Talk:Piter De Vries/Archive 1

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I changed near-prescient abilities to Mentat abilities only because the distinction is important. Piter figured this through Mentat reasoning not through any absolute oracular visions. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.119.106.115 (talk • contribs) 06:58, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

de Vries or de Vried?

I have a 1984 edition of the Dune novel, and his name is written as Piter de Vried.

Only sometimes. Just like 1984 Messiah also spells axolotl. I think the prequels established that it is Vries. 203.218.37.8 14:35, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

No, it is spelt de Vried throughout the book Dune. The character was created by Frank Herbert, who did not write the prequels. It appears David Lynch renamed the character de Vries for his movie version. Recommend the name of the article be changed to Piter de Vried, by someone Wiki-savvier than I. 24.68.153.66 (talk) 02:09, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Without pulling out my copy and checking, I'd venture a guess that the characters name is an allusion to [Peter De Vries], real author. It'd be nice to see a source verifying this or even discussing it. If it was indeed not a coincidence, it seems plausible that the name was changed at some point to make the reference more obvious.Noogenesis (talk) 23:03, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

I know I'm replying to a decade old discussion here, but de Vried is most definitely a typo to be blamed on sloppy publishers :-) EditorInTheRye (talk) 20:55, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Video games

I've removed the following items from the article (the bullets are mine). I'm assuming these entries mean that the video game characters resemble the David Lynch version of De Vries (Brad Dourif). If so, this is more appropriately mentioned in Dune (film)#Influence on popular culture, where the Lynch film's visual influence on the game characters is already noted, or in the game articles themselves. These items have no bearing on the Piter De Vries character itself. TAnthony 16:01, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

• There is also a Harkonnen Mentat who also bears a resemblance to Piter De Vries who appears in the computer game Dune 2000 by the name of Hayt played by Robert Carin.
• In the computer game Emperor: Battle for Dune, a mentat by the name of Yanich Kobal resembles De Vries in appearance and mannerisms. He is portrayed by the late Vincent Schiavelli.

Spoiler tags

The Prelude series is not that old, and anyway, as far as I know there is no statute of limitations on spoilers. Someone could conceivably look here after reading one novel, and perhaps even come to this page from another Dune page, not having read all of the novels. With the argument that the books are "too old", spoiler tags should not exist at all because everything that has been broadcast or published is essentially old after a week. I think we should err on the side of caution here. TAnthony 18:19, 16 May 2007 (UTC)