History JudgeDredd / TropesQToZ

** In ''Judgement Day'', the villain Sabbat turns his classmate Den, who looks an awful lot like [[ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK Dennis the Menace]], into a zombie.

** From the ''Judge Dredd Megazine'' issue #332: "The City was in rough shape, but there were small signs of recovery -- Cits going about regular business, [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Lauren Faust block lit up pink for the Thursday night Ponydrome]], up against the [[http://kijjohnson.com/bio.html Kij Johnson]] Cutters."

* YouCantKillWhatsAlreadyDead: The Dark Judges are incredibly hard to destroy for this reason. They tend to ignore Lawgiver gunfire completely (unless appropriately severe, like a hundred Judges at a time firing at will) and even incinerating their undead bodies inadvertently causes [[FightingAShadow their spirits to break free]]. One of their {{Catch Phrase}}s is "You cannot kill what does not live!"

* YouFool: The Dark Judges love to call their opponents fools while boasting about their immortality per their "You cannot kill what does not live!" CatchPhrase.

* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: A graphic example in ''Fall of Deadworld'' when a recently turned-evil psionic Judge uses a foot soldier's [[EyeScream ripped-out eyeball]] to see what's happening elsewhere.

* VillainTakesAnInterest: The main character of the "Fall of Deadworld" storyline, Judge Fairfax, was once an acolyte of Judge Death, who still wants to recruit him as one of his lieutenants after they had a falling out. Fairfax just wants to ride out the apocalypse.

** Blob was a fashion trend created by a LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub as a way to make their activities easier. The idea was to create the perfect, unidentifiable criminal by erasing every physical feature from a person's face with the aid of face-changing machine, replacing his voice with an electronic scrambler, and dressing him in a single, identifiable outfit... [[CutLexLuthorACheck then they present it as the next big thing]] so that large quantities of people in Mega-City One look like the same featureless blob that no one can tell apart from another, thus allowing their own criminals (also unrecognizable blobs) to commit crimes while not being able to be identified. Massive confusion ensues as no one is sure who people around them are, forcing the Judges step in and decide that anyone partaking in the blob fashion trend has to have an ID number printed on their foreheads so it's easy to tell who is who... and let Judges figure out which blobs are committing crimes.

* WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture: Averted (in Mega-City One, at least); virtually all labor in Dredd's city is performed by androids and robots. The few humans who do hold jobs are lucky to get a 10-hour work week. Unsurprisingly, the city boasts an extremely high unemployment level which accounts for a large portion of criminal activity in the city as well as the numerous bizarre fashions, hobbies, and trends that average citizens partake while coping with boredom. However, indentured servitude is common in other places in Dredd's world, especially in the Cursed Earth.

* TheToothHurts: In the story "Dark Justice", Judge Dredd smashes up Judge Death's teeth during a fight. However, since he's a zombie he can't feel pain, so all it does is annoy him.

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: The Face of Fear is obscured by a helmet that the monster in question only opens to kill people with his NightmareFace, but he doesn't actually have a real face. It's always reflecting the [[YourWorstNightmare most deep-seated terror]] of the person who lays eyes upon it.

** The penultimate issue of "Dark Judges: Deliverance" reveals that the prophet of the Mortarians, the sinister Mother Kalulah, is just an artificial intelligence programmed with the memetic suggestion that life is suffering and must end. Of course, [[DiabolusExNihilo this raises the question of who or what programmed her in the first place]].

** Various one shot villains (or {{Anti Villain}}s depending on the story) are the focus of the story with Dredd as a HeroAntagonist. Notable examples are [[TheWoobie Bennett]] [[AllLoveIsUnrequited Beeny]], [[{{Cyborg}} Nate]] [[AwesomeMcCoolname Slaughterhouse]] and [[SkySurfing Marlon]] "[[RedBaron Chopper]]" [[ActionSurvivor Shakespeare]].

** Taken UpToEleven with the "Serial Serial", a SerialKiller who killed a number of people with one method, before switching to another, making the judges believe they were dealing with different people.

** During "The Pit", Judge Lee recounts that his Magnon Pulser (an EMP rifle designed to fight robots) failed to fire during a raid, which led to the death of Sector 301's previous Sector Chief. The Mark 3 variant had a flaw with its firing mechanism, which was rectified for the Mark 4 variant Lee was carrying. However, one Tek Judge later reveals that he was swapping Mark 4 firing mechanisms in surplus Mark 3 rifles and selling the old Mark [=3s=] off on the side.

* RobosexualsAreCreeps: Lifelike sex robots are both widespread and legal in Mega-City One. However, they're still just that: [[JustAMachine robots]]. One curious case Judge Dredd investigated involved a nerdy teenager whose rich parents bought him a sexbot because he couldn't get a real girlfriend subsequently murder his stepfather for using it without his permission and then attempted to run off with his "girlfriend". When it's destroyed in the process, he's heartbroken, much to the confusion of the judges.

** The penultimate issue of "Dark Judges: Deliverance" reveals that the prophet of the Mortarians, the sinister Mother Kalulah, is just an artificial intelligence programmed with the memetic suggestion that life is suffering and must end. Of course, this raises the question of who or what programmed her in the first place.

** The penultimate issue of "Dark Judges: Deliverance" reveals that the prophet of the Mortarians, the sinister Mother Kalulah, is just an artificial intelligence programmed with the memetic suggestion that life is suffering and must end.