Line #15 Fridge/Dredd


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5	!! FridgeBrilliance:
6	* Dredd usually makes Anderson walk in front, keeping her in his field of vision as part of his evaluation of her. However, Dredd moves her back and takes point whenever things are about to get really dangerous, like before they breach a door. At that point, their mutual survival takes precedence over the evaluation.
7	* When Kay fantasises about shooting Anderson during a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, he's imagining himself using a Lawgiver. Guess he really did always want one of those. Further to that, he's clearly ignorant of the Lawgiver's [[AnArmAndALeg security feature]].
8	** Anderson likely had her suspicions before that point too. Earlier in the elevator, she reads Kay's mind and finds out he's planning on going for Dredd's gun. Had he known how the Lawgiver works, he wouldn't have even considered it.
9	*** [[RuleOfThree On top of that]] When Anderson warns Dredd that Kay is planning on going for his gun, Dredd just replies with [[BluntYes "yeah."]] Dredd is fully aware that if Kay tries to shoot his gun, it would explode on him. Dredd isn't the trainee being tested here, so he can afford to lose his weapon and get a replacement, meaning there's no need for him to be worried either way.
10	* After they get the alert out calling for backup Dredd asks Anderson to assess the situation, before Dredd states they should go after Ma Ma, Anderson suggests waiting for backup. Dredd rejects this silently as she realizes she gave a "wrong answer". What makes it wrong? It's how she worded it, as Anderson stated that she wanted to wait "Until the odds have shifted in their favor". As Judges (in a city where they can only respond to 6% of serious crimes a day) the odds are literally never in their favor.
11	* Rather than use her real name or just her nickname, Dredd addresses Ma-ma as "Citizen Ma-ma" right before he summarily executes her. This is to drive home his statement over the PA where he called her a common criminal. Ma-ma isn't a crime lord, she isn't a bogeyman, she isn't some unstoppable force. She's just another citizen of Megacity One who has broken the law, who must answer to Dredd's authority as a Judge appointed by the law like anyone else.
12	* Small one, but the "transmitter will be out of range" isn't as much of a gamble made by Dredd as it initially appears. Ma-ma says that her bombs will, by destroying the top fifty floors, collapse the entire building. However, this would be easier to achieve (and with guaranteed results) by planting bombs at the ''bottom'' of Peach Trees instead or by doing both of those simultaneously - with Ma-Ma de-facto controlling the entirety of it, this shouldn't be a problem for her gang to set up. Therefore, there's a reason why her bombs are planted ''only'' in the part of Peach Trees that Ma-Ma herself resides - most likely it's because those bombs won't go off if they are too far from her detonator, and she wasn't planning on leaving the bomb-protected area.
13	** And she probably [[DidntThinkThisThrough didn't think it through]] that a Judge would throw her from the top floor, and assumed that the Judge would just shoot her.
14	* Why did Anderson allow Lex to say his monologue even though he had Dredd at gunpoint and could shoot at any moment? As a mind reader, she knew that Lex wanted Dredd alive to hear his monologue, so there was no risk in letting him [[{{Troll}} deliver it before killing him]].
15	* Why isn't Dredd more well-known among the criminals of the city? Given his personal body count in a single day, it's likely that too few have lived to tell the tale after facing him. Only very low-level crooks (like the duo of teenagers) or petty criminals are spared from his wrath, and those guys likely never see him at his best so he doesn't leave much of an impression on them. Even for the very few who do manage to see him in action and survive, without any other witnesses, no one will believe them anyway.
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17	!! FridgeHorror:
18	* Ma-Ma made her way to become the criminal kingpin of Peach Trees by killing all rival gangs in the structure, and after Dredd destroys her empire and executes her, there's a huge power vacuum left in Peach Trees, meaning that all its inhabitants will likely have to endure gang wars between criminals that want to take Ma-Ma's place.
19	** Assuming there's any gangs left in Peach Trees.
20	** Mega City One has an enormous population; other gangs living around Peach Trees will likely hear the news and decide to transfer themselves there while the inhabitants are still piecing themselves together after Dredd's blitz. There's also no suggestion that the Hall of Justice will keep an eye on Peach Trees, given that they can barely respond to 6% of all the emergencies they get every day.
21	* The two honest judges who get stalled outside the block could have spent that time responding to calls and saving lives, but instead, by making them waste their time standing out there, Mama has probably got several people killed.
22	* Ma-Ma is incredibly casual when she orders that the rival dealers be skinned alive and thrown to their deaths. She sounds almost bored giving the order. How many people has she killed so brutally like this? It's another event that says something about how routine extreme violence is in [[CrapsackWorld Mega-City One]].
23	* Something is terribly wrong with the Judge examination system. It almost flunks Anderson despite her later quickly proving herself to be competent and incorruptible, while simultaneously allowing potentially-corrupt Judges like Lex and his cohort to pass.

Context Fridge / Dredd