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<blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 1626740" data-attributes="member: 4910">From the material we've been shown, he used to be quite the monster.&nbsp; It's the events that took place in Pitch Black that started to turn him around - Riddick's avoided having anyone rely on him in the past, but the crash in PB forced the issue.&nbsp; He didn't have a choice; without him, everyone there was going to die.&nbsp; Normally he would have just left them to their fate and not thought twice about it, but some of the people there endeared themselves to him.&nbsp; The Imam who was open with him and treated him like he was a fellow human being, rather than just being afraid of Riddick.&nbsp; Jack, who looked up to him, and in whom he saw a sort of reflection of his own past.&nbsp; Carolyn, who he grudgingly admired for her flat-out refusal to just give up and let everyone be killed.In context, really, the two films give a pretty good example of what sort of things can lead up to a character undergoing an alignment change.&nbsp; At the beginging, he's evil.&nbsp; Downright, dyed-in-the-wool evil.&nbsp; And in another situation he would have walked away and not looked back - taken care of Number 1 and left it at that.&nbsp; But everything that happened really made him start to look at things in a different light.&nbsp; It really culminates in the begining of CoR, when we find out that he's gone into hiding for the last five years in an effort to keep the people he cares about safe from the effects of being associated with him.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sejs, post: 1626740, member: 4910"] From the material we've been shown, he used to be quite the monster. It's the events that took place in Pitch Black that started to turn him around - Riddick's avoided having anyone rely on him in the past, but the crash in PB forced the issue. He didn't have a choice; without him, everyone there was going to die. Normally he would have just left them to their fate and not thought twice about it, but some of the people there endeared themselves to him. The Imam who was open with him and treated him like he was a fellow human being, rather than just being afraid of Riddick. Jack, who looked up to him, and in whom he saw a sort of reflection of his own past. Carolyn, who he grudgingly admired for her flat-out refusal to just give up and let everyone be killed. In context, really, the two films give a pretty good example of what sort of things can lead up to a character undergoing an alignment change. At the beginging, he's evil. Downright, dyed-in-the-wool evil. And in another situation he would have walked away and not looked back - taken care of Number 1 and left it at that. But everything that happened really made him start to look at things in a different light. It really culminates in the begining of CoR, when we find out that he's gone into hiding for the last five years in an effort to keep the people he cares about safe from the effects of being associated with him. [/QUOTE]

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