Hilarious In Hindsight / Judge Dredd

Comic series

• The Democracy Now quote at the top of the page seems a lot less like a convincing argument since Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, rescued a woman from a mugging that he happened upon while cycling past^note  Unlike certain other cities, the Mayor of London does not have automatic 24 hour bodyguards, it really was just him riding up. It seems an elected representative can work just fine.
• Judge Janus' first name? Judy.
• The Justice Department's Chief of Science? Judge Nye.
• Justice Department's ban on smoking in public areas, barring designated Smokatoriums, is strangely prophetic of the smoking bans that arose around the European Union in the noughties.
• During "The Cursed Earth" mega-epic, Dredd faces a T-Rex that was cloned using reptile eggs and recovered dinosaur DNA for the purposes of a theme park. Of course, this makes Apu's rant to Principal Skinner about Plagiarism even funnier. Double points for the fact the story was written in 1978. Twelve years before Michael Crichton wrote the book version.
• Simping seems a lot less unlikely thanks to the Creepy Clown Craze of 2016. The term itself also counts, as simping entered the public lexicon in 2020, though is in a different context.
• The League Of Fatties protest marches are a lot more hilarious since the Fatties Against Fascism◊ protested at Berkeley in 2017.
• The Day the Law Died has a brief bit in which Cal declares all crime legal for 24 hours. Even better in that story also has Cal's government massacring citizens and assassinating Cal's opposition.
• The name of one vigilante featured in the strips (2000ad #442)? Megaman.
• Athletic events allowing (and even encouraging) drugs and cybernetics to an extent is a scathing satire on ambition of athletes and the laziness of putting in the hard work. 2025 is the proposed date for the Enhanced Games, an Olympics-style event where athletes are encouraged to be juiced up on performance enhancing drugs.

The 1995 Movie

• The unfinished Janus Project clones, with their blue skin and exposed hearts, look a lot like Tyrants.

Dredd

• Ma Ma's death by being shot and thrown from a height would be echoed in the comics in the form of PJ Maybe's death.
• A piece of graffiti in the drug den where Kay is arrested looks strikingly similar to the logo of YouTube horror vlogger Shrouded Hand.
• Slo-Mo is almost identical to Jet, even though its most recent rendition wasn’t revealed until two years later when Fallout 4 was released.