Paul Atreides (1984)

Paul Atreides, also known as Usul or Paul Muad'dib was the central protagonist of the 1984 movie Dune.

He was portrayed by Kyle MacLaughin.

A young adult by 10,191 A.G. (21,267 A.D), Paul accompanied his father Leto and mother Jessica from their homeworld of Caladan to Arrakis so that House Atreides could take over the fiefdom of that world at the order of Emperor Shaddam IV Corinno. Shaddamn did this so that he and the Harkonnen could eliminate House Atreides.

In the Harkonnen counterattack Duke Leto died and the Atreides forces were decimated, but Paul and Jessica escaped into the desert, where they met Stilgar and his band of Freman. Proving himself to be a capable combatant, Paul and his mother were welcomed in to the tribe. Stilgar declared that Paul would be known as Usul within their tribe, and requested Paul tell them what name of manhood he wanted to be known as publicly. Paul requested to be known as Paul Muad'dib after the mouse shadow in the second moon.

Soon afterwards Paul fell in love with the Freman woman Chani, who was the daughter of Imperial Doctor Liet-Kynes.

Over the next two years Paul and his Freman allies brought production of the spice melange to a virtual sandstill, forcing the Emperor and the Lansraad to turn their attention to Arrakis. Paul took the water of life, which enabled him to fulfill his destiny as the Kwisatz Haderach, the superbeing the Bene Gesserit had been working to create for many centuries.

Paul and his Freman allies attacked and defeated the combined Corinno and Harkonnen forces. Shaddam was forced to surrender to Paul, and was exiled to the prison planet Salusa Secundus. The House Harkonnen became extinct when Paul defeated the new Baron Feyd Rathua-Harkonnen in personal combat. Paul then used his abilities to bring rain to Arrakis for the first time in the history of the planet.