History Headscratchers / Dredd

* Why don't the Judges have a cadre of bodyguards to keep them alive? The judge system was made so that they could carry out sentences directly on the street, but why do they have to work alone? What's stopping the Justice Department from maintaining a separate corp of enforcers whose only job is to kill any threat to their street judges? It can't be that much more manpower intensive than the current system where every judge have to go through a draconian selection process only to die like flies anyway. Plus it will ensure that judges cannot grow corrupted as easily due to the extra eyes on them.

* Why don't the Judges have a cadre of bodyguards to keep them alive? The judge system was made so that they could carry out sentences directly on the street, but why do they have to work alone? What's stopping the Justice Department from maintaining a separate corp of enforcers whose only job is to kill any threat to their judges? It can't be that much more manpower intensive than the current system where every judge have to go through a draconian selection process only to die like flies anyway. Plus it will ensure that judges cannot grow corrupted as easily due to the extra eyes on them.

** He's going through the motions of being a Judge: asking for a plea and noting her (lack of) plea before her summary execution.

* What did Dredd mean when he said to Ma-Ma "defense noted"? That she was not in her right mind? That she was already dead inside?

* What did Dredd mean when he said to Ma-Ma "defense noted"? That she was not in her right mind? That she was already inside?

** Two reasons, the Judges are a lot less worried about collateral damage than real world cops so there a lot less opportunities to be disarmed in the kind of fights that get cops disarmed in our more litigious society. Second one is that the Judges are only able to respond to around 6% of reported crimes so chances are good that most Mega City criminals have never even seen a judge unless it was from a distance much less had a chance to disarm one. Also, most Judges are competent at 99% of their cases, so those who HAVE seen a Judge tend to be spending a LONG time in the Iso-Cubes...

** Two reasons, the Judges are a lot less worried about collateral damage than real world cops so there a lot less opportunities to be disarmed in the kind of fights that get cops disarmed in our more litigious society. Second one is that the Judges are only able to respond to around 6% of reported crimes so chances are good that most Mega City criminals have never even seen a judge unless it was from a distance much less had a chance to disarm one.

* What's the deal with the people in the block's control room? They live in a 200 story vertical slum, controlled by a and vicious gang lead by a ruthless prostitute-turned-drug dealer. And they ''sleep in the middle of the day''? Without at least locking the door? Seriously?

* How does a career criminal like Kay not know that Judges carry guns that explode when the wrong person tries to use them? Considering how many cops get disarmed and shot with their own guns in fights with criminals in real life, you gotta figure this must have happened at some point in mega-city, at which point the gun would blow up and the word would go out around the criminal underworld that it's not safe to use a judge's handgun. Kay even says "I've seen a lot of judges in my time." You'd think he'd know how their guns work by now.

** She may have used the knife on the table, the one Kay handled before picking up her family photo.

** And they didn't just assume NoOneCouldSurviveThat. They went looking for bodies. [[GenreSavvy One guy even states that unless they find something, Dredd and Anderson are still alive]].

** She isn't. We are never shown what he thinks of to scare her (although it may be what the Clan did to "the girl about your age one time"), but the blowjob is her REACTION to his mental threat, complying with his lusts, but even then it is implied she did it just so she could turn the tables with the freaky imagery of [[CompleteMonster Ma-Ma]] biting his junk off.

** She isn't. We are never shown what he thinks of to scare her (although it may be what the Clan did to "the girl about your age one time"), but the blowjob is her REACTION to his mental threat, complying with hks lusts, but even then it is implied she did it just so she could turn the tables with the freaky imagry of MaMa biting his junk off.

* What's the deal with the people in the block's control room? They live in a 200 storey vertical slum, controlled by a and vicious gang lead by a ruthless prostitute-turned-drug dealer. And they ''sleep in the middle of the day''? Without at least locking the door? Seriously?

** In the first example her telepathy is working exactly as intended (she's picking up what's actually on his mind). In the second example he's hijacked control of the 'dreamscape' and is using it against her. Its not the disgusting rape fantasy that has Anderson worried, its her (fortunately temporary) loss of control over the situation.
*** I think you are mistaken. The first time the perp pictures himself raping Andernson, she says that doesn't scare her, then he says that wasn't his intention and imagines something different, which does upset Anderson. Later, it is implied that what he imagined was forced oral sex (the visuals do match withe the flash we saw just before Anderson got mad in the prior scene). Which certainly is odd.
*** Some people have personal phobias and squicks that aren't constructed on what seems like rational structures to others.Anderson's personal feelings of what she finds disturbing or infuriating may not operate on someone else's subjective judgment of "Well, vaginal sex is less disturbing than oral sex, which is less disturbing than anal sex, which is less disturbing than-"
*** Maybe she just got annoyed that he was thinking of something to shock her intentionally. That would be the guess of this troper.
*** She might have been pretending in order to give him a false sense of security before pulling the rug out from under him making the imagery she bombards his head with all the more unexpected and disturbing for him.

* How did Anderson get out of her restraints? Kay goes to shoot her and her gun blows half his arm off: very satisfying. She then stands up, her hands still cuffed behind her back, and boots him in the face: great. In the next shot, she's got free of her cuffs. Just wondering how she did that. I know there are ways you can free yourself from rope or cable ties, but wouldn't it have taken her a little while to do that? And if she was restrained with something stronger, how did she get out of it?

** She was distracted by a pair of juves holding guns on her.