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ELI5 the back story to Dune the movie, or just maybe Dune, never watched it but always wanted to. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to c/explainlikeimfive@lemmy.world

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[–] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago (5 children)

You skipped the whole prophecy thing. But….

He becomes a friggin worm?!?!?! How?!????

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[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

No space prince doesn't become a worm.

Space prince's son does.

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[–] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

Woah. That’s even more mind boggling! Is that the son he has with his once-lover-turned-concubine-for-political-expediency Chani?

How does a human become a worm?!

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[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago*

Bro spoilers for Children of Dune but we have a spoiler tag:

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Sandworms are a metamorphosis of groups of sandtrout surrounding and consuming pockets of water. Humans have a good bit of water in them, they can sense it easily in the desert. So he lets himself get 'consumed' by sandtrout, using his bene jesserit skills to force his bodies composition to accept it as a symbiosis. It starts out as basically an armored exoskeleton with the durability of a sandworm, and he grows into a much more sandwormy being.

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago

ah shit, I gotta update that, completely spaced on that detail.

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[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago

Yup. Oddly was just reading up on this.

Wormson achieves immortality without freedom so the surviving humans can never be entirely controlled after 3,500 years of controlling humanity himself.

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