Spider Avatar: Miles Socorro, His Father and Who Plays Him

Spider moves from prisoner and go-between in The Way of Water to a hunted survivor in Fire and Ash, and the Na'vi accept him at the end. In the second film, a recombinant Quaritch is chasing Jake Sully, whose Omatikaya fighters are waging a guerrilla war on the returning RDA. Quaritch seizes Spider along with the Sully children. Jake and Neytiri get the children back, yet Spider remains with Quaritch for a while and explains Na'vi customs to him. Because that knowledge could give the clan away, the Sullys flee to the Metkayina reef people under Tonowari and Ronal.

Two moments carry him through the climax. During the fight around the RDA ship, Neteyam pulls Spider, Lo'ak and Tsireya to safety and is shot dead on the way out. Afterward Spider pulls Quaritch from the water when he is drowning, then declines to stay by his side. That refusal is the plainest sign of where he belongs, and it answers a common question: does Spider betray the Na'vi? On the plot as told, he does not. He teaches Quaritch rather than selling anyone out, and he leaves when he could have stayed.

By Fire and Ash, Neteyam is dead and Spider can no longer safely wear his breathing mask. Jake and Neytiri arrange for the Wind Traders to take him to the human science camp. Varang's Mangkwan, the Ash People, attack that convoy and the family is split apart. Quaritch takes Jake prisoner, and the two of them go looking for Spider. Spider collapses on the way, and Kiri uses mycelia so that he can breathe Pandoran air.

The Mangkwan then capture Quaritch, Jake and the children, and Kiri has plants kill the guards so they can get away. Later Quaritch seizes Spider, guides the Mangkwan to the Metkayina village and forces Jake to give himself up. At the RDA base, scientists run tests on Spider while Jake waits for execution. Neytiri slips in, Spider breaks free and Garvin releases Jake. Then comes the grimmest beat: Jake tries to kill Spider so the RDA cannot learn from him, and cannot do it. In the last battle, Jake and Quaritch are trapped in a magnetic flux and have to work together to save Spider.

That finale also answers whether Spider becomes an avatar. He does not receive a Na'vi avatar body. He joins with the underwater spirit trees, meets deceased Na'vi, and the Na'vi formally adopt him as one of their people.

Spider does not die in the Avatar films released so far. He survives Avatar: Fire and Ash, in which he comes close more than once: his mask fails, he is captured and tested by RDA scientists, and Jake tries to kill him to stop the RDA learning from him, then cannot go through with it. The final battle ends with Jake and Quaritch cooperating to save him, after which Quaritch throws himself off the floating rock.

Afterward Spider connects with the underwater spirit trees and meets deceased Na'vi. Kiri introduces him to her mother, Grace, and the Na'vi formally take him in as one of their people. His status at the end of the third film is therefore alive and accepted, with Kiri's mycelia having let him breathe Pandoran air. The Ash People, Varang and the RDA remain as ongoing threats, so the story is left open.

As for what comes next, Avatar 4 is listed for December 21, 2029 on Disney's release schedule. The date is reported rather than confirmed by the studio, and TheWrap says Cameron has not decided whether to go forward with it. No source describes Spider's part in a fourth film. The status of that film is tracked on the avatar 4 page, and the full run of films sits on the avatar movies in order page.