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@bestofstarwar Easily the most powerful moment in all of fiction.

It’s Luke defying the Emperor.

@CarlZha Literally Lawrence of Arabia in space

I can't get over the fact that Dune is about an oppressed people fighting for their homeland, waging a jihad to bring down a hegemonic empire by threatening to cut off the flow of their most precious commodity after the empire had assassinated their religious leader's father.

@mcgillmd921 Is this even a question.

Who is your favorite Roman dictator?

@soldierofpep Greeks are Hellenic and French are technically Celtic. Latinx are mutts.

@isfjcutebear Yes he’s the Goat.

Do you like Napoleon?

@starlightsrey There isn’t a piece of fiction that has had a greater impact then SW with the possible exception of like Homers Iliad.

everyones bitching about impact. yeah okay lore wise also star wars is better idgaf

@vance_hoffman @thegabriel72 Genetics not rap

@thegabriel72 Just stupid rap songs made him think he could shoot out with police and win.

Honestly, it looks like the taser caused him to arch back and pull the trigger. His finger shouldn’t have even been on the trigger but I don’t think he meant to pull it in that moment.

@XDarthThunderX History of fiction*

Darth Vader is the greatest villain in cinematic history.

@TylerCWhitmore Nothing beats this G sry. The family dynamic is SW is peak fiction that can’t be topped by anything.

If they pull this off… it will easily be the greatest trilogy of all time. No contest.

@softchatblanc Literally just learn about Napoleon. He fits the tragic hero arc perfectly but is 10x more interesting because he’s real.

Se vocês conhecem mais obras com ESTE tipo de personagem POR FAVOR ME APRESENTEM

@juniorS05268789 @Skrappy83 @FlyoutChase Thank you, finally someone who realizes that

Anakin Skywalker / Darth Vader is the greatest movie character ever….Dune dope but yall gotta chill

@TOVUMBACK @FlyoutChase SW was more inspired by Flash Gordon and old Samurai movies. Dune didn’t invent the tragic hero arc that’s been around for thousands of years.

@FlyoutChase Anakin was inspired by Paul from the original books. And in 10 years when we look back on Dune the popular opinion could easily be that Paul was the best movie character.

@TyrasicTP @dostoevesque He was literally an irl tragic hero yes. You should look into him he’s fascinating.

@Member_555 @dostoevesque Was he similar to this archetype? That's pretty crazy if true

It has to be my favorite archetype: the corruption of innocence, where a person slowly loses their sense of clarity or goodness and slips into madness. What makes it interesting is how gradual and believable the change feels. In the process of fighting something they see as wrong, they begin to adopt the same traits and methods they once opposed. Over time, they become indistinguishable from it, losing the very values that defined them in the beginning. As Friedrich Nietzsche put it: "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."

@VadersOrder Sry but nothing Dune has can ever top this.

aura.

@mrwtffacts Natural Selection

In 2010, 19-year-old Australian rugby star Sam Ballard was dared to eat a garden slug at a party. The slug carried a parasite, which infected his brain, put him in a coma for over a year, paralysed him from the neck down and tragically killed him 8 years later at age 28.

@redpillb0t Women have it so hard…

Rich Ukrainians throw elaborate parties, buy luxury cars, and vacation at elite European resorts. Meanwhile, poor Ukrainian men are sent as cannon fodder against Russian drones and artillery.

@Thuso1Africa Whenever jigs try to assert dominance they get savagely ratioed 🤣

“One race. The human race.”

@m_stormwitch I’m not saying you do but you’ll hear others say that often.

@Member_555 WHERE DID I USE THE WORD RIP-OFF?

Star Wars is George Lucas' fairytale version of Dune. Always remember he had kids in mind as his main audience, this are his own words. You can't just shove Dune's political and moral complexity down a kid's throat. But, you can definitely enjoy both.

@m_stormwitch I don’t totally disagree. Inspiration is there but calling SW a ripoff when the 2 stories are so radically different is where I disagree. Also Dune don’t invent the tragic hero archetype. Idk if you’ve seen Lawrence of Arabia but you can argue Dunes a “ripoff” of that film.

@Member_555 Oh, come on now, desert planet, Anakin's arc being very similar to Paul's? I could go on for days. It was clearly one of George's MAJOR inspirations for SW, and there's nothing wrong about that.