Talk:Bene Tleilax

The tanks and female Bene Tleilax originally were separate. In Children of Dune upon returning home the puppet master undergoes ritual cleansing before going to his harem. The perversion of the flesh that Brian & Kevin portrayed in Prelude is entirely on their heads. I recall nothing in any of the further original series related to the nature of the tanks to suggest this sort of corruption was Frank's idea at all. CeriCat (talk) 03:00, June 6, 2014 (UTC)

The reason the Tleilaxu were reviled in the original series
It's been a while since I read the original trilogy, but I was under the impression that they were reviled because they were creepy, secretive and insular, and specialized in borderline heretical technology (such as genetic engineering, twisted mentats, face dancers, human distranses, clones of dead people, robotic eyes, clones of dead people with robotic eyes). -- Gordon Ecker (talk) 04:40, June 8, 2014 (UTC)

Gholas alone were a major issue since even before the accidental recovery of Duncan's life memories in CoD the creep factor of cloned individuals was there. I don't know how Frank himself felt about cloning but the responses to gholas are about what you'd expect from most people if we had clones running around now. Face dancers with their mimicry ability were somewhat justifiably feared given the cloak and dagger nature of the great game, add a insular society few understand and fewer still have seen inside of from beyond that society and you have a scary group with a religion that seems derived from a mixture of Islam and Buddhism and not necessarily the better traits of either belief system. CeriCat (talk) 05:54, June 8, 2014 (UTC)

The revulsion against the Tleilaxu
They purposely fostered this revulsion and disgust among other cultures against them so that they would be underestimated as the true threat they were. Their home planet was destroyed by the Honored Mattres when they discovered the true nature of the Axolotle Tanks.