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Yeah, those were great fun. I actually don't have much context for the upcoming one (didn't see any teaser stuff for 3, haven't even seen the trailer) but while I'm thinking about it I want to recap characters in a brainstorm. I think of the original film has having a main group of 12 while the sequel introduced another 16 or so:
"Human good guys": Jake, Grace, Norm, Trudy, Max
"Bad guys": Quaritch, Selfridge, Wainfleet
"Na'vi": Neytiri, Eytukan, Mo'at, Tsu'tey
To the above (half of whom died in various ways), the sequel added these 16 or so:
Recom Quaritch and Recom Wainfleet (distinct characters, and they understand themselves as such, among the others),
the kids, Neteyam, Kiri, Lo'ak, Tuk
Water people, Tonowario, Ronal, Rotxo (still not sure on this asshole's spelling), Au'nung, Tsi'reya
Payakan,
The whalers (the doctor guy and the whaler guy), and one or two others. IIRC Ronal speaks the name of the dead mother whale aloud.
The story has a bunch of characters at this point so I'll be paying attention to meaningful character count in the next one. Some of the others can be followed-up briefly or else allowed to fall by the wayside as current drama requires.