History YMMV / JudgeDredd

* CompleteMonster: See Judge Death and the others [[Monster/TwoThousandAD here]].
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* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Rico Dredd]] is Judge Dredd's [[EvilCounterpart megalomaniac]] of a [[CainAndAbel half-brother]] who, as a Judge, degenerated to murdering people based on the possibility they might commit a crime in the future. Too much for even the decadent Mega City One, Rico Dredd breaks out of the penal colony he's trapped in while leaving a slew of bodies behind him, murdering a store clerk to steal a powerful robot and teaming up with the corrupt [[AdaptationalVillainy Judge Griffin]] to bring order to the city. Rico betrays the law by gleefully massacring Judges by the dozens and causing explosions to go off through the city, even brutally murdering Griffin when he no longer suits his plans to instead create an army of clones to take over the city. Rico finally attempts to throw his own brother off the Statue of Liberty on the charge of being a man "when we could have been ''[[AGodAmI gods]]''!"

** The Creator/DCComics incarnation of Chief Judge Fargo is the leader of the New Justice System, creating a plan to bring "perfect justice" to Mega City One after witness the rampant corruption. Firing all the Judges to create chaos on the streets and leading to the Ministry of Fear to add fear to the population, Fargo implemented Justice Machines after two days, so that people would witness the difference between "Chaos" and "Order" and trust him. Failing to eliminate the President, due to his refusal to have Judge Dredd killed, Fargo got his plans back on track after Booth killed the President instead, outmaneuvering Dredd and putting him in suspended animation, before he became the only police power in the city. After Booth reduced the world to a Nuclear Wasteland and became a tyrant, Fargo has people accept his leadership and wages a war on Booth, eventually defeating him and taking full control of Mega City One. Completing his creation of the perfect justice system, Fargo became a legend, bringing justice to the city at last, being brought down only by his desire to make Dredd his successor and expectation for him to follow his plan.

* MagnificentBastard: Yevgeny Borisenko is a veteran and survivor of the [[SpaceColdWar Apocalypse War]] who vowed revenge against Judge Dredd after witnessing the nuclear destruction of East Meg One and being permanently blinded in the process. Borisenko forms the terrorist cell the Fourth Faction, spending decades building up its ranks with devoted followers, infiltrating Mega-City One, and develop and release the [[HatePlague Chaos Bug]] inside the mega-city through his carrier agents, all the while misdirecting the Justice Department to keep the Fourth Faction's plans concealed. Despite being captured in the Mongolian Free State, Borisenko arranges his own murder ahead of time to avoid being interrogated, and through stoking public distrust against the Judges to subvert quarantine measures, causes the plague to envelop and nearly wipe out the entire city and emerge utterly victorious over the formidable Judge Dredd himself.

** A virus that spreads quickly with flu-like symptoms, causing mass panic, is tested for using a nasal swab, and had certain elements of society hampering the authorities' attempts to deal with the situation. Are we talking about the Chaos Bug or Covid-19?

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: One interesting example in the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] / [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Genesis / Mega Drive]] adaptation, which is more-faithful to the source material than the film was. (Also, Rob Schneider isn't in it.) It takes the unusual route of combining the events of the film with elements of the comic series: The first half loosely follows the hunt for Judge Rico. You can either kill punks or make them surrender and summon a flying machine to cart them off to jail. Each enemy requires a different method to make them submit, but [[ThouShaltNotKill you get a bonus for using a non-lethal method]]. The second half has Dredd fighting the Dark Judges, who are never mentioned in the film. They will sometimes [[DemonicPossession possess]] the gangsters from earlier in the game, as evidenced by their [[EvilIsBurningHot flaming footprints.]] There's no taking them in quietly: once they're dead, you use a capture device to snag the soul of the Dark Judge before it can float away. The last level is a pretty-accurate depiction of Deadworld (see PlanetHeck), a MirrorUniverse where the Judges were transformed into unkillable zombies after exterminating all life on Earth. Your objective is to locate and kill the four Dark Judges using the same method as before. Fans of the book with recognize them right away, including Judge Fear who uses his trademark NightmareFace attack to try and weaken Dredd.

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: One interesting example in the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] / [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Genesis / Mega Drive]] adaptation, which is more faithful to the source material than the film was. (Also, Rob Schneider isn't in it.) It takes the unsuual route of combining the events of the film with elements of the comic series: The first half loosely follows the hunt for Judge Rico. You can either kill punks or make them surrender and summon a flying machine to cart them off to jail. Each enemy requires a different method to make them submit, but [[ThouShaltNotKill you get a bonus for using a non-lethal method]]. The second half has Dredd fighting the Dark Judges, who are never mentioned in the film. They will sometimes [[DemonicPossession possess]] the gangsters from earlier in the game, as evidenced by their [[EvilIsBurningHot flaming footprints.]] There's no taking them in quietly: once they're dead, you use a capture device to snag the soul of the Dark Judge before it can float away. The last level is a pretty-accurate depiction of Deadworld (see PlanetHeck), a MirrorUniverse where the Judges were transformed into unkillable zombies after exterminating all life on Earth. Your objective is to locate and kill the four Dark Judges using the same method as before. Fans of the book with recognize them right away, including Judge Fear who uses his trademark NightmareFace attack to try and weaken Dredd.

* ValuesDissonance: Early issues showed Dredd punishing victims of crimes for 'incitement' because they flaunted wealth that tempted the criminals. That works as 1970s satire on heavy-handed law enforcement, but can rankle with readers who are leery of wealth redistribution.

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: One interesting example in the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] / [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Genesis / Mega Drive]] adaptation, which is more faithful to the source material than the film was. (Also, Rob Schneider isn't in it.) It takes the unsuual route of combining the events of the film with elements of the comic series: The first half loosely follows the hunt for Judge Rico. You can either kill punks or make them surrender and summon a flying machine to cart them off to jail. Each enemy requires a different method to make them submit, but [[ThouShaltNotKill you get a bonus for using a non-lethal method]]. The second half has Dredd fighting the Dark Judges, who are never mentioned in the film. They will sometimes [[DemonicPossession possess]] the gangsters from earlier in the game, as evidenced by their [[EvilIsBurningHot flaming footprints.]] There's no taking them in quietly: once they're dead, you use a capture device to snag the soul of the Dark Judge before it can float away. The last level is a pretty-accurate depiction of Deadworld (see PlanetHeck), a MirroUniverse where the Judges were transformed into unkillable zombies after exterminating all life on Earth. Your objective is to locate and kill the four Dark Judges using the same method as before. Fans of the book with recognize them right away, including Judge Fear who uses his trademark NightmareFace attack to try and weaken Dredd.

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: One interesting example in the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] / [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Genesis / Mega Drive]] adaptation, which is more faithful to the source material than the film was. (Also, Rob Schneider isn't in it.) It takes the unsuual route of combining the events of the film with elements of the comic series: The first half loosely follows the hunt for Judge Rico. You can either kill punks or make them surrender and summon a flying machine to cart them off to jail. Each enemy requires a different method to make them submit, but [[ThouShaltNotKill you get a bonus for using a non-lethal method]]. The second half has Dredd fighting the Dark Judges, who are never mentioned in the film. They will sometimes [[DemonicPossession possess]] the gangsters from earlier in the game, as evidenced by their [[EvilIsBurningHot flaming footprints.]] There's no taking them in quietly: once they're dead, you use a capture device to snag the soul of the Dark Judge before it can float away. The last level is a pretty-accurate depiction of Deadworld (see PlanetHeck), a BizarroUniverse where the Judges were transformed into unkillable zombies after exterminating all life on Earth. Your objective is to locate and kill the four Dark Judges using the same method as before. Fans of the book with recognize them right away, including Judge Fear who uses his trademark NightmareFace attack to try and weaken Dredd.

* ValuesDissonance: Early issues showed Dredd punishing victims of crimes for 'incitement' because they flaunted wealth that tempted the criminals. That works as 1970s satire on heavy-handed law enforcement, but can rankle with modern audiences who are leery of wealth redistrubtion.

* ValuesDissonance: Early issues showed Dredd punishing victims of crimes for 'incitement' because they displayed wealth that tempted the criminals. That works as 1970s satire on heavy-handed law enforcement, but can rankle with today's awareness of VictimBlaming.

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* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: One interesting example in the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] / [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Genesis / Mega Drive]] adaptation, which is more faithful to the source material than the film was. (Also, Rob Schneider isn't in it.) It takes the unsuual route of combining the events of the film with elements of the comic series: The first half loosely follows the hunt for Judge Rico. You can either kill punks or make them surrender and summon a flying machine to cart them off to jail. Each enemy requires a different method to make them submit, but [[ThouShaltNotKill you get a bonus for using a non-lethal method]]. The second half has Dredd fighting the Dark Judges, who are never mentioned in the film. They will sometimes [[DemonicPossession possess]] the gangsters from earlier in the game, as evidenced by their [[EvilIsBurningHot flaming footprints.]] There's no taking them in quietly: once they're dead, you use a capture device to snag the soul of the Dark Judge before it can float away. The last level is a pretty-accurate depiction of Deadworld. (See PlanetHeck.) Your objective is to locate and kill the four Dark Judges using the same method as before. Fans of the book with recognize them right away, including Judge Fear who uses his trademark NightmareFace attack to try and weaken Dredd.

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: One interesting example in the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] / [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Genesis / Mega Drive]] adaptation, which is more faithful to the source material than the film was. (Also, Rob Schneider isn't in it.) It takes the unsuual route of combining the events of the film with elements of the comic series: The first half loosely follows the hunt for Judge Rico. You can either kill punks or make them surrender and summon a flying machine to cart them off to jail. Each enemy requires a different method to make them submit, but [[ThouShaltNotKill you get a bonus for using a non-lethal method]]. The second half has Dredd fighting the Dark Judges, who are never mentioned in the film. They will sometimes [[DemonicPossession possess]] the gangsters from earlier in the game, as evidenced by their [[EvilIsBurningHot flaming footprints.]] There's no taking them in queitly: once they're dead, you use a capture device to snag the soul of the Dark Judge before it can float away. The final level is a pretty-accurate depiction of [[PlanetHeck Deadworld]]. You objective is to locate and kill the four Dark Judges using the same method as before. Fans of the book with recognize them right away, including Judge Fear who uses his trademark NightmareFace attack to try and weaken Dredd.

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: An interesting example in that the [=SNES/Mega=] Drive adaptation was more faithful to the source material than the film. Also, Fergie isn't in it.

* ValuesDissonance: Early issues showed Dredd punishing victims of crimes for 'incitement' because they displayed wealth that tempted the criminals. That works as 1970s satire on heavy-handed law enforcement, but can rankle with today's awareness of victim-blaming.

* TheScrappy: Fergie. The ones who didn't know about his comic book version hate him because he's played by Rob Schneider and he's a hindrance to Dredd. To those who know about his comic book version, the hatred is because he's Fergie in name only (and the aforementioned items do not help).

* WatchItForTheMeme: Armand Assante and Sylvester Stallone both mangling the word "law" in the most hammy ways possible.

* TheScrappy: Fergie. His comic book version was [[AdaptationalIntelligence dumber]] but was more useful and had a pretty dramatic HeroicSacrifice.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Music/AlanSilvestri's soundtrack is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNwqVUyqqTY still awesome]].

* TheScrappy: Fergie.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[SnarkBait There's plenty of stuff to complain about in the film]], but Music/AlanSilvestri's soundtrack is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNwqVUyqqTY still awesome]].

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[SnarkBait There's plenty of stuff to complain about in the film]], but Music/AlanSilvestri's soundtrack is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNwqVUyqqTY still awesome]}.

* WatchItForTheMeme

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Rico Dredd]] is Judge Dredd's [[EvilCounterpart megalomaniac]] of a [[CanAndAbel half-brother]] who, as a Judge, degenerated to murdering people based on the possibility they might commit a crime in the future. Too much for even the decadent Mega City One, Rico Dredd breaks out of the penal colony he's trapped in while leaving a slew of bodies behind him, murdering a store clerk to steal a powerful robot and teaming up with the corrupt [[AdaptationalVillainy Judge Griffin]] to bring order to the city. Rico betrays the law by gleefully massacring Judges by the dozens and causing explosions to go off through the city, even brutally murdering Griffin when he no longer suits his plans to instead create an army of clones to take over the city. Rico finally attempts to throw his own brother off the Statue of Liberty on the charge of being a man "when we could have been ''gods''!"

* CompleteMonster: This film's incarnation of [[BigBad Rico Dredd]] is a [[AxCrazy gleefully murderous maniac]] and an aspiring tyrant. [[ArtificialHuman Created as a result of the Janus project]] alongside his brother [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd Joseph Dredd]], Rico and his brother were wired to be the perfect judges, but Rico's genes mutated, and his morals devolved to a point where he would kill innocents solely on the grounds that [[InsaneTrollLogic might commit a crime later in the future]]. Incarcerated in the [[PenalColony Aspen Penal Colony]], Rico escapes decades after his imprisonment by shooting the Warden through the throat and slaughtering his guard force, making his way into the [[WretchedHive corrupt streets]] of [[MegaCity Mega City-One]]. Rico nabs a Lawgiver pistol by murdering the shopkeeper who owns it (with a giddily {{sadist}}ic [[SlasherSmile grin on his face]]) and reprograms an [[KillerRobot old war machine]] to his cause. [[BigBadDuumvirate Teaming up]] with the corrupt, if [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-meaning, Judge Griffin]], Rico sets about murdering Judges by the dozens and triggering explosions to go off throughout Mega City, personally gunning down the whole of the [[CosmopolitanCouncil Judge Council]], all to [[FrameUp frame Joesph]]. After reaching the lab of the project, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Rico unflinchingly offs Griffin]] by having his robot [[AnArmAndALeg tear off his limbs]], and replaces the DNA of the clones with his own. After finally meeting [[CainAndAbel his brother]], Rico threatens to [[NeckSnap snap Judge Hershey's neck]], fires upon [[PluckyComicRelief Fergie]], and starts [[BreakThemByTalking verbally tearing apart Joseph]]. Once Joseph inevitably declines [[WeCanRuleTogether his proposition]], Rico revels in the opportunity in attempting to plunge him from the Statue of Liberty on the charge of "betraying flesh." Unhesitating in his cruelty, Rico was the worst a universe of BlackAndGrayMorality could offer.

%%* TheScrappy: Fergie.

%%* WatchItForTheMeme

* HamAndCheese:Sly and Creator/ArmandAssante's performances. The actors playing the assorted thugs as well. Even Stallone admitted the movie was terribly hammy.