If Quaritch returns....

[neytirifanboy]

OK, just for arguments sake, Quaritch is to return. How would it happen.

Family Member
This is a bit naff really and a cliche. So Quaritch suddenly has a twin brother or long lost cousin or a son who wants to take over the Quaritch mantel. The problem is that Avatar effectively uses this method already by making Jake a twin.

Quaritch survived
So Quaritch didn't actually die. Despite having two poisened arrows in him and limited air supply, he miraculously drags himself to safety or is rescued and then hidden. That would be difficult to accept.

Quaritch is revived/cloned
Probably the most popular method in fantasy and sci-fi to revive someone. This really would be unoriginal as it has been done so many times (e.g. Dune).

Time Travel/multi-dimension
As per Tasha Yarr in Star Trek 9although this is combined with thefamily member). A change in the Timeline means that Quaritch didn't die. I really hope there is no time travel or multi-dimensions in Avatar. That would spoil it for me. I reallty didn't like the time travel aspects of B5 and it would be even worse in Avatar.

Dreams or visions
Quaritch appears to Jake or someone else in dreams or visions, perhaps as little red devil sitting on his left shoulder while Grace is on the right. I can accept Grace coming back in a vision, but it would be too much to have Quaritch as well.

Quaritch comes back in another form
So someone builds a terminator in the shape of Quaritch. Wait a minute, hasn't JC done a movie about that before?

Flashback
Quaritch could appear in a flashback to explain some back story. This may be OK if it is done well and not over done. However, the problem with this is that he would not then be the main villain. Thus is is debateable whether it is worth doing this at all. also it reminds me too much of Lost which I didn't like at all.

Stephen Lang returns, but not as Quaritch
Stephen Lang is given a completely different roll which is completely unrecognisable from Quaritch. Obviously this would be fine as long as the roll is so different that we don't really notice that is is stephen Lang or Quaritch.

in conclusion, I think the only way to bring Quaritch back without issue, would be to make a prequel.