#dune is about worms

[philtacular]

WURMSTORM

wishlist DEATH MACHINE ON STEAM or become a space wurm forever 🐛

[sand-realtor]

[mortiflyer]

can i just say it's so funny to me that villeneuve is planning on doing dune messiah and just stopping because it means most people probably won't ever watch Worm Wars (the rest of the books) like they straight up just won't ever know about it. you and I will know because we are Worm Freaks but the extent of the general populace's knowledge is gonna be "timothee chalamet colonizes a planet"

[godofstupidsentences]

Really enjoyed Dune II but while watching I just couldn’t stop thinking about how they were too scared to show how tf they get down from from those fucking worms

[daughterofluthien]

the ending of dune 2 is like if the godfather ended with Kay walking out of Michael’s life after the door closed and in this essay I will

[sev-says-so]

Just watched Dune 2 and being the absolute nerd that I am, the first thing that came to mind at the imprerial insignia was the Mando visors.

Anyways what I meant to say was anyone who has some knowledge regarding either media I’d love to know how well you think mandalorians would do if they were in the Dune universe and why.

[pastel-petticoats]

If the third Dune movie doesn't have Timmy or his son turning into the big worm penis god emperor then I don't fucking care

[solarflare-s]

just saw dune 2.... austin butler.......... i get it now

[timbourinedrake]

the brain worms kicked in and now I have a fully formed Dune au...

Ramblings (and Dune spoilers I guess??) under the cut

OK SO

The Waynes = The Atreides. Bruce is obviously gonna be the Duke, with Alfred as his Mentat. Talia is his wife and part of the Bene Gesserit, and together they have Damian, who is raised as heir. Dick, Jason and Tim are Bruce's adopted sons but as they're not related by blood, they are not considered heirs by the other houses (cus of the mating index and all that jazz). Jason=Duncan Idaho, Dick=Gurney Halleck and Tim=Hawat (he and Alfred share Hawats role in the story). (they fit these roles stupidly well if you think about it too hard).

The Waynes get sent to Arrakis Krypton to replace the Al Ghuls. Kryptonians take the place of Fremans, and Clark is Liet and imperial planetologist (therefore making Jon=Chani)

The same basic politics and plot beats happen, leaving Bruce, Clark and (temporarily) Jason dead, Dick on the run, separated from a pregnant Talia and Damian, who are also on the run, and Tim and Alfred being poisoned and used as Ra's mentat.

Also just to note in this au, Ra's actually does suspect that Talia is his daughter and that's why he's so interested in Damian, whilst Talia is fully aware of her lineage and tells Damian. Ra's sucks in this but he's at least not a pedo like the Baron is

The rest of Dune plays out as is, with Damian becoming the Muad'dib, Talia becoming the Sayyadina and giving birth to Athanasia, who looks just like a mini Bruce and has her freaky powers, and they eventually take down the Al Ghuls.

Ngl I would just leave it there instead of following the rest of the Dune books because 1. I can't think of who could suitably fit the Padishah Emperor and co. and 2. I just want them to be a happy family at the end and not having Damian become the messiah and start a holy war.

which is. kinda defeating the point of Dunes message. but at the same time this is a batman au and it doesn't have to be that deep because i said so :p

[queenerdloser]

saw dune 2 and it was fantastic. my no-spoiler review is they really went nuts making the harkonnen as creepy and gross as they possible could and i respect them for that. also. Big Worm.

[vilecrocodile]

everyone loves me and how i talk about Dune unprompted

[two-energy-counters]

[underwaterspaghetti314]

Watching Dune with my roommates and violently swinging between “I’m yapping too much just let them watch the damn movie” and “My word you have a lot of questions.”

This culminated in the scene with Shadout Mapes, where I was going to talk about xyz thing, then decided against it, and then had one of them say to me “Alright. I’m gonna need you to explain all of that.” My yapping has been vindicated!

[shinkai-kaiju]

oh was that NOT zinogre in the mhwilds trailer? more leviathans is good...more amphibians also good...inhales....

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

L S Dunes, Sleep Cult (2022) & Old Wounds (2023) // Maisie Peters, You Signed Up For This (2021) & The Good Witch (2023)

[theskyexists]

Ok SO. What I'm getting from this is that I mis interpreted the summaries of dune and so forth and it really is obvious that Paul goes from chosen one to genocidal maniac and that is bad