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Pitch Black

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Pitch Black	label	Pitch Black
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Pitch Black	comment	Pitch Black is the first entry in The Chronicles of Riddick series. After the release of its sequel, it has also been retroactively called The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black.In the year 2678, the Hunter-Gratzner, with its crew and passengers in stasis pods, passes through the debris of a comet. The resulting damage badly cripples the ship, kills some of its crew and eventually causes it to crash land on a nearby planet. The remaining survivors find themselves in a harsh, barren landscape with constant daylight due to its three suns. A bounty hunter, William J. Johns, informs them that one of the passengers was a dangerous criminal named Richard B. Riddick, and worse still, he's managed to escape during the crash.After a member of the group is killed investigating a cave, Riddickâ€™s the natural suspect and when eventually captured is kept under close watch. However, it soon becomes clear that not only is Riddick the least of their worries, they may actually need his help to survive.Considered the breakthrough performance of Vin Diesel, the movie was a sleeper hit despite its modest budget and was deemed successful enough to have a big budget sequel, which became The Chronicles of Riddick.
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Pitch Black / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Pitch Black / int_1235f055	comment	Johns and Riddick walk ahead of the group, discussing the best way to get through the canyon up ahead. Johns suggests gutting Jack and dragging her corpse as bait to distract the creatures, showing what a truly amoral Dirty Coward he is. It is Riddick that finds this idea reprehensible and he attacks Johns instead, showing there is some sort of humanity and compassion still inside of him.
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Pitch Black / int_1350733b	type	Fantastic Light Source
Pitch Black / int_1350733b	comment	Fantastic Light Source: The glowing leeches at the end.
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Pitch Black / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Pitch Black / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: When Riddick tries to make Fry leave Imam and Jack behind on the dead planet or he'll leave all of them she calls him out on his manipulation, but breaks down into an unresponsive, crying mess in front of Riddick when she realizes he's dead serious, torn between trying to save herself or die trying to save the others.
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Pitch Black / int_1574193a	type	Pushed at the Monster
Pitch Black / int_1574193a	comment	Pushed at the Monster: Johns suggests to wanted criminal Riddick that they use teenage Jack as bait to distract the man-eating alien creatures. Riddick doesn't take this suggestion well, instead wounding Johns and leaving him for the creatures while the rest escape.
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Pitch Black / int_16720859	type	More Predators Than Prey
Pitch Black / int_16720859	comment	More Predators Than Prey: The story occurs on a Desert Planet, and one of the only two species the protagonists encounter are predators. They arrive to the surface in numbers which a desert biome couldn't possibly provide enough food for. To make things worse, the animals can only hunt in the dark, so their only opportunity to come to the surface for prey is one month in 22 years during an eclipse of the Binary Suns. However the world is littered with the skeletons of long dead animals, some of which were massive, but has no current signs of life. It's strongly implied the unchecked predator population has rendered their surface prey extinct. Which also explains their rather keen interest in the humans. Eventually the creatures even begin turning on each other, apparently resorting to cannibalism to sate their hunger.
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Pitch Black / int_17471e26	type	Sinister Shiv
Pitch Black / int_17471e26	comment	Sinister Shiv: Riddick uses a sharpened piece of metal obtained from a crashed spaceship as his shiv of choice, both for killing and for personal grooming.
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Pitch Black / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Pitch Black / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Apparently, the creatures have survived millions of years after wiping out all other life on the planet by...pure cannibalism? Such a system won't be efficient and would probably make them extinct in a couple of generations due to decreasing energy levels and them eating more of their own young than they can breed. Really the entire planetâ€™s ecology would be worth a deep dive since the scant bits we do get give only the barest hints of how the whole ecosystem works/worked, but thatâ€™s not what the movie is concerned about.
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Pitch Black / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Pitch Black / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: In the novelization.
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Pitch Black / int_19e41d8f	type	And This Is for...
Pitch Black / int_19e41d8f	comment	And This Is for...: Riddick cuts off all the lights on the ship prior to taking off, because he wants to kill as many of the creatures as possible when they gather around the ship. It's implied it's in honor of Fry.
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Pitch Black / int_1b7d59b6	type	Death by Materialism
Pitch Black / int_1b7d59b6	comment	Death by Materialism: Johns dies as a result of his own greed. He's been hunting Riddick for years and knows full well how dangerous he is, but strikes a bargain with Riddick in the hopes that he can keep him on a leash until they're off planet and Johns can collect on his bounty. Riddick arranges for Johns to be eaten by the predators, noting that it's Johns' own fault for not killing Riddick when he had the chance. Johns would get paid whether he brought Riddick in alive or dead, but alive pays twice as much.
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Pitch Black / int_1ce428b5	type	Cold Equation
Pitch Black / int_1ce428b5	comment	Cold Equation: Carolyn does one. The ship cannot land safely with all the weight in the back, so she jettisons cargo compartments, until the passenger compartment is the only one left. Either everyone, including the passengers and her die, or the passengers die and she might get the ship down safe with the flight crew.
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Pitch Black / int_1dab5333	type	Total Eclipse of the Plot
Pitch Black / int_1dab5333	comment	Total Eclipse of the Plot: The prolonged eclipse allows the light-fearing monsters free rein to attack the heroes. Possibly justified since the occluding body is not the Earth's moon, but a nearby gas giant several times larger than the planet the protagonists are on. How long the eclipse ultimately lasts is unclear, but the characters conclude that it will last too long for them to wait it out.
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Pitch Black / int_1dea3034	type	Cool Shades
Pitch Black / int_1dea3034	comment	Cool Shades: In the first half, it's played straight: glasses on when Riddick is kicking ass. The brightness of the sunlight leaves him vulnerable without his welding goggles - when they're torn off during a fight, he's pretty much helpless. However, he takes them off later during the total darkness of an eclipse: he wouldnâ€™t be able to see otherwise.
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Pitch Black / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
Pitch Black / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: Near the ending, an out-of-nowhere alien grabs the female lead just as she's about to escape. This is played as somewhat karmic, since she killed some people to save herself and had been perfectly willing to sacrifice the rest on the ship had it not been for her more heroic crewmate. To atone, she refuses to leave without saving everyone left, even the one person who everyone (even himself) thinks doesn't deserve it, which ultimately gets her killed.
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Pitch Black / int_1f19f198	type	Back-to-Back Badasses
Pitch Black / int_1f19f198	comment	Back-to-Back Badasses: Johns and Riddick (briefly).
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Pitch Black / int_234a6809	type	Ribcage Ridge
Pitch Black / int_234a6809	comment	Ribcage Ridge: Several seem to indicate that there was once other life on the planet.
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Pitch Black / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Pitch Black / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: An instant-action example: In the scene where Johns unlocks Riddick's restraints, Johns makes like he's about to shoot him, before the two have this exchange: Happens again right at the end of the climactic fight between the two. Doubles as a really black Brick Joke. Imam offers to pray with Riddick, but Riddick explains that he has nothing but loathing for God. Imam says that even though the circumstances are grim, He is with them nonetheless. Later, when it starts raining which will make the flares protecting them from the aliens go out, Riddick cynically remarks "So where the hell's your God now?" And even later, when Riddick goes back with Fry to save Jack and Imam, Imam states "There is my God, Mr. Riddick." The scenes at the skiff. Riddick tries to convince Carolyn to abandon Imam and Jack. Once she forces him to go back for them and they've returned to the skiff, it's Imam and Jack who quietly urge Carolyn to leave the fallen-behind Riddick.
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Pitch Black / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Pitch Black / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: One of the first victims is a youngster.
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Pitch Black / int_294f1400	type	Abnormal Limb Rotation Range
Pitch Black / int_294f1400	comment	Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: Riddick does this by dislocating both his shoulders in order to escape from his restraints.
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Pitch Black / int_2c77fae3	type	Darkness Equals Death
Pitch Black / int_2c77fae3	comment	Darkness Equals Death: The film was designed from the ground up to utilize this, and every single death in the movie did in one way or another.
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Pitch Black / int_2ddddebf	type	Hostile Weather
Pitch Black / int_2ddddebf	comment	Hostile Weather: The long eclipse certainly picks a good time to strike, although that could be chalked up to bickering, procrastinating crew members. Then the rain starts and douses their lights. The rain also doubles as an ironic punch in the gut for the characters. In the first part of the movie, they were scrounging around trying to find water because of the brutally hot sunlight on the desert planet. When the rain finally comes it serves only to make them even more vulnerable to their enemies. Could be justified, as the eclipse probably dropped the ambient temperature low enough for atmospheric water vapor to consense for the first time in years.
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Pitch Black / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Pitch Black / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Johns suggests killing the teenage Jack to Riddick so they can use her as bait for the creatures, but instead Riddick kills Johns and uses him as bait. Doing so does give Riddick control over the group, so perhaps he's not doing it for entirely benevolent reasons. Although, as he later explains in the third film, he thought Johns was a coward for being willing to sacrifice a child to survive.
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Pitch Black / int_35d4beb4	type	Horde of Alien Locusts
Pitch Black / int_35d4beb4	comment	Horde of Alien Locusts: The flying Bioraptors have apparently driven all life on the rest of the planet to extinction, to the point that they start killing off and eating each other en masse by the end.
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Pitch Black / int_38101aed	type	Binary Suns
Pitch Black / int_38101aed	comment	Binary Suns: The planet has three suns: one red, one yellow, and one blue. The red and yellow suns are always close in the sky opposite the blue, which creates an effect instead of day and night, there's blue day and orange day.
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Pitch Black / int_3d1f2cae	type	Barrier-Busting Blow
Pitch Black / int_3d1f2cae	comment	Barrier-Busting Blow: After the suns go down and the planet is covered in darkness due to the eclipse, the Bioraptors roam free. The protagonists temporarily hide out in a storage compartment of the crashed ship. Imam sits down against a wall, but then an Alien pierces its claws through the hull right next to his head, almost impaling him. Earlier on, the other survivors use this trope to rescue Fry when she's cornered in one of the salt tubes and can't make it out to the surface on her own.
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Pitch Black / int_3d7ff013	type	How Dare You Die on Me!
Pitch Black / int_3d7ff013	comment	How Dare You Die on Me!: This is Riddick's response when Carolyn Fry is dragged away and killed by the monsters. Immediately beforehand, this was also the motivation used to get him up after he was bleeding intensely and in a state of panic, just having been nearly killed by the creatures.
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Pitch Black / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
Pitch Black / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: Riddick spends the first half of the movie doing nothing but this, first predicting the types of people on the ship, then accurately describing just how the original inhabitants of the moon didn't make it offworld. He is also able to deduce that the creatures have a blind spot from analyzing a dead one.
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Pitch Black / int_3eca7ea6	type	Does That Sound Like Fun to You?
Pitch Black / int_3eca7ea6	comment	Does That Sound Like Fun to You?: Riddick gives this speech to Jack after she asks about his eyes. It's subverted in The Chronicles of Riddick when, due to Retcon, she finds out that he was pulling her leg.
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Pitch Black / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Pitch Black / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Carolyn not only redeems herself by refusing to leave Jack and Imam, but then risks and loses her life saving the injured Riddick.
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Pitch Black / int_420081bf	type	Alien Sky
Pitch Black / int_420081bf	comment	Alien Sky: Three suns and an eclipsing planet featuring TWO separate ring systems. Skies don't get much more alien than that.
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Pitch Black / int_4783acfa	type	Bait the Dog
Pitch Black / int_4783acfa	comment	Bait the Dog: So it seems like Riddick, after all this talk about how bad he is, might be an alright guy after all when he prevents Jack from getting killed and used as bait by Johns. Then Riddick leaving the others to die as soon as it becomes a viable option really drives home the point of what a scumbag he can be. But it's Averted once more as Fry convinces him to go back for them and he does. Further proved by the fact that Riddick is very visibly heartbroken when Fry is killed, and in the sequel where he's been trying keep mercenaries from hunting Jack/Kyra, and is also later on the verge of tears when Lord Marshall kills her.
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Pitch Black / int_493a162d	type	Bioluminescence Is Cool
Pitch Black / int_493a162d	comment	Bioluminescence Is Cool: Justified due to the Bizarre Alien Biology of the light-sensitive monsters that eat everything else on the planet during every eclipse. The glow-worms end up saving the lives of the survivors.
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Pitch Black / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Pitch Black / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Played with in the ending. Fry is pulled away into the darkness to be feasted on by the creatures, but unlike others we see being eaten by them in the dark through Riddick's enhanced vision, the viewers are not forced to watch what he is clearly seeing.
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Pitch Black / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Pitch Black / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "Not her... Her."
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Pitch Black / int_4ee5989a	type	Bizarre Alien Senses
Pitch Black / int_4ee5989a	comment	Bizarre Alien Senses: The monsters use echolocation. Shots of their P.O.V. depict this using monochromatic pixel-clouds that take the form of solid objects and show clearer resolution when they cry out.
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Pitch Black / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Pitch Black / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Fry. At the beginning of the movie she tries to sacrifice her mostly civilian crew to save herself, despite the fact that captains are supposed to put themselves last in crisis. At the climax, she tells Riddick that she would die for the others, and eventually loses her life saving Riddick. Riddick might also count, as he appears to be ready to turn over a new leaf at the end, saying: "Tell them Riddick's dead. He died somewhere on that planet.".
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Pitch Black / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Pitch Black / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: (Riddick throws someone to the monsters in the dark) "One rule: Stay in the light." (Riddick disembowels an alien) "Did not know who he was fucking with."
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Pitch Black / int_5262c2bd	type	Bullet Holes and Revelations
Pitch Black / int_5262c2bd	comment	Bullet Holes and Revelations: Toward the end of the movie, Riddick is wounded running interference for the remaining survivors. Fry returns to attempt to pick him up, allowing him to use her as support. After a lot of stumbling around, they both freeze after an obvious sound effect of someone being struck. Fry is revealed to have been impaled by one of the bioraptors and is lifted away to her death, much to Riddick's dismay.
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Pitch Black / int_553cbdc2	type	Eyeless Face
Pitch Black / int_553cbdc2	comment	Eyeless Face: The bioraptors don't possess any eyes, since they're nocturnal creatures that hunt by echolocation.
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Pitch Black / int_5565c2dd	type	Rule of Perception
Pitch Black / int_5565c2dd	comment	Rule of Perception: The filmmakers tried accurately representing the lighting effects of the three differently-colored suns, but even when achieved practically, it still looked fake. They eventually gave in and colored the actors to match the star behind them, which conveys the concept to the audience very effectively, despite making no actual sense.
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Pitch Black / int_566a7660	type	Smells Sexy
Pitch Black / int_566a7660	comment	Smells Sexy: Riddick appears to be preparing to shank the new female captain from the shadows, he simply cuts off a piece of her hair to give it a sniff when she isn't looking.
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Pitch Black / int_574c0dd2	type	Conveniently Placed Sharp Thing
Pitch Black / int_574c0dd2	comment	Conveniently Placed Sharp Thing: Both versions are simulated by Riddick. He dislocates both shoulders (eat your heart out, Riggs!), and slips his cuffs through some Conveniently Placed Starship Damage before cutting them off with a Conveniently Placed Plasma Cutter.
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Pitch Black / int_579d50de	type	Monster Threat Expiration
Pitch Black / int_579d50de	comment	Monster Threat Expiration: The critters are a prime example of this trope. At the beginning of the film, they are clearly crawling around while there's still sunlight visible. Later on, a dimly luminescent glass jar can send them screaming away.
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Pitch Black / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Pitch Black / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine:
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Pitch Black / int_61e3b6ae	type	It's a Small World, After All
Pitch Black / int_61e3b6ae	comment	It's a Small World, After All: The ship crashes on the planet, conveniently within walking range of the settlement, though it was intended as an aversion. Ken Wheat, the original writer of the film with his brother, Jim, explained that in the first draft of their script The Ship had detected the Settlement and tried to land near there so as to be near an area where there might be supplies.
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Pitch Black / int_62663d88	type	Men Don't Cry
Pitch Black / int_62663d88	comment	Men Don't Cry: Carolyn's death is the only time Riddick shows tears.
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Pitch Black / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
Pitch Black / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: Riddick's captor lets the other crash survivors believe he's the equivalent of a federal marshal, but is actually a drug-addicted mercenary, out to collect the price on Riddick's head.
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Pitch Black / int_63557923	type	Death World
Pitch Black / int_63557923	comment	Death World: When the bizarre layout of the planet's solar system isn't causing constant daylight and horrendous temperatures, nocturnal monsters are eating all fauna unlucky enough to come across them.
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Pitch Black / int_674c71e9	type	Live-Action Escort Mission
Pitch Black / int_674c71e9	comment	Live-Action Escort Mission: The second half of the film.
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Pitch Black / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Pitch Black / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: We get this exchange: Later becomes a double-example during the climactic fight with Johns.
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Pitch Black / int_6c39a2ad	type	Shaky P.O.V. Cam
Pitch Black / int_6c39a2ad	comment	Shaky P.O.V. Cam: They combined this trope with a weird ghost-images-in-static effect, to simulate how its blind alien creatures perceive their surroundings via echolocation.
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Pitch Black / int_6d01755e	type	Monstrous Cannibalism
Pitch Black / int_6d01755e	comment	Monstrous Cannibalism: Implied to be why the bioraptors start killing each other in midair.
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Pitch Black / int_6dd4006e	type	The Great Repair
Pitch Black / int_6dd4006e	comment	The Great Repair: The survivors of a starship crash on a remote moon must move power cells to the skiff (a small starship) so they can refuel it and escape.
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Pitch Black / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Pitch Black / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: Lampshaded by Riddick when the survivers of the crashed spaceship managed to capture him, but then releases him due to the alien fauna.
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Pitch Black / int_75bfffd4	type	Bat Scare
Pitch Black / int_75bfffd4	comment	Bat Scare: Subverted, because the flock of little chittering flyers turns out not to be harmless. At all.
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Pitch Black / int_75e2bf23	type	Chiaroscuro
Pitch Black / int_75e2bf23	comment	Chiaroscuro: The entire second half of the film. The filmmakers initially wanted to film the whole thing in real, full blackness with the only light being the sources held by the characters, but this quickly proved impractical. Still, the film uses the absolute bare minimum of light once the eclipse hits totality.
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Pitch Black / int_768c6ada	type	Nay-Theist
Pitch Black / int_768c6ada	comment	Naytheist: As he explains to the imam, Riddick absolutely believes in God — but he absolutely despises him. This is a belief known as misotheism.
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Pitch Black / int_77473d35	type	God Is Evil
Pitch Black / int_77473d35	comment	God Is Evil: Riddick is of this opinion.
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Pitch Black / int_77538ed4	type	Admiring the Abomination
Pitch Black / int_77538ed4	comment	Admiring the Abomination: Upon seeing the huge swarms of vicious night-dwelling flying monsters emerging from underground, Riddick can only whisper: "Beautiful". Probably because he identifies with them much better than with humans.
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Pitch Black / int_77a55dfa	type	Endless Daytime
Pitch Black / int_77a55dfa	comment	Endless Daytime: The planet the protagonists crashland on orbits three suns, such that it is always sunlight except once every 22 years, when the three suns line up and are simultaneously eclipsed.
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Pitch Black / int_7f1be21	type	Functional Addict
Pitch Black / int_7f1be21	comment	Functional Addict: Implied to be the case with Johns, who steals morphine from the medkit and injects it into his tear duct, possibly to avoid leaving visible needlemarks. See the Eye Scream entry above.
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Pitch Black / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Pitch Black / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Paris has a breakdown during the trek to the ship and crawls away into the darkness. As he's wrapped up in light cords, he accidentally pulls the portable generator that powers them off the sled, destroying it. This not only gets him killed, but also leaves the rest of the characters without much light.
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Pitch Black / int_8252652c	type	All Planets Are Earth-Like
Pitch Black / int_8252652c	comment	All Planets Are Earthlike: It's a desert planet, obviously hotter than hot. How it supports such an oxygen rich, earth-like atmosphere complete with rain is never explained. Yet there is a comment about the atmosphere being thinner, "like high altitude". And there was a preliminary scan during the crash to establish that, luckily, the planet can support human life. So the trope receives at least a Hand Wave.
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Pitch Black / int_82f5ced1	type	Conservation of Ninjutsu
Pitch Black / int_82f5ced1	comment	Conservation of Ninjutsu: Averted; Riddick can kill one creature just fine, but two of them damn near kill him (though he managed to slaughter both despite his injuries).
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Pitch Black / int_83a8d697	type	Oblivious Guilt Slinging
Pitch Black / int_83a8d697	comment	Oblivious Guilt Slinging: The survivors praise Carolyn for having got them down safely, not knowing that she tried to jettison their cargo compartment.
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Pitch Black / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Pitch Black / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Riddick is a much darker character in this film than in subsequent movies (where he's more of an Anti-Hero), partly because Pitch Black is the story of his redemption. While the first half treats him more as an antagonist, Riddick's opening monologue and the increasing focus on him for the latter half make it quite clear that it's as much his story as Carolyn's. He's introduced as a murderous criminal, and does little to dispel it. He's utterly opportunistic throughout the story, sociopathically indifferent to all the death around him, and is fully ready to leave the other survivors behind on the alien planet when they're no longer of use to him. He even tries to corrupt Carolyn to make the selfish choice to join him and forget about the others, threatening to leave her to die if she doesn't. It's Carolyn's quest to ultimately be a better person that motivates his Heelâ€“Face Turn by the end.
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Pitch Black / int_8f228548	type	Booze Flamethrower
Pitch Black / int_8f228548	comment	Booze Flamethrower: Paris, who goes out spraying alcohol onto a flame, burning the surrounding monsters about to attack.
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Pitch Black / int_8ffcdaf6	type	Sealed Cast in a Multipack
Pitch Black / int_8ffcdaf6	comment	Sealed Cast in a Multipack: The film features a starship on a very long journey carrying the passengers and crew this way. When the ship detects a hazard in its path, in this case, a passing comet trailing debris, it automatically wakes the crew. Unfortunately, it does this just in time for the ship to collide with the debris while the crew is still trying to wake up. The passengers end up waking up during the crash, and the plot kicks off when it is discovered that one of them, a multiple-murderer, is no longer in his pod...
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Pitch Black / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Pitch Black / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Zeke murders a survivor who he mistook for Riddick, and then is killed by the creatures when hiding away the body. Paris panics and runs away, which disables the best light source and screws over the entire group. He is killed very quickly afterwards. Johns is willing to kill anyone else in the group, even Jack, to distract the creatures so he can escape. Riddick wounds him instead, letting him be the distraction. Doubly so as he takes a shot at the alien that kills him, but his shotgun cycled to a fake round (which he uses to carry his drug stash) that he loaded accidentally in his panic.
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Pitch Black / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
Pitch Black / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: "Where's Johns?" "Which half?" Shazza, who gets ripped in half and carried off still screaming by a swarm of juvenile Bioraptors. Happens Behind the Black to Hasan, the second of Imam's young pupils to die, albeit out of direct view; he's yanked into the shadows by one of the Bioraptors, and its head springs forward at waist-height in a splash of blood.
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Pitch Black / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Pitch Black / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Riddick cooperates with most of the group's plan until they reach the canyon and he can't protect the group as well as himself any longer. However, he does end up overriding this notion after offering to save only Fry when she reaches the skiff alone but convinces him to return with her.
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Pitch Black / int_95b875b1	type	Not Me This Time
Pitch Black / int_95b875b1	comment	Not Me This Time: When the crew discovers Zeke's body, Riddick appears out of nowhere, and is immediately captured and accused of having killed him. Riddick admits that he has killed a few people, but Zeke wasn't one of them... which leads to the crew finding out about the Bioraptors.
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Pitch Black / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
Pitch Black / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: The Hunter-Gratzner is named after effects technicians Ian Hunter & Matthew Gratzner, founders of New Deal Studios (Who would go on to do the sequel).
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Pitch Black / int_9600368d	type	Behind the Black
Pitch Black / int_9600368d	comment	Happens Behind the Black to Hasan, the second of Imam's young pupils to die, albeit out of direct view; he's yanked into the shadows by one of the Bioraptors, and its head springs forward at waist-height in a splash of blood.
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Pitch Black / int_9a5ae2a2	type	More Teeth than the Osmond Family
Pitch Black / int_9a5ae2a2	comment	More Teeth than the Osmond Family: A few shots of the bioraptors reveal that their mouths are filled with long, needle-thin teeth.
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Pitch Black / int_9b06c1d4	type	Sense-Impaired Monster
Pitch Black / int_9b06c1d4	comment	Sense-Impaired Monster: The aliens have no eyes due to hunting exclusively in total darkness, leaving them completely blind. They make up for this through Super-Hearing and echolocation.
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Pitch Black / int_9c842299	type	Weaponized Exhaust
Pitch Black / int_9c842299	comment	Weaponized Exhaust: Richard B. Riddick does this to the alien monsters as the survivors make their getaway at the end.
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Pitch Black / int_a03509ce	type	You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With
Pitch Black / int_a03509ce	comment	You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With: Riddick uses this twice. First when Fry tries to convince him to come back to save the other survivors, and he suggests she abandon them and come with him instead. And a second time, retroactively, after killing a vicious alien in hand-to-hand combat:
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Pitch Black / int_a18d407b	type	Samus Is a Girl
Pitch Black / int_a18d407b	comment	Samus Is a Girl: Jack fools everyone, until Riddick casually mentions her gender as The Reveal.
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Pitch Black / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Pitch Black / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Johns shoots morphine by injecting it into his tear duct. Cole Hauser, the actor who played Johns, stated in the commentary that he was inspired to do this by a doctor's answer to "the most disgusting place" he'd ever seen someone inject themselves.
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Pitch Black / int_a2b998a0	type	Wouldn't Hurt a Child
Pitch Black / int_a2b998a0	comment	Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Riddick likes children quite a lot, and they in turn seem fascinated by him - not just Jack, but Imam's younger acolyte as well. In fact he likes them enough that he refuses to kill Jack even though she's actually a girl on her period and attracting the monsters. He doesn't have any qualms about leaving them to save himself, though.
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Pitch Black / int_a3422c3b	type	Period Shaming
Pitch Black / int_a3422c3b	comment	Period Shaming: When it's revealed that Jack is a teenage girl and is on her period, thus drawing the creatures to their location, Johns gets especially angry and crudely snaps at Jack to "put a cork in it". While the situation is far from ideal and Jack could've mentioned it earlier, it's hardly Jack's fault she got her period at the worst possible time and the other characters are more sympathetic to her, as she's distraught enough already. Even Riddick simply points out the practical problems rather than blaming and insulting Jack for it, underlining that Johns is even worse than Riddick. Johns then suggests using Jack as bait for the creatures to save his own skin.
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Pitch Black / int_a4070b5e	type	Stripped to the Bone
Pitch Black / int_a4070b5e	comment	Stripped to the Bone: Ali, one of the Imam's young companions, gets trapped in a dark room with a swarm of juvenile winged aliens. By the time the others break in, all that's left are his clothes and bloody bones.
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Pitch Black / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
Pitch Black / int_a8217606	comment	Sweet Polly Oliver: Jack/Kyra, though more to the characters than the audience.
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Pitch Black / int_aa87556f	type	Orange/Blue Contrast
Pitch Black / int_aa87556f	comment	Orange/Blue Contrast: The binary pair of the red and yellow suns and the opposite blue sun take turns in the sky evoking this trope.
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Pitch Black / int_abb930ed	type	Sleeper Starship
Pitch Black / int_abb930ed	comment	Sleeper Starship: The film begins with the crew and passengers on a long-distance ship in hibernation. In a bit of unusual flair with the concept, the Anti-Hero (and narrator) Riddick is awake in his pod, and introducing the rest of the cast by smell.
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Pitch Black / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Pitch Black / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: The main reason Johns is opposed to the idea of taking Riddick to the skiff is that Riddick's actually a trained pilot. Sure enough, after Fry's death, he's the only one able to fly the remaining survivors off at the end.
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Pitch Black / int_ad4c74ed	type	Final Girl
Pitch Black / int_ad4c74ed	comment	Final Girl: The woman who seems most likely to be the final girl is killed off only a few minutes before the movie ends, though the fact that she tries to sacrifice the passengers of the ship she was piloting early in the film hints at her redemptive death. The only characters to survive the movie are ironically the ones most likely to die in another slasher flick: the pacifist black man; the teenage girl who pretended to be a ''boy'' for the first half of the movie and has just reached sexual maturity; and Riddick, the Villain Protagonist, who survives due to Executive Meddling.
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Pitch Black / int_ad7a381d	type	P.O.V. Cam
Pitch Black / int_ad7a381d	comment	P.O.V. Cam: The echolocation of the alien creatures is represented by POV shots of "images" made up of tiny pixel-dots that convey textures and surfaces. Riddick's POV is also shown several times, giving us a look at his natural night vision.
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Pitch Black / int_ae372576	type	I Warned You
Pitch Black / int_ae372576	comment	I Warned You: When Johns is considering releasing Riddick until they get off the planet, Riddick gives Johns an honest warning that he'd be better off killing Riddick there and then rather than run the risk of getting knived by Riddick in pursuit of a bounty. Riddick reminds Johns of this when he kills him to use Johns as bait for the predators.
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Pitch Black / int_ae3a3b36	type	Take a Moment to Catch Your Death
Pitch Black / int_ae3a3b36	comment	Take a Moment to Catch Your Death: The death of the female lead at the end after she and Riddick survive a confrontation with two of the monsters when another lunges out of the dark and snatches her up.
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Pitch Black / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Pitch Black / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Riddick, with a dark sense of humor to go with it: Jack, in the beginning, after the ship has crashed and there's chaos everywhere:
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Pitch Black / int_ae69516f	type	Artificial Gravity
Pitch Black / int_ae69516f	comment	Artificial Gravity: A loading bar on the inside of the glass on Fry's cryo booth shows the ship's gravity quickly go up to 100%.
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Pitch Black / int_af4ca2bf	type	Space Police
Pitch Black / int_af4ca2bf	comment	Space Police: The bounty hunter leads the other crash-survivors to believe that he's a law-enforcement agent, although it's unclear whether he's pretending to be space police, or an officer of a planetary police force that sent him up to retrieve a fugitive.
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Pitch Black / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Pitch Black / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: Both literally and figuratively; Once the lights go out, the survivors start showing their true character. Several times choices are presented to them and who they really are inside shows through. During the intro, Fry refuses to risk her life for others, and, after ditching the last of the survivors and reaching the shuttle alone, Riddick offers her the option to come with him or go back for Imam and Jack to die. Surprisingly, she not only goes back for Imam and Jack, but for Riddick when presented the choice. Johns and Riddick walk ahead of the group, discussing the best way to get through the canyon up ahead. Johns suggests gutting Jack and dragging her corpse as bait to distract the creatures, showing what a truly amoral Dirty Coward he is. It is Riddick that finds this idea reprehensible and he attacks Johns instead, showing there is some sort of humanity and compassion still inside of him.
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Pitch Black / int_b117e1fb	type	You Owe Me
Pitch Black / int_b117e1fb	comment	You Owe Me: Used a little differently with Johns and Riddick. Johns spares Riddick's life when there was an argument over whether he should live or die and Riddick suggests that killing him is their best option. Riddick was clearly smart enough to know that Johns thought he could use Riddick in some way. By not killing him, Riddick (in his own personal code, at least) instantly absolved himself of any favours he might owe Johns.
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Pitch Black / int_b2ceabcd	type	Nice Day, Deadly Night
Pitch Black / int_b2ceabcd	comment	Nice Day, Deadly Night: Survivors of a starship's crash landing discover that the deserted planet they're on has three suns, resulting in almost constant sunlight. When a prolonged total eclipse occurs, they are swarmed by deadly alien monsters in the dark.
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Pitch Black / int_b2f7c60a	type	Living Motion Detector
Pitch Black / int_b2f7c60a	comment	Living Motion Detector: A variant, in that the monster can't see you if you stand between its eyes, because of a blind spot caused by their armored heads.
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Pitch Black / int_b50580f7	type	Don't Look Down
Pitch Black / int_b50580f7	comment	Don't Look Down: Inverted. As the group flees from the Bioraptors during the final act of the film, Riddick warns the others not to look up, as the creatures are in the sky, gruesomely ripping each other to shreds. Carolyn immediately looks up as soon as Riddick tells her not to.
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Pitch Black / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Pitch Black / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Paris, in a fit of blind panic after a creature swoops on the group, screws over everybody by scrambling away, pulling out the battery powering the glow-stick type lights... including the ONLY source of light around his own torso. Karmic Death ensues.
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Pitch Black / int_b5c56995	type	Corrupt the Cutie
Pitch Black / int_b5c56995	comment	First when Fry tries to convince him to come back to save the other survivors, and he suggests she abandon them and come with him instead.
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Pitch Black / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
Pitch Black / int_b6de94d1	comment	This almost happened to Riddick. In the original script, Riddick was supposed to die instead of Fry. Executive Meddling put a stop to that, since The Chronicles of Carolyn Fry would not have made for a decent sequel.
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Pitch Black / int_b90e8dc1	type	Hard-to-Light Fire
Pitch Black / int_b90e8dc1	comment	Hard-to-Light Fire: More hard-to-relight fire, when the rain starts extinguishing the torches and the fleeing survivors vainly attempt to reignite one with another.
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Pitch Black / int_ba014235	type	Cryonics Failure
Pitch Black / int_ba014235	comment	Cryonics Failure: In the first minutes, the captain dies in their universe's version of cryo-sleep because some small meteorites crash through the ship, causing debris (more accurately, bolts bursting from the ship's interior) to perforate him while he's asleep.
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Pitch Black / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Pitch Black / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: As part of Riddick's attempt to corrupt Fry and win her over, he presents her with an impossible choice. She can only convince him to go with her willingly to rescue the two others she left behind. Riddick however offers her to leave them to die and take off with him in the skiff instead. She can either die along with them, knowing that she's a good person but save no one or come with Riddick and live with the guilt for the rest of her life. What makes this worse is that as Riddick points out, there is no one to blame Fry for choosing self-preservation. She eventually does make a moral stand and convinces Riddick to help her, as her moral actions intrigue him.
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Pitch Black / int_bf67c13e	type	Opening Monologue
Pitch Black / int_bf67c13e	comment	Opening Monologue: The film opens with the crew of the Hunter Gratzner in stasis in deep space. The captured Riddick notes that his brain —or at least the animalistic side— is still awake, and asserts the situation in voiceover, surveying the rest of the crew and his plans for escape.
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Pitch Black / int_c0bfb059	type	Against My Religion
Pitch Black / int_c0bfb059	comment	Against My Religion: Imam refuses to drink liquor because he's a Muslim, even though it's the only thing drinkable for the moment. Which is not well researched regarding Islam: Imam's position in the film is dire, stuck on a desert planet with no other food or water, and he has three children to look after. In Islam, if the situation is dire enough to threaten one's life by lack of halal food and clean (no alcohol) drinks, Muslims are permitted to consume any available meat (meat of a lizard, meat of a dog or pig) or drink alcohol, just to survive until help comes. This is, however, somewhat mitigated by the fact that their high alcohol content would leave an unaccustomed drinker floored. Also, the castaways had barely begun to explore their surroundings at the time he was offered alcohol, and he still had high hopes of finding a water source.
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Pitch Black / int_c2f7db18	type	Alien Blood
Pitch Black / int_c2f7db18	comment	Alien Blood: When the flying monsters start killing each other, the blood that spatters down on the fleeing humans is blue.
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Pitch Black / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Pitch Black / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: The crash survivors searching for water think they see some trees on a hill. Then they crest the hill and find an graveyard for gigantic, slug-like extraterrestrial beasts.
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Pitch Black / int_c48667d9	type	Backseat Driver
Pitch Black / int_c48667d9	comment	Backseat Driver: Owens for pretty much all of his screen time. All he does is heap demands on Fry, bitch when she tries to take any action, and generally be an unhelpful noisemaker during an emergency. There's at least an attempt to give him a slightly noble slant in that he won't let Fry dump the cryo bay to correct the ship's attitude during the crash, but even that's called into question as his stated complaint is "company says we're responsible" for the passengers' lives. So even that token nobility is on shaky ground.
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Pitch Black / int_c567de02	type	Ghost Planet
Pitch Black / int_c567de02	comment	Ghost Planet
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Pitch Black / int_c6713569	type	HeWillComeForMe
Pitch Black / int_c6713569	comment	He Will Come for Me: Jack says "He's not coming back, is he?" when Riddick leaves Jack and Imam in the cave. Zigzagged when Riddick WAS going to leave them to die, but Fry convinces him otherwise. Their return prompts Jack to say, "Never had a doubt!"
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Pitch Black / int_c84e56a2	type	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You
Pitch Black / int_c84e56a2	comment	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: Some posters and DVD covers depict Riddick points a gun at the audience. Rather odd, considering he doesn't wield a handgun at any point in the film, and the only firearm he ever carried was the one he took from Johns when he released him and gave back barely a minute later.
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Pitch Black / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
Pitch Black / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: Paris, to the extent that he was "supposed to die in France". He "never even saw France".
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Pitch Black / int_c94f1109	type	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry
Pitch Black / int_c94f1109	comment	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry: Paris states that any liquor over 45 proof can be set alight easily. In reality, liquor needs to be over about 80 proof to catch fire. The screenwriter probably confused "proof" with percentage of alcohol, since 45% alcohol liquor is 90 proof, just above the threshold to catch fire.
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Pitch Black / int_ca81eae7	type	Hollywood Darkness
Pitch Black / int_ca81eae7	comment	Hollywood Darkness: Averted. The film is well-named, since during the triple eclipse the whole planet becomes astonishingly dark.
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Pitch Black / int_cd2b3d4a	type	MST3K Mantra
Pitch Black / int_cd2b3d4a	comment	Really the entire planetâ€™s ecology would be worth a deep dive since the scant bits we do get give only the barest hints of how the whole ecosystem works/worked, but thatâ€™s not what the movie is concerned about.
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Pitch Black / int_d0bf8a6d	type	No Periods, Period
Pitch Black / int_d0bf8a6d	comment	No Periods, Period: Jack is actually a teen girl, and well, you put the rest together...
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Pitch Black / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Pitch Black / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Two-Fold for Johns. He didn't kill Riddick when he had the chance, as Riddick tells him just before one of the aliens eats him. And he fails to kill said alien even though he's armed with a shotgun, because in his panic he loaded one of his fake shells filled with his drugs, and after firing on Riddick, the next round to cycle is the fake shell, leading to a misfire that costs him his life.
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Pitch Black / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Pitch Black / int_d39e327f	comment	Fry. At the beginning of the movie she tries to sacrifice her mostly civilian crew to save herself, despite the fact that captains are supposed to put themselves last in crisis. At the climax, she tells Riddick that she would die for the others, and eventually loses her life saving Riddick.
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Pitch Black / int_d69421ec	type	Small Universe After All
Pitch Black / int_d69421ec	comment	Small Universe After All: The novelization makes it clear that humanity has colonized multiple galaxies with Riddick coming from the Sigma Galaxy and John's chasing Riddick across three galaxies.
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Pitch Black / int_d6fce123	type	The Future Is Noir
Pitch Black / int_d6fce123	comment	The Future Is Noir: Pitch Black is hard-boiled fiction, with themes not unlike Blade Runner or "The Silence of the Lambs IN SPACE!".
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Pitch Black / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
Pitch Black / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Subverted. The imam thinks that Riddick is one of these. Riddick is in fact a misotheist, one who believes in God, and hates Him.
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Pitch Black / int_dc121769	type	Elephant Graveyard
Pitch Black / int_dc121769	comment	Elephant Graveyard: The survivors of the crash stumble upon a graveyard of giant extinct aliens. Imam even compares it to an elephant graveyard. Riddick is hiding there.
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Pitch Black / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Pitch Black / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: As mentioned in the Conveniently Close Planet entry, the ship happens to crash land on an inhabitable (sort of) planet 22 months out from port, within walking distance of a defunct mining outpost. And does so on the one day out of every 22 years that it has a solar eclipse, which allows thousands of carnivorous, dark-loving creatures to come to the surface and terrorize the crew.
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Pitch Black / int_dc9b1fe9	type	Cue the Sun
Pitch Black / int_dc9b1fe9	comment	Cue the Sun: Used straight, as the shuttle lifts off and the triple suns reappear from behind their respective planets (meaning no more dark-loving beasties)
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Pitch Black / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Pitch Black / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Riddick and Fry. His first direct act, before being revealed to the other survivors, is to cut away a lock of her hair and smell it. Later he demonstrates a willingness to stand up for her, and is generally more forthcoming with her than with most other characters. And of course, there is his offer near the end to have her join him in escaping the planet alone due to being impressed by her determination. It's less clear whether Fry reciprocated any of these feelings, though. The closest clue that it might be partially reciprocated is when they hold hands, even going so far as to link fingers, during part of the final escape towards the ship. She also dies saving him, so it's quite possible that part of her connected with him after he changed his mind about leaving Imam and Jack because of her sheer determination.
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Pitch Black / int_dcc509ae	type	Staring Down Cthulhu
Pitch Black / int_dcc509ae	comment	Staring Down Cthulhu: Played with. Riddick realizes that the flying alien creatures have a "blind spot" right in the center of their echolocation-based vision. When he's confronted with one of them, he gets right up in its face so it can't see him. It does work, but then falls apart when a second one suddenly shows up.
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Pitch Black / int_dd46397e	type	Just Desserts
Pitch Black / int_dd46397e	comment	Just Desserts: Johns let a man die an agonizing death by not revealing he had morphine and was ready to murder Jack to distract the bioraptors. Riddick ultimately leaves him alone in the dark and Johns is killed and eaten by the monsters.
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Pitch Black / int_ddc6244b	type	Emergency Refuelling
Pitch Black / int_ddc6244b	comment	Emergency Refuelling: A large part of the movie involves the protagonists trying to refuel a spaceship so they can escape the planet they're stranded on and avoid being eaten by its deadly wildlife.
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Pitch Black / int_ded30b33	type	Triage Tyrant
Pitch Black / int_ded30b33	comment	Triage Tyrant: Discussed between Riddick and Johns as they see that it's still a long road to go to get to the escape vehicle and the possibility of being torn apart by bio-raptors is just increasing. Johns' discussion is an attempt to try to convince Riddick to kill Jack and use her corpse to distract the bio-raptors. Riddick, who is a Friend to All Children even if he is an unrepentant criminal, decides Johns is better off dead right then and there.
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Pitch Black / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Pitch Black / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Carolyn Fry initially appears to be the main protagonist, but the limelight is quickly stolen by Riddick.
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Pitch Black / int_e135b3de	type	Pass the Popcorn
Pitch Black / int_e135b3de	comment	Pass the Popcorn: A more sadistic example, where Riddick is seen casually drinking some liquor while watching another man get gunned down by a Zeke, who thought the innocent man was Riddick.
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Pitch Black / int_e2a6ebc1	type	Closed Circle
Pitch Black / int_e2a6ebc1	comment	Closed Circle: They just loved this trope. First, their starship crashes to a mysterious planet. They go to retrieve power cells so they can leave in a smaller, functional ship. Their car they're using is solar powered, and seemed ideal on a planet with three suns, but as luck would have it, they have a solar eclipse, which releases the monsters that are harmed by light. As monsters pick off each of the characters, and they continuously lose light sources, the remaining characters are trapped in a cave, with Riddick holding the only working flashlight.
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Pitch Black / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Pitch Black / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Since no one besides the big guy can see in the dark, Johns tells Riddick to provide recon for the group, as they have no light and the eclipse has darkened the entire planet:
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Pitch Black / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Pitch Black / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Silently threatened by Riddick towards Johns, but not carried out.
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Pitch Black / int_ec2d62b9	type	Cult Colony
Pitch Black / int_ec2d62b9	comment	Cult Colony: Richard B. Riddick encounters Imam, a character determined to find the colony New Mecca, where multiple religious groups are alleged to co-exist without religious conflict.
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Pitch Black / int_ed2bbf8a	type	You Are in Command Now
Pitch Black / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: The captain of the ship is the first casualty of the film, killed by shrapnel at the very start of the crisis. The ship's pilot, Fry, does her best to save the ship, but attempts to save herself and Owens by jettisoning the passenger compartment (Owens stops her before dying in the resulting crash). For the duration of the film, the passengers look to Fry for leadership, and she also has to deal with the compounding problems of Riddick and the planet's deadly wildlife.
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Pitch Black / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
Pitch Black / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: The movie begins with an emergency crash-landing that leaves dozen survivors seeking rescue. By the time the movie ends, only three people remain.
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Pitch Black / int_eef9a51d	type	Where Is Your X Now?
Pitch Black / int_eef9a51d	comment	Where Is Your X Now?: Throughout the movie, devout Muslim Imam insists that God will provide for them. So when a sudden rain begins extinguishing the torches they've been using to keep the photosensitive alien locusts at bay, decidedly nihilistic career criminal Riddick mockingly asks him, "Where the hell's your God now?" This leads to an ironic inversion a few scenes later, when Riddick goes scouting ahead, returning with halogen lights and a clear path to a shuttle that can take them off the planet, Imam triumphantly retorts, "There is my God now, Mr. Riddick."
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Pitch Black / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Pitch Black / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: This almost happened to Riddick. In the original script, Riddick was supposed to die instead of Fry. Executive Meddling put a stop to that, since The Chronicles of Carolyn Fry would not have made for a decent sequel. Keep in mind, it was redemption for Carolyn, since she almost sacrificed her passengers to save herself at the start of the film.
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Pitch Black / int_f226207f	type	Conveniently Close Planet
Pitch Black / int_f226207f	comment	Conveniently Close Planet: It's a good thing the interstellar freighter which was 22 months out from its port was passing so close to an inhabitable moon when the artificial pilot malfunctioned, isn't it? It's established early that the planet they were passing was uncharted and because of that its mere existence caused the autopilot to exceed its tolerance due to the unexpected atmospheric change.
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Pitch Black / int_f7602ddc	type	Handy Cuffs
Pitch Black / int_f7602ddc	comment	Handy Cuffs: Riddick is blindfolded and handcuffed around a post with his hands behind him. Sensing that the post is not secure at the top, he dislocates both shoulders to get his hands up and over and escape.
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Pitch Black / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Pitch Black / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Riddick, while initially coming off as a morally ambiguous and even somewhat likable character, shows what kind of a person he really is by the end when he rather apathetically decides to abandon the others entirely for his own benefit. When Carolyn confronts him, he seems to enjoy (correctly) pointing out to her that she herself is really no better than he is, as she like him was entirely willing to sacrifice the rest of the passengers to save herself at the beginning of the story, and he almost seems to see her as a kindred spirit of sorts. He even offers to take her with him, thereby knowingly saving her own life at the expense of the others, and tries to goad her into stooping to his level. She chooses to have none of it and rejects that she is anything like Riddick by refusing to leave Jack and Imam behind. Riddick chooses to help her, intrigued by her decision. Also a major contributor to Riddick's state of mind in the end; he cannot comprehend why Carolyn would sacrifice herself for him of all people and it breaks his core life philosophies.
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Pitch Black / int_fab3c1e1	type	Weakened by the Light
Pitch Black / int_fab3c1e1	comment	Weakened by the Light: The creatures are actually burned by any exposure to light. Additionally, Riddick's eyeshine treatment leaves him easily blinded by bright lights.
Pitch Black / int_fab3c1e1	featureApplicability	1.0
Pitch Black / int_fab3c1e1	featureConfidence	1.0
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Pitch Black / int_fab3c1e1
Pitch Black / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
Pitch Black / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: Required to make the planet dark, as required by the plot. True a giant gas planet blocks the sun, but its rings would scatter the light (here's the sun eclipsed by Saturn◊, see?), putting the planet into a very dark twilight, but not something human eyes couldn't adjust to. True it eventually rains, it could have been cloudy - but that's artistic license, too. Add to that the near impossibility of this particular orbital configuration, and.. well, Tropes Are Tools!
Pitch Black / int_fc225bec	featureApplicability	1.0
Pitch Black / int_fc225bec	featureConfidence	1.0
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Pitch Black / int_fc225bec
Pitch Black / int_fd807d08	type	New Neo City
Pitch Black / int_fd807d08	comment	New Neo City: Imam and co. are travelling to somewhere called New Mecca.
Pitch Black / int_fd807d08	featureApplicability	1.0
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Pitch Black / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Pitch Black / int_fe0330fb	comment	Happens again right at the end of the climactic fight between the two. Doubles as a really black Brick Joke.
Pitch Black / int_fe0330fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Pitch Black / int_fe0330fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Pitch Black / int_fe0330fb
Pitch Black / int_fe1d3a6b	type	Kill the Lights
Pitch Black / int_fe1d3a6b	comment	Kill the Lights: In the last act, the more intelligent of the creatures appear to be trying to do this by attacking those holding light sources.
Pitch Black / int_fe1d3a6b	featureApplicability	1.0
Pitch Black / int_fe1d3a6b	featureConfidence	1.0
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Pitch Black / int_fe938414	type	Sympathy for the Hero
Pitch Black / int_fe938414	comment	Sympathy for the Hero: This is the source of Riddick's redemption. He's a borderline sociopathic murderer who has been killing people, though we're never told if it's for pleasure or survival. Carolyn Fry starts out much the same way; while not being a criminal she's willing to jettison all the passengers in the opening and tries to cope with the guilt for the rest of the movie. Riddick initially admires Fry for her "strong survival instinct" and offers her at the end to leave the planet together by threatening to leave her behind to die if she doesn't. She eventually refuses and professes her willingness to die for the others. This declared intent of self-sacrifice intrigues Riddick enough to go back with her.
Pitch Black / int_fe938414	featureApplicability	1.0
Pitch Black / int_fe938414	featureConfidence	1.0
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Pitch Black / int_fe938414
Pitch Black / int_feaf12e8	type	Survivor Guilt
Pitch Black / int_feaf12e8	comment	Survivor Guilt: Riddick is briefly struck with this near the end after Fry is killed when she goes back to save him, if his screaming protests of "Not for me! Not for ME!" are any indication.
Pitch Black / int_feaf12e8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Pitch Black / int_fec6ea72	type	BloodSplatteredInnocents
Pitch Black / int_fec6ea72	comment	Blood-Splattered Innocents: Shazza gets a surprise face-full of blood when Zeke shoots one of the crash survivors, whom he takes to be Riddick about to attack her. "Crikey!"
Pitch Black / int_fec6ea72	featureApplicability	1.0
Pitch Black / int_fec6ea72	featureConfidence	1.0
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Pitch Black / int_fec6ea72
Pitch Black / int_fec81854	type	Sensory Overload
Pitch Black / int_fec81854	comment	Sensory Overload: Happens briefly to Riddick when another survivor accidentally shines a flashlight in his super-sensitive eyes.
Pitch Black / int_fec81854	featureApplicability	1.0
Pitch Black / int_fec81854	featureConfidence	1.0
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Pitch Black / int_ff6f943f	type	Verbal Business Card
Pitch Black / int_ff6f943f	comment	Verbal Business Card: There are two in the same scene.
Pitch Black / int_ff6f943f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Pitch Black / int_fff371b4	type	Death Seeker
Pitch Black / int_fff371b4	comment	Death Seeker: Subtly hinted at with Riddick. That trait is (mostly) ditched in later incarnations.
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Pitch Black / int_fff371b4	featureConfidence	1.0
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Phantom's Ange / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Pitch Black
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Abnormal Limb Rotation Range / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Action Horror / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Admiring the Abomination / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Against My Religion / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Alien Sky / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	All Planets Are Earth-Like / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	And This Is for... / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Artificial Gravity / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Back-to-Back Badasses / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Backseat Driver / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Bait the Dog / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Barrier-Busting Blow / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Bat Scare / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Bavarian Fire Drill / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Beneath the Earth / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Binary Suns / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Bizarre Alien Senses / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Blood-Splattered Innocents / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Booze Flamethrower / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Bullet Holes and Revelations / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	By the Lights of Their Eyes / int_b6e12f99
ClaudiaBlack	seeAlso	Pitch Black
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Coming in Hot / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Conveniently Close Planet / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Conveniently Placed Sharp Thing / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Cool Shades / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Corrupt the Cutie / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Crossing the Desert / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Cryonics Failure / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Cue the Sun / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Cult Colony / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Darkness Equals Death / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Death by Materialism / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Death Faked for You / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Death World / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Disposable Vehicle Section / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Does That Sound Like Fun to You? / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Dwindling Party / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Dyeing for Your Art / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Earth Drift / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Elephant Graveyard / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Emergency Cargo Dump / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Emergency Refuelling / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Endless Daytime / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Evil Stole My Faith / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Exotic Eye Designs / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Eyedscreen / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Eyeless Face / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Fantastic Light Source / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Franchise-Driven Retitling / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Ghost Planet / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Handy Cuffs / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Hard-to-Light Fire / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Heaven Above / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Horde of Alien Locusts / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Hostile Weather / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	How Dare You Die on Me! / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	I Warned You / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Iconic Character, Forgotten Title / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Improperly Placed Firearms / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Interfaith Smoothie / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	It's a Small World, After All / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Just Desserts / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Kill the Lights / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Lighting Bug / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Live-Action Escort Mission / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Living Motion Detector / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Men Don't Cry / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Monster Threat Expiration / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Monstrous Cannibalism / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Morality Pet / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	More Predators Than Prey / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	More Teeth than the Osmond Family / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Naming Your Colony World / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Nay-Theist / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Nice Day, Deadly Night / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	No Periods, Period / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Not Me This Time / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Oblivious Guilt Slinging / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Opening Monologue / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	P.O.V. Cam / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Pass the Popcorn / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Period Shaming / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	seeAlso	Pitch Black
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Pushed at the Monster / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Rage Against the Heavens / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Reality Has No Subtitles / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Retirony / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Retronym / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Ribcage Ridge / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Sci-Fi Horror / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Sensory Overload / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Sequel in Another Medium / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Shaky P.O.V. Cam / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Single-Biome Planet / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Sleeper Starship / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Smells Sexy / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Snowy Screen of Death / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Space Police / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Spotlight-Stealing Title / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Standard Establishing Spaceship Shot / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Staring Down Cthulhu / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Stripped to the Bone / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Sudden Name Change / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Sunglasses at Night / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Survivor Guilt / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Sweet Polly Oliver / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Sympathy for the Hero / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Take a Moment to Catch Your Death / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	The Great Repair / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	The Radio Dies First / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Total Eclipse of the Plot / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Triage Tyrant / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Tuckerization / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Unnaturally Blue Lighting / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Verbal Business Card / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Weakened by the Light / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Weaponized Exhaust / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	When the Planets Align / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Where Is Your X Now? / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Wouldn't Hurt a Child / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	You Owe Me / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	Coca-Pepsi, Inc. / int_b6e12f99
Pitch Black	hasFeature	She Will Come for Me / int_b6e12f99

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