Well, that's the problem there. If he dies in a sword fight with Bald Guy, Bald Guy's kid is going to become the Kwisatz Hot Rock. The Bene Gesserit are probably going to be able to control that kid. That kid will also become the emperor, and so we'll have the Kwisatz Haderach being the emperor anyways. Only it won't be Jessica's son, it'll be Fade Roth's son.

Time to understand that he takes out his eyes. Yeah, well, his eyes are taken out, but he can see the future, so if something happens to him, he did it.

So, the Emperor is going to put the Atreides family in charge of it, but then betray them and have Baron Harkonnen come in and take back over.

And then, because they fucked up in such a very specific way, it's led to a guy who creates what seems like a righteous war. But, because he's too good at it, he winds up killing more people than anyone anywhere. Ever. So the Harkonnens, you say, oh, these are evil people. They're torturous. They're awful. They kill one one millionth of the death and murder and everything that Paul Atreides is responsible for.

So in the book, when he's going south, when he's going to the siege to lead the Fremen, he doesn't want to do it, because he knows that if he chooses that future, then he kills the world. He kills the universe. There's nothing he can do to stop that. He can only choose to kill himself. Right. Those are the only two options, right? So in the book, he chooses, in the first book, to kill the universe.