History Headscratchers / JudgeDredd

***** But if Rico's DNA is mutated, how could it have been pinged for Dredd's non-mutated DNA without deliberately tampering with evidence (which, again, is never suggested to have been done here)?

*** Except that is {{Artistic License Economics}}. Crime is inherently disruptive to an capitalist economy. A black market has no regulation to ensure stability and is far too chaotic to support an economy, not to mention the constant risk of doing business. And since all transactions occur without transparency or oversight, the currency is harmed by all trade. Taxing automated businesses to pay for welfare makes at least a little sense since customers need money to buy products and support a market.

** Smart bullets.

** [[PoliceBrutality Seems a tad cruel]]. The ''Dredd Vs Death'' FPS would [[VideogameCrueltyPunishment set the SJS on you]] for using the incendiary round on criminals.

** Of course the Judges break their own laws to stay in power. That's one of the themes.

**** In one comic the Judges start to farm a strain of giant mutant rat because it is leaner and more nutricious than the rats they farm allready.

*** Except that is {{Artistic License Economics}}. Crime is inherently disruptive to an capitalist economy. A black market has no regulation to ensure stability and is far too chaotic to support an economy, not to mention the constant risk of doing business. And since all transactions occur without transparency or oversight, the curreny is harmed by all trade. Taxing automated businesses to pay for welfare makes at least a little sense since customers need money to buy products and support a market.

*** Except that is {{ArtisticLicenseEconomics}}. Crime is inherently disruptive to an capitalist economy. A black market has no regulation to ensure stability and is far too chaotic to support an economy, not to mention the constant risk of doing business. And since all transactions occur without transparency or oversight, the curreny is harmed by all trade. Taxing automated businesses to pay for welfare makes at least a little sense since customers need money to buy products and support a market.

** Except that is {{ArtisticLicenseEconomics}}. Crime is inherently disruptive to an capitalist economy. A black market has no regulation to ensure stability and is far too chaotic to support an economy, not to mention the constant risk of doing business. And since all transactions occur without transparency or oversight, the curreny is harmed by all trade. Taxing automated businesses to pay for welfare makes at least a little sense since customers need money to buy products and support a market.

*** Maybe it only works on people who keep their face covered less than him. That would explain why Dredd was immune.

** Presumably, it can scan through gloves. In a world where such technologies as time travel, dimension jumping and indestructable plastic exist, this isn't too far out of the realm of possibility.

* How exactly does the Double Whammy round work? Especially since it spreads from the same barrel in the right direction (Who's to say with barrel rifling that the rounds won't fly vertically or diagonally?) at the correct distance to conveniently kill two guys at once.

** Maybe he saves the whole "Gaze into the face of fear" thing for those people he really wants to kill, or it only works on one person at the same time (think [[HarryPotter Boggart]]), so if he tried to use it on more than one person it would just not work.

* For a society that is suppose to be all about following the letter of the law, the Judges(including Dredd) seems to have no problem with breaking the rules if it serves them. For example, it has been repeatedly stated that Mega-City One doesn't have the death penalty, but in the 'Judge Dredd in America' story, Dredd ordered the Judges to open fire on the Total War terrorist even though they have clearly surrendered and should have been arrested instead. Also, in the Judge Anderson story 'Satan', the Judges secretly killed a Christian minister for challenging the Judges system, even though they themselves admit that he he didn't break any laws in giving public speeches, he didn't even resist when Anderson arrested him. And even if he did somehow break the law, they cannot legally kill him, and can only at most give him life in prison. Sometimes it feel like that instead of LawfulNeutral taken to the extreme, the Judges feels more like your average NeutralEvil dictatorship that will break its own laws just to stay in power.

** He has full Judge attire, probably let him get away with a lot. Nothing to say no one noticed, but he may have just been able to bluff and bullshit his way by anyone who did see them.