History Film / Thechroniclesofriddick

* CherryTapping: Riddick further establishes his BadAss nature by killing a guard with a teacup. He makes the rest of the guards run away when he threatens to follow this up by killing them with a can key.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: It is claimed that during nighttime, Crematoria's surface cools down to -300 degrees Celsius.
** Read, "Crematoria's surface cools down to -26.85 Kelvin." Keep in mind that Absolute Zero is the lowest you can go, and while there ''is'' such thing as negative kelvin in RealLife, [[http://www.mpg.de/6776082/negative_absolute_temperature it would have been hotter than anything else]].

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Richard B Riddick's badassitude stems not only from his fighting skill but also from his deductive reasoning. It is hinted that the entire series of events that transpired at the Crematoria prison was a GambitRoulette masterminded by Riddick. The Crematoria prison escape begins with Riddick giving a detailed description of what the guys currently escaping the prison are doing, and concludes by saying it's a good plan. When a mercenary who didn't get out asks him how he knows their plan, he replies, "It was mine."

* BadassBoast: "I'll kill you with my teacup." [[ImprobableWeaponUser He does]]. See the NotHyperbole entry below.

--->'''Aereon:''' [[spoiler:''[ever-so-slightly smug]'' Now what would be the odds of that?]]

* BlackDudeDiesFirst

* BodyCountCompetition: Riddick an Kyra.

* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Toombs attempts to invoke this by going after Riddick with a four man crew, but Riddick takes a very dim view of this, and dispatches them easily.
-->"A four man crew for me? Fuckin' ''insulting''."

* CurbstompCushion: A few Necromonger ships and soldiers are taken out in the fighting, [[ZergRush but they are always immediately replaced by more,]] [[SubvertedTrope serving only to highlight the hopelessness of the fight.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Jack/Kyra during the TimeSkip between films. She ran away to search for Riddick and signed up with a bunch of mercs, only to be enslaved, with a heavy implication as to [[SexSlave what kind]]. Made worse in that she was only ''twelve'' at the time! Riddick is understandably ''[[BerserkButton pissed]]'' to learn this, as well as furious at her for ignoring his single instruction when they parted ways;

* DarkMessiah: The Lord Marshall is worshipped by the Necromongers with almost religious reverance. He is the half-dead post-human who has pilgrimaged to the Underverse and returned a holy GalacticConqueror. His rule is absolute and he is destined to lead his people beyond the 'Threshold' to the alternate realm, although he's not immortal; the post is permanent until the Lord Marshal either dies of old age or [[KlingonPromotion is killed by an aspiring commander]], and a new Lord Marshal succeeds him.

* DyingRace: Riddick is a Furyan. The leader of the Necromongers (aka the BigBad) tried to exterminate the Furians because of a prophecy which foretold he would be destroyed by one.

* ExactWords: In the Director's Cut, Aereon's very carefully worded response to the Lord Marshall demanding she calculate the odds on their campaign to reach the Underverse being successful;

--->There will be an afterlife for me. Will there be for you?

* HumanAliens: The Furyans themselves are the descendants of Human colonists who settled on Furya centuries ago and have undergone mutations in order to adapt to the hostility of Furya, which is said to be a high-gravity death world. Over the course of countless generations, the Furyans have evolved into a Proud Warrior Race, and because of their adaptations, are stronger, faster, and tougher then baseline Humans, not to mention being much more cunning and vicious. It also seems that the Elementals themselves are another example of Human Aliens.
** Even among Furyans, Riddick is considered TheAce for his ''talent'' for escape.

** The Necromongers themselves are incredibly resistant to pain and damage, as their indoctrination renders them unaffected by damage to varying degrees. Dame Vaako herself managed to apply makeup to her eyes using a burning pencil, which by all means would hurt like a bitch, but did absolutely nothing for her. One of the Necromongers' best fighters, Irgun; had a knife embedded in his back from a previous kill, which did nothing to impede his movements or his ability to fight.

* OvernightConquest: Helion Prime is taken over by the Necromongers in one night. Then again, we're only shown a single city, but the Necros treat it as if the entire planet is under their control.

* SuperSpeed: A nice side-effect of being Holy Half-Dead. The Lord Marshall himself is able to cover great distances in a short amount of time, even while wearing a full suit of plate armour and maille. Having SuperStrength is rather helpful in those respects as well. In order for Riddick to defeat the Lord Marshall, He had to be quicker thinking then his adversary.
** The Lord Marshall also appears to be able to literally be in more than one place at a time, rendering him intermittently invulnerable. Riddick's killing blow is only possible when circumstances force the Lord Marshall to momentarily be entirely in one place.

* ThereIsAnother: [[spoiler: Another Furyan, but he's been converted into a Necromonger and commits suicide immediately after revealing their mutual nature to Riddick.]]

** CurbstompCushion: A few Necromonger ships and soldiers are taken out in the fighting, [[ZergRush but they are always immediately replaced by more,]] [[SubvertedTrope serving only to highlight the hopelessness of the fight.]]

* TheAlcatraz: Crematoria

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Richard B Riddick's {{badass}}itude stems not only from his fighting skill but also from his deductive reasoning. It is hinted that the entire series of events that transpired at the Crematoria prison was a GambitRoulette masterminded by Riddick. The Crematoria prison escape begins with Riddick giving a detailed description of what the guys currently escaping the prison are doing, and concludes by saying it's a good plan. When a mercenary who didn't get out asks him how he knows their plan, he replies, "It was mine."

* ConvectionSchmonvection: You can easily survive right next to air that's heated to hundreds of thousands of degrees, so long as you're standing in the shade.

* [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack Universe]]: The events of ''Film/PitchBlack'' are the stuff of bedtime stories for young children. Furthermore, The Purifier argues that in this universe, life is itself against the natural order of things. Available evidence thus far seems to support his argument.

* [[InvincibleHero Invincible]] AntiHero: Riddick is practically omniscient in his plans, is never even touched in battle, and is never in any sort of danger until the BigBad fights him. This has been one of the criticisms of the movie. Every other entry in the series depict Riddick as more human and killable: ''Pitch Black'', the animated movie, the videogames, even a little flash short created for the ''Pitch Black'' website.

* XMeetsY: ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''Film/{{Alien 3}}'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''[[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal Lecter]]''.

* BadassBoast: "I'll kill you with my teacup." [[ImprobableWeaponUser He does]].

-->(Riddick is about to abandon a BountyHunter in frigid wilderness): "Biggest mistake: Empty Gun Rack."

* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: Riddick [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome kills a guy using a teacup]]. He then [[spoiler: places a small skate-key on the rock where the teacup had been sitting a moment ago with obvious implications]].

* ActionGirl: Kyra has developed into one by this film, beating up various men larger than she is, evading an alien helldog, and even holding out against the Necromongers for a while.

* AntiVillain: The NobleDemon Lord Vaako comes off this way at times. He's surprisingly competent, genuinely believes in the ReligionOfEvil, shows signs of HonorBeforeReason, and, to the surprise of everyone, ''doesn't'' attempt a KlingonPromotion on the Lord Marshall (well, not until [[LadyMacBeth his wife]] convinces him that the Lord Marshall has violated the ReligionOfEvil).

* BlackAndGreyMorality or EvilVersusEvil: Riddick versus the Necromongers.

* InvincibleHero: Riddick is practically omniscient in his plans, is never even touched in battle, and is never in any sort of danger until the BigBad fights him. This has been one of the criticisms of the movie. Every other entry in the series depict Riddick as more human and killable: ''Pitch Black'', the animated movie, the videogames, even a little flash short created for the ''Pitch Black'' website.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Inverted. ''The Chronicles of Riddick'' literally ''is'' a sequel to ''Film/PitchBlack'', but nothing about it feels so. The first was a pretty standard horror movie with humans in a futuristic setting, while the second has elements of sci-fi and fantasy giving it a completely different feel (Riddick is an alien, now?), right down to the titles of each film. It'd be like placing Hannibal Lecter in an UrbanFantasy as a NobleDemon and calling it a sequel to ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs''... which, in ''Hannibal Rising'', is kind of what they did.

->"''In normal times, evil would be fought by good. But in times like these, [[EvilVersusEvil it must be fought by a different kind of evil]].''"

'''''The Chronicles of Riddick''''' is a [[LowFantasy Low]] [[HeroicFantasy Heroic]] ScienceFantasy film in ''Franchise/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'' series, released in 2004. It's the big-budget sequel to ''Film/PitchBlack'', though the two films are actually in different genres.

It was followed by ''[[Film/{{Riddick}} Riddick]]'' in 2013.

It is set to be followed by ''[[Film/{{Riddick}} Riddick]]'' in 2013.

* LargeHam: Colm Feore (The Lord Marshal), KarlUrban (Vaako), and ThandieNewton (Dame Vaako).

* [[spoiler: ThereIsAnother: Another Furyan, but he's been converted into a Necromonger and commits suicide immediately after revealing their mutual nature to Riddick.]]

* BackToBackBadasses: Kyra and Riddick.

* SheIsAllGrownUp: Kyra.

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy:
** The Furyan race are heavily implied to have been this.
** The Necromongers.

* VillainousRescue: Tombs shows up with a group of mercs to rescue Riddick from a very nasty squashing by the Necromongers. Of course, the whole reason for the rescue is the bounty on Riddick's [[BaldOfAwesome big bald head]]. Riddick lets himself be captured and [[PlayAlongPrisoner uses them as transport to get to a specific prison planet]].

* SherlockScan: Subverted. Riddick climbs up into a room where a fight took place, and is able to instantly deduce what happened. When he's incredulously asked how he figured all of it out, he growls "because that was ''my'' plan."

* [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack Universe]]: The events of ''Film/PitchBlack'' are the stuff of bedtime stories for young children. Furthermore,

** CurbstompCushion: A few Necromonger ships and soldiers are taken out in the fighting, [[SubvertedTrope but they are always immediately replaced by more.]]