Riddick (character)
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Richard B. Riddick, more commonly known as Riddick, is a fictional character and the antiheroic protagonist of the Chronicles of Riddick series, including the animated short movie Dark Fury and the video games Escape from Butcher Bay and Assault on Dark Athena. Actor Vin Diesel has played the title role in all of the Riddick-based films and video games thus far.
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Riddick | |
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The Chronicles of Riddick character | |
First appearance | Pitch Black (2000) |
Created by | David Twohy Jim Wheat Ken Wheat |
Portrayed by | Vin Diesel |
Voiced by | Vin Diesel |
In-universe information | |
Nickname | Riddick |
Species | Furyan |
Gender | Male |
Occupation | |
Family | None surviving |
Nationality | Furya |
Within the canon of the series, Riddick is shown to have a vast number of skills, which include great mobility, stealth, killing abilities, survival in harsh conditions, prison-breaking, and piloting. Despite his criminal nature and background, he is sometimes shown to perform moral or even atypically heroic actions, usually against his own better judgment and survivalist nature.
Despite his Human origin in Pitch Black, in subsequent sequels his race was changed to Furyan, a warrior race of adapted humans obliterated by a military campaign that left his home planet of Furya desolate and is one of the last of his kind. One of his most defining features are his eyes, a characteristic inherent in a certain caste of his species (the Alpha-Furyans), although he implies in Pitch Black that they were "shined" by a back-alley surgical operation. This allows him to see clearly in the dark, but also makes him vulnerable to strong light; he wears tinted welding goggles for protection.
Riddick was once a mercenary and part of a security force; he later became a soldier.[1]