Avatar is Pocahontas repainted. Fight me.

This was an incredibly mainstream meme, back in the day! https://mattbateman.net/writing/avatar-pocahontas.php describes his contribution to the comparison.

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an0malous 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And Pocahontas is Fern Gully repainted

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adrian_b 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Actually, when I saw the first Avatar, I thought that it was much closer to the "Treasure of Silver Lake" ("Der Schatz im Silbersee") by Karl May, combined with many scenes from the earlier novels of Karl May.

Many characters of that series of Karl May novels have a direct mapping, e.g.:

Old Shatterhand => Jake Sully

Winnetou => Neytiri (gender swapped)

tamed mustang => tamed flying dragon

and many others.

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neogodless 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Fern Gully was 1992, three years before Pocahontas.

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redwall_hp 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I believe the comment I saw, back when the first one came out, was "PocaHalo."

The second one developed its own story much better.

	▲	m4rtink 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And has humans doing Factorio as well as ecranoplans - ideal. :-)
	▲	glitchc 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		So that's where Master "Chief" comes from! ... I'll see myself out.

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LargeWu 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I mean, Avatar is a pretty on-the-nose allegory for the decimation of American Indian tribes and western colonization. I don't think this is at all a controversial take.

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jimbokun 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Or Lawrence of Arabia or…

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zdragnar 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nah, Avatar is Dances With Wolves

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shawn_w 3 days ago | parent [-]

Dances With Smurfs was a common comparison at the time.

	▲	MathMonkeyMan 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Dancing with Smurfs is a breed of blueberries.

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grehbies 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Smurfcat planetary immune response.