Line #56 ComicBook/TwoThousandAD


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4	[[PardonMyKlingon Borag thungg]], Earthlets! It is I, JustForFun/ReportSiht, HiveQueen in charge of the Galaxy's Greatest Website, and I'm here to tell you about ''2000 AD''.
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6	The story of ''2000 AD'' begins in 1977, when the mighty Tharg of Quaxxan in the Betelgeuse system arrived on your planet and found it dangerously low on thrills. He collaborated with the Pat Mills and John Wagner droids to produce a scrotnig sci-fi AnthologyComic. They gave it the [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture futuristic]] name of ''2000 AD'', because they never expected it to last until 2000. Turned out they were wrong.
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8	The main draw of the first prog[[note]]Short for ''programme'', the comics [[CallARabbitASmeerp fanciful name for its own issues]][[/note]] was the return of popular [[TheFifties 1950s]] hero ''ComicStrip/DanDare'', though ''MACH 1'' proved rather more popular. However, the true [[BreakoutCharacter breakout series]] was to be ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'', who debuted in the second prog and has appeared in every strip since. The mag has continued to play host to a wide variety of sci-fi comics, some scrotnig, some not.
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10	Of particular note is that a huge chunk of the most zarjaz British writer droids currently contributing to American comics got started within the pages of ''2000 AD''. Basically, if he's British and popular in America, he probably wrote a few strips here.
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12	Spiritually, 2000 AD is a descendant of ''ComicBook/{{Action}}'', inheriting many of its themes, practices and motifs from the older comic, and many of its writers originally wrote for ''Action''. ''Flesh'' and ''Shako'' in particular can be easily described as "''Hookjaw'', but with a T-rex /a polar bear instead of a great white shark".
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14	'''{{Comics}} Which Have Run In This Mag Include:'''
15	[[index]]
16	* ''ComicBook/ABCWarriors''
17	* ''ComicBook/{{Absalom}}''
18	* ''ComicBook/AgeOfTheWolf''
19	* ''ComicBook/AlsBaby''
20	* ''ComicBook/AndersonPsiDivision'' (a {{spinoff}} of ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'')
21	* ''ComicBook/{{Aquila}}''
22	* ''ComicBook/{{Atavar}}''
23	* ''Bad Company''
24	* ''Big Dave''
25	* ''Brink''
26	* ''ComicBook/TheBalladOfHaloJones''
27	* ''ComicBook/ButtonMan''
28	* ''ComicBook/CaballisticsInc''
29	* ''Charley's War'' (Originally printed in ''ComicBook/{{Battle}}'', but had a reprint in the ''Megazine'')
30	* ''ComicStrip/DanDare''
31	* ''Defoe''
32	* ''ComicBook/DiceMan''
33	* ''ComicBook/TheDraculaFile''
34	* ''Doomlord''
35	* ''ComicBook/DroidLife''
36	* ''ComicBook/DRAndQuinch''
37	* ''Durham Red''
38	* ''ComicBook/{{Family}}''
39	* ''Feral and Foe''
40	* ''ComicBook/FiendsOfTheEasternFront''
41	* ''Firekind''
42	* ''ComicBook/{{Flesh}}''
43	* ''Grey Area''
44	* ''ComicBook/TheGrievousJourneyOfIchabodAzrael''
45	* ''ComicBook/HarlemHeroes''
46	* ''Indigo Prime''
47	* ''Insurrection''
48	* ''Jaegir''
49	* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd''
50	* ''Kingdom''
51	* ''ComicBook/{{Lawless}}''
52	* ''Leviathan''
53	* ''ComicBook/LobsterRandom''
54	* ''ComicBook/ALoveLikeBlood''
55	* ''ComicBook/LowLife'' (a {{spinoff}} of ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'')
56	* ''MACH 1''
57	* ''Mazeworld''
58	* ''Mechastopheles''
59	* ''Megatropolis''
60	* ''ComicBook/MercyHeights''
61	* ''ComicBook/{{Necronauts}}''
62	* ''ComicBook/{{Necrophim}}''
63	* ''ComicBook/NemesisTheWarlock''
64	* ''ComicBook/NikolaiDante''
65	* ''Return to Armageddon''
66	* ''ComicBook/RogueTrooper''
67	* ''ComicBook/{{Savage}}/Invasion!''
68	* ''ComicBook/ScarletTraces''
69	* ''ComicBook/{{Shakara}}''
70	* ''ComicBook/TheSimpingDetective'' (a {{spinoff}} of ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'')
71	* ''ComicBook/SinisterDexter''
72	* ''ComicBook/{{Slaine}}''
73	* ''Stickleback''
74	* ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog''
75	* ''Tales from the Black Museum''
76	* ''ComicBook/TalesOfTelguuth''
77	* ''ComicBook/ThargsFutureShocks''
78	* ''ComicBook/TheTenSeconders''
79	* ''Vector 13''
80	* ''The V.Cs''
81	* ''ComicBook/{{XTNCT}}''
82	* ''ComicBook/{{Zenith}}''
83	* ''ComicBook/{{Zombo}}''
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85	'''Contributors Include:'''
86	* Creator/DanAbnett
87	* Creator/SteveDillon
88	* Creator/GarthEnnis
89	* Creator/NeilGaiman
90	* Dave Gibbons
91	* Creator/HarryHarrison
92	* Creator/MarkMillar
93	* Creator/PeterMilligan
94	* Creator/AlanMoore
95	* Creator/GrantMorrison
96	[[/index]]
97	* Just about every British comic writer or artist you've ever heard of... except Creator/WarrenEllis (though he did get a letter printed once back in the mists of time).[[note]]Creator/JohnByrne and Creator/ChrisClaremont don't count; both are British-born, but were emigrated across UsefulNotes/ThePond as children, and were already signed up with Creator/MarvelComics by the time ''2000AD'' got started.[[/note]]
98	* Now has an official tabletop RPG: "Judge Dredd and the Worlds of 2000 AD" using the WOIN system. While Judge Dredd is the main setting in the corebook and will receive the most attention, supplements for other major strips are planned, with Strontium Dog already being released.
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101	!!Tropes Associated With ''2000 AD''
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103	[[AC: '''(Note to Tropers: It appears that we have a Grexnix or two among you so ''do'' take heed of this notice to only add examples here that apply to ''2000 AD'' itself, or to a large number of strips in general. If a trope applies to one strip, consider making a separate page for it).''']]
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105	* AbnormalAmmo: Several strips make use of this. For example, ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'''s lawgiver fires six different kinds of bullet, ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'' has a very similar variable cartridge blaster and [[ComicBook/SinisterDexter Finnigan Sinister]]'s HandCannon has an option for high explosive rounds to name but a few.
106	* ActionGirl: Many strips have tough female protagonists. While many have been forgettable, those such as ''ComicBook/AndersonPsiDivision'' and [[ComicBook/StrontiumDog Durham Red]] are among the title's most beloved characters.
107	* AdvancedTech2000: Right in the title.
108	* AllDeathsFinal: The 2000 AD policy has been that unless being able to come BackFromTheDead is an integral part of a character (such as the character being a vampire or something similar) dead characters stay dead. It hasn't been quite universally followed, but close enough. Couple this with a complete willingness to kill off even well-loved main characters, and this has led to some of comics history's most genuinely shocking moments.
109	* AnthologyComic: 2000 AD itself features many different comics, some of which are also connected through a SharedUniverse. ''Future Shocks'' and ''Tales of Telguuth'' are anthology comics in their own right, featuring short 5-10 page comics that only rarely star any recurring characters.
110	* AnyoneCanDie: The comic was never afraid to kill off [[TheHeroDies main characters]], starting with M.A.C.H.1.
111	* AppliedPhlebotinum: Apparently, the stories Tharg publishes for us create a type of energy called "Thrill Power." Reading too many epic stories at any one time can lead to something called "[[PhlebotinumOverload Thrill Power Overload]]," and Tharg occasionally has to protect the comic from enemies called "Thrill Suckers" who seek to steal said "Thrill Power."
112	* ArtifactTitle: When it first came out, the year 2000 was twenty three years away. Initially, nobody thought the comic would last into TheEighties, let alone the twenty first century. See {{Zeerust}}.
113	* ArtImitatesArt: ''2000 AD'' artists seem to [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/joker_copy_4176.jpg love]] [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/ce/0a/97/ce0a971f52b2c18b7cc78d3801516a1f.jpg putting]] [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd Judge Death]] in place of ComicBook/TheJoker in [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C95eWGJ8xPY/Txp1yyZsy0I/AAAAAAAABDU/b5UYweGBctk/s1600/JohnDouglas_Killing-Joke_4.jpg homages]] [[http://art.cafimg.com/images/Category_48189/subcat_130463/Meg211_1a.jpg to]] old Brian Bolland artworks (who has worked on both 2000AD and DC properties).
114	* AscendedExtra: Several characters from ''ComicBook/ThargsFutureShocks'' and its various {{Spin Off}}s, such as the ''Survival Geeks'' and ''Ulysses Sweet: Maniac For Hire'' were later given their own strips.
115	* BadassNormal: ''Charley's War'', set entirely in the real world's historical [=WW1=] and early [=WW1=], is this to the comic roster. Nothing supernatural has happened in this comic though it was still spectacular within bounds of reality.
116	* BodyHorror: The premise of ''The Visible Man'' is of an ex-soldier who gains partial {{Invisibility}} from a freak accident involving [[RadiationInducedSuperpowers nuclear waste]] so that all his internal organs are showing. People shriek in terror at the mere sight of him.
117	* BloodSport: Many early strips, such as ''Mean Team'', ''Mean Arena'' and, most notably ''ComicBook/HarlemHeroes'', had ultra-violent future sports based loosely on real sports with a futuristic twist. ''ComicBook/ButtonMan'' combines this trope with HuntingTheMostDangerousGame where rich people gambled with each other by pitting {{Professional Killer}}s against each other in modern day duels.
118	* BrainUploading: The biochips of ''Rogue Trooper'' and similar technologies in ''Judge Dredd'' allow for a person's entire personality to be recorded and uploaded to new bodies or computers. ''A.H.A.B.'' deconstructs this, as the titular character uses recording equipment not designed for human use to save his personality as his ship is being destroyed. While he wasn't a stable individual to begin with, the combination of this and being cooped up in the wreckage of the ship for decades with the corpses of his crew (several of whose deaths he is responsible for), among them his own, does no favours for his sanity, which leaves him hungry for vengeance against the white space whale that he'd been hunting.
119	* BreakoutCharacter: ComicBook/JudgeDredd. Dredd is considered one of ''2000 AD'''s "Big Three" along with ''Rogue Trooper'' and ''Strontium Dog'', and one of the book's most consistently popular features. However, Dredd is also the only feature of ''2000 AD'' that has had any impact outside the rather narrow niche of British dystopian sci-fi, with multiple adaptations in a wide variety of media.
120	* BritishComics: One of the most prominent examples.
121	* CasualTimeTravel: Several series involve time traveling being easily available. The ''Flesh'' series was about time-travelling cowboys making a business of hunting dinosaurs to feed the future, with no regard for paradoxes. ''Tharg's Future Shocks'' had stories about time-travelling tourists and the like.
122	* CelebrityCasualty: President Al Gore is killed by aliens during the Fourth World War. He is succeeded by Vice President Mario Cuomo who ends up shooting himself.
123	* ContinuityReboot: Several over the years, including ''ComicStrip/DanDare''. It is also, perhaps, the main way the magazine gets around bringing back dead characters without a typical comic book resurrection (See: DeathIsCheap, below).
124	* ComicsMerger: ''Tornado'' and ''Starlord'' were absorbed into the comic.
125	* ClueFromEd: Editor-In-Chief Tharg the Mighty always refers to these as "Tharg Notes."
126	** NoteFromEd: Has occurred on at least one occasion. In the ComicBook/StrontiumDog arc "Bitch," Tharg interrupts a scene where Johnny and Durham Red are pelting UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan in the ass repeatedly with slingshot projectiles to warn readers that [[DoNotTryThisAtHome firing projectiles in such a manner is dangerous in real life]] and that if they ever are in the vicinity of [[ButtMonkey Ronald Reagan]], they shouldn't imitate the scene.
127	* CrapsackWorld: Plenty of the comics have deeply unpleasant settings.
128	* DarkerAndEdgier: While American comics were still primarily for kids in the 1970s, their British equivalents at the time featured bloody violence and moral ambiguity. ''2000 AD'' was a successor to ''Action'', an earlier comic magazine for kids that caused a stir in the media for its mature content. Most of ''2000 AD'''s futuristic settings were grimdark dystopias, there was a [[EvilVsEvil very thin line between 'good and evil']], and most storylines lacked [[DownerEnding happy endings]]. However, MediaNotes/TheComicsCode had become much less strict in the 1970s, so 2000 AD was really just taking DarkerAndEdgier [[ExaggeratedTrope to an extreme]].
129	** '''Fun fact:''' ''2000 AD'' dodged controversy from the British press over its gruesome violence by allowing Judge Dredd to use excessive force. The logic being that a lawman can get away with using brutality against violent criminals.
130	* DeathIsCheap: {{Averted}} by editorial mandate. Tharg has ruled that, in order to keep deaths meaningful, once a character dies, they cannot ever be resurrected (unless that's part of the premise of the strip, like if the protagonist is a vampire or something).
131	** Resurrections defying the one exception above have occured though ([[spoiler: Mean Machine, Junior, and Pa Angel]] in ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' and, most recently, [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/NikolaiDante Dmitri Romanov]] and [[ComicBook/StrontiumDog Johnny Alpha]]]]), albeit it's still generally uncommon.
132	* DecoyProtagonist: ''Brink'' does this with Carl Brinkmann, who is nicknamed "Brink", making it seem like a ProtagonistTitle. He's killed off during the first story with his partner Bridget Kurtis being the actual protagonist.
133	* {{Doujinshi}}: There are three popular fanzines, which Tharg encourages the readers to buy and which sometimes have work by the comic's creators. ''Zarjaz'' is a general-focus zine, ''Dogsbreath'' centres on ''Strontium Dog'', and ''Tales from the Emerald Isle'' focuses on Irish characters.
134	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: While today the strips are completely disconnected from one another with a few exceptions, early on there seemed to be an attempt at a SharedUniverse of sorts, primarily the works of Pat Mills. ''Harlem Heroes'', ''Judge Dredd'', ''Flesh'', ''Savage'', ''ABC Warriors'', ''Nemesis the Warlock'' and ''Robo Hunter'' all had characters who would appear in the others strips and ''Robo Hunter'' went the extra mile by name-dropping places and concepts from ''Judge Dredd''.
135	* ExcuseQuestion: Lampshaded. ("To be in with a chance of winning, all you have to do is answer this brain-bustingly easy question.")
136	* ExtinctAnimalPark: There's a Dinosaur National Park full of cloned dinosaurs. ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' runs into "Satanus", a particularly vicious ''T. rex'' that had escaped from the park, in several adventures.
137	* FanserviceCover: ''2000 AD'' occasionally uses this. For instance, there was one that depicted a sexual encounter between ComicBook/JudgeDredd and [[FairCop Judge Galen DeMarco]]. In the actual stories, it's just UnresolvedSexualTension and goes no further than her planting a single kiss on him in his office.
138	* FantasticRacism: Whether it be about {{Mutants}} (''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'', ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog''), robots (''ComicBook/ABCWarriors'', ''Go Machine'') or aliens (''ComicBook/NemesisTheWarlock''), very strong anti racism messages are a recurring theme in the comic.
139	* FutureSlang: It's mostly used in stories set in the future to create unique swear words to get past the censors (e.g. "Drokk" and "Stomm" in ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'', "Sneck" in ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'', "Funt" in ''Sinister Dexter'', et. al.)
140	* GlobalCurrency: Galactic currency is more like it. The Groat is apparently the most commonly used currency throughout the Milky Way; Tharg always gives his contest winners the choice to receive their prize money in either Galactic Groats or Pounds Sterling. The Groat also may show up in the comic strips themselves every once in a while.
141	* GrandfatherClause: Pat Mills has stated that Tharg is kind of a silly concept, but any attempts to get rid of him have not gone down well with the fandom.
142	* TheHeroDies: Notably, a number of strips have this occur, starting with ''M.A.C.H.1''.
143	* HeroicComedicSociopath: Several strips take this and run with it. Notably, ''D.R. and Quinch'', ''ComicBook/LobsterRandom'', ''Ulysses Sweet: Maniac For Hire'' and ''ComicBook/{{Zombo}}'' take this up to eleven.
144	* HostileShowTakeover: The ''Vector 13'' guys replaced Tharg as the editor for a while in late 1996 and early 1997. Fans didn't take to it too well.
145	* HumansAreMorons: As of September 2010, every single example for this trope underneath the comics tab on that page comes from something published in this magazine.
146	* HumansByAnyOtherName: Tharg calls them "Earthlets."
147	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Issues are called "progs."
148	** While those of the ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd Megazine'' are called "megs."
149	** ...And the individual stories within each prog are called Thrill 1, Thrill 2, Thrill 3, etc.
150	* IronicName: Despite stories like ''ComicBook/NemesisTheWarlock'', ''ComicBook/{{Slaine}}'' and even ''ComicBook/ABCWarriors'' satirising and/or criticising Christainity, the title of the magazine includes Anno Domini, a Christian term. Admittedly, the term Common Era was...well, uncommon in the 1970s.
151	* IwoJimaPose: The cover of [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2000AD_7470.jpg the massive 100-page "Prog 2000"]] which was the last issue published in TheNineties.
152	* JustAMachine: Many, many comics in 2000 AD feature this, with humans almost universally hating and mistreating robots (the few that didn't were usually regarded as exceptions) despite the latter possessing human-like intelligence, quirks, feelings, and so on. Sometimes got to the point that you started to wonder who built them since nobody seemed to want them around... Even a man like Judge Dredd, who will unhesitatingly champion mutant rights, considers them nothing more than sophisticated tools. ''Go Machine'' puts a twist on this by applying it to cyborgs; once a human is implanted with cybernetics to replace more than half of their bodies, they lose their status as a human being, resulting in their personal property being seized and their marriage annulled.
153	* KnockingTheKnockoff: Despite the page image (which is a non-commissioned joke comic), the official creative team seem to be ambivalent about [[ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal The Batman Who Laughs]] being a copy of [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd Judge Death]], although they did name one of their own comics featuring the latter "The Judge Who Laughs" as an obvious ShoutOut.
154	* LegacyCharacter: It has been suggested by several grexnix that Tharg is in fact a persona adopted by a line of the mag's human editors, beginning with Pat Mills. This is of course nonsense.
155	** A strip in Prog 2014 dealt with this, stating that Tharg used to do this, but those who took on the mantle of Tharg [[AwesomenessIsVolatile could only last a short time before being driven into meltdown through pure thrill power.]]
156	* MinimalisticCoverArt: The ''Judge Dredd Case Files'', a series of trade paperbacks collecting the ''entire'' thirty five plus year run of the series, have covers that are half solid colour, half black with a logo, plain text title and an image of the Judge himself. In the earlier editions, the image of Dredd was black and white which enhanced the effect. This style has since been carried over to other ''2000 AD'' complete collections, including ''Strontium Dog'' and ''Nemesis The Warlock''.
157	* TheMultiverse: A couple of strips have shown that this is the case with ''Judge Dredd'' establishing dimension jump technology having been developed in a couple of dimensions. The implication from crossovers is that ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' is a multiverse, given that ''ComicBook/SinisterDexter'' are shown briefly visiting the worlds of ''Judge Dredd'', ''Strontium Dog'', ''Nikolai Dante'', and ''Kingdom''. ''Indigo Prime'' runs off this with its agents being recruited post-mortem from different dimensions for the titular agency.
158	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Went straight for the jugular when it introduced "B.L.A.I.R. 1" in {{the Nineties}}, where Prime Minister Tony Blair was implanted with "compu-puncture electro-needles" to give him superstrength, and a party-line-spewing AI advisor called Doctor Spin in his head.
159	** ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' has so many examples that it needs its own page.
160	* PardonMyKlingon: Tharg drops a few Quaxxan words into his editorials.
161	* PenName:
162	** John Wagner and Alan Grant wrote ''a lot'' of content together for the magazine in the 1980's, most of which were published under one of several pseudonyms Wagner had created (T.B. Grover perhaps being the most notable for their work in ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'') or credited to just one of them instead of both in order to avoid having entire issues with multiple strips from a single credited writer. The only strip where Wagner and Grant share a writing credit ''together'' under their ''real'' names is ''Ace Trucking Co.''
163	** This has been invoked a few times in order to disguise the fact that a seemingly unrelated story is actually part of one of the main strips. ''The Dead Man'' was credited to Keef Ripley, where it transpires that the burnt protagonist is [[spoiler: Judge Dredd]]. ''Lobster Random'' and ''Sinister Dexter'' had {{Shout Out}}s to this with the same technique.
164	* PlanetaryCoreManipulation: Mega-City-One draws the immense power it needs to function by tapping molten lava underneath the Earth's crust, harnessing primal volcanic energy. This works fine -- until the day it goes wrong.
165	* PrintLongRunners: As of 2022, 2000AD has been running for over 40 years.
166	* RecycledInSpace: Many of 2000AD's stories were basically a science fiction spin on war comics or sports comics, which had been the dominant form of comics in Great Britain at the time 2000AD came to life.
167	* ResurrectedForAJob: The basis behind ''Indigo Prime'' is that the titular agency recruits its operatives from various realities Post mortem via cloning.
168	* RunningGag: All the writers and artists on staff are robots ("droids") who are [[WritersSuck constantly abused by Tharg]], working long hours for little reward and threatened with disintegration should Tharg become unhappy with them. ''ComicBook/DroidLife'' takes this and runs it up to eleven.
169	** There was also a gag on the letters page where readers confused by the familiar design of the Rosette of Sirius emblem Tharg wears on his head would write in asking "Why do you have a telephone dial on your forehead?", a question that would always annoy Tharg ("There's always some dipstick Earthlet who thinks the phrase "telephone dial" is inherently hilarious."). Sadly, the real-life death of the rotary phone killed this joke off. Its final mention was a letter asking "Why does my telephone have a Rosette of Sirius on it?"
170	* RussiaTakesOverTheWorld:
171	** The ''2000 AD'' story ''Invasion!'' explores this idea. Written in the 1980s at the end of the cold war, it explored the idea of a Russian invasion and takeover of Western Europe and Britain. (The Russians were thinly disguised as the "Volgans".) This was expanded into the later graphic novel series ''ComicBook/{{Savage}}''.
172	** ''ComicBook/NikolaiDante'' is set in a far future society where a resurgent Tsarist Russia has forged an interplanetary empire.
173	* SealedEvilInAnotherWorld: In the Zombie special crossover, this spectacularly backfires. In a WhatIf, the Judges of Earth's Mega-Cities decide to deal with Sabbat, the EvilSorcerer directing the hordes of zombies, by banishing him to another dimension with the Soviet Apocalypse Warp. This causes Sabbat to spread to every other ''2000 AD'' universe and infect all of them with his zombies.
174	* SeriesMascot: ''2000 AD'' is represented by Tharg the Mighty, a green-skinned alien who claims to be the editor of the Galaxy's Greatest Comic.
175	* SharedUniverse: At one point, ''Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, ABC Warriors, Nemesis the Warlock'', and various others were all linked into a single, not entirely consistent continuity. ''ABC Warriors'' has since been {{retcon}}ned out, taking ''Nemesis'' with it, and the new ''Strontium Dog'' also appears to be separate.
176	** A more limited version appears as the Dreddverse, primarily consisting of the Judge Dredd series, but including many spin-off series such as ''Judge Anderson'' and ''Lowlife'', and shared-universe stories such as ''Armitage'' and ''Insurrection''.
177	** In more recent years, ''ComicBook/{{Savage}}'' has been adding more and more content to link its timeline to that of ''ComicBook/ABCWarriors'' (such as the introduction of Hammerstein, Blackblood and Mek-Quake robots and the explanation as to how Howard Quartz wound up as a BrainInAJar). Conversely, several ''ABC Warriors'' stories are set at the end of the Volgan War, where the United States invades the Volgan Republic in the [=2080s=].
178	** One episode of ''ComicBook/SinisterDexter'' shows that the comic has at least a shared multiverse, with the pair of gunsharks chasing their mark across dimensions, ending up in the worlds of ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'', ''ComicBook/{{Flesh}}'', ''ComicBook/RogueTrooper'', ''ComicBook/NikolaiDante'', ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'' and ''ComicBook/{{Kingdom}}''.
179	** The ''ComicBook/RogueTrooper''/''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' crossover is an interesting example. Friday ended up in Mega City One thanks to interdimensional travel and, as payment for their help, the Southers grant Justice Department teks unrestricted access to their technology for two hours. Since the Friday continuity is brushed under the carpet these days, it makes it seem like this might not have happened. On the other hand, Dredd does later encounter a FlawedPrototype GI, making it seem like a StableTimeLoop is occurring here.
180	** Most works created by John Higgins actually share a multiverse, which forms the basis of ''Indigo Prime''. Indigo operatives are recruited post-mortem and brought in to work for the organisation as interdimensional agents. The protagonists of ''Revere'' and ''Dead Eyes'' are two such examples.
181	* SlouchOfVillainy: One of the ''2000 AD'' covers shows ''Judge Dredd'' villain Judge Death [[https://judgetutorsemple.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/1949.jpg sitting slouched over on his bone-adorned throne]] on his homeworld.
182	* {{Spinoff}}: The ''Judge Dredd Megazine'', printed monthly.
183	** There have been a few over the years, none of which lasted particularly long. Some worthy of note include ''Dice Man'' (1986) which tried to be a type of {{Gamebook\|s}} and ''Crisis'' (1988-1991) and ''Revolver'' (1990-91) which were aimed at more mature readers (which was a trend at the time) and the ''Extreme Edition'' (??-2008) which was mainly reprints from the early days of the main comic. Only the Meg has done well enough to last over a decade.
184	* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Action'', which was banned in TheSeventies thanks to [[MoralGuardians Mary Whitehouse]]'s campaign. Science fiction was seen as relatively harmless compared to ''Action'''s content of realistic horror comics, so it was decided to push the envelope in that direction instead.
185	* {{Superhero}}: Generally in a satirical, parodic, or deconstructed form, such as ''ComicBook/{{Zenith}}'', the various ComicBook/{{Superman}} [[CaptainErsatz clones]] in ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'', the enlightened hippie stoner superheroes in ''Storming Heaven'', and the megalomaniacal alien "gods" from ''ComicBook/TheTenSeconders''.
186	* TagLine: The magazine's had many over the years, the most notable perhaps being "In Orbit Every [X]day" (in reference to whatever day of the week the comic was published on) and "The Galaxy's Greatest Comic".
187	* TitleByYear: This released in 1977, and continued to 2000, at least, inadvertently turning into an AnnualTitle.
188	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Tharg's favorite thing to eat is polystyrene cups.
189	* {{Transplant}}: Entire series were transplanted into ''2000 AD'' in the late 1970s and early 1980s, often as the result of it's owner's other magazines folding. ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'' is probably the most famous example, having gotten its start in a magazine called ''Starlord'' which didn't last a year.
190	** Happens with a couple of characters within shared universes as well. For example, Galen Demarco started out as a supporting character in ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' before getting her own SpinOff, showing up in the main strip again, then turning up as a supporting character in ''ComicBook/TheSimpingDetective'', turning up in the ''Trifecta'' CrossOver before going back to her own SpinOff again.
191	* {{Zeerust}}: When it was founded, the year 2000 [=AD=] sounded wonderfully far-off futuristic. WordOfGod claims that the name was also chosen because the original publishers doubted the comic would last that long. Apparently they're keeping the name as a badge of pride because they actually ''did''.
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193	-->''Splundig vir Thrigg, Earthlets!''

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