History NightmareFuel / Dredd

* Taken from the Ma-Ma clan's perspective, the entire film is one long MookHorrorShow. One of your guys gets busted by a cop, so you send someone after him. He kills them all. You bust out .50 Calibre [[GatlingGood gatling]] [[MoreDakka guns]] that wipe out an ''[[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill entire floor]]'' to no effect? Congratulations, you've made him suspicious. Send your [[TheDragon chief enforcer]] after him? He throws him off the balcony. Manage to kidnap his partner? Congratulations, you've just made him mad enough to literally rain fire down on more of your {{Mook}}s. Send a bunch of {{Dirty Cop}}s after him? You've given him more ammo. Try to threaten to blow up the entire block should work, right? Nope, he just throws you out the window instead.

-->'''Judge Lex''': You know what Mega City One is, Dredd? It's [[CrapsackWorld a fucking meat grinder.]] People go in one end, meat comes out the other... and all we do is ''[[ChainOfHarm turn the handle]]''.

'''Anderson:''' ''(pistol-whips Kay)'' [[ShutUpHannibal What are you thinking about now, huh?]]

-->'''Judge Lex''': You know what Mega City One is, Dredd? It's [[CrapsackWorld a fucking meat grinder.]] People go in one end, meat comes out the other... and all we do is ''turn the handle''.

* Taken from the Ma-Ma clan's perspective, the entire film is one long MookHorrorShow. One of your guys gets busted by a cop, so you send someone after him. He kills them all. You bust out .50 Calibre [[GatlingGood gatling]] [[MoreDakka guns]] that wipe out an ''[[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill entire floor]]'' to no effect?Congratulations, you've made him suspicious. Send your [[TheDragon chief enforcer]] after him? He throws him off the balcony. Manage to kidnap his partner? Congratulations, you've just made him mad enough to literally rain fire down on more of your {{Mook}}s. Send a bunch of {{Dirty Cop}}s after him? You've given him more ammo. Try to threaten to blow up the entire block should work, right? Nope, he just throws you out the window instead.

* Taken from the Ma-Ma clan's perspective, the entire film is one long MookHorrorShow. One of your guys gets busted by a cop, so you send someone after him. He kills them all. You bust out [[{{BFG}}.50 Calibre]] [[GatlingGood gatling]] [[MoreDakka guns]] that wipe out an ''[[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill entire floor]]'' to no effect?Congratulations, you've made him suspicious. Send your [[TheDragon chief enforcer]] after him? He throws him off the balcony. Manage to kidnap his partner? Congratulations, you've just made him mad enough to literally rain fire down on more of your {{Mook}}s. Send a bunch of {{Dirty Cop}}s after him? You've given him more ammo. Try to threaten to blow up the entire block should work, right? Nope, he just throws you out the window instead.

Dredd surpassed its 1995 predecessor in every way imaginable - especially when it comes to scare factor.

* Kay tries to execute Anderson [[TooDumbToLive with her own Lawgiver.]] When he pulls the trigger, the gun does not recognize the user's DNA. ''Boom.'' Kays hand is blown to bloody chunks all over the room.

** Early on, it's established that there's so many crimes in Mega-City One that the Judges can only respond to ''6%'' of them.
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-->'''Kay:'''Like what am I thinking about right now? ''(imagines himself having rough sex with Anderson.)''\\

* Ma-Ma brings out the [[MoreDakka big guns on Dredd.]] [[GatlingGood Literally.]] Dredd makes it out alive, but dozens to hundreds of citizens, including those with ''families'', do not.
-->'''Dredd:''' [[PrecisionFStrike Oh,]] ''[[PrecisionFStrike shit...]]''\\

* Kay tries to execute Anderson [[TooDumbToLive with her own Lawgiver.]] When he pulls the trigger, the gun does not recognize the user's DNA. ''Boom.''

'''Anderson:''' Funny, I was going to ask you the same thing.

* Ma-Ma's gang catches three rogue dealers on their turf and decides to make an example of them. Ma-Ma orders them skinned alive and thrown from the top floor of the buildings atrium 200 floors up. Ma-Ma's Lieutenant, Kay, suggests they be dosed with the drug Slo Mo before throwing them off. The drug would artificially prolong the suffering during their fall to the bottom floor by altering their perception of time to a fraction of what they would normally experience.
* [[TheWoobie Clan Techie]] getting his eyes gouged out by Ma-Ma. She personally gouges his eyes out with her thumbs without any medical aide or anesthetic while he is forcefully held down by some of her goons. His high-pitched wails make your skin crawl and his cybernetic prosthetic replacements after the fact appear red rimmed and sore. Any time she's near him, it's clear that he's terrified out of his mind.

* The time it takes for the food court to recover from the shooting? ''Thirty minutes.'' A floor-sweeper casually pushes aside a dead Fattie (yes, that is what they are actually called) as it mops up blood. The bodies are collected in a bin for [[HumanResources resyk]] like they were dirty laundry.

-->'''Dredd:''' [[PrecisionFStrike Oh shit...]]\\

* Judge Lex sums up the setting ''very'' well:
--> "You know what Mega City One is, Dredd? It's [[CrapsackWorld fucking meat grinder.]] People go in one end, meat comes out the other, and all we do is turn the handle".
* Mega City One's status as a WretchedHive has never been better portrayed. Citizens [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight react]] to vehicular shootouts like it's no big deal, public shootings are treated like [[WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties technical difficulties]] that just need to be cleaned up (terrified citizens are told where to find ''other restaurants'' after a massacre at a food court) and the film's ''entire premise'' is referred to as just another "drug bust", showing the sheer ''scale'' of crime facing the Judges each day.

* Ma-Ma brings out the [[MoreDakka big guns on Dredd.]] [[GatlingGood Literally.]] Dredd makes it out alive, but several citizens, including those with ''families'', do not.

'''Kay:''' You're good. But I wasn't trying to shock you. If I was trying to shock, I'd be thinking about this... ''[[NothingIsScarier (imagines himself doing...something involving heavy breathing)]]''\\

* Anderson's MindRape of Kay, full stop. She lures him into a state of false confidence by letting him use his gun on her (he misses at point-blank range), before undressing and going down on him...only to morph into Ma-Ma, who [[GroinAttack emasculates]] him instead. ''All of this happens inside his head.'' Kay is so utterly terrified that he [[PottyFailure pisses himself.]]

--> "You know what Mega City One is, Dredd? It's [[CrapsackWorld fucking meat grinder.]] People go in one end, meat comes out the other, and all we do is turn the handle.
* Mega City One's status as a WretchedHive has never been better portrayed. Citizens [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight react]] to vehicular shootouts like it's no big deal, public shootings are treated like [[WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties technical difficulties]]. (terrified citizens are told where to find ''other restaurants'' after a massacre at a food court) and the film's ''entire premise'' is referred to as just another "drug bust."
-->'''Dredd:''' Perps were...uncooperative.

* Just to bring home just how much of a CompleteMonster Ma-Ma is, she has no qualms against infanticide - including the use of ''child soldiers.''

-->'''Dredd:''' [[PrecisionFStrike Oh shit...]]
-->'''Ma-Ma:''' FIRE!

-->'''Kay:'''Like what am I thinking about right now? ''(imagines himself having rough sex with Anderson.)''
-->'''Anderson:''' You're picturing a violent sexual liaison between the two of us in a pointless attempt to shock me.
-->'''Kay:''' You're good. But I wasn't trying to shock you. If I was trying to shock, I'd be thinking about this... ''[[NothingIsScarier (imagines himself doing...something involving heavy breathing)]]''
-->'''Anderson:''' ''(pistol-whips Kay)'' [[ShutUpHannibal What are you thinking about now, huh?]]
* Just to bring home just how much of a [[CompleteMonster Complete Monster]] Ma-Ma is, she has no qualms against infanticide - including the use of ''child soldiers.''

* Anderson's [[MindRape Mind Rape]] of Kay, full stop. She lures him into a state of false confidence by letting him use his gun on her (he misses at point-blank range), before undressing and going down on him...only to morph into Ma-Ma, who [[GroinAttack emasculates]] him instead. ''All of this happens inside his head.'' Kay is so utterly terrified that he [[PottyFailure pisses himself.]]

-->'''Kay:''' Any last words, bitch?
-->'''Anderson:''' Funny, I was going to ask you the same thing.

* Mega City One's status as a [[WretchedHive Wretched Hive]] has never been better portrayed. Citizens [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight react]] to vehicular shootouts like it's no big deal, public shootings are treated like [[WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties technical difficulties]]. (terrified citizens are told where to find ''other restaurants'' after a massacre at a food court) and the film's ''entire premise'' is referred to as just another "drug bust."
-->'''Dredd:''' Perps were...uncooperative.

-->'''PA system:''' Thank you for your patience!

* Mega City One's status as a [[WretchedHive]] has never been better portrayed. Citizens [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight react]] to vehicular shootouts like it's no big deal, public shootings are treated like [[TechnicalDifficulties]] (terrified citizens are told where to find ''other restaurants'' after a massacre at a food court) and the film's ''entire premise'' is referred to as just another "drug bust."

* Kay tries to execute Anderson [[TooDumbToLive with her own Lawgiver.]] When he pulls the trigger, [[Gorn the gun does not recognize the user's DNA.]] ''Boom.''

* Anderson's [[MindRape]] of Kay, full stop. She lures him into a state of false confidence by letting him use his gun on her (he misses at point-blank range), before undressing and going down on him...only to morph into Ma-Ma, who [[GroinAttack emasculates]] him instead. ''All of this happens inside his head.'' Kay is so utterly terrified that he [[PottyFailure pisses himself.]]

* Judge Lex sums up the setting ''very'' well.

* Just to bring home just how much of a [[CompleteMonster]] Ma-Ma is, she has no qualms against infanticide - including the use of ''child soldiers.''

-->'''Dredd:''' Perps were... [[Understatement uncooperative.]]

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-->'''Kay:''' You're good. But I wasn't trying to shock you. If I was trying to shock, I'd be thinking about this... [[''(imagines himself doing...something involving heavy breathing)'']]

-->'''Dredd:''' Perps were...[[Understatement uncooperative.]]

* The page image is taken from Ma-Ma's backstory, where she had just [[GroinAttack castrated her pimp]] with her teeth after she cut him up. The prequel comic steps it up a notch, where she gets him to take a dose of Slo-Mo first, dragging out the pain from his perspective.

* [[TheWoobie Clan Techie]] getting his eyes gouged out by Ma-Ma. She personally gouges his eyes out with her thumbs without any medical aide or anesthetic while he is forcefully held down by some of her goons. His high-pitched wails make your skin crawl and his cybernetic prosthetic replacements after the fact appear red rimmed and sore.
* Dredd's very first execution involves him firing a "Hot Shot" flare into the open mouth of a criminal holding a woman hostage. The mans face and head are brightly lit in a reddish hue as the flare quickly burns him to death from inside his mouth and face and then his head. He collapses slowly to the floor with his face partially charred and a puff of smoke gushing from the back of his head.
* The page image is taken from Ma-Ma's backstory, where she had just [[GroinAttack castrated her pimp]] after she cut him up. The prequel comic steps it up a notch, where she gets him to take a dose of Slo-Mo first, dragging out the pain from his perspective.

* The page image is taken from Ma-Ma's backstory, where she had just [[GroinAttack castrated her pimp]] after she cut him up. The prequel comic steps it up a notch, where she gets him to take a dose of Slo-Mo first, dragging out the pain from his perspective.
* The movie as whole is ''incredibly'' violent and gory, to the point hardly anyone saw it coming. Some of the other kill scenes in the movie are borderline disgusting as a result, such as the aforementioned skinning and one scene where Anderson uses an automatic rifle on one of Ma-Ma's henchmen ''point-blank''. Expect plenty of {{Gorn}}.