History YMMV / Riddick

* UnfortunateImplications:
** There are two female characters in this film. The first is a random woman the mercenaries had in their custody who dies less than five minutes after her introduction. The second is a woman whose name sounds like "doll", who is sexually assaulted by one of the mercenaries, constantly sexually harassed and demeaned by the men around her, verbally harassed by a crude comment from Riddick, and has little to no importance to the actual plot in the second and third acts of the film. Understandably, this made a large portion of the fanbase rather irritated, especially since in the previous films, Carolyn Fry and Jack were both important to Riddick and important to the plot, and were not overly sexualized.
** Santana's group is populated by people with Hispanic names. As a whole, they're the lower-class, less professional, less competent and more treacherous of the two groups.

* Batman Gambit: Riddick sets one up [[spoiler: by painting the words "Fair Trade" on a locker holding the power nodes for both merc ships. The mercs assume that Riddick somehow broke in to the locker and stole them, so he could trade one for a ship of his own to leave the planet. They open the locker and find the nodes still in there, but [[WhatAnIdiot leave the locker open]]. This is exactly what Riddick hoped they'd do, as it allowed him to sneak in and steal the nodes.]]

* {{Narm}}: [[spoiler:Santana's death.]]

** The sentry bot's beeping sounds like some dubstep beat. This troper remembers half the people sitting around him in the theater started bobbing their heads.

** There's also Santana winking and calling the young and rather pretty Luna his "good luck charm". Normally this would be just another line, but coming from a canon rapist, it becomes decidedly more uncomfortable.

** The sentry bot's beeping sounds like some dubstep beat.

** There are two female characters in this film. The first is a random woman the mercenaries had in their custody who dies less than five minutes after her introduction. The second is a woman whose name sounds like "doll", who is sexually assaulted by one of the mercenaries, constantly sexually harassed and demeaned by the men around her, verbally harassed by a crude comment from Riddick, and has little to no importance to the actual plot in the second and third acts of the film. Understandably, this made a large portion of the fanbase rather irritated, especially since in the previous films, Carolyn Fry and Jack were both important to Riddick and important to the plot, and were not overly sexualized.

* UnfortunateImplications: There are two female characters in this film. The first is a random woman the mercenaries had in their custody who dies less than five minutes after her introduction. The second is a woman whose name sounds like "doll" who is sexually assaulted by one of the mercenaries, constantly sexually harassed and demeaned by the men around her, verbally harassed by a crude comment from Riddick, and has little to no importance to the actual plot in the second and third acts of the film. Understandably, this made a large portion of the fanbase rather irritated, especially since in the previous films, Carolyn Fry and Jack were both important to Riddick and important to the plot, and were not overly sexualized.
** There's also Santana winking and calling the young and rather pretty Luna his "good luck charm". Normally this would be just another line, but coming from a canon rapist, it becomes decidedly more uncomfortable.

* UnfortunateImplications: There are two female characters in this film. The first is a random woman the mercenaries had in their custody who dies less than five minutes after her introduction. The second is a woman whose name sounds like "doll" who is sexually assaulted by one of the mercenaries, constantly sexually harassed and demeaned by the men around her, verbally harassed by a crude comment from Riddick, and has little to no importance to the actual plot in the second and third acts of the film. Understandably, this made a large portion of the fanbase rather irritated, especially since in the previous films, Carolyn Fry and Jack were both important to Riddick and important to the plot, and were not overly sexualized. There's also Santana winking and calling the young and rather pretty Luna his "good luck charm". Normally this would be just another line, but coming from a canon rapist, it becomes decidedly more uncomfortable.

* UnfortunateImplications: There are two female characters in this film. The first is a random woman the mercenaries had in their custody who dies less than five minutes after her introduction. The second is a woman whose name sounds like "doll" who is sexually assaulted by one of the mercenaries, constantly sexually harassed and demeaned by the men around her, verbally harassed by a crude comment from Riddick, and has little to no importance to the actual plot in the second and third acts of the film. Understandably, this made a large portion of the fanbase rather irritated, especially since in the previous films, Carolyn Fry and Jack were both important to Riddick and important to the plot, and were not overly sexualized.

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: This instalment returns to its roots to the point where some criticize it for being shameless remake of ''Film/PitchBlack''.

* {{Mondegreen}}: It took until the credits to notice that it was "Dahl," not "Doll"...

* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: Over ''Chronicles''. It even rates higher Than ''Pitch Black'' on Rotten Tomatoes as well.

* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: Over ''Chronicles''. It even rates higher Than Pitch Black on Rotten Tomatoes as well.

* Narm: Santana's death.

* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel[=/=]EvenBetterSequel: Based on early word of mouth so far, ''Riddick'' has received a better reception than ''Pitch Black'' and ''Chronicles''.

* BrokenBase: Fans are split over the film's return to its roots with a story similar to ''Film/PitchBlack'', with some welcoming this decision and others feeling that they shouldn't have scrapped the developments that ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'' made to the plot.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: VinDiesel [[https://www.slashfilm.com/vin-diesel-riddick is]] making a third movie no matter what the [[ExecutiveMeddling studios]] [[DevelopmentHell say]]. But what about {{Sequelitis}}? He personally confirms it will be closer in flavor to the grittier tone of ''Film/PitchBlack''.
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* AndTheFandomRejoiced: VinDiesel [[https://www.slashfilm.com/vin-diesel-riddick is]] making a third movie no matter what the [[ExecutiveMeddling studios]] [[DevelopmentHell say]]. But what about {{Sequelitis}}? He personally confirms it will be closer in flavor to the grittier tone of PitchBlack.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Riddick isn't such [[DesignatedVillain a bad guy]]. In ''Pitch Black'', he was following the search team, but then that last survivor shows up at the wreckage, and Riddick is [[VillainousRescue mysteriously back there]]? And then he tries to save Zeke, too?

* CompleteMonster: Jaylor, Revas, and Spinner from ''Assault on Dark Athena''. Aside from maybe some Butcher Bay inmates (Rust in particular) in ''Escape from Butcher Bay'', none of the other villains quite approach this level. The Lord Marshall and Vaako believe in a twisted version of UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans, Dame Vaako is a power-hungry Lady [=McBeth=], the monsters in ''Pitch Black'' are mindless predators, Johns is a self-serving bastard but not a monster (although he does cross the MoralEventHorizon on two occasions), Toombs is in it only for the money, and Junner, Hoxie, and Abbot seem to be consumate professionals, even if their line of work is inhumane to the core (more a result of the Riddick universe being a CrapsackWorld than any fault of their own). Chillingsworth is a good contender, however.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Whenever Riddick kicks ass. The Furyan Purifier on Crematoria also gets one.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny:
--> "How's it look?"
--> "Looks clear."
--> *they start to get up, a creature cries and goes flying just overhead while everyone ducks*
--> "I thought you said it was clear!"
--> "I said it ''looks'' clear!"
--> "Well... how's it look now?!"
--> "... Looks clear."
** When Jack asks him how to get eyes like his and he gives her his disturbing little story, Carolyn makes [[spoiler: her]] go back up to the planet's surface. Riddick glances at Carolyn with a smile and says, "Cute kid." The look on Carolyn's face is priceless.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The games have largely ambient, atmospheric music, but some standout pieces include "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdxCHXrTMPA Prison Break]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B88ZLp3Sx9k Drone Mile]]".
* CultClassic: Both the films and games.
* EvilIsSexy: Riddick and sexy are synonymous with each other, but the evil part depends on the viewer.
* FirstInstallmentWins[=/=]{{Sequelitis}}: ''The Chronicles of Riddick'' was not very well received by critics or many fans of ''Pitch Black''. The GenreShift might have something to do with that, and the [[LighterAndSofter Disney-fication]] compared to the original. Which was more for the PG-13 rating instead of the shift.
* GeniusBonus: In ''PitchBlack'', Riddick-o-vision is in anaglyph 3d. Go get those red/blue 3d glasses, I'll wait. It's simply purple and blurred at the edges in all the other installments of the franchise, though.
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Riddick himself. Something about a remorseless killer that can see in the dark and says things like "Don't worry about what I do for you, worry about what I'll do to you." scares people. Not sure why.
** The [[spoiler: Ghost Drones]] from ''Dark Athena'' are arguably this, as well.
** How about the Necromongers? Join them, and you experience unimaginable amounts of pain. Refuse them and die. Escape them, and they'll destroy your planet (Which they were just going to do anyway).
* IAmNotShazam: The flying alien monsters in ''Pitch Black'' are never named throughout the course of the film. Sorry, "bio-raptor" and "demon" are just fanspeak.
* MemeticBadass: Riddick is almost all of those types of characters rolled into one.
* MoralEventHorizon: Johns has two in ''Pitch Black''. The first is when he steals the morfine from the crashed spaceship, so Fry's friend has to die in screaming agony. The second is when he suggests he and Riddick kill Jack and use her as bait for the creatures.
* {{Narm}}: Count how many times Riddick takes his goggles off in dramatic moments in ''Chronicles''. It's nearly impossible not to start giggling after a while.
** The odd part is, in ''Pitch Black'', it's revealed that his night vision makes his eyes sensitive to light so he needs the goggles. In the sequel, this weakness is apparently gone since he whips them off every other scene, including one in which he gazes as explosions.
* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: Masterfully averted; ''Butcher Bay'' is in fact regarded [[SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames as one of the finest games to come up at the time]] and many went as far as saying that it was better than the movie it was supposed to tie in. ''Dark Athena'', while not as great, isn't half bad either.
* WTHCastingAgency: Dame Judi Dench? ''Really''? More details rescued from that page: ''{{The Chronicles of Riddick}}'' made some fans wonder "What the hell is Judi Dench doing in this film?" VinDiesel wanted her so much, he sent a humongous number of flowers and bouquets along with the scripts to convince her. She complied after they met and bonded over ''DungeonsAndDragons'' (they both play).
** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as the role was designed ''specifically for her'' by Vin Diesel and David Twohy. WordOfGod on either the DVD commentary or the "extras" subtitle track.

* WTHCastingAgency: Dame Judi Dench? ''Really''? More details on the trope page.