Works in this franchise with their own YMMV pages:
- Pitch Black
- Escape from Butcher Bay
- The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
- Dark Fury
- Assault on Dark Athena
- Riddick
The Franchise as a whole:
- Crowning Moment of Awesome: Whenever Riddick kicks ass. The Furyan Purifier on Crematoria also gets one.
- Complete Monster: Lord Marshal Zhylaw; Antonia Chillingsworth; Captain Revas
- Cult Classic: Both the films and games.
- Draco in Leather Pants: Richard B. Riddick. Central character, yes. Hero, no. Even as he's deepened and made more sympathetic, humanized even, as it becomes clear he admires honesty, bravery and honor, he's bent on his own survival. And none of that takes away from the fact that he is a murderer with serious mental issues, and he's only given more. His third film involves revenge.
- First Installment Wins: Pitch Black is definitely considered the best film in the franchise (though in terms of story quality for the franchise as a whole some consider Escape from Butcher Bay to be better). The Chronicles of Riddick was criticised for it's Lighter and Softer Genre Shift and for being so different from the first film, though it still has its fans for how it expanded the universe and tried to do something different with the character instead of repeating the same story. Riddick was similarly divisive, with its attempt to return to the franchise's roots being liked by some but criticised by others.
- Magnificent Bastard: Richard B. Riddick is the deadliest and last survivor of the Furyan race. An adept, brutal killer and knife expert, Riddick has killed scores of people with traps and anything that could conceivably be used as a weapon, and escaped from so many maximum security prisons that bounty hunters follow him like flies and usually end up dead by his hands. Riddick is also far more cunning than he appears, being able to pick up on details in whatever environment he finds himself in and frequently manipulates or tricks others to his benefit. Despite his nature, Riddick has several standards he holds himself to, primarily refusing to harm innocent people, and values the bonds he has with those few who survive long enough to befriend him. Riddick even manages to defeat the holy undead Lord Marshal of the Necromongers by forcing him into an unwinnable situation and take over his entire empire. Riddick's main goal is to be left alone, with those who cross him soon wishing they hadn't.
- Memetic Badass: Riddick is almost all the archetypes of characters like this rolled into one.
- Spiritual Successor: To Warhammer 40,000. Vin Diesel, an avid tabletop gamer, even said as much in an interview for the third film. The new Necromonger character, Krone, with his ritualistically "fucked-up face" and praying to a dark portal in deep space, is the closest the franchise has to a Chaos cultist.
