Moments pages are Spoilers Off. You Have Been Warned.
- While it's certainly a chilling sight, the return of the humans by a fleet of spaceships decelerating from interstellar velocities and proceeding to obliterate the jungle around the landing sites for miles around sends a message that the RDA isn't playing around this time.
- Jake leading several Omaticaya warriors to attack the RDA supply lines.
- The oceans of Pandora in general, but most of all the tulkun - sapient whales with bioluminescent, Maori-like markings.
- Neteyam's handling of bullies against Kiri is much more effective and calmer than Lo'ak's angry response. He plainly warns them to back off - or else.
- Kiri's entire existence counts as one for the production team and Sigourney Weaver herself. This character who's a teenager in-story isn't being played by any child or young adult actresses at all, but by Weaver herself - who has to relearn how teenagers like Kiri would act and film her scenes interacting with actual teen actors, and the animation technology has achieved so much breakthrough that James Cameron and his production team could convincingly create a lifelike animated teenager character played by a 73 years old actress.
- In the first film, it took Jake Sully well over a month and special training to successfully mount and ride an Ikran. Quaritch gets it right on his very first day, with no one showing him how.
- When the Metkayina are preparing for battle, Tonowari tries to convince Ronal (who's visibly pregnant) to stay behind, but Ronal determinedly insists she rides.Tonowari: You should stay back.Ronal: I RIDE! (cue page picture above)
- The RDA, and by extension, the humans, definitely Took a Level in Badass in this movie. You can tell as even the civilian whalers are capable of coordinating a hunt for the Tulkun with military-like precision. It goes to show how humans are now fully ready to make Pandora their new home.
- The Skirmish at the Three Brothers, which is the main highlight of the film.
- Payakan's Big Damn Heroes moment, leaping out of the water and attacking the Sea Dragon after after seeing Lo'ak and his siblings in danger. The RDA finally gets a true taste of a tulkun's intelligence, as Payakan ricochets one harpoon off his head onto the ship, dodges a second harpoon later on, and then uses the latter's attached cable to rip the whalers' boat apart. Him getting revenge by cleaving off head whaler Scoresby's arm is a crowd favorite.
- Spider managing to sink the the Sea Dragon using nothing but a run of the mil fire extinguisher, exploiting the chaos on the bridge from Payakan's ambush, he grabs the extinguisher and uses it to knock out the pilot, push the ship to full power, and finally break the throttle, sending the Sea Dragon speeding at full power toward a rocky reef without there being anyway for the whalers to stop it in time... all while one engine is spewing flames from an exploded whaling boat that Payakan had flipped onto the ship's roof. The sight of the Sea Dragon hurtling into the air before slamming back into the water, now wrecked, is truly something to behold.
- Kiri using her newfound abilities to ensnare and kill some whalers underwater.
- For starters, Quaritch was mounting an Ikran during the aerial combat, and displaying impressive flight capabilities on par with Sully's, all while armed with an assault rifle. Hell, you can tell he's an Instant Expert as after bonding with his Ikran for days at best, he's able to keep up with Neytiri.
- Neytiri's Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Quaritch's team after the death of Neteyam. She practically eliminated an entire team of Recombinants and RDA soldiers, leaving Quaritch the sole survivor.
- The battle between Jake and Quaritch is the predecessor taken to another level.
Quaritch: You're not leaving, are you, Jake? Knowing I'm out there. Knowing that I'll never stop. I'm coming for you. And when I do, I'll kill your whole family.
Jake: Then let's get it done.- Sully's new steed, the Skimwing, got the upper hand on water. How? By catching the Ikran within its jaws and pulling the Ikran underwater, in a move not unlike a mix between a flying fish and a crocodile death roll.
- The final battle between the two humanoid Na'vis in the sinking whaling vessel deserves a moment, as despite gradually devolving into a fistfight between the two, it showcases two hardened, experienced Marines fighting in their new bodies, not unlike how humans would fight.
- When the Seadragon is sinking, and Tuk falls down a hatch, Neytiri immediately dives in after her not even hesitating (she already lost one child, and she wasn't gonna lose another).
- After Spider saves his life, Quaritch all but pleads for his son to come with him back to Bridgehead. Spider's reply? An angry Na'vi hiss. The fact that Spider does not even bother to give Quaritch a "Jake Sully will always be a better father to me than you will ever be" remark (in those exact words) just goes to show that his real father is not worth talking to anymore.
- Another one for Spider, when he was put into some kind some kind of high-tech Mind Probe interrogation machine to find out any information about the Sully family's whereabouts he remained defiant and refused to give Gen. Ardmore any information until Quaritch stopped the interrogation and tried a different approach. Later even Quaritch said he was impressed by Spider's loyalty and also complimented his son on giving the RDA scientists absolutely nothing despite them working him over pretty hard.
