Richard B. Riddick, more commonly known as Riddick, is a fictional character and the antiheroic protagonist of the Chronicles of Riddick series, including the animated short movie Dark Fury and the video games Escape from Butcher Bay and Assault on Dark Athena. Actor Vin Diesel has played the title role in all of the Riddick-based films and video games thus far.
Within the canon of the series, Riddick is shown to have a vast number of skills, which include great mobility, stealth, killing abilities,harsh conditions survival, prison breaking, and piloting. 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.
Riddick is Furyan, a member of a warrior race of adapted humans 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. This allows him to see clearly in the dark, but also makes him vulnerable to strong light; he wears tinted welding goggles for protection.
Riddick was once a mercenary, then part of a security force,[1] and later a soldier.
Riddick has been suggested to play 21 roles. Click below to see other actors suggested for each role, and vote for who you think would play the role best.
