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== House Atreides and supporters ==
=== Duke Leto Atreides ===
* [[Guile Hero]]: He's not really coldblooded enough to be [[The Chessmaster]]; that's Hawat's job. But he knows how to scheme and plot reasonably well.
* [[Happily Married|Happily Sort-of Married]]
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* [[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.
=== Lady Jessica Atreides ===
* [[Beneath the Mask]]: Type B, hidden powers.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]
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* [[Sex Slave|Nominal Sex Slave]] Jessica is ''officially'' a concubine for the purpose of diplomatic convenience but in practice she is treated as a [[Hot Consort]].
=== Paul Atreides ===
* [[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]].
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** But since that apparently wasn't troperrific enough, Herbert combined this trope with {{spoiler|[[Badass Preacher]]}}. Evidenced in a scene in CoD, 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 ===
* [[Achilles Heel]]: [[Kill It with Water|Water]], in large amounts.
* [[A God Am I]]
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* [[Xanatos Roulette]]
=== Thufir Hawat ===
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: He's an idiot. See the entry in [[It Just Bugs Me]].
* [[The Chessmaster]]
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* [[The Stoic]]
=== Dr Yueh ===
* [[Double Agent]]
* [[I Have Your Wife]] : What lead to his [[Sanity Slippage]] and eventual agreement to betray the Atreides.
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* [[The Woobie]]
=== Gurney Halleck ===
An Atreides retainer and one of Paul's teachers.
* [[Badass Grandpa]] / [[Cool Old Guy]]
* [[Badass Normal]] : He sure knows his fencing.
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* [[Warrior Poet]] / [[Cultured Warrior]]
=== Duncan Idaho ===
Another Atreides Retainer.
* [[Ascended Extra]] : In later novels of the series.
* [[Back From the Dead]] : Repeatedly in the later installments.
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== Fremen ==
=== Liet-Kynes ===
A half-fremen Planetologist continuing his hope of bringing water to Arrakis. Temporarily appointed Judge of the Change.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]
* [[Emperor Scientist]]
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* [[Science Hero]]
=== Stilgar ===
Fremen Chief who Mentored Paul
* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]] : The method by which Fremen choose their chiefs, with Stilgar being no exception.
* [[Bedouin Rescue Service|Fremen Rescue Service]]
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== Harkonnens and Supporters ==
=== Baron Harkonnen ===
* [[The Chessmaster]]
* [[Complete Monster]]
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* [[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.}}
* [[Awesome By Analysis]]
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* [[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 ===
* [[Badass Normal]]: Holds his own against the Kwisatz Haderach. Questionable how normal he is though.
* Bastard Understudy
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== Imperial ==
=== Count Fenring ===▼
▲== Count Fenring ==
A councellor and friend of [[The Emperor]]; an assassin. Was one of the Bene Gesserit's recent failures.
* [[Badass]]: Implied. After the Emperor sees Paul fight he concludes that Fenring would be able to take him easily even if he wasn't exhausted.
* Obfuscating Stupidity
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* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: "Children of Dune" spells his first name as "Hassimar".
=== Princess Irulan ===
Emperor's daughter who is forced to nominally marry Paul to secure him the throne. Also provides commentary at chapter headings.
* [[And Now You Must Marry Me]]
* [[Author Avatar]]: Used to make commentary
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=== The Sardaukar, the Army of [[The Emperor]] ===
* [[Always Someone Better]]: The Sardaukar are so good because they are trained on the [[Death World]] of Salusa Secundus. Leto (and Paul) correctly figure out that Arrakis is an even worse [[Death World]] and so its inhabitants, the Fremen, will be able to beat the Sardaukar.
* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]
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