Pitch Black (2000), The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury (2004) and a 2013 sequel simply titled Riddick. Maybe it's his ability to bond with scary space animals ...

The Chronicles of Riddick ... introduces us to Diesel's Riddick, a dangerous criminal with a history of violence, surgically augmented eyes that let him see in the dark, and a mean streak a mile wide.