Neytiri te Tskaha Mo'at'ite (2024)

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Neytiri is an agile and fierce Na'vi, as well as a proficient warrior and archer, Neytiri was the tsakarem of the Omatikaya clan. She is the second-born daughter of Eytukan and Mo'at and younger sister of Sylwanin.

When Neytiri was 18 years old in 2154, she met Jake Sully in a Pandoran forest, rescuing him from a pack of viperwolves. Neytiri became his teacher in the ways of the Na'vi. Despite her prior engagement to Tsu'tey, Jake and Neytiri fall in love and consummated their relationship beneath the Tree of Voices. During the First Pandoran War, Neytiri fought alongside Jake in the Battle of Ayram Alusìng against the Resources Development Administration. She saved him from death by killing Miles Quaritch with her bow.

Neytiri became the mother of three biological children: Neteyam, Lo'ak and Tuktirey, as well as the adoptive mother of Kiri. When she is around 34 years old in 2170, during the Second Pandoran War, Neytiri and her family became refugees when they are forced to flee to the Metkayina clan. During this time, Neytiri and Jake both struggle to adapt to the new environment.

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Avatar: The High Ground
Avatar: The Next Shadow
Avatar: Tsu'tey's Path

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Avatar: The Way of Water

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Avatar: Pandora Rising
Avatar: Reckoning
Avatar: The Mobile Game
James Cameron's Avatar: The Game

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James Cameron painted a similar character around 1976 for his short film Xenogenesis. He stated in an interview, "Her name wasn't Neytiri and it was in a completely different context, but I was already thinking about it then".
James Cameron mentioned in his artbook Tech Noir that early concept art of Neytiri was inspired by actress and activist Q'orianka Kilcher in the film The New World.
Neytiri was originally named "Zuleika Te Kaha Polenoma" in James Cameron's first concept (Project 880). Her role was pretty much the same as in the movie, except for a few extra scenes, for example Zuleika was kidnapped by humans and held in Hell's Gate along with other Na'vi, until she was saved by Josh Sully.
In the script, she is named "Neytiri te Ckaha Mo'at’ite". In both the extended re-release and the Extended Collector's Edition, she gives her full name to Jake during his first night with the Omatikaya clan.
In 2006, temporary actor Yunjin Kim played the role of Neytiri in a prototype to demonstrate the new technology.
Alicia Vela-Bailey is Zoe Saldaña's stunt double in Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water and Avatar 3.
It is stated in the script that Neytiri is pregnant with Jake's child at the end of the film but was taken out in the final release. This is among the deleted scenes (New Life) from the Extended Collector's Edition.
Also in the script, Neytiri is stated to be 18 in human years.
During the final battle in the first Avatar, Neytiri has a white hand print on her chest as part of her warpaint. It has five fingers, indicating that it is Jake's hand.
In the original script For The Way of Water, it is suggested Neytiri feels ashamed of having mixed race children since a line reads, "Ronal’s derision strikes close to her own secret shame about her mixed-blood children."
In The Way of Water original script, Neytiri has a horrific nightmare of the Omatikaya Hometree falling, suggesting she might have PTSD from the incident.
Neytiri's bigotry and disdain towards humanity and Spider has been somewhat controversial. Writer Amanda Silver said she agreed with portraying this side of Neytiri, saying it makes sense for her character given her backstory, and that she feels it is fine for female characters to have flaws because it helps portray them as being fully fleshed-out as opposed to being perfect or one-dimensional.
In a violent deleted scene, Neytiri repeatedly stabs one of her victims to death, and also kills a man who begs for his life. She then continues to defile his body with multiple stabbings as she seems to shout, "You, you, you, you, you, you, YOUUUUUUUUUU!" Later, when Neytiri holds Spider hostage, she truly considers killing him by cutting his throat, even after Quaritch has released Kiri, showing how much pain, anger and a desire for revenge Neytiri was feeling due to her son's death. Jake, Kiri and Quaritch convince Neytiri out of killing Spider.
- The canonicity of the scene is debatable due to it being deleted, however, it is notable that blood suddenly appears on Neytiri's face when Spider looks at Neytiri's face again, suggesting it did happen.
The soundtrack for The Way of Water has a track called "Bad Parents" that plays during a scene with Neytiri and Jake, suggesting that the two of them can be considered flawed parents. The track plays during their killing spree on the SeaDragon, possibly hinting the film's creators felt Jake's and Neytiri's actions were risky, reckless and endangered their daughters' lives when Quaritch could have seen Jake's and Neytiri's rebellion and executed Kiri and Tuk as backlash.
Neytiri's face is drenched in blood in concept art in the scene she threatens to cut Spider.

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Neytiri at Avatar Wiki