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Original sci-fi story with no established characters to swap.

Neytiri is a strong female warrior and the male protagonist relies on her, but men are not mocked or vilified as a message.

• Neytiri trains and rescues Jake
• Dr. Grace Augustine is a competent scientist leader

No LGBTQ+ characters or themes present.

Diverse human cast fits a near-future military/corporate setting plausibly.

• Multiethnic Avatar program personnel and Marines

Strong environmental and anti-corporate message runs throughout, occasionally explicit but folded into the plot.

• The 'shock and awe' assault on the Na'vi
• Corporate greed over 'unobtainium' framed as villainous
• Reverence for the natural network of Pandora (Eywa)

Heavy anti-colonial and anti-military framing; aggressive Western corporate/military forces are the villains while indigenous Na'vi are noble.

• Colonel Quaritch as a brutal militaristic antagonist
• Humans framed as destructive colonizers exploiting Pandora
• 'They've killed their mother' line about Earth

Original work with no source material.