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* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something|Royal Who Actually Does Something]]: Watching the spice mining and interviewing local figures about the management of Dune.

* [[Taking You ~~With~~ Me]]: {{spoiler|He attempted to kill Baron Harkonnen using a poison gas in one of his molars that would take out everyone in the room, including himself. Unfortunately... this doesn't actually work.}}

* [[Taking You with Me]]: {{spoiler|He attempted to kill Baron Harkonnen using a poison gas in one of his molars that would take out everyone in the room, including himself. Unfortunately... this doesn't actually work.}}

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Being lured into taking the title to Arrakis instead of [[Noble Fugitive|going into exile]]. [[Alternative Character Interpretation|Alternatively]], his seeming mistake was a successful [[Xanatos Gambit]] of his own.

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* [[Awesomeness By Analysis]]: He was good before he got to Arrakis. However once the spice kicked in his analytical prowess [[Took a Level In Badass|Took A Level In God-like Prescience]].

* [[A God Am I]] : Subverted [[Deconstructor Fleet|brutally]].

* [[Blessed ~~With~~ Suck]] : While he at first seems like a near-perfect hero destined for great and noble deeds, his ultimate fate is as unglorious and miserable as it gets. Mainly because [[Humans Are Flawed]] and [[Humans Are Bastards]].

* [[Blessed with Suck]] : While he at first seems like a near-perfect hero destined for great and noble deeds, his ultimate fate is as unglorious and miserable as it gets. Mainly because [[Humans Are Flawed]] and [[Humans Are Bastards]].

* Came Back Strong: He almost dies when he drinks the water of life, and when he wakes up he is the Kwisatz Haderach.

* [[The Chosen One]]

** and [[It Sucks to Be ~~The~~ Chosen One]]... ''Massively''...

** and [[It Sucks to Be the Chosen One]]... ''Massively''...

* [[Combat Clairvoyance]]

* [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]]

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== [[God-Emperor]] Leto Atreides II ==

* [[Achilles Heel]]: [[Kill It ~~With~~ Water|Water]], in large amounts.

* [[Achilles Heel]]: [[Kill It with Water|Water]], in large amounts.

* [[A God Am I]]

* {{spoiler|[[And I Must Scream]]: His awareness supposedly exists in each of the sandtrout and sandworms produced from his body. In his words, he is a pearl of awareness locked in an endless dream.}}

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* [[Faux Affably Evil]]

* [[Depraved Homosexual]]

* [[Survivors Guilt]]: Averted ''so hard''. When most of his men were killed when Leto [[Taking You ~~With~~ Me|attempted to poison Harkonnen while dying from it]], his immediate reaction was joy that they had died and he survived.

* [[Survivors Guilt]]: Averted ''so hard''. When most of his men were killed when Leto [[Taking You with Me|attempted to poison Harkonnen while dying from it]], his immediate reaction was joy that they had died and he survived.

== Piter de Vries ==

* {{spoiler|[[Anyone Can Die]]: Is taken out by Leto's attempted [[Taking You ~~With~~ Me]], whose real target was the Baron. See also [[Contractual Immortality]] below.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Anyone Can Die]]: Is taken out by Leto's attempted [[Taking You with Me]], whose real target was the Baron. See also [[Contractual Immortality]] below.}}

* [[Awesome By Analysis]]

* [[Contest Winner Cameo]] / [[Take That, Critics!]]: Possibly named for the American novelist Peter de Vries.

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* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: He intended to do this, but the Baron convinced him that with Jessica it was a ''really'' stupid idea.

* [[Psycho for Hire]]

* [[Spell My Name ~~With~~ an "S"]]: His name is given as 'Piter de Vrie'''d'''' in some editions of the first book.

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: His name is given as 'Piter de Vrie'''d'''' in some editions of the first book.

== Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen ==

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* [[Retired Badass]] : Implied.

* [[Ron the Death Eater]]: Not in fanfiction, but the prequel books make him way more evil and cowardly than he was originally presented.

* [[Spell My Name ~~With~~ an "S"]]: "Children of Dune" spells his first name as "Hassimar".

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: "Children of Dune" spells his first name as "Hassimar".

== Princess Irulan ==