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I hold at your neck the Gom Jabbar, a poison needle, instant death. The test is simple. Remove your hand from the box, and you die.
~ Mohiam explaining the Gom Jabbar.
There is a place - terrifying to us. To women. It is said: a man will come, the Kwisatz Haderach. He will go where we can not.
~ Mohiam, explaining the concept of the Kwisatz Haderach to Paul Atreides.
Consider what you are about to do, Paul Atreides.
~ Mohiam when she and the Emperor are confronted by Paul.

Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam is a major antagonist in Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune, its film and TV adaptations and one of the main antagonists of its 1969 sequel, Dune Messiah.

A member of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood, Mohiam was the truthsayer of the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV in the year 10,191 AG. Learning that the Spacing Guild desired the death of Paul Atreides, she traveled to Castle Caladan to assess Paul for herself. Despite the threat of being stabbed with Mohiam's gom jabbar and the pain from the box Mohiam had him put his hand in, Paul passed her test. After his performance in the test, she was willing to concede that Paul might indeed be the Kwisatz Haderach.

Eventually, after Paul and his Freman allies defeated Shaddam, the Harkonnen, and the Guild altogether, Mohiam tried to salvage the situation and exercise control over Paul. However, he was able to force her to stop using her powers against him in the end.

She was portrayed by Charlotte Rampling in the 2021 film, Siân Phillips in the 1984 film, and Zuzana Geislerová in the 2000 miniseries.

Trivia[]

  • Charlotte Rampling who plays Helen Mohiam in the two-part film was originally going to play Jessica in Alejandro Jordorowsky's unmade Dune film but back out because of a scene which Rabban the Beast orders part of the Harknnen Army to pulled down their pants in front of the palace and defecated in order to insult Duke Leto".
  • In Dune: Part Two, she is revealed as the one who originally devised the plot to destroy House Atreides. This is a change from the books, in which the Emperor and Baron Harkonnen are the ones who formulated the scheme.

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