Jack Saint, sarcastically: Jake Sully isn't just a good native, but the best native. He gets the big special bird!
Dry Boys: Sully is such a blank-slate character, so underprivileged, that he's the best candidate among the colonizers to become a native.
it does get a little complicated with the whole interspecies cloning, but yes, the originally white guy is a savior. but by the point he saves them he has basically rejected everything white about himself, and by the end he literally kills the white guy. queer af