Glossu Rabban, portrayed by Laslo Imre Kisch in the Dune miniseries

Glossu Rabban (nickname 'The Beast') was a minor character in the science fiction novel Dune by Frank Herbert. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (500x690, 59 KB)Rabban File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (500x690, 59 KB)Rabban File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Frank Herberts Dune was a three-part miniseries produced by the Sci-Fi Channel, a cable television channel. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Dune is a science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert and published in 1965 . ... Frank Herbert Frank Patrick Herbert (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was a critically and commercially successful American science fiction author. ...

Glossu Rabban was the older nephew of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. He inherited the Harkonnen cruelty and sadism but without the intelligence. He was known to the Fremen of Dune by a nickname that translated as "Demon Ruler" or " King Cobra."He is best known for his tyrannical and vastly ineffective governance of Arrakis during the insurgency by the Fremen led by Paul Muad'dib. He earned the nickname "Beast" when he killed his father. The Baron planned to let Glossu rule the planet for a time so that when his favored nephew, Feyd-Rautha, took over, the new ruler would be welcomed as a hero. He is slain by Paul Muad'Dib's wild Fremen and the very populace of Arrakeen which he had brutalized only recently when Paul made his move to retake Arrakis and gain the Corrino throne. In the 1984 version The Beast is beheaded by the Sarduakar when the Emperor decides to eliminate the population of the planet. "Rabban" is a distaff name. Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, portrayed by Ian McNeice in the Dune miniseries Vladimir Harkonnen is a fictional character from the science fiction series Dune. ... House Harkonnen is a fictional noble family in Frank Herberts Dune novels. ... Binomial name Ophiophagus hannah (Cantor, 1836) The King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) is a large venomous snake of the family Elapidae. ... Arrakis,(derived from the Arabic name ar-raqiÅŸ, the dancer. ... The Fremen are a group of people in the Dune series of science fiction novels by Frank Herbert. ... Paul Atreides, portrayed by Alec Newman in the Dune miniseries Paul Atreides is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. ... Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen is a key character in the science fiction novel Dune by Frank Herbert. ... Lady spinning Flax from a distaff As a noun, a distaff is a tool used in spinning. ...