'Avatar: Fire and Ash' trailer: Get your best look yet at Pandora's Ash People

Everything changed when the Fire Na'vi attacked.
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Oona Chaplin as Varang in "Avatar: Fire and Ash."
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Pandora is in major trouble in the new trailer for James Cameron's Avatar: Fire and Ash.

The latest trailer for the third film in the Avatar franchise gives viewers our best look yet at the film's new antagonists: the Na'vi Mangkwan clan, also known as the Ash People. As their leader Varang (Oona Chaplin) explains, the Mangkwan once lived in a forest, just like Avatar's Omatikaya. A volcano reduced their village to ash, and while the Mangkwan called for help from the Pandoran deity Eywa, none came. That has led them to revere fire as "the only pure thing in this world."

Now, the Mangkwan want to spread their fire across all of Pandora. They'll join forces with the sinister Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) and the humans who wish to keep stripping Pandora of its resources. How will Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and their family protect their home from such a large threat?

The human-Mangkwan alliance isn't the only problem Pandora is facing, though. The trailer reveals that, through some miracle, human Spider (Jack Champion) can now live on Pandora without wearing a mask. If every human could breathe Pandora's air, that would only speed up their destruction of the moon further.

That's a lot of doom and gloom for one trailer, but luckily, every second of it is a visual marvel. New alien creatures! The return of Toruk Makto! Battles in forests, the ocean, and the sky! Feast your eyes on the whole sneak peek above.

Avatar: Fire and Ash hits theaters Dec. 19.

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Belen Edwards
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Belen Edwards is an Entertainment Reporter at Mashable. She covers movies and TV with a focus on fantasy and science fiction, adaptations, animation, and more nerdy goodness. She is a member of the Critics Choice Association and the Television Critics Association, as well as a Tomatometer-approved critic.


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