So.... how are Norm and Max going to survive?

[Crickett]

Given that I have no idea what the plot of Avatar 2 is going to be, there are very few specific questions I can ask about it at this point. But this is one of them.

I've had people dispute this with me, but I am assuming since we didn't see it at the end, that Norm's Avatar is dead.

Max never had one.

The other Avatar drivers could theoretically inhabit their Avatars permanently as Jake does.

Gas masks, at least contemporary ones have an expiration date.

Hell's Gate took a large amount of damage in the script, but not in the movie. Will it be intact for (at least) the two of them to reside in the sequel?