Avatar (film)

Note that this is not to be confused with Avatar: The Last Airbender or the nifty little picture thing that goes by the same name.

Avatar is a science fiction film from James Cameron. It concerns Jake Sully, a human who comes to the moon of Pandora as part of the Avatar program, in which he sleeps in a pod and inhabits a body of the Na'vi, a sentient life form on Pandora that looks something like a ten-foot tall walking blue cat. When this, happens, however, he adopts the Na'vi lifestyle, loves it...

...and then pretty much reprises Dances With Wolves in full from that point forward.

It's known primarily for two things: it's known as the first showcase of a new piece of filmmaking technology involving motion capture that was developed by Cameron, and it's also known for being the highest grossing movie of all time. Despite these two rather nifty facts (or maybe because of them), this movie has garnered a massive hatedom on the internet, possibly because of its clichéd plot and flat characters. Some, however, do actually like this movie.

Avatar in Fanfiction
Despite the fact that the movie is the highest-grossing movie of all time, Avatar remains one of the less-frequented continua of movie-related fanfiction circles. However, there is still plenty of it, mostly revolving around shipping fics, alternate universe fics, self insert fics... the whole gamut.

Goodfic tends to greatly expand on the characterizations provided in the canon, especially since most of the characters are relatively flat and one-note. Badfic, however, is as prone to making the same mistakes as every other continua's badfic.

Missions in the Avatar Continuum

 * Agents Florestan and Eusabius (DIC)
 * Mission 6: Blow All Your Canons Away (Crossover with Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind)