Dune/Characters: Difference between revisions

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

* [[Combat Clairvoyance]]

* [[Damn You Muscle Memory]]

* [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]]

* [[Dark Messiah]]: Sort of... He wasn't really a [[Messianic Archetype]] to begin with, but kept being persuaded about it by people full of [[Wish Fulfillment|wishful thinking]] to the point where [[Your Mind Makes It Real|he started believing in being]] the embodiment of an idea he previously scoffed at.

* [[Dreaming of Things to Come]]

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* [[The Atoner]] : By the end of ''Dune Messiah'' and in ''Children of Dune''.

* [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes]] : His whole life went all over the scale at different times. Even in the first book, ''Dune'', he goes from a very mild version of I to a genuinely scary version of V (particularly by the end of the book).

* [[Stop Worshipping Me]] : What he honestly starts wishing for (towards most of the Fremen) since the events portrayed in ''Dune Messiah''. For one he weeps that the strong and independent friends that he had come to love were caught up in the fever too.

* [[Stop Worshipping Me!]] : What he honestly starts wishing for (towards most of the Fremen) since the events portrayed in ''Dune Messiah''. For one he weeps that the strong and independent friends that he had come to love were caught up in the fever too.

* [[Warrior Poet]] / [[Cultured Warrior]]

* [[Warrior Prince]]

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* [[Young Conqueror]]

* {{spoiler|[[Zen Survivor]]}} : A "living in secrecy version" in ''Children of Dune''.

** But since that apparently wasn't troperrific enough, Herbert combined this trope with {{spoiler|[[Badass Preacher]]}}. Evidenced in a scene in [[Co D]], where [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|Paul cleanses the courtyard of the temple in Arrakeen from vendors selling various Muad'Dib-related souvenirs, icons and relics]]. The [[Irony]] is not lost to Herbert : In a clever twist, one of the objectives of the old and weary version of Paul is to actually try ''[[Stop Worshipping Me|mocking and outright destroying]]'' the whole state religious cult built around him by the Fremen.

** But since that apparently wasn't troperrific enough, Herbert combined this trope with {{spoiler|[[Badass Preacher]]}}. Evidenced in a scene in [[Co D]], where [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|Paul cleanses the courtyard of the temple in Arrakeen from vendors selling various Muad'Dib-related souvenirs, icons and relics]]. The [[Irony]] is not lost to Herbert : In a clever twist, one of the objectives of the old and weary version of Paul is to actually try ''[[Stop Worshipping Me!|mocking and outright destroying]]'' the whole state religious cult built around him by the Fremen.

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

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* [[Creepy Twins|Creepy Twin]]

* [[Dark Messiah]]

* [[Dead Guy Junior]]

* [[Dead Guy, Junior]]

* [[Dreaming of Things to Come]]

* [[The Emperor]]

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* {{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.

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

* {{spoiler|[[Contractual Immortality]]: Subverted in the prequels--despite appearing in the original novel, he is killed in them. Turns out that the Piter from the prequels was simply another clone of the same Mentat and the Baron ordered a replacement}}.

* [[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.

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* [[Punch Clock Villain]]

* [[Sexless Marriage]] : Obviously.

* [[My Master Right or Wrong]]

* [[My Master, Right or Wrong]]

* [[Not So Different]]: Even Paul admits this at the end.

* [[Retired Badass]] : Implied.

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* [[Death World]]: All the Sardies get a [[Training From Hell]] upbringing on Salusa Secundus, the devastated former seat of House Corrino (a wasteland planet similarly harsh and inhospitable as Arrakis).

* [[Evil Army]] : At least from the Atreides and Fremen point of view. [[Justified Trope|But make no mistake]] - they can be cruel and thorough.

* [[False Flag Operation]]: See [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] below.

* [[False-Flag Operation]]: See [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] below.

* [[My Master Right or Wrong|Our Master Right Or Wrong]]

* [[My Master, Right or Wrong|Our Master Right Or Wrong]]

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Shaddam Corrino IV sends two full legions of Sardaukar in the guise of Harkonnen soldiers to bolster their assault on the Atreides after Yueh's bertayal. The Atreides pick up on this almost immediately, recognizing the incredibly distinct and vicious fighting style of the Sardaukar. The Sardaukar even attempt disguising themselves as Atreides soldiers during the assault.

* [[Penal Colony]]: Where they are trained