the first avatar movie came out in 2008.
when did the first avatar movie come out?
2008
"dances with smurfs" satirized "avatar", the 2009 science-fiction epic film directed by james cameron, which tells the story of humans in the distant future mining for minerals on an alien planet inhabited by blue natives. although "avatar" had not yet been released in theaters by the time the episode aired, the script of "dances with smurfs" compares the plot of "avatar" to that of "dances with wolves", a 1990 drama epic film in which a united states soldier becomes integrated with a tribe of native americans. at the end of "dances with smurfs", cartman watches "avatar" at a movie theater and grows angry that his idea was stolen, expressing the idea that "avatar" borrows from other previous films. "avatar" had already been compared to "dances with wolves" prior to the broadcast of "dances with smurfs", and james cameron said he welcomed the comparison. cartman's movie prominently features the smurfs, a fictional group of small blue cartoon creatures, which draws a further parallel to the blue alien creatures in "avatar". the use of the cartoon smurfs has also been interpreted as a joke that although "avatar" had a famously large budget of hundreds of millions of dollars, the film amounted to little more than a smurfs-like cartoon. on the commentary trey parker and matt stone described the na'vi who are natives of pandora in avatar as "ten foot tall sexy smurfs".
dances with smurfs
bullet::::- avatar wan () (voiced by steven yeun) was the first avatar, having lived 10,000 years prior to avatar korra's time. after obtaining the power of fire from his city's lion turtle to gather food, he instead abandons the hunting party to, with several others, rob chu the elder of his food stores. everyone escapes but wan is caught. chu the elder then banishes wan to the spirit wilds for refusing to reveal the identities of co conspirators. the lion turtle allows wan to keep the power of fire. wan learned to live among the spirits and protected them from hostile humans. after being tricked into freeing the dark spirit vaatu, wan accompanied the light spirit raava to track down and defeat vaatu. along the way, wan acquired the ability to bend the other three elements of air, water and earth, eventually becoming the first avatar as he merged with raava during harmonic convergence.
list of avatar: the last airbender characters