Parker Selfridge

"Look. You're supposed to be winning the hearts and minds of the natives. Isn't that the whole point of your little puppet show? If you walk like them, you talk like them, they'll trust you. We build them a school, teach them English. But after - how many years - the relations with the indigenous are only getting worse. Look here, you see this? This is why we're here. Because this little gray rock sells for $20 million a kilo. That's the only reason. This is what pays for the whole party, and it's what pays for your science. Those savages are threatening our whole operation. We're on the brink of war and you're supposed to be finding me a diplomatic solution. So use what you've got, and get me some results."

- Parker arguing with Dr. Augustine.

Parker Selfridge is the secondary antagonist in Avatar. He is the head administrator of RDA and the leader of the mining operation in Pandora.

His wealth consists of power from the human race organization Resources Development Administration. Parker Selfridge explains why the RDA came to Pandora, it is because they are mining for a valuable resource called Unobtainium that costs $20 million per kilogram, but his only problem is of the Na'vi. There were several citizens of the human race who were transported by a massive RDA transportation method, probably the entire human race of the year 2154, who came with Parker Selfridge to Pandora.

He is mainly ordering Dr. Grace Augustine to find a solution to stop the Na'vi who are threatening the RDA's operation, who Parker Selfridge calls savages. He is confident at first that the Na'vi won't be much of a problem now that the avatars controlled by Jake Sully, Grace Augustine, and Norm Spellman (he jokingly calls this a puppet show) to move the Na'vi off the Home Tree to dig for Unobtainium.

Parker Selfridge isn't exactly to call as evil as the rest of the RDA squad led by Miles Quaritch. When seeing how the RDA destroys the Home Tree, killing several Na'vi, he is uncomfortable with the violence that the RDA had done on the Na'vi. However, it can be agreed that he doesn't care too much to stop the RDA's operation, since he cares more about money. (In fact his last name was possibly designed to sound like the word selfish).

He is last seen returning back to Earth with every human other than a few scientists and avatar controllers, with an unknown fate of how human civilization was restored back on Earth.

Trivia

 * He was portrayed by Giovanni Ribisi.