Unfair to Paul, as he tries desperately to avoid jihad at every turn. In the end, he surrenders to the inevitability because he realizes his choices were always only illusions. The more power and the more understanding Paul accrues, the more clearly he realizes how little he truly controls.
I would more readily blame the Psycho-Historians from Foundation than the Muad'dib of Dune. Hari Seldon might not qualify as a twink, but he was more ready to embrace a little short term genocide for long term preservation than Paul, who struggled against it in vain.
Well, it didn't say that he WILLINGLY turned into a genocidal dictator
I got the opposite from the book. Paul tells himself that just to calm his consciousness. He believed he could have his cake and eat it too right up until he is dodging Feyd's hip needle, which is far too late.
Paul tells himself that just to calm his consciousness.
Paul knows he isn't in control of his own destiny. He's known since he became a Mentat. In the crash following his escape from the Harkonan ambush, he sees it clearly. He can calculate all the ramifications of all his decisions out to thousandth year and no matter what he says or does, it always ends in Jihad.
The closest person to demonstrate agency was his mother, who chose to have a boy rather than a girl in strict defiance of the Bene Gesserit mission. Everything past that was functionally on rails.
He believed he could have his cake and eat it too right up until he is dodging Feyd’s hip needle
He believed he could potentially find a path forward, until he was confronted with a Gonjabar Test he couldn't pass. At that point, he was forced to choose between dying as a martyr (which would kick off a Freman jihad) or living as an Emperor (which would still kick off a Freman jihad, just a bit latter on). And he said "Fuck it, I'd rather be Emperor". That was his only real choice. Die a hero or live to become a villain. But with the same fundamental outcome for the rest of the galaxy.
Attack on Titan
Erin is probably the most genocidal of any character
This is the one I came for
See also: The Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan. They also have a warmongering desert tribe that worships water, covers their faces in combat and has weird rituals nobody else understands
But the Messiah in WoT brings them back from the brink of jihad rather than flinging them off the cliff (as the Aiel False Dragon attempts to do).
Its a subversion of the trope.
And a Messiah.
The fact that Dune and Star Wars are similar stems from the 70s when Star Wars first came out and George Lucas settled when they were sued by Frank Herbert
Did he sue? I thought he just bitched about the rather surface-level similarities.
Yeah he never sued, you're right.
Which is absurd, given how many pulp artists Herbert ripped off.
Code Geass
- Eva Braun
The story of Netanyahu's wife.
Spoilers! :(
Accurate
goddamnit not again!
"Twink" really gives off pseudo derogatory vibes doesn't it?
