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| “ | I hunt tulkun. That's what I'm rigged for, that's all my guys do, I've got quotas to meet. | „ |
| ~ Mick Scoresby to Miles Quaritch. |
| “ | This stuff just happens to stop human aging, like... stops it. | „ |
| ~ Mick Scoresby about amrita. |
Mick Scoresby is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Lyle Wainfleet) of the 2022 epic science-fiction film Avatar: The Way of Water and will return in some capacity in its upcoming 2025 sequel Avatar: Fire and Ash.
He is a sadistic, xenophobic, psychopathic and greedy RDA employee and big game hunter from Earth who works for the Cetacean Operations (Cet-Ops) at the alien oceans of Pandora, which the company wishes to take over due to how damaged the Earth is becoming after decades of humanity's carelessness. As part of his job, Scoresby is tasked with hunting down the tulkuns, a species of sentient and intelligent cetacean-like creatures with a special bond to the Na'vi, to extract from their brains a mineral known as amrita, which can slow human aging and is very valuable on Earth. He is also the arch-nemesis of Payakan as he is responsible for the young tulkun becoming an outcast after he was exiled from his pod due to his actions against the Tulkun Way when trying to lead an attack on the RDA to avenge his mother's death, during which many tulkun and Na'vi were killed.
He is portrayed by Brendan Cowell in his first villainous role.
Personality[]
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Biography[]
Little is known about Scoresby's early life other than he was a big game hunter back on Earth.
Scoresby serves as the captain of the S-76 SeaDragon, a massive marine vessel that leads the RDA's Cetacean Operations/Cet-Ops on the planet Pandora. He is tasked with hunting tulkuns, massive aquatic creatures reminiscent to whales from Earth which have since gone extinct, and extract amrita, a brain enzyme. As amrita has the ability to stop human aging, it has become extremely valuable on Earth, which the RDA have been profiting off of as a way to pay for most of their colonization works.
At one point in the past, a tulkun named Payakan led a group of other tulkuns and their spirit Na'vi against the SeaDragon for retribution after his mother was killed. However, the whalers annihilated the entire fleet, leaving Payakan as the only survivor. Following this, the other tulkun and the Na'vi banished Payakan to live as an outcast for going against his species' peaceful way.
After being reborn as a Recom, Miles Quaritch and his squad ally with Scoresby in finding Jake Sully and his family, who fled to the oceans of Pandora to join the Metkayina clan. After using brute force to interrogate the Ta'unui tribe, Quaritch spares them but has their village burnt down. Scoresby and Dr. Ian Garvin then inform Quaritch about the bond shared between the Metkayina clan and the tulkuns, giving Quaritch another idea how to lure in Jake.
Boarding a Matador, Scoresby and Quaritch chase after a pod of tulkuns, using echolocation cannons to separate one female and her calf. Submarines then attach air bags to her fins to slow her down before Scoresby fires an explosive harpoon at her weak underside, showing thrill in watching her struggle until she dies. The whalers then kill her defenseless calf.
Scoresby then shows Quaritch and Spider how they extract amrita from the female. Once they collect it, Quaritch requests the tracking devices be left on the carcass so Jake would know who killed her. Sure enough, the Metkayina are horrified upon discovering the dead tulkun and her calf, especially Ronal as the tulkun was her spirit sister.
Eventually, the whalers track Payakan, resulting in Lo'ak, Tsireya, and Tuk being captured when they try to rescue him. On his Matador, Scoresby waits with his harpoon intact as the Awa'atlu approach. Just as Jake prepares to surrender himself, Payakan leaps from the water and slams on the SeaDragon. Scoresby has the Matador turn around and fires his harpoon at the tulkun, only for Payakan to bounce the harpoon off his armored head crest and damage the SeaDragon.
During the clash, Scoresby tries to hit Payakan with another harpoon, only for Payakan to dodge it and snag the cord around his crest. The remaining crew members order Scoresby to replenish the rope, only for their orders to fall on deaf ears. Payakan then leaps above the Matador, cleaving the ship in half with the cord while pinning Scoresby by his right arm against the harpoon gun as the rest of his men abandon ship to escape with their lives. Scoresby does his best to free himself, but is logically unsuccessful due to Payakan's immense strength. With one mighty pull, Scoresby's arm is cleaved off and he is sent flying into the ocean.
What happens next to Scoresby is left uncertain, but it's highly likely that because of the loss of his right arm, he either drowned and/or bled to death.
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Trivia[]
- In some way, Mick Scoresby's defeat is a fitting karma for his actions: during his job as a tulkun poacher, Scoresby deprived Payakan from one of his fins. Thus, in their final encounter, Payakan gets back at Scoresby by depriving him from one of his arms.
- Despite this, Avatar producer Jon Landau has confirmed that Mick Scoresby will return in Avatar 3.
- Mick Scoresby symbolically represents real-life poachers who hunt down animals more than necessary, which in turns endangers them and nature. Due to James Cameron being an environmentalist who includes ecological themes in some of his films, it's kinda evident this was intentional.
- It's likely that Mick Scoresby's feud with Payakan references that of Captain Ahab and Moby Dick from Herman Meville's 1851 classic novel Moby-Dick. The difference, however, is that Payakan is an heroic sea beast unlike Moby Dick, who everyone regards as a merciless beast and that Ahab was justified at first in hunting Moby Dick down for eating one of his limbs before he descended into madness, whereas Scoresby hunted Payakan down unprovoked because he sadistically enjoys whaling tulkuns and it was then that Payakan claimed one of his limbs.
External Links[]
- Mick Scoresby on the Pure Evil Wiki
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