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Dune	comment	Dune is the first book in a popular series of Science Fiction novels written by Frank Herbert. It was rejected twenty times by various publishers before finally being published in 1965 by Chilton, a publishing house best known for its DIY auto repair guides.note This was not out of rejection of the book's content, but rather of how much of it there was. At two hundred and fifteen thousand words, Herbert's manuscript for Dune was three to four times larger than what the average publishing house was used to, as the printing costs for such a work would be enormous. Luckily, Chilton was already well-accustomed to producing Doorstoppers. Dune is a Hugo Award, Nebula Award and Seiun Award winner.The novel is set approximately 19,000 years into The Future, in the year 10,191 AG, or "After Guild" (21,267 AD by our calendar) in a galaxy-spanning empire loosely based on the Holy Roman and Ottoman Empires, ruled by feuding nobles, arcane religious sects, and Byzantine corporate monopolies.Much of the action throughout the series takes place on the eponymous planet, Arrakis, commonly called Dune by the native Fremen. Arrakis is a desert planet largely populated by the nomadic, xenophobic Fremen and inhabited by giant sandworms that destroy anything caught out in the open, and would be of little interest to the rest of the galaxy if not for one thing: it is the only known source of "Spice" (its "official" name is melange), an all-purpose chemical that triples the human lifespan, makes it possible for females (and some few males) to transfer ancestral memories to one another, unlocks or enhances the capacity of humans for telling the future, and therefore makes Faster-Than-Light Travel possible in a culture where computers have been outlawed by religious fiat—all while being ferociously addictive.As the story opens, the Atreides family have just gained control over the Arrakis fiefdom from their longtime rivals, House Harkonnen—but this turns out to be a cunning plan by the Harkonnen and the Emperor to eliminate House Atreides, whom the Emperor has come to see as a threat but cannot move against directly. Wearing the uniforms of the Harkonnen, the Emperor's unbeatable Sardaukar stormtroopers assault the Atreides compound on Arrakis and destroy it, leading the way for the Harkonnen to retake the planet and capture Duke Leto Atreides, who dies in a failed attempt to take the Harkonnen Baron with him.Leto's fifteen-year-old son Paul Atreides, sole heir to the family line, escapes into the desert with his mother Jessica (pregnant with his sister) and takes refuge with the Fremen, where, upon adopting their ways and religion, he becomes the Kwizatz Haderach, a long-awaited Messiah with the power to see into the future. Taking the name Muad'dib (a type of desert mouse on Arrakis, whose name means "he who teaches manners" in Arabic), he unites the Fremen tribes into a jihad to defeat both the Harkonnens and the Imperium.The story is steeped in Arabic language and culture, due to the Culture Chop Suey of nearly 20,000 years of human existence; it is implied that Western and Eastern culture and religion have blended together into a pseudo-homogeneous whole. Religions such as "Mahayana Christianity", "Zensunni", and "Buddislam" are referred to though not explicitly described, and many Arabic words have found their way into the standard language spoken by the people of the Galactic Empire (an extensive glossary is included in the first novel, without which many readers might find it incomprehensible). The Bene Gesserit sisterhood, an order of philosopher-nuns that considers itself the guardian of human civilization, extensively manipulate various religions over a scale of thousands of years in order to protect their agenda. Paul Atreides, through his actions, effectively creates a religion of his own, with effects that reverberate throughout the millennia.Dune adaptations: From the early 1970's on, several disastrous attempts were made to produce a theatrical film. Cult Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky (known for bizarre and unsettling film epics such as El Topo and The Holy Mountain) forced his way onto the project despite having yet to read the book, and after he did read it, decided to mostly ignore it in favor of his own vision. Convinced that he could "rape Frank Herbert with love", he resolved to make the adaptation conform to his vision. Inevitably, it was too ambitious (and far over budget), especially given production limitations, to ever get off the ground. A number of Jodorowsky ideas for the project found their way into his trippy Space Opera comic The Incal and its spin-offs and sequels, which together make up "the Jodoverse". The 2014 documentary Jodorowsky's Dune is a recounting of what Jodorowsky envisioned, although the screenplay and storyboards remain unpublished. This version has a cult following of sorts despite not technically existing, and even though the film was unmade, the attempted pre-production of the project set the stage for a number of iconic science-fiction films in the years after its release.invoked Once Jodorowsky's vision fell apart, the producers turned to a young, upstart new director who had been considered for Return of the Jedi, mostly on the strength of his classic first film and a critically and commercially successful biopic which made him a popular commodity in the industry. The man's name: David Lynch, who took the project and made it his own bizarre opus, but a more faithful version than Jodorowsky would have. Due to his alien style and the sheer scale of the book, the already-complex narrative became nearly incomprehensible to some viewers; many theaters handed out printed plot summaries to patrons. The 1984 Lynch version of Dune (1984) is the most memorable (and notorious) for its Freudian imagery, elaborate set design (containing some holdovers from the Jodorowsky version, including Giger's designs), and All-Star Cast. Subsequent recut and extended versions have inspired varying degrees of critical reappraisal. Its box office revenues were lower than its substantial budget, however. It has become both a Cult Classic, and an example of how not to make a blockbuster.invoked In 2000, the Sci-Fi Channel, in association with Hallmark Entertainment, produced a three-part miniseries adaptation of the novel, Frank Herbert's Dune. This version followed the plot of the book much more closely, but had a ridiculously small budget, and gave several characters expanded roles while paring others down to bare bones or removing them entirely. The Sci-Fi Channel also adapted Messiah and Children into a second three-part miniseries in 2003, which streamlined two very contradictory novels into a cohesive whole, removed or simplified some of the extremely convoluted plot elements, and paid off the previous series' Character Development of Irulan, all in all serving as a far more coherent, character-driven bridge between Dune and God-Emperor of Dune than the novels it adapts. The two-part adaptation by Denis Villeneuve, comprising 2021's Dune and 2024's Dune: Part Two (they incorporate elements of Dune Messiah). Villeneuve is hoping to adapt Messiah in full as a final film in a hypothetical trilogy. Dune: Prophecy, a spinoff HBO Max series set in the same universe as the above films and focusing on the Bene Gesserit, has been announced. The pilot is to be helmed by Villeneuve as well.Dune also served as the inspiration for several popular video games and board games, most notably Dune, which was the board game Ur-Example of Asymmetric Multiplayer, which served as the inspiration for Dune II: The Building of A Dynasty which is the Ur-Example of the modern Real-Time Strategy game.Notable for having a Shout-Out directed at it in almost every videogame with a Shifting Sand Land area in the form of sandworms, possibly an example of Pop-Cultural Osmosis. Oh, and it inspired a full-length parody, National Lampoon's Doon.Also notable for providing a great deal of thematic inspiration for the Troperiffic tabletop game Warhammer 40,000, in particular the concepts of the God-Emperor, the pan-galactic human empire run as a semi-feudal state, and the need for specially-bred psychic strains of human to navigate faster-than-light travel, just to start with.
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Dune / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: House Ordos, mentioned once in the semi-canon Dune Encyclopaedia, was picked by Westwood Studios to become the third faction in their Dune series of games. In contrast to Atreides being noble and Harkonnen being evil, the Ordos were made mysterious, insidious, and rumoured to experiment with forbidden technology. Ironically, this makes them a dead ringer for the Canon-compliant Ixians, but no adaptation has ever emphasized the latter.
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Dune / int_121865ac	type	Noble Savage
Dune / int_121865ac	comment	Noble Savage: The Fremen, backed up by a number of quotes in the Encyclopedia Exposita, are intentionally set up to be perceived this way. Even their essential cruelty is explained as the cold necessity of survival in a harsh environment, combined with a carefully nurtured desire for revenge against their oppressors. This is reinforced by the decline of the Fremen culture in later novels; as they lose touch with the desert and become "civilized", their power and nobility decline. Depending on your perspective, the Fremen could be a deconstruction of the Noble Savage trope. Their society is characterized by senseless internal violence, such as duels, inheritance of women by duel victors, and succession through killing. When Paul assumes the role of Emperor, the Fremen descend on recalcitrant planets, slaughtering and ravaging the inhabitants. This from a people who lamented their own unjust oppression for centuries.
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Dune / int_125e12c4	type	Second-Hand Storytelling
Dune / int_125e12c4	comment	Second-Hand Storytelling: Interesting scenes or important plot points, such as the initial journey to the planet Arrakis in a spaceship of the mysterious Navigators Guild or Paul Atreides drinking the lethal Water of Life, are either touched on only fleetingly or narrated by characters in retrospect, several weeks later. The chapter simply ends and cuts away from the action about to unfold to a different scene in the next chapter, with characters sitting around their camp fire and telling each other what happened.
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Dune / int_12aa82b5	type	Interfaith Smoothie
Dune / int_12aa82b5	comment	Other are cases of Interfaith Smoothie; Budhislam, Zensufism (Zen+Sufism), Mahayana Christianity, Third Islam.
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Dune / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Dune / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: A (nearly) orphaned young man, begins receiving visions, becomes an exile from a desert-based center of commerce and religion, marries a notably older widow, granting him status among his adopted tribe, becomes a powerful religious leader by uniting a nomadic people with a history of in-fighting, and eventually leads an army of the faithful to claim control of the city from which he was exiled by political rivals. After solidifying this base of military and mercantile power, the new religion sweeps across most of the known world (sometimes violently, but with many civil reforms in their wake), eventually playing an essential role in discovering and then preserving caches of precious knowledge through a dark age of human history. For those unfamiliar with early Islamic history, Paul parallels Muhammed in some rather obvious ways (but without being a heavy-handed expy by any means). The prevalence of Arabic phrases, and the similarity between "Muhammed" and "Muad'dib", isn't accidental. Paul is also broadly similar to Lawrence of Arabia during the Mesopotamian campaign. Like Lawrence but unlike Mohammed, Paul is an outsider to the tribal cultures that he unifies against his enemies, and is a respected scholar of sorts.
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Dune / int_15e76b62	type	WorfEffect
Dune / int_15e76b62	comment	It is later revealed in Children of Dune that during his last stand in Dune Idaho slew nineteen Sardaukar — and at the height of their power and training, a single Sardaukar was reportedly a match for ten ordinary house regulars and even a Bene Gesserit adept. However, it is also worth nothing that at the time of Idahoâ€™s last stand the Sardaukar were far from the height of their power.
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Dune / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Dune / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: When the first book was written, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East were undergoing decolonization; the patron states set up friendly local governments in those regions to ensure access to the natural resources their former colonies had provided, a process that had profound economic and geopolitical consequences (especially vis a vis the Cold War). In particular, the OPEC cartel was formed during this period. Herbert wrote in 1964-1965, when superweapons were all the rage in the shadow of the Cold War. First laser was patented in 1959-1960, first functioning examples fired in 1960-1962, Goldfinger was released in 1964.
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Dune / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
Dune / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: The Imperial Sardaukar are the most terrifying and deadly warriors in the known universe, and their only real purpose is to establish how much deadlier the Fremen are by getting their asses handed to them at every encounter. When they attack Paul's sietch, they take devastating losses fighting Fremen who are not even warriors. One sentence near the end of the book implies that the underwhelming performance of Sardaukar is due to the Padishah Emperor cutting down on their resources and neglecting his military power throughout his reign (i.e. Worf had budget cuts), but that still doesnâ€™t explain how the Sardaukar donâ€™t stand any chance even in smaller-scale fights in which they have the element of surprise.
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Dune / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Dune / int_17a606bd	comment	Master Swordsman: Duncan Idaho is the archetypal example, identified as such by name, but many of the characters in the first book are skilled with the blade. This is also the hat of House Ginaz, the allies of the Atreides. Gurney Halleck is also a master swordsman by any standard except comparison to Duncan Idaho. But when praised for his swordfighting abilities by Paul, Idaho confided that Gurney could best him "six times out of ten."
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Dune / int_19944e8f	type	Terraform
Dune / int_19944e8f	comment	Terraform/Weather-Control Machine: The sandworms managed to turn the once-lush and verdant Arrakis into a desert-world. Paul promises to transform Arrakis into a paradise through use of weather satellites, and makes good with signs of life and vegetation taking hold of the planet at an exponential rate.
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Dune / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Dune / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Lampshaded when Duke Leto Atreides risks his life and the priceless Spice to save his men; Liet-Kynes comments that a man such as that would inspire fanatical loyalty. It's implied that this is exactly why the Emperor wants him dead, because he fears Leto will use his popularity to depose him. Also subverted in the implication here and there that this is something the Duke does entirely cynically precisely because it's a way to ensure that loyalty, rather than out of genuine affection for his men.
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Dune / int_1af921a3	type	Either/Or Prophecy
Dune / int_1af921a3	comment	Either/Or Prophecy: Paul can see possible futures and must choose the best one to carry out.
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Dune / int_1b6d7d29	type	The Creon
Dune / int_1b6d7d29	comment	The Creon: The Bene Gesserit play this trope on an organizational scale. They do not believe that assuming direct control of the empire will be beneficial to them, and instead conduct extremely elaborate (millennia-spanning) schemes to remain advisors to the emperor while controlling the empire only from the shadows.
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Dune / int_1ba09c9d	type	Human Resources
Dune / int_1ba09c9d	comment	Human Resources: Fremen reclaim water from human waste through their stillsuits, and from the dead by draining them in "death stills".
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Dune / int_1badfbbb	type	The Heavy
Dune / int_1badfbbb	comment	On a whole, the villainous roles in Dune can be summarized as House Harkonnen being The Heavy, House Corrino being the Big Bad, and the Bene Gesserit and the Guild both serving as a collective Greater-Scope Villain.
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Dune / int_1c1d243c	type	Brother–Sister Team
Dune / int_1c1d243c	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Team: Paul and Alia. Paul's children, Leto II and Ghanima.
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Dune / int_1c4e308e	type	The Spock
Dune / int_1c4e308e	comment	The Spock: Mentats. Although not all of them are by any means moral and logical.
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Dune / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
Dune / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Subverted. Early on, Paul earns credibility among the Fremen by reluctantly killing one who challenged him to combat. The Fremen, like the Bedouin culture they loosely parallel, have a culture that values "honor," defended through bloodshed. Also, they expect their leaders to succeed by killing their predecessors. Though the Fremen take him for a Messiah and see his leadership as inevitable, he refuses to take the place of the tribe leader Stilgar by killing him. He takes power instead after an impassioned speech deploring the idea of sacrificing a loyal and talented soldier to such a brutal custom. This compels Stilgar to step down, and the Fremen accept Paul's leadership. He actually manages a clever bit of political maneuvering, side-stepping the issue when others would have forced his hand, by having the Fremen pledge their loyalty to him not as a tribal leader, but as their Duke (claiming his father's title and right to rule the planet by Imperial law).
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Dune / int_1d029135	type	Fictional Document
Dune / int_1d029135	comment	Fictional Document : Where... to... begin... Perhaps with the Fictionary.
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Dune / int_1d1d5951	type	Non-Verbal Miscommunication
Dune / int_1d1d5951	comment	Nonverbal Miscommunication: Duke Leto makes an offer to Stilgar, and in response Stilgar spits on the table. Leto's men rise to defend his honor, before Duncan Idaho tells them it's a cultural sign of respect due to the importance of water.
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Dune / int_1d47dc06	type	Alternative Calendar
Dune / int_1d47dc06	comment	Alternative Calendar: The calender used in the book begins from the establishment of the Spacing Guild's monopoly on space travel, with BG standing for "Before Guild" and AG being "After Guild".
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Dune / int_1d751503	type	Talking Your Way Out
Dune / int_1d751503	comment	Talking Your Way Out: Thufir Hawat, captured by Baron Vladimir Harkonnen's forces and forced to work for him, plays him off of his nephew, Feyd Rautha. Feyd makes a rash attempt (suggested by Thufir) to assassinate his uncle, and the Baron is forced to consider executing his only legitimate heir. Thufir does this more for vengeance and loyalty to his prior liege than for escape, which the Baron ensured would be a fatal endeavor; the Baron barely manages to work his way out of the dilemma by denying Feyd the governorship of the planet the Harkonnens took from Thufir's old master. Earlier in the book, Paul and Jessica use the Voice to get their Harkonnen guards to kill each other.
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Dune / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Dune / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: On the surface, Duke Leto Atreides reacts to the attempted assassination of Paul with calm and poise, but his thoughts reveal a deep well of blistering rage.
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Dune / int_1e1f2e51	type	Raygun Gothic
Dune / int_1e1f2e51	comment	Herbert wrote in 1964-1965, when superweapons were all the rage in the shadow of the Cold War. First laser was patented in 1959-1960, first functioning examples fired in 1960-1962, Goldfinger was released in 1964.
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Dune / int_1e6dfea1	type	Ãœbermensch
Dune / int_1e6dfea1	comment	Ãœbermensch: Paul-Muad'Dib. "I am the Kwisatz Haderach. That is reason enough." His son takes it up a few thousand notches.
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Dune / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Dune / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: The Spice, also called Melange, prolongs life. The word "melange" is French for "variety". Which means that in the universe of Dune, variety is the spice of life!
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Dune / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
Dune / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: The royalty/nobility basically do nothing but scheme against one another and actually ruling their domains. Even the leisure occasions and court functions which they do have seem to only serve the purpose of furthering their schemes for power.
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Dune / int_1f19f198	type	Back-to-Back Badasses
Dune / int_1f19f198	comment	Back-to-Back Badasses: Sardaukar are trained to fight in formations of three so that they never have an exposed back.
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Dune / int_21d41a5b	type	Praetorian Guard
Dune / int_21d41a5b	comment	Praetorian Guard: The Imperial Sardaukar. For Paul, the Fedaykin.
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Dune / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Dune / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Dune is a universe of tyrannical regimes, war and constant backstabbing. And even the most moral factions aren't that moral either — see Black-and-Gray Morality. There are also shortages of just about everything. For example, Baron Harkonnen doesn't keep the artillery he used to defeat Duke Leto's forces, instead recovering the metal from which they are made.
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Dune / int_2260cfe3	type	Like Father, Like Son
Dune / int_2260cfe3	comment	Like Father, Like Son: Both Duke Leto and Duke Paul Atreides find themselves in a position where they cannot Marry for Love because the possibility of Altar Diplomacy is too valuable; both remain officially bachelors, but the fact that their concubine (Lady Jessica, Chani daughter of Liet) is their One True Love is an Open Secret. Leto never manages to get this sorted out before his sudden demise; he begs Paul tell Jessica that his (Leto's) one regret was never getting to marry her. Paul does a slightly better job, briefing Chani ahead of time about his Marriage of Convenience with Princess Irulan and assuring her (Chani) that she will remain first in his heart. (In the sequel, we learn that he has kept his promise.)
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Dune / int_23c132d9	type	Beneath Suspicion
Dune / int_23c132d9	comment	Beneath Suspicion: Dr. Yueh is dismissed as a possible traitor because he's not actually part of the Atreides military/security apparatus. (He's also received "Suk School" conditioning which hardwires him into Actual Pacifism; only Suk doctors are allowed to administer to the Padishah Emperor for this reason.) And because he is a traitor, he's considered an annoyance to be disposed of by Baron Harkonnen, even though Yueh's work is the only reason that the Baron's plan ultimately fails.
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Dune / int_246989a4	type	Circling Vultures
Dune / int_246989a4	comment	Circling Vultures: After Liet-Kynes is left in the desert to die, he sees hawks (the Dune equivalent of vultures) circling overhead.
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Dune / int_25208c30	type	Go Through Me
Dune / int_25208c30	comment	Go Through Me: After Chani dispatches a would-be challenger to her lover Paul-Muad'Dib, she says that fewer people will try to challenge him if they learn that first they have to go through (and suffer the possible disgrace of being killed by) his woman. (Paul's narration notes how right she was.)
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Dune / int_26ad2fa8	type	Fictional Geneva Conventions
Dune / int_26ad2fa8	comment	Fictional Geneva Conventions: The Great Convention, which prohibit certain weapons from being used in warfare. The most important is the use of nuclear weapons on human targets; any House that does so risks having all the others gang up and destroy its planet. Kanly and the Wars of Assassins had rules in regard to house feuds and warfare, respectively.
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Dune / int_26e5c183	type	Polluted Wasteland
Dune / int_26e5c183	comment	Polluted Wasteland: The dark world Giedi Prime, the home planet of the Harkonnens, is heavily polluted from over-industrialization. One of the final two books makes a point that this was so bad that now, over eight thousand years after the Harkonnens were overthrown, the ground will never lose its greasy texture.
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Dune / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Dune / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: Dune shares various concepts and themes with Frank Herbert's novel The Godmakers. Published as a separate novel in 1970, the four original short stories were all published before Dune was even written. Includes Axlotl-tanks, Plaz, and even what could be considered a young version of the Bene Gesserit.
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Dune / int_27b83210	type	Hufflepuff House
Dune / int_27b83210	comment	Hufflepuff House: A fictional example that actually has Houses. House Atreides and House Harkonnen take center-stage with every other mentioned House relegated to background mentions. House Corrino would be a true example of this, but their role of filling the position of the Imperial court makes them important.
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Dune / int_2933bdf5	type	Genetic Memory
Dune / int_2933bdf5	comment	The pre-born count in a different way. While chemically and physically true to their age, exposure to the Water of Life in the womb awakens their Genetic Memory. This leads to a personality being composed solely of their complete lineage of ego memories, upwards of hundreds of thousands of generations.
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Dune / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Dune / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Given how far in the future the series takes place, widespread linguistic drift is justified. A few examples: "Murcielago," the Spanish word for 'bat', evolved into "cielago," the Fremen term for the same thing. The Fremen language is largely based on Arabic, as is the Teilaxu secret language. Hebrew speakers will recognize the term "Kwisatz Haderach" as cognate with their own Kefitzat haDerekh, which does actually mean "shortening of the way" and refers to Talmudic legends of rabbis who covered long distances in impossibly short times in order to offer aid. The name "Bene Gesserit" is actually a bilingual pun that only works if you know both Latin and English. It translates to "It will have been well born(e)." The word "kanly" is directly from the Chechen for "vendetta."
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Dune / int_29e25672	type	Oppose What You Suffered
Dune / int_29e25672	comment	Oppose What You Suffered: The Bene Gesserit struggle to improve humanity because they have inherited all the atrocities humanity has both suffered and inflicted through their Genetic Memory (though it would be argued by the Bene Gesserit themselves that this is more of a case of the Bene Gesserit being the atoners rather than opposing what their genetic ancestors suffered, since they only inherit the memories of survivors - which usually means the memories of those who perpetrate atrocities rather than suffer them).
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Dune / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
Dune / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: Zig-Zagged. Paul and his family are all attractive kind hearted people in contrast to the ugly and monstrous Baron Harkonnen and Glossu Rabban. However, there's also the beautiful yet cruel Feyd-Rautha and the benevolent Gurney Halleck who's described as lumpy and ugly. Adaptations go back and forth on how attractive they want the different characters to be.
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Dune / int_2af7961	type	Faster-Than-Light Travel
Dune / int_2af7961	comment	Faster-Than-Light Travel: In the main Dune novels, achieved exclusively via the use of the Holtzman generators, folding space nearly-instantaneously to the destination. However, in order to avoid getting atomized on the way, Spacing Guild Navigators are required to envision the safe passage (since computers aren't allowed).
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Dune / int_2b8a8660	type	10,000 Years
Dune / int_2b8a8660	comment	10,000 Years: The original novel takes place in the year 10,191 AG, after the Spacing Guild was founded and the Imperium established.
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Dune / int_2bc0fc4d	type	Ice-Cream Koan
Dune / int_2bc0fc4d	comment	Ice-Cream Koan: The phrases of the Zensunni sect from Dune are said to intended to be this. 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).
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Dune / int_2c628d38	type	Worf Had the Flu
Dune / int_2c628d38	comment	One sentence near the end of the book implies that the underwhelming performance of Sardaukar is due to the Padishah Emperor cutting down on their resources and neglecting his military power throughout his reign (i.e. Worf had budget cuts), but that still doesnâ€™t explain how the Sardaukar donâ€™t stand any chance even in smaller-scale fights in which they have the element of surprise.
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Dune / int_2cb9b1a9	type	Cool, but Inefficient
Dune / int_2cb9b1a9	comment	Cool, but Inefficient: A lot of the tech, justifying the Feudal Future / Punk Punk feel of The 'Verse. Much of this is deliberate due to prohibitions against thinking machines and the dominance of shields in warfare.
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Dune / int_2d047747	type	Gossip Evolution
Dune / int_2d047747	comment	Gossip Evolution: At one point in Dune Paul is with a force of Fremen warriors when they are ambushed by several Imperial Sardaukar, whom the Fremen decimate. Paul somberly notes that as his reputation as the Fremen's holy savior grows, the stories will say that he singlehandedly killed scores of Sardaukar, even though he didn't even draw his knife.
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Dune / int_2d4d16d9	type	I Know You Know I Know
Dune / int_2d4d16d9	comment	I Know You Know I Know: Whoooooooooo boy...
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Dune / int_2d88e42c	type	Gender Bender
Dune / int_2d88e42c	comment	Gender Bender/Hermaphrodite: Face Dancers are described as "Jadacha hermaphrodites" (a term with an unknown meaning) and "mules" due to their sterility. They are able to change appearance and gender at will, and perform the role of either gender, but cannot reproduce.
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Dune / int_2dae4381	type	My Master, Right or Wrong
Dune / int_2dae4381	comment	My Master, Right or Wrong: Count Fenring, except at the very end, when he refuses to kill Paul.
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Dune / int_2fcf9bbc	type	Gratuitous Foreign Language
Dune / int_2fcf9bbc	comment	Gratuitous Foreign Language: The Dune universe is positively riddled with words seemingly inspired by or derived from Arabic and Farsi (most of the future religions have some Islam in them). Even Hebrew shows up once or twice. Amongst other things, K'fitzat ha'derekh (compare to Dune's Kwisatz Haderach) is a magical ability ascribed to some real-world Chassidic holy men — specifically, the ability to teleport. Meanwhile, Leto II and Ghanima speak French, as (at that time) they are the only living beings who know it. The name of the hunting-language Chakobsa just might be the only time a Circassian language has ever been used in Western fiction of any genre. It's taken from the Adyghe word Ch'ak'webze or Ch'ak'obze, "hunter's language", which refers to a special language register used in the course of a hunting expedition.
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Dune / int_2fd7200b	type	Dead Guy Junior
Dune / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: Paul himself is named after his grandfather Paulus Atreides. Paul eventually names both his firstborn and secondborn sons after his late father.
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Dune / int_3079b64	type	Author Catchphrase
Dune / int_3079b64	comment	Author Catchphrase: "Ah-h-h-h-h." "Plans within plans... wheels within wheels..." "[x], eh"
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Dune / int_30ab0aa1	type	Worldbuilding
Dune / int_30ab0aa1	comment	Worldbuilding: One of the most developed examples, up there with Tolkien. Considered to be the very first science fiction novel of its kind to do this ("six years of research ahead of it", according to a radio interview the author gave shortly before his death).
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Dune / int_30c40e9a	type	Deconstructor Fleet
Dune / int_30c40e9a	comment	Deconstructor Fleet: For The Chosen One, the Messianic Archetype, and hero tropes in general. To keep it short, the series demonstrates how the heroic myth in general is a very powerful weapon and can be easily misused. Dune is the story of how Paul becomes a hero and saves the human race, while Messiah onwards show how Paul's reckless actions in becoming that hero will have dire consequences.
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Dune / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Dune / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Dune takes this trope quite literally. "True" prophets (Paul Atreides and his descendants) don't predict the future so much as create it, locking themselves (and everyone else) into an inescapable destiny.
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Dune / int_31c5e7fb	type	Starfish Aliens
Dune / int_31c5e7fb	comment	Starfish Aliens: The sandworms, which are gigantic (as in up-to-half-kilometer-long) wormlike creatures that live in the desert. They also have a larval form, which begin as microbial "sand plankton" that serve as food to the adults, and grow into a small roughly diamond-shaped form called sandtrout AKA "Little Makers". The sandtrout are later revealed to seal away all the water on the planet, which is highly toxic to the adult form, and secrete the precursors to the addictive and Psychic Powers-granting Spice, which triggers their transformation into the sandworm "Makers". They also inhale carbon dioxide and breathe out fresh oxygen, working as a substitute for the nearly non-existant plantlife on Arrakis. This also justifies why such a Single-Biome Planet can have a breathable atmosphere. The byproducts of the worms are suspiciously Terran-friendly indeed. Various characters lampshade this occasionally, even suggesting the idea that sandworms may be in fact Lost Organic Technology for terraforming planets (created a long time ago by humans, presumably).
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Dune / int_329cce08	type	Significant Monogram
Dune / int_329cce08	comment	Significant Monogram: The Emperor's personal guard of fanatically-loyal elite soldiers are trained and raised on a planet called Salusa Secundus. Godwin's Law, anyone?
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Dune / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Dune / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Cryo's 1992 adventure game also removed Irulan (although she appears in the opening FMV in the CD version), Shadout Mapes, Piter, and, probably most majorly, Yueh, and while the Bene Gesserit and Spacing Guild are mentioned, none of their representatives appear.
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Dune / int_33f131a	type	Psychic Starship Pilot
Dune / int_33f131a	comment	Psychic Starship Pilot: The Guild needs prescient Navigators mutated by Spice exposure to guide foldspace ships safely.
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Dune / int_34077cb2	type	Warfare Regression
Dune / int_34077cb2	comment	Warfare Regression: Averted in Emperor: Battle for Dune, where guns, cannons, and artillery are not affected by shields, even when not fighting on Arrakis.
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Dune / int_342c2ebc	type	Longevity Treatment
Dune / int_342c2ebc	comment	Longevity Treatment: One of many uses for spice; in the sequels when it is plentiful lifespans of three hundred years aren't uncommon.
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Dune / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Dune / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Enforced as a means of illustrating just how ruthless the Harkonnen can be. At one point in the story the Baron notices Feyd-Rautha spending an excessive amount of time entertaining himself in the house harem. After catching him at it red-handed, the Baron punishes him... by forcing him to go back and kill every single woman in the harem with his bare hands.
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Dune / int_369a1bf6	type	Death Faked for You
Dune / int_369a1bf6	comment	Death Faked for You: Dr. Yueh made it easy for Paul and his mother Jessica to escape into the desert and presumed dead.
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Dune / int_37499c8	type	OnceAnEpisode
Dune / int_37499c8	comment	Once an Episode: The Litany Against Fear is recited in its entirely at least once in every one of the original books.
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Dune / int_385f5a1d	type	Achey Scars
Dune / int_385f5a1d	comment	Achey Scars: Gurney Halleck sports a long, red scar along his face that chronically delivers residual pain due to abuse suffered from the poisonous plant inkvine during his time as a Harkonnen slave.
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Dune / int_38f3321	type	Compelling Voice
Dune / int_38f3321	comment	Compelling Voice: The Bene Gesserit have the Voice. Jessica uses this in the first novel to facilitate the escape of her and Paul, by making the guards kill each other. The fear of this prompts various defenses, including stationing deaf-mutes as guards for important people and, later, conditioning people to reflexively kill at the first sign of Voice being used. In the original novel, the Bene Gesserit have to study the target of the Voice in order to adjust their pitch accordingly.
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Dune / int_397c85c2	type	Our Clones Are Different
Dune / int_397c85c2	comment	Our Clones Are Different: The gholas are artificial humans created from a DNA sample of a dead person. No matter how small the sample, the process will still work extremely well, to the point where a single cell can produce such a perfect replica that it's indistinguishable from resurrection, complete with regaling their memories if exposed to a strong trauma (but to be fair, everyone has Genetic Memory in the Dune universe, so the gholas are not especially guilty in this regard).
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Dune / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
Dune / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Bene Gesserit take this to the extremes. With complete control over their biochemical makeup, they can slow down or speed up the aging process at will or choose to look younger or older while chemically being another age. They rarely take advantage of this, however, because such power can be intoxicating and dangerous. If someone outside the inner-Bene Gesserit organization were to notice the true extent of their powers it could lead to their destruction from superstitious outsiders as well as loss of influence over the Empire.
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Dune / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
Dune / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: Duncan Idaho sacrifices himself to hold off a flood of Imperial Sardaukar elite troopers, while Paul Atreides makes good his escape. In the sequel, it's revealed that while he did indeed die, the surviving Sardaukar were so impressed with his skills as a Master Swordsman that they preserved his body, later having it resurrected as a "ghola"... and that, as it turns out, has some extremely far-reaching effects on the Dune universe. It is later revealed in Children of Dune that during his last stand in Dune Idaho slew nineteen Sardaukar — and at the height of their power and training, a single Sardaukar was reportedly a match for ten ordinary house regulars and even a Bene Gesserit adept. However, it is also worth nothing that at the time of Idahoâ€™s last stand the Sardaukar were far from the height of their power.
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Dune / int_3bb487aa	type	King Bob the Nth
Dune / int_3bb487aa	comment	King Bob the Nth: It's the year 10,191 of the Galactic Empire, and the current monarch is Shaddam IV, 81st Padishah Emperor. It's never explained within the original novel who exactly the previous three Shaddams were.
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Dune / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Dune / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: A major theme of Dune is You Can't Fight Fate, so expect these in spades. Dr. Yueh's wife, Wanna, is revealed by Epistolary to be dead long before she or the nature of their relationship, is even introduced. We're told how the first of the book's three parts will end in the second chapter, and the book's ending is foretold in the middle of the second part by the protagonist himself.
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Dune / int_3bebfcc0	type	Living Lie Detector
Dune / int_3bebfcc0	comment	Living Lie Detector: Bene Gesserit can notice the visual and auditory cues that denote a lying person. Many courts employ Bene Gesserit for this specific purpose, as "Truthsayers". The Kwisatz Haderach takes this power up to eleven, as it does all the other BG powers.
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Dune / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Dune / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: You can see the future. All of itnote With some exceptions, like the Count Fenring . Every twist, turn, nook, and cranny. There are no surprises. There is no escape. You will never live something that you have not already foreseen. It's even worse for Alia: she has access to the genetic memory of all her ancestors. Including the vicious and vile Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, who ends up basically possessing her.
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Dune / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Dune / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: Many of the apparently anachronistic elements of technology are justified by the book's extremely-detailed backstory.
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Dune / int_3cf65c77	type	Unhappy Medium
Dune / int_3cf65c77	comment	Unhappy Medium: Paul Muad'Dib eventually discovers that having prescience is a trap, forcing you into a predetermined path.
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Dune / int_3d17fea2	type	Draw Sword, Draw Blood
Dune / int_3d17fea2	comment	Draw Sword, Draw Blood: The Fremen consider re-sheathing a crysknife without drawing blood to be a very grave offense. Very unevenly applied: by the end of the original trilogy, there have been multiple scenes where a crysknife is unsheathed and not blooded, with no comment made. This is possibly done to demonstrate the rapid corruption of Fremen culture.
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Dune / int_3d449d71	type	Ban on A.I.
Dune / int_3d449d71	comment	Ban on A.I.: A.I.s, and computers in general, are illegal after the Butlerian Jihad. Gifted and specially bred humans using copious amount of mind-enhancing drugs are used for calculating ship navigation (Guild Navigators) and as information databases (Mentats).
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Dune / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Dune / int_3d699462	comment	In the first book, Jessica's fight with Stilgar is: short, to the point, lets her and Paul introduce themselves to the Fremen properly, and underlines her Silk Hiding Steel qualities. It should be pointed out that the entire book has, to this point, been harping on the fact that the Sardaukar Super Soldiers eclipse normal infantry, that House Atreides is a threat to the Emperor precisely because they've trained a few — a few! — men to the point of being able to stand toe-to-toe with the Sardaukar... and that the Fremen can trounce them (the Sardaukar) soundly. And then Jessica trounces the Fremen soundly. Our Action Mom has just established herself to be the strongest fighter in the Duniverse — period.
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Dune / int_3eb9e19f	type	Child of Two Worlds
Dune / int_3eb9e19f	comment	Child of Two Worlds: Jessica and her son Paul Atreides are both Harkonnens. Combining these bloodlines is a necessary part to sire the Kwisatz Haderach.
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Dune / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Dune / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The stillsuits recycle sweat, feces, and urine to help the Fremen to keep their body's moisture. Predictably, the book tells stillsuits stink when Fremen are inside.
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Dune / int_3f70415	type	Because Destiny Says So
Dune / int_3f70415	comment	Because Destiny Says So: How much of Dune and its sequels are The Chosen One acting out a preordained destiny, and how much is actually the Messianic Archetype choosing his own destiny and then being forced to live it out unto the bitter end? Frank Herbert would like you to think about it.
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Dune / int_3ff5e40f	type	First-Person Dying Perspective
Dune / int_3ff5e40f	comment	First-Person Dying Perspective: In the film, the death of Duke Leto is told from his perspective. Having been drugged and brought before his enemy, Baron Harkonnen, he bites down on a poison-gas capsule in his mouth disguised as a tooth, with the intention of killing them both. Only semi-aware of his surroundings, he sees people falling and hears panicked shouts and crashes as the gas fills the room, but it fades as the poison takes action, leaving him briefly with a jumble of old memories and his last thought — "The day the flesh shapes and the flesh the day shapes" — and then silence.
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Dune / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Dune / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: In the first novel, Stilgar tries to put Jessica at ease by assuring her that Fremen men do not take women by force. However, readers have already been introduced to the Fremen custom of male duel victors inheriting the wives of their vanquished opponents (and everything that implies). The Fremen justify this practice by saying that the victor is assuming the responsibility of caring for his vanquished foe's wife, but the wife is still a spoil of war who doesn't get a say in the matter. The man can also take her as his wife, whether she'd be okay with that or not (though it's implied to be more common for the man to simply look after her for a period of time, so she and her kids can get back on their feet and find their own way, and after this time has elapsed she'll make a formal request to be released, which the man will grant). Stilgar's assurance to Jessica is cruelly subverted in the second novel. The Fremen have brutalized entire planets that resisted Paul's rise to the throne. It is clearly and casually stated that Fremen men have raped women on those planets. Then again, the nature of their crusade has changed their culture by this time, and it's clear even in Dune Messiah that many of them came home damaged by what they saw and/or did. Finally, Herbert's narration makes it clear that part of the motive for the jihad is a sort of unconscious sexual frenzy, a form of exaggerated natural selection where the old order is killed off and the seeds of the new order sown. (Neither Herbert nor Paul appears to condone this.)
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Dune / int_413c475b	type	Space Age Stasis
Dune / int_413c475b	comment	Space Age Stasis: Society is partially stagnant due to the religious proscriptions against thinking machines, robotics, and computers set up after the Butlerian Jihad, which keeps things from advancing too much. Spice does this as well, since its properties allow for expanded lifetimes in addition to fast and safe space travel, so there was no desire to experiment and find alternatives. Finally, the Bene Gesserit and Guild collaborated to set up a feudalistic government with full knowledge that it would be easier to control..
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Dune / int_419f0db	type	Bedouin Rescue Service
Dune / int_419f0db	comment	Bedouin Rescue Service: In Dune, Jessica and Paul Atreides are rescued by Fremen. They then have to jump through religious hoops and trial by personal combat to prove that they're worth saving. Of course, they were deliberately seeking out the Fremen, and the Fremen were primed by the religious mythos seeded by the Missionaria Protectiva to look for a Messiah, which Paul and Jessica were trained to exploit; otherwise they'd have been killed out of hand for their water. Additionally, many Fremen tribes were warned by their leader, Liet, to watch for Jessica and Paul. The novel lays this out clearly through a scene where Liet-Kynes helps them hide from the Harkonnens.
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Dune / int_41ec06f	type	Occult Blue Eyes
Dune / int_41ec06f	comment	Occult Blue Eyes: The influence of Spice turns people's eyes an unnatural blue. The turning blue is implied to be a normal biological reaction of humans exposed to spice. However Spice also gives psionic abilities to at least some humans which links the two together in people's minds.
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Dune / int_42002878	type	I Am X, Son of Y
Dune / int_42002878	comment	I Am X, Son of Y: Paul never lets 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.
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Dune / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Dune / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: In the original books, it was not that the computers were inherently bad, it was that humanity chose to destroy them because they were making humans lazy and limiting humanity's potential, effectively making them dependent on sentient machines for survival. Computer AI was later demonized.
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Dune / int_430e801c	type	Instant Oracle: Just Add Water!
Dune / int_430e801c	comment	Instant Oracle: Just Add Water!: The Guild Navigators adapted to life in a spice-filled environment which granted them precognition and the ability to navigate at FTL speeds. They spend most of their lives inside of zero gravity tubes filled with spice laden air rather than a tub of water, but same concept.
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Dune / int_4316c604	type	School of Seduction
Dune / int_4316c604	comment	School of Seduction: Although it's not the entire curriculum, it features in Bene Gesserit training. In later novels, it's a core part of the Honored Matre way of ruling subject populations.
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Dune / int_4536fd29	type	Energy Weapon
Dune / int_4536fd29	comment	Energy Weapon: Only useful without Deflector Shields, which are ubiquitous, so almost a subversion/aversion. (A lasgun shot hitting a shield is highly unpredictable, with results that fall anywhere from merely killing both the shooter and target all the way up to a nuclear-level explosion.) Also, lasguns are presented unusually realistically for sci-fi (except for the universe-physics-specific shield bit).
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Dune / int_4612ec70	type	No Transhumanism Allowed
Dune / int_4612ec70	comment	No Transhumanism Allowed: Zig-zagged. Deliberate breeding programs are used to create humans with intelligence, reflexes, lifespan, capacity for higher consciousness, and physical capabilities far beyond those of current-day humans, but a religious taboo is kept in place on genetically engineering anything recognizably inhuman or unable to interbreed back into the larger human population. Thus, the characters and societies remain human while simultaneously having greater advancements over modern man than modern man has over Homo erectus. The Tleilaxu of the sequels, however, have no religious taboo on inhumanity and gleefully make a living selling inhuman humans genetically-engineered for specific purposes.
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Dune / int_465780af	type	Facial Markings
Dune / int_465780af	comment	Facial Markings: Doctors of the Suk School are marked with a diamond tattoo on the forehead.
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Dune / int_46d0907f	type	The Man in the Moon
Dune / int_46d0907f	comment	The Man in the Moon: The second moon of Arrakis has the shape of a kangaroo mouse, from which Paul takes his Fremen name: Muad'dib.
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Dune / int_4830326a	type	Give Me a Sword
Dune / int_4830326a	comment	Give Me a Sword
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Dune / int_4852cf04	type	Court Physician
Dune / int_4852cf04	comment	Court Physician: Suk doctors are employed by the richest and most powerful families to serve as private physicians. Already highly-regarded for their skills, what makes them truly valuable is their reputation for utter trustworthiness: as part of their training, Suks are conditioned to be incapable of betraying their masters, ensuring that they can never be used as assassins. It's for this reason that only Suk doctors are allowed to attend to the Padishah Emperor, and that Dr Wellington Yueh enjoys the total trust of the Atreides family. Unknown to all, Baron Harkonnen has been able to break Yueh's otherwise-infallible conditioning by holding his wife hostage, allowing the Harkonnens to mould him into the perfect traitor within Atreides ranks.
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Dune / int_48904622	type	A Protagonist Shall Lead Them
Dune / int_48904622	comment	A Protagonist Shall Lead Them: Paul.
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Dune / int_48f7eeb2	type	Heir-In-Law
Dune / int_48f7eeb2	comment	The noble houses of Dune are rigidly patriarchal, headed only by men, and women cannot rule in their own right; while Shaddam has several daughters, they can't inherit the throne themselves and their 'right' passes to their husband, as is the case with Irulan and Paul (who would have taken the throne from Shaddam as a term of surrender regardless, but he also took Irulan as a wife to make it more legitimate). Female nobles and concubines do find ways to manipulate events, but it is always behind the scenes. The noble houses also practice arranged marriage, or in Irulan's case, forced marriage.
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Dune / int_4b1afa0d	type	Spiteful Spit
Dune / int_4b1afa0d	comment	Spiteful Spit: Subverted. When we first meet Stilgar, he spits onto Leto's conference room table as a sign of respect. Water is precious on Arrakis. Played straight in Children of Dune, where a captive spits in the face of the man who's about to kill him. In that context, it means "See how little I value my water when it is taken by animals."
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Dune / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Dune / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: A very disturbing example from House Harkonnen is the prolonged and violent forced prostitution (and eventual murder) of Gurney Halleck's gentle younger sister Bheth. First she is kidnapped by the Harkonnens for trying to protect her brother. Then they cut out her larynx so she can't do more than scream wordlessly. Next she is subjected to 6 years (starting at age 17) of sadistic torture. Rabban finally kills her in retribution for Gurney's attempt on his life.
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Dune / int_4ca752e1	type	Deadly Dust Storm
Dune / int_4ca752e1	comment	Deadly Dust Storm: Arrakis, as a desert world, has these as one of its hazards which can have winds of over 400 kph. Deflector Shields are useless in them and when Paul and Jessica escape the Harkonnen massacre into one, everyone assumes they're dead simply because the storms are that dangerous.
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Dune / int_4cc0c6f2	type	TruthSerum
Dune / int_4cc0c6f2	comment	Truth Serum: Verite, a will-destroying narcotic from the planet Ecaz that renders a person incapable of falsehood..
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Dune / int_4ccd1c09	type	Gender-Restricted Ability
Dune / int_4ccd1c09	comment	Gender-Restricted Ability: Only women could be Bene Gesserit. They had a long standing breeding program to try and create a male Bene Gesserit. They succeeded.
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Dune / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Dune / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Almost from the moment he gets his prescience, Paul spends much of his time seeing visions of Fremen screaming his name as they lead a jihad across the known universe, thinking this would be a terrible idea, and trying to prevent it. This is all due to another trope: You Can't Fight Fate... that you yourself created. Ouch. The end of Dune is triumphant on the surface as Paul and the Fremen crush the Harkonnens and the Emperor, and Paul ascends to the throne. But it's very clear that this is just the start of the galactic Jihad which will claim billions of lives.
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Dune / int_4f2de31c	type	Spice of Life
Dune / int_4f2de31c	comment	Spice of Life: The Spice itself, which is the most valued commodity in the entire universe. To a lesser extent, water on Arrakis (the planet where spice is harvested). Frank wrote both as a metaphor for water itself and oil.
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Dune / int_4f773434	type	Wise Beyond Their Years
Dune / int_4f773434	comment	Wise Beyond Their Years: Paul is described as this in the first book, justified due to the intensive training he was given as heir to House Atreides. The pre-born, due to awakened genetic memory in the womb, never develop a personality of their own (though Alia seems to have one) and are entirely intelligent even before birth.
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Dune / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
Dune / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: Some words like "SPICE" and "VOICE" tend to be printed in capital block letters to give them a sort of mystical echo (see above for DEATH in the Discworld novels). However, there are no capital letters in the Hebrew language, so the Hebrew translation has these words printed in bold and in a larger typeface than the rest of the sentence. This method makes them even more creepy and resonant than the original, if at all possible.
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Dune / int_504333fe	type	A God I Am Not
Dune / int_504333fe	comment	A God I Am Not: When Paul fully awakens his potential as Kwisatz Haderach he becomes a messiah to peoples of thousands of worlds despite not wanting to be treated as a god, only to be elevated to the status of god in the millennia following his death.
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Dune / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Dune / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Guild Steersmen mutated by spice.
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Dune / int_50a33496	type	Trap Is the Only Option
Dune / int_50a33496	comment	Trap Is the Only Option: Leto explains to his son that their being given Arrakis is a trap by the Emperor, including the classic line, "Knowing there is a trap is the first step in evading it." Where he fails is in anticipating the magnitude of the forces poised to destroy him (and he isn't the only one).
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Dune / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Dune / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: The Bene Gesserit spent generations working their Missionaria Protectiva program on backwater planets with the goal of instilling superstitions into the local populace so that, if everything went south, any stranded member of the Sisterhood could take advantage of those superstitions with signs and prophecies tilted in the favor of the Bene Gesserit. It pays off when Bene Gesserit-trained Paul and Jessica Atreides are forced to flee into the deserts of Arrakis and utilizes Fremen superstition to convince the Fremen to take them under their wing. This turns around to bite the Sisterhood in the ass, however, when Paul totally exploits the Missionaria Protectica and integrates himself into Fremen religion, turning him into a Messianic figure amongst the natives, and uses this as a key point to begin his ascent to Emperorhood.
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Dune / int_515189ab	type	Single-Biome Planet
Dune / int_515189ab	comment	Single-Biome Planet: Justified, as Dune became a desert planet thanks to the sandworms/sandtrout species basically terraforming it. Since Arrakis is a desert planet arenaforming might be a more appropriate term.
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Dune / int_519be2fc	type	Sacred Scripture
Dune / int_519be2fc	comment	Sacred Scripture: The "Orange Catholic Bible".
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Dune / int_521144cf	type	Challenging the Chief
Dune / int_521144cf	comment	Challenging the Chief: Subverted; Paul refuses to face Stilgar in ritual combat because they both knew Paul would win and Paul wants him to remain chief for his role as a loyal political adviser. As he puts it, killing Stilgar would be like cutting off his own right arm. Part of the reason he manages to avoid the trope is he makes Stilgar swear alliegence to him as Duke Atreides, rightful ruler of Arrakis, rather than taking his job as local chief.
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Dune / int_5261369c	type	Sand Worm
Dune / int_5261369c	comment	Sand Worm: Possibly the Trope Maker. Unquestionably the Trope Codifier.
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Dune / int_52aa0c4a	type	The Caligula
Dune / int_52aa0c4a	comment	The Caligula: The Harkonnens are an entire family of Caligulas. Gladiatorial death sports, hunting humans as game, bizarre sexual practices, murdering random servants, obscenely expensive luxuries, drug addiction, torture as entertainment—they did it all.
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Dune / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Dune / int_53f5119f	comment	Baron Harkonnen states in the first novel that he (actually Piter de Vries) was able to break Yueh's conditioning, but refused to answer Feyd-Rautha's inquiry as to how, which wouldn't make sense if torturing Yueh's wife was all it took. The method of breaking the conditioning is never shown or described.
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Dune / int_550a5d51	type	You Are the Translated Foreign Word
Dune / int_550a5d51	comment	You Are the Translated Foreign Word: Paul becomes the Kwisatz Haderach, a term the Bene Gesserit describe as meaning "Shortening of the Way". This is in fact derived from the Hebrew "k'fitzat haderech", which means the same thing. "k'fitzat haderech" translates literally to "shortcut". He is also the Mahdi for the Fremen, which is the same word Muslims give their awaited messiah.
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Dune / int_553c2ade	type	Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain
Dune / int_553c2ade	comment	Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain: The Padishah Emperor Shammam Corrino IV betrays House Atreides and intends to destroy them, but only reluctantly and because he feels it's absolutely necessary. He admits he views Duke Leto as a son, but can't allow him to become more powerful than him. Baron Harkonnen is a sadistic, ruthless megalomaniac and Serial Rapist who intends to wipe out House Atreides for a minor slight from generations ago, and to rape the Duke's teenage son Paul.
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Dune / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
Dune / int_556a4e20	comment	The Empire: Purposely set up this way by the Bene Gesserit and Spacing Guild, though noble families had existed before the Butlerian Jihad. The Padishah-Emperors (except for Feykan Corrino) are descendants of the last of the old emperors. This includes Paul via his Richese lineage.
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Dune / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
Dune / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: While none of the books in the series are especially long individually, a loose trilogy is formed between the first three books to clock in at 912 pages with appendixes. There's still three more books after this. There is an omnibus edition that contains the first three books in one volume.
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Dune / int_56585e87	type	Combat Clairvoyance
Dune / int_56585e87	comment	Combat Clairvoyance: The Kwisatz Haderach has the ability to (among other things) see into the future. Mentats can also see the future by way of "projecting" the possible outcomes of a given choice, but their role is not usually that of a military strategist.
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Dune / int_57a91010	type	Green Rocks
Dune / int_57a91010	comment	Green Rocks: The Spice, whose effects include increased cognitive abilities, prescience, physical mutation if directly exposed to it in gas form, and a greatly-elongated life-span. It's also used as seasoning: it evidently tastes of cinnamon.
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Dune / int_57dda60c	type	The Emperor
Dune / int_57dda60c	comment	The Emperor: The first book starts with Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV, who is overthrown by Paul by the time the novel ends.
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Dune / int_5874eb12	type	Organic Technology
Dune / int_5874eb12	comment	Organic Technology: Due to the prohibitions against advanced technology, humans were forced to develop their own talents to fill the void. Mentats act as human-computers, the Spacing Guild navigates space through prescience in the place of computers, and the Bene Tleilax use their females as wombs for their genetic products.
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Dune / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Dune / int_5a100b90	comment	Speaking of the Bene Gesserit and the Guild, they too have a personal stake in the downfall of House Atreides and are arguably even more powerful than the ruling House Corrino. However, they are largely The Unseen and their personal involvement in the story is minimal at best.
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Dune / int_5a963d1c	type	False Reassurance
Dune / int_5a963d1c	comment	False Reassurance: The Baron promises Dr. Yueh that if he betrays the Atreides he would stop torturing his wife and allow him to join her. After Yueh does so, the Baron has him killed, as he had done earlier with his wife, thus carrying out his promise to the letter. Of course, Yueh already knew perfectly well what the Baron would do, he just couldn't bear to live without having it confirmed.
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Dune / int_5aa8b4b6	type	Intrepid Merchant
Dune / int_5aa8b4b6	comment	Intrepid Merchant: The Smugglers.
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Dune / int_5b47f992	type	Monochromatic Eyes
Dune / int_5b47f992	comment	Monochromatic Eyes: A result of high-level Spice addiction — enough ingestion saturates the blood stream and stains the eyes a solid blue. Described in the books as "blue-on-blue."
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Dune / int_5b607875	type	Inconsistent Dub
Dune / int_5b607875	comment	Inconsistent Dub: In different Italian translations of the Dune saga, the Golden Path is translated sometimes to "Sentiero Dorato" and sometimes to "Via Aurea". The Turkish translations were particularly bad. While the first four books had decent translations, the last two were terrible despite the fact that the entire series was released by the same publisher. To put it in context, the books would sometimes keep certain terms (such as Axlotl Tanks) in their original English forms and sometimes use a translated term for it over the course of the same book!. It was as if the translator was thinking "You know, I think I should have used a different term for Axlotl Tanks. Oh well. That's what I will do without editing the previous bits for cohesion".
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Dune / int_5c53c410	type	Scry vs. Scry
Dune / int_5c53c410	comment	Scry vs. Scry: A few times. Bonus points for the foresight itself being a trap; seeing a future locks it in among all the possible futures, so it's avoidable unless you know it's coming.
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Dune / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
Dune / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 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. The Bene Gesserit take this to the extremes. With complete control over their biochemical makeup, they can slow down or speed up the aging process at will or choose to look younger or older while chemically being another age. They rarely take advantage of this, however, because such power can be intoxicating and dangerous. If someone outside the inner-Bene Gesserit organization were to notice the true extent of their powers it could lead to their destruction from superstitious outsiders as well as loss of influence over the Empire. The pre-born count in a different way. While chemically and physically true to their age, exposure to the Water of Life in the womb awakens their Genetic Memory. This leads to a personality being composed solely of their complete lineage of ego memories, upwards of hundreds of thousands of generations.
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Dune / int_5c99b642	type	War for Fun and Profit
Dune / int_5c99b642	comment	War for Fun and Profit: The Atreides and Harkonnen feud erupts into this when Arrakis becomes involved, all over production of the spice. For the Harkonnens, it's just as fun as it is profitable.
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Dune / int_5d310fb8	type	Sword Fight
Dune / int_5d310fb8	comment	Sword Fight: Swords and knives are the main weapons used in ground combat. Justified: shields stop projectile weapons, and explode like nukes when attacked with lasguns. Inverted in that shields attract the worms so they can't really be used (at least by ground forces) and Baron Harkonnen successfully uses conventional artillery in his takeover to seal Atreides forces in caves to die. (The Fremen turn this to their own advantage later.)
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Dune / int_5d4359fe	type	No Blood for Phlebotinum
Dune / int_5d4359fe	comment	No Blood for Phlebotinum: The Atreides and Harkonnens end their millennia-long feud over the control of Arrakis, though there were many subtexts.
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Dune / int_5dfa0fde	type	Omniscient Morality License
Dune / int_5dfa0fde	comment	Omniscient Morality License: Paul Considering how much Paul angsted over trying to stop the jihad, it's possible that if he did say that, he was being ironic.
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Dune / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
Dune / int_5e2e55e4	comment	Duncan Idaho more so. See The Casanova above.
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Dune / int_5e2f5ad2	type	You Kill It, You Bought It
Dune / int_5e2f5ad2	comment	You Kill It, You Bought It: Fremen can challenge each other to duels to the death, with the winner being entitled to the loser's water and their wife. This extends to the responsibility for caring for the widow and her children.
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Dune / int_60783afa	type	Standard Sci-Fi History
Dune / int_60783afa	comment	Standard Sci-Fi History: The background history of the Imperium tends to follow this trend. The Buterlian Jihad serves the role of World War III by resetting the political and technological situation. The Corrino-led Imperium serves as the First Empire.
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Dune / int_607a8bd2	type	Beastly Bloodsports
Dune / int_607a8bd2	comment	Beastly Bloodsports: Duke Leto's father was killed in a bullfight.
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Dune / int_610afe0a	type	Flechette Storm
Dune / int_610afe0a	comment	A general rule on Arrakis, as a ploy for being able to fight someone regardless of whether he's foolhardy enough to carry a working personal shield generator or not. Unlike lasguns, kinetic firearms fire projectiles that can strike a personal shield without causing a miniature nuclear explosion. This makes them ideal for fighting shielded and unshielded infantry alike. It is explicitly mentioned numerous times that Fremen prefer to use spring-loaded dartguns, crossbow-like guns, or just plain old gunpowder firearms.
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Dune / int_61fea7c1	type	One Dose Fits All
Dune / int_61fea7c1	comment	One Dose Fits All: Averted. When Jessica and Paul are sedated and abducted, Jessica manages to figure out who the poisoner is by narrowing it down to the only person who would have had access to the medical data necessary (weight and metabolic rate are mentioned, others implied) to make the individual doses so precise.
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Dune / int_61ff365d	type	Deflector Shields
Dune / int_61ff365d	comment	Deflector Shields: Subverted, as shields explode when contacted by an Energy Weapon, specifically lasers. Not to mention that they only stop fast things like bullets; according to the glossary, objects moving "6 to 9 centimeters per second" will still get through, and it's a plot point that, for Paul, counterattacking at this slower "shield" speed has become force of habit that he has to overcome. (On the spot.) It's mentioned during Paul's fight with Gurney that the air was becoming stale because it couldn't be exchanged. (A deflector shield which keeps out fast-moving objects would isolate the wearer from things like, well, oxygen — individual molecules of which drift around at several hundred metres a second even at room temperature.) The shields are also useless in the desert of Arrakis. First of all, it cannot stand up to the desert's powerful storms. Second, the rapid oscillations of the shield drive any sandworm into a murderous frenzy.
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Dune / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
Dune / int_6201e8b0	comment	Suk Doctors are supposed to conditioned to be totally incapable of betraying the person they are sworn to. But there are no incidents in the stories where a Suk tries to betray someone and fails because of their conditioning, or where someone tries to subvert a Suk and fails because of the conditioning. The only incident shown is when Baron Harkonnen successfully subverts Dr Yueh by invoking I Have Your Wife, which isn't that unusual a method of compromising someonenote Threatening someone you love to make you cooperate is pretty much the first thing anyone would try, making their reputation of being infallibly trustworthy fall flat. Baron Harkonnen states in the first novel that he (actually Piter de Vries) was able to break Yueh's conditioning, but refused to answer Feyd-Rautha's inquiry as to how, which wouldn't make sense if torturing Yueh's wife was all it took. The method of breaking the conditioning is never shown or described.
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Dune / int_62c365d5	type	Emotions vs. Stoicism
Dune / int_62c365d5	comment	Emotions vs. Stoicism: The Bene Gesserit stress emotional control at all times as both proof of humanity and a basic survival tool with the Litany Against Fear. Unlike Vulcans, they're more than happy to use emotion as a tool to manipulate others — their emphasis is control, not denial.
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Dune / int_63557923	type	Death World
Dune / int_63557923	comment	Death World: Both Arrakis and Salusa Secundus are so deadly that simply surviving them turns you into a member of the two most feared fighting groups in the universe, the Fremen natives and Sardaukar soldiers.
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Dune / int_6363937b	type	Cyanide Pill
Dune / int_6363937b	comment	Cyanide Pill: Yueh gives Duke Leto a poison-gas tooth so that he can kill the Baron Harkonnen. This makes Leto something of a kamikaze. Alas, he is unsuccessful, only managing to kill Piter De Vries, one of the Baron's Dragons.
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Dune / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Dune / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: The universe features wheels-within-wheels plots and dense mythology, although the poetic descriptions can make the book enjoyable even to those who fail to understand it.
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Dune / int_65e9d9df	type	Fooled by the Sound
Dune / int_65e9d9df	comment	Fooled by the Sound: Discussed. Young Paul Atreides is sitting with his back to the door when his tutor Gurney Halleck walks in. Paul says he heard the footsteps and knows who they are. He is admonished that the sounds could be imitated. Paul says he would know the difference.
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Dune / int_65efc6dc	type	Appeal to Force
Dune / int_65efc6dc	comment	Appeal to Force: Exactly how House Corrino came to dominate the other great houses and secure the imperial throne is not specified, but everyone knows there is one reason and one reason only why it has remained unchallenged for millenia: it controls the Sardaukar. Likewise, Thufir Hawat bluntly explains to the Baron Harkonnen that Duke Leto Atreides's rising popularity among the other noble houses might have worried the Emperor, but Shaddam IV did not decide to have Leto eliminated until House Atreides succeeded in training a small military force (with the potential to become much bigger) that rivaled the Sardaukar in fighting prowess.
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Dune / int_66181568	type	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions
Dune / int_66181568	comment	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: Mostly averted, but also played a bit around with. For example, one of the appendices to Dune includes a Bene Gesserit report detailing the various ways in which the Bene Gesserit should have caught on to Paul Atreides being the Kwisatz Haderach long before he took the name Muad'Dib, passed through the Spice Agony to actually gain the powers of the Kwisatz Haderach, and conquered the known universe. The report comes to the conclusion that since all involved parties so incredibly failed to see the obvious, some power must have been manipulating them in a plan to bring Muad'Dib to power. This power is never specified, but the book's clear religious tones imply that God may have given humanity the Messiah it so foolishly wanted. A major theme of the novels is that cultural and religious influences don't ever really go away; they just go underground and surface later. Examples of this include the Fremen and Tleilaxu as well as the Jews. An introduction to religion is one of the elements in cultivating a mentat, to allow them to understand the logical fallacies and traps involved.
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Dune / int_67f26dcc	type	Planet of Hats
Dune / int_67f26dcc	comment	Duncan Idaho is the archetypal example, identified as such by name, but many of the characters in the first book are skilled with the blade. This is also the hat of House Ginaz, the allies of the Atreides.
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Dune / int_6a397a86	type	One-Product Planet
Dune / int_6a397a86	comment	One-Product Planet: Perhaps the Trope Codifier, with the major worlds known for producing a major product. Dune itself is the only source of Spice, Giedi Prime a Factory world, Ix and Richese are Science worlds, Telixau as a Underworld (selling taboo technology), Caladan is a Farm world, Kaitain is the Capital, and Salusa Secundus is ostensibly a Penal colony but really a Military world. Tupile is a Service world, providing protection for exiled families.
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Dune / int_6a4c6ec0	type	The Promised Land
Dune / int_6a4c6ec0	comment	The Promised Land: The Fremen believe they can turn Arrakis into this with some ecological engineering.
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Dune / int_6b1caa93	type	Adipose Rex
Dune / int_6b1caa93	comment	Adipose Rex: Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is grotesquely obese, but counteracts this by wearing small anti-gravity devices that make him as agile as a healthy young man. In the original novel, his weight is indicated to be the result of gluttony, but the prequels (written later by different authors) retcon this - they have it that in his youth he was a slender and handsome man and his obesity was the result of a rare disease inflicted by the Bene Gesseret mother of his daughter Jessica.
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Dune / int_6bcfbc7e	type	Fantasy Gun Control
Dune / int_6bcfbc7e	comment	Fantasy Gun Control: Firearms exist in large numbers but they have been rendered as secondary weapons due to the prevalence of personal force shields. Force shields can, however, be penetrated by close combat techniques, so those are the dominant means of warfare. Laser weapons are also highly limited since a laser beam hitting a force shield cause both the gun and the shield generator to explode with enormous power. Which means that some uses of shields are only practical because shooting them with lasers is physically equivalent to using nukes.Subverted, however, when it turns out that using personal force shields on Arrakis attracts sandworms. One of the common Fremen weapons is the "maula pistol", essentially a spring-loaded slugthrower. And also when Baron Harkonnen uses old-fashioned artillery to trap the retreating Atreides soldiers in caves.
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Dune / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Dune / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: House Atreides is named after House Atreus, and are even implied to be the same family. Also Leto who has a child and then dies.
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Dune / int_6c46615c	type	Talking through Technique
Dune / int_6c46615c	comment	Talking through Technique: The Hand Signals. Count Fenring's annoying vocal tics might also qualify, as we later learn that they're a secret language understood only by the Count and his (Bene Gesserit) wife.
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Dune / int_6d56d241	type	Patchwork Story
Dune / int_6d56d241	comment	Patchwork Story: Dune itself was originally published as two shorter works in Analog magazine before being expanded and reworked as a novel.
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Dune / int_6ea3206	type	Numbered Homeworld
Dune / int_6ea3206	comment	Numbered Homeworld: The planet Ix (pronounced as spelled) developed from millennia of language-development to the point that the original prefix was lost, and Ix came to be pronounced as a word rather than as "IX", or 9 in Roman numerals.
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Dune / int_703b3699	type	Came Back Strong
Dune / int_703b3699	comment	Came Back Strong: Paul Atreides almost dies when he drinks the water of life, and when he wakes up he is the Kwisatz Haderach.
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Dune / int_70535937	type	Flexibility Equals Sex Ability
Dune / int_70535937	comment	Bene Gesserit in general specialize in this, though they do sometimes marry their matches (Yueh and Wanna, Count and Lady Fenring). It's not outright stated, but strongly implied that "total control over every muscle and nerve" makes them mind-blowing in bed.
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Dune / int_70ade2c4	type	Culture Clash
Dune / int_70ade2c4	comment	Culture Clash: Played constantly throughout the novels, especially between the Atreides and the Fremen. Specific examples include the meeting between Leto and Stilgar, and Paul's accidental gift of "watercounters" to Chani.
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Dune / int_70dc3a86	type	Had to Be Sharp
Dune / int_70dc3a86	comment	Had to Be Sharp: "God made Arrakis to train the Faithful".
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Dune / int_715b42f7	type	Rigged Spectacle Fight
Dune / int_715b42f7	comment	Rigged Spectacle Fight: One chapter covers Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen celebrating his 17th birthday by fighting a gladiatorial duel against a fighter who reveals himself to be part of the Atreides army. Feyd is fighting with a dual advantage: he has not only secretly switched which of his two daggers has a poisoned blade, his opponent has been conditioned to freeze up when a Trigger Phrase is spoken. Feyd drags out the fight to give the crowd a show, and this causes him to underestimate his opponent enough that he almost kills Feyd before Feyd uses his advantages to win.
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Dune / int_71687bca	type	Stalker with a Test Tube
Dune / int_71687bca	comment	Stalker with a Test Tube: This is basically the Modus Operandi of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood — breeding together people with the right genes in order to produce the Kwizatch Haderach... whether that means matchmaking, blackmail, or outright rape is of little concern to them as long as the right children result. At one point Margot Fenring casually discusses with her husband about her orders to seduce, mind-whammy and 'retrieve the genetic material' of Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen. (In Dune Messiah, we learn that the Sisterhood ironically aren't allowed to use test tubes, as artificial insemination is banned as part of the Buterlian Jihad.)
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Dune / int_72595768	type	Darwinist Desire
Dune / int_72595768	comment	Darwinist Desire: the Bene Gesserit actually have Darwinist Desire Matchmaking. They've been secretly manipulating the marriages of all the members of the noble houses to produce the Kwisatz Haderach, a being capable of omniscience.
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Dune / int_728e34ab	type	Convenient Cranny
Dune / int_728e34ab	comment	Convenient Cranny: While Paul and Jessica are fleeing a Sand Worm, they find a crack in a cliff and successfully hide from it.
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Dune / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Dune / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Duncan Idaho, Thufir Hawat and Liet Kynes survive in the Cryo game. Duke Leto, however, still bites it.
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Dune / int_746704c9	type	Divided for Publication
Dune / int_746704c9	comment	Divided for Publication: At least one French translation splits the novel into two volumes. The story is divided into three parts, the separation happens in the middle of the second part, when Paul and Jessica flee the Harkonnens by flying into a storm.note For some reason, this is averted for the rest of the novels. Even Sisterhood, which is roughly as long as Dune, is released as a single volume in the same collection.
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Dune / int_77aedc5c	type	Horse of a Different Color
Dune / int_77aedc5c	comment	Horse of a Different Color: Fremen climb onto sandworms and steer them with hooks as a means of desert transport.
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Dune / int_77c0952e	type	Face Your Fears
Dune / int_77c0952e	comment	Face Your Fears: The Litany against fear promotes doing this whenever possible.
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Dune / int_7919a45b	type	Duel to the Death
Dune / int_7919a45b	comment	Chani. At one point towards the end of the book, Paul is constantly interrupted by people who want a Duel to the Death with him to see if he's really any good. Chani puts a stop to it by taking one of the challenges herself... pointing out, correctly, that a lot of challengers will be dissuaded by the certain knowledge that if a girl can beat them, the husband who trained her can certainly do it too. And, while there is a lot of glory in being killed by the Messiah in a duel, the same is not true for being killed by his wife - while Fremen women are considered fierce and formidable warriors, they don't have _quite_ the same standing.
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Dune / int_79974fb8	type	Rock Beats Laser
Dune / int_79974fb8	comment	Rock Beats Laser: This is an example when the trope is totally justified. Because of shields, the Sardaukar use knives and swords. The Fremen use knives because that's what they have. When the Sardaukar come to Arrakis, they have to turn their shields off. So it's not rocks beating lasers, but more along the lines of your lasers have stopped working, and the locals are better at using rocks than you are.
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Dune / int_79b5677	type	Belief Makes You Stupid
Dune / int_79b5677	comment	Belief Makes You Stupid: Inverted, Subverted, Justified, and Invoked. All depends on your personal interpretation, and which characters you examine. Frank himself said one of the main themes of the series was putting all your faith into one person and following them blindly. You can follow someone, but to utterly submit to them leads to total destruction.
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Dune / int_7abd339f	type	Black-and-White Morality
Dune / int_7abd339f	comment	Black-and-White Morality: In contrast with the books, the movies and video games set in the Dune universe tend to depict the Atreides and the Fremen as the unambiguously good guys, and the Harkonnen and the Corrino as the bad guys.
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Dune / int_7c77081d	type	Language Equals Thought
Dune / int_7c77081d	comment	Language Equals Thought: The Fremen culture has dozens of words describing various types of sand, and Liet-Kynes intentionally introduces a language based in the terms of ecology, with the express purpose of making the Fremen into an army of terraformers. The galactic common language has separate words for poisoning someone through their food and poisoning someone through their drink.
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Dune / int_7c7ee100	type	Cannot Tell a Lie
Dune / int_7c7ee100	comment	Cannot Tell a Lie: Mentats. In the books, the Bene Gesserit are also explicitly said to be incapable of outright lying, due to their training and method of consciousness expansion. Because of this, they have become masters of evasion and misdirection. "A Bene Gesserit will always tell the truth, but rarely the whole truth." (paraphrased)
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Dune / int_7c9933de	type	Laughably Evil
Dune / int_7c9933de	comment	Laughably Evil: Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is both the Big Bad of the first book and frequently the comic relief.
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Dune / int_7db56b0b	type	Junkie Prophet
Dune / int_7db56b0b	comment	Junkie Prophet: The only reliable means of gaining prescience is to get hopped up on spice.
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Dune / int_7dca00c0	type	Duel of Seduction
Dune / int_7dca00c0	comment	Duel of Seduction: With technique and counter-technique.
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Dune / int_7f06b66	type	Regretful Traitor
Dune / int_7f06b66	comment	Regretful Traitor: Dr Yueh from the first book, who knows he's being manipulated and is reluctant to betray House Atreides, but is compelled to do so due to the Harkonnens exploiting I Have Your Wife.
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Dune / int_81c8dd41	type	Deus Est Machina
Dune / int_81c8dd41	comment	Deus Est Machina: The backstory suggests humanity once created machines so advanced that life became incredibly easy and comfortable. It is implied that humans (or at least a large number of fanatics) became so abhorred by their perceived over-reliance on intelligent machines (and advanced computer technology in general) that they initiated the Butlerian Jihad, a violent purge of all Artificial Intelligence and advanced computers. When the Jihad ended, it became a crime by religious and secular law to create advanced computers (the chief commandment resulting from this war is that "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of the human mind"), with all of their functions in calculation and space travel adopted by specialized humans (who arguably become a human form of this trope). The prequel novels which detail the Butlerian Jihad as a more straightforward Robot War against oppressive ruler A.I.s did, of course, piss off the fans most mightily.
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Dune / int_8225b12c	type	Fumbling the Gauntlet
Dune / int_8225b12c	comment	Fumbling the Gauntlet: In their meeting, Stilgar walks up to Duke Leto Atreides, gives an appraising look, and spits on the floor in front of him. Gurney Halleck, with his Undying Loyalty to Duke Leto, is immediately ready to slay Stilgar on the spot for such a brazen insult. Fortunately, Duncan Idaho quickly intervenes and explains that Stilgar's gesture was courteous. On a planet where water is so rare and precious, shedding a few drops of moisture at someone's feet is a sign of respect.
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Dune / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
Dune / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Dr. Wellington Yueh betrays the House Atreides for the sake of freeing his wife from Harkonnen tortures. Yueh is an interesting case in that he walks into it with his eyes mostly open — he strongly suspects that Wanna has been Released to Elsewhere and is betraying everyone just to make sure. He knows he'll only be killed for his troubles once he's outlived his usefulness, and he does everything in his power to help House Atreides survive his betrayal. Hell, he even sets up a trap of his own to kill Baron Harkonnen in retaliation, and it almost succeeds. Poor old Wellington kinda gets the short end of the stick in the universe; despite his best-of-intentions betrayal, in subsequent books it is made clear that history remembers him as worse than Judas and for thousands of years his name serves as a byword for unconscionable treachery.
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Dune / int_82ffd2c7	type	Finding Judas
Dune / int_82ffd2c7	comment	Poor old Wellington kinda gets the short end of the stick in the universe; despite his best-of-intentions betrayal, in subsequent books it is made clear that history remembers him as worse than Judas and for thousands of years his name serves as a byword for unconscionable treachery.
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Dune / int_8370a793	type	Mature Work, Child Protagonists
Dune / int_8370a793	comment	Mature Work, Child Protagonists: Paul Atreides is the main protagonist of the novel and he's only fifteen for a large part of the book. The book is aimed more at adults than kids around Paul's age; although some teens probably wouldn't find it too difficult to read, it's quite a dense novel with lots of complex world-building and philosophical elements, which might not be as appealing or understandable to younger readers.
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Dune / int_84c65a8c	type	Reinforce Field
Dune / int_84c65a8c	comment	Reinforce Field: The bones of a sandworm are extremely brittle. However, their crystalline structure can be made as tough as diamond with a weak bioelectric field, such as one produced by a living creature, including the sandworm itself. When a sandworm is killed, its skeletal structure collapses and rapidly erodes. The same is true for crysknives, weapons made out of sandworm's teeth.
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Dune / int_854b029a	type	Encyclopedia Exposita
Dune / int_854b029a	comment	Encyclopedia Exposita: Every chapter is headed by a quote from Princess Irulan's studies of Paul-Muad'Dib.
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Dune / int_8573ac0a	type	The Social Darwinist
Dune / int_8573ac0a	comment	The Social Darwinist: When Baron Harkonnen brags to Thufir Hawat that Rabban and the Sardaukar have killed at least 35,000 Fremen in the last two years, Hawat responds that he estimates Arrakis's total Fremen population at over 10 million, which means that all the Harkonnens have done is accelerate the process of natural selection that already occurs on a harsh desert planet and "weeded out some of their less successful specimens, leaving the strong to grow stronger[.]"
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Dune / int_85f0963f	type	Psycho Serum
Dune / int_85f0963f	comment	Psycho Serum/Super Serum: The Spice is both a boon and bane for humanity, politically, culturally, and biologically.
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Dune / int_864c4c53	type	Nobody Here but Us Birds
Dune / int_864c4c53	comment	Nobody Here but Us Birds: The Fremen use bird calls to communicate with each other: "Jessica heard... the distant bird calls that Stilgar had said were the signals of his watchmen."
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Dune / int_86bb7d97	type	Cultured Badass
Dune / int_86bb7d97	comment	Cultured Badass: Pretty much everyone.
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Dune / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
Dune / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: Prescience (precognition), Other Memory, and memory transfers.
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Dune / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Dune / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: The novels are consistently and deliberately ambiguous about the relative morality of most of the various factions. House Atreides, the most conventionally moral of the Great Houses depicted in the story, is made to pay heavily for its idealism — and they're not precisely pure, clean-cut Good Guys. House Harkonnen, on the other hand, are unquestionably evil and rotten to the core, being depraved sexual sadists who don't even like each other, and who are concerned solely with their own selfishness.
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Dune / int_87ee897	type	Crazy Cultural Comparison
Dune / int_87ee897	comment	Crazy Cultural Comparison: Handled in a serious manner when Stilgar the Fremen meets with Duke Leto. He spits on the table. As the Duke's men are about to carve Stilgar into lunchmeat, Duncan Idaho tells them to hold, then thanks Stilgar for "the gift of his moisture", spits on the table himself, and explains that doing so is a Fremen gesture of respect (since water is so scarce on Arrakis).
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Dune / int_88239e0e	type	Victory by First Blood
Dune / int_88239e0e	comment	Victory by First Blood: When Paul duels Jamis, this is his mindset; it's only when the other Fremen react with disgust and anger at his asking if Jamis wants to yield that he learns that by Fremen custom such duels are to the death.
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Dune / int_88525242	type	Cyborg Helmsman
Dune / int_88525242	comment	Cyborg Helmsman: The Navigators rely on spice in the absence of thinking machines to be able to travel safely.
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Dune / int_88ad05a5	type	Elite Man–Courtesan Romance
Dune / int_88ad05a5	comment	Elite Manâ€“Courtesan Romance: Duke Leto's romance with Lady Jessica is this. She is not a prostitute or courtesan, but a member of The Order of Bene Gesserit, who ship off some of their younger initiates as concubines to powerful nobles in order to advance their genetic selection agenda. Despite this, Leto and Jessica genuinely fall in love with each other, and she even defies the order by giving birth to his son (initiates can choose the baby's sex at will, and she was supposed to bear a daughter).
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Dune / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
Dune / int_89631688	comment	The Chosen One: Paul is the Kwisatz Haderach, the end result of thousands of years of breeding to produce a superhuman. The series as a whole shows just how disastrous these tropes would be in a more realistic setting.
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Dune / int_89baee12	type	Space Opera
Dune / int_89baee12	comment	Space Opera:
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Dune / int_8a0d290b	type	Conlang
Dune / int_8a0d290b	comment	Conlang: Many of the phrases and terms used throughout the book have some basis in real-world languages. The Fremen speak a clear development of Arabic. Galach, the official language of the Imperium, is described as an Anglo-Slavic hybrid with some other tongues mixed in for good measure — and it shows... in the rare instances when we get to read some actual untranslated phrases from it.
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Dune / int_8c1ad82f	type	Proud Warrior Race Guy
Dune / int_8c1ad82f	comment	Proud Warrior Race Guy: The Fremen, deliberately contrasted with the Sardaukar, who are more of a Praetorian Guard. Both in turn start out badass but end up succumbing to arrogance and pleasure, allowing them to be overcome by a superior force — Fremen for the Sardukar.
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Dune / int_8c96ae78	type	No One Could Survive That!
Dune / int_8c96ae78	comment	No One Could Survive That!: Paul and Jessica are able to escape their Harkonnen pursuers by piloting an aircraft into a Coriolis storm, a massive sandstorm with winds over 400 kph. Everyone except Baron Harkonnen agrees (with good reason) that they are "certainly dead", which turns out to be a huge mistake. Made more ironic when the Baron chews out his lieutenant for being so Genre Blind while his private thoughts reveal that he fully believes it, too.
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Dune / int_8d8c3304	type	Deadly Scratch
Dune / int_8d8c3304	comment	Deadly Scratch: Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen wins his 100th gladiatorial bout by inflicting a shallow wound on his opponent with a poisoned knife. (The knife was part of a matched pair and was supposed to be clean, while the other blade was poisoned, but Feyd-Rautha secretly put the poison on the "wrong" blade to give himself an edge.) At the climax of the novel, Baron Harkonnen tries to take Alia hostage, gets scratched by the House Atreides gom jabbar, and quickly dies as a result.
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Dune / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Dune / int_8db4988a	comment	Unusual User Interface: The heavily-mutated Guild Navigators interfacing with space-time to plot the course the navigating machines will take.
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Dune / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
Dune / int_8e5c862	comment	Ancient Conspiracy: The Bene Gesserit have manipulated practically all existing religions in the Dune universe to be tools for their purposes, to the point a Bene Gesserit can basically go to any planet and detect different cues and codes within the local religion's tenets to know exactly what to say and do to present herself as a paragon, prophet or even messiah of the local religion. This is how Lady Jessica insinuates herself and Paul into the Fremen culture. Of course, Jessica had no way of knowing Paul would become an ACTUAL messiah.
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Dune / int_8e9cf84e	type
Dune / int_8e9cf84e	comment	"Blind Idiot" Translation: Several translations into certain foreign languages. Especially common in first editions.
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Dune / int_8f050175	type	Only the Knowledgable May Pass
Dune / int_8f050175	comment	Only the Knowledgable May Pass: Lady Jessica is able to gain acceptance among the Fremen by using phrases planted in their culture by the Missionaria Protectiva (which manipulates religious beliefs to benefit the Bene Gesserit).
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Dune / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Dune / int_90c018ac	comment	They also inhale carbon dioxide and breathe out fresh oxygen, working as a substitute for the nearly non-existant plantlife on Arrakis. This also justifies why such a Single-Biome Planet can have a breathable atmosphere. The byproducts of the worms are suspiciously Terran-friendly indeed. Various characters lampshade this occasionally, even suggesting the idea that sandworms may be in fact Lost Organic Technology for terraforming planets (created a long time ago by humans, presumably).
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Dune / int_9123208f	type	Breaching the Wall
Dune / int_9123208f	comment	Breaching the Wall: Paul's attack at the end of Dune had him nuking a hole through the Shield Wall, a whole mountain range protecting (and enabling the existence of) the most hospitable area of Arrakis.
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Dune / int_913f683a	type	Discussed
Dune / int_913f683a	comment	Also Discussed at the end of the book, when Paul declares his intent to marry Princess Irulan, but privately swears to Chani that Irulan will have nothing except the title of "wife". Everything else, Paul's love and time and body, will be Chani's.
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Dune / int_91afe393	type	National Weapon
Dune / int_91afe393	comment	National Weapon: Crysknives, made from the teeth of sandworms, are sacred to the Fremen.
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Dune / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Dune / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen has Yueh's wife kidnapped to coerce him into betraying the house of Atreides, then fulfills his promise to "reunite" the two of them.
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Dune / int_953c92eb	type	Beware the Superman
Dune / int_953c92eb	comment	Beware the Superman: Main theme of the series.
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Dune / int_95428daa	type	Rite of Passage
Dune / int_95428daa	comment	Rite of Passage: The gom jabbar stands out, though is only done on Bene Gesserit and Kwisatz Haderach-hopefuls. Better examples exist among the Fremen, such as first hooking a sandworm (at twelve).
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Dune / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
Dune / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: Probably the only exception is Duke Leto. And even then, only maybe. The Harkonnens are vile scum, the Emperor is all but a puppet between the Spacing Guild and the Bene Gesserit and stomps on House Atreides because he fears Leto's popularity, and while we don't meet many other nobles, none of them come across as particularly noble. Even Leto seems to be gunning for the throne in some way, proving the Emperor's fear correct. By training a small number of House Atreides guards to the level of the Sardaukar, and seeking to make an alliance with the Fremen, who he believes (correctly) are a fighting force to match or exceed them, there are heavy implications that either Leto himself was going launch a coup to take the throne, or leave Paul the tools to do it. Finally, Paul himself ascends the throne after a campaign of terrorism, and launches a jihad that bathes the universe in blood. The Central Theme of the series is all about why people shouldn't blindly trust authority figures.
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Dune / int_9620c3a1	type	God-Emperor
Dune / int_9620c3a1	comment	God-Emperor: The series was a big influence on the more modern "Memetic Divinity" aspect.
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Dune / int_963086ce	type	Damn You, Muscle Memory!
Dune / int_963086ce	comment	Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Rare literary example; Paul is accustomed to attacking slowly while sword-fighting in order to circumvent the deflector shields that are common in the empire, which have a stopping power proportional to the inertia of the object impacting them (The faster an object is moving the harder it is to penetrate the shield). However, when he finds himself in shield-less combat his attacks are sluggish and too slow to draw blood; this is unintentional, but because his defenses and reactions are so quick in comparison the viewing Fremen believe that he is simply toying with his opponent, and comment with disgust.
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Dune / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Dune / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: It's difficult to pin this role onto a single character in Dune. Most of the problems that Paul has to overcome can be traced back to a loose coalition of enemies who are devoted to destroying him and his family. The Baron and House Harkonnen are definitely The Heavy. They are the most active antagonists on the scene and serve as the personal nemeses for Paul and House Atreides. However, they ultimately answer to The Emperor (sort of), are completely ignorant of the deeper machinations at play, and serve no role in the denouement. The Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino is nominally in charge and is the true mastermind behind the conspiracy to wipe out House Atreides. With that said, even he is having his strings pulled by forces greater than himself, namely, the Bene Gesserit and the Guild. His House continues to conspire against Paul in a bid to return to power after Shaddam's death though, and serve as antagonists until the rise of Leto II. Speaking of the Bene Gesserit and the Guild, they too have a personal stake in the downfall of House Atreides and are arguably even more powerful than the ruling House Corrino. However, they are largely The Unseen and their personal involvement in the story is minimal at best. On a whole, the villainous roles in Dune can be summarized as House Harkonnen being The Heavy, House Corrino being the Big Bad, and the Bene Gesserit and the Guild both serving as a collective Greater-Scope Villain.
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Dune / int_97aaa7f3	type	In the Blood
Dune / int_97aaa7f3	comment	In the Blood: Apparently all Harkonnens are born evil and all Atreides are born good. Then Paul merges the bloodlines...
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Dune / int_97ee3a58	type	Vicariously Ambitious
Dune / int_97ee3a58	comment	Vicariously Ambitious: Baron Harkonnen knows that he will never rise to the position of Emperor, but he dreams of putting someone from House Harkonnen on the throne, and schemes to make Feyd-Rautha that Harkonnen. The irony is that it actually happens, since Paul is his grandson.
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Dune / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Dune / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: One chapter begins with the villain introducing himself by name to his henchmen—"Is it not a magnificent thing that I, the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, do?"—and continues with him explaining his plan to the henchman who helped him to devise it. Justified in that (a) they were recapitulating their plan for the benefit of Feyd-Rautha, whose patience and attention span were equally short; and (b) the Baron himself is a gloriously Large Ham, and arrogant to boot (and one of the few times when he actually admits to having done a mistake solely by his own fault, it's about being overly fond of describing plans when he shouldn't). In general, this trope is common throughout the series due to the density of the universe necessitating constant exposition. Even earlier, after the gom jabbar test, Paul and the Reverend Mother have a long conversation about the state of humanity and the Empire, most of which Paul, as a young noble groomed to lead one of the Great Houses of the Empire, already knows. Also justified in that the Reverend Mother is equal parts testing how much Paul actually knows, seeing what conclusions he draws from what he already knows, dropping some new information to see what he'll make of it, and offering some conclusions of her own. In general, Frank Herbert is pretty good at justifying the use of this trope when it needs to occur.
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Dune / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
Dune / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: The Bene Gesserit are big on the Gambit Gambling Circuit, manipulating individuals, societies, governments, religions, and bloodlines to produce their Kwisatz Haderach— and then having to start over from scratch when they get one too soon.
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Dune / int_9ae5a580	type	Razor Floss
Dune / int_9ae5a580	comment	Razor Floss: Shigawire, a strand of wire so fine that just being brushed by it can cause deep wounds and even sever limbs.
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Dune / int_9ae8eea9	type	Character Tics
Dune / int_9ae8eea9	comment	Character Tics: Hasimir Fenring and his wife annoyingly hum while they speak, read as "Uhhh-hmmmmmmmm" every time. It's actually their private code language, use to share information between themselves secretly while in front of other people. The Baron apparently tapped his fingers during anxiety or boredom, as shown in Children of Dune when Alia becomes possessed with her ego-memories of him. Done in a different fashion in the Sci-Fi Channel miniseries. The Baron has a habit of rubbing at his cheeks or temples with the first two fingers of his hand whenever he grows frustrated or annoyed; we later see Paul making the exact same gesture.
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Dune / int_9bfb2f41	type	Dead Guy on Display
Dune / int_9bfb2f41	comment	Dead Guy on Display: Paul displays his father's skull in a small memorial.
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Dune / int_9c842299	type	Weaponized Exhaust
Dune / int_9c842299	comment	Weaponized Exhaust: The Emperor is both enraged and terrified when he hears that his Sardaukar only just barely escaped with their lives by doing this against a settlement of women, children, and elderly.
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Dune / int_9cad69bf	type	Depraved Homosexual
Dune / int_9cad69bf	comment	Depraved Homosexual: Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. Though at the time of the main series of books his lust is placed solely on adolescent boys, mention of youthful exploits with women is made. The first is his fifteen year old nephew and the second is his grandson of the same age, though he was unaware of this relation.
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Dune / int_9cc1e9ec	type	Unwanted False Faith
Dune / int_9cc1e9ec	comment	Unwanted False Faith: The misguided Fremen-led state religion and personality cult that forms around Paul. The young Atreides actually does a damned good effort at rejecting and ridiculing it at first, but later accepts it after his spice-induced visions convince him there might be a grain of truth in the myth. All the more tragic when the reader realizes the whole Fremen legend about the Mahdi is just a Bene Gesserit hoax cleverly implanted into actual Fremen mythology. (Of course Paul knows this.)
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Dune / int_9dbb9688	type	Fantastic Honorifics
Dune / int_9dbb9688	comment	Fantastic Honorifics: "na-" is used as a prefix to a rank (for example, na-Baron) to refer to the heir to that rank. It's short for "nascent."
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Dune / int_9e1548b4	type	Old Retainer
Dune / int_9e1548b4	comment	Old Retainer: Paul has not one, but three Old Retainers — Gurney Halleck, Duncan Idaho (though he's not so old), and Thufir Hawat.
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Dune / int_a084f0e0	type	Never Speak Ill of the Dead
Dune / int_a084f0e0	comment	Never Speak Ill of the Dead: When Paul kills Jamis in a duel, the other Fremen refrain from speaking ill of Jamis, even though he had a history of violence and unethical actions (i.e., killing Harah's first husband so that he could marry her). However, Harah's nonchalant reaction to Jamis's death, combined with her sons' delight at having Paul as their new father, suggests that they did not think well of Jamis.
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Dune / int_a1d4e0a8	type	Genocide Backfire
Dune / int_a1d4e0a8	comment	Genocide Backfire: Arguably happens when Baron Harkonnen kills his rival, Duke Atreides, and attempts to do the same with his only son, thus wiping out the Atreides family line and ending the millennia old Atreides/Harkonnen blood feud. At first he thinks he's successful, but they never find the boy's body...
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Dune / int_a20460b8	type	Hot Consort
Dune / int_a20460b8	comment	Hot Consort: Paul ends up marrying Princess Irulan (described in-universe as an impossible, superhuman beauty) for political reasons, but keeps his true love Chani as royal concubine. Paul's father, the Duke Leto, never marries the Lady Jessica as it provides some leverage with other Houses, who might want to arrange a marriage. He claims this as one of his few regrets. Bene Gesserit in general specialize in this, though they do sometimes marry their matches (Yueh and Wanna, Count and Lady Fenring). It's not outright stated, but strongly implied that "total control over every muscle and nerve" makes them mind-blowing in bed.
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Dune / int_a3c0d670	type	Evil Chancellor
Dune / int_a3c0d670	comment	Evil Chancellor: Subverted thoroughly with Dr Wellington Yueh and Thufir Hawat. Dr Yueh looks almost exactly the part of the evil chancellor — tall, blade-thin with a drooping moustache and cold, intellectual manner. He even betrays the Atreides, and the readers find out about it right from the start. He's only doing it because the Harkonnens have probably killed his wife, but he's not sure — and for the chance to get a bit of revenge. Hawat on the other hand looks like the grandfatherly mentor, but is the Duke's ''Master of Assassins'', and employs methods that horrify Jessica.
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Dune / int_a51fecb4	type	Did You Actually Believe...?
Dune / int_a51fecb4	comment	Did You Actually Believe...?: A heroic example, where Thufir Hawat (the Atreides mentat) betrays the Emperor and Harkonnens by refusing to kill Paul:
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Dune / int_a5ec714	type	Paradise Planet
Dune / int_a5ec714	comment	Paradise Planet: Caladan, home of the Atreides; an idyllic ocean world, it provides an effective contrast to the Polluted Wasteland of the Harkonnens. Paul later claims that it made the Atreides complacent and left them unprepared for the carnage on Arrakis.
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Dune / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Dune / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Harah in Cryo's 1992 video game adaptation.
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Dune / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Dune / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The spice is largely a MacGuffin, since the majority of what makes it valuable and highly contested (the geriatric properties) are not supported in-verse. The Fremen don't have long lifespans, and no character of the original trilogy is described as being unusually old, or even references someone who is. That said, old characters (like the 75 year old Emperor) are described as looking young, and given the setting, violent deaths are pretty common around the people who are rich enough to afford spice as well as the Fremen. The demonstrated, mind altering, properties of the spice are useful only to a very limited group. By far the most common use of the spice is as... spice (very much Truth in Television as to the desirability and value of spice)— it is said it never tastes the same way twice to the same person, providing quite a bit of variety.
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Dune / int_a7ae714	type	Planetary Romance
Dune / int_a7ae714	comment	Planetary Romance : Both a classic example and a Deconstruction.
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Dune / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Dune / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Count Hasimir Fenring definitely counts as one of those. 'Umm-ah-hm-mm-mm', indeed! He completely loses the affect/speech impediment when in private conversation about the Emperor's orders with the Baron. The Baron also describes him as "a killer with the manners of a rabbit ... the most dangerous kind."
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Dune / int_a8357dc2	type	No Woman's Land
Dune / int_a8357dc2	comment	No Woman's Land: In general, the Dune universe is patriarchal outside of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood, with women exposed to socially sanctioned subordination and violence. Fremen society is patriarchal. Even though Fremen women are strong and fearless, they're still treated like subordinates. For example, a man dying at the hands of a woman is considered embarrassing, as Chani notes when she kills a man who wanted to duel with Paul in the first novel. Sietch leaders are always male. Finally, male duel victors inherit the wives of their defeated foes as spoils of war, with the wives having no say in the matter. Jamis killed Harah's first husband in a duel for the stated purpose of taking Harah for his wife. Slavery, sexual or otherwise, is an accepted practice in the Dune universe. Irulan recounts the story of secretly seeing Fenring offer Emperor Shaddam a female sex slave, only for Shaddam to politely refuse. Feyd also has several female sex slaves (but, to be fair, the Baron has male sex slaves as well). The noble houses of Dune are rigidly patriarchal, headed only by men, and women cannot rule in their own right; while Shaddam has several daughters, they can't inherit the throne themselves and their 'right' passes to their husband, as is the case with Irulan and Paul (who would have taken the throne from Shaddam as a term of surrender regardless, but he also took Irulan as a wife to make it more legitimate). Female nobles and concubines do find ways to manipulate events, but it is always behind the scenes. The noble houses also practice arranged marriage, or in Irulan's case, forced marriage. Even the all-female Bene Geserit sisterhood doesn't fully escape this trope. Granted, Reverend Mothers wield a great deal of power, and the sisterhood provides women with elite training and avenues for getting ahead. However, the sisterhood also exerts rigid control over initiates' sexual and reproductive lives for the sake of its selective breeding program, deciding who they will marry, who they will have sex with, and when and if they will bear children. The idea that initiates might have other plans is never considered.
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Dune / int_a8cbf649	type	I Should Write a Book About This
Dune / int_a8cbf649	comment	I Should Write a Book About This: The very last page notes that Princess Irulan, whose epigraphs appear throughout the first book as chapter breaks, has "pretensions of a literary nature."
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Dune / int_a9c7258a	type	Absent Aliens
Dune / int_a9c7258a	comment	Absent Aliens: Unless you count the Sandworms, and their implied creators. Even then, the sapience was added after the fact, by Leto II. Plenty of non-sapient species are also mentioned in passing. There's a lot of life in the universe, but none of it talks back.
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Dune / int_a9eb984b	type	Warrior Poet
Dune / int_a9eb984b	comment	Warrior Poet: Gurney Halleck. He is a musician and philosopher with seemingly infinite supply of witticisms for any occasion. He is also a remorseless killer, perfectly willing to cut any Harkonnen he comes across (or anyone who gets on the wrong side of Duke Leto for that matter) into pieces. Paul becomes something like this, if the many quotes attributed to him in the chapter epigraphs were actually from him. Then again, Gurney trained Paul.
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Dune / int_aa483bdc	type	DesertPunk
Dune / int_aa483bdc	comment	Desert Punk: A Trope Codifier here.
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Dune / int_aa4fa3d5	type	Ancient Astronauts
Dune / int_aa4fa3d5	comment	Ancient Astronauts: The Bene Gesserit purposely spreading myths based on heroic and religious archetypes throughout fledgling colonies to make use of the people there later.
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Dune / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
Dune / int_aa8dcc21	comment	MegaCorp: Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles (CHOAM) is a trade organization that deals with all interplanetary commerce. The Spacing Guild has a monopoly on space travel and controls the prices. They also have a majority of the stock in CHOAM, which just goes to show how much Spice is entwined in human politics, at least until Paul takes over the whole kit and kaboodle.
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Dune / int_ab031997	type	Underdogs Never Lose
Dune / int_ab031997	comment	Underdogs Never Lose: House Atreides and the Fremen
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Dune / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Dune / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: The Harkonnen plot against House Atreides (including who the traitor is) is outlined in detail in the second chapter in the form of exposition to Feyd-Rautha. The reader must then go through several chapters where the Atreides or their retainers misconstrue the Harkonnen's plan, which, in the end, mostly works.
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Dune / int_ac1e30d8	type	Red Scare
Dune / int_ac1e30d8	comment	Red Scare: The Baron Harkonnen has a Russian name, Vladimir (though the family name Harkonnen is reminiscent of the Finnish surname HÃ¤rkÃ¶nen). Now remember that the books came out during the Cold War.
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Dune / int_ac320c0e	type	Nuke 'em
Dune / int_ac320c0e	comment	Nuke 'em: Almost all of the Great Houses keep stockpiles of "atomics" as a tool of last resort. However, under the "Great Convention", the rules of house warfare, the use of nuclear weapons against humans is grounds for planetary annihilation. Of course it helps in the context of the novel that humanity's eggs are in many, many baskets. In the climax, Paul blows a hole in the Shield Wall with one, arguing he is targeting a terrain feature, not people. Gurney Halleck notes that that's a rather fine point; Paul's response is that the Guild ships in orbit will take any point to avoid having to destroy Arrakis. Why are they kept? For mutual deterrence and for use against hostile aliens (though the exact phraseology is "other intelligence").
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Dune / int_ac69035c	type	Master Poisoner
Dune / int_ac69035c	comment	Master Poisoner: Poisoning is very much an accepted science in the world of Dune.
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Dune / int_ad325cb8	type	Monster Organ Trafficking
Dune / int_ad325cb8	comment	Monster Organ Trafficking: Sandworms are the source of the invaluable Spice, without which galactic civilization would collapse. While keeping them captive is unfeasible to say the least, the need to preserve their species runs at odds with the Fremen drive to make Arrakis more liveable for humans, making it a major political issue.
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Dune / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
Dune / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: Dune is Lawrence of Arabia IN SPACE! WITH PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS!
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Dune / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
Dune / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Paul has dreams about the future (including later events on Arrakis) before gaining his full prescient ability.
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Dune / int_af921409	type	Accidental Marriage
Dune / int_af921409	comment	Accidental Marriage: Paul, before adapting to Fremen culture, asks Chani to carry his water tokens for him without realizing that only a betrothed does this for a man, making his offer tantamount to a proposal. Unusually for the trope, the Fremen are well-aware that he didn't mean it that way and don't think anything of it. Paul's defeat of Jamis. He didn't realize he'd inherit Jamis' widow out of it—though, given the choice between accepting Harah as wife or as servant, he chooses the latter. (Having killed her husband, he's required to take responsibility for her either way; on the other hand, there's the succession of House Atreides to consider, as well as the fact that he doesn't particularly want to marry Harah in any case.)
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Dune / int_b0155044	type	Always Night
Dune / int_b0155044	comment	Always Night: The planet Giedi Prime is fouled with pollution, preventing sunlight from piercing the cloud cover.
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Dune / int_b060856d	type	Big Book of War
Dune / int_b060856d	comment	Big Book of War: While not strictly a book, "kanly" are the formal restrictions and rules in place on political vendettas between royal houses. There does exist, however, the Assassin's Handbook, which deals with poisons and other weapons of war.
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Dune / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Dune / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: The series. The Bene Geserit wanted their uber-Father-Superior to help them help guide humankind? Congrats! How about two for the low-low price of being guided places you regret ever seeing? Adding insult to injury, the Bene Gesserit were under the impression that they would be able to exert some control over the Kwisatz Haderach according to their millennia of genetic planning had Jessica followed the plan. However, Paul turned out so powerful that they were practically helpless to do anything against him, suggesting that, even if their plans had panned out, there may not have been any guarantee of control of a being of such might. House Corrino wanted Duke Leto Atreides dead to ensure their bloodline kept on the throne? They succeed in helping the Harkonnens kill Leto, which gives Paul the impetus to destroy House Harkonnen, take the throne for himself, and exile the Emperor's family to the prison planet their Sardaukar come from. Except for the Emperor's eldest daughter, who he marries to legitimize his claim, but he'll only have children with his real love, Chani, meaning the Corrino line will never sit the Imperial throne again. Paul wanted to avenge the deaths of his family and friends and the destruction of his House. Doing so means raising the Fremen as a fanatical army, using implanted Bene Gesserit prophecies and his own gradual apotheosis to become their messiah. Once you get fanatics started on a Holy War in your name, they're famously hard to rein back in. Enjoy the jihad sweeping across the universe, slaughtering trillions in your name, Paul Muad'dib. Fremen desperately pray for Arrakis to be a greener, more pleasant world. Kiss everything that was your way of life goodbye, leaving empty museum pieces.
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Dune / int_b0740635	type	Master of Your Domain
Dune / int_b0740635	comment	Master of Your Domain: See Charles Atlas Superpower.
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Dune / int_b0855ef3	type	No Historical Figures Were Harmed
Dune / int_b0855ef3	comment	No Historical Figures Were Harmed: While it might be unintentional due to his obscurity, it's notable that, just like the Imperium was inspired by the historical Holy Roman Empire, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen seems more than a bit inspired by Chiappino Vitelli, Marquis of Cetona, a general and diplomat for the House of Habsburg (rulers of the HRE) who was obese to the point of being forced to wear a special belt in orden to walk.
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Dune / int_b198142	type	Forgot to Gag Him
Dune / int_b198142	comment	Forgot to Gag Him: Both averted and played straight. When Lady Jessica and Paul are captured by the Harkonnens she is gagged so she can't use her Bene Gesserit Voice ability on them. Unfortunately for the Harkonnens guarding them, Paul also knows how to use Voice.
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Dune / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Dune / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: The Great Convention forbids the use of nuclear weaponry by any Great House... on people. Paul uses them against an inanimate topological feature... to his immediate tactical benefit.
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Dune / int_b2279346	type	RetCon
Dune / int_b2279346	comment	Retcon: In the first novel, the Reverend Mother power of "other memory" was bestowed by a kind of "download" of all the memories of another Reverend Mother — only that Reverend Mother's memories, or the memories of previous Reverend Mothers she'd downloaded, were accessible. Some difference was made between "Ancestral Memory" and "Other Memory". AM is awakened genetic memory, while OM is transferred genetic memory. The later books use OM as a catch-all for both. Other changes that might be considered retcons within the first three books included the appearance of Guild Navigators (at the end of Dune, they were perfectly normal-looking humans except for the blue-within-blue eyes that they hid behind contact lenses), and the factors that make a child "pre-born" ("No no no, Alia wasn't pre-born because she downloaded the dying Reverend Mother's memories while she was still in the womb, she was pre-born because her mom was addicted to the Spice!") The Butlerian Jihad. Originally, a reference to Samuel Butler and his Darwin among the Machines. Retconned — possibly unintentionally — by Brian Herbert to refer to the death of one "Manion Butler" instead.
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Dune / int_b2c737e8	type	Klingon Promotion
Dune / int_b2c737e8	comment	Depending on your perspective, the Fremen could be a deconstruction of the Noble Savage trope. Their society is characterized by senseless internal violence, such as duels, inheritance of women by duel victors, and succession through killing. When Paul assumes the role of Emperor, the Fremen descend on recalcitrant planets, slaughtering and ravaging the inhabitants. This from a people who lamented their own unjust oppression for centuries.
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Dune / int_b2f4114e	type	Heir Club for Men
Dune / int_b2f4114e	comment	Heir Club for Men: Duke Leto's concubine Lady Jessica was supposed to have a daughter for the Bene Gesserit, but Leto wanted a son, and she went along with him, although it is not made clear if he wanted a son for reasons of getting an heir or just wanted a male child. Jessica's motivation was partially love and partially the ambition to produce the Kwisatz Haderach. It worked. Meanwhile, the Emperor's Bene Gesserit has been following her orders, and he has no male heir to accede the throne. This was, seemingly, part of the Bene Gesserit's plan, to wed the kwizatz haderach to one of the Emperor's daughters and put him in charge of all humanity. This also worked.
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Dune / int_b2f7c60a	type	Living Motion Detector
Dune / int_b2f7c60a	comment	Living Motion Detector: Hunter-seekers.
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Dune / int_b4bccabc	type	Genius Serum
Dune / int_b4bccabc	comment	Genius Serum: Sapho Juice allows specially-trained individuals known as Mentats to think at superhuman levels.
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Dune / int_b68e8efe	type	Neutral in Name Only
Dune / int_b68e8efe	comment	Neutral in Name Only: Liet Kynes, the Imperial Planetologist of Arrakis, is supposed to be the impartial Judge of the Change controlling the changeover of rulership from the Harkonnen to the Atreides. He's actually been ordered by the Emperor to take the Harkonnens' side to facilitate the upcoming joint Harkonnen/Sardaukar attack. Later as he gets to know the Atreides and realizes that Paul Atreides may the Fremen's predicted savior, he changes and begins supporting the Atreides.
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Dune / int_b6f5a403	type	Retro Upgrade
Dune / int_b6f5a403	comment	Retro Upgrade: Both laser weapons and shielding technology have been well developed, but due to the Technobabble behind them if one meets the other then a catastrophic explosion occurs. Most warfare is waged through unconventional projectile weapons — or through simple knife and swordplay.
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Dune / int_b8c34249	type	Galactic Superpower
Dune / int_b8c34249	comment	Galactic Superpower: The Empire that reigned from the Butlerian Jihad to Leto II's planned Scattering.
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Dune / int_b922a720	type	Standard Time Units
Dune / int_b922a720	comment	Standard Time Units: Years are known as "Standard years", or SY, and are described as being about 20 hours less than the "so-called primitive year".
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Dune / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Dune / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: While the first book introduces many distinctly-European names, such as Paul, Jessica, Gurney, and Duncan (even Baron Harkonnen, whose first name is Vladimir), the names get far more exotic as the cast fills out throughout the series. Notable examples include Hasimir Fenring, Hwi Noree, many Fremen, and the Latin-European-Greek full names of the Bene Gesserit.
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Dune / int_ba6cf869	type	Rape, Pillage, and Burn
Dune / int_ba6cf869	comment	Stilgar's assurance to Jessica is cruelly subverted in the second novel. The Fremen have brutalized entire planets that resisted Paul's rise to the throne. It is clearly and casually stated that Fremen men have raped women on those planets. Then again, the nature of their crusade has changed their culture by this time, and it's clear even in Dune Messiah that many of them came home damaged by what they saw and/or did. Finally, Herbert's narration makes it clear that part of the motive for the jihad is a sort of unconscious sexual frenzy, a form of exaggerated natural selection where the old order is killed off and the seeds of the new order sown. (Neither Herbert nor Paul appears to condone this.)
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Dune / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
Dune / int_bb5126ec	comment	Prophecy Twist: The Bene Gesserit's Missionaria Protectiva intentionally seeds galactic society with messianic prophecies to provide a ready-made belief structure for their planned Kwisatz Haderach. The twist occurs when the real thing comes along and manipulates the prophecy to make himself Emperor of the known universe. Oops. (Hint: when trying to create a prophet, allow for the fact that the prophet will figure out what you're doing and may try to take it away from you.)
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Dune / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Dune / int_bc74ef27	comment	If we count non-firearm weapons as well, bladed melee weapons count in general in the 'verse. Though thrusting even a simple dagger through a personal shield takes practice, it is an effective enough fighting method (since nobody, in 'verse, combines a personal shield with conventional body armour capable of halting a dagger. Though most blades are so absurdly sharp human body armour has a mostly minimal effect on stopping most melee weapons, and every bit of mobility counts.). It allows the essentially medieval melee weapons of the setting to stay relevant in infantry warfare. Then again, on planets like Arrakis, where personal shields are too risky (because they drive sandworms crazy), tactics change accordingly — with melee weapons and firearms being used in roughly equal measure.
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Dune / int_bdd3fbbc	type	Coca-Pepsi, Inc.
Dune / int_bdd3fbbc	comment	Coca-Pepsi, Inc.: Perhaps the most famous example in science fiction. Due to thousands of years of space migration, various religions and cultures have merged, split, then re-merged again and again. The Fremen are Zensunni, a combination of Sunni Islam and Zen Buddhism. Though most of this occurred naturally, it eventually was pushed this way by an ecumenical council that produced the "Orange Catholic Bible". The title suggests a reunification of Catholicism and Protestantism (the militant, anti-Catholic Protestant Irish Orangists), although it is actually far more ecumenical, incorporating "Maometh Saari, Mahayana Christianity, Zensunni Catholicism and Buddislamic traditions". A few religions manage to survive intact through the millennia, most notably Judaism.
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Dune / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Dune / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Count and Lady Fenring, even though he's an Evil Eunuch. Leto and Jessica are also a happy couple, though politics prevent them from marrying.
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Dune / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Dune / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Arguably subverted by the Bene Gesserit and Honored Matres, whom really do have many sex partners, but only because the Bene Gesserit are engaged in a subtle breeding program and aren't allowed to use artificial insemination, meaning all genes have to be collected and gestated physically, and the Honored Matres use their sexuality as a form of conditioning. Both only do it professionally. Duncan Idaho more so. See The Casanova above. Baron Harkonnen has a taste for young male slaves. Feyd takes several slave girls as lovers.
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Dune / int_bf72d5e8	type	The Spartan Way
Dune / int_bf72d5e8	comment	The Spartan Way/Training from Hell: The Emperor's Sardaukar. To a certain extent the Fremen also — their culture is more survivalist than purely martial, but on a man-for-man level it seems to yield a superior result.
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Dune / int_bf8de9e4	type	Sand Is Water
Dune / int_bf8de9e4	comment	Sand Is Water: The sandworms "swim" through sand by literally eating it and passing it through their system, avoiding most of the implausibilities of it. This generates intense heat that triggers some extremely powerful electromagnetic storms from all the friction. Played even straighter with tidal dust basins, basins of dust so deep they have tides, which an unwary traveler can wander into and die.
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Dune / int_bfec296b	type	Ghost Memory
Dune / int_bfec296b	comment	Ghost Memory: Bene Gesserit acolytes receive the total line of their predecessors' memories when undergoing the Water of Life. Later books have Bene Gesserit placing their foreheads together to exchange genetic memory in times of extreme danger.
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Dune / int_c0069027	type	Flower Mouth
Dune / int_c0069027	comment	Flower Mouth: Most illustrations of the sandworms depict them with a three-part jaw.
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Dune / int_c1d58ab0	type	Drop Ship
Dune / int_c1d58ab0	comment	Drop Ship — somewhat more literal than most cases, "Crushers" mentioned in the glossary, are designed to literally crush enemy fortifications. They're also made of a bunch of smaller ships stuck together. Typical examples of a Drop Ship and Awesome Personnel Carrier are also mentioned (at least in the first novel, where they're used by Sardaukar and Harkonnen soldiers).
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Dune / int_c3d95be6	type	You Said You Would Let Them Go
Dune / int_c3d95be6	comment	You Said You Would Let Them Go: Yueh makes a deal with the Baron for the return of his wife, Wanna, but she was already dead. He saw it coming and prepared accordingly. That he largely fails is a stroke of terribly bad luck.
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Dune / int_c57b21f9	type	Global Currency
Dune / int_c57b21f9	comment	Global Currency: The Empire's official currency are Solari, but the Spice is universal gold.
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Dune / int_c5eec843	type	Mobile Factory
Dune / int_c5eec843	comment	Mobile Factory: Harvester factories move across the desert extracting spice from sand.
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Dune / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Dune / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: A "cone of silence" shields Count Fenring's conversation with Baron Harkonnen. A reference to a 1960 British film, Cone of Silence. There are at least two to Poul Anderson: an appendix to Dune mentions a biography of Alia written by "Pander Oulson". There's a reference to author Jack Vance (full name John Holbrook Vance) in Dune. In the "Terminology of the Imperium" entry for Krimskell Fiber the author of "The Strangler Vines of Ecaz" is given as "Holjance Vohnbrook".
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Dune / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
Dune / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: A twofer, actually. Baron Harkonnen is father to Jessica and grandfather to Paul.
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Dune / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
Dune / int_c9790040	comment	Decadent Court: Shaddam's imperial court, which leads in no small part to its downfall.
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Dune / int_c9993b95	type	Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage
Dune / int_c9993b95	comment	Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage: The Bene Gesserit arrange marriages for the members of their sisterhood. Paul's marriage to Princess Irulan certainly counts.
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Dune / int_ca04edd6	type	Charles Atlas Superpower
Dune / int_ca04edd6	comment	Charles Atlas Superpower: The Bene Gesserit train themselves to alter their blood composition, manipulate others by voice alone, being able to hold their breath for long periods of time, delay aging, neutralize any poison or drug, possibly see the future, and intense martial arts. They only get the future-vision and molecular control from the Spice. Everything else is pure Charles Atlas, with a few hints of selective breeding. The Honored Matres are revealed to be even more intense in their results in certain areas, but lack in others. The two groups eventually unify into one, combining the strengths of each. Mentats as well are "human computers". They are trained to possess photographic memories and deduce perfectly logical conclusions from the barest minimum of information. A Mentat Advisor is one of the most valuable assets that a noble house can have; when he first landed on Arrakis, Paul had just found that he had potential Mentat capabilities himselfnote and, in fact, that his father had been training Paul to become a Mentat his entire life, but to complete the training Paul had to knowingly embrace the rest of the program—which he does without hesitation—to quote Duke Leto, "a Mentat Duke would be formidable indeed". But just try using one as an iPod. In general, the series credits humans with amazing potential that can be unlocked with the right training. 20,000 years of evolution might play a role, but more important is the Butletian Jihad: by eliminating dependence on "Thinking Machines," humans have had to develop their own talents. It's implied that by the standards of the reader, any professional soldier in Dune is nearly superhuman, and Bene Gesserit, Ginaz Swordmasters, Sardaukar, and Fremen are even more badass.
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Dune / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Dune / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Thufir Hawat. Supposedly a brilliant mentat, he fails at pretty much everything he does. He miscalculates the size of the Harkonnen attack, he fails to anticipate the assassination attempt on Paul, and he wastes his time trying to find evidence against an innocent person while completely ignoring the real traitor. Even his attempts to play Feyd off against the baron never lead to anything useful. On top of this he generally seems ignorant. He was not aware that the Harkonnens had kidnapped Yueh's wife, and worst of all, he was surprised by Jessica's Voice ability, even though she had been training Paul to use it and had taught people like Gurney and Duncan to resist it. Some of these things can be justified by the fact that he lacked resources, but it is still a pretty dismal performance. At best Thufir is simply past his prime. At worst he was always badly overrated. To give credit where credit is due, Thufir Hawat does show himself to be The Chessmaster once by discovering a Batman Gambit conspiracy orchestrated by Feyd-Rautha to murder his uncle Vladimir Harkonnen during sex, then warning Vladimir about it and thus spoiling the plan. Vladimir then even lampshades Thufirâ€™s previous uselessness and assumes that the Mentat simply never even had a chance to show his true potential while serving the Atreides, whereas the chaotic and scheming life of the Harkonnens would be a much better environment for Thufir to show his capabilities â€“ however, despite the change in environment, Thufir never repeats anything remotely genius for the rest of his life. Paul. In the early chapters he supposedly shows insight beyond his years, but in reality he seems like a normal teenager. He remarks that when spice production fails people with a stockpile will make a lot of money. Leto then overreacts, treating this standard economic observation as some sort of brilliant insight. Later he asks the size of the territory of a sandworm, which is presented as more proof of his precociousness. It's a pertinent question, but again, nothing special even for a teenager. Suk Doctors are supposed to conditioned to be totally incapable of betraying the person they are sworn to. But there are no incidents in the stories where a Suk tries to betray someone and fails because of their conditioning, or where someone tries to subvert a Suk and fails because of the conditioning. The only incident shown is when Baron Harkonnen successfully subverts Dr Yueh by invoking I Have Your Wife, which isn't that unusual a method of compromising someonenote Threatening someone you love to make you cooperate is pretty much the first thing anyone would try, making their reputation of being infallibly trustworthy fall flat. Baron Harkonnen states in the first novel that he (actually Piter de Vries) was able to break Yueh's conditioning, but refused to answer Feyd-Rautha's inquiry as to how, which wouldn't make sense if torturing Yueh's wife was all it took. The method of breaking the conditioning is never shown or described. Justified in the case of the Sardaukar. The fact that their skills have degenerated is a major plot point of the story.
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Dune / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Dune / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Duke Leto tries to kill both himself and Baron Harkonnen with a poison gas-filled tooth. The Baron, however, managed to survive; not only did he have his shield turned on, he was standing right in front of a convenient emergency door. Leto at least took down the Baron's Mentat and several others.
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Dune / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Dune / int_caf8c66c	comment	The Chains of Commanding: The Atreides bear a lot on their shoulders.
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Dune / int_cba223bc	type	The Outsider Befriends the Best
Dune / int_cba223bc	comment	The Outsider Befriends the Best: Chani, the Fremen girl who Paul falls in love with, is the daughter of their tribe's leader.
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Dune / int_cbdd9424	type	Test of Pain
Dune / int_cbdd9424	comment	Test of Pain: The ritual of the gom jabbar is a test employed by the Bene Gesserit, performed by requiring the examinee to put her hand into a box that causes excruciating pain by nerve induction. A poison-coated needle — the gom jabbar itself—is then held to the "victim's" neck with the threat of instant death should she withdraw her hand without permission. The test is whether the person can master her instinctive desire to flee the pain, thus proving her "humanity". Paul Atreides is one of the few males to be administered the test, and his passing of it is seen as a sign of his future role as the Kwisatz Haderach.
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Dune / int_ccab244d	type	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better
Dune / int_ccab244d	comment	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: A general rule on Arrakis, as a ploy for being able to fight someone regardless of whether he's foolhardy enough to carry a working personal shield generator or not. Unlike lasguns, kinetic firearms fire projectiles that can strike a personal shield without causing a miniature nuclear explosion. This makes them ideal for fighting shielded and unshielded infantry alike. It is explicitly mentioned numerous times that Fremen prefer to use spring-loaded dartguns, crossbow-like guns, or just plain old gunpowder firearms. If we count non-firearm weapons as well, bladed melee weapons count in general in the 'verse. Though thrusting even a simple dagger through a personal shield takes practice, it is an effective enough fighting method (since nobody, in 'verse, combines a personal shield with conventional body armour capable of halting a dagger. Though most blades are so absurdly sharp human body armour has a mostly minimal effect on stopping most melee weapons, and every bit of mobility counts.). It allows the essentially medieval melee weapons of the setting to stay relevant in infantry warfare. Then again, on planets like Arrakis, where personal shields are too risky (because they drive sandworms crazy), tactics change accordingly — with melee weapons and firearms being used in roughly equal measure. Baron Harkonnen calls this out specifically during the assault on Arrakis, where he boasts of resurrecting artillery to counteract the shields the Atreides troops were expected to use. The artillery is only useful in a very conditional way: he uses it to attack the caves in which the troops sheltered, rather than attacking the shielded troops directly
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Dune / int_ccffaa84	type	Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand
Dune / int_ccffaa84	comment	Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand: Atreides Mentat Thufir Hawat is captured and enslaved by the Harkonnens during their ouster of the Atreides and is administered a perpetual poison, the antidote to which he receives from the Harkonnens and must take on a regular basis in order to survive. Near the end of Dune, when Paul overthrows the Emperor and confronts the conspirators, the Harkonnen offer Thufir a permanent antidote in exchange for assassinating Paul, who willingly offers his life to Thufir in recognition of his years of loyal service to House Atreides. Unable to bring himself to kill the heir to House Atreides, Thufir instead commits suicide.
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Dune / int_cda3365c	type	Common Law Marriage
Dune / int_cda3365c	comment	Common Law Marriage: It's noted that Jessica was Leto's wife in basically every way except the legal ceremony. Also Discussed at the end of the book, when Paul declares his intent to marry Princess Irulan, but privately swears to Chani that Irulan will have nothing except the title of "wife". Everything else, Paul's love and time and body, will be Chani's.
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Dune / int_cf16fd74	type	Girl of My Dreams
Dune / int_cf16fd74	comment	Girl of My Dreams: Paul has dreams of the future where he sees the Fremen girl he will eventually meet and fall in love with.
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Dune / int_d2cf1dce	type	Hyper-Awareness
Dune / int_d2cf1dce	comment	Hyper-Awareness/Sherlock Scan/Spider-Sense: The Bene Gesserit use their hyperawareness as a tool for manipulation. Descriptions of Bene Gesserit thought processes in the novels are often comparable to chess masters watching the world around them like one big chessboard, and calmly noting their accruing advantage. At one point a Bene Gesserit correctly deduces that there is a hidden room on the other side of a large banquet room by noting the subtle geometry of the walls of the room and the objects in it as being specifically designed to produce a slight echo where those in the hidden room can listen in. Even with mental processing as incredible as that, the Bene Gesserit still only learn those abilities as a supplementary skill for their main areas of expertise. The mentats, however, specialize specifically in hyperawareness and so are infinitely more adept then even the best Bene Gesserit. Then you take a Bene Gesserit and train her (or occasionally him) as a Mentat.
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Dune / int_d37c028d	type	WorldHalfEmpty
Dune / int_d37c028d	comment	World Half Empty: Sure it makes for an interesting setting, but would you really want to live on Arrakis? Hell, would you even want to live in this universe? Well, by all accounts, Caladan is nice. So is Tupile, a system in an undisclosed location, maintained by the Spacing Guild for the benefit of any good customers who may need (or want) political asylum.
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Dune / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Dune / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam berates Jessica for going against the Bene Gesserit plans for her progeny with Leto, as this brought a viable Qwisatz Haderach one generation too early, derailing their plans.
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Dune / int_d4937788	type	Days of Future Past
Dune / int_d4937788	comment	Days of Future Past: Set cca 10,000-12,000 years in the future, the Empire is based off the Holy Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire — with feuding noble houses, an emperor, mercantile trading, monastic church-like organizations...
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Dune / int_d4bd9c37	type	Space Cossacks
Dune / int_d4bd9c37	comment	Space Cossacks: The Fremen, a Proud Warrior Race (er, subculture) of humans, live on the desertic planet Arraki and thrive off stealing water and Fantastic Drug Spice from Harkonnen patrols. Additionally, according to Fremen legends, they were once runaway slaves.
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Dune / int_d4d8d831	type	Feuding Families
Dune / int_d4d8d831	comment	Feuding Families: Feuding families are so prevalent in the Dune universe that it has evolved into an art form. There's "Kanly", which is an officially sanctioned House-to-House vendetta, and the all-out War of Assassins, which is just what it sounds like. The rules are codified in the Great Convention, which sets out exactly who are the acceptable targets and what weapons or poisons are permitted. Noble families in the Dune universe accept the fact that you can be knifed in the back at any time as just another hazard of the job. There are even separate words for poison in food ("Chaumas/Aumas") and poison in a drink ("Chaumurky/Musky.") It says at one point during the first novel and again in the appendix that assassination is actually the preferred method of war, as it involves only a few people and therefore spares the lives of millions of possible conscripts.
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Dune / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
Dune / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale, timewise: Justified, as there is Genetic Memory that allows the denizens of the past to inform the future (not to mention a millennia old absolute despot worshipped as God who intentionally holds things in stasis). Not so much justified in the prequels, where there is no such explanation yet the elements of the later series leap fully formed into existence and apparently remain unchanged for over ten thousand years.
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Dune / int_d5ae49c3	type	Prescience Is Predictable
Dune / int_d5ae49c3	comment	Prescience Is Predictable: One of the core themes of the main series. Indeed, this could be the Trope Codifier for all modern uses.
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Dune / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Dune / int_d5c7b415	comment	Elites Are More Glamorous: Thufir Hawat explains to Baron Harkonnen that part of what makes the Sardaukar so fanatically loyal to the Emperor is the belief (carefully cultivated by House Corrino) that their harsh upbringing on Salusa Secundus has conditioned them to be the most elite Super Soldiers in the galaxy, and the Emperor is sure to give them more tangible benefits as well - the lowest-ranking Sardaukar inhabit luxurious mansions and eat better than the members of several noble houses. Hawat theorizes that this same myth could be used to recruit and train Arrakis's Fremen population into a similar fighting force, even by the Harkonnens who have brutally oppressed them.
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Dune / int_d5d976dd	type	I Have Many Names
Dune / int_d5d976dd	comment	I Have Many Names: Paul Atreides is Paul, Muad'Dib, Paul-Muad'Dib, the Mahdi, Usul, the Lisan Al-Gaib, the Kwisatz Haderach, the Emperor, and the Preacher.
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Dune / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Dune / int_d62dd556	comment	To give credit where credit is due, Thufir Hawat does show himself to be The Chessmaster once by discovering a Batman Gambit conspiracy orchestrated by Feyd-Rautha to murder his uncle Vladimir Harkonnen during sex, then warning Vladimir about it and thus spoiling the plan. Vladimir then even lampshades Thufirâ€™s previous uselessness and assumes that the Mentat simply never even had a chance to show his true potential while serving the Atreides, whereas the chaotic and scheming life of the Harkonnens would be a much better environment for Thufir to show his capabilities â€“ however, despite the change in environment, Thufir never repeats anything remotely genius for the rest of his life.
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Dune / int_d67d9a71	type	Epistolary
Dune / int_d67d9a71	comment	Dr. Yueh's wife, Wanna, is revealed by Epistolary to be dead long before she or the nature of their relationship, is even introduced.
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Dune / int_d67f0a23	type	Modest Royalty
Dune / int_d67f0a23	comment	Modest Royalty: Emperor Shaddam IV, who prefers spending most of his time in the war room rather than in the court, wears the military uniform of a Sardaukar instead of any royal pomp. Politics really isn't his thing and he only flaunts his wealth when he has to.
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Dune / int_d786481	type	Top Wife
Dune / int_d786481	comment	Top Wife: Noblemen of the Empire can have one official wife and any number of concubines. It's a plot point that Jessica, though the love of Duke Leto's life and the mother of his heir, is for political reasons only a concubine and not a legal wife. In turn, and again for political reasons, their son Paul takes the Emperor's daughter as his wife and the woman he really loves, Chani, as his concubine. The novel ends with Jessica commenting to Chani:
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Dune / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Dune / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: Dune, at least on one occasion, replaced the f-bomb with "floggin'". Frank was perfectly happy to use other cuss words through the series, but even "flog" isn't used again for the rest of the series.
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Dune / int_d854461	type	Chemical Messiah
Dune / int_d854461	comment	Chemical Messiah: Melange is this.
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Dune / int_d88e125e	type	Our Dragons Are Different
Dune / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: The sandworms are dragons in all but name, being enormous, serpentine monsters that guard a treasure of incredible value.
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Dune / int_d99d9918	type	The Captain
Dune / int_d99d9918	comment	The Captain: In the first novel, during the Atreides Dukedom, military leaders of the House (Gurney Halleck, Duncan Idaho and presumably others) bear the title "Captains", despite them leading entire armies. This falls in line to the medieval setting, as Captain General was the rank of a commander-in-chief during The Late Middle Ages.
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Dune / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Dune / int_da8c447e	comment	Unobtainium: The Spice.
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Dune / int_daa895e2	type	The Commies Made Me Do It
Dune / int_daa895e2	comment	The Commies Made Me Do It: Dr. Yueh's rationale for betraying the Atreides.
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Dune / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Dune / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Chani. At one point towards the end of the book, Paul is constantly interrupted by people who want a Duel to the Death with him to see if he's really any good. Chani puts a stop to it by taking one of the challenges herself... pointing out, correctly, that a lot of challengers will be dissuaded by the certain knowledge that if a girl can beat them, the husband who trained her can certainly do it too. And, while there is a lot of glory in being killed by the Messiah in a duel, the same is not true for being killed by his wife - while Fremen women are considered fierce and formidable warriors, they don't have _quite_ the same standing. In the first book, Jessica's fight with Stilgar is: short, to the point, lets her and Paul introduce themselves to the Fremen properly, and underlines her Silk Hiding Steel qualities. It should be pointed out that the entire book has, to this point, been harping on the fact that the Sardaukar Super Soldiers eclipse normal infantry, that House Atreides is a threat to the Emperor precisely because they've trained a few — a few! — men to the point of being able to stand toe-to-toe with the Sardaukar... and that the Fremen can trounce them (the Sardaukar) soundly. And then Jessica trounces the Fremen soundly. Our Action Mom has just established herself to be the strongest fighter in the Duniverse — period.
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Dune / int_db0bcba6	type	Aesoptinum
Dune / int_db0bcba6	comment	Aesoptinum: The Spice is one of the few clear-cut allegories in the book—a precious resource absolutely vital to the economy, much like gold in past eras and oil today. To hammer the point home, Herbert even compared the CHOAM company (which oversees the Imperium's commerce, including spice procurement) in one interview to Real Life international trade organizations, including OPEC. As for the Aesop : Humans Are Greedy Bastards and will often do anything in order to collect as much spice as possible, including armed conflicts, espionage, assassinations, and a great variety of immoral acts, all out of blind wilfulness and greed. Thus, Paul (and later Leto II) act against humanity's immediate desires in order to save it from itself.
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Dune / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Dune / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Gurney Halleck, the one member of Leto's men who's still alive and on the planet, just so happens to be aboard the smuggling ship that falls for Paul's false spice bed trap. Justified in that Paul had set out on a deliberate campaign of crippling Spice production on Arrakis and baiting spice harvesters - which is exactly what Gurney and his smuggler friends were doing when ambushed. If there's a contrivance, it lies in Paul being on the raid otherwise he'd have been killed with the rest.
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Dune / int_dc61f525	type	Dig Attack
Dune / int_dc61f525	comment	Dig Attack: In the original novel, a Sand Worm traveling beneath the sand moves under a spice harvester and sucks it underground by creating a giant sand whirlpool.
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Dune / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Dune / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: "Princess Irulan," the lady who's writing the Encyclopedia Exposita about Paul from which the novel's Epigraphs come. Even though her name has been on every fifth page of the book, she doesn't show up in person until the last 20 or so, and we don't learn until the very last page (or, if you prefer, for another two books) just why she's so interested in chronicling him.
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Dune / int_dd082289	type	A Million Is a Statistic
Dune / int_dd082289	comment	A Million Is a Statistic: This is Paul's horror at seeing the future in the first book, which becomes true in the second. There's a scene where he compares himself to Hitler—"He killed more than six million. Pretty good for those days... 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..."
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Dune / int_ddcc22c3	type	Archaic Weapon for an Advanced Age
Dune / int_ddcc22c3	comment	Archaic Weapon for an Advanced Age: Justified. Personal shields block projectile weapons and lasers trigger nuclear-level explosions when they hit them, but a slow-moving blade can slip through, so melee combat is once again part and parcel of infantry battles.
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Dune / int_dddc0035	type	Wormsign
Dune / int_dddc0035	comment	Wormsign: The Trope Namer.
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Dune / int_de15a322	type	Tangled Family Tree
Dune / int_de15a322	comment	Tangled Family Tree: Courtesy largely of the Bene Gesserit breeding program. The Lady Jessica is herself Vladimir Harkonnen's flesh-and-blood daughter, and Paul is by extension his grandson.
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Dune / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
Dune / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: Serial Escalation and back again, and then beyond again. For the list of who is manipulating whom, just use everyone and everybody, respectively. As the simplest example: In the first book, the Harkonnen employ a Batman Gambit by losing Arrakis to the Atreides in order to come down on them like the fist of an angry god with the aid of the Emperor's Badass Army of Sardaukar Super Soldiers. The Emperor has the Sardaukar wearing Harkonnen uniforms because he can't be seen acting against a Great House openly. The Atreides know this is what the Harkonnens are trying to do, but are gambling on using the Fremen to fight back in a gambit of their own (see above: re: "Death World"). It does not go well for the Atreides (they think they have months to plan; the Baron attacks within a fortnight). And that's just Act I.
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Dune / int_de9c7ad5	type	Vision Quest
Dune / int_de9c7ad5	comment	Vision Quest: Meeting one's spiritual Gom Jabbar is something like this.
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Dune / int_df60d405	type	Culture Chop Suey
Dune / int_df60d405	comment	Culture Chop Suey: A classic example. Millennia of galactic colonization have created completely new unrecognizable ethnicities and modified versions of current Earth religions.
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Dune / int_e003c829	type	History Repeats
Dune / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: Jessica is the love of Duke Leto's life, but she remains his concubine rather than his wife, due to politics. Chani is the love of Paul's life, but she becomes his concubine while Irulan is his official wife, due to politics. Ghanima will hopefully come to love Farad'n Corrino in time, but he becomes her concubine while Ghanima marries her twin brother (thankfully it's a Sexless Marriage) due to politics.
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Dune / int_e070ebe6	type	Manchurian Agent
Dune / int_e070ebe6	comment	Manchurian Agent/Trigger Phrase: In the first book, the Baron breaks Dr. Yueh of his Suk conditioning, thus allowing him to act as a traitor against his royal charges.
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Dune / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Dune / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Jessica breaks out her lethal hand-to-hand combat skills whenever she believes Paul is being threatened.
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Dune / int_e174e266	type	Nature vs. Technology
Dune / int_e174e266	comment	Nature vs. Technology: Explores the interplay between nature and technology and balance between the two. Arrakis (also known as Dune), is a harsh desert world with limited water resources, a stark contrast to the highly technological and advanced societies of that universe. The struggle for control of Arrakis and its most precious resource, the spice melange — it is both a natural resource and a catalyst for advanced technology. The Fremen, the native people of Arrakis, have a deep understanding of this ecosystem and they adapt their way of life to it through a philosophy that regards everything in their surroundings as resource management. The Bene Gesserit employ advanced genetic manipulation and religious conversion in order to further their political goals and struggle for control. The Spacing Guild's navigators rely heavily on the spice in order to make space travel possible. Advanced technology, especially artificial intelligence, is strictly limited due to the Butlerian Jihad, a war waged against powerful machines leading to a prohibition on them, promoting Mentats — humans who have undergone training in order to enhance their reasoning skills.
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Dune / int_e268e2	type	The Clan
Dune / int_e268e2	comment	The Clan: Feuding Houses of noble families play a large part in the first book, though the Atreides name carries down through the millennia.
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Dune / int_e42d93e0	type	Variant Chess
Dune / int_e42d93e0	comment	Variant Chess: From the Terminology of the Imperium: Apparently it has evolved into an actual variant of chess that is played by some people.
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Dune / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Dune / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: Paul and Jessica.
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Dune / int_e53426b9	type	Desert Bandits
Dune / int_e53426b9	comment	Desert Bandits: The Fremen raid Harkonnen patrols and spice harvesters and extract their water (including that in the personnel). But the real reason for those attacks was to keep them from stumbling across the Fremen's secret terraforming operations.
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Dune / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Dune / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Yueh, after getting dead. The poor fellow doesn't stay upright for long, of course, but long enough to go out with some dignity.
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Dune / int_e5b76ab4	type	Gender Incompetence
Dune / int_e5b76ab4	comment	Gender Incompetence: In Dune, it seems to be something of a theme to have an all-female society with strange and terrible powers suddenly have to deal with a man with those exact same powers, only several jillion times stronger. It's stated that the limit of the Bene Gesserit Reverend Mothers was that their training to particularly feminine/maternal instincts meant that they couldn't access their male ancestry in their Other Memory. The Kwisatz Haderach was intended to overcome this weakness (as well as having other capabilities), which would require a male trained in Bene Gesserit ways. Note the fact that the Gesserit wanted to have a Kwisatz Haderach, but he ended up coming a generation too early for their plans — and then refusing to go along with them.
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Dune / int_e5db3cec	type	The Board Game
Dune / int_e5db3cec	comment	The Board Game: The 1979 Dune board game, designed by Eon and published by Avalon Hill, is widely considered a classic. That didn't stop them from allowing Parker Brothers to make yet another Dune game in 1984, which hardly anyone cares about.
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Dune / int_e7bfbb3b	type	Clingy Costume
Dune / int_e7bfbb3b	comment	Clingy Costume: As a matter of survival. The climate of Arrakis is such that the Fremen must wear their stillsuits at all times outside sietches, and sometimes even inside, as they have a deeply ingrained cultural taboo against wasting water. Subverted later, when Stilgar notes in disgust how many Fremen who have achieved high positions within Muad'Dib's Empire never wear stillsuits anymore when they go into the desert, as they can afford to waste water. Anyone who has smelt an old wetsuit might work out why they were keen to stop, and it is outright stated that Fremen stink in closed spaces.
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Dune / int_e851b5	type	The Plan
Dune / int_e851b5	comment	The Plan: Everyone. Some work, some don't. See below.
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Dune / int_e8bb3043	type	Kill It with Water
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Dune / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Dune / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: The importance of water on Arrakis means Fremen morality is quite different from offworlders. Spitting at anyone, let alone a powerful Duke, would normally be a grave insult, but for a Fremen it's a gift of precious fluid and a mark of great respect. If Fremen comes across someone stranded in the desert, they'll kill them so they can distil the water from their corpse, since the person was likely going to die anyway. The Fremen also distil their own dead for their water and seem to have conditioned themselves not to cry, again in order to preserve bodily fluids; when Paul weeps at the funeral of a man he was forced to kill, the Fremen are astounded and view it as 'giving water to the dead'.
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Dune / int_ea9b44a4	type	Klatchian Coffee
Dune / int_ea9b44a4	comment	Klatchian Coffee: One of many, many uses of Spice is to generate dangerous levels of sanity. It's also used as flavoring for coffee. Mentats drink sapho juice, a drug that is claimed (in-universe) to amplify mental powers.
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Dune / int_eb0bb6a6	type	Solid Gold Poop
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Dune / int_ec0bf4a1	comment	Take Over The Universe. This is what the hero does. By threatening to destroy civilization, no less. Of course, the alternative is far, far worse.
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Dune / int_ee302ebd	comment	Barbarian Tribe: The "evil barbarians" mindset is inverted with the Fremen. While the rest of the universe definitely see them as barbarians, they have a much more complex, honor-based culture driven to barbarian-horde status only by the harsh world they must survive on.
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Dune / int_ef603c5	comment	Emperor Scientist: Dr. Kynes became leader of the Fremen because of his attempts to terraform the planet. Though not canon, the prequels state that one former Padishah Emperor, working under a false name, was an accomplished chemist that discovered the properties that made Spice so important. The original books state it was a chemist working for that emperor, so it all depends what you want to believe.
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Dune / int_f01a1b71	comment	Insignificant Little Blue Planet: Humanity rules an Empire of a million worlds that stretches across the galaxy. Thing is, not one of those is Earth. In the main series, the majority of humanity has no idea where their race evolved. (Since it's been destroyed for millennia, this is not surprising.)
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Dune / int_f290a8bb	type	Attack Pattern Alpha
Dune / int_f290a8bb	comment	Attack Pattern Alpha: Various Houses each have their own, mostly secret languages that are dead to other populations.
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Dune / int_f2e08db0	comment	Colour-Coded Characters: The novels have the Harkonnens in blue, the Atreides in green (presumably referencing Islam), Reverend Mothers in black aba robes, and Spacing Guild representatives in grey, denoting their neutral status.
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Dune / int_f4a3140c	comment	Survival Mantra: See the page quote.
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Dune / int_f4fe270	comment	Villainous Glutton: The Baron. A total hedonist, he purposefully eats as much as he can both because he enjoys the taste and sensation of eating and because it amuses him that his grotesquely fat body disgusts others.
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Dune / int_f516f938	type	Never Found the Body
Dune / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: Baron Harkonnen, upon receiving news that Paul and Jessica Atreides had to be dead after flying into a sandstorm, asks explicitly, "You've seen the bodies?" He was right to doubt. This series also provides the page quote for that trope.
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Dune / int_f672a508	type	Phlebotinum Overload
Dune / int_f672a508	comment	Phlebotinum Overload: Shield and lasgun interaction results in nuclear explosions.
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Dune / int_f68664dc	type	Science Is Bad
Dune / int_f68664dc	comment	Science Is Bad: This is the view of the Butlerians, whose goal is to force humanity to go back to manual labor and destroy any advanced technology. While they claim to only be following the tenets established during the Butlerian Jihad (i.e. no computers), they actually destroy any technology they feel is wrong and will burn down a medical school because they believe that if you're sick, then it's God's will that you die. Even though the leader of the movement would have died without advanced medical care when his legs were blown off. The Butlerians also have no qualms about using starships to achieve their goals, even though they admit it's a necessary evil.
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Dune / int_f6dc65b1	type	They Were Holding You Back
Dune / int_f6dc65b1	comment	They Were Holding You Back: Baron Harkonnen claims the Atriedes did this to Thufir Hawat.
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Dune / int_f74e2a3a	type	Addiction-Powered
Dune / int_f74e2a3a	comment	Addiction-Powered: Guild Navigators breathe great quantities of melange/spice, giving them limited powers of prescience, enough to find safe passage when their ship is traveling faster than light. The general population doesn't gain this benefit. The Mentats derive their enhanced mental abilities (said to exceed even the most advanced electronic computers) via consumption of sapho juice; however, a Mentat must endure lifelong training (and probably genetic enhancement as well) before the sapho juice can have its stated effect.
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Dune / int_f88600be	type	Higher Understanding Through Drugs
Dune / int_f88600be	comment	Higher Understanding Through Drugs: The appendix to Dune lists several "awareness-spectrum narcotics" that increased the user's understanding and mental abilities, including melange (by Guild Navigators), the Fremen "Water of Life" (which affected Paul Atreides and his sister Alia), and the drugs used by Bene Gesserit Truthsayers (who were Living Lie Detectors).
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Dune / int_f9636192	type	Prophecies Are Always Right
Dune / int_f9636192	comment	Prophecies Are Always Right: Justified — prophecy actually controls reality.
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Dune / int_f9a8e95e	type	Place Beyond Time
Dune / int_f9a8e95e	comment	Place Beyond Time: Reverend Mothers are able to enter a spice-enduced trance in which time effectively stops, allowing them to transfer memories, consult with their maternal ancestors, alter their body chemistry, and see through time. When Paul Atreides takes the Water of Life, he gains this ability to such an extent that he experiences the NOW: "The future and the past! All at once. All the same."
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Dune / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
Dune / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: "To the east, the night grew a faggot of luminous gray"
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Dune / int_faee4b18	type	Wicked Wastefulness
Dune / int_faee4b18	comment	Wicked Wastefulness: Arrakis is a desert planet, where water is at a premium and most of the population are permanently underhydrated and malnourished. Under the rule of the Harkonnens, it was customary at banquets for rich guests to dip their hands in bowls of water by the door, slopping much of it onto the floor in the process, then dry their hands and toss the towels into the corner, where other guests would casually tread on them (passing beggars would be allowed to drink squeezings from them later). Duke Leto Atreides is disgusted when he finds out, and orders the custom abolished and the water distributed to the beggars.
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Dune / int_fb1327b2	type	Tranquillizer Dart
Dune / int_fb1327b2	comment	Tranquillizer Dart: This comes up when Leto finds the Shadout Mapes dying on the floor in the palace and Doctor Yueh shoots him with a dart (at the start of the Harkonnens' raid on Arrakis). Yueh is the family physician, so he knows the duke's body mass, metabolism, and so on. Some reference to the drugging of Jessica and Paul is also made; the Baron stands over Jessica as she comes to and tells her, "The drug was timed." This admission tells her the traitor has detailed and intimate knowledge of her vital statistics, and she deduces his identity seconds later.
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Dune / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Dune / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Every chapter starts with a quote from one of Princess Irulan's many books on Paul. On the very last page, it is noted by Jessica that Irulan has pretensions of a literary nature.
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Dune / int_fe48cea2	type	Lady of War
Dune / int_fe48cea2	comment	Lady of War: Jessica
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Dune / int_fea715c1	type	Feudal Future
Dune / int_fea715c1	comment	Feudal Future: The Empire is intentionally set up this way. The novels themselves are considered to be the Trope Codifier.
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Dune / int_fed1a09d	type	"Back to Camera" Pose
Dune / int_fed1a09d	comment	"Back to Camera" Pose: One book cover has the front cover depict The Hero Paul Atreides standing with his back to the reader, facing an enormous sandworm that seems poised to devour him like a doggy treat. This establishes the grandiosity of the setting.
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Dune / int_ff24ad1d	type	Bawdy Song
Dune / int_ff24ad1d	comment	Bawdy Song: Gurney Halleck, troubador-warrior that he is, provides a song ("Galacian Girls") that focuses mainly on prostitution:
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Dune / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Dune / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Feyd-Rautha's honorable treatment of the corpse of the Atreides gladiator he fought. Was in part a publicity stunt, but he realises the narrowness of his escape.
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Dune / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Dune / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: With regards to the ecology of Dune, as well as the Arabic-based Fremen language, which are the two most well-researched aspects of the entire first book and possibly series. The later history and philosophy, both real and imagined, are near-equally amazing. It's also one of the few series that does not completely screw up Judaism. When Jessica consumes the psychotropic Water of Life, she identifies it as a tryptamine compound. Tryptamines are a family of chemicals that include hallucinogens such as DMT, psilocin, and bufotenin, so Herbert did his research on mind-altering drugs.
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Dune	hasFeature	Junkie Prophet / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Karmic STD / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Keep It Foreign / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	King Bob the Nth / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Kingpin in His Gym / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Leave No Witnesses / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Led by the Outsider / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Libation for the Dead / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Life-or-Limb Decision / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Like a Duck Takes to Water / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Little Miss Badass / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Living Motion Detector / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Lonely Rich Kid / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Lost in a Crowd / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Lost World / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Loving Details / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Ludd Was Right / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Luke, You Are My Father / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Mad Oracle / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Mature Work, Child Protagonists / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Melting-Pot Nomenclature / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Men of Sherwood / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Messianic Archetype / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Mighty Whitey / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Mobile Factory / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Modest Royalty / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	My Life Flashed Before My Eyes / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Mystical Pregnancy / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Naming Your Colony World / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Nature vs. Technology / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Nerves of Steel / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Network to the Rescue / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Neutral in Name Only / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Never Speak Ill of the Dead / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Nice Job Breaking It, Herod / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	No Adaptations Allowed / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	No Infantile Amnesia / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	No One Could Survive That! / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Noble Demon / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Noble Fugitive / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Nobody Here but Us Birds / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Non-Verbal Miscommunication / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Not Rare Over There / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Nuclear Option / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Old Retainer / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Omniscient Morality License / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	One Dose Fits All / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Only the Knowledgable May Pass / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Oppose What You Suffered / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Our Clones Are Different / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Overlord Jr. / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Paradise Planet / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Patchwork Story / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Planetary Romance / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Playing the Victim Card / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Poison and Cure Gambit / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Poison Is Evil / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Pregnant Badass / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Promoted to Scapegoat / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Prophet Eyes / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Protocol Peril / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Psychic Starship Pilot / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Psychic Stories / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Purple Is Powerful / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Reassignment Backfire / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Red Herring Mole / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Red Shirt / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Regal Ringlets / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Regretful Traitor / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Remember the Alamo / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Rent-a-Zilla / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Requisite Royal Regalia / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Returning Big Bad / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Reverse Psychology / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Rigged Spectacle Fight / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Rock Beats Laser / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Rogue Drone / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Rooting for the Empire / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Royal Inbreeding / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Ruler Protagonist / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Ruling Family Massacre / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Sand Worm / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Science Imitates Art / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Sea of Sand / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Second-Hand Storytelling / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Self-Poisoning Gambit / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Sequel Adaptation Iconic Villain / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Sequel Displacement / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Sequential Symptom Syndrome / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Setting Update / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Sex Slave / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Sexy Secretary / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Single-Biome Planet / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Single Line of Descent / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Space Cadet Academy / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Space Cossacks / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Space Opera / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Spark of the Rebellion / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Speaks in Shout-Outs / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Spit Shake / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Spiteful Spit / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Split-Personality Takeover / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Stalker with a Test Tube / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Standard Evil Empire Hierarchy / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Starship Luxurious / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Starting a New Life / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Stock Star Systems / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Stress-Induced Mental Voices / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Subordinate Excuse / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Super-Intelligence / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Superpowerful Genetics / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Survivor Guilt / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Swallowed Whole / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Tabletop Game A.I. / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Talking Your Way Out / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Ten Little Murder Victims / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	The Air Not There / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	The Commies Made Me Do It / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	The Consigliere / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	The Extremist Was Right / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	The Future / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	The Heavy / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	The Men First / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	The Mistress / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	The Outsider Befriends the Best / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	The Place / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	The Plan / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	The Spymaster / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	The Usurper / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	They Were Holding You Back / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Throne Made of X / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Time Skip / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Timed Mission / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Top Wife / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Touch Telepathy / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Tranquillizer Dart / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Translation Correction / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Trap Is the Only Option / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Trigger Phrase / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Truce Zone / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Truer to the Text / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Try and Follow / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Two Aliases, One Character / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Two-Part Trilogy / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Tyrant Takes the Helm / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Ãœbermensch / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Underground City / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Unspoken Plan Guarantee / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Variant Chess / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Vicariously Ambitious / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Victory by First Blood / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Viewer Name Confusion / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Villainous Incest / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Villains Blend in Better / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Virtuous Character Copy / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Volatile Second Tier Position / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Wants to Be Hated / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Weaponized Exhaust / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Wicked Wastefulness / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Words Can Break My Bones / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Wormsign / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	You Are the Translated Foreign Word / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	You Can't Thwart Stage One / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	You Kill It, You Bought It / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Young Face, Old Eyes / int_135f4195
Dune (Music)	seeAlso	Dune
dune	sameAs	Dune
Dune	hasFeature	Coca-Pepsi, Inc. / int_135f4195
Dune	hasFeature	Romancing the Widow / int_135f4195

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