the Avatar
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The Avatar
by This is all in your head... on Oct 29, 2013 09:02:27
Master of
all four elements; Water, Earth, Fire and Air. When the
Avatar dies, he/she is reincarnated into the next element of
the cycle.
Example:
Aang, 'The Last Airbender' was the Avatar, and was born to the Air Nomads. When he died, the next Avatar,
Korra was born into the
Southern Water Tribe.
Avatar
by The River Wolf on Feb 12, 2010 08:33:22
A 2009 movie by
James Cameron that is basically
Pocahontas dipped in
blue paint and exposed to enough radiation to make them grow 10 feet tall and ride dragon-birds, space llamas, and listen to the "flying jellyfish".
Example:
"Hey have you ever seen
Pocahontas?"
"oh you mean Avatar, the movie with that giant
blue girl who falls in love with a human and
worships trees?"
Avatar
by RandomAvatarFan on Jun 16, 2008 23:29:19
An awesome show on Nickelodeon that includes the manifestation and controlling of the four elements (water, earth, fire and air)
The Avatar is the only one who
can control all four. The show is an awesome show that combines comedy with drama and awesome
storytelling.
Example:
Will: "Hey did you see Avatar on
Friday?"
Abby: "Yeah, that was funny with the whole 'Sokka's Boomerang'
bit"
Avatar
by Yikker Yakker on Jan 02, 2010 09:36:22
James Cameron's
pet project for 10 or so odd years that, similar to
Zepplin's pet project called the 'Hindenburg' might have gotten off, but utterly failed to deliver. The premise is a Dances with wolves like atmosphere, were the Army is now a corporate mercenary force sent out to protect galactic miners from the indigenous aliens that inhabit the mined planet of Pandora. A diplomatic approach is conceived where a chosen few will be mentally connected to living Human-Alien hybrids and take on their bodies, hence the title of Avatar. Once these people are avatars, they will go into the forest and gain the trust of the native Na'vi, tall slender, and
blue aliens that need to be relocated so the Company can mine their area for a precious element called Unobtainium. Trouble brews and drama grows, money is spent, and this IS ONE OF THOSE MOVIES YOU CAN ONLY SEE AND ENJOY IN THEATERS.....sadly you can't watch it at home for a dollar and be disappointed.
Example:
Jack: " Jane! Did you see Avatar"
Jane: "Yes Jack, I did."
Jack: "didn't you just love that cool 3D and the special effects?
Jane: " Jack, quite frankly, I did not. I thought the entire film was a giant waste of $13.50 and 2 and half hours.
James Cameron cannot write for shit, cannot create decent characters, cannot cast properly, and has way to much fuckin' money in his back pocket. How you could like it, you little
waste of jizz, is way beyond my comprehension."
Jack: "But, but, the effects.....
the 3D.......the sexy blue chick....."
avatar
by LarstaiT on Nov 07, 2003 11:10:08
An icon which represents a user in a virtual reality/Internet setting, currently attempted with varying success. The term is adopted from
Neal Stephenson; another word used for the same concept is Rudy
Rucker's term "
tuxedo."
Example:
First used from an Internet perspective in 1992 in
SNOW CRASH, by
Neal Stephenson, in one of those self-fulfilling SF prophecies.
Stephenson got the name from the Hindu concept of avatars, which are the personification of various deities or entities.