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Vienna Dredd/Pasternak
Born Vienna Dredd, she is the daughter of Rico Dredd, fathered by him with a sympathetic journalist while on Titan. As Dredd's niece, she is one of the few family members he has and, as such, he cares a great deal about her.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Into a Satanist cult by a demon. It requires significant help and time to recover, Dredd taking her to Mega-City 1 to support her doing so.
- The Bus Came Back: Dredd puts her in the care of Mrs. Pasternak after he rescues her from a kidnapper to keep her safe from anyone trying to seek revenge on Dredd. After growing up in Brit Cit, she returns 24 years later.
- Intergenerational Friendship: The actress friend who actually noticed her missing when the Satanists abducted her and became concerned was an older woman.
- In the Blood: During the "Blood Trails" arc, she saves Dredd from the Big Bad by dispatching Pasha with his own pistol. The narration lampshades it, noting that she has some of Dredd's killer instinct in her. She's also quite calm during the "Day Of Chaos" arc, even saving Dredd again.
- Limited Social Circle: Described in her Brit Cit years at least as hard to get close to.
- Like Brother and Sister: Tells Dolman (then fifteen year old clone who is “genetically” her father) to consider her his big sister when they first meet and the two have maintained a sibling relationship since. This is also more her familial relationship with Rico II as well.
- Morality Pet: She is one of the few people who can bring out the soft side of Dredd. He cares about her deeply and will rush to her aid when she's in trouble. Dredd feels greatly troubled over his paternal feelings for her, as American Judges are not supposed to have any family relationships, and at one point almost handed in his badge over it, but was persuaded by the Chief Judge that having human feeling wasn't a weakness.
- Ms. Fanservice: An actress by trade, she plays this role on the sitcom she stars in, where she plays babysitter to a family of illegal (literal) aliens and gets naked to distract the authorities.
- My Greatest Failure: Dredd feels enormously guilty over having left her an orphan and then not having acknowledged her for over two decades.
Max Normal
Dredd's street (now retired) informant, Max Normal is part of a subculture that eschews the bizarre fashions and trends of the post-apocalyptic far future, in favor of a more classy mid-20th century style, which in Max's case, is a three piece suit, bowler hat and Bulgarian umbrella.
- The Ace: In the field of Shuggy, a bizarre futuristic form of billiards, Max is considered one of the best players in the world. Max is one of only two people known to have ever pulled off 'The Booglariser', a trick shot in which the player pots every ball on the table with only shot.
- Cultural Rebel: He's very aware he creeps others out with how he acts and dresses; that's the point.
- Distressed Dude: Was held hostage by criminals to get back at Dredd at one point.
- Evil Mentor: Had one in Mo Bland, a fellow Sharp-Dressed Man who picked him off the streets and taught him the basics of style... and who turned out to be moonlighting as an assassin.
- Flanderization: When first introduced, Max's "thing" was that he was considered a freak for dressing and speaking in a way that readers of the time would perceive as normal and respectable, as opposed to the bizarre future-punk denizens of Mega-City One. Over time, however, whilst his outfit remained the same, he became even weirder than the average Mega-City One inhabitant.
- Future Slang: In contrast to his elegant fashion sense, Max speaks in a bizarre word soup of futuristic and 60s slang, even worse than what the regular citizens do.
- The Informant: Dredd often goes to him for information regarding what's happening on the streets. After the events of The Apocalypse War though, he retires from being this, most likely because being in cahoots with the most hated and feared Judge in the city can get you on a lot of shit-lists.
- Properly Paranoid: He dislike water or having to wash himself with it, preferring 'Shampagne' (a substitute for champagne, given how alcohol is outlawed in Mega-City One) and Clean-O-Spray respectively. This prevents him from contracting the engineered Block Mania disease spread in his block's water supply by Orlok.
- Rhymes on a Dime: Often speaks like this. Picked it up from his mentor, Mo Bland.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Max's entire schtick - he's never seen without his signature three-piece suit, bowler hat, and umbrella.
- Signature Headgear: Capping the above is his iconic bowler hat.
- Technical Pacifist: Max disdains violence and prefers to avoid getting into scuffles if possible. He's still capable of using trickery and cunning to enact revenge, such as setting up others to get busted by the Judges.
- Wine Is Classy: Max only drinks champagne. Well, it's actually "'Shampagne' (real champagne is illegal like all alcohol) but the intent is the same.
Mrs. Gunderson
An elderly woman who is a little bit hard of hearing and seeing. She also happens to be Judge Death's landlady. Nearly blind and deaf, she doesn't realize that Death is the inhuman monster that he is and takes care of him. Walter the Wobot is eventually assigned to her as her caretaker.
- Blind Mistake: Even her obscenely thick and large glasses don't afford her much vision. It's established to be of benefit to her, as she's one of the few people to survive an encounter with Judge Death, mostly because she's so blind that she never realizes who he is, so she treats him with about the same respect as any kind old landlady would, much to the Dark Judge's surprise.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Because of her poor senses, she often doesn't see or hear things properly and often replies to most sentences with an almost irrelevant answer due to her near deafness.
- Haunted House Historian: On Dredd's advice, she becomes this when nobody wants to rent her spare room any more. Having been Judge Death's landlady, this attracts all sorts of business, allowing her to make a decent living.
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness: She's so innocent and kind that even Judge drokking Death won't kill her. Not immediately, anyway.
- Pet the Dog: Mrs. Gunderson is such a sweet, nice old lady that, out of all the citizens of Mega-City One, she's the only one that Dredd genuinely likes and tolerates to have around. Every time they meet, no matter how crazy and out-of-control the situation is (and it's quite a lot, since she's a magnet for trouble), Dredd is nothing but patient, helpful and friendly to her. Trying to take advantage of her or putting her in danger will earn you a daystick to the jaws from Dredd.
- Scatterbrained Senior: Mostly due to her poor eyesight and hearing, she doesn't really have much of a clue about what's going on.
- Weirdness Magnet: Trouble just seems to follow Mrs. Gunderson, even when she's not aware of it at all. If she shows up in a prog, expect weird and hilarious things to ensue.
"Two-Ton" Tony Tubbs
One of Mega-City One's notorious Fatties, Tony Tubbs is a one-in-a-million talent in the sport of professional eating, who was somehow able to gain weight while he and most other Fatties were living under strict rationing and segregation in the aftermath of the Apocalypse War. When the ban on Fatties and the eating championships were lifted, Tony was recruited by agents who discovered his talent and wanted to train him for the Mega-City Fats contest, but Tony had an even bigger goal in mind...
- All the Other Reindeer: Other Fatties resent the fact that Tony has a talent for gaining weight, and considers the fact that he can barely move under his own power to be "cheating".
- Earn Your Happy Ending: One of the very few characters in the setting to get an actual happy ending; Tony wins the championship, succeeds in his goal of becoming the world's first two-ton man, and is showered with wealth and fame, which he happily shares with his supportive family. Dredd even calls him "champ" after clearing him of any wrongdoing in the stage collapse during the Fats finals.
- Fat Slob: This goes for all Fatties, and by the end of his story, Tony is literally the biggest one. Though unlike most examples of this trope, he's also a Nice Guy.
- Jabba Table Manners: The Mega-City Fats championship is about speed and volume, not dining etiquette.
- Serious Business: The Mega-City Fats title is a really big deal, and Tony knows it. Normally, asking your family to borderline starve themselves just so you can stuff your face would make a character a Fat Bastard of the highest order, but not in this case - the world eating championships are just that important, and the Tubbs family is perfectly willing to tighten their belts to help Tony train. After he wins, he's more than happy to share his new wealth with them.
- Urban Segregation: Lived in the Fatties ghetto after the Apocalypse War. Since no one was allowed to leave until they were under 300 pounds, and Tony could somehow gain weight even under rationing, he had resigned himself to being stuck there for life. Luckily, the ban was lifted and Tony was able to rejoin his family and become a professional eater.
Roscoe
A colonist from Mega-City One who settled on the ice moon Dominion before the arrival of the Dark Judges decimated the colony. Since then, she has contended with them several more times.
- Action Survivor: She is not a Judge or a soldier. Initially she survives the Dark Judges only by hiding from them.
- Armor-Piercing Question: Perhaps the first person to point out that the Dark Judges' claim of "not being alive" is rather flimsy, considering they are living dead. Subverted as they are initially taken aback, then insist that they will ensure that Undeath Always Ends when they have finished their mission.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: She eventually makes her way back to Mega City One to live with her adoptive niece, but she was stranded on Thanatopia for 25 years and had to become an undead in order to defeat the Dark Judges.
- Power Nullifier: When she becomes undead, her good spirit allows her to turn the Dark Judges' powers back on them.
- Took a Level in Badass: She learns to live on the dangerous landscape of Dominion in order to survive and fight off the local wildlife, claiming one of their skulls as a trophy. She also blows up the only spaceship on the planet to prevent the Dark Judges from escaping and lures them into multiple traps.
Sensitive Klegg
A very atypical member of his species who, unlike his sadistic, bloodthirsty and largely unintelligent species, was kind, peaceful and rather intelligent. However, peoples' reaction to his bestial appearance and being ignored by the people he considered friends caused him to contemplate suicide. Although, He did find happiness eventually. He currently resides in the Cursed Earth.
- Token Heroic Orc: Unlike other Kleggs, he's uncomfortable with consuming human flesh and, like his name says, is quite sensitive. He's also helped out both Dredd and Dirty Frank.
Otto Sump
Otto Sump was born with a face that not even a mother could love, considering that his own mother tried to abandon him, and only took him back out of guilt and obligation. As ugly as you can physically get without being a mutant or undead, Otto had a difficult life, but tried to stay positive, even figuring out how to turn his ugliness into a fortune.
- The Chewtoy: Poor guy really can't catch a break, as the whole world seems intent on making his life miserable. Even Dredd treats him like crap, though in his case, it has nothing to do with Otto's looks, which Dredd couldn't care less about, and more that Otto is a constant headache that insists on acting like he and Dredd are old friends.
- Downer Ending: Murdered by his own mother, who died of old age shortly afterwards, and his death was celebrated by everyone save his wife, his business partner, and Dredd, the last of whom was more upset that justice had failed.
- Gonk: There's really no way to put it nicely; the man is disgustingly ugly, through no fault of his own. It's almost difficult just to read the comics he appears in.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: What Otto wanted more than anything after a lifetime of rejection. His own wife admits she didn't really love him and only married him for his money, though she did like him a bit for his personality.
- Nice Guy: A very nice and pleasant guy, especially considering the kind of life he had to live. It just makes his eventual fate all the more tragic.
- Nightmare Face: His face is so hideous that even the Mega-City Face Changing Machines can do nothing for him.
- Offing the Offspring: His mother eventually killed him shortly before her own death from old age, driven insane by a mix of resenting her own child for existing, guilt for said resentment, and shame.
- Reduced to Ratburgers: "Gunk", Otto's second business idea. The food shortages in the wake of the Apocalypse War gave Otto the idea to create a line of foodstuffs from resources normally considered inedible, such as maggots, rats, mold, etc. Once again, it was shut down by the Justice Department at the insistance of Moral Guardian groups, who considered it to be "immoral", and the Judges caved just to get them to shut up. The Department then turned right around and issued their own version of Gunk, as official Mega-City One rations with no ingredients listed on the packaging, as they didn't have the luxury of throwing away valuable nutrition.
- Start My Own: His first business idea, clinics that gave "ugliness" treatments, allowing normal people to artificially become as ugly as him, kicked off the Ugly craze which caused such outrage from various Moral Guardian organizations that the Judges ended up imposing heavy taxes on the treatments (since there was no grounds to actually outlaw it), to the point that only the very wealthy could afford to become ugly.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Uses his ugliness several times to start a business, which becomes massively successfull... and also causes so much social upheaval that the Judges end up shutting him down just to restore order. At least he still got to keep the money he made, as he died a very wealthy man.
Yassa
A good-hearted young boy living in the cursed Earth, who ends up helping Judge Dredd. Blinded by one of the Sisters of death as a result of this, he is eventually brought to Mega-City 1 post Necropolis, along with his mother, granted residence and new eyes.
- Biopic: Years after the events of Necropolis, a poster in the background shows that a film was made about the events of "The Dead Man" titled Yassa. Urb Karlan is cast as Dredd.
- Blind Black Guy: A child as opposed to an adult, but he is blinded by one of the sisters of death. Subverted when he receives new eyes.
- Children Are Tender-Hearted: Yassa is a very sympathetic to others individual, even in comparison to most other townsfolk.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Him and his mother being brought through to the city is about as close as can come.
- Eye Scream: The Sisters Of Death burn his eyes out.
- Innocence Lost: Living in the Cursed Earth never allowed him innocence, but the story’s events do make him tragically more cynical.
