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Richard B. Riddick
Richard B. Riddick
"You're not afraid of the dark, are you?"
Played By: Vin Diesel
Voiced By: Vin Diesel
Appearances: Escape from Butcher Bay | Assault on Dark Athena | Pitch Black | Dark Fury | The Chronicles of Riddick | Riddick
- "They say most of your brain shuts down in cryo-sleep. All but the primitive side, the animal side. No wonder I'm still awake."
The protagonist of the series. He is shown to be a highly skilled predator, extremely mobile and stealthy, has a vast knowledge of how to kill almost any humanoid in a variety of ways, is an extreme survivalist, and is notoriously hard to contain. He is also self-admittedly a dangerous convict and murderer, yet despite this, he is sometimes shown to perform moral or even atypically heroic actions, usually against his own better judgment and survivalist nature. Riddick is a Furyan, a member of a warrior race obliterated by a military campaign that left 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. The truth? This allows him to see in the dark with no difficulty at all, but also renders his eyes incredibly sensitive to concentrated light, therefore he wears tinted welding goggles for protection. Riddick was once a mercenary, then part of a security force, and later on a soldier. He is also an experienced pilot.
- '90s Anti-Hero: Riddick is a notorious criminal and mercenary with superhuman attributes and a fondness for knives. He prefers to look out for himself first and foremost but often finds himself playing the hero against his better judgment. It helps that his enemies are often far worse than he is.
- Alliterative Name: Save for the 'B' that separates Richard and Riddick.
- Ambiguously Brown: Like his actor, Riddick appears to be half-black.
- Anti-Hero: Either an Unscrupulous Hero or a Nominal Hero.
- Ax-Crazy: A high-functioning example, but he's way too calm about his habit of gutting the people who try to fight him for him to seem fully in his right mind.
- Badass Boast: He gets more than a few."I'll kill you with my teacup.""I bow to no man.""Sister, they don't know what to do with just one of me."
- Bald Head of Toughness: Riddick has Vin Diesel's legendary dome and is as tough as the characters Diesel is known for playing.
- Bond One-Liner: He sometimes slips in a comment after killing someone.
- Byronic Hero: He's a fairly comtemplative man, one who broods and kills almost in equal measure.
- Chivalrous Pervert: Adding to his anti-hero image, Riddick has been shown doing or saying things that would be considered perverted, and they are rarely Played for Laughs. However, befitting his standards, he has never been shown doing anything overtly sexual against women without consent.
- He is shown smelling Carolyn Fry and Dame Vaako when they got close.
- He made sexually suggestive comments towards Dahl and a female mercenary working for Toombs.
- While sneaking into Zhylaw's ship he bumped into Dame Vaako in a suggestive manner, something which nearly blew his cover if not for her personal agendas.
- While sneaking in on her to steal her mirror, Riddick peeked in on Dahl while she was naked and later told it to her. He also told the above mentioned female mercenary that he was watching her while she slept. He might have also peeked in on Imam's wife in shower as well.
- The Chosen One: It turns out he was the Furyan destined to kill the Lord Marshall and therefore become the new leader of the Necromongers.
- Combat Pragmatist: Part of what makes him deadly is his natural fighting skill, but the other part is the fact that he's keenly aware of how to use every environment to his advantage.
- Cool Shades: His signature goggles to protect his sensitive eyesight.
- Deadpan Snarker: He's got an incredibly dry wit and a pitch-black sense of humor.
- Devious Daggers: He is a very morally-ambiguous man who prefers to fight with knives.
- Disc-One Final Boss: In Pitch Black, he appears to be the main villain planning to kill off the crew one by one, when he is caught it turns out the real threat is someone else.
- Doom Magnet: Even when he's not the culprit, people have a bad habit of dying around him. Lampshaded in Assault on Dark Athena.Riddick: People I help tend to end up dead.
- Everyone Has Standards: While a ruthless killer and notorious convict, despite his brutal reputation, Riddick has never been shown to kill anyone who was not actively trying to at least capture if not outright kill him first.
- Fluffy Tamer: Riddick is good at reading dangerous animals' body language, mimicking their movements, and (at least for dog-like ones) at winning their respect. He claims that animals sense the animal in him.
- Friend to All Children: He has a soft spot for children; this was how Johns nabbed him in the first place, by exposing this weakness.
- From Camouflage to Criminal: According to the Pitch Black novelization, Riddick joined the military of the planet he grew up on when he turned eighteen. He had to learn to avoid the dangerous wildlife on the planet during field missions. Of course, he later became a dangerous escaped convict.
- Genius Bruiser: He might be built like a tank made of other tanks, but there's a big brain under that bald dome. Riddick is patient, calculating, observant and highly strategic.
- Handicapped Badass: Is extremely photo-sensitive requiring him to wear goggles, and is left vulnerable when they are taken away from him if not entirely helpless, although he coped without them in the relatively dim light of the Necromonger flagship.
- Hero with an F in Good: He is a full-grown Satisfied Street Rat — a vicious and remorseless human predator who has killed hundreds of people at torture range. What makes him a "hero" is that though he shows no remorse for the people he's killed, he has no interest in killing those who cannot defend themselves, has never been shown killing anyone who wasn't in some way trying to kill or capture him first, finds children to be amusing distractions (especially since those feelings are usually returned), and treats those that do kill the defenseless as animals. He thus finds himself regularly rescuing loads and loads of people by accident despite never intending to.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may be an unrepentant murderer, but he does have signs that there is a good side to him.
- Last of His Kind: One of the last Furyans, a warrior species that's an offshoot of humanity. The Necromongers killed the rest of them.
- Made of Iron: Riddick has been shown temporarily dislocating his own limbs, getting back up after being stabbed in the chest after taking a beating from the Lord Marshall, and was only knocked down with four doses of horse tranquiliser (and even those doses only stopped his current charge; one of his current opponents had to hit him in the head to actually knock him out).
- Naytheist: He claims so, although it could be just a way to speak."I absolutely believe in God. And I absolutely hate the fucker."
- Noble Demon: Riddick might be an unrepentant murderer and criminal, but he nonetheless holds himself to certain standards, including a refusal to kill children, a lack of interest in rape, and never shown killing anyone who wasn't actively trying to kill him.
- Granted, he will choose not to save others if he doesn't need them unless given sufficient incentive, but there is a distinction between not going back for someone in a dangerous situation and deliberately throwing innocents to the wolves to save his own neck.
- Not Me This Time: When Zeke is killed."Did I kill a few people? Sure. Did I kill Zeke? No. You got the wrong killer."
- Orcus on His Throne: Although his victory over the previous Lord Marshall leaves him in command of the Necromongers, the focus on his life dealing with members of his court and command staff suggests that he is not actively pursuing their goal to scour the universe of all life.
- Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: Again, a few.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: The series has made a point that Riddick has a severe distaste for rapists.
- Sherlock Scan: He's able to look at a situation, size things up, and go from there. An example would be when he accurately describes the prison guards' plans to leave.
- What Beautiful Eyes!: He sports uniquely monochromatic silvery eyes that no longer show either a pupil or an ordinary iris, and greatly enhance his light reception (often painfully, hence why he is almost always seen wearing goggles). Several characters have commented on them throughout the franchise.
- With My Hands Tied: On two occasions villains have taunted Riddick when they had his hands bound. He killed them by using his legs instead.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Goes hand-in-hand with being a Friend to All Children.
- Younger Than They Look: Riddick is identified as being 30 years old in the second film while Diesel was 37 at the time of the release, which would mean the character was 25 during Pitch Black while the actor was 33. This isn't that noticeable, but Riddick was released when Diesel was 46 and set five years after the second film, meaning that Riddick looked a decade older than he should have. While somewhat justifiable in the first two films since Riddick has lived a difficult life and wouldn't really care about his looks, making it realistic that he would look older, in the third film he has spent the last five years in pretty much luxury.
The Hunter-Gratzner
Crew
Owens
Greg Owens
Played By: Simon Burke
Appearances: Pitch Black
A co-pilot of Fry's, who tried to stop Fry from dumping the passengers to certain death.
- Foil: The core difference between him and Fry is that when given the chance to sacrifice the passengers to give himself a better chance of survival, he chooses to stick to his morals and force Fry to find another way.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: By a piece of wreckage during the crash.
- What You Are in the Dark: When faced with a life or death emergency, unlike Fry he insists that they are responsible for keeping the passengers safe even at personal risk.
Fry
Carolyn Fry
Played By: Radha Mitchell
Appearances: Pitch Black
- "I said I'd die for them, not you!"
A docking pilot for the Hunter-Gratzner and usually transports civilians and cargo with her crew for a charge, in a form of space transportation. She had an unmoral and unethical moment with dropping the passenger section to save herself, indicating she is not a trustful person.
- The Atoner: For her Dirty Coward actions as the ship was crashing.
- Character Development: She goes from merely having a strong survival instinct to risking her life for others.
- Dirty Coward: Pre-Character Development.
- Expy: Given that Pitch Black began as a
Divorced Installment to the Alien films, Fry appears to be a less moral version of Ellen Ripley. - Morality Pet: Riddick develops a soft spot for her, which gradually becomes devotion.
- Last-Name Basis: She's only called 'Carolyn' during particularly tense moments.
- Redemption Equals Death: She dies thanks to completely abandoning her preoccupation with survival and coming back for everyone in the group, Riddick included.
- Took a Level in Badass: She gradually starts taking more initiative and organising the group to survive.
- What You Are in the Dark: She's introduced failing this, choosing to drop the passenger section to save herself and only failing because Owens stopped her. The rest of the film is her dealing with the guilt from this and attempting to make up for it.
Passengers
Kyra
Kyra/Jack B. Badd
"Where the hell can I get eyes like that?"
Played By: Rhiana Griffith & Alexa Davalos
Voiced By: Rhiana Griffith
Appearances: Pitch Black | Dark Fury | The Chronicles of Riddick
A young girl who was travelling on a distant planet for unknown reasons, and she was posing as a boy named Jack to avoid any suspicion. Come Chronicles of Riddick she has grown up to become a far more vicious survivor in an attempt to become more like Riddick.
- Action Girl: Not at first. She starts the transition into an Action Survivor in Dark Fury, and completes it while in jail.
- Bifauxnen: She was rather adorable while presenting as male.
- Broken Bird: Jack's life after running away is one tragedy after another, which results in her acquirement of a thick set of Jade-Colored Glasses (as well as an early death).
- Broken Pedestal: She loses faith after being abandoned by Riddick.
- Crazy-Prepared: Has a knife in the heel of her boot for delivering painful mule-kicks, as well as a sharpened bit of metal she keeps in her mouth in case her arms and legs get pinned. Makes sense considering she's spent years in what is apparently a unisex prison.
- Expy: Given that Pitch Black began as a Divorced Installment to the Alien films, Jack appears to loosely be based on Newt from Aliens.
- Final Girl: In Pitch Black, at least. Things don't go so well in the sequel.
- Gaining the Will to Kill: She kills for the first time defending Riddick from Antonia. It's implied this is what prompts Riddick to abandon her as he didn't want her to turn out like him.
- Hartman Hips: The cartoon uses this to mark her as female, having her otherwise completely devoid of anatomical or cultural gender markers.
- Hero-Worshipper: She almost immediately imprints on Riddick when she meets him as a child. It's implied at the end of Dark Fury that Riddick abandoned her to keep her from becoming like him.
- I Just Want to Be Badass: Arguably her fatal flaw.
- Ink-Suit Actor: Jack's design
◊ for the cartoon looks distinctly more like Rhiana Griffith than Alexa Davalos, in spite of having been made to bridge the gap. - Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Just as she overcomes her mental conditioning.
- Morality Pet: One for Riddick, who surprisingly feels remorse over abandoning her.
- The Runaway: Although Jack never fully reveals her reasons, her wish to imitate Riddick indicates she likely thirsted for adventure.
- She Is All Grown Up: Kyra is far more conventionally feminine than teenage Jack.
- Sweet Polly Oliver: She presents as male for her safety when she runs away from home, but she doesn't bother while in a predominantly male prison.
- Sudden Name Change: Is called "Jack" in Pitch Black but suddenly uses the feminine name "Kyra" in The Chronicles of Riddick and is only ever referred to as such after the initial clarification.
- Tagalong Kid: She doesn't have many useful skills in Pitch Black, and has little to do before her reveal.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Jack always had an edge, but she was mostly innocent and hopeful in Pitch Black. Spending years in a prison in intensely harsh conditions removed that element of her personality.
Imam
Abu "Imam" al-Walid
Played By: Keith David
Voiced By: Keith David
Appearances: Pitch Black | Dark Fury | The Chronicles of Riddick
- "There is my God, Mr Riddick."
A Muslim preacher who was travelling to New Mecca for the annual preaching, and was stranded with others when the ship crashed. He is travelling with three young boys.
- Badass Preacher: Confronted Riddick on his own more than once when he had no guarantee that Riddick wouldn't just kill him.
- Everyone Calls Him Imam: Or the equivalent in English, "Holy Man", favoured by Riddick.
- Face Death with Dignity: Stands up to and verbally defies a Necromonger officer to buy time for his family to get away.
- Godzilla Threshold: Recognises that Riddick showed him unconventional trust by telling him where he intended to hide, but the imminent threat of the Necromongers forced him to share Riddick's location anyway, as the tale Riddick had told him about his 'birth' matched what Imam was told about the fate of Furyan infants.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Deliberately drew the Necromongers away from his family.
- Morality Pet: One of Riddick’s; Riddick explicitly chooses to kill a Necromonger because the warrior in question had killed Imam.
- Papa Wolf: He draws the Necromongers away from his family.
- Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Dies in the first half-hour of Chronicles after his actions drew Riddick back to civilisation to help confront the Necromongers.
Ogilvie
Paris P Ogilvie
Played By: Lewis Fitzgerald
Appearances: Pitch Black
- "Amazing how you can do without the essentials of life, so long as you have the little luxuries."
An intergalactic arts dealer selling weaponry and arts from Earth and other planets. He also provided the others with alcohol.
- The Alcoholic: Rarely seen without his precious wine.
- Deadpan Snarker: Makes various comments such as complaining about his inability to enjoy a "cocktail hour" on a planet with three suns and no apparent night.
- Face Death with Dignity: Mortally wounded and surrounded in the dark, he only laments his fate briefly before taking one last drink.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: His blind panic screws over the entire group.
Shazza
Sharon ‘Shazza’ Montgomery
Played By: Claudia Black
Appearances: Pitch Black
A free settler who was travelling across the universe looking for a place to settle.
- Blood-Splattered Innocents: Thanks to Zeke's hasty actions.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: She's ripped in two by the baby creatures.
- Mr. Fixit: She is the best tool user of the group, cutting through wreckage and repairing broken machinery.
- Nice Girl: She is one of the first people to thank Fry for (supposedly) saving the lives of the passengers, apologizes to Riddick for hitting him after he is exonerated of responsibility for killing Zeke (at least in the extended cut).
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: She unleashes one on Riddick when she thinks he killed Zeke.
- Non-Idle Rich: All There in the Manual sources say she is the daughter of a trillionaire, but gave her share of his fortune to environmental causes and enjoys being a prospector.
Zeke
John ‘Zeke’ Ezekiel
Played By: John Moore
Appearances: Pitch Black
A free settler along with Shazza and looking for a home.
- Trigger-Happy: Zeke ends up killing another surviving passenger because he was too quick on the draw, thinking the man was Riddick without even seeing his face.
Mercenaries
Johns
William J Johns
Played By: Cole Hauser
Voiced By: Cole Hauser
Appearances: Escape from Butcher Bay | Assault on Dark Athenanote | Pitch Black
- "Verdict’s in: the light moves forward!"
A morphine-addicted bounty hunter and war veteran who is transporting Riddick to high-security prison to collect a large bounty on him. When the ship crashed, he presented himself as an intergalactic police officer and spread the story about Riddick being a serial killer so he could capture him for himself. He is also very immoral person, killing many people and other bounty hunters to capture him.
- Asshole Victim: When he gets killed by one of the aliens in Pitch Black, it's hard to feel sorry for him, considering what a Slime Ball he is revealed to be.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: At first, he appears to be a clean-cut lawman and typical hero. In reality, he's a scheming weasel with no serious concern for anyone in the planet but himself.
- Bounty Hunter: One of the most amoral you will ever meet. It doesn't matter if the people who hired him are ruthless multi-corporations and the people he hunts mere deserters or defectors, he WILL collect the bounty on their heads and appear as lawful no matter what. So no different from a hired killer.
- Deadpan Snarker: Always cynical and once quips about the nice breeze and the wide-open space in the deadly planet.
- Dirty Coward: Johns is a coward willing to sink to any level to survive. He takes drugs to keep himself steady and only threatens those who are either incapacitated or weaker than him.Riddick: Johns was like most mercs. They look all stand up and do right, until you cut them open and you find something missing. In his case, a spine.
- The Dog Bites Back: After bringing Riddick to Butcher Bay in Escape from Butcher Bay, he spends most of the game alternating between foiling Riddick's escape attempts and haggling with the warden over his bounty and getting no respect (and even less respect as Riddick continues to tear up the place.) Eventually Johns gets tired of haggling, and the next time he foils Riddick's escape attempt he tries to haul him off the planet to take him to another prison.
- Even Evil Can Be Loved: "Riddick" reveals he has a father, who spends most of the movie going after Riddick to avenge his son.
- Evil All Along: Later on in Pitch Black, he's revealed to be the opposite of this good, law-abiding citizen he presents himself as.
- Eye Scream: He takes his drugs through the eyes with a needle.
- Functional Addict: He's addicted to morphine, but it doesn't stop him from being a dangerous bounty hunter who can keep up with Riddick.
- Hated by All: Escape from Butcher Bay shows that even for a merc, Johns is very much hated and distrusted by both cons and the law on account of his selfishness and greed.
- Hate Sink: Johns is a despicable, slimy scumbag who will use any dirty means to get what he wants, including killing children.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: When Jack asks where Johns is, Riddick only replies, "Which half?"
- Hoist by His Own Petard: A minor example. When Riddick betrays him, he continues to fight the creatures off with his shotgun, but in his panic he ends up loading at least one of the fake shells filled with his drugs, allowing one creature to rush him unimpeded.
- It's All About Me: Monetary gain and (when at risk) survival is his sole concern, anything and anyone else be damned.
- Jerkass Has a Point:
- Carolyn is outraged to find out that Johns is a morphine addict when her co-pilot died in pain without relief. Johns states that the entire reason he's an addict in the first place is because of a piece of a shiv Riddick left right next to his spine that causes him nearly constant pain. He can still feel it rubbing against his spine and shows the wound to Carolyn.
Johns: "You feel that? That's my first run-in with Riddick. He went for the sweet spot and missed. They had to leave a piece of the shiv in there, Carolyn, and I can feel it pressing against the cord. So maybe the care and feeding of my nerve endings is my business."- Johns also repeatedly stresses to Carolyn that Riddick is someone to be genuinely wary of. Johns is a junkie coward and a prick who still operates within the bounds of the law, while Riddick is a dangerous killer who would sacrifice all of them in an instant if he could. Johns's point is proven when Riddick leaves Carolyn, Jack and Imam behind to die when they have outlived their usefulness.
- Last-Name Basis: With everyone, particularly Riddick.
- Light Is Not Good: As mentioned above, he appears to be a clean-cut cop and typical hero, but is really anything but.
- Only in It for the Money: The only thing his brain recognises is numbers. His choosing ability is determined by the amount of money he will get.
- Put on a Bus: Johns spends the entirety of Assault on Dark Athena unconscious, due to Hauser not returning to voice the character.
- The Sociopath: MUCH more than Riddick, Johns is a classic example. He has no sense of pity, shame or regret and can only fake them, in order to be socially accepted. He displays a complete disregard for the well-being of others and only cares about himself.
- Southern-Fried Genius: Despite his cowardice and cruelty, Johns is no idiot.
- Space Police: He poses as this, when in reality he's a mercenary.
- The Unfettered: Nothing is off the table when it comes to getting what he wants.
- What You Are in the Dark: Johns is capable of keeping up a fairly benevolent (if no-nonsense) demeanor, but when the chips are down, he reveals his true nature as a ruthless monster concerned solely with his own benefit. This is demonstrated in a very literal fashion in Pitch Black, when Johns and Riddick walk ahead of the group to discuss the best way to get through a dangerous canyon. Johns exposes the depths of his depravity by suggesting they murder Jack, a young girl, and drag her corpse as a distraction for the creatures. Riddick is quietly horrified by such a suggestion.
- Would Hurt a Child: Prior to Pitch Black, he used Riddick's soft spot for kids against him by shooting one and threatening to shoot more unless Riddick gave up.
Toombs
Alexander Toombs
Played By: Nick Chinlund
Voiced By: Nick Chinlund
Appearances: Dark Fury | Hunt for Riddick | The Chronicles of Riddick
- "Y'know, you supposed to be some slick-shit killer. Now look at you... all back-of-the-bus and shit."
A mercenary who wanted to catch Riddick after a short encounter with him on the mercenary ship in Dark Fury. Nothing is really known about his past. His personality is humorous, yet obsessive and cold-hearted.
- Ambiguous Situation: He's last seen alive but in a cage with two hellhounds trying to get into his cage (and seemingly succeeding). Deleted scenes and the novelization have him make it out of the cage to harass Riddick one last time, at which point he's mauled by the same hound Riddick befriended. Sadly, Toombs managed to take the hound with him.
- Bad Boss: Most of his men end up dead and he cares little.
- Butt-Monkey: As the Wile E. Coyote to Riddick's Roadrunner, he never quite gets ahead and usually winds up humiliated but alive.
- Laughably Evil: He's bizarrely fun to watch, like an incredibly sadistic stooge.
Eve
Eve Logan
Played By: Christina Cox
Appearances: The Chronicles of Riddick
- "Let's go, big boy."
A mercenary hired by Toombs to help him hunt down and capture Richard B. Riddick.
- Dark Action Girl: She is a Bounty Hunter with a pretty shady crew and is an effective gunfighter with two guns at once during the shootout where the mercenaries and prison guards fall out.
- Distracted by the Sexy: While she carries herself as the most professional member of Toombs' crew, she can't help but take notice of Riddick's well-developed physique while they're all packed up for a long flight, and nearly endangers herself and the rest of the crew by trying for a closer look.
- Ms. Fanservice: She wears a tank top and the extended cut lingers on her back and stomach a few times as she invades Riddick’s space, and even the theatrical cut has a random closeup of her chest as she grabs for a gun during a firefight.
Santana's Crew
Santana
Santana
Played By: Jordi MollÃ
Appearances: Riddick
An arrogant captain of a eight-man mercenary crew.
- 0% Approval Rating: There's not a single character who even remotely likes Santana. Even his own team members don't mourn over his death.
- Badass Boast: Within minutes of landing, he yells a declaration for Riddick to hear that he will personally chop Riddick's head off and take it back in a box. This comes back to bite him.
- Big Bad Wannabe: He has aspirations to being the main human antagonist of Riddick, but he's far too incompetent to pose a genuine threat.
- Bounty Hunter: His profession.
- Butt-Monkey: If something bad happens, it happens to Santana. He's frequently injured, beaten, insulted, humiliated, disrespected by both other mercenaries and his own company and mauled. And he deserves every single moment of it.
- Dirty Coward: He's a violent sadist, but only toward those who he feels he can push around.
- Flat Character: He feels more like a Straw Character or a caricature of a Hate Sink than a proper villain.
- Hate Sink: Santana distinguishes himself in a franchise filled with murderers, genocidal conquerors and flat-out monsters by being the most loathsome, vile and repulsive piece of shit encountered, rivaled only by Jaylor.
- Jerkass: Callous, sadistic, perverted, sexist, condescending, smug, lacking in empathy, Santana is pretty much an embodiment of this.
- Karmic Death: Gets decapitated by Riddick with his own machete, and his head winds up in the special box he brought.
- Kick the Dog: As mentioned below, he kept a young girl in chains for his own amusement. When they arrive planetside, he releases her into the wilderness, and then shoots her in the back, all because he was starting to like her.
- Off with His Head!: Riddick chops off his head with his own machete, while still bound.
- Machete Mayhem: He wields a machete, which he plans to use on Riddick.
- Rape as Comedy: He attempts to take advantage of Dahl when they're alone. Dahl beating the crap out of him is played for laughs.
- Serial Rapist: Santana was keeping some poor girl chained up in his ship for the purpose of raping whenever he pleased, and doesn't waste time trying to rape Dahl.
- Slime Ball: To say that Santana is unscrupulous to the core is an understatement.
- Smug Snake: Santana talks a big game, but that's all he can do. When face-to-face with Riddick, he's a trembling coward.
- The Sociopath: Though unlike other examples, Santana lacks the charm or intelligence of a typical sociopath.
- Too Dumb to Live: He's obscenely arrogant and overconfident. His cruelty and incompetence catch up with him in a very satisfying way.
Diaz
Diaz
Played By: Dave Bautista
Appearances: Riddick
A merc, Captain Santana's best friend and second in command, tasked with hunting for Riddick.
- The Brute: Physically imposing (as should be expected of anyone Bautista plays) and primarily uses a light machine gun in combat.
- The Dragon: Santana's go-to enforcer and unofficial second in command.
- Dragon Their Feet: He ends up as a bigger threat than Santana, to say nothing of living longer.
- Genius Bruiser: He's massive, and much smarter than his boss Santana.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Diaz is able to shoot a baby Mud Demon off Vargas' leg with a machine gun, and not hit Vargas in the process. Probably just a lucky shot, since earlier on he missed Riddick's wolf because he was too lazy to use his scope.
- Jerkass: Not quite as much as Santana, but still counts due to also being a sadistic sociopath.
- Only in It for the Money: He's very concerned with the cash reward for Riddick.
- With Friends Like These...: Despite ostensibly being Santana's closest friend, even Diaz doesn't like him much. He also doesn't mourn Santana's death at all.
Vargas
Vargas
Played By: Conrad Pla
Appearances: Riddick
A mercenary working under Santana, when they answered the distress call from Mercenary Station P7.
- Beard of Evil: He's distinguished by his beard, although how evil he is is up for debate. He's complicit in Santana's actions, but doesn't show himself as a sadist.
- The Smart Guy: Of Santana's group, he's the most technologically inclined and with the possible exception of Diaz is one of the smarter mercenaries.
Luna
Luna
"That would be like an ambulance calling for an ambulance, isn't it?"
Played By: Nolan Gerard Funk
Appearances: Riddick
- "I believe this is a sign."
A mercenary who was part of Santana's team whom Santana considered his 'good luck charm'.
- Good Luck Charm: According to Santana, this is the only reason he's around.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Only one who wants to leave when they have the opportunity to.
- Sole Survivor: Of Santana's team.
- Tagalong Kid: The youngest of all the Mercs of both teams.
- Token Good Teammate: The only one of Santana's entire team who seems like a decent person, to the point where one must wonder why he is even part of Santana's team at all.
- Token Religious Teammate: Tellingly, his merc kit includes a bible.
Falco
Falco
Played By: Danny Blanco Hall
Appearances: Riddick
A mercenary working for Santana. He was one of the eight mercenaries who intercepted a distress beacon to find and kill Riddick.
- Tempting Fate: As Vargas points out, Falco pretty much puts a jinx on them by stating that killing Riddick should be an easy job. Falco is killed on the first night just as Vargas is chewing him out over this.
- Smug Snake: He confidently states that capturing Riddick is a four-man job at the most. Falco is one of three mercenaries Riddick kills on the first night of the hunt.
Nuñez
Nuñez
Played By: Noah Danby
Appearances: Riddick
A mercenary working for Santana.
- Flat Character: Gets absolutely no characterization before becoming the first of Riddick's victims.
- Red Shirt: Basically just exists to be the first man Riddick kills.
Rubio
Rubio
Played By: Neil Napier
Appearances: Riddick
A mercenary working for Santana.
- An Arm and a Leg: He's caught in one of Riddick's traps, which severs his legs at the knee. Fortunately, his misery comes to an end when another trap finishes him off.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: He steps on a giant bear trap that severs both his legs at the knee, and spends the next several moments writhing around on the ground in agony before blundering into another trap that decapitates him.
- Off with His Head!: After being caught in a trap, a second trap snaps his head off.
Boss Johns' Crew
Boss Johns
Colonel R. 'Boss' Johns
Played By: Matt Nable
Appearances: Riddick
A bounty hunter and the father of William J. Johns, and for the last 10 years has been searching for Riddick in hopes of unearthing answers about the death of his son on a planet in the M-344/G System. He arrives to the sun scorched planet where Riddick has activated a beacon to find him.
- Anti-Villain: He's not nearly the psychotic son-of-a-bitch his son was.
- Avenging the Villain: His sole motivation for answering Riddick's distress beacon. He doesn't want money, he wants satisfaction.
- Broken Pedestal: Eventually comes to an understanding with Riddick over the character of his late son and the fate it made for him.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He is this for his late son, and the central conflict between Johns and Riddick is convincing him that his son was evil at all.
- It's Personal: While the other bounty hunters are after Riddick for the money, Boss Johns desires personal retribution for his son's death at Riddick's hands.
- Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: As stated, he's not interested in Riddick's substantial bounty, which is promised double if he is returned dead. He even ends up saving Riddick a few times.
- Shoot the Dog: In a critical moment, leaves an injured Riddick behind to fend for himself... but it turns out he was taking the power nodes and making a run for the ships so he could make a Gunship Rescue at the last minute.
Dahl
Dahl
Played By: Katee Sackhoff
Appearances: Riddick
A Nordic bounty hunter of German descent. She's second in command of Boss Johns Mercs and is the primary sniper of the group.
- Action Girl: Dahl is an experienced Bounty Hunter who is as deadly with her fists as she is with her weapons.
- Anti-Villain: Although she's an antagonist to Riddick, she's a loyal woman who's really just trying to hunt down a dangerous killer.
- Bounty Hunter: She's after Riddick for the bounty and working for Boss Johns.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Santana attempts to rape her; Dahl easily fights him off and Santana is left much worse for wear.
- Cold Sniper: Mans the sniper rifle when Johns and Santana go to discuss terms with Riddick, and isn't a terribly warm person in general.
- Enemy Mine: Along with the other mercenaries, she teams up with Riddick to survive the mud demons, leading to a Heel–Face Turn.
- Heel–Face Turn: Like her boss, she ends up working with Riddick and they ultimately part as friends.
- The Lad-ette: The only indicator of feminine behavior is a small makeup mirror in her toiletries, which Riddick steals at one point to spy on the mercs without blowing his cover. She also violently rebuffs Santana when he tries to force himself on her, and later admonishes him to "butch up" when the mercs think Riddick's tampered with the locker the power nodes are stored in.
- Ms. Fanservice: She has a rather form-fitting wardrobe that shows off Katee Sackhoff's breasts, and she has a topless scene when washing herself in a sink.
Moss
Moss
Played By: Bokeem Woodbine
Appearances: Riddick
A mercenary working for Boss Johns. Moss was the tech guy of the group.
- Bounty Hunter: His profession.
- Everyone Has Standards: Moss is hardly a bad guy anyway, just a mercenary. But he's disturbed when Boss Johns beats Riddick while he's in chains.
- The Smart Guy: Of Boss Johns' team.
- Those Two Guys: With his pal, Lockspur.
- Troll: When Santana is tensely unlocking a locker that has been possibly rigged to explode, Moss hits the table at the last minute just to break the tension and screw with him.
Lockspur
Lockspur
"This doesn't mean qualify as bad?"
Played By: Raoul Trujillo
Appearances: Riddick
A mercenary working for Boss Johns.
- Bounty Hunter: His profession.
- Tempting Fate: As he talks about how easy the mud demons are to kill, one bursts in and impales him through the chest.
- Those Two Guys: With his pal, Moss.
Antonia's Crew
Antonia
Antonia Chillingsworth
Voiced By: Tress MacNeille
Appearances: Dark Fury
A wealthy aristocrat who hires mercenaries to collect mass murderers, whom she turns into Human Popsicle statues to admire. All in the name of art.
- A Glass of Chianti: Drinks champagne as she watches Riddick kill aliens in a gladiatorial battle.
- All There in the Script: She's never referred to by name in the movie. Her last name is listed in the credits, but to get her full name, you need to watch Dark Fury's bonus features.
- Animal Motifs: She has a decidedly serpentine appearance: a lengthy body, an elongated neck, and long fingers. Her hair style emulates a cobra hood when seen from the front.
- Eating the Eye Candy: She's rather attracted to Riddick's physique and murderous reputation.
- Evil Gloating: Rather than just turn Riddick into a statue from the get go, she wants to watch him kill aliens for entertainment. All this after explaining she has no intention of letting him go.
- Evil Versus Evil: If what she claims is true, she only goes after murderous killers and for the most part leaves ordinary people alone. It's also pointed out that everyone who works for her does so willingly and are paid handsomely. However what she does to the criminals is clearly a Fate Worse than Death and those who associate with the murderer receive inhumane treatment despite being innocent third parties. It also seems that very few of those who work for her actually live long enough to collect their pay.
- Faux Affably Evil: while Chillingsworth is very polite and charismatic towards Riddick and co, she is far from a nice person.
- Femme Fatale: She wears a stylish yet seductive dress and makes a few subtle passes at Riddick.
- Light Is Not Good: White is the primary color of her outfit and starship.
- Living Doll Collector: She turns murderers into Human Popsicle statues she can admire.
- Villainous Breakdown: She suffers one after Riddick kills Junner.
- Villainous Friendship: There appears to be a relation between her and Junner. The two share conversations and she has an emotional breakdown after he dies. The two also wear matching outfits (even the green on his clothes correlates to her eyes).
- Wicked Cultured: Though twisted she has a philosophical mindset.
- Woman Of Wealth And Taste: She dresses in fine attire and her sleek starship is filled with expensive decor.
- You Have Failed Me: Averted with Junner. She points out his excuses are worthless, but understands his line of work doesn't always get perfect results.
Junner
Junner
Voiced By: Roger L. Jackson
Appearances: Dark Fury
Antonia's bodyguard and security chief.
- Bounty Hunter: Mentions being one.
- The Coats Are Off: Discards his Badass Longcoat before he engages Riddick in their final duel.
- Combat Pragmatist: Decides to neutralize Riddick by taking Jack hostage on their first encounter. Later averted when Riddick challenges him to a duel and let Jack go to fight mano a mano, though he's ironically done in by Riddick playing dirty and tricking him into causing a blackout in the room they're in.
- The Dragon: Does all of Antonia's dirty work.
- Eye Scream: Riddick kills him with a dagger through the eye.
- Fair-Play Villain: Rather than shoot Riddick with a gun, he accepts his challenge to duel with blades.
- Light Is Not Good: He's Antonia's right-hand man and like his boss wears primarily white, making him stand out among the other mercs staffing Antonia's ship.
- Go Through Me: He subtlety places himself between Riddick and Antonia on several occasions.
- Master Swordsman: He's as good with a blade as Riddick.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: Doesn't question anything Antonia does or says, but otherwise acts like an honorable warrior.
- Sinister Shades: Wears them at all times.
- Undying Loyalty: Be it their relationship or the money she pays him, he never questions Antonia.
- Villainous Friendship: There appears to be a relation between him and Antonia. He shares her interest in art and only leaves her side when the situation is safe. The two also wear matching outfits (even the green on his clothes correlates to her eyes).
- Warrior Poet: Apparently he's into art like Antonia, though their tastes differ somewhat.
- Would Hurt a Child: Has no problem threatening or injuring Jack, though doesn't take pleasure from doing so.
Necromongers
In General
A space-faring empire first established by an scholar known as Covu the Transcended that managed to cross the Threshold and came to the conclusion that death was the natural state of all things and life was an anathema. They move from planet to planet, converting their population into their ranks or killing those that resist just before destroying their worlds completely.
- Badass Army: The military of the Necromonger Empire is among the strongest forces in the universe.
- The Empire: Take The Theocracy + Religion of Evil and spread their faith at sword point and you get this trope.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: Their omnicidal goals are implied to be a result of them catching a glimpse of the true afterlife.
- Omnicidal Maniac: They believe that life is against nature itself and that they must extinguish it in order.
- Made of Iron: Their indoctrination has made them incredibly resistant to pain.
- Religion of Evil: Necroism preaches that life is against nature itself.
- The Necrocracy: All Necromongers are heavily implied to be undead since the conversion process they undertake deprives them of natural color and they do not propagate naturally, since that would create more life. The Lord Marshall who rules over them is most certainly undead, since he is referred to as an Holy Half-Dead by his followers.
- You Kill It, You Bought It: "You keep what you kill" is one of the Necromongers' tenets, believing that ending another's life entitles you to their property and position.
Lord Marshal Zhylaw
Lord Marshal Zhylaw
"Convert now... or fall forever."
Played By: Colm Feore
Appearances: The Chronicles of Riddick
- "All those poets, on all those worlds; the ones who spoke of battle being such an unsightly thing? They never stood here."
The leader of the Necromongers. Before Riddick's birth, Zhylaw consulted an Elemental seer, who told him that a Furyan male would be born that would kill him in the future. In retaliation, Zhylaw attacked Furya in an attempt to massacre all male children, going so far as to personally strangle newborn infants with their own umbilical cords. One of the newborn baby boys he did this to happened to be named Richard B. Riddick. Zhylaw left him in a dumpster, not quite dead, which comes back to bite him in the ass later. At some point, he traveled to the Underverse and afterwards returned not completely human.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: Being in charge of an empire that claims "You keep what you kill", he understands that taking on any challengers is important to keeping his position. So when Riddick attacks him in the throne room, he tells his underlings "Put away your weapons. He came for me." It takes an attack from Kyra, and a two-pronged attack from Riddick and Vanko to put Zhylaw in a tough position.
- All There in the Manual: His name and full history is included on DVD extras.
- And Show It to You: He can do this with a person's soul.
- And Your Little Dog, Too!: He converted Kyra just so that he can break Riddick. It backfired horribly.
- Big Bad: He's the main antagonist of The Chronicles of Riddick.
- Blood Knight: He doesn't shy away from a fight, gets excited to meet an enemy who can wound him and praises battle as a glorious thing.
- Came Back Wrong: From the Underverse, supposedly.
- Bond Villain Stupidity: He used his Flash Step ability to escape Vaako's halberd, but he just had to lunge for that one weapon lying on the floor, where Riddick waited for him to materialize so he can deliver a killing blow. It was especially egregious since he was shown lunging on top of a tall statue far away from the floor to get that very weapon, and he could have just grabbed another one as there were multiple such weapons in the room, in positions neither Vaako nor Riddick could have reached.
- Character Death: He is killed by Riddick at the end of the movie, for added irony with a knife that Zhylaw handed to him.
- Dark Messiah: There have been Lord Marshals before Zhylaw and they've all been considered holy to some degree, but Zhylaw is considered 'the last' who will lead their religion to their version of paradise.
- Dirty Old Man: Has a harem of well-endowed concubines.
- Evil Is Hammy: Colm Feore is having the time of his life.
- Evil Overlord: Of the Necromonger Empire.
- Flash Step: He can project himself around, using that as Super-Speed to deliver surprise attacks and overwhelm his enemies by raining blows on them faster than they can parry or avoid.
- The Fundamentalist: But not for any normal religion... For a death-worshiping cult no less.
- Galactic Conqueror: He goes from planet to planet, conquering the citizens and forcefully converting them.
- Genocide Backfire: Subverted, while Zhylaw did exterminate his people, Riddick feels ambivalent towards them and rather wants the Lord Marshall dead for personal issues.
- Kneel Before Zod: His preferred recruitment method is to invade a world and cow its people into obedience.Zhylaw: Join him... or join me!
- Lightning Bruiser: Thanks to his supernatural powers, he's not only insanely strong but able to move at superhuman speeds by "soul teleporting" around. In their ultimate fight, Riddick does manage to land a few good hits on him, but ultimately even Riddick is outmatched and it takes Kyra stabbing him in the back while he's distracted to weaken him enough for Riddick to kill him.
- Logical Weakness: His 'soul teleporting' is not true Super-Speed but a form of astral projection where he projects his soul to one location and his body follows it. Thus he can't teleport until his body has arrived at it and can be hit if you can predict where he'll be. Riddick manages to land a few hits this way. He ultimately meets his end when he teleports out of the way of Vaako's attack, only for Riddick to be waiting and stab him the moment his body arrives.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Herod: He thought he had guaranteed his survival by killing every single last Furyan, but he didn't count there would have been one survivor: Riddick.
- Religious Bruiser: He's a bloodthirsty, warlike leader of a cult.
- Super-Speed: He's able to dash around using his astral projection.
- Super-Strength: Even without help from his Super-Speed, he is able to punch people across the room and break metal with his blows.
- Tin Tyrant: He's always clad in heavy body armour.
- Villain Respect: He expresses that for Riddick who has just killed one of his best soldiers in a few quick blows.Zhylaw: (trying to wrest a knife from Riddick's grip) Are you familiar to me? Have we met on some distant field?Riddick: (wins the arm-wrestle) You'd think I'd remember.Zhylaw: (approvingly) You'd think I would too.
- Wicked Cultured: He's a ruthless Galactic Conqueror who waxes poetic about "artful" ways of destroying a star system.
- Would Hurt a Child: Oh, hell yes. He strangled infants with their own umbilical chords.
- Your Soul Is Mine!: One of his more potent abilities is to rip a person's soul directly out of them.
Vaako
Lord Siberius Vaako
"Obedience without question. Loyalty until Underverse come."
Played By: Karl Urban
Appearances: The Chronicles of Riddick | Riddick
A Necromonger Commander, serving as Zhylaw's right hand man. Though sent to kill Riddick, confused of his leader's sudden fear, Vaako uses it as an excuse to get close enough to assassinate Zhylaw to become Lord Marshall.
- Combat Pragmatist: He comes the closest to killing Riddick in the movie, even more than the Big Bad by simply staying far out of Riddick's sight and then shooting him when the opportunity presents itself. If not for the interference of Kyra, Gus, The Purifier (and Riddick's Emergency Superpower in the director's cut)
- The Dragon: To the Lord Marshal.
- Dragon with an Agenda: Thanks to the influence of his wife.
- Honor Before Reason: Plots to assault Zhylaw when he shows weakness, even if he's no match for the Lord Marshal.
- Knight Templar: If he comes to see his leader as not befitting the Necromonger ideals, he'll turn on him. Although if the leader is willing to listen, he'll first ask nicely.
- Noble Demon: Vaako is vicious, but would recognize a fellow warrior as worthy. He would also be loyal to his liege as long as he's fit to lead. He also intended to honor his deal with Riddick and leave him alone in return for the crown.
- Older Than They Look: Looks Riddick's age or even younger, but he was ten years old during the Furya massacre when Riddick was a baby.
- Religious Bruiser: He's a true believer in the Necromonger religion, and the only reason Dame Vaako is able to convince him to become The Starscream is by pointing out that the Lord Marshal endangers the entire empire and is not as devout as he ought to be.
- The Starscream: But only after his wife convinces him that the Lord Marshal has broken the conventions of the Necromonger religion.
- Super-Reflexes: Dodges an energy blast fired at him by Riddick.
Dame Vaako
Dame Vaako
Played By: Thandiwe Newton *
Appearances: The Chronicles of Riddick
- "Never fails to inspire, does it? Each time a dynasty falls."
Wife of the Necromonger Empire commander Lord Vaako. Dame Vaako is consumed by, even defined by, overweening ambition. She is not a comfortable wife, constantly pushing Vaako to higher office, even hinting at murder to advance his career.
- Ambition Is Evil: Dame Vaako is deeply ambitious, yearning for her and her husband to ascend the ranks of the Necromonger Empire. She's willing to risk everything she has for more.
- Big "NO!": When Riddick kills the Lord Marshal, robbing Vaako of his chance.
- Faux Affably Evil: Pretends to give Riddick a tour inside Necropolis, only to lure him into a trap.
- Ms. Fanservice: Due to her form-fitting outfits.
- Lady Macbeth: To her husband Vaako; she constantly whispers in his ear about overthrowing the Lord Marshal.
- Unholy Matrimony: She and Vaako are undoubtedly evil, but are in love.
- The Vamp: Uses her charms to lure Riddick into the Necromonger stronghold for interrogation.Dame Vaako: Perhaps the breeder would do it if somebody just asked him.
The Purifier
The Purifier
Played By: Linus Roache
Appearances: The Chronicles of Riddick
- "We all began as something else."
- Death Equals Redemption: His final speech to Riddick, combined with calmly walking into the deadly sunlight, convinces Riddick to go after the Lord Marshal. He is smiling as he dies."The Necromonger in me warns you not to go back... but the Furyan in me... hopes you won't listen."
- Driven to Suicide: The guilt and inner turmoil of giving up all he is to serve the Necromongers gets to him, and he walks out into the Crematoria weather to burn alive.
- High Priest: Seems to hold this position among the Necromongers. All other warriors save the Lord Marshal himself are subservient to him, or are at the very least unable to give him direct orders.
- Passive Rescue: When Riddick is pinned to the ground by the Quasi-Deads and the Lord Marshal orders his execution, the Purifier pulls the plug on the Quasi-Deads to give Riddick a fighting chance, possibly because he learns of their common heritage. He later gives him a chance to go save Kyra on Helion Prime.
- There Is Another: The revelation that Riddick is a Furyan seems to shake him enough to abandon his faith, of which he was initially a staunch supporter.
Irgun
Irgun
Played By: Mark Gibbon
Appearances: The Chronicles of Riddick
- The Brute: For the Lord Marshal.
- Character Death: Riddick kills him in one-on-one combat.
- Informed Ability: The Lord Marshal identifies Irgun as one of his best, but Riddick quickly puts him down.
- It's Personal: Riddick makes a point of singling out Irgun when he's brought before other Necromongers as Irgun killed Imam, one of the few people Riddick may have seen as a friend.
- The Quiet One: He never says a word aside from the usual grunts.
- The Worf Effect: Despite his reputation, Riddick kills him with minimal effort.Lord Marshal: Irgun. One of my best.Riddick: If you say so.
Krone
Krone
Played By: Andreas Apergis
Appearances: Riddick
A commander in Necromonger Empire.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: The evil kind. Half of his face is covered in a web of scratches. Lampshaded by Riddick:Riddick: That guy with the fucked-up face, Krone.
- Guns Akimbo: He shoots the rock on which Riddick is standing with two gravity pistols.
- I Did What I Had to Do: How he justifies his betrayal.
- K Names: Krone.
- The Starscream: It turns out that he, not Vaako, betrayed Riddick.
- Would Hit a Girl: In the director's cut it's shown that he scarred the face of one of the consorts the same way as his.
The Consorts
The Lord Marshall's Consorts
Played By: Alexandra Sokolovskaya, Antoinette Kalaj, Jan Gerste, Charlie Marie Dupont
Appearances: Riddick
An harem of Necromonger concubines belonging to the current Lord Marshal.
- Assassin Outclassin': In the third movie's director cut, one of them actually tries to stab Riddick in the back while he is distracted. However, she misses his heart by stabbing too low, which he chides her for.
- Come Back to Bed, Honey: They beckon Riddick to do this and enjoy their company, but since he knows what they are really for, he refuses.
- Fanservice Extra: They have no names, but they are very pretty to look at and appear naked in the third movie.
- Lady in Red: The one consort that tries to assassinate Riddick after trying to seduce him in the third movie wears an red nightgown, highlighting her danger.
- Royal Harem: For the Lord Marshall, originally belonging to Zhylaw they end up being inherited by Riddick.
Other Characters
Butcher Bay Correctional Facility
Hoxie
Hoxie
Voiced By: Dwight Schultz
Appearances: Escape from Butcher Bay
The warden of Butcher Bay.
- Noodle Incident: He has history with Johns, with acquiring Riddick apparently making up for what he owed Hoxie. Riddick's comments imply that whatever happened made Johns hesitant about approaching Hoxie.
Pope Joe
Pope Joe
Voiced By: Willis Burks II
Appearances: Escape from Butcher Bay
A convict and preacher who helps a slightly injured Riddick.
- Badass Preacher: Implied given that he is able to survive in the Pitt despite the creatures living there.
Others
Aereon
Aereon
Played By: Judi Dench
Appearances: 'The Chronicles of Riddick''
- "In normal times, evil would be fought with good. But in times like these, well, it should be fought by another kind of evil."
A member of a race known as Elementals, whose religion is based around the Balance of the universe. They actively seek to keep this balance, and their ability to use numbers and equations to calculate odds is so accurate that to others it closely resembles foretelling and prophecy.
- Cool Old Lady: Being played by Judi Dench does that.
- Miss Exposition: Aereon mainly hangs around to spill exposition about plot developments.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: Of the Made of Air variety.
- Not Quite Flight: She can't fly, but she can glide quite well.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her prophecy of Zhylaw being killed by a Furian results in him commiting genocide on the race.
Shirah
Shirah
Played By: Kristen Lehmen
Appearances: The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) | Escape from Butcher Bay
A mysterious woman who appears to Riddick in visions.
- Ambiguous Situation: She's a Furyan, but it's unclear what she is exactly. The evidence would suggest that she's some sort of spirit guiding Riddick.
- Deleted Role: Only appears in the directors cut of Chronicles.
Crematoria Slam Facility
Prison guards
Appearances: The Chronicles of Riddick
- "You know the rule. They're not dead if they're still on the books."- Smirnov
The staff of the Crematoria triple maximum security prison, an underground facility on a planet with drastic temperature differences during its day cycle.
- Affably Evil: Vasilev runs a Hellhole Prison with many blatant human rights abuses, but he is friendly and trusting toward his Properly Paranoid subordinate Anatoli, leaves most of the hands-on cruelty to his subordinates, and invites the Bounty Hunters to drink with him while talking about how the longer they stay in crematoria, the less likely they are to run into necromongers elsewhere.
- Bald of Evil: Smirnov and the unnamed dark-skinned guard are both bald, watch Kyra get groped, and show plenty of anticipation at watching hellhounds attack the prisoners.
- Black Dude Dies First: The only dark-skinned guard is the first to die when Riddick kills him in defense of Kyra.
- Commander Contrarian: Smirnov when the boss orders him to climb up a hatch and scout for Riddick.Smirnov: Because Anatoli says so?Vasilev: Because his nose says so.
- Husky Russkie: They are formidable, often burly gunmen and most of them have Russian-sounding names: Vasilev, Petrov, Yakovlev, Kuznetsov and so on.
- Never Bareheaded: Vasilev always has a cap on, which helps symbolize his role as the head guard.
- The Nose Knows: Anatoli Petrov has a Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane knack for sniffing out trouble. At first he just warns his boss against taking Riddick into the prison. Later he sniffs the air while he and the others are running to the hangar through an underground passageway, because he sensed Riddick and co. doing the same over the surface.
- Pragmatic Villainy: As much as they enjoy getting their hands on high-bounty prisoners, they are shocked and angry to learn that Toombs took Riddick from the necromongers and would dare risk their wrath.
- Pervy Patdown: Grigorev tries this on Kyra when he, Smirnov, Anatoly, and the dark-skinned guard corner her. He gets a heel-blade in his crotch.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: They make a run for an escape ship once the necromongers show up, with Riddick, Kyra, and some other prisoners trying to race them to the vessel.
- Villains Out Shopping: Grigorev (the man who gropes Kyra) and the burly Kyznetsov (who hits hellhounds with a hammer to herd them out of their pen in a mood to attack prisoners) are seen using bullets to play chess in one scene.
- Wardens Are Evil: All of them are thugs who the prisoners hate and fear.
Ceryll "the Guv" Cantaglia
Played By: Yorick van Wageningen
- "There are inmates and there are convicts."
A criminal. He had a wife named Ellen. He ran the hard end of the Benz-Kardak coda on Sigma Minor successfully for an unprecedented 17 cycles. Although arrested for 23 separate infractions, from extortion to murder, he continued to evade convicted. He was finally brought in the Crematoria Slam Facility for vehicular manslaughter.
- All There in the Manual: His full name and backstory can be found in supplementary materials.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: How he reached the top of the convict chain.
- Character Death: Vaako breaks his back during the escape from Crematoria, killing him instantly.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He's only known as 'The Guv'.
- Everyone Has Standards: He was a ruthless mob boss on the outside, but the Guv makes it clear that he doesn't care for prisoners who turn on eachother.
- Hoist Hero over Head: Vaako lifts the Guv over his head, and then brings him down on his knee, breaking his back.
- The Old Convict: Basically his entire character is based around his status as the oldest convict in Crematoria, and the one in charge.
