humans actually want to settle Pandora, they will want to terraform it, which will mean changing its atmosphere. (It would make much more sense to use the same tech to fix Earth, but nevermind.) Since the second film introduced the idea that na'vi can't breath human safe atmospheres, and Quaritch is now stuck as an atavar, he's now on the same count-down timer as everyone else. Something something overcome their differences to defeat a common foe something. Though personally I'm also hoping for a 'let Ewya decide his fate' moment, and having to come face to face with the memories of Dr Grace Augustine... :P

Quaritch in the first film was a bitter old boot from a dying planet. Who’d only been trained as a hammer. Who was fighting to save the earth. In the second film he’s a man with a thousand regrets, with paralysing fear from seeing Netyri’s arrows. Also he genuinely sees Spider as his son. From the very first moment in that interrogation. It wasn’t an interrogation. He never interrogated spider. He gave him a deal impossible to refuse to save him from having his brain microwaved. The first film has left quarritch disillusioned with what the hell he’s doing and who he is. But he sure isn’t a grunt who’s only trained to kill anymore. He’s learning a new culture, new language, new world. With all the wisdom of his last life and none of the restrictions and bitterness. He’s 100% going to die redeeming himself. Likely with Jake in the third film. Or he’s going to kill jake and then realise it was never about Jake i

Cupcake is the most underrated villian’s mount in cinema right now

I’m absolutely obsessed with Quaritch in The Way of Water. His relationship with Spider grows so subtly in most of their scenes together, that it’s hard to notice with just a couple viewings. This relationship, along with the fact that he’s a fucking Na’vi clone of himself, makes him such a more interesting villain. I’m so excited to see more of him in Avatar 3. Will he get punished for causing so much damage and failing his mission in The Way of Water? Will he get lost and survive in the wild for a little bit? How will he confront Jake again? Will he become a better person in any way, and/or become a better father for Spider? I’m so excited for Avatar 3 lol Plus most people have forgotten the fact that at the end of the film, Spider still has a GPS built into his mask for Quaritch to track at all times.

He better have massive and important role. Literaly obsessed with him as recom. As human he was interesting. But basic toxic guy. But recom? Maaan potential AF

We appreciate your insights. You’re detailed with everything.

They pierced the glass because the diving attack gave their arrows the velocity necessary to pierce the glass

He’s definitely on his way to becoming a good guy

12:22 bet Tsu’tey is the one who killed her as we see him shooting down a scorpion this way.

All this behind the scenes footage and story is great. Nice video.

Miles Quaritch is a character from the movie Avatar, and his duality refers to his conflicting motivations and actions. On one hand, he is a military commander who is tasked with protecting the interests of the human colonizers on Pandora. On the other hand, he is a ruthless and violent man who is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve his goals, even if it means harming the Na'vi people and their environment. This duality makes him a complex and interesting character, but it also makes him a dangerous and unpredictable one.

Great video!! I agree we will now refer to Quaritch's banshee as cupcake because he sweet. I mean look at his beak 🥹

Which is higher: Threat Condition Red or Threat Level Midnight?

lets go, another addition to the avatar explained series!

Love your Avatar videos keep it up ! :)

yes! i was waiting on this one!

The reason that the Navi are able to peirce the RDA aircraft's windhsield is because they use the banshee to divebomb and generate more force behind the arrow. Every aircraft that is shot down is done using this method, even in the second film

I see Quaritch as a living Terminator. Hes programmed to get the job done until he gets to know his target. I think Cameron will evolve Quaritch into the ultimate antihero

OMG THIS LAUNCHED ME OUT OF BED, did not expect a Quaritch video, gracias monseur😭🙏🏻🛐🛐🛐

In one of the deleted scenes, Trudy explains to the Na’vi warriors that the glass on the airships can take glancing blows from arrows but are weak to direct hits. The arrows that hit the dragon or a glancing blows. While all the arrows that hit the scorpions and the phantoms are direct hits.

12:20 I think the best explanation for the difference is that hitting anything directly with projectiles is going to penetrate far easier than glancing shots from broad angles.

I really like your talk about these films.

Thank you for doing quraitch and neteyam congrats on your birthday btw sorry if I’m late :D Keep up the good work like usual honestly I always watch you daily and often and I’ll keep sharing your channel to those I meet and thank if you do have time can you do jake or loak? And don’t give up on this work and hope you get more subs and likes because your videos are so explanational and open minded and I love how you tell facts details and history’s of those navi characters that get created please don’t give up this wonderful work of yours and goodluck

please do more avatar videos!! I love them sm, but if u need ideas i suggest doing loak explained! i think you have all the other sully kids explained so i would love to see it as loak is my favorite character and he’s kinda misunderstood!

the reaction to the amrita that quaritch has, the ocean village attack, and his last interaction with spider is what made me believe that avatar 3 is really gonna push the idea that quaritch is going to have some sort of growth/redemption arc with the na’vi. i really expect him to start holding back on some of his worse views because this new body feels the world different, and he isn’t the same quaritch that he was before. he connects with things differently at a fundamental level now, that’s bound to change something inside of him

As a military guy having a commander like him makes him endearing to grunts like me. I’d rather have a commander that will not bullshit me and actually gives a damn about the men under his command.

This is going to be good also will you do a video about every Navi clan ever

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Thanks for doing this Bryce! I love your explain videos so much. I have a theory that Spider will change Quaritch and Quaritch will change Spider

I thought it was quite clear in the 1st movie that the Na'vi arrows could pierce through the copter glass was because of the 90 degree angle to the point of contact with the added momentum of the flying Banshees also diving in the same direction (in way of water this momentum wasn't factored in so maybe it's not really mandatory). In the earlier scenes, the Na'vi were shooting while on foot onto the glass at a very small angle compared to the point of contact.

Quaritch is my favorite out of anyone in the movies

0:39 my brother in humanity the Na'vi attacked the miners first

I feel like Quaritch is gonna go the same route that Jake took with the Navi, but with slight differences.

Late to the party of this one. Quaritch might be the antagonist in the franchise, however he is so much more than that. Quaritch is a man doing his job, looking out for his people on this hostile moon, and truly believes he is doing the right thing. He is loyal to a fault, charismatic, strong, and doesn't let anything stop him. Really, he has all the makings of a hero and a Na'vi warrior. I love this character and have high hopes for him that he will open his mind and continue to rise to the challenge of living as an avatar. Maybe he and Jake won't end up being so different.

My brother (who has been obsessed with this world since day one) and I believe that quaritch may end up abandoning the RDA. His main reasoning is how spider guides him through the basic world of being Na’vi considering he goes along with ditching boots for being barefoot and seeing how little the RDA actually cares about soldiers. As well as the mentioned moment of Spider intervening in an execution. I would love to see him and maybe Lyle end up joining Jake wether it’s obvious or them agreeing to be spies into the RDA and being rescued if caught

I've read some rumors about how in the third movie, much like Jake Sully, Quaritch will be joining/taking over an as of yet unseen Na'vi clan.

Something I'd like to point out about the colonel: in his old body, he was a 50+ year old man. I've noticed as I get older I find myself caring less and less about the consequences of my actions, and finding less value in things I did before. Miles 2.0 is bigger and bluer, but also younger/newer. The first time we see big blue is essentially his birth. He just happens to have the knowledge imprinted on him of years of experience and a body in its prime. This caution of youth makes him dangerous as he will be more cautious, but at the end of a2:wow he is also alone. Nothing is more dangerous on pandora than a 9ft+ marine that will do anything to survive

I kind of liked how simplistic his original character was- I felt like he could be a metaphor for the military where we have goals for all of humanity (like attempting to reduce the affects of climate change) but countries like the us tend to use violence and impatience to bulldoze our way around and end up making things take longer or have worse results for everyone. That being said I definitely liked the changes made to his character in Way of Water!

Hope Quaritch shows up in the 3rd film built like Stephen Lang is in real life.

The action takes place on Pandora, in the Metcayin clan. Who knows how further events will develop?

THe biggest flaw in Quaritch’s character was his war mongering. He was charged with keeping the security forces safe and escalated the conflict between the Nav’i and humans and got most of his soldiers and miners killed as a result. He does this again with the whaling ship that purposefully didn’t want to antagonize the natives in the second film. This results in them getting completely massacred. I just felt bad for the average soldier, miner or crew member working for the RDA and Quaritch because it seemed like their lives meant nothing.

I feel like Quaritch might end up helping the na'vi in one of the later movies, if not joining them.

Love the video, but I want to how is that Neytiri video?

I really hope this new of chords have a character Arc that he sees that hes being used as a weapon decides to defect ether become a lone wolf or become allies withs jake It would be amazing. He would a be good anti-hero or anti-villain

Explain Norm! How did he get his avatar back??????

Still waiting on that metkayina explained part 2

Keep making these character stories they’re so sick! I could watch them for hours lol 🦾

Could you do a video about Loak plz ?

FYI, the reason arrows can piece the scorpions hull is because of the velocity from firing from an Ekran while diving. If they fired stationary on ground, it would bounce off. But because enough force was shot while diving straight down at probably 60-100mph, I’d say that’s enough to piece an armored window.

I don't think he'll ever join the Na'vi, with the exception of his role with the "Ash people" (we know it'll be something), and live a happy life, like Jake did. Maybe I'm thinking into too much, but it doesn't seem logical for the RDA to let another asset go rogue. I suspect there'll be some sort of failsafe to prevent that from happening.

I wish we got to learn more about paz. I'd be cool if she got to be a recom

Good! ☆☆☆☆☆

It hit me extremelimy hard the village burning after learning about it's historical value. Those houses and bridges were maybe thousands of years old, mended and redecorated but still there, generation after generation, and he took it away. It hurts so much in retrospective that he has destroyed so many things he doesn't understand and doesn't care to understand. And how we don't understand how mesed up the destruction of the tree of voices was, a cibilization that is used to literaly be capable to speak with their loved ones after death, to know the songs they sang milenia ago, and you just tear it down, I can't imagine how neitiry must have felt when she realized she will never speak to her father again in her homeland.

will you do explained videos for: - Lo'ak - Scoresby - Dr. Garvin - General Ardmore - Lyle Wainfleet - Bubblegum girl - Grace Augustine - Max Patel - Jake - The two recruiters who found Jake at the start of the first movie - The flora and fauna of Pandora

if Earth was dying and the only hope to save humanity were to make a colony on another planet, and some of your team betrays you and sides with the enemy to make that colony fail, and ultimately humanity as a whole... everyone would be Quaritch if it means humanity's survival

@BruceEdwardBrown can you do a video saying “Will the forest ever be the same with connecting with Ewya since the humans destroyed part of it” Do you think the forest will ever be same in the future Avatar movies?… the home tree is destroy and “the of voices” is gone. How will everything ever be same?

So, I have question. If they can so easily transfer an individual's memories and psyche from human to Avatar, as they did with both Quaritch and Jake...WHY couldn't they have just done this with Jake's brother, rather than having to replace him with a twin who wasn't as initially capable of handling the task? It seems like Dr. Grace needed Jake's brother pretty badly to prove her case. Also, I would posit that Quaritch DID change for the better, at least in one sense, in the second movie. Both he and Jake are learning how to be fathers to their sons. While Jake is proud of Ne'tayam for being his firstborn son and his favorite, we see his bond with Lo'ak transform from one of Jake being dismissive and harsh, to Jake actually LISTENING to his son and respecting him when Lo'ak defends his sister, and finally, accepting Lo'ak as his son when he says "I see you." In my opinion, Lo'ak is, perhaps, a more worthy son than Jake thinks. He is not a soldier....he's more like his mother. Emotional, kindhearted, but honorable and brave. He saved Payakan and befriended him, and in doing so, learned how to embrace this new home he's been taken to. He is the one (apart from Kiri) who truly immerses himself in the ocean. Quaritch, on the other hand, has an opposite perspective. For him, Spider is NOT his son....he is the son of the former Quaritch. They don't share blood. But notice, while he initially has NO love for this child, he is the one who stops them from torturing Spider to betray the Na'vi. He starts to listen and respect the boy when Spider is teaching him the Na'vi way and when he is pleading mercy for the Ocean Tribes. He saved Spider's life twice in the movie....the first time when he took Spider after the first attack, rather than leaving him to die in the jungle alone. There was no REAL reason to. He wasn't one of Jake's kids. But he saw Spider struggling to breathe in the broken mask and he saved him. When Neytiri has Spider and says she will kill him if Quaritch doesn't release Kiri (and for the other reason) Quaritch releases Kiri, rather than see Spider be killed. HE stops Neytiri from hurting Spider. I think that is why Spider does what he does in the end. A life for a life. He just wasn't willing to go with this father, but instead remained loyal to his true family. At least, in that way, he has honor.

Guy's a Chad, a True Human Patriot Fighting against The Xeno Scum Standing against Humanitys Salvation.

Do wonder what goes on in his mind after having to leave the area after getting roughed up, asking Spider to follow him, but rejects him... so to fly off to lick his wounds and to fight another day

I like how he looks as a Na'vi

Please do Neytiri next!!

I wish they've gave Parker an redemtation arc, and didn't reduce Quaritch to "i want money, so i'll kill these blue people"

Quaritch is a villain, yet there's no mistaking the guy is not a coward and has some sort of code of honour even in the first movie, people don't let themselves get killed for money or a job as eagerly as they do for an ideological cause, and Quaritch fought to the death.

ok so. Recom Quaritch is and isn't Quaritch. He is, in the sense that he has all the memories and capabilities (and then some!) of OG Quaritch, but isn't, literally isn't, the same being. It's weird. Try to put yourself in his shoes. You're yourself, but the you that isn't you, that is the original you, died. Recom sees OG as a failure, in more ways than one. It's like having your biggest regrets and failures on display, constantly, not to mention the whole "existential crisis" of being a copy. You want to do better, be better, than the OG failure to justify your very existence. I think that is part of why he crushes OG's skull, tries to be there more for OG's kid, and this mindset is established from his debrief by OG, where OG says something just FULL of hubris and Recom is like "well that didn't go to plan" through facial expression at Recom Wainfleet.

And also the arrows fired from ikrans traveling at like 35 knots. So you have like 20-mile arrows fired from ground not piercing but 40 knot arrows fired from ikrans

Can we do a whole life of jake video?

I was already annoyed that he was gonna be the villain in the second movie and now I’m just over him and even more annoyed that he’s still alive and gonna be the villain for probably the rest of the films.

I agree that his character is set up for interesting change and he might grow more sympathetic towards pandora, or has his views challenged massively

But it's not actually Quaritch, right? It's not like he experienced death and then woke up in a new body when his memories and I suppose "psychological layout" got merely dublicated and uploaded into another body which now feels like being/identifies with Quaritch. The original doesn't have anything from the whole ordeal at all but the knowledge that there will be an impostor claiming to be him.

I think Quaritch will have a change of heart in 3 or.....orrrrrrr spider might get banished after the sully family find out what spider did and thus he leaves to join his dad and maybe gets a avatar body? i dunno XD

9:46 aahhh so THATS why Quaritch looks so much younger as an Avatar XD Edit: this isn’t really that relevant but I fucking love that they gave Jake a subtle dad bod oh my god

When are you going to do an explanation on loak

It is not quadritch it is a hybrid clone with Almost all his memories

Human Quaritch and Recom Quaritch are quite more different than I realised 🤔😃

Humanity First!

I don't know if it is only my feeling but Ithunk Recom task force should be wearing military berets

Bashes head into wall.

I know that there are some similarities or actually Darth Vader/ Anakin Skywalker since I was called out as a skxawng for it. There is over reason why he is Darth Vader Anakin Skywalker- he choose to fight Na'vi as he promised to help his soldiers unlike how many troopers perished in Endor at the hands of Ewoks, he sipped coffee on Hometree destruction as venting as Anakin just decimated natives of Tatooine- no wonder why his Na'vi clone have regret thoughts on burning the village, he took the AMP from mines since RDA lack AT vehicles to decimate Na'vi warriors if they reach too close as he quoted 'your long away from home', RDA weaponry look usually similar to the empire's blasters, being high rank for a Marine security and controls militia, fuelled by a deep hatred of betrayals. i wonder if falls in love with Varang to explore his soft side as Anakin has an intense passion to protect those he dearly loves like how he tried with Spider.

14:10 YES CUPCAKE!!

Despite me being a die hard fan of the franchise and having weighted for 10+ years for the sequel, I still felt like The Way of Water" was a bit shallow. I agree with everything that you said in this video and it's all essentially there in the movies. But the movie is three hours long and it still feels a little rushed, and it boggles my mind that they had they took so much time to make this movie and the plot somehow feels a tad bit less satisfactory than the first one. And I get it's all actually just a set up for the next sequeals and the next one is going to (supposedly) give even more nuances to the whole story, but still... Damn. Or maybe it's just that I can't enough of the movies. Haha!

rest in peace Papa Dragon 🦅😢

He's literally me (i fuking love quaritch)

Guys you know how in the first movie Neytiri was still pretty young but getting older as the movie went on٫well....She was only 18😅 but the reason I put that emoji was because umm..yeah Jake was 28...sooo like just٫what- -From -Biggest avatar fan

You should make a video on spider! Only if you want to

now we need a spider and loak explained

Also, I love courage 2.0

when you become what you hate me king kong

Can you do a norm explained video

I wonder if in the third part we are going to see more positive human characters. Especcialy Pilots of Samsons

I'm Still confused as to why, as a species, we would care so much about life on the moon at all? Not just nuking the moon and mining it after it's a baron rock makes sense, but asking for permission to mine the planet from a species that is completely outmatched by us is ridiculous. We went there to mine it, not co-habitat. Take samples of everything, study whatever you can, and get the precious ground money-making rock. Simple. It's not like the entire surface has to be destroyed in order to get the stuff there. If you wanted to create a record of life on the moon there would be plenty of time to take proper samples and do a proper study of whatever we find. By the time of the first movie we already had a massive understanding of the Navi culture and biology to the point that we completely understood their language and could create totally functioning clone bodies.. The theme of these movies is supposed to mimic the moral and cultural problems that we saw happen to the Native Americans during the European colonization of North America. it's such a clear comparison that most people I know still refer to this movie as "Pocahontas in Space" but the problem here is that the feel for the problem isn't really the same. We are not doing this to our own species, we're made to "FEEL" like we are because they designed the Navi to look and act like us but there completely alien... as horrible as it sounds this isn't as big of a moral dilemma as the movie would make it out to be.. Not to mention it would be a complete walk in the park to win a fight against these guys.. The movies work so hard to try and paint the combat as fair or evenly matched, when you account for the planet being "alive" and getting all the life on the planet to fight against the Humans, but it's simply not. massive shuttle craft being flown into tight rock formations when they could just go ABOVE them is stupid, they fly to the moon from orbit... there not combat vehicles.. not to mention that the only ground combat machines we see are cumbersome.. bi-pedal (walking) mech suits and the only air fighters we see are basically combat helicopters retrofitted to also be cargo haulers.. where are the tanks? Why aren't there more armoured gunships like the Dragon Assault Ship that took out the Hometree? where are the armoured monster machines? We had a massive forest levelling machine in the first movie that would have completely destroyed ALL the life it came into contact with, put some massive canons and anti-air on it and BAM, done. We win. This movie, again, tries so hard to make us think we couldn't or can't win here if we wanted to, and that diplomacy and cooperation are the only way but it's not, to the point that it's laughable.