After a night of drinking, Jake starts a bar fight with a man who strikes a woman. Since his veteran benefits are not enough to pay for the surgery to repair his spine, he has no choice but to live out his life in a wheelchair. The injury was severe, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. He suffered a spinal injury in an unnamed war while fighting in Venezuela. Though nothing is known of his childhood, he joined the Marines as an adult for the hardship involved and a cause to fight for. Jake Sully was born in Augand raised on Earth and grew up hearing about Pandora, a small moon orbiting the gas giant Polyphemus in the Alpha Centauri System. Jake is reached by the RDA agents before taking him to the Municipal Crematorium He turns against the RDA and, after becoming the sixth Toruk Makto, leads the Na'vi in a battle to drive the RDA off Pandora. He is eventually accepted into the Omaticaya clan and becomes Neytiri's mate. Jake learns the ways of the Na'vi hunters from Neytiri and falls in love with her. After spending time with the Na'vi, Jake abandons his original mission and stops reporting to Quaritch. The Na'vi occupation of Hometree was blocking the RDA's access to a very large deposit of unobtanium underneath the tree. He was originally assigned to gather intel that would help Colonel Quaritch find a way to force the Na'vi to leave Hometree, or destroy it if necessary. He is the sixth Toruk Makto and Olo'eyktan of the Omaticaya clan.Īfter his twin brother, Tom, was killed on Earth, Jake agreed to replace him in the Avatar Program on Pandora, in which humans remotely control human/Na'vi hybrids to safely navigate the planet. He is a paraplegic renegade Marine veteran who defects to the Na'vi race and is also one of the 20 known avatar drivers. Jake Sully (born August 24, 2126) is the main character of Avatar.