Martin Riggs

Martin Riggs (born October 16, 1950) is a fictional police officer and protagonist from the Lethal Weapon franchise. He is played in all four films by Mel Gibson. Riggs joined the United States Army at age 19, eventually becoming a member of 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 really good at." In 1984, Riggs' wife of 11 years, Victoria Lynn, dies in a car accident,...