Anthony Hopkins as a cannibal Na'vi

[MarkD]

A friend of mine is writing such a story where there is a clan of Na'vi that are just that. The first thing I thought of is Hannibal Lector.

Here is an interview someone posted of Hopkins talking about the role.



*thumbs up to Anthony Hopkins* He'd make one scary Na'vi who is the total opposite of what people think. He is very charming, very intelligent, but you'd never know he's a psychopath.

[tm20]

cannibal Na'vi would be brutal, but seems kind of wrong given the situation on Pandora with the RDA presence. eating your own kind when you should be working together to eliminate the enemy seems like an illogical thing to me. I however do love the idea of a group of Na'vi who kill skypeople and eat their bodies as they believe it gives them powers :D but on the topic of a cannibal Na'vi, whether they are an individual or a clan, what would be their motive?

if it was an individual: this Na'vi has been outcast from their clan and has decided to live in solitary, along their journey they go insane and somehow believe they can gain powers from eating their own kind.
if it was a group: this individual starts their own group by showing people from other clans of their findings (eating people gives you special powers) and so you have an insane clan of Na'vi which is like a cult that go around killing and consuming their own kind :D

you know it could work for a human as well. being an Avatar driver and living a double life is sure to **** with you mentally. an Avatar driver goes insane and believes that consuming humans will make them into a true Na'vi, and so a serial killer is born who is roaming Hell's Gate for human flesh. one by one he kills the mercs and takes their body to a secret location where he chops them up and consumes them :P

[MarkD]

Well from one story I read a na'vi did some stuff to human bodies, using them for ornaments and trophies like in Predator. The teeth for a necklace for example. From what my friend told me, she has it where it's a clan who disgraced Eywa and went against everything many Na'vi stand for.

[Scott]

Sounds a lot like the drow elves so elegantly detailed in R.A. Salvatore novels. Short version; long ago a faction of surfaces elves fell upon the path of evil after being seduced by the goddess Lloth. A great war ensued and the evil elves were vanquished and fled into the earth. Evolving over eons, the evil elves became drow, flourishing in the underdark, and raiding the surface world in the dark of night to butcher their despised surface cousins.

If there is an anti-Eywa like being present on Pandora then, yes, I could understand a faction of Na'vi being tricked into turning their backs upon Eywa and doing unspeakable things against her.

[MarkD]

I'd guess more like the Na'vi of this clan lost their minds after humans showed up and started destroying the forest. Their clan probably though that if Eywa lets these aliens stay here, then do without her. Some humans do that when whatever their religion doesn't get their requests answered. They just lose it.

The author hasn't really said much on how this happens, but she did tell me that is the end result of this one clan.

[HufweMakto]

I'd guess more like the Na'vi of this clan lost their minds after humans showed up and started destroying the forest. Their clan probably though that if Eywa lets these aliens stay here, then do without her. Some humans do that when whatever their religion doesn't get their requests answered. They just lose it.

The author hasn't really said much on how this happens, but she did tell me that is the end result of this one clan.

I remember James Cameron answering a question from a fan if there were such a thing as an athest Na'vi; his reply? Maybe he would explore that in one of the sequals. Sounds kinda like the Na'vi clan you're describing, or something similar.

[Sanjwale]

Well from one story I read a na'vi did some stuff to human bodies, using them for ornaments and trophies like in Predator. The teeth for a necklace for example. From what my friend told me, she has it where it's a clan who disgraced Eywa and went against everything many Na'vi stand for.

I can understand that, if you see the skull from the turok when neytiri tells jake about toruk makto,


I can see it in front of me, the skull of coffee cup on a tree

[MarkD]

True, but yet to see that with human remains. I think the Na'vi do that to those that are a symbol of hope. Toruk being a good example, as Neytiri pointed out. Cannibal Na'vi? Well some human tribes practiced that on their enemies. The Maori did that up to the point explorers visited their lands. Back then, they believed that eating their enemy would give them the strength of that enemy warrior, making them stronger.

[Ja'k Dawsiin]

does the Hannibal-cannibal Na'vi like fava beans and a nice chianti? lol

[tm20]

Well from one story I read a na'vi did some stuff to human bodies, using them for ornaments and trophies like in Predator. The teeth for a necklace for example. From what my friend told me, she has it where it's a clan who disgraced Eywa and went against everything many Na'vi stand for.

thats brutal :D