| “ | I hunt tulkun. That's what I'm rigged for, that's all my guys do, I've got quotas to meet. | „ |
| ~ Mick Scoresby |
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 & Ash.
He is a furtive whaler who works for the RDA's colonization attempts in Pandora, serving as captain of the SeaDragon whaler by hunting down Tulkuns to extract Amrita for the RDA to sell back on Earth, as the mineral slows aging among humans. Once the RDA returns on a full capacity to retake Pandora from the Na'vi, Scoresby is recruited by Miles Quaritch's Recombinant clone to hunt Jake Sully and his family down. He is also the archenemy 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.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He is in charge of the RDA's whaling operation in Pandora since the corporation's arrival to the planet: in order to extract amrita, a precious mineral that can slow human aging and virtually make its consumer immortal to some degree, Scoresby and his crew hunt Tulkuns down, kill them, drill their cranial melons open for the amrita and then leave the corpses behind to rot, essentially wasting the lives of innocent beasts for something insignificant.
- What makes this worse is that the Tulkuns are sentient creatures unlike a good majority of Pandora's fauna, something that Scoresby and his crew were aware of, as they knew that if they attacked the Tulkuns who lived near the Metkayina clan's territory, they would unleash the Metkayina clan's anger as they shared a special bond with their local Tulkuns.
- Hunted down a Tulkun who happened to be Payakan's mother years before the events of the film, which led Payakan to gather a Tulkun schooling with their Na'vi riders to avenge her only for Scoresby and his men to kill them all except Payakan, who lost a fin to the whalers and also his place within his community as the Tulkuns deemed him responsible for all those deaths.
- Teams up with the late Colonel Miles Quaritch's Recombinant in his search to track down and kill Jake Sully and his family because of how Jake led the Na'vi defense against the RDA fifteen years ago.
- Takes hostage all Na'vi villagers from the Ta'unui village after they refuse to sell out the Metkayina clan's location out of loyalty to Chief Tonowari, leading him and his men to burn down all their Maruis under Quaritch's orders as punishment after Spider pleads his father's Recombinant to not kill the natives, stripping all those Na'vis from their homes.
- Informs Quaritch's Recombinant about the special bond between the Metkayina clan and their Tulkuns to give Quaritch an idea on how to draw Jake out of hiding, after which the Recombinant and Scoresby ambush a pod of Tulkuns and kill a mother Tulkun (who coincidentally was the spirit sister of Tonowari's wife Ronal) with her calf, devastating Ronal. He then orders his men to extract the Amrita from the mother Tulkun and leaves a tracking beacon stuck there to lure Jake to their ships.
- This event was what led the ocean tribes to put aside their differences with Jake and his family to defeat the RDA whaling team.
- Sticks a tracking beacon on Payakan to find the Metyakina village.
- Has his crew kidnap and tie up Jake's children Kiri, Lo'ak and Tuk to force Jake and his wife Neytiri into going to rescue them so Quaritch's Recombinant could have a rematch with his template's archenemy.
- Takes a Matador with some of his men and tries to harpoon Payakan in an attempt to kill him so he would stop interfering, while even refusing to listen to their orders to replenish the harpoon rope just to take down Payakan, leading to him to strike back and give Scoresby an extremely karmic defeat, falling in line with the movie's overarching theme of equilibrium, further reinforced by the "son for a son" scene.
- His presumed death, despite being a bit rough due to getting his arm sliced off before being thrown into Pandora's ocean to either drown or bleed to death, wasn't played for sympathy, but for karmic satisfaction, as Scoresby previously deprived Payakan from his fin.
- Overall, whereas the original Quaritch, his Recombinant clone, Parker Selfridge and General Frances Admore at least are hypocritical yet genuine well-intentioned extremists who wish to save humanity from extinction, Scoresby doesn't care for anyone or anything minus profit, with him only working for Quaritch's Recombinant out of fear and even his associate Dr. Ian Garvin not really liking him.
Trivia[]
- While Mick Scoresby is currently the only Avatar villain to be Pure Evil, there's a chance (although unlikely) that this may change when he returns in the upcoming third Avatar film.
- Mick Scoresby is, alongside Skynet and Carter J. Burke, one of the three James Cameron villains to be Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- Mick Scoresby on the Avatar Wiki
- Mick Scoresby on the Villains Wiki
