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For the adaption equivalent, 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![5]"
- ―Gladiator on Giedi Prime
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An unnamed Atreides soldier who was taken captive on Arrakis by House Harkonnen faced Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen as a slave-Gladiator at the Arena of Harko 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.[6] He wore a green leotard[4] and had the House Atreides symbol Hawk etched into his left forearm.[7]
Gallery[]
Illustrations[]
.jpg "The Illustrated Dune - Feyd-Rautha fighting Gladiator (art by John Schoenherr).jpg (159 KB)")
"Feyd-Rautha lifted the barbs high, nodded in an almost-greeting. The gladiator pounced." - Art by John Schoenherr
Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen standing over the body of the slain Gladiator - Artwork by Shotaro Ishinomori
Adaptions[]
In other media[]
- In Jodorowsky's Dune, Feyd would have fought Farok on Giedi Prime.[8]
- In Frank Herbert's draft for a film based on Dune, the gladiator fight takes place on Arrakis and the gladiator's name is Padrail[9]
- 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), 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.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dune - Chapter 35: It's one of Duke Leto's fighting men we took on Arrakis! Feyd-Rautha thought. No simple gladiator this!
- ↑ Dune - Chapter 5: YUEH (yu'e), Wellington (weling-tun), Stdrd 10,082-10,191; medical doctor of the Suk School (grd Stdrd 10,112); md: Wanna Marcus, B.G. (Stdrd 10,092-10,186?); chiefly noted as betrayer of Duke Leto Atreides. (Cf: Bibliography, Appendix VII [Imperial Conditioning] and Betrayal, The.)
- ↑ Dune - Chapter 35: In honor of the na-Baron's nativity and to remind all Harkonnens and subjects that Feyd-Rautha was heir-designate, it was holiday on Giedi Prime. The old Baron had decreed a meridian-to-meridian rest from labors, and effort had been spent in the family city of Harko to create the illusion of gaiety: banners flew from buildings, new paint had been splashed on the walls along Court Way.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Dune - Chapter 35: Out charged a tall, muscular man with shaved head and darkly pitted eyes. His skin was carrot-colored as it should be from the elacca drug, but Feyd-Rautha knew the color was paint. The slave wore green leotards and the red belt of a semishield--the belt's arrow pointing left to indicate the slave's left side was shielded. He held his knife sword-fashion, cocked slightly outward in the stance of a trained fighter. Slowly, he advanced into the arena, turning his shielded side toward Feyd-Rautha and the group at the pru-door.
- ↑ Dune - Chapter 35
- ↑ Dune - Chapter 35: The gladiator had the correct skin color for a drugged man, but he stood his ground and did not tremble.
- ↑ Dune - Chapter 35: Feyd-Rautha's attention went to a bloody scratch on the man's left forearm, followed the arm down to the hand as it pointed to a design drawn in blood on the left hip of the green leotards--a wet shape there: the formalized outline of a hawk. Hawk!
- ↑ Jodorowsky's Dune Uncovered Part 45: Feyd vs Farok
- ↑ I Found Frank Herbert’s Dune Script.