10 Movie Characters Who Had Every Right To Become The Villain

By the end of Denis Villenueve's Dune: Part Two, the director makes it clear that the Duke of House Atreides and Lisan al-Gaib, Paul 'Muad'Dib' Atreides, is anything but a hero. But after going through the trauma and other events this bloke experienced over the course of his young life, he had every right to get a little nuts, really.

From the second his father was coldly murdered by the Harkonnens and betrayed by Emperor Shaddam IV, a devastated Paul became justifiably obsessed with the idea of vengeance. 

It also wasn't his fault that the Bene Gesserit created an artificial prophecy and dropped it onto the world of Arrakis before he was even born, a move that would eventually convince many of the Fremen that both Paul and his mother Lady Jessica would lead them to paradise.

Paul even fights against this dangerous prophecy throughout Part Two whenever he's nudged towards his apparent destiny, fearful of the bloody holy war his visions tell him will become a reality should he embrace the title of messiah. 

That desire to avenge the death of his beloved father and free the people of Arrakis, though, inevitably leads to him becoming a ruthless leader and the beginning of a conflict that will take the lives of billions. But in truth, Atreides began Part Two in particular as a young Duke who simply wanted to learn the ways of the Fremen and take down the people who attacked his family, and he was largely forced down this dark Kwisatz Haderach path by those around him.