Martin Riggs

== Summary ==
Martin Riggs was born on October 16, 1949. Riggs joined the U.S. Army at age 19, eventually becoming a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces, receiving specialized training in weaponry and hand-to-hand combat. These skills would later serve him well when he became a police officer. Most of Riggs' time in Special Forces was in Vietnam, where he served as an assassin under the CIA's "Phoenix Project" directive; while his ability as a trained killer would later plague his conscience, he thought of it as "...the only thing I was ever good at." Apparently, he knew Mr. Joshua from the war, but never had close contact with him.
Later in Riggs' life, he became a police officer and in 1973, he married a beautiful woman named Victoria Lynn and it is implied by Riggs himself that she was one of the only things, the other being his occupation as a police officer, that kept his life together and going. However, in 1984, after 11 years of marriage, Victoria is killed in a seemingly tragic car accident, sending him into a deep depression. Driven to the brink with grief and anger, and having only a dog for company, he regularly puts himself (and anyone else near him) in harm's way, secretly hoping someone will put him out of his misery, something he has been unable to do himself. This total disregard for his safety gives him an edge over his enemies, turning him into a "lethal weapon".
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: 
Name: Martin Riggs
Origin: Lethal Weapon franchise
Gender: Male
Age: Late 40s
Classification: Human, Police Detective
Powers and Abilities: Peak Human Physical Characteristics (Riggs is a police officerLethal WeaponLethal Weapon 2Lethal Weapon 3Lethal Weapon 4 and Special Forces veteran who worked in Vietnam) Martial Arts (Murtaugh referred to him as "a lethal weapon" and he defeated Joshua, later contending with Wah Sing Ku) Expert Marksman (In Laos, he shot a man from 1,000 yards out with a rifle in high wind, claimed eight or ten guys in the world could have made a shot like that, shot a smiley face into a target, he shot a lock off, shot out one of Leo Getz's tires, shot a valve on a napalm tank and ricocheted a bullet with a laser attachment)
Attack Potency: Street level, higher with weapons
Speed: Athletic Human
Lifting Strength: Average Human, possibly Above Average Human (Riggs is strong enough to break a man's neck, he can dislocate his shoulder whenever he wants, he lifted Wah Sing Ku up by the rebar with which he was impaled)
Striking Strength: Athlete level (Riggs made Leo bleed when he accidentally hit his nose)
Durability: At least Street level (Riggs has an ax wound in his head, he was once dragged for about half a block, he has been shot by a .38 and some .44s in his back with one stuck in his lung, survived five stories fall through several wooden floorboards)
Stamina: Very High (Can keep fighting while heavily injuried)
Range: Standard melee range by himself. Several dozen meters with melee weapons and firearms.
Standard Equipment:
Pistols
*Beretta 92F
*Colt M1911A1
*Beretta 92FS
*Browning Hi-Power
*Smith & Wesson Model 5906
*Colt Commander
Revolvers
*Astra Terminator
*Smith & Wesson Model 19
Submachine Guns
*Heckler & Koch HK94A3
*Heckler & Koch MP5A3
*Cobray M11/9
Rifles
*Colt XM177 Commando
*Heckler & Koch PSG-1
*AKM
Intelligence: Above Average (Skilled detective, he can dismantle bombs, hot wire vehicles and patch up wounds)
Weaknesses: Normal human weaknesses apply, but he has survived situations that would kill an average human.
Notable Attacks/Techniques: Riggs used Brazilian jiu-jitsu against Joshua.
==Notable Matchups==
Victories:
Losses:
Inconclusive:
==References==
Category:Characters
Category:Lethal Weapon (Movies)
Category:Male Characters
Category:Movie Characters
Category:Live-Action Characters
Category:Humans
Category:Adults
Category:Police Officers
Category:Weapon Masters