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Miles Quaritch / Parker Selfridge / Trudy Chacon / Dr. Max Patel / Lyle Wainfleet / Tom Sully

Colonel Miles Quaritch is the main antagonist of "Avatar" and the Chief of Security of Hell's Gate on Pandora. Quaritch looks and acts like a life long military man. He wears his hair short and is covered with battle scars, most notably a trio of claw marks on the side of his head, likely caused by a Viperwolf. He only respects force, and accordingly shows little respect for the Na'vi despite acknowledging their bravery.

His long-running military career is representative of his personality. He regularly works out to off-set the low gravity on Pandora so he doesn't get "soft". He is an outstanding soldier and has been known to forgo the Exopack when entering combat in the poisonous atmosphere of Pandora for short periods when he feels the situation demands it. An expert with his AMP suit, he is still familiar with combat techniques as demonstrated by his marksmanship and his hand-to-hand combat skills. Having little respect for indigenous lifeforms, especially the Na'vi, he directed the destruction of the Omaticaya Hometree and lead the SecOps forces in an attempt to destroy the Tree of Souls. He was eventually killed by being impaled by Neytiri's arrows.


Parker Selfridge is the passive-aggressive head administrator of the RDA on Pandora. Selfridge is prepared to condone the killing of the native Na'vi, but unlike Colonel Quaritch hesitates to invoke bad press and trespass his personal morality, though both are unremittingly subservient to RDA's profit margin. Selfridge is unable, or unwilling, to consider the Na'vi in human terms, as displayed by his naming of the Na'vi as 'flea-bitten savages who live in a tree'. Though he does support the destruction of the Omaticaya Hometree by Colonel Quaritch, he is extremely reluctant to see the gunships leave to attack the Tree of Souls. It is a common speculation that his observation that Jake Sully can fall in love with one of the Na'vi, they may actually amount to something. In truth, Selfridge actually conducts an argument with Colonel Quaritch against the head of security's rash decisions against the natives.

Parker was forced off-planet with his employees after Quaritch's disastrous attempt to destroy the Tree of Souls, but is slated to return for a sequel.


Trudy Chacon was a marine Secops pilot, whose primary task is flying sorties for science teams. She pilots a Samson, that she uses for transportation and for battle.

She was working for the RDA when she met Jake Sully just prior to transporting him, Norm Spellman and Dr. Grace Augustine on an expedition deep into Pandora's forest. She was forced to abandon the search for Jake when his Avatar was lost during his first mission, as Colonel Quaritch had deemed night operations too dangerous. She also flew the trio to a temporary science station in the Hallelujah Mountains when Dr. Augustine wanted to continue her research away from Hell's Gate and military personnel. When the RDA attacked the Hometree, Trudy refused to join in the assault and broke out of combat formation, returning to base just after the first salvo, stating, "I didn't sign up for this shit!" which effectively switched her side in the conflict. Interestingly, the movie shows no consequences for this action, as she is able to rescue Jake Sully, Norm Spellman and Dr. Grace Augustine from the cell they were being held in. She was assisted by Dr. Max Patel and airlifted their science installation away from the RDA's reach.

They escape from Hell's Gate, and Trudy assists Jake and the Na'vi during their final stand against the RDA armada, which had mobilized once more to attack the Na'vi's temporary camp on their most sacred ground. Piloting her Samson, she engaged Colonel Quaritch's Dragon Gunship in order to distract him from his pursuit of Jake Sully astride his Toruk, but she was ultimately outgunned and killed.

Dr. Max Patel is a civilian scientist. He appears to be in charge of overseeing the process of synchronising the minds of humans with their Avatar bodies as well as providing technical advice and support. Max is implied to have been on Pandora for a number of years by the time of Jake Sully and Norm Spellman's arrival, being a member of Dr. Grace Augustine's original staff.

Max meets Jake Sully and Norm Spellman the day they arrive to Pandora. He explains what an avatar is, and shows their respective avatars. He is in charge of transporting Jake's mind into his avatar for the first time. When Jake is in his avatar form, he asks Jake to be quiet, as he isn't used to his avatar body.Max and Trudy Chacon helped the avatar team go free after they were arrested, but as they flee Jake tells Max to stay behind in order to provide them with intelligence, saying he needs someone on the inside he can trust. Max destroys the OPS Center in the final battle, as he smashes the windows with a Slash Cutter, leaving Selfridge and some technicians on the ground, with pandoran air. After that, several avatars aim weapons down at them, they have the OPS Center. Selfridge lies down with an emergency Exopack, defeated. After the battle, Max is one of the few humans chosen to stay on Pandora, after the RDA employees were banished.

Lyle Wainfleet was a mercenary working for the RDA and a SecOps corporal. As a member of SecOps, Wainfleet's duties included guarding the Hell's Gate compound, and command of the AMP Suit squad. He was also one of Trudy Chacon's door gunners on her Samson.

Lyle was present during several critical events during the hostile takeover of Pandora by the RDA. He was the additional non-avatar security on Dr. Grace Augustine's sample-collecting mission. Originally assuming to be heading out with the science team, Grace dismissed him, citing that "one idiot with a gun is enough", referring to Jake Sully. This probably saved his life as later Grace's team were attacked by a Thanator. When Quaritch mustered all available SecOps units to repel the Na'vi attack on Hell's Gate, Wainfleet took point with his AMP Suit troopers. Forming up into a skirmish line, both his mechanized and foot-mobile forces held the line against the Na'vi until Pandora's local fauna entered the fray. He was killed when a Hammerhead Titanothere rammed and crushed him in his AMP Suit.

Tom Sully is the late twin brother of Jake Sully, who was supposed to participate in the Avatar Program, undergoing much training but was replaced by his brother after being killed on Earth in the Summer of 2148. At the beginning of the movie, when we see Jake awaken from cryo, Tom had been dead for more than five years. He is witnessed being covered with plastic inside a cardboard box before a hasty cremation five years earlier.

It is known that he was killed when a thief attempted to steal his wallet and was subsequently shot by the assailant.

According to testimony by Doctor Grace Augustine, Tom was supposedly a brilliant scientist with PhD honours.


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