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''Low Life'' is a spinoff from ''JudgeDredd''. Focusing on the [[DeepCoverAgent Wally Squad]] in a particular area in the city known as the [[WretchedHive Low Life]], on two judges in particular, [[ActionGirl Aimee Nixon]] and [[CloudCuckooLander Dirty Frank]] and the various cases they have to deal with.

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!!Tropes present in ''Low Life''
* AnArmAndALeg: Nixon ''voluntarily'' had her left arm removed and replaced with a [[ArtificialLimbs robotic arm]] to blend in better. [[spoiler: She later loses the other one.]]
* BadassBeard: Frank.
* BecomingTheMask / HeWhoFightsMonsters: Arguably both main characters, though Frank leans more towards the former while Aimee has often been accused of the latter.
* BottomlessBladder: Thanks to nerves, Dirty Frank once urinated non-stop throughout a ''twenty three minute'' guitar solo.
* BrainyBaby: One company claims to create these, in suspicious circumstances. [[spoiler: Turns out, they were transferring the minds of elderly criminals into the bodies of babies to give them a second shot at life.]] To a lesser extent, there's also Judge Eric "Mortal" Coil, a judge whose body was de-aged to that of an infant.
* BreakoutCharacter: While Aimee Nixon started out as the protagonist, [[EnsembleDarkhorse Dirty Frank]] took over once it was realised how well fans took to him.
* CelebrityResemblance: Aimee Nixon was drawn to resemble CourtneyLove with a broken nose. Dirty Frank, on the other hand, was designed as AlanMoore with an eyepatch.
* CloudCuckooLander: Dirty Frank has spent so long undercover that he's suffering some major SanitySlippage. It's stated that the law is the only thing keeping him from a rubber room.
* {{Crossover}}: ''Saudade'', which is part of the [[spoiler: ''JudgeDredd'': ''The Cold Deck'' arc.]]
* EyepatchOfPower: Frank.
* TheFaceless: The Big Man, the unseen crime lord at the top of the Low Life. This seems to be a common trope in Wally Squad spinoffs, as The Boss from ''TheSimpingDetective'' plays a very similar role.
* GratuitousGerman: Frank tends to lapse into this at times.
* ThePigPen: [[MeaningfulName Dirty Frank]].
* SharkMan: Enormo Overdrive, who has his DNA bonded with a Great White. ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.
* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: Aimee's stories tend towards grittier and more serious, while Frank, in keeping with his CloudCuckooLander nature, gets all the ridiculous cases.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Dirty Frank. Lampshaded.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Judge Farnsworth]] starts killing off the mob in the Low Life and taking all their assets to fund a redevelopment of the sector.[[spoiler: Aimee kills him because she feels she needs the Low Life.]]
* WordSaladLyrics: During ''Rock And A Hard Place'', the singer of Kill Kill Kill Kill spends an entire week coming up with the line "Luna One Woman! You're all made of cheese" just to ryhme with "please". When he is arrested at the end of the story, he asks his guitarist if there are any words that rhyme with "gorgonzola".

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7th Mar '13 9:01:41 AM CynicalBastardo