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Our Intergalactic Nightmare Is Over — Payakan Is Back
And he’s got a girlfriend!
“He’s turned out to be one of the most popular characters,” VFX supervisor and Avatar EP Richard Baneham told Empire in a story about the making of the third film in James Cameron’s franchise. In the 2022 film, Payakan is an outcast, exiled from his complex space-whale society for seeking vengeance against the barbaric humans who killed his mother, famously telling his Na’vi friend Lo’ak that the memory of the incident was “too painful.” While his violent actions went against the pacifist Tulkun Way, those maverick, go-getter qualities are exactly what allow him to save his fellow Tulkun from evil whalers toward the end of the film. In Fire and Ash, audiences will meet Payakan’s new companion, a female Tulkun named Ta’nok.
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