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In the final moments of Dune: Part Two, Paul Atreides does two shocking things: he says he’ll marry Princess Irulan (Florence Pugh), and then, he sends his Fremen troops out into the universe to ...
Paul challenges the Emperor for the throne, announces his intent to wed Princess Irulan, and threatens to bomb Arrakis’ spice fields should the other galactic houses get in the way.
Any hope Irulan has of bearing a new Atreides-Corrino royal bloodline with Paul—and retaining the Imperial House Corrino's influence in some form—has been lost. She is also under pressure from the Bene Gesserit, who seek to preserve the Atreides bloodline, if not subvert Paul's rule entirely. [ 5 ]
Paul and Chani's first child, Leto II (not to be confused with their later son, Leto II Atreides), is killed as an infant in a Corrino raid on their home in the deep desert. To cement his control of the Empire after deposing Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV, Paul takes Shaddam's daughter, the Princess Irulan, as his wife. Chani understands the ...
Paul Atreides (/ ə ˈ t r eɪ ɪ d iː z /; [2] later known as Paul Muad'Dib, and later still as The Preacher) is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.He is a main character in the first two novels in the series, Dune (1965) and Dune Messiah (1969), and returns in Children of Dune (1976).
The fact that the Atreides-Harkonnen feud has persisted from the time of Dune: Prophecy to Dune suggests that the rivalry is essential to Herbert's universe. Yet the origins of the rift go largely ...
Paul has refused to father a child with Irulan, but he and his Fremen concubine Chani have also failed to produce an heir, causing tension within his monarchy. Desperate both to secure her place in the Atreides dynasty and to preserve the bloodline for the Bene Gesserit breeding program , Irulan has secretly been giving contraceptives to Chani.
Paul himself is an eventual villain of sorts, but the whole point of Feyd-Rautha is that at least in this vacuum, Paul is the lesser of two evils. And Butler's demeanor makes that distinction very ...