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* [[Absent Aliens]]: Unless you count the Sandworms, and their [[Precursors|implied creators]]. Even then, the sentience was added after the fact, by Leto II.

** Plenty of non-sentient species are also mentioned in passing. There's a lot of ''life'' in the universe, but none of it talks back.

 

 

* [[I Am X, Son of Y]]: Paul NEVER makes anyone forget that, before being Usul of the Fremen, before being Muad'dib, before being the awaited Mahdi, before being the Kwisatz Haderach, he is Paul Atreides, son of Duke Leto Atreides. In fact, the closest thing Paul has to a [[Berserk Button]] is someone belittling the memory of his father or the Atreides name.

* [[Ice Cream Koan]]: The phrases of the Zensunni sect from ''Dune'' are said to intended to be [[Ice Cream Koan|Ice Cream Koans]], similar to Zen as mentioned above. Instead of providing enlightenment though bypassing rational thought and accepting paradox; they're intended to teach the student to recognize nonsense and obfuscation, regardless of how logically-constructed and reasonable it may appear, and to see through to the "true" underlying reality. Zen emphasizes acceptance of the irrational. The Zensunni philosophy underlying most schools of thought in ''Dune'' emphasizes the extremes of rationality and mental development (eg. the Mentat human computers, and Bene Gesserit observation techniques).

 

 

* [[Razor Floss]]: Shigawire.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Mainly due to the effects of the Spice, many people extend their life far greater than would be possible without. The Emperor Shaddam is described by his daughter Princess Irulan as looking around 50, though being in his late '80s. He dies due to work-related stress rather than old age.

 

 

 

* ''[[Dune II]]'' (and ''Dune 2000'')

* ''[[Emperor Battle for Dune]]''

 

* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The Lynch film introduced many elements that influenced later works in the Dune universe. Examples include the Mentat Mantra ("It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion" sounds similar enough to the Litany Against Fear that it feels like a line from the book, but never appeared there), the Atreides research into sound-based weaponry (again, never mentioned in the book. Sonic tanks and the like have turned up in subsequent works), heart-plugs (only briefly mentioned in the book as some sort of filtration device, but turned into something entirely more sinister by the Harkonen), the Baron Harkonen's skin conditions (never mentioned in the book, the Baron is only ever described as morbidly obese with no references made to skin problems), and many elements of the film's "look and feel" are aped by the works that followed (It's very rare to see the Emperor depicted without a neat little beard these days, for example, and Bene Gesserit are often depicted as bald).

* [[Alan Smithee]]: David Lynch had his name removed from the extended cut of the '84 film, replacing it with this. And then had his script credit changed to "[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Judas Booth]]", in case anyone didn't get the message.