This Forgotten Anti-Hero Is More SAVAGE Than People Remember...

[@Cinemavigilante]

I forgot to mention Dark Fury Its a sick animated movie, great ending song, badass villains, fits really well in the riddick universe as a follow up to Pitch Black

[@bearthedevil9675]

I love the chronicles of Riddick series, to know there's a fourth one coming is really lighting a fire in me. I have to disagree on your point that Riddick is a "Anti-Hero", In my opinion, he fits the "Reluctant Hero" role a lot better. He has been seen simply trying to disconnect from the rest off the universe and just live a simple hunter, gatherer type of life but repeatedly gets dragged into things by people looking for him or people looking for others and end up finding him by accident. While he doesn't the typical "morality" of a hero, there isn't a hard line on where hero's morals have to lay, they typically just have to be more moral then not and Riddick does that in spades, He doesn't hurt or kill women or children who either don't pose a threat or are not armed. He doesn't normally make the first move unless he is 100% sure that the person/ people he is going after, are after him in return and he is normally very quick to react to a threat if they are putting a woman or child in danger, he has even saved men he isn't friendly with but have done nothing to deserve dying over. Another reason I think the "anti-hero" title doesn't suit him as well, is because while he will typically try and avoid a big issue if he can, that doesn't mean its cowardly, it more points towards that he is smart enough not to take every fight just because someone is in trouble. I think that is the best skill a hero can have, there are to many hero stories where a hero will get killed, well knowing that whoever their about to fight will break them like a twig to save maybe a couple dozen people, where a smart hero will occasionally walk away from those situations even though it does leave a black mark in their mind, they could help way more then a couple dozen people even in a year if they are an active hero and not a passive one. When he does help someone though, unless he genuinely doesn't like them, most people simply need to ask for his help and if he see's a larger picture problem with their situation, he will normally help them pretty much straight away. In saying all this though, he does have selfish, narcissistic, overly violent and untrusting traits to him but there are many "true heroes" that unarguably are worse and less moral then Riddick, i think he's big thing is that he just wants to either be left alone to live and die in peace, or to find a good furian lady and create the last furian family. I hope me saying that i disagree didnt piss you off but part of why i love characters like Riddick is because you and me can have completely different ideas on how he thinks and how he navigates situations, but no matter where you fill my idea or yours into him, his actions remain the same because the motive or thoughts don't matter when he is actively trying to save a bunch of people, which honestly is probably the second best quality of a hero, Motives and reasons don't matter when all you do is help and save people in danger time and time again.

[@Hlbkomer]

@@bearthedevil9675 dude you need to google "paragraphs"

[@Strangingness]

Bro I 100% agree You wanna talk about a fearless ultra confident Anti-Hero. He actually makes the situations harder for Himself just to get a buzz off it

[@omgc89]

Chronicles of riddick, AMAZING! The video game escape from butcher bay AMAZING!

[@thejughead138]

Brother, what have you been smoking? Blade eats Riddick like a Scooby Snack! Are you kidding us?!!!!!

[@DryPuntangGang]

Riddick was the bay harbour butcher all along

[@danielchapter70128]

@@thejughead138did you have a botched cornea shine job? Riddick is so cool. His voice and physical presence are amazing.

[@thejughead138]

@danielchapter70128 Lol Daniel what the hell does that have to do with his ability to defeat a peak human specimen like Bruce Wayne or a superhuman vampire like Blade? Bruce would smash Riddick Daniel. Remember in Riddick 1 when he fought the soldier? Riddick beat him; barely! Bruce would have crushed them both in under 30 seconds.

[@BlackstarSI]

Riddick is MY GUY. I will always ride for Chronicles of Riddick. I hate how we never got a true sequel to that film.

[@King-mg7vy]

We ARE getting one. Vin is working on Riddick 4 right now.

[@VinAnrba]

When he says Vin Diesel is 70-80 years old, always freaking cracks me up LOL

[@ShawnWeeded510]

This role fit Vin perfectly. Stepping away from the role was good for his pocket.

[@mitchelllawrence2798]

Riddick is one of my favourite characters in film and in Sci-fi. And hands-down Vin Diesel's most underrated role.

[@PeterCzech-nm1fj]

Comes from nation of warriors Physically strong and athletic strong bond with nature extreme willpower and toughness became criminal attracts women a lot overall skillfull fight beast even with bare hands in one moment cracks Jokes and then is complete serious killer kills wizard and almost randomly became king. was betrayed and must again fight for survive... This is my description of paperback book of Conan stories:) When Riddick killed lord Marshall and then sat on the throne, i was like " Yeah, badass, nighvision space Conan!!"

[@JohnSmith-mf3dh]

Jesus! You're right!

[@reson8q]

Hellboy, Riddick, Spawn the list goes on. Though your idea of Predator VS The Furyan...bro genius

[@Cinemavigilante]

gotta do a vid on my boy spawn soon

[@FullMetalHans]

Predator vs Furyan!

[@chikepanther5237]

My idea back in the day when Pitch Black first came out and they were in talks about making the Alien vs Predator movies was to put riddick in there to represent the human side of AvP. Have it set in the Aliens timeline like it should have been instead of modern times, have a Platoon of Space Marines searching for Riddick because they lost contact with a previous platoon and they believe riddick was the one who took them out because they know about how crazy and capable riddick is. Only it wasnt riddick, it was the Predators that took out the marines because they landed on an alien hunting ground planet that the predators wanted to be kept secret. After the marines came into contact with an alien egg and all chaos broke out ultimately taking out the marines, only Riddick survived because maybe like in pitch black, the marines had him in custody at the time but he managed to escape and save himself. The new Marines land on the planet and recon like in the Aliens movie... but instead of finding Nute, they come across Riddick and after a brief conflict between the marines and riddick, they reach and middle ground and decide to find out what really happened, and riddick informs them of the aliens and predators and then we get Riddick as the new ripley helping the marines until he's the last survivor fighting against the predator and aliens. Easy money.....

[@Iceintheveins10]

I agree he was so cool in pitch black the coolest anti hero ever how he went back to save the others even though he didn’t have to

[@omgc89]

I think part of the reason people enjoy the anti hero so much right now is, the world is a very complex place, and a lot of times we as people have to make decisions we arent proud of, to feed our kids, or just to get by. I think people can use the anti hero to rationalize their behavior and think, yeah I may have done some bad things but when the chips are down I'm a good person who does the right thing.

[@ashleybanks-wm4cg]

Holy shit who is making decisions they aren't proud of to feed their kids?? Calm down bro it's just a movie😂😂😂😂

[@borislugosi54]

Great video. I've thoroughly enjoyed the Riddick franchise thus far. Definitely one of the coolest characters. I'm hoping Diesel's ego doesn't get in the way and the 4th film will stick to Twohy's intended script. And i agree, the survival story through the first half of Riddick is awesome. The movie is very much a western disguised as a sci-fi film. "To the victor goes the spoils" is a more sensible line but "you keep what you kill" is absolute bad ass phrasing.

[@Cinemavigilante]

@@borislugosi54 facts

[@Thechristianbolton1]

Riddick doesn’t get talked about enough in the same realm as Deadpool, punisher, John wick or even Blade. What makes anti hero so dangerous and cool is not just the weapons they use, but the tools they use as a weapon to take down the enemies.

[@GabeGonz]

If i am not mistaken, Vin Diesel only did more Fast and Furious in exchange for the rights to the Riddick franchise and he got the fourth movie green lit because he really liked the character. Or was that a fever dream i had

[@LokiStuartsson]

Riddick is to Sci-Fi what Conan, Kratos, Guts, and Geralt are to Fantasy. they don't just think outside the box they crush it with their sheer presence. All top-tier badass characters.

[@danielchapter70128]

Hell yeah. Been waiting for your take on Riddick.

[@azaizer]

I never saw Riddick as an "Anti-Hero". To me Riddick was always an "Anti-Villian". It is clearly stated even in the movie when the Elemental says "...but sometimes the only way to stop evil, is not with good. You must confront it with another kind of evil." Nuff said. Another great example of this would be, Zaffy go look in the mirror while you're wearing that mask, and the real answer will become clear. It'll be staring you dead in your reflection. I think, instead of comparing Riddick to characters like Batman or The Punisher, he has more in common with characters like Deadshot or Deathstroke the Terminator.

[@holdthetruthhostage]

Riddick only crime is that a trailer scene wasn't in chronicles of Riddick

[@DBCooper01]

A space westen with Riddick would be sick, they should focus more on the gritty side of that universe instead of the ghost people stuff. There is a pretty cool Riddick anime too might be worth reviewing at some point.

[@riddickraymond7067]

I wouldn't say it's a chosen one but the one to end the load marshal that has a knock on effect of moving the necros on and delaying their world ending... He's not actually stopping their mission only putting it on hold.

[@verruxlunox8438]

8:00 and she's BUYING IT an absolute badass, i wonder if we will ever see good Riddick movies again...

[@GangstaStan010]

Goddamn... I HATED what Vin did to Bloodshot.

[@decayed_firecaster]

I say "you keep what you kill" to my buddies even to this day when I play fortnite with them XD love the Riddick trilogy

[@Reawer]

the new Riddick movie plot will be that he has turned gay and the women are the good guys now

[@SnethembaNomdebevana-hi3ze]

??

[@WyattDucar]

Honestly this should have been Vin Diesel's franchise not Fast and Furious although i do like Triple XXX movies. I feel that the Riddick franchise has so potential to be on par with Marvel or Star Wars. I think the worldbuilding is great especially with the games that really make you feel like you're in that world. I'm very surprised that besides that motion comic there isn't an expanded universe with books or comics from this franchise besides the games akin to Star Wars and right now Avatar with both the Kyoshi & Yangchen duologys Hell even the James Cameron one with the same even has a bunch of comics from Dark Horse. I think having an expanded universe would have been benfit for this franchise especially learning more and getting details about past events and characters like The Necromnger's Purge of Furyans, Riddick's relationship with Gale Revas, the backstory of Antonia Chillingsworth and her relationship with Junner, Who in the Hell is really Shirah? Hell I would loved to read a young adult novel about The Lost Years with Kyra/Jack during the 5 year gap between Dark Fury and the second movie i would imagined it would be akin to Rebel Rising by Beth Revis which was about the backstory of Jyn Erso during the gap between she was pick up by Saw as a child and her in a prison cell. I would loved to see John's backstory explored more like the incident that made Hoxie so angry at Johns which was teases within the game but never elaborated further or his time as squad leader on Sol Lucian, Hell what is his relationship with his father anyway obvious Cole Hauser is a bit older now and De-aging is sometimes a bit controversial such as with Luke and other different franchises? But I would loved a book or a comic series with Johns as the Main character before the main events of the series? I would have loved to explored more with the side characters especially the ones from Butcher Bay who i find really interested like Abbot, Rust, Haley (all we know about him is that he was guard before he went to prison i would like to know what did he do that made a prisoner no longer as a guard did he do something wrong or was he against Hoxie or Abbot's regime on Butcher Bay?) Jagger Valance, and Pope Joe (I really find the character fascinating and mysterious like obvious he is a preacher but i wondered what he do that got him to be in the pit with the dwellers in the first place?) I also would like to more about the characters from Assault on Dark Athena the only one that comes across to my mind is Max Dacher who i find to be interested especially his past as a ex-marine officer. The possibles are endless!

[@cohenfitness]

Chronicles was my fav! I enjoyed the the more sci fi stuff

[@sakanouyenotamuramaro7718]

Riddick! The man John Wick never heard of 😂

[@jrny20]

Of course, the guy that has a clause in his contract where he cannot be defeated.

[@20TonChop]

You mentioned he might have a long-lost daughter in the new movie, and I agree. I bet they are going to do a passing of the mantle thing so they can reboot the story. I hate the idea, but you know it's going to happen. If the movie does well, they will run with more sequels, and if it flops, they will drop it dead.

[@0wl999]

No, no, no. A bad azz warrior doesn't pass his ' legacy ' to a daughter. He passes it to a SON, who can grow up strong, like him. Female lead narrative is what's killing society, and Hollywood.😮

[@El_Gomes]

He hadn't a surgery. You can find what really happened in Escape From Butcher Bay.

[@seanpgallagher22ify]

Very rough video but very accurate

[@jermainehaslam5634]

Riddick is best role in my opinion but he wants to put more effore into franchise (fast and furious) that has over stayed it's welcome and awesome video.

[@Adamwofford]

I know another character that screws with his villains, the Shadow

[@EvoDad87]

I’ve always said Riddick is and has always been MASSIVELY UNDERRATED!! Tell em how it is!!!

[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

I check other videos, and you have pretty good material. Subscribed.

[@Cinemavigilante]

thanks man

[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

@@Cinemavigilante May I suggest a börg-cybernetic-eye for the other side of your mask?

[@JohnSmith-mf3dh]

Many hate The Chronicles of Riddick, the ones who know, KNOW that Riddick is a killing machine. He's not a savior, but a reluctant one. And when you think about it, is not that Aereon predicts the future, she FORGES that future by manipulation of the people she gives the "prediction".

[@FullMetalHans]

Both the videogames Escape from Butcher bay and Assault on Dark Athena are better at showing the coolest of the Riddick character as they are more in line with Pitch black Riddick, also as games they are timeless classics!

[@Slappy985]

I have the Chronicles of Riddick movies except for the latest movie just called Riddick.

[@brandonvicbossmorgan]

Im hyped for a new movie

[@sweeney_bot1104]

Riddick has weaknesses, this is what makes him more interesting and believable. Wathcing him doing things, while knowing that he's vulnerable prtty much as normal human, makes him more believable. Deadpool looses his arm - lul lmao. Riddick rotating his chained arms from behind his back to set himself free just hits different when you know that he don't have some super regen powers etc. Trapped wolf can bite off his limb to survive. Riddick is ready to risk breaking both of his arms intentionaly to survive. Sheesh he even lost his consciousness after doing that.

[@Cinemavigilante]

@@sweeney_bot1104 faxx

[@fernandoorozco5968]

I love this movie

[@kiss4luna]

this movie is always in my collection , es the first one.

[@riddickraymond7067]

Riddick, Riddick, Riddick, the crowd cheers. I watched all the films 4 of them so far with extended cut, read the book having earth still there was stupid, I play the games. What man doesn't like woman 😂. But he didn't keep the hair he dropped it after he sniffed it.

[@buckweaver7961]

I honestley think the move here is for diesel to take a writer/director/producer role and do a recast remake where he can give it the budget it deserves.. he owns the franchise so at this point he should be like a stan lee cameo in the riddick verse imho it would be insanely easy money for him if he werent stubborn

[@KingShareef-510]

Yes can't wait. I'm gonna say Spawn is the best anti hero tho.

[@yokgor4675]

I don’t even need the Riddick franchise to spill out 10 movies and spin offs, I just want them to finish the story, give a proper conclusion to the Necromonger storyline, and let us see Furya.

[@allopez8563]

Hey, hi. There already is an animated movie. The scape pod from "Pitch Black" was taken by a weird exotic merc ship and it all goes to hell.

[@Cinemavigilante]

dark fury yes

[@20TonChop]

I can't stand the one-eye thing, but your commentary is on point. It's a great video, and I've subscribed. I'm looking forward to more. Please get a mask with two eyes, lol, unless you actually only have one eye. If so, EYE apologEYEs.

[@Cinemavigilante]

@@20TonChop lool, working on it, thanks tho

[@Hlbkomer]

but that's his thing!

[@20TonChop]

@@Hlbkomer Oh, I get it. I just find it distracting. Doesn't really matter what I think in the end. If he wants to keep it going, so be it.

[@marks6451]

Riddick is one bad mf better than any other badass nowadays

[@beefwelington1810]

this movie was a banger

[@ajc433]

@zaffy can we get an in depth breakdown of Daredevil or Punisher? Love your vids bro!

[@Cinemavigilante]

For sure man, thanks

[@Wigglez323]

My only issue with the Riddick series, it was kind of retconned after the first movie

[@kranberryxox]

😂😂😂😂 these guys are basically space al queda 😅😅😅 im cryin!! 😅😅😅😂

[@0wl999]

Lol Riddick is ABSOLUTELY not ' forgotten '. Still waitng on another movie.😅

[@guidoido004]

you got one thing wrong, riddick was never the chosen one to end necromongers, he was of one among many on the species that one day would have the kill on the necromonger's leader, he was not chosen, he just was in the right place to survive the genocide and the wrong place when necromongers arrived, the prophecy happened because the necromong leader fought so hard to avoid it, not because riddick was chosen to kill him

[@r.j.nordel4643]

in my playthru the butcher bay the eyes surgery was more of a voo-doo ritual if i remember correct

[@JohnSmith-mf3dh]

3:55 Stop your horse right there!!! Those are NOT anti-heroes, those are whiny little Bs, the anti-hero is not a whiner.

[@Costa906]

Ridedick with Riddick

[@SomethingStupid-i7y]

I've said this a while back you have 2 types of men in this world, the chronicles of riddick men and the fast and the ferrous men Me im fortunate enough to be a RIDDICK MAN And Riddick was animalistic in nature and used it to his advantage as a outlaw because he was also the last of his species, Also was he Farrell how did he become educated? Who took care of him as a baby? Way more to Riddicks story

[@kentown8115]

yep best way to explain pitch black

[@MentalMachine]

Calling Riddick tge most badass anti hero while wearing the outfit of the most badass anti hero is blashpemy lol great take on this character! Also, Wolverine has lived a long painful life and sees death for the people he loves. For Logan death is a cycle that seems to never end.

[@jeremebonesaw]

Even though it was cool or somewhat innovative for its time, having the 2nd installment for Riddick being an animation was a missed opportunity to extend his lore and Vin Diesels acting. Calling the 3rd movie "the chronicles" and it kind of ending there for a while was disappointing. Pitch black was a bit better in a cryptic way than Chronicle, but it was still good. Rule the Dark was somewhat of a failed attempt since it was basically making the Pitch black again.

[@ashleyellis8875]

Near end of pitch black he almost left three people on that planet he got in ship and was preparing to leave when Carolyn found him Riddick is actually evil

[@Hlbkomer]

but he didn't

[@ashleyellis8875]

@ yeah coz Carolyn impressed him is why if she hadn’t found him I think he would have left them coz there is a lot darkness in him and in second film the stupid prophecy thing judi Dench said in normal times evil would be fought with good but sometimes with a different kind of evil

[@tpac3653]

Do a video of Karl Urban playing Dredd next.

[@Cinemavigilante]

@@tpac3653 good idea

[@Flint-Dibble-the-Don]

I'm more of a Snake Plissken kinda guy.

[@Cinemavigilante]

not a bad choice

[@damionmorris3496]

John wick fears no man. Chronicles of Riddick was absolutely garbage. The only movie I have ever walked out of.

[@antstudios167]

Honestly I’m sick of “anti hero’s” they are just the same character every time, also the people we consider “antihero’s” are really just outright villains, Walter White is the villain of breaking bad so is Tony Supranno, so is the punisher

[@FullMetalHans]

Yes! Pitch Black is the best Riddick, the 2nd movie was badly paced, and I also didn’t like the choosen one twist, also the 2nd movie makes the mistake of opening the scope of the movie too much and it feels less interesting than the first one. The third one was very boring to me and specially because of the way CGI was used. If they would have had a sort of pitch black tighter plot with Baco and Riddick would have been better!

[@barryturner2802]

No he hasn't ive been waiting for the forth flim for years now

[@herbertcoxe3601]

Maybe I should watch the movie again because I don’t agree he’s all that epic… wait what you just said is I was literally typing makes lol… he’s a better character than the movie themselves 🤔 actually that’s true

[@TheGraySlayer]

Sick to death of people shitting on this series. Remake the games.

[@christophercole9360]

Riddick is a great character. Vun Diesel wasted him. Also, Not to just bash Diesel, watch the first 45 mins of Saving Private Ryan. Vin Diesel is a great actor, I just think he has bad people around him.

[@Cinemavigilante]

@@christophercole9360 he's a great actor

[@ENOURMOUSSCALE]

Bro do a transformers one vid

[@Cinemavigilante]

soon

[@SOUL-u2o]

I dn't know man,i feel that Vin Diesel's best role is in triple-X as Xander Cage and i really hope he'll do more of those movies. 11:13 only because he has powers that dosen't really mean he's a hero. Batman's prep time is very overrated since he created a suit to battle a brain-washed Superman and he just destroyed Batman's suit.

[@Cinemavigilante]

i like xander too

[@SOUL-u2o]

Can you make a video about Xander too?​@@Cinemavigilante

[@Cinemavigilante]

@SOUL-u2o will do at some point

[@riddickraymond7067]

Oh no only the alpha furyian's have the eye shine and there world is more hostile and they evolved to be stronger...

[@mythicpeyote]

I like vin diesel way more than the rock but they are both kinda tools

[@Lucifer3.6.9]

Riddick is a pee on compared to john wick

[@Hlbkomer]

The second one had an interesting Director's cut, if I recall correctly. I liked the direction they went with the second movie. They avoided the pitfall of doing the same thing (which ironically they then did with the third one) and went in a fresh new direction with a bigger scope. I thought it was an interesting evolution from the quite intimate story of the first one all the way to an epic saga of cosmic proportions. I liked that idea. Too bad they abandoned it in the third movie. I know they had a smaller budget but still, I thought they went a step back in the story. The third one could have been a galactic drama full of intrigue and backstabbings. Keep the budget small but make the world bigger. Oh well, rant over and out, dear Zaffytarians.