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Miles Quaritch is the RDA's head of security and the saga's villain. He dies in the first film, returns as a Na'vi copy in the second and, in the third, finds that the most dangerous thing about him might be his bond with his son. Stephen Lang plays him.
Quaritch runs RDA security on Pandora and sees the Na'vi as a threat to be removed. He recruits Jake as a spy, promising to fix his legs. When Jake switches sides, he orders Hometree destroyed. In the final battle he climbs into a mechanical suit and nearly kills Jake, but Neytiri kills him.
Sixteen years later, the RDA brings Quaritch back as a recombinant: a Na'vi body with the colonel's memories. He hunts Jake and discovers that the boy Spider is his son. He tries to win the kid's trust and learns Na'vi culture from him. He hunts Tulkun to force Jake out and ends up defeated, but Spider saves him from drowning.
Quaritch is captured by the Mangkwan, teaches Varang to use firearms and proposes an alliance with the clan. A relationship with her begins. He then captures Spider, attacks the Metkayina and fights Jake in a magnetic flux. When Spider falls off a rock, the two have to work together. Quaritch ends up throwing himself off the rock.
Stephen Lang plays Quaritch. Per Wikipedia, he had auditioned unsuccessfully for Aliens and got the part after Josh Brolin passed on a long shoot. In 2019 Lang said Cameron always meant for the character to return, even while the first film was shooting.
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