Is the expanded backstory in the book considered canon? I've always wondered about that. AbsolutGrndZer0 (talk) 18:57, May 29, 2020 (UTC)
- I personally haven't read the novel, so I don't know how much it adds or if there are any conflicting info. I should try to get my hands on it.--KillerZ (talk) 18:11, June 6, 2020 (UTC)
- Yea, it's good. From what I remember, he was a factory worker who saw his fellow workers being killed by unsafe conditions, so he became a whistleblower. But the corrupt system said that he had killed them. So that's when he went to jail the first time, and those were his first "murders" then over the years, he killed many people himself, but never anyone that wasn't a bounty hunter or other bad person, however those bounty hunters DID kill innocent people who tried to help Riddick or just got in the way, and those 'murders" were pinned on him. So in a lot of ways, that's why he thinks of himself as evil, but he's actually not. Like in the special features of the Pitch Black Unrated DVD there is "Coombs Journal" i which fully voiced by Cole Hauser, he talks about how he managed to capture Riddick that last time right before the start of Pitch Black. He did so by grabbing a little girl and threatening to blow her brains out and pin the murder on Riddick if he didn't stop running and surrender. Riddick could have let him do so and escaped, but he didn't. He surrendered willingly to Coombs to save the little girl's life. That's ALWAYS been one of the things I love about Riddick as a character, he has come to believe that he's a villain and that he will always be a villain, and yet... he still has that heart. He's still at his core a good man, despite all the evil he's forced to do. AbsolutGrndZer0 (talk) 21:35, June 6, 2020 (UTC)