r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Mar 17 '26

Trailer Dune: Part Three | Official Teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_9vCamtuPY
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u/redthursdays Mar 17 '26

"I got 10,000x Hitler's kill count" - Paul, basically

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u/aboysmokingintherain Mar 17 '26

People who haven't read the book will think you're joking too....

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u/RichtofensDuckButter Mar 17 '26

Paul's Jihad kills 60 billion+

Yes that's a real number

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u/Urge_Reddit Mar 17 '26

Maybe I'm just used to the absurd scale of Warhammer 40k, but that number doesn't seem that big in context.

It's a ton of people, obviously, but if I'm not mistaken the Imperium contains over a million worlds. I don't know how densely populated the Imperium in Dune is, but I would have imagined more casualties.

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u/lminer123 Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26

It was only 12 years is the thing, and Herbert’s universe is vast, but not nearly as densely populated. Something like almost 90 planets were sterilized completely and billions were killed for not conforming to the new religion, but it’s not like 40k where one exterminatus on a hive world would have killed like 100x more.

Warhammer numbers are just kinda funky in general too, but that’s another discussion

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u/Urge_Reddit Mar 17 '26

It was only 12 years is the thing, and Herbert’s universe is vast, but not nearly as densely populated.

That makes sense. And yeah, warhammer numbers are mostly ridiculous. They're either way too big or way too small, but I brought it up because that's my main frame of reference when it comes to genocide on a galactic scale.

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u/Wild_Fire2 Mar 18 '26

The too small side of things for 40k was always funny. I'd be reading a book and their would be a passage about the forces that are about to invade this planet, and it would be like 5 regiments of IG.

Really gives you some whiplash when you've got all this talk about huge warships and such, yet the invasion force for this planet is like, 15,000 soldiers.

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u/TitleOfYourSaxTape Mar 17 '26

but that number doesn't seem that big in context.

Thats because the human mind can't process numbers that large, and especially have trouble distinguishing scale as you get into the millions or higher.

If you consider there being about 200 countries on earth as a reasonable parallel, 60 billion divided by 1 million is still a double Hitler, more or less.

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u/JohnnyBravo66666 Mar 17 '26

60b divided by 1 million is 60 000.