Been a while since I saw it, but doesn't he die and literally become one of the avatar blue people? I guess that could be like, he's renouncing his whiteness, since he's not white at the end of the movie, and his white body is discarded.
It's been years since I've seen the movie lol, and I didn't listen to the chapo episode
Yeah, that's the argument. I'd say an actual inversion is he doesn't get to be the big hero, because why would he? He's just some guy. He helps the natives both with his body and knowledge of the invading forces tech, but because he's just some dude that's been there a few months and is kinda useless otherwise. The movie makes him the best at all the local things, better than people doing it their entire lives, who've lived in their bodies their entire lives. And then he gets to be king, basically.
It's like 6/10 subversive of the trope, at best, imo
Been a while since I saw it, but doesn't he die and literally become one of the avatar blue people? I guess that could be like, he's renouncing his whiteness, since he's not white at the end of the movie, and his white body is discarded.
It's been years since I've seen the movie lol, and I didn't listen to the chapo episode
Yeah, that's the argument. I'd say an actual inversion is he doesn't get to be the big hero, because why would he? He's just some guy. He helps the natives both with his body and knowledge of the invading forces tech, but because he's just some dude that's been there a few months and is kinda useless otherwise. The movie makes him the best at all the local things, better than people doing it their entire lives, who've lived in their bodies their entire lives. And then he gets to be king, basically.
It's like 6/10 subversive of the trope, at best, imo