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For the character in the film series, see Lieutenant Lanville
- "I do not fear you, Harkonnen swine, Your tortures cannot hurt a dead man. I can be dead on my own blade before a handler lays finger to my flesh. And I'll have you dead beside me!"
- ―Gladiator on Giedi Prime[src]
An unnamed Atreides soldier who had been taken captive on Arrakis by House Harkonnen faced Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen as a slave-Gladiator at the Arena of Barony on Giedi Prime.He was a fanatic who had sworn to avenge the death of his house and had carved the Atreides hawk into his flesh.He seemed to have been un-drugged by Thufir Hawat as part of one of his schemes against his new masters.Feyd however escaped his subsequent death when he cheated by using a code word to paralyze the soldier and by having poison on his black blade, rather than the white one.
Description[]
The gladiator was tall and muscular, with a shaved head and sunken eyes. His skin appeared orange (a characteristic of the Elacca drug) but this was just paint as the gladiator was undrugged. He wore a green leotard and had the Atreides Hawk etched into his left forearm
Adaptions[]
In Frank Herbert's Dune, the gladiator has seemingly no relation to House Atreides. Feyd duels him inside an open training area rather than an arena. They fight with long sticks with hooks on the end. Feyd easily defeats him, mirroring the Baron's speech about how he will crush Duke Leto.
The unnamed gladiator was merged with an original character from Dune (2021 film), Lieutenant Lanville who was played by Roger Yuan in the 2021 adaption. He appears in Dune: Part Two and fights Feyd on Giedi Prime. Due to the film characterising Feyd into a fighter that values honour and fair fighting, the code word that Feyd utlises in the novel is not present.
