This article is about book character. For the Amazon Prime version, see Ian Rider (Amazon Prime).
Ian Rider is the overarching protagonist of Stormbreaker (the first novel in the Alex Rider franchise), the film and TV adaptations. He was an agent who worked for the Special Operations division of MI6, the brother of John Rider and uncle to Alex Rider, becoming the guardian of the latter when he was orphaned at the age of three months.
When Alex later finds Ian’s bullet-ridden car in a breakers yard, he is forced to finish Ian’s mission traces his footsteps and finds clues left by Ian along the way.
In the film version and graphic novel version of Stormbreaker, Ian actually makes an appearance, seen traveling back to London when he is pursued and killed just minutes after getting off the phone with Alex.
In the TV series, Ian is still killed by Gregorovich but during the events of Point Blanc. A history seems adamant between the two but is not explored that much.
The fact that people said and died in a car accident is what made Alex suspicious of the story in the first place because his uncle had a reputation of being the pokiest driver.