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** Most recent example is the rage of rabid fans after the Oscars. Many did a 180° turn from "Avatar will rake the Awards" to "[[Academy Awards]] are meaningless", and they use the movie's [[Quality By Popular Vote|stellar box office numbers as their only argument about its quality]]. Some called to go and watch the movie ''any single day'' (or buy tickets for it even if they have no time to actually watch it) to further increase its earnings and "teach the Academy a lesson". But the absolute worst are people calling to ''destroy DVDs of [[The Hurt Locker]] if they see them in any shop''.
* [[Gannon Banned]]: [[I Am Not Shazam|Calling anyone in the film "Avatar", or calling the Na'vi "Avatars".]]
* [[Growing the Beard]]: For the [[
* [[Hate Dumb]]: While the [[Fan Dumb]] of this title is quite bad, the [[Hate Dumb]] surely isn't any better. This is perhaps one of the ''largest'' examples of this trope as just simply putting this film on your favorites list or speaking positive about this film will make haters [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys|bash your taste in movies]] and you'll be lucky to make it out alive. As can be seen in the page history section, the discussion section, this page, and even the main page, they even exist on ''this very wiki''!!
** It wouldn't be so bad if some haters stuck to the actual flaws the film has instead of making stuff up because the RDA is kewler. For example, blaming the entire third act on Jake because he slept with Neytiri—who he fell in love with—instead of negotiating a surrender. They somehow forget the part where Jake says the Na'vi are never going to leave Hometree. Even if he was going to give it one last shot, Quaritch already had 'dozers clearing a path to Hometree. It was screwed either way.
** Speaking of [[Hate Dumb]], a number of them were fans started to hate the movie because of the [[Fan Dumb]], notably [[Image Boards|/tv/]] which utterly hates Avatar now because of one annoying fan. Funny considering that [[Not So Different|they themselves are the same way]].
** This coincides with [[
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: One of Stephen Lang's (Quaritch) earlier roles was in ''[[Tall Tale]]'', where he played a farmer standing-up to a mining company from developing a fertile valley.
** Before the [[Memetic Badass]] Quaritch became Lang's most notable role, his previous famous role was [[Tombstone|Ike Clanton]], who is the flipside of Quaritch as a completely cowardly villain.
* [[Internet Backdraft]]: A discussion on if Avatar was snubbed for the Best Picture award by the [[Academy Award|Oscars]] in favor of ''[[The Hurt Locker]]'' will spark a big one. Also, arguing that this movie has any depth at all will spark a flame war in some quarters ([[This Very Wiki]] included), and don't try to say that the Na'vi might've been right after all, or make any comparisons to real life events. ''Especially'' [[The War On Terror]].
* [[
* [[Misaimed Fandom]]: Quaritch is understandably subject to this, being an example of both [[Evil Is Cool]] and [[Colonel Badass]]. It is when people try to defend destroying the Na'vi home and killing several Na'vi in the process that the extent of said fandom gets disturbing.
* [[Motive Decay]]: Over the course of the movie, Quaritch goes from being paid to ''keep people alive'' to a psychopathic and genocidal quest for revenge.
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** [[Strugatsky Brothers]]' ''Noon Universe'' had a similar planet, complete with wildlife and the native tribes. The planet's name was... '''[http://www.google.com/url?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_planets_of_Noon_Universe%23Pandora&rct=j&q=noon+universe+pandora&usg=AFQjCNFB5ih7dJTqtWCz1M6M53cqDHTsGg&sa=X&ei=Ii8jTbfTDceK4gaJir2QCQ&ved=0CB0QygQ Pandora]'''! Russian readers have drawn much attention to this, and Boris eventually commented: "The americans have borrowed our idea. That's quite unpleasant, but we wouldn't sue them for that, now would we?"
* [[Rooting for The Empire]]: Being that the villains are humanity, a number of viewers found themselves rooting for the RDA.
* [[Tainted By the Preview]]: The anticipation, to date, went something like this: "A new movie by James Cameron? The guy who directed ''Aliens''? All very hush-hush? [[Noodle Incident|It could be anyth]]--oh the teaser trailer's out? It's [[Space Marine|Space Marines]] vs. [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|Native American alien]] [[Catgirl|cat people]]? That's ''it''? Screw you, James Cameron, screw you." When some people have seen the ads on [[Cartoon Network]], they're convinced that it'll be [[What Do You Mean
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: Many say Cameron has averted this by making the Na'vi look human and likeable, but just shy of creeping into uncomfortable territory. Specifically their eyes. Cameron noted that CGI humanoids tended to have "dead eyes" so he took extra care in filming the actors' eyes during motion-capture filming. He may have gone too far in the other direction.
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