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* The first proof of a previous human presence on the planet which the crash survivors find? It's a toy. Not a tool or a container or some other piece of practical equipment, but a ''toy''. The geologists who'd lived and horribly died there 22 years ago ''had at least one child with them''.

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* The first proof of a previous human presence on the planet which the crash survivors find? It's a toy. Not a tool or a container or some other piece of practical equipment, but a ''toy''. The geologists who'd lived and horribly died there 22 years ago ''had at least one child with them''.them''.
* Riddick finding the spectacles just outside the chained-shut door gets creepier when you know what happened to the geologists. Whoever wore those glasses was probably eaten alive there, perhaps while begging whomever sealed the doors to open up and let them in.
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* The first proof of a previous human presence on the planet which the crash survivors find? It's a toy. Not a tool or a container or some other piece of practical equipment, but a ''toy''. The prospectors who'd lived and horribly died there 22 years ago ''had at least one child with them''.

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* The first proof of a previous human presence on the planet which the crash survivors find? It's a toy. Not a tool or a container or some other piece of practical equipment, but a ''toy''. The prospectors geologists who'd lived and horribly died there 22 years ago ''had at least one child with them''.

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* Johns shoots morphine into his eyesocket, instead of putting it in his arm like one would expect. Combined with the implication that he stole the morphine from the ship's medical supplies, it becomes clear that he is doing this to avoid leaving visible needle marks on his skin.

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* Johns shoots morphine into his eyesocket, eye socket, instead of putting it in his arm like one would expect. Combined with the implication that he stole the morphine from the ship's medical supplies, it becomes clear that he is doing this to avoid leaving visible needle marks on his skin.



* The only other living organisms that the castaways encounter besides the Bioraptors are little wormy things that glow in the dark. Considering the Bioraptors' main weakness, bioluminescence would be the equivalent defense mechanism against them to an Earth species being ''poisonous to eat''.

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* The only other living organisms that the castaways encounter besides the Bioraptors are little wormy things that glow in the dark. Considering the Bioraptors' main weakness, bioluminescence would be the equivalent defense mechanism against them to an Earth species being ''poisonous to eat''.touch''.

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* The first proof of a previous human presence on the planet which the crash survivors find? It's a toy. Not a tool or a container or some other piece of practical equipment, but a ''toy''. The prospectors who'd lived and horribly died there 22 years ago ''had at least one child with them''.
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* Edging into Fridge Horror: The cries of the creatures! The crooning calls sound non-threatening, but the creatures are anything but. The crooning are either the sound of their echo-location, or just the noise they make to each other. On the other hand, it could be both: for a creature that lives and hunts in darkness, why not evolve to sound non-threatening to lure disoriented prey to you because you sound safe?!

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* Edging into Fridge Horror: The cries of the creatures! The crooning calls sound non-threatening, but the creatures are anything but. The crooning are either the sound of their echo-location, or just the noise they make to each other. On the other hand, it could be both: for a creature that lives and hunts in darkness, why not evolve to sound non-threatening to lure disoriented prey to you because you sound safe?!safe?!
* The only other living organisms that the castaways encounter besides the Bioraptors are little wormy things that glow in the dark. Considering the Bioraptors' main weakness, bioluminescence would be the equivalent defense mechanism against them to an Earth species being ''poisonous to eat''.

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* When [[spoiler:Zeke]] dies, Shazza quickly runs towards his location and screams his name. [[spoiler: Riddick was actually there all along, they look at eachother and during that, there's a brief shot of his "boneknife", ''which is devoid of blood.'']] Either he really didn't kill him (which he of course didn't), or he was quick enough to clean his knife rather perfectly.

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* When [[spoiler:Zeke]] dies, Shazza quickly runs towards his location and screams his name. [[spoiler: Riddick was actually there all along, they look at eachother each other and during that, there's a brief shot of his "boneknife", ''which is devoid of blood.'']] Either he really didn't kill him (which he of course didn't), or he was quick enough to clean his knife rather perfectly.perfectly.
** On the other hand, given it's ''Riddick'', the other castaways have no reason to assume he'd only crafted ''one'' shiv. Not as exonerating from their POV, although a bit more so for the audience who already expect monsters at that point.
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** The morphine was actually his own stash, as they are hidden a box of fake shotgun shells. However, as pointed out by the director of the film in the scene where the group finds Owen alive but critically hurt, when Carolyn is informed the back of the room where the medkit used to be is gone, Johns has a look on his face that is clear that he knows he could make Owen's last moments painless but choses not to for his own addiction.
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** And as pointed out, with the amount of blood found in the hole, Riddick would have been covered in it if he had been the one who committed the act. However, know the shiv, he's bone dry of blood.

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** And as pointed out, with the amount of blood found in the hole, Riddick would have been covered in it if he had been the one who committed the act. However, know like the shiv, shiv he had on him, he's bone dry of blood.
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** And as pointed out, with the amount of blood found in the hole, Riddick would have been covered in it if he had been the one who committed the act. However, know the shiv, he's bone dry of blood.
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* Before they head to the skiff, Riddick warned about cuts because the Raptors now know about human blood. In a brief moment, Jack panics. At first, it looked like worry in general. However, [[RewatchBonus upon second look]], Jack is specifically worried because [[spoiler: Jack's a girl and is bleeding]].

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* Before they head to the skiff, Riddick warned about cuts because the Raptors now know about human blood. In a brief moment, Jack panics. At first, it looked like worry in general. However, [[RewatchBonus upon second look]], Jack is specifically worried because [[spoiler: Jack's a girl and is bleeding]].[[NoPeriodsPeriod bleeding]]]].

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* At some point in ''Pitch Black'', the creatures turn on each other and become cannibalistic. Well, considering they have to wait 22 years just to ''feed'...

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* At some point in ''Pitch Black'', the creatures turn on each other and [[MonstrousCannibalism become cannibalistic. cannibalistic]]. Well, considering they have to wait 22 years just to ''feed'...''feed'...
** Either that, or they're fighting over mates and have to wait 22 years to do something else that starts with "F".
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Tell me you don't get chills listening to the cries of the creatures, especial AFTER they start killing the humans. Anything that sounds that non-threatening, while waiting to rip prey apart is definitely Fridge Brilliant, if not Fridge Horror.


* When [[spoiler:Zeke]] dies, Shazza quickly runs towards his location and screams his name. [[spoiler: Riddick was actually there all along, they look at eachother and during that, there's a brief shot of his "boneknife", ''which is devoid of blood.'']] Either he really didn't kill him (which he of course didn't), or he was quick enough to clean his knife rather perfectly.

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* When [[spoiler:Zeke]] dies, Shazza quickly runs towards his location and screams his name. [[spoiler: Riddick was actually there all along, they look at eachother and during that, there's a brief shot of his "boneknife", ''which is devoid of blood.'']] Either he really didn't kill him (which he of course didn't), or he was quick enough to clean his knife rather perfectly.perfectly.
*Edging into Fridge Horror: The cries of the creatures! The crooning calls sound non-threatening, but the creatures are anything but. The crooning are either the sound of their echo-location, or just the noise they make to each other. On the other hand, it could be both: for a creature that lives and hunts in darkness, why not evolve to sound non-threatening to lure disoriented prey to you because you sound safe?!
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* Before they head to the skiff, Riddick warned about cuts because the Raptors now know about human blood. In a brief moment, Jack panics. At first, it looked like worry in general. However, [[RewatchBonus upon second look]], Jack is specifically worried because [[spoiler: Jack's a girl and is bleeding]].

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* Before they head to the skiff, Riddick warned about cuts because the Raptors now know about human blood. In a brief moment, Jack panics. At first, it looked like worry in general. However, [[RewatchBonus upon second look]], Jack is specifically worried because [[spoiler: Jack's a girl and is bleeding]].bleeding]].
* When Johns gets up after the crash, he's disorientated. It could simply be because of the crash and the fact he wasn't in a good secure way to avoid any damage (He was out of his cryo-sleep bed and simply holding onto some furniture) [[spoiler:''or he is having his drug relapse, or both''. Has to be both because of how the medicine cabinet was missing/empty.]]
* When [[spoiler:Zeke]] dies, Shazza quickly runs towards his location and screams his name. [[spoiler: Riddick was actually there all along, they look at eachother and during that, there's a brief shot of his "boneknife", ''which is devoid of blood.'']] Either he really didn't kill him (which he of course didn't), or he was quick enough to clean his knife rather perfectly.
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Foreshadowing of Jack\'s true identity?


* The raptors don't come out during the Eclipse just to breed - they can do that underground just fine. They come out during the Eclipse because they ''can.'' It's then that they really have ''room'' to get killing and eating each other above ground, which thins out the weak and old, and results in all the skeletons. It's been going on for hundreds of thousands of years. And this 23-year cycle is what prevents any sun-based life from evolving.

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* The raptors don't come out during the Eclipse just to breed - they can do that underground just fine. They come out during the Eclipse because they ''can.'' It's then that they really have ''room'' to get killing and eating each other above ground, which thins out the weak and old, and results in all the skeletons. It's been going on for hundreds of thousands of years. And this 23-year cycle is what prevents any sun-based life from evolving.evolving.
* Before they head to the skiff, Riddick warned about cuts because the Raptors now know about human blood. In a brief moment, Jack panics. At first, it looked like worry in general. However, [[RewatchBonus upon second look]], Jack is specifically worried because [[spoiler: Jack's a girl and is bleeding]].
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----* The raptors don't come out during the Eclipse just to breed - they can do that underground just fine. They come out during the Eclipse because they ''can.'' It's then that they really have ''room'' to get killing and eating each other above ground, which thins out the weak and old, and results in all the skeletons. It's been going on for hundreds of thousands of years. And this 23-year cycle is what prevents any sun-based life from evolving.
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* At some point in ''Pitch Black'', the creatures turn on each other and become cannibalistic. Well, considering they have to wait 22 years just to ''feed'...

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* Johns shoots morphine into his eyesocket, instead of putting it in his arm like one would expect. Combined with the implication that he stole the morphine from the ship's medical supplies, it becomes clear that he is doing this to avoid leaving visible needle marks on his skin.

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* Johns shoots morphine into his eyesocket, instead of putting it in his arm like one would expect. Combined with the implication that he stole the morphine from the ship's medical supplies, it becomes clear that he is doing this to avoid leaving visible needle marks on his skin.skin.

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* You would think the bit in Riddick's mouth is there to keep him from biting people. Take a moment and you'll realize it's so he won't talk to anyone because his mouth's just as dangerous as the rest of him. He's dangerously charming, and the children especially seem interested.

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* You would think the bit in Riddick's mouth is there to keep him from biting people. Take a moment and you'll realize it's so he won't talk to anyone because his mouth's just as dangerous as the rest of him. He's dangerously charming, and the children especially seem interested.interested.
* Johns shoots morphine into his eyesocket, instead of putting it in his arm like one would expect. Combined with the implication that he stole the morphine from the ship's medical supplies, it becomes clear that he is doing this to avoid leaving visible needle marks on his skin.
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* You would think the bit in Riddick's mouth is there to keep him from biting people. Take a moment and you'll realize it's so he won't talk to anyone because his mouth's just as dangerous as the rest of him. He's dangerously charming, and the children especially seem interested.

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