Further kills include a brethren of Rykengolls after she was enslaved and brutalized by them. This page was last edited on 3 March 2023, at 20:12. A beast. Though all Necromongers were versed in some form of the dark arts, the Lord Marshal was a cut above. [7], Slant Magazine gave the film 1.5 out of 4 and stated, "Eschewing the claustrophobic minimalism of its predecessor Pitch Black, The Chronicles of Riddick is an extravagant orgy of used sci-fi parts. [10] Mick LaSalle of San Francisco Chronicle gave the film 1 out of 4 and stated that it is "an inane film rendered sometimes laughable by an atmosphere of dead-serious reverence. Alexa starred as Kyra in The Chronicles of Riddick. Despite his criminal nature and background, he is sometimes shown to perform moral or even atypically heroic actions, usually against his own better judgment and survivalist nature. However, Riddick's most famous weapons are surely a pair of Ulak blades that he is seen using during his escape from Crematoria in The Chronicles of Riddick. Riddick left Jack more than once, but when it really mattered, he stayed until the end. I'd rather talk to you in a somewhat calmer setting. Born As they are leaving the planet, Jack asks what they should say if they run into bounty hunters or other law enforcers asking where to find Riddick. : Years active Alexa is, without a doubt, one of Hollywood's fastest rising young stars. He now brings his veteran pop culture XP to ScreenRant. He claims to have been "educated" in the penal system. Riddick: Then you gotta get sent to a slam, where they tell you youll never see daylight again. He hasn't seen her since they were separated when New Mecca fell to the Necromongers. And he wouldn't mind getting closer to that pretty slip of a woman who pilots the ship.Not quite a song fic thought a few lines might sound familiar. Despite his Human origin in Pitch Black, in subsequent sequels his race was changed to Furyan, a warrior race of adapted humans obliterated by a military campaign that left his home planet of Furya desolate and is one of the last of his kind. If not ', Come now, husband, Dame Vaako chides, we must observe the niceties. [quietly] Together, without memories of their connected past, they attempt to break out, and seek a way off world. , . Shortly after escaping the planet from Pitch Black, Riddick, Jack, and the Imam are picked up by a Mercenary spacecraft. She's more than ready to retire already and the best way to do that is get these assholes across their threshold as fast as humanly possible. 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The guards kill the bounty hunters except for Toombs, take the reward money, and prepare to leave before the Necromongers arrive. Nothing is known about the girl who would become Kyra prior to the age of 12. During the Pitch Black era, when she was much younger and less hardened, Jack would have 2 less APs on all Attributes and her only Skills were Acrobatics, Thief (Stealth), and Weaponry (Knives), all at 2 APs. Riddick's abilities at hand-to-hand combat is a mix of Krav Maga, Hapkido, Eskrima, and Ninjutsu; he uses his formidable fighting skills while confronting one of the night-creatures of Pitch Black with only a shiv he had made, killing it with relative ease, as well as defeating one of the Lord Marshal's best Necromonger warriors in a matter of seconds in Chronicles. After Riddick runs into Toombs again On New Mecca. This allows him to see clearly in the dark, but also makes him vulnerable to strong light; he wears tinted welding goggles for protection. Diaz was a massive oak of a man, and his size proved to be a match for Riddick's incredible physical prowess, allowing him to subdue his target for a short time. She begins bolstering her courage by emulating him. The Chronicles of Riddick is a 2004 American science fiction action film written and directed by David Twohy. How can he do both? One major characteristic of Riddick is his indomitable will. But not her. This was demonstrated when a chained Riddick still managed to cleave his head in two with his own machete in just five seconds. When it appears that Riddick is about to be killed, Kyra stabs the Lord Marshal in the back with a spear and he punches her into a column of spikes, mortally wounding her. For instance, the minor subplot in the Director's Cut of Riddick's visions, as well as his moments with Toombs's second in command, are both absent, but the ending from the Director's Cut is present. Aereon, an Air Elemental, identifies the army as the Necromongers, religious fanatics who seek to convert all human life and kill those who refuse. I was. Are you with me, Kyra? [3], Fry's conversation with Riddick compels Fry to seek evidence about the truth of Zeke's death. Riddick fights the Lord Marshal in front of his army, who keeps the upper hand with his supernatural powers. Derek started writing about video games at age 14 and went on to write for GamePro Magazine and several other prominent outlets. This prompted Zhylaw to attack Furya and attempt to massacre all male children, going so far as to personally strangle newborn infants with their own umbilical cords. [points to Irgun] Vaako: A piece you will have. Behind the scenes Richard B. Riddick first appeared in Pitch Black: Slam City, a Shockwave prequel comic on the official Pitch Black website, one month before the release of the movie. Using the communication system from a mercenary outpost, Riddick lures two ships to the planet, intending to commandeer one of them; but his plan is complicated when he finds that one of the arriving mercenaries is the father of his old enemy, Johns the bounty hunter. This discovery is clearly a source of worry for Riddick and Abu al-Walid as the three escape from the mercenary ship. Kyra Riddick's first appearance outside Pitch Black was a guest appearance and potential recruit in Fallout Tactics. She now has much longer brown hair had matured into a beautiful, athletic woman. Their pack just may be strong enough to weather the oncoming storms, if they trust each other. Keep moving! Left of the spine, fourth lumbar down; the abdominal aorta? While Fry tried to interrogate Riddick, Jack snuck in and asked him how he got his eyes. Or in this case, not so empty ones. He is also able to quickly judge the quality of, and find even seemingly minor flaws in most weaponry, down to very specific details. When the Hunter Gratzner crashes on the planet, M6-117, she and several survivors, led by Carolyn Fry, are confronted by certain death at the hands of the planet's inhabitants the Bioraptors. Riddick responds: "Tell 'em Riddick's dead. While we've done our best to make the core functionality of this site accessible without javascript, it will work better with it enabled. Riddick: You gotta kill a few people. Richard B. Riddick The odd surrogate father/child relationship budding between Riddick and Jack ended abruptly when Riddick left her with the Imam Abu al-Walid on New Mecca. Riddick is saved by the Purifier, who tells him that if he stays away from the Necromongers, the Lord Marshal promises not to hunt him. Jack was enthralled with Riddick, who was everything she wanted to be tough and dangerous, feared and respected. Let's play. Skills: The woman known as "Jack B. Badd"[1], and "Kyra"[2] was a runaway and convict. : When mercs come hunting for Riddick, Jack learns she's been contracted to marry Riddick without her knowledge or consent. She enjoyed playing "who's the better killer" with Riddick, and she backed it up with strong fighting skills, a high degree of agility, and cunning tactics, such as hiding a razor bleed in her cheek for up-close attacks. The site's critical consensus states, "As an action movie, Riddick offers some thrills, but as a sequel to Pitch Black, it's a disappointment". After a quintessentially bohemian childhood that found her straddling New York, Paris, Italy and Los Angeles (with a photographer father and actress mom), Alexa Davalos headed to Manhattan. Her long mane of wavy hair added to her feral demeanor. : The Emperor has returned.A new Lord Marshal emerges from the Threshold.Fallen Empires will rise again. : Kyra What a gusher. Still, the two reached the beginning of an unspoken reconciliation as they worked together to escape Crematoria. The Xbox game The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay was released simultaneously with the film and was well-received. Whether this is her real name or a nom de guerre is a mystery. See also Release Dates | Official Sites | Company Credits | Filming & Production | Technical Specs for its harsh ultraviolet light. What was that? In Riddick, he appeared pleasantly surprised to learn that Johns' father was a better man than his son, complimenting Johns' nerve when he came back to help Riddick when he didn't have to. In the Chronicles of Riddick film, Jack/Kyra angrily tells Riddick that when she was sent to prison, she found out that it is impossible to find anyone who can perform a "surgical shine job" at any price and accuses him of lying about how he received his night vision. The Lord Marshal backhanded Kyra into a set of decorative spikes along the walls of the chamber, fatally wounding her. Because of her IMO Riddick's life changed after the events of pitch black and dark fury. According to Riddick, while in Butcher Bay he received eye surgery (a "surgical shine job", as he calls it) from a doctor who gave him permanent night vision in exchange for "20 menthol KOOLs". Riddick managed to escape the prison with Kyra and even began to rebuild their relationship, but this was interrupted when the Necromongersintercepted them. The one time his will seemed to waver was when Kyra was killed, sacrificing herself to save him and help him defeat the Lord Marshal, and even then, he channeled his loss into new strength. He commanded the fearsome Necromongers in their galactic-wide campaign towards transcendence, and laid waste to countless worlds in the process. "[14] Ty Burr of Boston Globe gave the film 2 out of 4 and called it "a hodgepodge of Lord of the Rings, Starship Troopers, and the more recent Star Wars films. The Lord Marshal sends Commander Vaako to hunt Riddick down. It didn't work, but he did inflict some of the worst damage on Riddick of any character in the franchise. The Chronicles of Riddick is a 2004 American science fiction / fantasy / thriller film in which wanted criminal Richard Bruno Riddick arrives on a planet called Helion Prime and finds himself up against an invading empire called the Necromongers, an army that plans to convert or kill all humans in the universe. He appears in the game during a random special encounter, aptly titled Pitch Black. When the ship crashed on M6-117 the survivors found her in the wreckage. Richard B. Riddick: I bow to no man. | When she was sold to slavers and then ended up in prison and found out about the unglamorous truths of life as an outlaw she felt betrayed. In the film, and in all subsequent appearances the character has been portrayed by Vin Diesel. Kyra Death by tea cup. When she finally met such a person in the form of Riddick she became a one-person cult of personality, imitating Riddick to the best of her ability. Earth New Mecca Furya Unknown What is unique about Riddick? Riddick, Jack, and Abu al-Walid must fight their way through an army of mercs and creatures at her disposal. do not watch if you have photosensitive epilepsy! It's a shame they never got a chance.. Collected Riddick-verse Imagines, backed up from flawedfictions @ tumblr. Source of Character: Pitch Black unrated directors cut (movie), Dark Fury (anime movie), Chronicles of Riddick (movie), character played by Rhianna Griffith (Pitch Black, Dark Fury) and Alexa Davalos (Chronicles of Riddick). In the end, Riddick was able to take advantage of the Lord Marshal's one weakness - the need to phase from one point to another, to drive a perfectly timed knife straight through his skull. Kyra : The Purifier then reveals that he too is a Furyan and encourages Riddick to kill the Lord Marshal before committing suicide by walking out into the scorching heat. Not only is she a member of the Elementals, but she possesses a deep link to the currents of the galaxy that ebb and flow, including time itself. Kyra was very acrobatic and a highly skilled fighter, especially with blades. This ability is also displayed off screen in Escape from Butcher Bay. Kyra and Riddick confront each other After Riddick runs into Toombs again On New Mecca. In the premiere installment in the franchise, Riddick is introduced as a notorious convict en route to a penal institution with his captor, a bounty hunter named William J. Johns. Imam Abu al-Walid (High), and she would have a High Connection to Riddick if she had a reliable means of contacting him. Vaako's wife speaks to Aereon, who reveals that Furya was devastated by the Lord Marshal after he was told a child from that planet would kill him. When an opportunity for Riddick, Kyra, and some of the inmates presents itself for an escape, they decide to try and reach a hanger with a ship by traveling on the surface, surviving by keeping pace within the temperate zone created between the scorching heat and freezing cold of Crematoria's daily cycles. In the prison hierarchy, Kyra appears to be extremely independent. He wanted his pack. Here Riddick is reunited with Jack, and learns she now goes by the name of Kyra. Once they have killed most of the mercs on the ship, the trio takes one of Antonia's shuttles and heads for New Mecca (although at one point the navicomp shows a potential course for Furya), where Riddick leaves them before heading for the planet UV 6. If I kill them first, not really. This is set in the younger days of riddick, before pitch black. : tip: "uchiha sasuke/uzumaki naruto" angst kudos>10, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Underage, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings (109), Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies) (26), Richard B. Riddick/Original Female Character (26), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence (18), Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Richard B. Riddick/Original Female Character, Richard B. Riddick/Dame Vaako/Vaako (Riddick), Oliver Banks/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Jack | Kyra & Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Vaako (Riddick) & Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Eldritch Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, Canon-Typical The End Content (The Magnus Archives), Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Richard B. Riddick/Khan Noonien Singh | John Harrison, Richard B. Riddick/Vaako/Original Female Character(s), Vaako (Riddick)/Original Female Character(s), The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin, Not quite a songfic but some lines might be familiar, Refers to past sexual encounters but no details, Original Male Character/Original Male Character, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Riddick has some growth to do before we get there. Kyra It is possibly a merc recruiting hotspot. Im Kyra. All of them. Riddick tells the steps, beginning with murder, something she says she's willing to do. I was always with you. A podfic recording of Tarlan's "Concubines". Riddick has appeared as a playable character in the Xbox game Deathrow. He's the holy Half-Dead who has seen the UnderVerse. This manifests itself in Riddick's decision to deliver both Jack and Abu al-Walid to New Mecca.[4]. He seems to have sensed Dahl's insecurity and played upon that and the insecurity of her co-workers in their mission. It was how most people described him. In the Big Apple, she instantly snagged lucrative assignments as a photographer's model for the likes of Peter Lindbergh, then discovered an inborn passion for acting and decided to make it the focus of her life. To her Riddick is the ultimate "masterpiece" for her collection. 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. None are to be underestimated. Kyra was introduced as an awkward kid in the first Pitch Black film, but she blossomed by the time the second film came out. Damn. Riddicks made a career of being underestimated. [22] On April 7, 2009, a remake of the video game was included with the release of the game sequel The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. It is during this time that a seventeen year old Jack takes on the name "Kyra". While he may be a ruthless killer, when necessary, Riddick has never been shown to kill anyone who was not actively trying to kill him first and has been known to help people in need only if they don't slow him down or make him vulnerable. I'm not going to hurt you. Sci-fi audiences were introduced to a new kind of anti-hero with the breakout hit Pitch Black, starring Fast & The FuriousleadVin Diesel. As the creatures closed in around Fry, Jack heard her and rallied the rest of the survivors to save her. Soon when they were away from here, when he knew for a fact she was safe. In Jim and Ken Wheat's original script for Pitch Black, the Riddick character was a woman named Taras Krieg. Riddick was once a mercenary, then part of a security force,[1] and later a soldier. Sorry, Dahl. He thinks hed see it coming. Within the canon of the series, Riddick is shown to have a vast number of skills, which include great mobility, stealth, killing abilities, survival in harsh conditions, prison-breaking, and piloting. Commander Shepard was dead until Cerberus brought her back to stop the Collectors. Riddick and Kyra are forced to fight the Necromongers. As a result, Jack ended up in the slave-labor prison on Crematoria. Before Riddick's birth, a Necromonger officer named Zhylaw (who would eventually become the Lord Marshall) consulted an Elemental seer, who told him that a Furyan male would be born that would be responsible for his downfall. Company Credits Boss Johns is the father of the original Johns character from Pitch Black, though the two aren't exactly alike. [citation needed]. A killer himself and resident of several maximum-security facilities, he is often able to predict an individual's negative impulses before they act on them. Connections: Rated Teen for Language. Jack adopted several of Riddick's traits, including shaving her head, wearing old broken goggles, and using profanity to mimic her new hero. To put a barrier between the disappointments and humiliations shed suffered, Jack took on a new persona, going by the name Kyra from then on. 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