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| “ | There is no one in this room who can stand against me! Your mothers warned you about my coming! Fear the moment. But you think you could have a chance. But you are afraid, what if I could be the One? This could be the moment you've been praying for, all your life... | „ |
| ~ Paul Atreides to the Fremen - his famous speech. |
| “ | Gurney Halleck: The great houses refuse to honor your ascendency, my lord. Stilgar: We await your orders, Muad'Dib. Paul Atreides: Lead them to paradise. |
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| ~ Paul starting the Jihad that will result in billions of deaths. |
| “ | My name is a killing word. | „ |
| ~ Paul Atreides' most famous quote. |
Paul Atreides, also known as Muad'Dib, is the main protagonist of the Dune franchise.
The elder brother of Alia Atreides and the son of Duke Leto Atreides I and Lady Jessica Atreides, he is the last Duke of the noble House Atreides who later ascends to the throne of Padishah Emperor. He would later go on to father Leto Atreides II the Elder, Ghanima Atreidies, and Leto Atriedes II the Younger, who would later be known at the God-Emperor.
In the 2021 film adapation and its 2024 sequel, he was portrayed by Timothée Chalamet in his first villainous role.
Appearance[]
In the novels, he has black hair and green eyes and is described as being quite small for his age. He has an oval face, similar to his mother, Lady Jessica. He also has strong bones and hair. He has Duke's black and black eyebrow line and his maternal grandfather's eyebrow line, which he will not name. He has a fine and disdainful nose. His hair is like his father's, coal-colored and tousled.
Personality[]
When he was younger, Paul Atreides was a quiet, dutiful, perceptive, and principled young man. Raised as the son of a Duke, he received meticulous preparation to not only succeed his father as ducal heir but also in the Bene Gesserit way, which led him to be a very dutiful and strategic man. He trained everything from hand-to-hand combat to leadership and basic ecology. Paul was very knowledgable and analytical, but he also demonstrated the personal qualities of an ideal leader. He was very courteous, fair, humble, and decisive, and despite his quiet disposition, Paul showed a great sense of sincerity, directness, and charisma when need be, like his father before him. As heir apparent to his father's dynasty, Paul was an ambitious, if naive, young man who idealized his father and sought to live up to his family name.
However, following the Gom Jabbar test with the Reverend Mother, Paul Atreides' mind begins to cultivate a more expanded awareness of the future. With his prescience, Paul carries the burden of knowing the future and perceiving the unequivocal fact that he is destined to change the course of the universe. From the start, Paul was a youthful, naive young man who was unaware of the extent to which his entire life had been premeditated, and between his father's expectations, his training as a Duke, Bene Gesserit, and a Mentat, Paul was instilled with expectations of what he was supposed to be. Even in the very beginning, Paul's prescience foretold that he was destined for a terrible purpose, establishing Paul’s great trepidation he a result of the expectations placed upon him and the fears he felt intrinsically linked to his relation to the Sisterhood and position as a product of the Bene Gesserit breeding program to create the Kwisatz Haderach.
Throughout the events of Dune, Paul's prescient mind begins to awaken to the latent prescience he contained as a Bene Gesserit male, and following his prescient awakening in the Stilltent, his prescience pervaded his conscious life as well. Following this psychological expansion, Paul's perceived the inexorable passage of time on a far more multifaceted level, partially perceiving the causal results his actions have on the future and, in particular, foreseeing glimpses of a horrific Jihad being incited in his name if he were to go down the path of indoctrinating the Fremen and restoring his family name. Hellbent on vengeance after his father's death and overwhelmed by his prescient awakening, Paul became a far more cold, calculating, and opportunistic individual. This is shown in his manipulation of the Fremen, who, while cautious to lead as a result of his visions of a holy war, still ultimately chooses to exploit to claim the throne. As the Fremen prophet, Paul also portrays himself as a charismatic, bold, and determined revolutionary leader, destined to fulfill inundated prophecies by the Bene Gesserit foretelling their messianic deliverance. Paul leads his army with great devotion, inspiring the fanatical fervour of his gradually building figurehead among the Fremen people.
Using his charisma to lead the Fremen against the Imperium, Paul brutally crushes the Harkonnens, and in another demonstration of his expanded perceptiveness, forthrightness, and longing for revenge, Paul manipulates the Emperor into abdicating the throne, poising himself as Padishah Emperor and Mahdi of the Known Universe. Yet beneath all of this charismatic bravado, coldness, and callous manipulation, Paul was a deeply fearful individual who was horrified by the path he felt inclined to follow and terrified over the prospect of what his megalomaniacal vying for power would bring upon the universe. Though rationalizing his rise to power as one meant to avert the Jihad, Paul is also consumed by vengeance over his father and is predominantly driven by revenge—a newly elicited coldness in Paul that he feels separates him from his humanity, and one he feels isolates him from the values of morality and honour his father led by. Beyond the elation he felt at claiming vengeance against the conspirators who destroyed his house, Paul was horrified for the future, believing himself damned to a terrible purpose, one he now recognized as the Jihad, and felt trepidatious that he could not avert, as in no future could he un-foresee the violence that would result from the messianic figurehead he had already validated himself to be in the eyes of the Fremen.
As Padishah Emperor and as Muad’Dib, the messiah of the Known Universe, Paul becomes consumed by trepidation, paranoia, and regret. In his public disposition, Paul portrays himself as an authoritative and messianic figure, speaking with a commanding, charismatic authority, befitting of his position as the most powerful and important Emperor who ever reigned. Having spearheaded a guerrilla war against the Emperor Shaddam, Paul has now become a legend, and in his name, he has now unwillingly incited the violent Jihad that he first foresaw in his earliest prescient visions. Following his defeating the Imperial army, Paul felt entrenched with the terrible purpose that he first conceived, and as he had predicted, his Fremen army, now fully converted worshippers of his godhead, enacted the Jihad in his name, viewing Paul as a prophesied messiah and aspired to spread their religion by any means necessary. As a result, in Dune Messiah, Paul is riddled with turmoil, desperation, and regret. He feels that working so many into a religious frenzy and causing the deaths of his many dissenters has caused mass violence, and he is horrified by the stained legacy he left not only to the Imperium but to his family name. Additionally, he struggles against a feeling of acute powerlessness—trapped by his very prescience and fanatical Fremen army, which allowed him to claim the throne to begin with. In essence, Paul feels trapped by his prescient visions of the future and his expectations as Emperor of the Known Universe, two facets that seem to carry with them absolute command over the universe but instead only show Paul how time subjects Paul himself to fate. Paul is Emperor, and yet he is unable to control the men who worship him. Similarly, Paul's prescient mind leaves him fundamentally incapable of existing in the present moment, always ruminating over the potential results his actions will have on the future. He tries to be excited about Chani’s pregnancy and the prospect of their retirement to Sietch Tabr, but all he can see is the unalterable events that will lead to Chani's death in the near future. All in all, Paul wishes that he could relinquish his position of power and exist without expectations imposed upon him. This is also seen in his desperate longing to escape the messianic godhead in his name and a hopeless aspiration against fate itself to somehow restore his name and honour after the horrific bloodshed his actions incited across the universe. When Hayt, the ghola of Paul’s former swordmaster and Atreides confidant, Duncan Idaho, arrives on Arrakis, Paul's heightened intelligence and prescience clue him on to the fact that he is a creation of the Tleilaxu to destroy Paul. However, against this cautionary knowledge, he permits Hayt to stay because Hayt reminds Paul of a past he longs for. Ultimately, Paul is fearful over the Guild’s conspiracy against him and fearful of the results that may come if he follows a path that strays from the certain futures he's seen. However, following his blindness by a nuclear weapon and the unforeseen birth of Paul and Chani’s son Leto, Paul finally relinquishes himself from the burdens of fate. At the end of Dune Messiah, Paul accepts the futility of his actions, finally freeing himself of an existence burdened by expectation and prescient knowledge and, for the first time, making a choice uninfluenced by any expectation or burden beyond his own desire: choosing to honour Fremen law and walking into the desert to die. In this final act, he solidifies the Fremen’s eternal reverence for him.
Reappearing 9 years later as The Preacher, Paul portrays the disposition of a morally renewed man who now sees the truth of the fallible consequences his actions held and does all he can to discredit and disavow the former violence he incited in his name. Renouncing his former identity as Paul Atreides, Paul becomes a mysterious figure who dispels atheistic lectures against the religion he once consolidated by his rise as Emperor. As the Preacher, Paul shows himself to be depressed and fatalistic, resigning himself to the life of an unwitting slave to the Iduali of Sietch Jacurutu. However, following meeting his son, Leto II, Paul is confronted with the cowardice of his actions, not only in his willful submission to the Ideal, or his manipulation of the Fremen, inspiring the violent Jihad in his name, but also in his refusal of the Golden Path. Here, Paul, beyond any regret he once had for his actions, truly owns up to the personal consequences they caused, recognizing that in his warpath of vengeance, he was consumed by trepidation and callousness and had become manipulative, cold, and intolerable to everyone around him, most notably towards his mother and Irulan. Furthermore, he recognizes the Golden Path that he rejected and relinquishes his visions of the future to his son, allowing Leto to take on the path of leading and freeing humanity that Paul had become too depressed to follow. In the end, Paul dies having made peace with his son and is stabbed to death, renouncing the horrors he was once responsible for, ushering in a new era for his son, the God Emperor, to take his place as Padishah Emperor of the Known Universe and lead humanity through the devastating path he could not free them from stagnation.
Biography[]
Background[]
| “ | All paths lead into darkness. | „ |
| ~ Paul Atreides |
He is the heir to the House Atreides, tracing thousands of years to Agamemnon and having a long feud with House Harkonnen. Born and grew up on the water planet of Caladan, ancestral Atreides home on the water planet of Caladan is the ancestral home of House Atreidses, the son of Duke Leto Atreides and his wife Jessica Atreides. He didn't have many companions or friends his own age; he received them from his teachers, men like Duncan Idaho and Thufir Hawat, and deep education in the Bene Gesserit ways from his mother.
Dune[]
Paul Atreides in Dune.
Shortly after his fifteenth birthday, his father revealed to him that he wanted him to be a mentat. The goal of this was that when Paul became the Duke of House Atreides, one of the best houses of the Imperium, even the emperor was jealous of them, and Paul's talents earned him the attention of the Bene Gesserit, who tested him with the Gom Jabbar. When House Atreides moved to the forsake planet of Arrakis to supervise the mining of the zest melange, he moved with his guardians. Gaius Helen Mohiam, Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother and the Emperor's Truthsayer, put him to the test with the gom jabbar some time ago during their flight. Paul put his hand into a modest box as part of a trial to see in the event that he was "genuinely human" through the encounter of torment. Paul was suffering from nerve acceptance, which clearly took an incredible bargain of vitality out of the Reverend Mother since no kid, male or female, had ever endured such serious physical enduring some time recently.
After a supposed assassination of Paul by a hunter-seeker, Dr. Yueh brought down the protective house shields and utilized narcotic drugs to impair Leto, Paul, and Jessica, clearing out the Atreides leaderless and disorganized under the Harkonnen and Sardaukar military attack within the Siege of Arrakeen. The Atreides armed force was smashed, with a couple of leftovers to elude. This assault marked the start of the war. Paul and Jessica were sent into the forsake to pass. Due to the use of truthsayers within the domain, Noble Harkonnen was required to be able to say honestly that he was not specifically dependable for their passings. Be that as it may, this plan was thwarted by courses of action made by Yueh (he abhorred the Aristocrat and wished to at least spare Paul and Jessica), and Paul and Jessica were overseen to slaughter their captors and elude into the forsaken. Paul and Jessica at first met up with planetary researcher Liet Kynes and swordmaster Duncan Idaho, stowing away in a botanical testing station deserted long prior. Be that as it may, they were not there long; some time ago, the station was assaulted by Sardaukar, who slaughtered Duncan. Paul and Jessica flew to the profound leaves in an ornithopter, separating from Dr. Kynes. They let the Harkonnens think they had passed on from a coriolis storm.
Within the profound leave, beneath the weight of extraordinary circumstances and the increased measurements of flavor that he has been ingesting essentially by living on Arrakis, a few of Paul's powers came to realization, and his capacity to see conceivable prospects detonated into mindfulness. He saw numerous things—a way out of his circumstances and the restoration of the Atreides—if, as it were, he could make contact with the local Fremen and survive.
Meeting the Fremen[]
Paul facing the Shai-Hulud.
After an unsafe crossing, Paul and Jessica were ordered to meet up with a troop of Fremen. Paul and Jessica demonstrated their worth by incapacitating Fremen in unarmed combat, supported by Bene Gesserit prana-bindu training—the "Weirding Way," and the Fremen pioneer Stilgar happily acknowledged them into his troop since he would like to include that expertise with the Fremen individuals. Paul also met a youthful lady, Chani, the girl of Liet Kynes, whom he had long seen in his dreams. Amid this fight, Paul incapacitated a pleased Fremen, Jamis, who took offense at this "arrogant" youth and challenged Paul to a battle to the death. In spite of the fact that he was initially unwilling to murder, he triumphed effortlessly, making his title within the tribe additionally succeed to the position of head of the family of the dead man. Stilgar gave Paul the title Usul, meaning "the solid base of a pillar," as his private title inside the troop; Paul gave himself the title "Paul Muad'dib" as his open Fremen title.
When they returned to the troop's seat, they discovered the Fremen Reverend Mother was close by, and with the random entry of Jessica, a Bene Gesserit, they made Jessica their Sayyadina. Jessica, not realizing the consequences of what the Fremen were approximately to do, acknowledged it to cement her place within the tribe. Midway through the method, she realized she had made a mistake—that she was included in a comparative handle to how the Bene Gesserit made their claim to Reverend Moms who might see hereditary memories—and realized that the infant in her womb, fathered by Leto before his passing, would too go through the method. This had genuinely disastrous results, since it was a Bene Gesserit instructing that any such infant would not have the quality to resist the recollections of its ancestors.
A long time later, Paul had gotten to be something of a devout pioneer among the Fremen. Chani got to be his lover and bore him a child, whom he called Leto. He and his mother trained the Fremen of Sietch Tabr and other Fremen who looked for Paul in his devout pretense, within the Weirding Way, the Bene Gesserit's prana-bindu fighting techniques. Under his administration, his "Fedaykin" experienced triumph after triumph against the Harkonnens, and Paul's glory and air among the Fremen developed. Be that as it may, in order to be really acknowledged by the Fremen, he had to get to be a sandrider. Paul endeavored it and succeeded, getting to be a full part of the Sietch.
The same day, a band of runners sought melange as well as profoundness within the leaves, and the Fremen of Sietch Tabr sprung a trap. Within the center of the fight, Paul recognized his weapons educator, Gurney Halleck, and called on him and his men to yield. Gurney was overjoyed and overpowered by his rise to degree. He surrendered his men and joined Paul's. Among Gurney's men, be that as it may, were a few Majestic spies who attempted to murder Paul. They were unsuccessful, and they were captured by the Fedaykin. Paul gave mystery orders for the spies to be allowed to escape so that they would reveal that Paul Atreides still lived on Arrakis. Taking advantage of selecting Gurney Halleck, Paul used the minute to unravel his administration issue. Since he had ended up a wormrider, many of his supporters had anticipated him challenging Stilgar, his greatest companion among the Fremen, in order to require control of Sietch Tabr. But Paul broke convention and, in doing so, constrained Stilgar to do the same, overseeing to avoid this issue by broadcasting himself as the administering Duke of Arrakis and hence taking control without slaughtering his friend. They returned to Sietch Tabr. Gurney was stunned to find Jessica was still alive because he accepted she was the one who betrayed the Atreides, which Paul did not know. Gurney was almost ready to slaughter her when Paul strolled in, overseen to halt him, and clarified that Yueh was the backstabber. Gurney was nearly broken by his deadly and awful blunder, but Jessica excused him, and he was indeed bound to advance to Atreides and Jessica's benefit.
Paul's control among the Fremen developed, but he was still baffled. He was not all he may be; he may not control his journeys in the long term, and much of it was still clear to him. So he took a really risky step and consumed a modest sum of flavor pith, and so he attempted to perform the male equivalent of the Reverend Mother ceremony. Already, no man had survived this encounter, and it appeared that he had fizzled as well since he sank into a coma. Paul ignored telling anybody what he was doing; numerous individuals thought he was dead, in spite of the fact that others, essentially the Fedaykin, accepted he was in a devout stupor. His mother, Jessica, did all she could to wake him but fizzled, so out of edginess, she called Chani from her profound leave to help. Chani, through her more personal information of Paul's dreams and wants, realized what a frantic thing Paul had done and utilized the flavor substance changed over by Jessica utilizing her powers as a Reverend Mother to bring him out of his stupor. For Paul, no time had passed, and he gloried in his unused recollections and powers. He told his mother and Chani instantly that the Head himself was right now circling the planet with numerous Sardaukar, prepared to assault. He had demonstrated the Bene Gesserit wrong: He is the Kwisatz Haderach, showing up one generation ahead of the prediction. He pronounced that it was presently time to devastate the Harkonnens.
Fremen assaults and attacks on the Harkonnens had already been overseen to nearly completely halt the stream of flavor from Arrakis. This forced the Sovereign to act, and he came to Arrakis with all his Sardaukar and jointly exacted on all the other respectable houses to destroy the Fremen on the off chance that it was necessary to arrange to induce the flavor streaming once more. Currently, the Sovereign was mindful of who Muad'Dib was. In advance of his entry, he sent an expansive Sardaukar drive into the profound forsake for information. Assaulting a sietch, they managed to slaughter Paul's son and capture Alia, Paul's sister, but were driven off by Fremen children, ancient individuals, and ladies.
Battle on Arrakeen[]
| “ | Each man is a little war. | „ |
| ~ Paul Atreides |
After the sovereign himself had landed, Paul launched the ultimate assault. Utilizing the House Atriedes' family atomics (atomic weapons) that his men overseen to recover after the Harkonnen assault, he blew a gap within the Shield Divider that ensured the capital of Arrakeen was protected from the surrounding desert and its fierce storms. By utilizing the weapons this way, he narrowly avoided repudiating the widespread ban against utilizing atomics on individuals, which would have required the other respectable houses to retaliate with "planetary obliteration." The Fremen assaulted beneath the cover of a huge desert storm, riding sandworms from the forsake through the gap in the Shield Divider. The extraordinary static force of the sandstorm at that point shorted out all of Sarduakar's defensive shields. The Sardaukar were unable to resist the complete drive of the Fremen, caught as they were in awe, and the Head was constrained to yield. The combined forces of the Landsraad still lingered in a circle around the planet, but Paul debilitated to destroy the Flavor in case any of them attempted to land, and they backed off. Within the surprise of Muad'Dib's assault, Alia managed to elude and, within the handle, murdered Baron Harkonnen.
Realizing that Muad'dib was not a few frantic Fremen devout pioneers changed the situation significantly for the head. Feyd-Rautha, the baron's nephew and an acclaimed warrior, challenged Paul to single combat, claiming the rights of Kanly, as had been announced by Paul's father, Leto. Paul concurred indeed, knowing that it was possible he would kick the bucket, but after a difficult battle during which Feyd-Rautha endeavored bad form in the shape of a harmed cut and needle, Paul inevitably triumphed.
Dune: Messiah[]
Becoming the Emperor and the Aftermath[]
Paul Atreides in Dune Messiah.
After the fight, He denied requiring any more nonsense. He forced the Sovereign from the position of royalty by the simple expedience of taking control from the genuine rulers of the Empire—the Dispersing Guild—who controlled space travel. He again threatened to devastate the spice in the event that they did not transport all the troops domestically. The Dispersing Society had no choice; their constrained powers of prediction appeared to be competent at it, and they sent everybody domestic. The head was abandoned and resigned to Salusa Secundus, and Paul hitched the Emperor's eldest girl, Princess Irulan, and assumed control of the realm. Irulan later composed broadly on the subject of Muad'Dib, having nothing of him but information about his way of life and designs of thought. Paul, at that point, sent a Fremen jihad across the known universe.
Upon delegating himself to Sovereign, he sanctioned a methodology that had been uncovered to him through his prescient abilities. This choice saw the religious philosophy and numerous customs of the Fremen pushed into the whole of the realm. A result of this activity was that he himself got to be a revered godhead in many universes within the known universe. There was resistance, and he found himself increasingly isolated from his family and companions as he decided that the Jihad to implement his vision of mankind's future must be homicidal and persistent. Entire planets were sterilized as a few of the Extraordinary Houses put up a battle against Paul's relentless Fremen armies. After the Jihad was over, Paul was eventually repressed by a massive resistance from the Houses and even from the Fremen.
The order of the known universe was maintained by replacing Corrino's magnificent control, which was supported by Sardaukar's military strength, with Atreides' royal power, which was supported by Fremen's military strength. Paul's translation of his prescient dreams demanded that Arrakis be transformed from a barren desert planet into a sumptuous and opulent world, with the exception of the small forsake for the sandworm to remain alive and create zest. Paul was eventually targeted in an assassination attempt though he survived, albeit blinded as a result. According to Fremen tradition, when Paul goes blind and hence, relying on his precognitive ability and knowledge of the future, predicting the birth of Ghanima instead of Leto II, he is forced to wander alone in the desert forever.
Children of Dune[]
The Preacher and Death[]
However, the next book, Children of Dune, follows the children of Paul and Chani, Leto II, and Ghanima, Leto II encounter a mysterious man in the desert known solely as The Preacher; a mysterious cult-like figure who preaches against religious beliefs and prophecies. Regent Alia suffers an abominable torment after splitting the identity of the original Alia and her grandfather, Baron Harkonnen. The Preacher is revealed actually Paul, who made amends with Leto II, and together they go to every sietch to refill them with water before heading to Arrakeen to confront Alia. There, Paul is assassinated by Fremen, as Alia commits suicide when she learns that the preacher is really Paul. And as a result, she performed her last act of defiance against the Baron.
Quotes[]
Denis Villneuve's film[]
| “ | I am Paul Muad'Dib Atreides, Duke of Arrakis! The Hand of God be my witness, I am the Voice from the Outer World! I will lead you to PARADISE! | „ |
| ~ Paul claiming leadership over the Fremen and declaring himself as Arrakis' Messiah. |
| “ | Reverend Mother Mohiam: Consider what you are about to do, Paul Atreides... Paul Atreides: SILENCE! Reverend Mother Mohiam: Abomination. |
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| “ | Stilgar: Take my life Usul, it is the only way... Paul Atreides: I'm pointing the way! |
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| “ | The visions are clear now. I see possible futures, all at once. Our enemies are all around us, and in so many futures they prevail. But I do see a way, there is a narrow way through. | „ |
| “ | May thy knife chip and shatter. | „ |
| “ | Stilgar: Madhi, what do you foresee for us? Paul Atreides: Green Paradise. |
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| “ | It's coming. I see a holy war spreading across the universe like unquenchable fire. A warrior religion that waves the Atreides banner in my father's name. Fanatical legions worshipping at the shrine of my father's skull. A war in my name. Everyone shouting my name! | „ |
Novels[]
| “ | How little the universe knows about the nature of real cruelty! | „ |
| ~ Paul Atreides, after the death of his son, Leto II the Elder. |
| “ | The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it. You’ve agreed I have that power. We are not here to discuss or to negotiate or to compromise. You will obey my orders or suffer the immediate consequences! | „ |
| “ | All paths lead into darkness. | „ |
| “ | Law is the ultimate science. Thus it reads above the Emperor’s door. I propose to show him law. | „ |
| “ | The eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever. | „ |
| “ | Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny. They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations. | „ |
| “ | There are no innocent anymore. | „ |
| ~ Paul Atreides on inciting the Jihad |
| “ | Statistics: at a conservative estimate, I’ve killed sixty-one billion, sterilized ninety planets, completely demoralized five hundred others. I’ve wiped out the followers of forty religions which had existed since— | „ |
Trivia[]
- Characters like Anakin Skywalker and Eren Yeager may have taken some inspiration from Paul Atreides, as the Dune novel came out in 1965, and there are also a lot of similarities and parallels as both Anakin and Paul are the chosen ones of their universe. and they both have visions of the future that make them slowly slip into villainy, and they both get disfigured as Paul loses his eye sight and Anakin loses his legs and gets burned. Eren also has a somewhat similar goal to Paul, as they both want to ensure the safety of their friends, the people they love, and humanity as a whole, much on Paul's end, and to achieve this, they do some catastrophic events such as the Rumbling and the Jihad, which both result in the deaths of billions. Although, Paul and Eren significantly differentiate from each other in that Paul feels immense remorse for the Jihad, eventually forsaking it himself due to guilt, whereas Eren only stopped because of Mikasa (his former best friend) killing him.
- Unlike the novel and other adaptations, Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two has Paul be the one to deliver the killing blow to his grandfather and enemy, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. Normally, Paul's sister, Alia, is the one to do it, but since she isn't born yet in this adaptation, Paul is the one to take vengeance against their family's foe.
External Links[]
- Paul Atreides on the Heroes Wiki
- Paul Atreides on the Dune Wiki
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