You bear in mind Mike Wazowski, proper? The enormous sentient eyeball with little legs and arms voiced by Billy Crystal who works at Monsters Inc. (of “Monsters Inc.” fame), helped prompted quite a lot of destruction within the metropolis and was concerned within the firm going bankrupt after an enormous scandal earlier than saving the corporate by pivoting to fun manufacturing facility. 

Wait, what does funnyman monster Michael Wazowski from the massive metropolis should do with the house whale from the multi-million-dollar “Avatar: The Method of Water”? you would possibly ask. Effectively, rather a lot, it seems. 

Within the April 2023 subject of Empire, manufacturing designer Dylan Cole talked about how the design group discovered a solution to make Payakan a relatable character by utilizing … Mike Wazowski as a reference. “It began as a joke, however it’s one hundred pc the identical downside: how a lot are you able to categorical with simply an eye fixed.”

And but, joke or not, it type of is sensible. As idea artist Constantine Sekeris mentioned, “you learn Payakan via [that one big eye].” That is the important thing to the character. Payakan can’t discuss (besides via subtitles), however he expresses a lot via the one massive eye that sees Lo’ak. Inside minutes, he is a superb addition to the film, one which matches Lo’ak’s vitality and his frustration with the adults of the clan, and his want to battle injustice.