Antonia Chillingsworth: You see, Riddick, there is fundamental difference between you and I.
Richard B. Riddick: Yeah. You're a psychopath.
- —Antonia speaking with Richard B. Riddick
Antonia Chillingsworth is the main antagonist of the film The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury. She was voiced by Tress MacNeille.
She is a bounty hunter and the captain of her ship, the Kublai Khan, which houses several alien species and a small army of mercenaries, most of whom were kept in stasis until needed. Chillingsworth seeks out and collects prominent criminals. She would then put them in a unique form of cryo-stasis where it is "so profound that to blink an eye is a day's time". These unfortunate criminals would be displayed in Antonia's personal quarters as works of art. The criminals cannot move more than an eyeblink, but it is said they are fully conscious and aware of their surroundings. She would later capture Riddick, Jack and Imam after they escaped the planet M6-117. Antonia planned on turning Riddick into another one of her forms of "art" and kill Imam and Jack. However, she failed and sent out mercenaries (including Alexander Toombs) and an alien creature to kill the trio. When that plan had also failed, she personally tried to kill Riddick but was shot dead by Jack.
Biography[]
Antonia Chillingsworth appears disguised in hooded robe and permits her right-hand man, Junner, to capture Riddick's ship. She is seen after Riddick kills the mercenaries that tried to infiltrate their ship. Antonia is aware of who Riddick is and tells him to stand down otherwise Junner will kill Jack, who he has at gunpoint. Riddick originally is defiant until he relents at the last moment. As she walks away, she mentions how she knows more about him than he does himself while Riddick, Jack and Imam are taken away to Antonia's private section of the ship. Riddick was be implanted with a bomb by Junner in case Riddick tries to escape or doesn't cooperate.
Antonia reappears in her own personal chambers explaining to Riddick her purpose for turning captured criminals into what she believes is "art". When Riddick mocks her, Antonia notes that he would not understand her. She then has Riddick taken to another section of the ship and wants to observe Riddick in combat before she adds him to her collection. Riddick is prompted to fight since Jack and Imam are restrained there and they would be killed if Riddick failed to live up to his reputation.
After an intense battle with two alien creatures, known as Shrill, Antonia applauds Riddick and explains her own depiction of Riddick's fight. Before she can order Riddick to be put into cryo-stasis, Riddick uses the shiv he used in the fight to carve a slit in his neck and pulls out the bomb that was implanted in him. Antonia states that Riddick will have to be an "abstract piece" and detonates the bomb but Riddick throws it just time and he, Imam and Jack escape.
Enraged, Antonia has Junner summon more mercenaries to go after and kill them as well as arranging a vicious alien creature Brax to pursue the trio. However, this fails with most of the mercenaries getting killed, with the exception of Toombs, by the creature and the creature would get killed by Riddick. After Junner gets killed by Riddick, Antonia personally tries to finish off Riddick who catches him off guard with a handgun, shooting him in the shoulder but before she could finish him off Jack shots Antonia in the head with Junner's rifle to save Riddick's life. The ease with which she takes a human life is a matter of concern to both Riddick and the Imam, and Riddick decides to leave Jack with the Imam on Helion Prime and go into exile.
Relationships[]
Richard B. Riddick[]
Antonia covets Riddick as a new addition to her statuary, but wants first to see him kill, as she considers Riddick to be an artist in killing and wants to watch Riddick with her own eyes when he is "at the moment of bloody creation". This ultimately proves her undoing as Riddick takes advantage of the situation to remove the explosive charge she injected into his neck and use it to improvise an escape route for himself, Jack and Imam.