Vaako slices a look at his wife, then swiftly returns his gaze to Riddick. : I hate not being the bad guys! Five years later a seventeen year old Jack goes by a new name, "Kyra". Homepage hero illustration: Guillaume Martinez. 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. Kyra still gasped, holding her chest, internal injuries slowly healing. Therefore, while Riddick and Kyra, who is an antiheroine of sorts, always make the right choice when confronted with a dilemma, you have no understanding of why they chose that course over another. Johns lived through the events of Pitch Black, and has caught up to Riddick again two and a half years later. Fugitive Riddick has been in hiding, evading bounty hunters and mercenaries sent to capture him. I'd take my wounded and go. She boarded the space transport Hunter-Gratzner under the alias Jack B. Badd. She began to dress like he did and mimic his speech patterns. RELATED:10 Best '90s Sci-Fi Horror Movies That Still Hold Up Today. 2004 American science fiction film directed by David Twohy, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, "The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) - Financial Information", "Helmer Twohy swings on U, Radar's 'Pitch', "USATODAY.com - Overblown, overdone 'Riddick': Wish it was just over", "Even Vin Diesel can't toughen up flabby 'Riddick', "The Chronicles of Riddick Review- Washington Post", "The Chronicles of Riddick review- Washington Post", "The Chronicles of Riddick movie review (2004) | Roger Ebert", "CNN.com - Review: 'Riddick' big, boomy, bad - Jun 11, 2004", "BBC - Films - The Chronicles Of Riddick", "The Chronicles of Riddick - Movie Review", "Movie Review: The Chronicles of Riddick", "The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay - Developer's Cut", "Riddick runs with 1.5 million in day 1 sales", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Chronicles_of_Riddick&oldid=1142678380, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2018, Articles with unsourced statements from July 2009, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. When the ship crashed on M6-117 the survivors found her in the wreckage. Then you gotta get sent to a slam.
Riddick has appeared as a playable character in the Xbox game Deathrow. 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. Let him think that. It is possibly a merc recruiting hotspot. It grossed $115.8 million worldwide making it a financial disappointment despite being the highest grossing Riddick film in the franchise. Here Riddick is reunited with Jack, and learns she now goes by the name of Kyra. She's a capable fighter, and an even better weapons expert, able to wield a range of different guns as if they were second nature.
Riddick: The Main Characters, Ranked By Power Like his movie origin, Riddick is a stealth focused melee fighter with advanced hand-to-hand fighting skills and the ability to see in the dark. Set after Chronicles. Riddick allows himself to be captured so he can be transported to Crematoria, a prison on a dead world where daytime surface temperatures scorch the face of the planet. He's equally capable as a fighter, though he seems to be much better at delegating and strategizing with his team, rather than throwing down. Though Riddick was a strong fighter, Johns was definitely just as capable of holding his own, proving himself as a powerful merc. The cost quoted to Riddick is 1000 creds. Unsurprisingly, in a world of murderers and mercenaries, there are some truly powerful characters in the franchise.
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) - Plot Summary - IMDb In 2009, Alexa was cast in the much coveted lead role of "Andromeda" in Louis Leterrier's Clash of the Titans (2010), alongside Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes. Years active Riddick is reunited with Imam, a holy man he rescued five years earlier. Richard B. Riddick : [a guard has Kyra in a choke-hold] I don't think she likes being touched. Occupation The Lord Marshal sends Commander Vaako to hunt Riddick down. The video game, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (which serves as a prequel to Pitch Black), clarifies that Riddick's eyeshine is more than just something he picked up in a prison. START QUIZ What is Riddick's first name? | Kyra Riddick, Jack, and Abu al-Walid must fight their way through an army of mercs and creatures at her disposal. To her Riddick is the ultimate "masterpiece" for her collection. A beast. Richard B. Riddick : 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. 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. Also, in 2007, Davalos appeared in the Stephen King horror adaptation The Mist (2007/I). [Louder] Jack: Okay, I can do it. Because she used to be teased, she thought that being a boy was easier than being herself due to being a tomboy. Richard B. Riddick Riddick was once a mercenary, then part of a security force,[1] and later a soldier. There were rumors of a television movie and possible series to be produced on the Sci-Fi Channel shortly after The Chronicles of Riddick was released. The surgery made his eyes more sensitive to normal light, requiring him to wear welding goggles to protect them (although he has also been shown without the goggles in a regularly illuminated room). 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. By impersonating a cop and traveling with a group of settlers aboard the nondescript transport cruiser Hunter Gratzner, Johns hopes to safely convey Riddick back to a prison colony and collect the outlaw's enormous bounty. var pfHeaderImgUrl = '';var pfHeaderTagline = '';var pfdisableClickToDel = 0;var pfHideImages = 0;var pfImageDisplayStyle = 'block';var pfDisablePDF = 0;var pfDisableEmail = 0;var pfDisablePrint = 0;var pfCustomCSS = '';var pfEncodeImages = 0;var pfShowHiddenContent = 0;var pfBtVersion='2';(function(){var js,pf;pf=document.createElement('script');pf.type='text/javascript';pf.src='//cdn.printfriendly.com/printfriendly.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(pf)})(); Jack B. Badd (later Kyra) is a recurrent character in the Riddick science-fiction movies. : You gotta kill a few people. How do I get eyes like that? Kyra eventually became a criminal, convicted of four counts of manslaughter and three of first degree murder. In the flash movie on the Pitchblack.com website, Riddick gets the eye-shine to give him more of an advantage following an encounter with humanoids called "shiners". : Five years pass between Jack's arrival at New Mecca and her Incarceration at Crematoria. He's certainly not a character to be messed with, but he's not the most dangerous foe in the franchise. When she saves Riddick, her eyes return to their normal state. Whether as a result of his Furyan heritage or simply training, Riddick is stronger, faster, more agile, tougher, more resistant to damage and injury, possessing more acute senses, immense stamina, and superior healing when compared to most humans; he is shown on more than one occasion dislocating his limbs for brief moments with only slight signs of discomfort, although he was in more obvious pain when his leg was broken in a fall, and had to use a heated rock to cauterize a wound when he was impaled in the chest by a creature's sharpened tooth. Riddick/Kyra- Always 18,147 views Apr 25, 2011 201 Dislike Share elwiniowhit 992 subscribers I thought this song fit their relationship so well. While we've done our best to make the core functionality of this site accessible without javascript, it will work better with it enabled. In Jim and Ken Wheat's original script for Pitch Black, the Riddick character was a woman named Taras Krieg. The Necromongers have long worshipped the Lord Marshals for their connection to the Underverse. Sorry, Dahl.
Jack B. Badd | Riddick Wiki | Fandom Feeling betrayed and abandoned, Jack made as complete a break from her past as she could under the circumstances, changing her name to Kyra. 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. 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". She even occasionally wears a set of goggles she found. I'll let you go in a minute, and if you behave, it will stay that way. It was there that Jack met Riddick, an infamous outlaw. By the end of the film, however, he became the biggest threat on the planet next to Riddick and the Mud Demons. It is shown in the director's cut of The Chronicles of Riddick after she lays her hand on Riddick's chest, leaving a glowing blue handprint, and says, "this mark carries the anger of an entire race but it's going to hurt". Five years after hed left Jack behind, Riddick came to Crematoria looking for her. Riddick: You gotta kill a few people. A crossover/retelling of Mass Effect 2, post modified events of Pitch Black, Chronicles of Riddick and Riddick, where Jack is both Jack|Kyra and Jack|Subject Zero. Technical Specs, [sneaks up behind Riddick and points a blade at his back]. "[15] Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2 out of 4 and called it "an exercise in computer-generated effects. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. But not her. His only weakness (other than light sensitivity, leaving him in pain when in daylight without his goggles), as stated in the Pitch Black DVD, is his soft spot for children and anyone who really grows on him (those people become his friends), which resulted in his capture by the bounty hunter Johns (Cole Hauser). He hoped to get her out of the prison and to try and make things right between them. Examples range from somewhat exotic items like retractable spikes in her boots to razor blades hidden in her mouth. Plus, it was fun to watch Vaako get all angry and annoyed. Her disillusionment with the criminal lifestyle was completed when she found out that the operation Riddick had purportedly undergone to get his eyeshine didnt exist. Richard B. Riddick Original Female Character (s) Alpha/Omega Furyan Forced Bonding Bonding Loss of Virginity Love Older Man/Younger Woman Angst Kidnapping A man. [3], After Zeke was killed, Fry and the others assumed that Riddick killed him. Riddick is taken to Crematoria, a harsh subterranean prison moon, where Jack, the girl Riddick also rescued, is being held. Jack: So you can see whos sneaking up on you in the dark? "[21], For his performance in the film, Vin Diesel was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Actor at the 2004 Golden Raspberry Awards, but lost to George W. Bush for Fahrenheit 9/11. Kyra! I'd rather talk to you in a somewhat calmer setting.
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. [5] Metacritic gives the film a score of 38 out of 100 based on reviews from 34 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". He has also been described as having "a knack for escape", surviving not only the Lord Marshall's purge of the Furyans when he was an infant but subsequently escaping from various prisons over the course of his life. Providing her name as "Jack" while impersonating a male to be "hassled less", she grows closer to a few survivors, including the bushwhacker Shazza, a young Muslim teen named Ali, and the the ship's first officer (now Captain), Carolyn Fry. He had yet to see Riddick take interest in any of the concubines that graced his bed. In the film, and in all subsequent appearances the character has been portrayed by Vin Diesel. tip: "uchiha sasuke/uzumaki naruto" angst kudos>10, A man. 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. 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. Cute. Also, he was able to hold off the Lord Marshal and even injure him which the Lord Marshal admitted hadn't happened in a long time. In the second film, he used the knife he took from Irgun as his weapon during his fight with him and the Lord Marshall, killing both with it. : Maybe I do. Actor Vin Diesel has played the title role in all of the Riddick-based films and video games thus far. 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. The film spun off books, an action figure line, animation and video games. Friendship - Relationship; Jack/Richard B. Riddick; Jack (Kyra) Richard B. Riddick; Kyra (Chronicles of Riddick) Summary. Alexa Davalos Soon the survivors find themselves fighting for their lives against a predatory species called Bio-Raptors, and by the end of the film there are only three survivors: Riddick, a young girl called Jack, and Imam. 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. Too bad he and River don't actually like each other.Riddick is looking for a ship that can be discreet. Was there *anything* you said that was true?, Jack is dead. Riddick elects to have no anesthetic, despite the procedure involving cutting the cornea and drilling through the eye to inject a reflective substance behind the retina. Riddick was still alive. A monster. A match made in literal hell. While Jack has been happy to have a home for the last five years after her time in foster care and living on the street as a runaway, New Mecca is extremely strict and women are little more than property. "[13], James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the film 2.5 out of 4 and stated that "although The Chronicles of Riddick offers its share of solidly entertaining moments, it doesn't hold together as a single, coherent motion picture experience. Riddick managed to escape the prison with Kyra and even began to rebuild their relationship, but this was interrupted when the Necromongersintercepted them. At first, Diaz appeared to be nothing more than a strongman for Santana's merc outfit, but he didn't stay that way. Riddick left Jack more than once, but when it really mattered, he stayed until the end. "[16] Paul Clinton of CNN gave the film a negative review and called it "a big, cheesy sci-fi flick tailor-made for a young male audience looking for things that go boom. He wanted his pack. A mixture of lightning-fast combat skills, weapons proficiencies, and utter ruthlessness made Johns one of Riddick's most deadly foes. Kyra always has some sort of bladed instrument hidden on her. As she searched an underground cave for Zeke's remains she discovered that it was not Riddick who killed him, but creatures indigenous to the planet. Unfortunately, their only interest in Jack was as a commodity and she was promptly sold to slavers. 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. Having no cash, Riddick offers down payment of a pack of Kool cigarettes which he earlier took from a guard. He is one of the final players available on the Convicts team and has the highest amount of strength and aggression of all recruitable Convict players, although he has the equal-lowest teamplay rating in the game. He spent the majority of the film staying low-key, acting as backup support in case anything got hot. [2], When they first meet again they have a nostalgic conversation. This discovery is clearly a source of worry for Riddick and Abu al-Walid as the three escape from the mercenary ship. How can he do both? In one case, Riddick concluded that the prized dagger of a Necromonger was "a half gram too heavy on the back end" after an inspection lasting all of a couple of seconds, although the tone of voice in which he delivered this appraisal suggested pre-fight bravado rather than abstract fact. 'Jade, Jade, Jade.
The Ultimate Riddick Trilogy Quiz! | Zoo What was that? Did that. Given the Necromongers' apparent faith in and respect for the power of the Quasi-Dead, this is a very impressive feat. Riddick saw the question in her eyes and shook his head, now wasn't the time to talk about it yet. Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, METHOD FOR STIMULATING RETINAL RESPONSE USING PHOTOACTIVE DEVICES, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Riddick_(character)&oldid=1141682604, Fictional characters with superhuman senses, Fictional characters with superhuman strength, Fictional characters with accelerated healing, Fictional cryonically preserved characters, Fictional characters who can move at superhuman speeds, Articles with a promotional tone from September 2013, Wikipedia articles with style issues from September 2013, Articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction from September 2013, All articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction, Articles with multiple maintenance issues, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2011, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2021, Articles with unsourced statements from June 2022, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 07:34. "Who's the Better Killer?". Referring to Riddick as "darkeye", they have had the same operation to see in the dark bowels of the Ursa Luna prison where the guards do not tend to go. She was his angel, his light in his endless dark life. 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. The Guv: There are inmates and there are convicts. "[3], Shortly after escaping the planet, Riddick, Jack, and Abu al-Walid are picked up by the mercenary ship Kublai Khan, captained by Antonia Chillingsworth, a collector of criminals, whom she freezes and keeps as "art" statues. Kyras reunion with Riddick was very contentious at first. As a native of the planet Furya, Riddick was imbued with heightened senses, strength, and killing skills that were a signature trademark of his people. He died somewhere on that planet. [citation needed]. Kyra would have been the main character and the series presumably would have covered the events during the five years between Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick.[5].
Its production budget was reported to have been between $105 million[1] and $120 million[2] (not including marketing and distribution costs). "[19] Nell Minow of Common Sense Media gave the film 2 out of 5 and termed it a "very violent, brainless explosion movie. It is during this time that a seventeen year old Jack takes on the name "Kyra". She has since appeared in several Hollywood films, including "Feast of Love", "The Mist", "Defiance", and "Clash of the Titans". Riddick allows himself to be captured so he can be transported to Crematoria, a prison on a dead world where daytime surface temperatures scorch the face of the planet.
Or in this case, not so empty ones. Because of the five years she spent with mercenaries, she has grown colder; vindictive and calculating. Riddick Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. [3], After it was established that Riddick didn't kill Zeke, and with the stress of deadly predators added to the trauma of the crash (along with whatever drove her from her home on Taurus 1), Jack quickly became obsessed with Riddick's strength and survival instincts.