History Characters / JudgeDredd

* [[Characters/JudgeDreddOtherMegaCities Other Mega-Cities]]

* [[Characters/JudgeDreddOtherMegaCities Other Mega-Cities]] (WIP)

** [[Characters/JudgeDreddJudgesOfMegaCityOne Judges of Mega-City One]][[note]]Cassandra Anderson, Rico Dredd, Giant, America Beeny, Galen [=DeMarco=], Kraken, Grice, Rico II, Fintan Joyce, Smiley, Irwin Guthrie, Morphy, Maitland[[/note]]
*** [[Characters/JudgeDreddTheCharacter Judge Dredd]]

* [[Characters/JudgeDreddDeadworld Deadworld]][[note]]Sisters of Death, Dark Judges (Fall of Deadworld), Fairfax, Jess Childs, the Boneman[[/note]]
** [[Characters/JudgeDreddDarkJudges Dark Judges]][[note]]Death, Fear, Fire, Mortis, Whisper, Joker[[/note]]

''Characters/{{Dredd}}''

[[folder: Henry Dubble]]

* [[Characters/JudgeDreddPerps Perps]][[note]]Call-Me-Kenneth, Phillip Janet Maybe, Deathfist/Stan Lee, Sabbat the Necromagus, President Booth, Nate Slaughterhouse, Owen Krysler/ The Mutant, Randolph "Whitey" Whitely, The Judda, Armon Gill, Marlon "Chopper" Shakespeare, Nero Narcos, Satanus, Total War, The P Street Posse, Don Uggie Apelino, Fairly Hyperman[[/note]]
* [[Characters/JudgeDreddCivilians Civilians]][[note]]Vienna Dredd/Pasternak, Max Normal, Mrs. Gunderson, "Two-Ton" Tony Tubbs[[/note]]

Character index for the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters from the ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' comic series ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd''.

** [[Characters/JudgeDreddJudgesOfMegaCityOne Judges of Mega-City One]][[note]]Joseph Dredd, Cassandra Anderson, Rico Dredd, Giant, America Beeny, Galen [=DeMarco=], Kraken, Grice, Rico II, Fintan Joyce, Smiley, Irwin Guthrie, Morphy, Maitland[[/note]]

* [[Characters/JudgeDreddJusticeDepartment Justice Department]]

* [[Characters/JudgeDreddDeadworld Deadworld]]

** [[Characters/JudgeDreddChiefJudges Chief Judges]][[note]]Eustace Fargo, Hollins Solomon, Clarence Goodman, Cal, Griffin, Hilda McGruder, Thomas Silver, Hadrian Volt, Barbara Hershey, Dan Francisco, Martin Sinfield, Logan

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!1995 Film
[[folder:Cast]]
* Creator/SylvesterStallone as Judge Joseph Dredd
* Creator/ArmandAssante as Rico
* Creator/DianeLane as Judge Hershey
* Creator/RobSchneider as Fergie
* Creator/JürgenProchnow as Judge Griffin
* Creator/MaxVonSydow as Chief Justice Fargo
* Creator/JoannaMiles as Judge [=McGruder=]
* Creator/JoanChen as Dr. Ilsa Hayden
* Creator/BalthazarGetty as Cadet Nathan Olmeyer
* Creator/IanDury as Geiger
* Creator/MitchellRyan as Vartis Hammond
* Creator/BradleyLavelle as Chief Judge Hunter
* Creator/ScottWilson as Pa Angel
* Creator/ChristopherAdamson as Mean Machine Angel
* Creator/EwenBremner as Junior Angel
* Creator/PhilSmeeton as Link Angel
* Creator/MauriceRoëves as Warden Miller
* Creator/JamesRemar as the Block Warlord
* Creator/PatStarr as Lily Hammond
* Creator/LexDaniel as rookie Judge Brisco
* Creator/AngusMacInnes as Judge Silver
* Creator/PeterMarinker as Judge Esposito
* Creator/MarkMoraghan as Judge Monroe
* Creator/LouiseDelamere as Judge Meeker
* Creator/AlSapienza as Judge Gellar
* Creator/AdrienneBarbeau provides the voice of the Hall of Justice Central Computer
* Creator/JamesEarlJones provides the narration to the film's opening text crawl
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Character page for the ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' comic series ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd''.

!Judges of Mega-City One

[[folder:Joseph Dredd]]
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[[caption-width-right:299:"I am the Law."]]

The comic's law-abiding, unflinchingly-authoritarian protagonist, Judge Joseph "Joe" Dredd. Born in 2066, he and his brothers were cloned from the genes of Eustace Fargo, the founder of the justice system in the Mega-Cities. Perhaps the greatest Judge to ever roam the streets, Dredd brings the fight to all those who are the enemy of the Law, from common thugs to up and including supernatural creatures, powerful cyborgs and even godlike beings. No matter how powerful one could be, no one is above the name of justice, enforced with his trusty [[CarryABigStick Daystick]], [[CoolGuns Lawgiver]] and [[CoolBike Lawmaster.]]

-> See Characters/JudgeDreddTheCharacter.

[[folder:Cassandra Anderson]]
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Cassandra Anderson is a member of Justice Department's Psi-Division, a unit of telepaths specialized to deal with out-of-this-world threats. She is perhaps the closest thing to a partner Dredd could ever have, having repeatedly fought alongside him against the Dark Judges as well as various other supernatural foes. Has her own spinoff series, ''ComicBook/AndersonPsiDivision''.

* ActionGirl: As a female judge, she patrols the streets with great competence.
* BoyishShortHair: After she loses her hair during the "Half Life" arc, it never grows back to its original length. How long it grows [[DependingOnTheArtist varies]] but it's a sign of her advancing age.
* BreakoutCharacter: She was initially intended as just one of Judge Death's victims. She proved so popular that she returned many times since and even ended up getting her own spinoff.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: She's rather flippant with her superiors and has a more relaxed attitude than other judges. The tradeoff of her powers is considered to be worth it. Psi judges are usually more in tune with their emotions.
* CatchPhrase: "Grud on a greenie!"
* ChristmasCake: She notes that she's getting older and is presently in her sixties. She's partnered with a rookie psi judge at one point who she knows is attracted to her. She notes that she should discourage this, but is at the same time flattered.
* CloserToEarth: Far less extreme than Dredd, though it may be her PsychicPowers.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting:
** Her initial appearance was based on [[Music/{{Blondie}} Debbie Harry]].
** Inverted later on--in several stories written after the 2012 movie, Anderson [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ac/24/90/ac24903976645fa1aaefa29e8a1f5017--judge-dredd-judges.jpg resembles]] Creator/OliviaThirlby a lot.
* DeadpanSnarker: It's part of her attitude. Her superiors note that she's somewhat flippant with it.
* DreamWeaver: Cass has learned to employ lucid dreaming, which has come in handy against both the Sisters of Death and Judge Death.
* FairCop: Her appearance is based on [[Music/{{Blondie}} Debbie Harry]], so she definitely falls under this trope.
* FireForgedFriends: Her battles against the Dark Judges alongside Dredd have earned his respect, something that's very difficult, especially for a Psi Judge to earn.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Her blonde hair marks her out as a more traditionally good character than most other judges. Or, at least, [[TokenGoodTeammate less brutal]].
* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: She rarely ever wears a helmet, even in combat situations, although the in-story HandWave is that it obstructs her psychic abilities.
* TheLostLenore: She falls in love with a Sov Psi Kop named Mikhael, though he dies soon after. Using lucid dreaming techniques, she is able to keep his memory alive and be with him as she sleeps.
* MeaningfulName: Named for the mythical [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra Cassandra]], who was also a psychic.
* MsFanservice: For the most part, Anderson in Judge Dredd doesn't provide much fanservice other than being hot in general. Her own spinoff, however, is a different story. In the first collected volume alone, she spends half a story naked in a coma (she is mostly covered by a sheet, but still), has another judge walk in on her in a shower, and goes clubbing in a low-cut, tight minidress.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In one of the classic comics, Anderson is utterly horrified when she realises the Dark Judges tricked her into resurrecting and loosing them on Mega-City One. She mostly gets over it within a couple progs, reasoning that she needs to focus on taking down the Dark Judges rather than moping about.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's presently either in her late 50s or early 60s, but doesn't even look 30. Arthur Ranson did draw her as looking more mature in the mid noughties, but other artists haven't followed through with this.
* OnlySaneMan: Noticeably less extreme and brutal than the average cop. Doesn't mean she doesn't kill the occasional criminal here and there.
* PstandardPsychicPstance: Most of the covers she appears on have her do this, when she isn't using a Lawgiver.
* PsychicPowers: She's the top psychic in Psi Division and her powers have allowed her to counter such supernatural foes as the Dark Judges, even being capable of containing their spirits.
* RepressedMemories: For years she blocked out the fact that she had been abused by her own father.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: After being placed on suspension for her role in resurrecting the Dark Judges, she's placed on suspension pending a likely Titan trip. Anderson's decision to disobey her suspension and break the rules is what ultimately allows them to strand the Dark Judges in limbo.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Like most Judges she's trained to shoot perps resisting arrest with no compunction, but she has a softer side than most of her colleagues and is willing to go against the system given a choice ToBeLawfulOrGood.

[[folder:Rico Dredd]]
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Joe's twin clone brother and field partner for the longest time, before he became corrupt. Like Dredd, he was bred and trained in the academy, and performs just as well as him. After unsuccessfully trying to bribe Dredd -- who witnessed him extorting and killing a civilian -- into silence, he was sentenced to twenty years on Titan. Much later, Rico returned and swears revenge on his brother, who promptly shot and killed him.
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* TheAce: He graduated from the academy in first place, beating even Dredd.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: At the academy, he was the only one with higher marks than Joe.
* AntiVillain: Dredd reckons so. LawmanGoneBad or not, they're still blood brothers and his death still haunts Dredd many years later.
* AxCrazy: Had traces of this even before his exile and confinement on Titan, most notably when he murdered Judge Kenner, shooting Kenner with an incendiary round, blasting off his limbs, and mocking him as he died.
* CainAndAbel: Is the Cain to Joseph's Abel. Dredd sends him to Titan and he comes back to seek revenge, only for Dredd to kill him, something Dredd still feels remorseful for, even after years.
* {{Cyborg}}: Like all Titan inmates, his respiratory system and skin has been modified with cybernetic implants so he can survive on Titan without a space suit. It's pretty horrific looking.
* DirtyCop: Shortly after hitting the streets, he started his own criminal operations, which gets him sent to Titan.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Had a daughter with a visiting journalist. Said daughter is eventually semi-adopted by Dredd, as genetically speaking, she is his daughter as well.
* FacialHorror: His time on Titan cost him his normal face, with cybernetic implants covering most of it and his nose missing.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: He's an even better shot than Dredd. The only reason Dredd is able to defeat him is that his body has gotten used to Titan's lower gravity and he is slower as a result.
* LawmanGoneBad: He was top of his class, better than even Dredd, but he began running his own criminal activities not long after he hit the streets. His worst act was the brutal murder of Judge Kenner, which he committed because the latter had grown increasingly suspicious of Rico. Rico was able to pull it off by pretending to be Joe, with Kenner realizing the truth too late.
* PosthumousCharacter: His first appearance is the one in which he is killed. Any subsequent appearances are in the form of flashbacks and dream sequences.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: After spending two decades on one of Saturn's moon, angrily plotting his vengeance against his clone brother, his revenge story is wrapped up in a single prog, with all it takes is a single shot from Joseph. However, he is still Dredd's brother, his partner, and killing him puts a heavy mental toll on Joseph that never truly goes away.

[[folder:Giant]]
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The original Judge Giant was one of Dredd's Rookie Judges, who later was made into a full Judge after Dredd sets up a BatmanGambit to expect Giant to arrest him, thus showing that he passed the final test. After being killed by Orlok the Assassin, his illegitimate son took up his mantle.
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* CanonWelding: The original Giant is the son of [[ComicBook/HarlemHeroes John "Giant" Clay]]. Clay himself appears in a ''Whatever Happened To......?'' story where he has a final conversation with his grandson.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: The original Giant is shot InTheBack by Orlok just before ''The Apocalypse War'' begins.
* InTheBack: Orlok shoots the original Giant from behind after his Satellat distracts him.
* JiveTurkey: The original Giant blatantly abuses this trope, speaking rather free-spiritedly and refers to Dredd as "J.D. Baby". Mind you, the only other person who gets away with calling Dredd like that is Max Normal, his informant. His son largely averts this, however.
* LegacyCharacter: The second Judge Giant is the son of the first, conceived by an unjudicial liaison.
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[[folder:America Beeny]]
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America Beeny is the daughter of Bennett Beeny and America Jara who is inducted into the Academy just before Benny's death.
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* ActionGirl: She is one of the youngest judges ever to graduate from the academy as she was fast tracked in record time. Dredd is even impressed with her competence and determination and she is quite skilled on the streets.
* DeadGuyJunior: She's America Beeny, and her mother was America Jara. Her father wanted her to have her mother's name to keep her memory alive. Which he was also doing by living in her mother's body.
* DeadpanSnarker: Never short of an answer, as her tutor noted of her while she was still at the academy. Snarks in virtually every appearance since -- something the older Judges tend to comment negatively on.
* InternalReformist: Benny enrols her in the academy partly to keep her safe and partly to make the system change. She does state that she believes the system must change, she also wishes to be a judge and proves her worth on the streets.
* LegacyCharacter: She is the daughter of the protagonists of "America". She has many of her mother's traits, along with her father's good nature.
* LiteralAssKicking: When attacked and pinned by one of the surviving members of the Democratic Terrorists her mother was affiliated with, she pulls a knife from her boot and stabs him square in the rear. When the med team arrives they've removed his pants... all the while keeping the knife lodged there.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: She was conceived through deliberate artificial insemination in order to keep America Jara's memory alive.
* TangledFamilyTree: Her biological mother and her biological father are technically the same person, as her father [[BrainUploading had his brain put in her mother's brain-dead body]] and inseminated him/herself with sperm from his original body, leading to the birth of America Beeny.
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[[folder:Galen [=DeMarco=] ]]
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Galen [=DeMarco=] is a Judge who comes under Dredd's command in Sector 301 and later falls for him. She eventually resigned due to her conflicting ideals as a Judge and became a private detective.
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* ActionGirl: A very capable judge, she is in line for promotion to Senior Judge at just 23. This makes Dredd question what she's doing in The Pit, especially as she volunteered.
* CatchPhrase: In her early solo stories, she puts a spin on Dredd's own "I am the law" by reminding people "I am not the law."
* FairCop: She's a young and attractive judge who gets the attention of other judges. Even Dredd is tempted.
* HasAType: Judges. She requests a transfer to The Pit to be with Warren after he is transferred from Harbour Division, where they met. She later falls for Dredd, though he spurns her advances, despite them sharing a kiss. Currently, she is in a relationship with undercover judge [[ComicBook/TheSimpingDetective Jack Point]].
* HeroesWantRedheads: Played with regarding Dredd, since it's indicated that he does care for her but his duty as a judge means he can't have non-professional relationships with anyone. Played straight with Jack Point however, who as a private detective actively lusts after her.
* FirstNameBasis: When she's wounded on the streets, Dredd refers to her by her first name. She takes this as a sign that he cares about her. Even as late as "Trifecta", he still does so. As such, she often refers to him by his first name.
* MsFanservice: She is depicted in various states of undress at times, particularly just after she's had sex with a fellow judge. An infamous cover depicted her with a NavelDeepNeckline and this trope carried over to her appearances in ''ComicBook/TheSimpingDetective''.
* NonIdleRich: Her father leaves her several billion credits in trust for her. In spite of this, she sticks it out as a judge for several years until her feelings for Dredd force her to make a decision. Even when she leaves, she becomes a P.I. instead of just swanning around with her money. [[spoiler: Subverted in her later stories, where her money has been stolen and she's struggling to make ends meet.]]
* PrivateInvestigator: She becomes a private detective after resigning from Justice Department, as it's a good use of her skills and allows her to pick and choose which elements of the job she wants to go with.
* RankUp: She becomes Sector Chief of Sector 303 at a young age, though her feelings for Dredd forced her to resign.
* ReallyGetsAround: She was known for her tendency for romantically involving herself with various fellow Judges, which put her in trouble with Dredd and eventually caused her to resign as a Judge when she couldn't sacrifice her personal passions for the job.
* {{Transplant}}: Started off in the main strip before getting her own SpinOff and then showing up in ''ComicBook/TheSimpingDetective'' as a recurring character.
* TurnInYourBadge: She is forced to choose between being able to be personally involved with people or being a Judge. Having made a move on Dredd, she resigns.
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[[folder:Kraken]]
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Another Fargo clone originally bred by Morton Judd, but was later inducted into the Judge force. After trying to fill Dredd's vacant position, he came under the control of the Sisters of Death and was turned into a Dark Judge against his will.
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* AnArmAndALeg: He blows up his right hand when he tries to use another Judge's Lawgiver, forgetting it wasn't his.
* AndIMustScream: His fate is beyond horrifying; Death decides to reward his new puppet by mind-controlling Kraken to kill millions of people, while allowing him enough clarity of mind to feel all of it.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The Dark Judges use their psychic powers to force him to join them in their mission to turn Mega-City One into a city of the dead.
* CloningBlues: He deeply resents living in Dredd's shadow and hopes to become a better Judge than his older clone brother. Dredd disapprovingly notes this arrogant streak in the rookie.
* DeathFakedForYou: Silver arranges for Kraken to be executed by lethal injection at Resyk after Dredd fails him. In truth it's a harmless anaesthetic that merely made Kraken ''look'' like he was dead, fooling the Resyk staff into deeming him as such. In turn, this allowed him to take up Dredd's identity without anyone (barring Silver and Odell) being the wiser.
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler: Kraken outright welcomes his execution at Dredd's hands after Death's control over him is broken.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity:
** When Silver orders Kraken to be terminated at Resyk for failing his assessment by Dredd, Kraken refuses to resist despite having the opportunity to flee. He even performs the lethal injection on himself as a sign of loyalty to the Department. Of course, he survives.
** [[spoiler:When Dredd finally returns and saves the city, he doesn't try to run or protest and calmly accepts his execution by Dredd after thanking him for ending his torment.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He realizes how badly he's screwed up after he frees the Dark Judges, but in his haste destroys his own arm with a stolen Lawgiver.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He's named after the mythical sea monster.
* PlaguedByNightmares: In the run-up to Necropolis, Kraken keeps having nightmares of Judd calling him a traitor and commanding him to fight against Justice Department while the Sisters of Death taunt him in the background. This gradually causes him to become increasingly unstable, until the Sisters can take almost full control of him.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: His termination by lethal injection at Resyk turns out to be one. Silver notes that if Kraken ''really'' was disloyal, he could have escaped in a heartbeat; instead, his willingness to go to his death (not knowing the injection was actually an anaesthetic) proved to Silver that he was worthy of taking up Dredd's mantle.
* SuckSessor: When Justice Department tries to redeem him for his part in the Judda incursion, his field stats actually outstrip Dredd's. Dredd's decision to revoke Kraken's graduation is overturned in his absence, setting the Necropolis disaster in motion. The only thing he really loses to Dredd is mental fortitude, which cause him to be easily swayed by the Sisters of Death.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Chief Judge Silver had him replace Dredd name and all after the real Dredd took the Long Walk, believing that Dredd's reputation was too valuable to lose. This was a bad idea.
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[[folder:Grice]]
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A former street Judge who conspired against Dredd during the democratic referendum, he was sent to Titan, where he later escaped and briefly took control of Mega-City One.
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* BadBoss: When he becomes obsessed with taking revenge on Dredd, he executes his own men, even the loyal ones.
* {{BFG}}: He believes that as Chief Judge, he should carry as large a gun as possible, opting for a flamethrower.
* CarFu: How he meets his end, via Dredd ordering his Lawmaster to repeatedly run him over.
* FacialHorror: Like all Titan inmates, his nose was replaced with cybernetics to allow his survival on the moon without an expensive space suit. His alteration can be seen as an in-universe example of TechnologyMarchesOn, as it's not nearly as extensive or hideous as the work done to Rico Dredd.
* FallenHero: He was once a respected Senior Judge until he conspired against Dredd.
* OmnicidalManiac: He becomes so AxCrazy that he eventually decides to destroy the city.
* PrisonsAreGymnasiums: He comes back from Titan much stronger than when he went in by working out constantly.
* TookALevelInBadass: When Dredd first arrests him, the fight between them is a CurbstompBattle, with Dredd absolutely destroying Grice. When he comes back, Grice defeats Dredd and, even during their final battle, it takes Dredd's Lawmaster to final defeat him.
* SanitySlippage: He gets crazier when he installs himself as Chief Judge, even executing one of his co-conspirators [[ChainsawGood with a chainsaw]] and takes a flamethrower as a personal weapon.
* VillainProtagonist: He gets his own SpinOff, ''Purgatory'', detailing his imprisonment on Titan, where he and his fellow conspirators, as well as other prisoners, are horribly mistreated by the warden and organized a breakout.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He starts out as this. Believing that a democratic vote would destroy the city, he conspires to assassinate Dredd, which [[AssassinOutclassin fails]]. After this, though, {{Revenge}} is his main motivation.
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[[folder:Rico II]]
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Another clone of Dredd, who takes on the original Rico's name in tribute after Dredd tells him of their time in the academy together.
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* DeadGuyJunior: He takes the original Rico's name out of respect.
* TheFaceless: Just like Dredd, his helmet never comes off either. Like Dredd and Rico, he presumably looks like their clone father, Fargo.
* LamarckWasRight: He's the only real successful Dredd clone and, apart from Dredd himself, the only other Fargo clone to stay a Judge without going bad. When they do team up, they think so much alike they barely need to speak to each other.
* LanternJawOfJustice: Being a Dredd clone, this is a given. When it's blown off, he's given a replacement made of titanium. Dredd notes that some perp broke his own hand trying to punch Rico out.
* TakeUpMySword: At the end of ''Grindstone Cowboys'', a badly wounded Dredd tells him that it's up to him now [[spoiler: before Dredd's H-wagon is destroyed.]]
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[[folder:Fintan Joyce]]
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Fintan Joyce is a retrainee who transferred from Murphyville after Chaos Day.
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* {{Fingore}}: In his first appearance, he gets his fingers lopped off in the Undercity and keeps fighting. He's either got them reattached or regrown in subsequent appearances.
* LegacyCharacter: He's the son of Charlie Joyce, the Irish judge Dredd teamed up with in "Emerald Isle". Charlie [[BusCrash is established to have died]] in the intervening years and this becomes a plot point later on.
* OfficerOHara: He started out in Murphyville's Justice Department before transferring to the Big Meg. Murphyville's judges are a lot more relaxed in their policing and lifestyle regulations for their judges, something Dredd isn't happy with.
* TransferStudentUniforms: He wears his Irish judge's uniform upon arrival to Mega-City One before he's issued his Mega-City uniform.
* SherlockScan: He figures that there's something illegal going on in an all night diner because the cook's apron is actually clean, meaning he's not actually a cook.
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[[folder:Smiley]]
The original head of Black Ops, Smiley disappeared in the wake of Necropolis, only to re-emerge during the Trifecta incident. Appointed in the wake of Cal's tenure as Chief Judge, he spent decades behind the scenes, manipulating events as he saw fit.
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* BigDamnHeroes: When Bachmann proves too much for Point, Dirty Frank, and even Dredd, he sneaks up on her and puts a bullet in her head.
* TheChessmaster: Both figuratively and literally, Smiley has been manipulating everything from his cubby hole next to the Chief Judge's office without anyone knowing.
* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: He is no longer interested in protecting the interests of the Mega-City and only wants to perpetuate the power of the Judges, openly calling himself a fascist. This inevitably brings him into conflict with Dredd, who views the Judges as NecessarilyEvil. In Smiley's opinion, fascism is the prize paid for survival in a post-apocalyptic world.
* FakingTheDead: He invokes NeverFoundTheBody after Necropolis and decides to run things from the background, only emerging when Bachmann plans a coup against Mega City One.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He is polite and mild-mannered, but beyond that facade he is an incredibly sinister chessmaster and manipulator who believes the ends justifies the means.
* MurderByInaction: Try ''genocide'' by inaction - it's revealed that Smiley had advance knowledge of East-Meg's invasion plans, and could have prevented the Apocalypse War from even happening, but chose to do nothing due to his belief that the citizens were becoming too numerous and uncontrollable. Instead, he let the war happen, culling the population by 400 million people, and letting the Judges stay in power after the invasion was beaten back. Even if he didn't push the button himself, this gives Smiley a body count on the level of Judge Death and President Booth!
* SacredHospitality: He's always offering what few guests he has tea and biscuits.
* TheSpymaster: He has {{Manchurian Agent}}s placed everywhere within the Justice Department, taking on other roles until needed.
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[[folder:Irwin Guthrie]]
A former Wally Squad Judge working out of sector 301, Guthrie returned to uniform during "The Pit" after proving his innocence to Dredd. Working with Dredd for years, he was crippled in an explosion and rebuilt as a {{Cyborg}}.
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* AnArmAndALeg: During "Blood Trails", he takes the full brunt of an explosion, which costs him his limbs.
* BloodKnight: He loves being in the thick of the action. The reason for his despair after his injury is that he won't get to be out on the streets again.
* CodeName: His Wally Squad designation was Bad Boy, which fits his CowboyCop nature.
* CowboyCop: He states himself that he "wasn't exactly Captain Bydabook". Given his time undercover, he had to adapt life on the streets, giving him an unorthodox way of approaching judging.
* DeathSeeker: Briefly, he contemplates euthanasia after losing his limbs. Giant snaps him out of it, though.
* DeepCoverAgent: He's introduced as a Wally Squad Judge. Dredd isn't sure just how deep he's under cover, suspecting that he might possibly have gone native. He helps Dredd uncover the corruption in The Pit, eventually gaining his trust.
* ManlyFacialHair: His moustache is so badass, it's the only part of his that doesn't sustain any damage when he's blown up.
* RaceLift: Early depictions of him vary his skin tone, ranging from AmbiguouslyBrown to outright being a black man. Later depictions settle on him being white, though.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: When he gets his new body, he's at first stuck driving a catch wagon, since street judges aren't allowed obvious cybernetics. He later becomes Warden of the Black Atlantic prison, the violent nature of which he enjoys.
* WeCanRebuildHim: After losing his limbs to a bomb, he's given a cybernetic bodysuit with a variety of upgrades, such as as {{Arm Cannon}}s and self repair systems.
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[[folder:Morphy]]
Dredd's assessing judge during his final street evaluation, Morphy became a mentor to Dredd over the years, offering Dredd advice over the years, most notably suggesting he wear tighter boots to help forget about any doubts he might have.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Goes out on the streets. As he dies, he notes that a judge of his experience should not have got caught out the way he did.
* TheMentor: As Dredd's assessor during his final exam, he's always willing to give Joe some advice about judging.
* ParentalSubstitute: When holding the perp responsible for Morphy's death over a traintrack, Dredd notes that while Fargo was his biological father, Morphy was like a real father to him. As such, Dredd takes his death very badly.
* {{Retirony}}: Gets killed on the streets six months before he is due to take up a posting at the Academy of Law. Dredd does ''not'' take this well.
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[[folder:Maitland]]
An accounts judge who has worked alongside Dredd on several occasions. Serves the city through her prodigial abilities with numbers at a time where that determines where they go through the brink - and currently trying to push through a very “radical” idea of diverting some of that funding to education instead of law, after realising that is what would actually bring down crime.

* BadassBookworm: A trained Judge, as Black Ops Estrella and Bachman are reminded of.
* BigDamnedHeroes: Her exploding through a wall and rescuing a critically injured Dredd.
* BlackAndNerdy: All about her numbers and statistics, navigating those of Mega-City 1 as a matter of crisis management with essential ease. Her exact ethnicity is unknown but her skin tone comparable to Giant’s when the two worked together.
* {{Determinator}}: Her current pushing for an education programme for citizens has been very unpopular among judges, given very little chance to succeed to - but she is trying.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Horrified at what Smiley was up to and calls out Dredd when his actions inadvertently lead to the death of Judge Sam.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: She ultimately survives courtesy of reaching a flamethrower and Nixon getting distracted, but when the unkillable monster shows up Maitland’s response is essentially “come and get me”. Similar bravery was shown in the face of Judge Smiley.
* GoodCopBadCop: Serves as the Bad Cop to Dredd, of all people, in her introduction - she argues to a perp just how much cheaper it would be to simply blow him away rather than taking him in alive. The perp surrenders.
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: When she realises that the Judge System is doing more harm than good, how they good be diverting the fund to education to make much more of an actual difference - she grapples with whether or not to take this to the press.


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!Chief Judges

[[folder:Eustace Fargo]]
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Eustace Fargo, nicknamed the "Father of Justice", born in 1999, was the founder of the Justice System of [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner immediate sentencing]]. Originally a prosecutor for the US government, his reforms to the Justice Department were his answer to due process becoming unworkable as a result of sky-high crime rates and gangs intimidating courts. He was put into cryo-stasis after a failed suicide, though he spent some time with his cloned sons on the few occasions he is let out of cryosleep.
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* BigGood: Founded the Judge system in order to combat rising crime levels. During the Atomic Wars he advises Goodman and Solomon on legal methods to depose Booth. [[spoiler:On his death-bed, he was aware that the Justice Department was growing corrupt and expressed his anguish over it, and pleaded with Dredd to pursue its dismantlement, as it had never been intended to be a permanent solution.]]
* BungledSuicide: He tried to kill himself for failing the rules of celibacy among the Judges that he himself instituted. It didn't take, and he was revived later.
* DeathFakedForYou: After his failed suicide, his aides Solomon and Goodman covered up the incident and instead convinced the public that Fargo had heroically died in the line of duty. He continues to advice his successors from behind the scenes after that.
* TheFaceless: Not at first, but was retconned into being so in "Origins" so as to keep his appearance the same as Dredd's. Before that, he was shown as looking rather like Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler:He ultimately despairs that he has destroyed the American Dream. He created the Judges in an attempt to establish order, not to oppress the people.]]
* HumanPopsicle: After his BungledSuicide, he is put into stasis so that medical technology can heal him once it advances sufficiently. He is reawakened during the Atomic Wars as an advisor and again at the end of "Origins" so he can speak to his son one last time. The cryonics system suffers a fault that causes the fluids to infect his organs, leading to his death.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: In ''Origins'', it's revealed that Fargo regrets having ever created the Judges, arguing that the system has completely destroyed the American Dream, and now just perpetuates itself rather than trying to rebuild what has been lost. He is visibly disturbed when he sees how cold and detached young Joe and Rico behave towards America's promised Pursuit Of Happiness after their schooling.]]
* LanternJawOfJustice: He was well known for his impressive jawline, and passed it on to his clones.
* PolarOppositeTwins: Eustace was a self-righteous stickler for the law; his twin brother Ephram was considerably more relaxed and disliked his brother's holier-than-thou attitude. This led Ephram to eventually move out of their hometown.
* PrinciplesZealot: He expanded the Justice Department to the monolithic apparatus it became with complete power. He was so determined to uphold his principles that he even tried to kill himself for not being able to uphold them in a moment of weakness.
* TrulySingleParent: His "sons" Joseph and Rico were cloned from his own genetic material as a roundabout attempt to reincarnate the father of justice. He nevertheless only saw them a few times during his short periods out of cryo-stasis.
* ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer: The Judges were a drastic step taken because due process had become useless due to witness intimidation and corruption, to the point that criminals had to be gunned down ''en masse'' in the street just to restore a semblance of order. Most of the world would adopt Fargo's system as well.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He invented the draconian modern justice system as a last resort to stop the endless crime wave sweeping America's mega-cities, intending to relinguish power back to the people at some point.
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[[folder:Hollins Solomon]]
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Originally one of Fargo's two Deputy Chief Judges, he took over the role of Chief Judge after Fargo's BungledSuicide. While he later resigns, he remains on the Council of Five and serves as Goodman's [[TheLancer closest aide]] during the war. It was he who came up with 'The Judgement Of Solomon', a 100-year sentence in cryo stasis for Bob Booth.
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* TheLancer: Like Goodman, he is initially this to Fargo. He and Goodman are this to each other, swapping roles when Solomon steps down as Chief Judge.
* MeaningfulName: His last name is a reference to King Solomon the Wise. His own Judgement Of Solomon is a solution to Justice Department's dilemma regarding President Booth; They can't bring themselves to execute him, but he needs to be punished for his crimes. Solomon's conclusion is to let posterity decide.
* RetCon: "Origins" explains how he'd been Chief Judge after Fargo and how Goodman was in the role for 43 years; He succeeded Fargo and later stepped down, but joined the Council Of Five.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's the only Chief Judge whose fate after his time in office is unknown. Even Francisco and Sinfield are returned to the streets and shipped to Titan respectively.
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[[folder:Clarence Goodman]]
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The Chief Judge when the strip begins, Clarence Goodman was originally one of Fargo's deputies and led the city through the Atomic Wars and up until The Day The Law Died, where Cal has him assassinated.
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* BigGood: He's Chief Judge during the strip's earliest days. On the advice of his predecessor, Judge Solomon, he builds Justice Department up to rival the U.S. military and leads a coup against [[PresidentEvil President Booth]].
* TheLancer: Alongside Solomon, he is NumberTwo to Fargo. He's also this to Solomon when Fargo attempts suicide.
* LongRunner: He spent ''43 years'' as Chief Judge before Cal, his Deputy Chief Judge, had him assassinated.
* MeaningfulName: Clarence [[BigGood Goodman]]. He is easily the most liberal chief judge portrayed in the strip.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He takes Dredd's advice on numerous scenarios and allows him a huge amount of autonomy. He's also popular with the city's juves if their asking for autographs is any indication.
* RetCon: His initial title is Grand Judge, but this is quickly changed.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Before his death, it's explicitly stated that he has regular rejuvenation treatments, which explains how he spent 43 years as Chief Judge.
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[[folder:Cal]]
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Former head of the SJS, who, after having Goodman assassinated, rises to power. After becoming Chief Judge, he turns a tyrant, enacting bizarre laws, making his pet goldfish a Judge and even tries to have the entirety of Mega-City One gassed to death.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Wants to become a dictator, so murders the current Chief Judge.
* AxCrazy: He displays as much mental stability as his inspiration, which has '''none.'''
* BadBoss: For the minor infraction of one of his {{Mook}}s missing a button from his uniform, he makes him perform his duties in his underwear. He also injects Judge Slocum with a paralysing agent and pickles him alive because he thinks it'll prevent Slocum from getting wrinkles from worrying too much.
* BerserkButton: [[YoureInsane Questioning his sanity]] is guaranteed to send him into a rage and pass out death sentences.
* TheCaligula: He's mad as a brush and enacts all sorts of insane laws, such as ordering the execution of the entire city in alphabetical order, appointing his pet goldfish as a Judge and outlawing happiness. Kind of obvious, considering that he's named after the infamous Caligula.
* CaligulasHorse: He makes his goldfish Deputy Chief Judge, whom he then uses to pass unintelligible laws to confuse the citizens. He's later torn-up when Dredd and Slocum arranged an "assassination" of his assistant.
* CardCarryingVillain: He embraces being a horrible leader, proudly calling himself a "tyrant's tyrant". The guy even has a portrait of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler in his office.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Is drawn to resemble Creator/JohnHurt's Caligula in ''Series/IClaudius''.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:He's finally killed when Fergee throws the both of them off the Statue of Judgment, sending Cal and several of his followers plummeting to their death.]]
* TheDreaded: Thanks to his general insanity, people are too scared to cross him out of fear of what he'll do.
* EvilCounterpart: Yes, Cal actually has an evil counterpart that is ''worse'' than he is, and who managed to kill his universe's Dredd and took over the world. The difference? That version wasn't ''insane'', just pure evil. [[SanityHasAdvantages That allowed him to act and think rationally, rather than acting like a lunatic on an intense power trip.]]
* AGodAmI: His sanity slips so far that he believes that he can control gravity even as Fergee grabs him and jumps off the Statue of Judgement with him.
* InternalAffairs: His start in the Special Judicial Squad allowed him to obtain detailed portfolios on the other Judges that he could use to blackmail them during his rise to power.
* LegionOfDoom: An alternate version of Cal assembled a group of iconic Dredd villains from alternate universes where they had won, consisting of himself, Kazan, Rico, Fink Angel, Murk The Unkillable, Don Ape and Captain Skank.
* MeaningfulName: His name is just a shortened form of [[TheCaligula Caligula]].
* MultiversalConqueror: His counterpart from a world where Cal killed Dredd and still rules Mega-City One bands together all the supervillains from alternate dimensions to conquer Dredd's one.
* PsychopathicManchild: When the citizens don't want to take part in his "celebrations", he goes out of his way to making lives miserable, from including banning happiness to trying to ''[[OmnicidalManiac kill everyone]]''.
* RepressiveButEfficient: For all his insanity, [[TheDreaded he scares everyone so much]] that the trains run on time and the time taken to deliver mail is drastically reduced. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard This actually ends up being part of his undoing]].
* SanitySlippage: As ''The Day The Law Died'' wears on, he gets crazier by the day, at one point even hallucinating the ghosts of past Chief Judges mocking him.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: He considers himself the living incarnation of the Law, allowing him to reign with impunity.
* TheStarscream: Takes over the position of Chief Judge by having Goodman stabbed in public.
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[[folder:Griffin]]
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Former principal of the Academy of Law who helped Dredd in organizing a resistance movement against the mad Cal. Became the new Chief Judge following Cal's death, serving from 2101 to 2104. He was assassinated by Dredd during the Apocalypse War.
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* {{Brainwashed}}: After he's captured by the East-Meg One Judges, he's brainwashed to spout pro-East Meg One propaganda.
* EyepatchOfPower: Wears a prominent black eyepatch.
* ForgivenessRequiresDeath: Once Dredd manages to snap him out of his brainwashing, he finds himself guilty of treason and sentences himself to death. Dredd complies.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: He appointed Judge Smiley to head Black Ops in 2101 to prevent an internal threat like Cal from ever occurring again. Unfortunately, this turned out to be the biggest mistake in Griffin's life, as Smiley came to the conclusion that Mega-City One's population was unsustainable and needed a heavy culling -- and so he covered up knowledge that East Meg One was planning a massive invasion. This led to the Apocalypse War and the deaths of 400 million people in Mega-City One, including Griffin himself.
* VeteranInstructor: Like all Academy teachers he was a veteran of the Justice Department, even teaching Dredd himself.
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[[folder:Hilda [=McGruder=]]]
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Hilda Margaret [=McGruder=] was Mega-City One's first female Chief Judge, serving from 2104 to 2108 (after the Apocalypse War) and 2112 to 2116 (following Necropolis). Generally recognized by fans as having the best tenure as Chief Judge after Goodman, notably being the first Chief Judge to hold the post twice. Known for [[BeardedLady her iconic beard]] and [[IronLady no-nonsense attitude,]] the former which she acquired as a mutation after spending four years bringing the Law to the Cursed Earth as part of her Long Walk. However, the radiation sustained during her time in the Cursed Earth eventually forced her to resign on account of dementia, which was affecting her decision making, and died during one final patrol Dredd granted her so she might die with her dignity intact instead of forced euthanasia.
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* BadassInCharge: She is not afraid to fight on the front lines and get her boots dirty when it comes down to it. When faced with a city overrun by a ZombieApocalypse, her first reaction is to go down to the armory, grab the [[{{BFG}} largest gun she can carry]] and [[MoreDakka filled the zombies with hot drokkin' lead,]] even saving Dredd and Hershey in the process.
* BeardedLady: During her Long Walk she grows a goatee, which she keeps for quite some time despite several Judges asking her to shave.
* CloudCuckooLander: During her second term, she speaks to herself and makes very questionable decisions. This can be attributed to her time in the Cursed Earth.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Courtesy of Dredd, who busted her out to go down fighting against some criminals in the Cursed Earth instead of being forcibly euthanized.
* InternalAffairs: She started out in the SJS before she was promoted to Chief Judge after the Apocalypse War.
* IronLady: She's quite obviously [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed based on Margaret Thatcher]]. During her terms she proved a strong-willed leader and one of the most competent Chief Judges of the Meg, until her SanitySlippage took its toll.
* IWasQuiteALooker: She originally looked much more youthful and attractive before taking the Long Walk.
* LastStand: During the final hours of Judgment Day, she and the other Judges assembled in Hondo City elect to go out fighting off the zombie horde on the frontlines rather than wait for the inevitable. Subverted when Dredd and Johnny Alpha defeat Sabbat in the nick of time.
* ResignedInDisgrace: Twice, she resigns of her own volition when her position as Chief Judge becomes untenable. The first time she takes personal responsibility for the Seven Samurai incident and takes the Long Walk, not returning until Necropolis. During her second term, her SanitySlippage becomes worse over time until Dredd finally convinces her to step down and retire gracefully.
* RoyalWe: During her second term in office, she continually refers to herself in the plural as a sign of her increasing SanitySlippage.
* SanitySlippage: Her time in the Cursed Earth didn't do wonders for her sanity. She's still sane enough to aid Dredd in taking back Mega-City One from the Dark Judges, but eventually she went crazy enough to begin the Mechanismo program of robot judges despite clear evidence it was accident-prone to compensate for the loss of Judges after the ''Necropolis'' arc. Her madness continued to grow during her second term until she was forced to step down during the ''Wilderlands'' arc.
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[[folder:Thomas Silver]]
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Thomas Silver became Chief Judge after [=McGruder=] resigned over the Seven Samurai incident. He was more hardline than any of his predecessors on the issue of democracy, ruthlessly crushing any dissenters. He was also responsible for the events that led to Necropolis when he replaced Dredd with Kraken, ultimately leading to the death of sixty million citizens and Silver himself.
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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: His fate is left ambiguous during "Necropolis", with the most persistent rumours being that he either [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself]] or became the plaything of Judge Death. Turns out ''both'' of these are true. After shooting himself, Death brings him back as a zombie with all his faculties intact just to torture him. He escapes the city and hides in a burial pit until the threat is dealt with and tries to reclaim the office of Chief Judge.
* BungledSuicide: Double subverted. His suicide attempt succeeds, but Judge Death brings him back as a zombie. He notes that he should have committed suicide the way Judge Odell did; [[AteHisGun By putting his lawgiver in his mouth]] [[YourHeadAsplode and setting it to Hi-Ex]].
* DemocracyIsBad: He was one of Mega-City One's most authoritarian Chief Judges, ordering Dredd to strike down peaceful democratic marches in the city by any means necessary. This directly contributed to Dredd's faltering faith in the system and taking the Long Walk.
* DirtyCoward: Dredd considers him one for his actions during Necropolis - shooting himself in the head, then running away and hiding among the dead until things were safe again after Death resurrected him. Dredd notes that as a Judge, Silver was supposed to have higher standards.
* FateWorseThanDeath: The Dark Judges murdered him and then resurrected him as a zombie so they could continue to torment him.
* KillItWithFire: When he comes back as a zombie to reclaim his position, Dredd sentences him for gross dereliction of duty before incinerating him.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: He's brought back with all his mental faculties intact so Judge Death can torture him.
* VeteranInstructor: He was an old Judge when he took office, having taught at the Academy of Law for several years because he needed a cane to walk after being wounded in action.
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[[folder:Hadrian Volt]]
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Hadrian Volt was elected as Chief Judge in 2116, after [=McGruder=] resigned for a second time. In comparison to his predecessors, he was less hardline and instituted many reforms for both judges and citizens alike. Volt committed suicide after the Second Robot War, blaming himself for the losses Mega-City One suffered.
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* AmbiguousSituation: According to Cal's blackmail files, Volt was accused of unlawful execution early in his career and the SJS declined to investigate it. It's never confirmed whether the accusation was true or not.
* AteHisGun: While Volt's suicide proper is offscreen, the gaping exit wound in the back of his corpse's head heavily implies this was the way he went out.
* BadassInCharge: Like [=McGruder=], he prefers self-defence than letting any bodyguards to protect him. Occasionally, he even spars with Dredd in his free time.
* DrivenToSuicide: Kills himself after the second robot war, having blamed himself for not doing enough to prevent it.
* PropagandaHero: Volt posthumously becomes one - to keep civilian morale intact after the Second Robot War, Hershey ordered a story of Volt dying in a heroic LastStand against Narcos' robots to be concocted and disseminated as the "official" version of events.
* SoundOnlyDeath: Volt's suicide is signalled by the sound of a Lawgiver firing, accompanied by Dredd and [=DeMarco=]'s reactions.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He instituted more liberal reforms, such as reinstating the Council Of Five and the office of mayor, as well as procedures to benefit the welfare of judges, such as a mandatory eight hours of natural sleep every two weeks to prevent Sleep Machine Psychosis.
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[[folder:Barbara Hershey]]
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Barbara Hershey is Dredd's long time colleague and one of the longest-serving Chief Judges. Was replaced by Francisco after she lost a reelection, but returned to the big chair after Chaos Day.
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* ActionGirl: As a Judge, this is a given. She's partnered off with Dredd on many occasions and gotten through it, even when more experienced Judges have fallen.
* DaChief: She's the Chief Judge and she knows it, having no problem reprimanding Dredd to keep him in line.
* FairCop: Her looks are noted by Sov Judge Brylkreem and PJ Maybe has a fetish for her authoritarian figure. It's also mentioned copies of her head are also popular for {{dominatrix}} sex droids.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Her euthanasia was actually a cover for her taking the Long Walk. Believing that Judge Smiley's influence was too dangerous unchecked and that he had poisoned her (hence her "disease"), she decided to go undercover and hunt down his agents to uncover the truth and a possible cure.]]
* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: She's rarely ever seen with a helmet. Unlike Anderson, there's no justification given.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:She takes the euthanasia option when she's too weak to carry on from her illness.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She is quite close with Dredd, taking advice from him on various matters.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: When Francisco takes over, she's packed off-world to a quiet colony posting, [[TheBusCameBack only returning after Day Of Chaos]].
* SecretlyDying: Caught a microbial off-world, that kept eating her away from the inside for years, and was a likely factor in her eventual resignation. She kept it under wraps from everyone, even Dredd, the entire time. [[spoiler: It's implied that it might be the result of Judge Fear's powers, as he shows his face to her over a comm screen.]]
* SciFiBobHaircut: Wears her hair in a perfectly even fringe.
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[[folder:Dan Francisco]]
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Judge Dan Francisco was a propaganda judge with his own reality tv show. Dan would patrol the streets with cameras following him and would have to make arrests in the most entertaining manner possibly. After the mutant issue, he runs for Chief Judge and wins. Wounded on election day, in practice his deputy, Sinfield, runs the city until Dredd ousts him. He remains in office until Chaos Day, where he resigns having presided over the city's worst disaster.
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* TheAtoner: After Chaos Day, he goes back to the streets, hoping to make up for his failure to prevent the disaster by making a difference as a street judge.
* AwesomeButImpractical: His style of judging. Since he's followed around by tv cameras, he has to perform his duties in a manner that entertains the public. This results in him being badly injured on a number of occasions.
* MyGreatestFailure: Francisco considers his failure to prevent or at least mitigate Chaos Day to be this, which is a major factor in his resignation.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's based on Barack Obama, even using a similar election slogan.
* PropagandaHero: He built his popular reputation on his hit show ''The Streets of Dan Francisco'', and he appeared to be a decent street Judge, but his track record as Chief Judge is highly negative. Supporting the mutant crackdown was bad enough, but he was later unable to prevent Chaos Day during his tenure because of several bad calls he made, ultimately resigning in disgrace.
* PuppetKing: He's put in the Chief Judge's office by a group of hardliners opposed to Dredd's stance on the mutant issue. Thanks to his injuries and a dose of SLD-88, Sinfield becomes the de facto leader of Mega-City One until Dredd manages to oust him. Subverted when he stays in office until Chaos Day.
* PutOnABus: Francisco returns to the streets after Chaos Day and his subsequent resignation, vanishing from the strip outside of one solo story.
* ResignedInDisgrace: He accepts responsibility for Chaos Day and resigns so that his successor can start with a clean slate. Ironically, he's replaced by his predecessor Hershey, who was her own baggage, but at least 90% of the population didn't die on her watch.
* ShootTheFuelTank: He both averts and exploits this trope in his solo story. When faced with a group of perps who shoot at him from behind heavy cover, he puts a couple of rounds in the fuel tanker behind them, covering them in fuel. He threatens to follow up with an [[KillItWithFire incendiary round]], which is enough to convince them to surrender.
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[[folder:Martin Sinfield]]
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Francisco's Deputy Chief Judge, he's the one really pulling the strings behind the anti-mutant campaign. He's so bad that Dredd sees running for the office of Chief Judge himself as a better alternative to Sinfield being in charge.
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* DeskJockey: He was in charge of Traffic Division and Administration prior to becoming Dan Francisco's Deputy Chief Judge. He's one of the few Chief Judges with little to no street experience.
* DragonInChief: During Francisco's tenure as Chief Judge, he was the one who was really in charge.
* FacialHorror: Like all Titan inmates, he is surgically modified to survive the harsh conditions of the penal colony.
* {{Jerkass}}: After Silver and Cal, he's probably the least pleasant individual to hold the office of Chief Judge. He ends up undoing all the work Dredd does in getting mutants equal rights and spends more time trying to undermine Dredd than actually running the city.
* TheManBehindTheMan: He's the driving force behind Francisco's campaign for Chief Judge. Since Francisco ends up wounded, Sinfield ends up as Acting Chief Judge and ends up controlling Francisco using SLD-88.
* {{Nepotism}}: He pulls strings to get his clone a cushy desk job.
* ManipulativeBastard: He's more a politician than a judge, having only been in administrative and traffic roles. He is the real driving force behind Francisco's reign as Chief Judge. He ends up using one of PJ Maybe's methods to take complete control of Mega-City One and exiles any naysayers, including Dredd, into the Cursed Earth to run the mutant townships.
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[[folder:Logan]]
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Dredd's former protégé and assistant, he accompanies Dredd on the expedition to recover Fargo, where he is wounded in the process. Later, he survives an encounter with Judge Mortis during Chaos Day.

After eventually recovering, he is promoted to Sector Chief of Sector 6, before being recommended to replace Hershey as Chief Judge in the wake of the Smiley scandal.
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* AnArmAndALeg: A recurring theme with him. He loses an arm due to an infected gunshot wound in the Cursed Earth. While regrowing it, Mortis rots his new arm off. After that, regrowing arms becomes impossible for him, so he gets a prosthetic instead.
* BigDamnHeroes: In spite of being badly wounded, he comes to Dredd's aid against Booth's army with all of his team's bikes in tow.
* DeskJockey: Due to Dredd's infamous aversion to paperwork, he ends up writing all Dredd's reports. During "Origins", he laments being overlooked for plum jobs and persuades Dredd to let him come along.
* GoodIsNotNice: When Accounts Judge Maitland looks like she might leak a potentially-damaging document concerning the Justice Department's post-Chaos budgeting to the press, Logan authorises [[InternalAffairs the SJS]] to start surveillance and even deport her to [[HellholePrison Titan]] if absolutely necessary, though he does immediately order them to back down once Dredd pacifies Maitland.
* HandicappedBadass: His bad hip prevented him from being in an active role. Nevertheless, he insists on going with Dredd during the mission to recover Fargo. Despite being badly wounded early in the mission, he arrives at Booth's camp to save Dredd and his team.
* {{Tuckerization}}: He's a homage to a fan named Stewart Perkins, alias W.R. Logan, who died in 2016.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Was fatally shot through the spine in the ''Grud is Dead'' radio drama, only to show up alive in comic with no explanation.
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: His appointment of Harvey, a robot judge, to the Council Of Five earns him the disapproval of just about the entire city.
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!East Meg One

[[folder:Orlok The Assassin]]
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An East Meg One judge sent into the Big Meg to spread Block Mania through the water supply in order to soften it up for the Apocalypse War.
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* HeroKiller: He takes out Dredd's sidekick (the original Judge Giant) with a shot InTheBack. Later on he almost manages to take down Dredd in a straight fight as well, even succeeding in temporarily driving Dredd bonkers via an application of concentrated Block Mania.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Orlok's blood contains an antidote for the Block Mania drug. After Dredd captures him, it's used to create Mega-City One's antidote for the drug.
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: He briefly disguises himself first as a delivery guy and then as a judge to take control of weather control.
* MoralMyopia: Rages endlessly at Dredd and Mega-City One for them destroying East-Meg One and killing half a billion people, ignoring that East-Meg One STARTED the war and killed at least four hundred million people themselves, not to mention engaged in several covert terrorist actions beforehand for the sole purpose of invasion, including most notably manipulating Captain Skank into nuking an entire sector of Mega-City One and killing four million people. Even the surviving East-Meg rulers have severed all connections with him and consider him and his supporters a rogue group. It's not until the East-Meg Remnant Trial against Dredd, where Judge Anderson ends up putting Orlok on the witness stand, that he's forced to admit that he would have done the exact same thing as Dredd did, and he's been a hypocrite pretending otherwise.
* JustFollowingOrders: His go-to excuse for why his actions against Mega-City One were justified.
* ProfessionalKiller: He isn't known as Orlok The Assassin for nothing. Most of his missions for the East Meg diktatorat involve him assassinating someone in a foreign city.
* TheRemnant: Leads a small group of survivors of the destruction of East-Meg One.
* RenegadeRussian: After East Meg One's destruction, he seeks revenge, at one point releasing a biological weapon on a tourist resort.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Orlok becomes obsessed with revenge against Dredd and Mega City One even more than most East Meg One survivors were, and conveniently ignores the fact East Meg One brought this upon themselves with their war against Mega City One.
* RobotBuddy: His Satellat robot assists him in his mission in the Meg, distracting, killing and providing Orlok with limited flight distance.
* SyntheticPlague: He's responsible for spreading the Sov developed Block Mania through Mega-City One, setting the stage for the Apocalypse War.
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[[folder:Diktatorat]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Diktatorat, L-R: Judge Snekov, Supreme Judge Josef Bulgarin, Judge Vlad]]

The leadership of East Meg One who started the Apocalypse War.
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* BigBadWannabe: They serve as the [[ManBehindTheMan Men Behind The Man]] Captain Skank and Orlok in preparation for their war with Mega-City One. Unfortunately, they overestimate the loyalty of their War Marshal and end up overthrown and killed.
* TheChessmaster: Bulgarin and the other two judges mastermind the pre-invasion with a HatePlague, dozens of murders, and taking a good chunk out of the city.
* HateSink: They're a bunch of brutal warmongers who started a chemical/nuclear war with Mega-City One to cripple it and enslave the remaining population, while brushing off tens of millions of their own perishing in the inevitable retaliation as "acceptable losses".
* LackOfEmpathy: When Bulgarin is informed that up to 12% of his own population may be killed within the first hour by the inevitable Mega-City One counterstrike, his only response is "The people? What have they got to do with it?" Meanwhile, he and the other two Diktatorat members will be safe underground. Averted by Judge Vlad, who is horrified and thinks the people should be informed.
* WeCanRuleTogether: They try to earn back Kazan's loyalty by offering him a seat on the council; Kazan scoffs and sneers "I AM the Diktatorat!" right before they are executed.
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[[folder:War Marshal Kazan]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:Kazan]]

Kazan is an East Meg One War Marshal who became TheStarscream and the final antagonist of the story.
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* AxCrazy: He's a vicious man to his enemies and his subordinates, shooting down anyone who even remotely displeases him.
* BadBoss: A particularly horrible one. He shoots whoever displeases him and for some he forces them to play Russian Roulette with a loaded gun every day to lengthen their punishment. Matters get worse to the point his own troops willingly let him get assassinated by Dredd simply because of how many of his own men have died as a result of his command. Even the rare moments when he is in a good mood are no better, as shown when he almost strangles his subordinate Izaaks to "demonstrate" the hopeless strategic situation of Dredd and his forces at the Dan Tanna Bridge.
* BigBad: Of the Apocalypse War Arc, especially after he killed all of his commanding officers in a coup d'etat, nuked Mega-City One, and captured and brainwashed Chief Judge Griffin. [[spoiler:Once he dies, the entirety of East Meg One's forces decides to submit to unconditional surrender, ending the Apocalypse War.]]
* TheChessmaster: Before starting a massive ground invasion of Mega-City One, Kazan systematically wipes out a large portion of the judge force while keeping the other two American mega-cities at bay. If it makes it any clearer, he’s always near a chessboard, to say the least.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Attempted to inflict one on Judge Dredd and the rest of the Apocalypse Squad after they were captured for nuking East Meg One off the map, ordering them to be tortured so that they would spend the rest of their natural life in agony. Unfortunately for him, this puts Kadet Isaak in position to free Dredd and have Kazan killed off by him.
* TheCoup: He launched one against the ruling Diktatorat troika, having Sov Judges loyal to him placed as their bodyguards before making his move.
* DecapitatedArmy: Believes in this, looking to decapitate Mega-City One by going after Dredd and the Chief Judge, calling the rest "mere feathers of a chicken." [[spoiler:Ultimately ends up falling victim to it himself, with the rest of his forces surrendering upon his death.]]
* DragonAscendant: War Marshal Kazan end up as the leader of East Meg One during the Apocalypse War by usurping the Diktatorat, swiftly becoming the BigBad of the Apocalypse War storyline.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Implied. Kazan occasionally mentions his Siberian clone-mother and had sworn in her name to get things done. As nothing is revealed about his relationship with her beyond that nothing could be ascertained about their exact relationship.
* FrontlineGeneral: Commands the war against Mega City One on the spot, usually in his own command Strato-V.
* HateSink: He remained the most horrible Supreme Judge of East Meg One, being a brutal warmonger with no loyalty to his superiors or subordinates.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His AxCrazy warmongering and BadBoss tendencies ends up turning his subordinates against him. He also puts the captured Dredd and his squad in his command Strato-V to be tortured for the rest of their lives for nuking East Meg One, which puts Dredd in a position to be freed and kill Kazan.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Calls out the Diktatorat for mistreatment of him by taking credit in the comfort of their bunkers while he all the dirty work on the front lines, yet also horribly mistreats his own subordinates while commanding his troops in the comfort of his Strato-V.
* ICanRuleAlone: War Marshal Kazan has arranged to assassinate the Diktatorat of East Meg One to seize power. When his bosses try to grovel their way out of their execution by offering him a seat on the council, Kazan scoffs and sneers "I AM the Diktatorat!"
* IAmTheNoun: Rejects an offer of a seat on the Diktatorat, and sneers "I AM the Diktatorat!"
* IRegretNothing: At the end of the "Apocalypse War" story arc, the last words of the defeated Kazan is to make it clear this is how he sees all his atrocities and actions.
--> '''Kazan:''' I... regret nothing! I apologise for... nothing!
* MeaningfulName: Kazan means 'Boiler' or 'Couldron' in Tartar or Turkic, fittingly for a brutal warmonger with a volcanic temperament like him.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: He calls out the Diktatorat for using him to fight their wars for them while they take shelter in their bunker right before he has them shot. Ironically, his own BadBoss tendencies ends up getting him killed at the end by his own men, who let Dredd out of captivity to execute him.
* RedBaron: He's often known as the ''Mad Dog'', and for good reason.
* TheStarscream: He manages to rise to the rank of Supreme Judge by killing off all of his commanding officers and seizing control of the East Meg One Judge Department.
* VillainousBSOD: Briefly sits in horrified StunnedSilence in his command vehicle after receiving word that East Meg One had been nuked off the map.
* VillainHasAPoint: As despicable as Kazan is, he is not wrong in accusing the Diktatorat of being cowardly parasites, sitting comfortably in the Kremlin plotting while sending out their men to fight and die on their behalf and having the likes of Kazan do all their dirty work and claiming credit for their success.
* {{Warhawk}}: An AxCrazy warmonger, Kazan prosecutes the Apocalypse War with absolute ruthlessness and relentlessness bordering on insanity, and sought to continue the war even after Dredd and his squad nukes East Meg One off the map and there was simply no point nor way the surviving East Meg forces can continue the conflict.
* YouHaveFailedMe: He repeatedly sends his subordinates to Siberia or straight up executing them on the spot for even the most minor failures. Only his second-in-command Isaak is spared the worst of his punishments owing to his association with him, and even then he's not completely spared, being demoted repeatedly and eventually forced to play Russian Roulette with an antique revolver as his punishment after he gets blamed for Dredd escaping his Kazan's traps and also for Dredd nuking East Meg One.
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[[folder:Kadet Isaak]]
A subordinate of War Marshal Kazan, Isaak attempts to serve his commander the best he can, especially in East Meg forces' attempts to kill or capture Judge Dredd. Circumstances and Dredd's persistence repeatedly cause setbacks which Isaak is blamed for, earning him Kazan's ire.
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* TheDogBitesBack: When Kazan finally pushes Isaak too far, he freed Dredd and his squad from the torture machines they were put in after they were captured for nuking East Meg One and gives Dredd a weapon, wanting and helping him to kill Kazan and end the Apocalypse War.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite being an East Meg Judge who served Kazan loyally at first and help facilitated East Meg One's invasion of Mega City One, his and his fellow Judges' mistreatment by Kazan and the Mad Dog's insane determination to continue the war even after East Meg One is nuked off the map eventually causes him to turn on Kazan and help Dredd kill him.
* {{Misblamed}}: Isaak is repeatedly demoted and otherwise punished for Dredd repeatedly escaping Kazan's traps and allowing Dredd to continue fighting and leading the resistance against East Meg One (culminating in nuking it off the map), despite not all of them being his fault. Half the time it was due to circumstances beyond his control, like other East Meg forces' ineptitude, sheer dumb luck, and Dredd [[TheDeterminator being]] [[WhyWontYouDie Dredd]].
* UndyingLoyalty: Despite his mistreatment by Kazan and East Meg One having ceased to exist by this point, he still considers himself an East Meg judge and cannot bring himself to personally turn on his war marshal, even to save his own life from eventual death by Russian Roulette and to end the Apocalypse War. This is why he freed Dredd and the Apocalypse Squad towards the end of the storyline after they were captured and put to torture for nuking East Meg One, since a Mega City One Judge like Dredd would have no problems putting down Kazan.
--> '''Isaak:''' You must understand. I fear him - I HATE him - But I am still an East Meg Judge - and he is still my war marshal. I can point the gun, but I could never pull the trigger!
* RussianRoulette: Forced to play this every day by Kazan after being blamed for Dredd and his squad of hand-picked Judges successfully took control of a East Meg One missile silo and nuking East Meg One off the map, simply for no reason other than to prolong his suffering before he inevitably gets unlucky. This and Kazan's insane determination to continue the Apocalypse War finally pushes him to turn on his commander.
* TakeAThirdOption: Despite his fear and hatred of Kazan and the need to end the Apocalypse War, Isaak's sense of duty as an East Meg Judge prevents him from killing Kazan himself. A captured Dredd who had been imprisoned aboard Kazan's command vessel, on the other hand...
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!Deadworld

[[folder:The Dark Judges]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:Left to right: Judge Fear, Judge Death, Judge Mortis, Judge Fire]]

An ensemble of four extra-dimensional lawmen who consider life itself to be a crime, and seek to establish law by killing off any living beings in sight. They are mainly composed of Judge Death (their leader), Judge Fear, Judge Mortis, and Judge Fire, but other characters have occasionally joined their ranks either voluntarily or involuntarily.
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* AbstractApotheosis: Judge Fear is hinted to have become something like this. When a junior psychic Dark Judge tries to read him, she notes that he's a complete blank, like he was replaced with a shadow or an idea.
* AchillesHeel: Fear's powers only work if people actually ''fear'' him. His attempts to use them on people who don't feel fear (such as Dredd) tend to go badly, as Dredd [[TalkToTheFist demonstrated]] during Fear's debut comic.
* AllCrimesAreEqual: They used to execute people for anything from actual crimes to untied shoelaces. Eventually they came to the conclusion that life itself should be made a crime punishable by death.
* AppropriatedAppellation: "Judge Death" was Sidney's nickname in the Law Academy given to him by fellow students who were disgusted by his methods. He took such pride in it that he started referring to himself as such from then on.
* ArchEnemy:
** Judge Death is often described as one to Judge Dredd, being his longest-recurring nemesis. Suffice to say that [[KnightTemplar Death's claim to speak for the ultimate law]] pisses off [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner Dredd]] on a more personal level than most other enemies he faces.
** Death is also the arch-enemy of Judge Anderson (who was introduced in the same comic), and their hatred of one another is even more intense. They shared her mind for more than a year, she's been an UnwittingPawn in his schemes multiple times, and their fates appear to be tied.
** It's hinted that Death may have had his own arch-nemesis in his native dimension, namely the little girl who is destined to become that universe's Judge Child.
** Another candidate for the position is Ava Eastwood, a senior Judge from Deadworld who saw through Sidney from day one. He murdered her lover because of it, forcing Ava to go into hiding.
* AttentionWhore: In addition to hunting down and exterminating all life, Judge Death also really wants to be ''recognized'' as a merciful reaper bringing justice to the living and is rather incensed at their repeated "ungratefulness". He dictates his biography to Brian Skuter to reach more people then kills him when he does a poor job, but Judge Dredd sensibly has the notes classified to prevent this. He also jumps at the chance to be worshipped by the Mortarians and perform on stage with the Lizard Lords.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Not mentioned often, but Death is actually a Chief Judge (unsurprisingly, [[TheStarscream he slaughtered his way to the top position]]). He's easily the most dangerous one, both in terms of fighting skills and psychic powers, given how he can instantly kill anything he touches, in contrast to the other Dark Judges, whose powers work slower or are more gimmicky (Mortis and Fire have to wait for their victims to die out via rapid decay or immolation, while Fear literally has to get up on someone's face). Even the other Dark Judges prefer to steer clear of their boss.
* AxCrazy: The Judges of Deadworld were fed drugs (referred to as "aggressors and morality inhibitors") designed to make them more violent and brutal. Tellingly, Judge Death commented that they "made him feel normal," more than anything else.
* BadBoss: There used to be numerous Dark Judges; the most loyal of them all were transformed into mutants with various superpowers, owing to their own bloodthirsty nature and prior exposure to Dead Fluids. Once every living being on Deadworld was gone, Death turned on his own followers and sentenced them to death, leaving behind only Fuego ("Judge Fire") and the unnamed Judges Fear and Mortis.
* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad:
** Death keeps one of the Dominion survivors alive specifically so she can read him gruesome literature and poetry about torture and murder. He also LovesTheSoundOfScreaming.
** Judge Fire fails a cadet during the ''Fall of Deadworld'' for "insufficient cruelty," briefly lecturing them on how simply shooting a defenceless citizen doesn't make them Dark Judge material before ordering their fellow cadets to execute them "[with] some imagination and flair".
* BearTrap: Judge Fear makes use of these to snare and kill victims.
* CatchPhrase: Two of them.
** "The crime isss life! The sentence iss death!"
** "You cannot kill what doesss not live!"
* CoDragons: Judge Fear, Judge Mortis, and Judge Fire are Judge Death's most prized lieutenants and see him as a messiah.
* CreepyLongFingers: DependingOnTheArtist, but their hands are often drawn as being unnaturally long. The claws merely emphasize this.
* DarkIsEvil: They're the EvilCounterpart of Mega-City One's Judges, and even call themselves the ''Dark'' Judges. During Necropolis they covered the city in perpetual darkness.
* ADayInTheLimelight: On occasion, each of them has been given a solo story either played for horror (Dreams Of Deadworld) or for laughs (Judge Fear's Big Day Out).
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Death keeps his father around (in full dentist regalia) just so he can converse and play Chess with him.
* TheDeadHaveEyes: At least Death seems to have eyes behind that helmet. His brothers not so much, although it's not clear whether Fear even has a ''[[TheFaceless face]]'', let alone eyes.
* DeliberatelyBadExample: They make the regular Judges, who are pretty oppressive in their own right, look better in comparison with their own mass murdering tactics to combat crime.
* DemonicPossession: They can take over human hosts (especially those with psychic abilities), but they need dead bodies to use their full powers.
* DevilsPitchfork: Fire wields a flaming trident in battle, and he's unquestionably an evil bastard.
* DirtyCop: Virtually all of the Dark Judges were on the take; they even admitted it in their recruitment posters, along with "shoot people (within reason)" and "free meal vouchers.". Judge Death ordered the liquidation of a gang who were trafficking cocaine after they broke an agreement with him. Under his guidance, the Dark Judges began executing every criminal they met, before taking over their world's Justice Department and slaughtering everyone.
* TheDragon: ''Fall of Deadworld'' implies that Mortis serves as this to Death, being referred to as his "old friend" and repeatedly directed by Death to carry out critical stages of their plans, such as distilling dead fluids into a powerful FantasticNuke or seizing control of weather-manipulating tech.
* DreamWalker: Death was able to get into Judge Anderson's dreams despite being stuck floating in space millions of miles from Earth.
* EmotionEater: Judge Fear seems capable of this - he relishes the sensations of a Resistance soldier's PTSD as he induces a fatal heart attack in her, even comparing the sensation of it to a fine wine, while deriding another's feelings of guilt and cowardice as "roadkill".
* EnfantTerrible: When Death was a young lad he was already busy [[SelfMadeOrphan killing off his family]], schoolmates, and teachers at Law School. ''Fall of Deadworld'' further expands on this by revealing he gained a taste for watching people die at an early age, and assisted his father (a [[DepravedDentist psychotic dentist]]) in several murders before selling him out to the Judges and executing him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** ZigzaggedTrope. Believe it or not, Judge Death won't kill Mrs. Gunderson because he believes her to be the only innocent person he's ever met. Other stories feature him possessing people to try to murder her or opting to use her as a HumanShield.
** Two examples happen in the "Three Amigos" story. Firstly, Judge Death is repelled at the idea of working with Mean Machine Angel, who he sees as a psychotic oaf[[note]]which also doubles as a MythologyGag, referencing their short-lived partnership in the written prog prequel to the "Judgment on Gotham" Dredd/Batman crossover[[/note]]. Secondly, after possessing President Clinton Box, he notes that whilst he finds possessing the living unpleasant in any case, there's something particularly "repellent and slimy" about being inside of Clinton Box's head.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: ''Fall of Deadworld'' reveals that Judge Fire was in love with a female Dark Judge, being the one who petitioned Death to let her join their ranks. [[spoiler: This eventually came to an end when she betrayed the Dark Judges' cause to feed her own [[{{Sadist}} sadistic tendencies]]; she ultimately committed suicide to spite Fire, though he still pines after her in the present day.]]
* EvilCounterpart: Even before they became zombies, the Dark Judges wore a more-menacing version of the standard Judge uniform: no red trimming on the helmets, and a pterosaur in splace of an eagle. Interestingly, pterosaurs still existed in present-day Deadworld before it got destroyed. Their Lawrider motorcycles were bone-white; the idea was to make them look like animal skulls when they got muddied.
* EvilMakeover: Upon becoming undead, the Dark Judges adopted more menacing uniforms that were gifted to them by the Sisters, to reflect their "elevated status".
* EvilIsDeathlyCold:
** In ''Fall of Deadworld'', a resistance member named Captain Tucker finds the helmet left behind by Judge Fear and is compelled to put it on, turning into a proxy of Fear. One of the Dark Judges (Casey) addresses him as Captain and tries to rummage inside the visor when "Tucker" doesn't answer in the affirmative. When Casey pulls his hand out, it's frozen solid.
** During Necropolis, the SerialKiller Edward Bernardo sought out Judge Death to try and kill him. This became relatively easy once he figured out the Dark Judges' abode was the coldest spot in the city.
* EvilIsHammy: [[YouFool Fool!]] [[WhoDares You DARE]] call the Dark Judges [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1f/d5/3a/1fd53a7a32a86ac8b9850283210f7b98.jpg some of the liveliest bad guys]] in ''Dredd''?
* EvilLaugh: Death has a pretty terrifying laugh on the rare occasions he does.
* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: Once human judges with a penchant for murder who were transformed into unstoppable ghost-zombies.
* EvilMentor: During his academy days, Judge Death took his mentoring duties very seriously - when a Judge-Tutor failed his secret appraisal, Death shot him without a moment's hesitation. Furthermore, the three other Dark Judges were regular thugs until he instilled order and discipline into them. He intended the same for Judge Fairfax, his first protegé.
* EvilOverlord: Whenever Judge Death gets into a position of power, he'll play the part of an supernatural tyrant obsessed with death and suffering in all its forms and shapes his realms accordingly.
* {{Expy}}: Of the [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]].
** Death pretty obviously corresponds to Death; the name aside, he's the one to bring Hell (in the form of dead fluids, Dark Judges, and genocide) wherever he rides and acts as the leader of the four.
** Mortis is either Famine or Pestilence: his MakeThemRot abilities and ghoulish "garden" of fungus-infested corpses invoke imagery of disease and sickness, while a panel in ''Fall of Deadworld'' depicts him artificially manipulating weather and spiking urban food and water supplies with dead fluids to engineer a famine and wear down survivors.
** Fear is harder to place, but most likely corresponds to War: ''Fall of Deadworld'' depicts him as being much more heavily armoured than his fellows, resembling a medieval knight in wartime, and he's [[TheHeavy the main physical threat toward the heroes]], actively hunting them down and [[HeroKiller killing some of the main characters]]. He also invokes memories of war-caused PTSD in several ex-soldiers when he fights them, which he refers to as being "exquisite."
** Fire is also hard to place, but he likely corresponds to Conquest. ''Fall of Deadworld'' indicates he was one of the most active Dark Judges in conquering sector houses and recruiting new Dark Judges, on top of the natural process of elimination.
* TheFaceless: Zig-zagged. It's unclear whether or not Fear actually ''has'' a face behind his helmet, and the only times he's shown with his helmet's visor open are either from the back (hiding his face) or from his victim's perspective, which leaves it unclear whether the features shown are manifestations of his victim's fears.
* FalseProphet: Death and his fellow Dark Judges are worshipped as divine figures by the Death Cults. If sinners are willingly walking towards slaughter, why would they stop those fools?
* FauxAffablyEvil:
** Death tends to do this the most often with his mocking faux-pleasantries, whilst Fear is typically depicted as fairly no-nonsense.
** Mortis acts as this in a memorable scene from the "Dreams Of Deadworld" arc. He meets a bunch of aliens who think he's a good person living alone on the earth whose inhabitants he helped slaughter. He shows them a nightmarish device that grinds up and ferments bodies into a ghastly concoction that he eloquently compares to fine wine. He offers them a cup to freak them out and then murders them all, turning one into his ghoulish half-dead companion and tricking the rest into coming down to Deadworld so he can slaughter them as well.
* FightingAShadow: Their physical shells can be destroyed, but this will only release their spirits to take over another body.
* FlamingSkulls: Judge Fire is just a flaming skull with no helmet. In ''Fall of Deadworld'', Judge Fire's skin looks like charcoal and is glowing from within; he hasn't been completely immolated yet.
* FlamingSword: Judge Fire carries around a flaming trident as his weapon. Interestingly, this makes him the only Dark Judge to use an actual weapon, Death and Mortis use their hands in battle, and Fear uses his fear gaze and his bear traps.
* ForgotFlandersCouldDoThat: Much like DC's Joker, every now and again, the writers set out to make the Dark Judges 'scary' again. ''Fall of Deadworld'' plays down the humor and centers on the horror of living on a dying world run by sadistic cops who don't see any value in it.
* FreudianExcuse: Death's father was a psychotic traveling dentist who took pleasure in causing his patients agony. (Judge Death is sporting a big, toothy smile which is supposed to reflect his dad's profession.) Eventually his father went berserk and started killing patients because "their brain are full of worms." Death decided he had no choice but to inform on his father to the Judges, who granted him a chance to perform the execution as a treat (at Death's request). The dentist's last words were, "Good boy."
* HangingJudge: They'll kill anyone after judging them to be "sinners" (i.e. being alive). Judge Death acquired his alias in Law School when he executed twenty-seven cases in court with no rhyme or reason, including a civilian who was caught loitering!
* HeelFaceTurn: Judge Whisper decides to help Roscoe and turns against his fellow Dark Judges when his plant mutation causes him to become [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} even loopier]] than usual.
* HorrifyingTheHorror:
** Played for laughs with Judge Death when ''Batman'' villain Scarecrow uses his fear toxin on him. The demon judge is afraid of fluffy bunnies and other cute woodland critters.
** Played seriously with Judge Fear in the Dreams of Deadworld prequel. His biggest fear is the knowledge that someone doesn't fear ''him''.
** Even the other Dark Judges give Judge Death a wide berth.
* HumanoidAbomination: Omnicidal and powerful undead beings with BlueAndOrangeMorality at the very best. But the ones who stand out the most in looks and Lovecraftian attributes are [[MakeThemRot Mortis]] [[NightmareFace and Fear.]]
* ILoveTheDead:
** Death claims he fell in love with Phobia and Nausea at first sight. Then continues to describe them as "ravishing creatures" after they're all way past their expiration date.
** At the end of ''Fall of Deadworld'', Death reanimates the cadaver of Collins (complete with a broken neck and missing ear) and sends her into Fairfax's cell to accost him.
* ImAHumanitarian: Mortis enjoys making wine out of human corpses then drinking it during his spare time.
* IronicFear: [[spoiler: Judge Fear's biggest weapon and the core of his character is the fear he causes in others. But the one thing he's afraid of above all else is that people don't fear ''him''; the memory of killing a child who was not afraid of his NightmareFace is enough to rattle him long after the Fall of Deadworld.]]
* JavelinThrower: Judge Fire is a ''very'' good throw with his fiery trident.
* JokerImmunity: Being undead and being able to BodySurf, they'll never truly go away. Even after being DraggedOffToHell or stranded in the void between worlds, they always come back. WordOfGod says that they were created to be recurring villains because Dredd simply shoots perps or puts them away for a long time.
* KillItWithFire: Judge Fire's MO, since he's a ManOnFire. He got the name from burning down a school with all the students and staff still inside... [[DisproportionateRetribution for violating noise regulations]].
* KillerCop: An extreme version where their method of "law enforcement" is [[OmnicidalManiac kill everything that lives]].
* KnightTemplar: They're plainly evil and sadistic, but they claim to be the good guys.
* LaughablyEvil: Judge Death from time to time. When he escaped to Gotham city he had to get his clothes from a particularly stupid henchman, and ended up wearing a biker uniform too small for the rotted corpse he inhabited, with a plucked whole chicken carcass and rack of ribs replacing his pterodactyl and shoulder armor respectively, (the henchman had rides the morgue’s kitchen beforehand,) and a cute little piece of paper in place of a badge (with the word Deth on it). He then proceeded to spread fear through the city by hijacking a rock concert, and jamming on stage with a guitar all the while murdering people, singing, and making bad puns.
* LeanAndMean: Obviously, since they're emaciated corpses, though they're very tall and unusually strong at the same time. Judge Death was already a pretty gaunt fellow when he was alive, however, especially if you compare him to the bulky Joseph Dredd.
* LighterAndSofter: Their counterparts in the Funko Universe are ''far'' less horrific, fitting with the chibi art style. They use ray guns to turn their victims into zombies, a process that can easily be reversed. Using their own weapons against them turns them into the Love Judges, who believe everyone deserves free hugs.
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: They often shape the architecture of the places they conquer into towers with cottage cheese holes. Why? When the wind rushes through them, it sounds like people screaming in agony.
* MadeOfIron: Courtesy of their nature as undead beings, they can soak up huge amounts of punishment before being forced to seek a new body. Special mention goes to Judge Mortis, who effortlessly endures getting his head blasted off his shoulders by a Hi-ex round during ''Necropolis.''
* ManOnFire: Judge Fire is, as the name implies, constantly on fire.
* MakeThemRot: Judge Mortis brings instant decay to anything he touches, corroding metals and rotting away flesh. Strangely, gold seems to be immune to this effect.
* MeaningfulName:
** Judge Death was once known as Sidney De'ath.
** Judge Fire was once an undercover Judge named Fuego.
* MultiversalConqueror: They already turned their own world into a graveyard before crossing the dimension span to spread their creed beyond their own borders.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast:
** Sidney De'ath. "The 'e' is silent."
** A group of Judges calling themselves Death, Fear, Fire and Mortis are unlikely to instill much faith in the legal system.
* NightmareFace: Judge Fear's signature attack is to show his victims the face behind the helmet, which can literally scare people to death. Spectacularly subverted when he tried it on Dredd himself, who [[TalkToTheFist rammed his fist through Fear's skull]]. [[spoiler: Also subverted during the Fall of Deadworld when a young boy isn't scared by Fear's face, forcing him to [[DestinationDefenestration throw him out a high-rise's window]] instead.]]
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Death refers to Dredd as the most irritatingly persistent individual he has ever met to which Dredd responds that Death is no slouch in that department himself.
* NumberTwo: Judge Mortis is heavily implied to be this to Judge Death - the Fall of Deadworld comic has Death address him as an "old friend" and refer to him for advice, on top of Mortis being in charge of at least two projects Death felt he couldn't trust the other Dark Judges or the Sisters of Death with.
* OminousOperaCape:
** Judge Fear is the only one of the four who wears a large black cape, enhancing his menacing silhouette and sinister appearence.
** Judge Death also wears a cape in "The Torture Garden".
* OmnicidalManiac: The Dark Judges themselves a believe that life itself is a crime worthy of a death sentence, which they will dispense to anyone they come across.
* PerpetualMotionMonster: They don't decay, meaning they'll just keep going after you until their body has been destroyed, and that only slows them down.
* PossessingADeadBody: Their host bodies are corpses prepared with chemicals known as "dead fluids", often belonging to their former victims.
* PsychicPowers: They are explicitly psychic creatures, and possess abilities such as mind control and astral projection. This is why Judge Anderson is one of the few effective deterrents against them.
* {{Pyromaniac}}: Judge Fire's favorite way of killing is to burn those he deems guilty to a crisp, and he expresses open glee at being ordered to burn anyone not loyal to the Justice Department during the Fall of Deadworld.
* RabidCop: Even before they became undead creatures, they were overzealous in their judgements, even by the standards of their dimension. Death, even as a human, was notorious for executing people for minor infractions, such as a divorcing couple reconciling in court. Fire burned down a school for noise infractions. Once they become undead abominations, the Dark Judges set about wiping out their entire world and then crossing dimensions to do it to other worlds once they finish.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Their original uniforms as Judges of the former Deadworld were pitch black with red pads and belts.
* RescuedFromTheUnderworld:
** All four of the Dark Judges were stranded in [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds Limbo]] at the end of the ''Anderson: Psi-Division'' strip "Revenge", but the Sisters of Death-influenced Judge Kraken brought them back to reality in the strips leading up to "Necropolis".
** Judge Death was [[DraggedOffToHell thrown into hell]] at the end of "The Wilderness Days", but the Sisters of Death somehow helped him escape and reunite with his brothers in "Dark Justice".
* SealedEvilInACan: Whenever they're not actively rampaging through Mega-City One, they tend to be locked up in glass orbs, lifeless voids, [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan or Judge Anderson]]. Of course, eventually somebody releases them by accident or design.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Death executed his own father via the electric chair after turning him in to the Judges. ''Boyhood of a Superfiend'' indicates he also murdered his mother and sister immediately after becoming a Street Judge.
* TheSixthRanger: Occasionally, the Dark Judges temporarily add a fifth member to their group, such as Kraken, Whisper, and ComicBook/TheJoker.
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: Their uniforms are adorned with human bones.
* SkullForAHead: Judge Mortis's head is a sheep's skull.
* SlasherSmile: Judge Death sports a permanent one, as his lips have rotted off.
* SssssnakeTalk: As undead, they all talk with a very noticeable hiss.
* TheSociopath: Judge Death, who slaughtered his family and tossed his mother off a cliff while remarking that [[LackOfEmpathy her cries bored him.]] And that wasn't even his first or last display of his psychotic madness. He was also keen to adopt a MaskOfSanity when it suited his purposes--it fooled even several of his teachers at Law School.
* TheStarscream: They took over their Justice Department through force by murdering the then-current Chief Judge.
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Judge Death's original name was Sidney De'ath.
* SuperStrength: They're apparently capable of lifting many times their own weight, since Death has been shown to throw around people like rag dolls and lunge a giant boulder into the air after some mutants tried to trap him inside a mine.
* TerribleTrio: On occasions where one of their members is missing (like when Judge Death escaped from prison before reuniting with his brothers years later in ''Dark Justice'', or after Judge Fear is recaptured in the aforementioned story), the other three continue to wreak havoc, being only marginally less deadly than the gang of four.
* TokenHeroicOrc: Judge Whisper is the only benevolent Dark Judge, especially after he becomes a PlantPerson. This is in large part because [[GreenThumb his power set]] is inherently life-giving. Over time, while he initially intended to kill Roscoe, he eventually befriends her and seeks to [[DefendsAgainstTheirOwnKind protect her from his fellow Dark Judges]]. Naturally, the other Dark Judges despise him as a traitor.
* TomTheDarkLord: They're led by the cadaverous, world-destroying menace... Sidney? Lampshaded when Judge Death is embarrassed when Brian Skuter asks him for his real name.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: Death once tried to body-snatch the Joker while searching for a Gothamite to inhabit. Joker was either too evil or too crazy ''even for Judge Death'', and he fled Joker's body just as quickly as he entered it!
* TortureTechnician: Judge Fear was apparently a master at getting information out of captives through creative means. His custom uniform, with the cape, shoulder pads, and helmet with wings? It's modelled after those of the torture units who operated under Deadworld's original Justice Department. His EstablishingCharacterMoment in ''Fall of Deadworld''? Looming over a tied-down Resistance prisoner who has a cage full of hungry rats strapped to his face, as he casually informs Death about the locations of anti-Judge Resistance cells.
* {{Ubermensch}}: The universe that they hail from wasn't pretty to begin with, but Judge Death was the first to put forth the radical new philosophy of what came to be the Dark Judges, which boils down to life being sinful and the purpose of law and justice is to fight life.
-->''The laws of physics, nature, and humanity are of no concern to me. In the end, there is only ONE law that matters... the law of death.''
* UndeadBarefooter: They forego the massive boots of the regular Judges, instead going around on bared zombie feet.
* UnreliableNarrator: Judge Death's youth differs ever so slightly when we see the events through his own memory and when he tells them to Brian Skuter, such as how old he was when he joined the Law Academy.
* VillainousCrush: Judge Fire is shown to have had a toxic, love-hate relationship with a female Dark Judge, Sister Despair. She modified the dead fluids to act as a drug, inadventently turning Fire into an walking ActionBomb and causing him to wipe out a town (along with a cadre of prospective Dark Judges) when he used it too much, prompting Death to forbid his subordinate from seeing her. [[spoiler: When Fire continued to pursue her [[note]]Both romantically and literally - while he was sent to kill her for turning against the Dark Judges' [[OmnicidalManiac omnicidal creed]] by retaining some humans for her sadistic experiments, Fire was unable to strike her down due to his lingering feelings for her[[/note]] she obliterated herself out of spite.]]
* VillainWorld: They hail from their own universe called Deadworld, which is ruled by Judge Death ever since he made himself Chief Judge. Deadworld used to resemble Earth. Now it's a burning wasteland, filled with crypt-like skyscrapers with [[{{Bizarrchitecture}} weird archtecture]]. (They look like a stack of upturned ziti noodles.)
* WasOnceAMan: They were all human before they became undead monsters as a result of the Sisters' dark magic.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in Judge Mortis's case. He's bored by the monotony of eternal undeath, passing the time in between genocides by using corpses to create his own morbid artwork.
* YouCantKillWhatsAlreadyDead: They inhabit corpses, so they can't feel pain. Shooting them with ordinary Lawgiver rounds is mostly useless; it usually takes dozens of Judges firing continuously to completely destroy their bodies, then hopefully have a way to trap their spirits before they can escape. [[BurnTheUndead Incendiary rounds]] have also proven more effective, well, except on Judge Fire.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Judge Fear's NightmareFace powers only work on those who are actually afraid of him in the first place. Of course, given his intimidating presence, this works on most people. Dredd, fearing nothing, is immune and punches ''through'' his face instead. During the "Dreams Of Deadworld" prequel, he attempts to use his powers on a young boy and discovers that it doesn't work on him and kills him through more traditional means instead.
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[[folder:The Sisters of Death]]
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A duo of powerful, malevolent spirit entities known as Phobia and Nausea. Allies and overseers of the Dark Judges, these two sister witches are responsible for their transformation into living dead.
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* AchillesHeel:
** Due to being ghost-like {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, they require a physical (preferably psychic) vessel to anchor themselves in the physical world. If that vessel is destroyed (as was the case in ''Necropolis'', with Kit Agee), the Sisters of Death will immediately be sucked back to Deadworld.
** Similar to Judge Fear, their illusionary abilities only work if their target believes they can be hurt by them. Dredd is quite resistant to their powers after ''Tale of the Dead Man'' as a result.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: That Judge Death was fascinated with the Sisters' murderous experiments and even took them as his lovers while alive goes to show what a piece of work he really was.
* CardCarryingVillain: Nausea admits this point blank while terrorizing Yassa: "You are right to be afraid, boy. You have no idea how '''sick''' I am!"
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: During Necropolis, they held daily news reports on their brethren's purges to terrify the citizens.
* DreamWalker: The Sisters and their "cousins" Pustula, Ephemera, and Dementia have invaded Anderson's dreams at least once.
* EldritchAbomination: ''Fall of Deadworld'' reveals that the Sisters are actually extradimensional monsters, with their human forms being little more than guises they use to interact with the world.
* FantasticDrug: The Dead Fluid they create has this effect if ingested by a Dark Judge, giving them hallucinogenic visions and often amplifying their powers even further.
* FightingAShadow: As Kraken and later Justice Department's armored units find out, shooting them is pointless. They're astral beings with no physical presence, and can only be sent back to Deadworld by destroying the psychic vessel they use to anchor in another dimension.
* {{Glamour}}: Their human forms, which hides their real visage of rotting corpses.
* TheHeavy: Of the ''Necropolis'' arc. The plan to free the Dark Judges using Kraken as a puppet is masterminded by them, and once they're banished back to Deadworld, their mind control of the city's Judges wears off and their brothers are forced to retreat.
* HeelFaceTurn: While Nausea and Phobia are as evil as can be, [[spoiler: ''Fall of Deadworld'' reveals they have a third (so far unnamed) sister who turned against them years ago and is actively supporting the living Resistance.]]
* HumanSacrifice: Their dark magic is derived from ritualistically killing humans.
* HumanoidAbomination: In "Young Death: Boyhood of a Superfiend", they're depicted as insane human witches who use dark magic and psi-craft to transmute themselves into ethereal entities. After a {{Revision}}, it's indicated that unlike the Dark Judges they were never really human to begin with, being some sort of extra-dimensional monsters anchored in the physical world by using human shells. There are a lot more of them, Phobia and Nausia are just the ones we see most regularly.
* ImAHumanitarian: They're shown making soup out of a victim's blood and flesh. Judge Death implies that he joined in.
* MasterOfIllusion: Their psionic powers as spirits allows them to imprint horrific images into receptive minds.
* MoreThanMindControl: The Sisters claimed they targeted Deadworld because it was in terminal decline, and that they merely "accelerated" its destruction. While they are responsible for making the Dark Judges undead like themselves, they started their campaign of omnicide entirely of their own volition.
* {{Necromancer}}: They had enough control over life and death to resurrect Death and his colleagues as unkillable ghosts.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: They're very powerful (being able to black out all light in the Meg and mind control a fair number of Judges) ghost-like beings resembling rotting corpses. They can also project illusions that depend on belief to have real world effects. Their abilities seem to be psi-based.
* PetTheDog: Inverted. PJ Maybe remembers (in what was possibly a psychotic hallucination) that during Necropolis, Phobia reached down and patted him on the head after reading his mind and seeing what a rotten piece of work he is.
* PsychoSerum: The Sisters supplied the Judges with "Dead Fluid" to turn them into obedient slaves. Usually it kills whoever imbibes it, but for those who survive, it has a side-effect of granting them {{Lovecraftian Superpower}}s and telepathy. Eventually the Judges leaked the Dead Fluid into the water table and food chain to flush out dissenters and create more acolytes.
* ShapeshiftingSeducer: Early on in ''The Dead Man'', Nausea appears as a beautiful woman before decaying into her rotting carcass form.
* SssssnakeTalk: Same as with the Dark Judges.
* TheStarscream: During ''Fall of Deadworld'', they were scheming to remove Judge Death from power in favour of a more "unpredictable" candidate due to Death's approach not destroying Deadworld fast enough for their liking.
* UndeadAbomination: They're undead monsters sometimes taking human shape with a desire to devour more life, having allied themselves with Judge Death and his cohorts for this express purpose.
* VillainousFriendship: With Judge Death and his three lieutenants, but only because of their shared love of murder. He's reminded them that they are not "irreplacable" when he got annoyed with their courtroom intrigue.
* WickedWitch: They're pure evil witches who enjoy murdering people and torturing them to death. Appearance-wise they're quite haglike, and barely resemble human beings in their spirit forms.
* WouldHurtAChild: Nausea burns out poor Yassa Povey's eyes while boasting about enjoying the suffering of children.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Their hallucinatory powers only work if you believe they can actually hurt you.
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[[folder:Dark Judges (Fall of Deadworld)]]
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During the Fall of Deadworld, Judge Death and his compatriots recruited numerous regular Deadworld Judges to assist in their omnicide of the living. These Judges were granted similar powers to the original four Dark Judges, but were exterminated at Death's command following the Fall.
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* BodyHorror: The designs for the Dark Judges are a veritable cornucopia of this, with special mention going to Judge Gates; his body has been so badly mutilated that he's little more than a decaying head mounted on a grotesquely-outsized cyborg body, which is itself built from a jumbled mass of corpses fused into a massive robotic shell.
* CardCarryingVillain: [[spoiler: Chief Judge Casey Tweed's]] response to being warned that Mortis is a complete maniac? [[EvilLaugh Maniacal laughter]], before proudly retorting "So am I."
* CombatTentacles: Judge Scourge possessed several barbed tentacles in place of arms, which he used to attack his victims.
* DeadlyDoctor: Sister Despair is confirmed to have been one of Deadworld's Med-Judge equivalents before her transformation, and she kills her victims with a medical bone-saw.
* EmotionBomb:
** Sister Despair's power, appropriately enough, allows her to induce a crippling sense of suicidal despair in the living.
** Judge Whisper's psi-powers include this; near the end of his [[ADayInTheLimelight mini-comic]], he [[spoiler: psychically influences a man and his pregnant wife into remaining calm even as he surgically mutilates them both.]]
* EverybodyDiesEnding: After the Fall of Deadworld, Judge Death executed them all as an example to his three lieutenants, deeming them weak, unfit, and driven more by the desire for power than zeal for enforcing the law.
* FaceMonsterTurn: Casey Tweed becomes a Dark Judge after one of Fear's dead fluid-driven parasites bites and psychologically alters him during their attack on a Resistance stronghold.
* FacialHorror:
** The upper half of Judge Reaper's face is just completely ''gone'', leaving only his exposed lower jaw. Concept art for ''Dreams of Deadworld'' indicates Judge Death tore it off for reasons unknown.
** Judge Silence's eyes, ears, and mouth have all been burnt away, while the sides of his head and face display massive burns in the shape of two clawed hands (presumably Fire's work.)
* FightingAShadow: Surprisingly enough for Dark Judges, this is averted. When they're killed by the protagonists ([[spoiler: Gates, Whisper, Reaper, etc.]]), they stay dead rather than simply possessing a new corpse. [[spoiler: ''Fall of Deadworld: Sydney'' implies that this is because they're still attached to their humanity, as opposed to Death and co.'s rather thoroughly inhuman natures.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Sister Psiren]] ends up turning against Judge Death after a Resistance member's psi-attack destabilizes her identity and allows her to recover her pre-transformation memories, participating in [[spoiler: the attack on the capital and even killing [[TheStarscream Judge Whisper]]]].
* ImAHumanitarian: The Dark Psi-Judges are shown eating from piles of human eyes at several points, which seems to empower their scrying abilities. A few of the more 'normal' Dark Judges (Gavno and Mimir) are also shown cannibalising corpses and living bodies alike.
* KilledOffForReal:
** [[spoiler: Judge Whisper suffers [[YourHeadASplode a catastrophic cranial rupture]] from a Resistance psi-attack, along with several other members of Psi-Division.]]
** [[spoiler: After dodging death twice, Gates is finally put down by a redeemed Sister Psiren and her allies in the Resistance, who make sure to char his body to ash afterwards so he can't be resurrected again.]]
** All the Deadworld Dark Judges that survived the Fall are unceremoniously exterminated by Death and his lieutenants during his mini-comic through the use of a "psi-drain" device; considering they never reappeared despite the abundance of dead bodies around them, odds are they're gone for good.
* MadScientist: Casey Tweed becomes this after his FaceMonsterTurn, gleefully thinking up technologies such as servers running on human brains and recklessly experimenting with the highly mutagenic dead fluids. [[spoiler: He's also the one to rebuild Judge Gates after Fairfax butchers him and Psiren dumps his head in a jar of acid.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Sister Despair exploits Judge Reaper's feelings for her to persuade him into acting as her bodyguard. [[spoiler: It's also implied she did the same to Judge Fire during their brief relationship, though the ending of their mini-comic leaves it ambiguous as to whether her feelings toward him were genuine.]]
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: After his rebuilding, one of Judge Gates' original arms is replaced by a mass of arms taken from corpses.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Judge Lucien Whisper is not related to Judge Whisper from ''The Torture Garden'' and ''Dark Judges: Deliverance''. The former is a denizen of Deadworld, the latter a Mega-City One citizen who both became Dark Judges with psychic powers.
* PlayingWithSyringes: Sister Despair hid the last of Deadworld's living beneath the sea to perform horrific experiments on them, turning them into multi-limbed, grotesque masses of flesh to satisfy her own curiosity. She was doing similar things even before this, self-experimenting with Dead Fluids during her liaison with Fire.
* PsychoSerum: They became Dark Judges after being transformed by "dead fluids," amplifying their normal ruthlessness and aggression to much greater heights while also physically mutating them in some fashion.
* SanitySlippage: Psiren is already somewhat unhinged due to being a Dark Judge, but over the course of the story she starts becoming more unstable, lashing out at her subordinates in sudden fits of aggression and frequently flashes back to her pre-transformation self. [[spoiler: This ultimately results in her pulling a HeelFaceTurn as her original personality resurfaces.]]
* TheSpeechless: The aptly-named Judge Silence never speaks onscreen for the entirety of his short appearance. Considering Judge Fire burned his eyes, ears, and tongue out, it's probably not voluntary on his part.
* TheStarscream:
** [[spoiler: Casey Tweed waits for the human assassin Destyny to wound Death during the Resistance's attack on the capital before bursting in with a high-calibre gun, which he uses to promptly blast Death's head clean off and seize control over the Dark Judges.]]
** Judge Lucien Whisper barely even tries to hide his ambition to take command from Sister Psiren, the current head of Psi-Division; she notes that he's constantly probing her psychic shields to try and find a weakness, while his dialogue all but states he'd ''love'' to take over. He even tries to manipulate the Chief Judge [[spoiler: Casey Tweed]] into a paranoia-fuelled breakdown as part of his ambitious plans, which nearly gets him fatally punished had [[spoiler: the Resistance not attacked HQ at that moment.]]
* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Sister Psiren's original name was Lisa Soren.
* TimeMaster: Judge Chronos' powers worked like Judge Mortis's in reverse - he would reverse his victim's age until they simply vanished.
* TheUnintelligible: Judge Mimir never speaks coherently, only screaming or roaring during his appearance during the events of ''Transpolar''.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Most of the Dark Judges, aside from the main four and those connected to them (such as Psiren, Despair, and Whisper), are given the bare minimum of characterization before dropping out of the story or dying. Particularly egregious during Death's mini-comic, in which a dozen Dark Judges are introduced and then unceremoniously [[YouHaveFailedMe slaughtered by Death on the grounds that they have failed to live up to his standards.]]
* WolfMan: The one-shot Dark Judge [[MeaningfulName Judge Fenris]] is essentially an anthropomorphic undead wolf in a Judge's uniform.
* YouHaveFailedMe: After the Fall of Deadworld Death executed the remaining Dark Judges (besides Fear, Fire, and Mortis), due to their failure to dedicate themselves purely to the "sacred mission" of purging all life.
* YourHeadASplode: If a Dark Psi-Judge overstrains their powers, they risk anything from {{Psychic Nosebleed}}s to this being the result. [[spoiler: The Resistance's psionic and the [[HeelFaceTurn redeemed Sister Psiren]] exploit this to kill Whisper during their raid on the Dark Judges' HQ, by forcing his powers into a feedback loop that violently detonates his head.]]

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[[folder: Fairfax]]
The main protagonist of ''The Fall of Deadworld'', Judge Fairfax is Judge Death's prized student and protégé back when the latter was still human. When the Dark Judges took over, Fairfax rebelled against his mentor's wishes to transform him with the Dead Fluids and fled.
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* AbusiveParents: Fairfax was physically abused by his father, resulting in life-long emotional issues that Death exploited to make him into one of his lieutenants.
* BerserkButton: Making fun of his abusive past. A trio of cadets beating him up then taunting him over it prompted him to go from silently enduring their blows, to beating all three of them to a pulp within seconds.
* DoomedByCanon: Deadworld is wiped out by the time of ''Necropolis'', with all life there being exterminated. One way or another, Fairfax certainly isn't around by the time of the comics.
* ForegoneConclusion: Since we already know the Dark Judges exterminated all life on their Earth, there was never any way for Fairfax to win.
* HeelFaceTurn: Fairfax used to be Judge Death's [[TheFixer fixer]] and enforcer, [[spoiler: being the one to murder Judge Eastwood's lover and partner when they came close to uncovering his corruption]]. By the time of ''The Fall of Deadworld'', he's more of a NominalHero who gradually develops into a UnscrupulousHero over the course of the comic.
* HeroicWillpower: [[spoiler: Despite being micro-dosed with Dead Fluids to the point of showing Dark Judge-style mutations, Fairfax manages to retain his sanity and keep fighting against Death out of sheer willpower.]]
* NominalHero: ''Fall of Deadworld'' initially portrays him as one - he's a rude, abrasive {{jerkass}} that has no problems with press-ganging a group of terrified civilians into service for his own selfish motivations, and fights Death's men mainly because they want to forcibly recruit him to their cause.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion: Death's intent for Fairfax is implied to be this. [[spoiler: All but confirmed in the third ''Fall of Deadworld'' comic, where a captured Fairfax is repeatedly dosed with Dead Fluids until he starts showing mutations similar to a Dark Judge. He even comments that he's "one of them now," before Jess snaps him out of it.]]
* UnscrupulousHero: After being called out by his Byke's AI and Jessica Childs, Fairfax begins to develop into this. He's still pretty ruthless and has a few {{jerkass}} tendencies, but he does overtly care about things other than himself and fights Death for reasons other than survival or revenge.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Jess Childs]]
The deuteragonist of ''The Fall of Deadworld'', Jess Childs is a young girl from the countryside whose family are all killed during the Fall. After saving Fairfax's life, he takes her on as his charge.
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* AlternateSelf: She's Deadworld's version of the Judge Child, albeit a much less evil one compared to her mainline counterpart Owen Krysler.
* TheChosenOne: As Deadworld's Judge Child, she's fated to oppose Judge Death and his corrupted version of the Justice Department.
* DisappearedDad: Her father left Jess and her mother years before the comic began. [[spoiler: They briefly re-unite when she meets Sergeant Tucker at the Resistance base; though Jess never realizes his identity, Tucker recognises her as his child and stays away from her.]]
* DoomedByCanon: Deadworld is already wiped clean of life prior to ''Necropolis'', so it's safe to say that Jess won't be able to defeat Death.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: During the early stages of the comic, Jess's hair is long and visibly unkempt. After she starts developing into more of a leader and combatant [[spoiler: during the Resistance's attack on the capital,]] she starts wearing it in a much shorter and more controlled style, representative of her CharacterDevelopment from "terrified young farmgirl" to "Deadworld's [[TheChosenOne Judge Child]]."
* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: Jess is TheChosenOne of a world in terminal decline, under attack by a cult of {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s bent on exterminating all life. In the space of a few weeks, she loses all of her family members to roving death-cultists (having to kill her uncle when he involuntarily joins them), is repeatedly attacked by the aforementioned cult's enforcers, and [[spoiler: is seemingly dragged into the [[EldritchLocation First Veil]] to a so far unknown fate]]. Oh, and she's [[DoomedByCanon doomed to fail and die anyway]].
* KidHero: Jess is just shy of thirteen years old during the Fall; she's also TheChosenOne, seemingly destined to stand against Sydney De'ath.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: When [[spoiler: Fairfax keeps angsting over how Death has turned him halfway into a Dark Judge]], Jess tells him that she gave him his helmet back so that he could be a "real Judge" and reminds him that he truly can be the man he ''knows'' he can be.
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[[folder: The Boneman]]
An enigmatic, seemingly immortal figure that walks the wastes of a future Deadworld, waiting for justice to return to the world.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: While he looks very much like a human he's also seemingly ageless and [[TheNeedless needless]]; his grey, corpselike skin and reddish eye colour also closely resemble the appearance of the Dark Judges, lending further ambiguity to exactly what he is.
* NonLinearCharacter: Despite existing in the far future, he's able to perceive Jess Childs' presence during a present-day psychic vision and warn her to "Save Judge Fairfax from himself".
* TimeAbyss: The Boneman is old enough to consider the Fall of Deadworld a distant memory, noting that the Dark Judges' monuments have crumbled to ruin from the passage of time and that Deadworld is even more of an inhospitable waste than before.
* UnhappyMedium: [[ISeeDeadPeople He can see the dead]] as part of his unspecified "visions." Unfortunately, he's also stuck on a world where literally everyone is dead, making these visions "unwelcome" at best.
* VaguenessIsComing: He warns Jess Childs that Judge Fairfax needs to be saved "from himself" before the Resistance's psychic breaks the connection.
* WalkingTheEarth: According to the Boneman's ''[[ADayInTheLimelight Visions of Deadworld]]'' comic, he's been roaming Deadworld ever since the Fall (at least) as part of a promise he made to the last human on Deadworld.
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!Angel Family

[[folder:Mean Machine Angel]]
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A psychopathic cyborg (though he was not always this way), and the youngest member of the Angel family with whom Dredd has several run-ins with, and is also one of his most enduring opponents.
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* AbusiveParents: His father often punished him for his original peaceful attitude, even having his arm cut off and replaced with a cybernetic, and later arranged for a dial to be implanted into his head, turning him into a monstrous thug. During the "Son of Mean" storyline, Mean treated his own son (who was exactly like he once was) much the same way.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Downplayed; in one prog, Dredd recruits Mean Machine to rescue a stranded ballet team from a gang of mutants called the Headbangers, a tribe of ViolentGlaswegian stereotypes who decide leadership through headbutting duels. Their current leader, the [=McBean=], actually matches Mean Machine butt for butt, until Dredd worries that he might legitimately beat the cyborg and so cheats by surreptitiously sticking the mutant with some sedatives.
* AmazonChaser: He's very attracted to "Seven-Pound Sadie" Sarah , a female outlaw who's first action on meeting him (he tried to rob a bank she was already robbing) was hitting him with her iconic sledge hammer. She eventually became the mother of his son.
* AnArmAndALeg: His right arm was replaced with a cybernetic claw by his father when he was "upgraded". He also loses his remaining organic arm as well during the climax of the Judge Child arc, when Dredd blows it off, resulting in his iconic lopsided appearance of robotic clawed arm and stump after his resurrection. He doesn't seem to mind the loss too much.
* AxeCrazy: He's a gleefully sadistic hillbilly who just loves headbutting stuff. Subverted when his dial is finally removed and he settles into civilian life by living with his son. Further subverted when he contracts the Chaos Bug and survives it, while regaining his sanity.
* BackFromTheDead: He was originally killed during the Judge Child arc, but brought back, as he was a popular villain.
* BadassNormal: By Mega-City One standards, anyway. Mean Machine is just a dumb hick from the Cursed Earth with some clunky, low-grade cyber-implants. Yet he has the distinction of not only being part of the ''very'' small group of perps who have gone up against Dredd multiple times, but of also being both one of Dredd's most daunting foes after the Dark Judges ''and'' having the longest list of survived encounters with Dredd.
* BerserkButton: Anything that reminds him of Dredd. During the story "Born Mean", he was accidentally freed by some environmentalists, one of whom suffered from ElmuhFuddSyndwome. Mean headbutted the man, simply because his speech impediment reminded him of "Dreddy's robot" (Walter).
* {{Catchphrase}}:
** "Izzat so?"
** "Ya got Mean Machine Angel on (insert number here)!"
* {{Cyborg}}: He was transformed into one by his father, who thought he was too soft. Given [[ArtificialLimbs a robotic arm]] and a dial which controls the amount of rage in his brain. When it goes to 4, you're in trouble.
* DumbMuscle: Not very bright, but very, very strong. This is often a cause of his defeat, since he can physically throw down with some of the best, including Dredd, but he's easily outsmarted. Fans have even theorized that he never gets his missing left arm replaced with a cybernetic prosthetic, despite that option being easily available, because he's too simple-minded to think of it. Or maybe the Justice Department just doesn't want him to be even more dangerous with two arms instead of one.
* EnemyMine: Mean Machine and Dredd have actually teamed up on multiple occasions, and there are subtle hints that Dredd actually has a certain respect for the cyborg.
** Shortly after his resurrection, with the aid of brain surgery that makes him think Dredd is his father, Mean Machine helps Dredd track down a band of mutant raiders who have stolen priceless treasures and a cargo of Judge clone-babies intended for Tex-City.
** The famous "Three Amigos" storyline sees Dredd teamed up with Mean Machine and Judge Death to bring down a mad mutant warlord threatening the Mega-Cities of America with nuclear missiles.
** In one short prog, Dredd recruits Mean Machine to help him rescue some captured Mega-City performers from a band of headbutting-obsessed mutants called the Headbangers.
* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: With his father and the rest of his siblings, until they are killed during the Judge Child arc.
* {{Fratricide}}: During the Judge Child arc, Dredd hits him in the head with [[ChainPain a heavy length of chain]], jamming his dial on 4 and 1/2. As part of his rampage, he instinctively lashes out at his brother Link, delivering a headbutt that kills Link.
* HeelFaceBrainwashing: He's been subjected to this several times over the years. While the methods seem to work at first, [[StatusQuoIsGod something always happens to make his former personality resurface]].
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: [[spoiler:By 2129, Mean is reverted to his original personality after his dial is successfully removed and his muscle mass significantly decreased. Dredd acknowledges that the diminutive simpleton is a far cry from the cyborg berserker who once terrorized the city.]]
* IHatePastMe: During the "Travels With Muh Shrink" storyline, Mean hijacked a time machine, and used it to go back before his family got involved in the Judge Child saga, and warn them not to get involved. Past Mean gives his future self "a face full a' four" in response. Mean is angry -- not just because his offer of help was refused, but because his younger self didn't even deliver a ''good'' four.
-->'''Mean''': Boy, you butt like a puff a' bad wind!
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Mean falls in love with Porsha Wuss, a social worker who visits him in prison. He gets fitted with [[ShockCollar the Warden]], a device that causes him pain whenever he gets violent urges, and the two are allowed to get married. Their wedding is attacked and when Mean thinks Porsha is killed, he attacks her "killer" so brutally that he shorts out the Warden. When he realizes Porsha is still alive, he breaks up with her, afraid he'll hurt her, and returns to the iso-cubes willingly.
* NotHyperbole: Over the years, Mean has often threatened to headbutt someone "down to a greasy spot". He finally follows through on this threat during the closing moments of the "Son of Mean" storyline, repeatedly headbutting the doctor who had been using him as a test subject until there was nothing left but a big red puddle.
* SeriousBusiness: Headbutting. When a university student (believing Mean was still hypnotized into acting a child) mockingly headbutted him, Mean actually shed a tear, but not for the reason the student believed he did.
-->'''Mean:''' I'm a' cryin', boy, because there ain't nuthin' sadder than watchin' an ammy'teur!"
* SiblingsInCrime: With Junior, the only other survivor of the Angel Family.
* StrongerWithAge: Implied during "Travels With Muh Shrink". After his younger self headbutted him (knocking him into the Angel family shack), Mean retaliated with a headbutt that sent his younger self flying into [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall the next page]].
* TooSpicyForYogSogoth: During the "Three Amigos" storyline, Judge Death tried to possess him. Mean not only resisted, but up so much of a fight that the addled Death fled his body.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: He was a gentle child until his father had him turned into a cyborg in his teens. His son eventually inherits his original personality.
* UseYourHead: Headbutting someone hard enough to send them flying is his SignatureMove.
* UnstoppableRage: Well, true to his name, Mean can never really get rid of that scowl on his face, but the intensity of his rage controlled by the dial in his forehead. The higher it goes, the stronger and angrier he gets. However, a strong impact to the head can cause the dial to get stuck on 4 1/2, which causes him to go ham on anything that breathes, blindly running around and spasmodically banging his head against everything in sight. This has led to his defeat on multiple occasions, a trend that started with the trait's first appearance in the finale of the Judge Child arc, when it caused him to kill his brother Link and then blow himself up by headbutting a gas pump.
* UnskilledButStrong: He doesn't have a lot of fighting techniques other than headbutting someone or an occasional swipe with his claw, but given that he's nigh-unstoppable and has a metal skull, you don't need much finesse with that.
* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:Mean Machine seemed to be on the way to scoring the unique distinction of ultimately getting a happy ending; most of Dredd's repeat-rogues wind up dead, often as early as their second appearance, but Mean gets his aggression dial removed and to go back to a normal life with his son. Except that, during the Chaos Bug outbreak, he becomes infected and temporarily reverts to his murderous ways. After being cured, the ashamed Mean exiles himself from Mega-City One, ultimately dying in a HeroicSacrifice made to free a group of slaves.]]
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[[folder: Pa, Link and Junior Angel]]
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A family of murderous hillbillies led by Elmer "Pa" Angel that originally appeared in the "Judge Child" storyline, and for the most part got killed off there. Despite this, they've reappeared in several prequel stories.
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* AbusiveParents: Pa. He was so disgusted by Mean's original peace-loving nature that he let his brothers torture him, and eventually had him turned into a violent {{Cyborg}} psychopath. Weirdly, in his own twisted way, he's shown doting on his son Junior.
* AxeCrazy: Junior is, without a doubt, the absolutely craziest member of the Angel family.
* DumbMuscle: Link is described this way by Mean's younger self; he's evil, but he's also so dumb he doesn't realize he's being evil.
* ColdBloodedTorture: They love to make people suffer and die; they think it's hilarious.
* DeathByChildbirth: "Ma" Angel died giving birth to Junior.
* HillbillyHorrors: They're a bunch of primitive, dimwitted, feral individuals from the wastelands beyond the Mega-Cities, who relish in nothing more killing and torturing.
* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: Their entire gimmick. Imagine the [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Hewitt family]] without the cannibalism. Maybe.
* ThePatriarch: Pa Angel.
* PostHumousCharacter: Most of the Angels have been dead for decades, but still keep appearing in new stories.
* RetCon: Pa and Junior's deaths were retconned at one point, but the story was so disliked that they have never appeared again and the resurrection is generally ignored.

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[[folder:Fink Angel]]
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Oldest son of the Angel family. He prefers to work alone, picking off travellers in the Cursed Earth with his 'Pizens'.
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* TheBadGuyWins: An alternate version of Fink that was part of Alternate Judge Cal's LegionOfDoom managed to survive his fight with Dredd, killed him, then led an entire army of Cursed Earth mutants to raze Mega-City One to the ground.
* KarmicDeath:
** Invoked and subverted in his first appearance; Dredd subdues him by stabbing him with Ratty's fangs; as a Cursed Earth rat, Ratty possesses lethally toxic venom glands. However, rather than killing Fink, it merely incapacitates him, allowing him to be captured.
** Played straight in his second appearance, when Dredd kills him by knocking him into a killing engine that Fink and Mean Machine had created to torture Dredd to death. For added irony, moments beforehand, he had accidentally killed Ratty by striking him with his pizen-stick.
** Also played straight with the alternate Fink; Dredd shoved Ratty down his throat, causing the panicking animal to bite him to death from the inside.
* LonersAreFreaks: Even by the standards of the Angel gang, Fink was a freakshow.
* MasterPoisoner: He's a poison expert, killing his victims by throwing barbed metal balls coated in poison at them or by poisoning water sources. If forced to fight, he uses a venom-smeared spiked cudgel he calls his "pizen-stick".
* OurGhoulsAreCreepier: With his skeletal features, greenish skin, and predilection for both poisoning his foes and ambushing them from holes he's dug to conceal himself in, as if buried alive, Fink calls to mind a ghoul in every way apart from being undead.
* SignatureHeadgear: He's never seen without his trademark bowler hat. His pet Ratty also wears one.
* SkullForAHead: His lips and nose have rotted away because of radiation exposure in the Cursed Earth. His appearance in general is pretty skeletal as well.
* VerbalTic: Refers to "poison" as "pizen", as well as sharing the standard hillbilly burr as the rest of his family.
* YouDirtyRat: His best friend is Ratty, an hyperintelligent rat with a bowler hat and poisonous fangs.
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[[folder:Junior Suggs a.k.a. Mean Angel Jr.]]

The son of Mean Machine and Sarah "Seven-Pound Sadie" Suggs.
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* IncorruptiblePurePureness: He has his father's pre-modification personality. Both his parents tried and failed to corrupt him.
* IronicName: His name is Mean, but he's unfailingly sweet and moral.
* MoralityDial: As a last-ditch attempt to corrupt him. Mean Machine takes Junior to a hospital to give him a dial like his. The doctors do it, but secretly install a dial whose only settings are Soppy, Good, Virtuous, and Saintly.
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!Other perps

[[folder:Phillip Janet Maybe]]
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A child prodigy/SerialKiller who Dredd has several run-ins with over the years.
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* ArchEnemy: He served as one to Judge Dredd because PJ Maybe managed to elude the law for so long. Dredd took a personal interest in the Maybe case after first arresting him as a teenager, and if it were up to him Maybe would have been executed [[spoiler:long before his eventual demise.]]
* AttentionWhore: While he's careful to avoid getting caught, Maybe has an insatiable need to have his crimes acknowledged, boasting of being "the greatest serial killer ever". Dredd notes that Maybe often leaves clear evidence of his presence behind at crime scenes for this reason.
* BecomingTheMask: He really grows to enjoy his Byron Ambrose persona.
* TheChessmaster: He's been able to elude the judicial authorities many times over the years by changing his face and faking his own death. Many of his elaborate murders fall under this as well, requiring an immense amount of planning aforethought and improvisation mid-way through.
* ColdBloodedTorture: After kidnapping an old classmate, PJ Maybe proceeds to torture him by [[TheToothHurts pulling all but six of his teeth out]] without anaesthetic until he dies from blood loss and trauma.
* CorruptPolitician: Subverted. He manages to become mayor of Mega-City One under the guise of Byron Ambrose. While it's only a figurehead position, he's actually pretty good at it and makes an impact. He remains a serial killer on the side, but it doesn't really impact his decision-making.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: He's murdered and impersonated specific persons several times, including his neighbour's son when he was a teenager and philanthropist Byron Ambrose to escape Dredd in Ciudad Baranquilla.
* DepravedBisexual: While he is [[{{Robosexual}} in love with his Swedish love droid]], [[SexBot Inga]], he has no qualms about sleeping with men and women alike to further his schemes before [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killing them when he no longer needs them]].
* DisguisedInDrag: When his face is no longer able to accept face changes, he dresses as a woman to evade capture, though presumably gets a boob job, since he's sporting an ample cleavage under his dress.
* DisproportionateRetribution: He kills six of his old classmates decades later because they got him kicked off the school play. He also made certain to kill the last one by having a fuel tanker fly into his block, causing over 20,000 deaths in the subsequent inferno.
* EmbarrassingMiddleName: His middle name is Janet because his parents wanted a daughter.
* FakingTheDead: He often goes to ridiculous lengths to fake his own death in a very public and spectacular manner. For example, when disposing of his Juan Pedro Montez identity, he kidnaps the real Byron Ambrose, replaces his heart with an artificial model the same as his own, has a Judge under SLD-88 hypnosis swap the DNA records for PJ Maybe and Byron Ambrose in their files, and finishes by publicly burning himself (actually Ambrose) alive on a massive bonfire so that the Judges will believe him dead.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** His decision to [[spoiler: send Inga (a rare Lunquest 7 love droid) to assassinate the bedridden Chief Judge Sinfield]] is what prompts Dredd to start looking into the possibility of PJ Maybe's survival, ultimately leading to him being captured (again) and his identity as Byron Ambrose compromised.
** [[spoiler: Maybe's decision to try and kill Dredd with a grenade ultimately gets him killed when Dredd simply shoves PJ off a ledge, letting the grenade blow him apart mid-air.]]
* KarmaHoudini: ZigzaggedTrope. He's one of the few recurring bad guys, but there's about an equal chance that he'll commit a bunch of crimes and successfully escape as there is that the Judges catch him. [[spoiler: This was ''finally'' subverted for good during the events of Prog 1998, with Dredd shoving him off a high ledge and shooting him through the chest with a Lawgiver round; while this looked like a DisneyVillainDeath, the grenade PJ was holding detonated midway down, turning him into LudicrousGibs.]]
--> '''Dredd:''' [[spoiler: [[BondOneLiner This case is closed.]]]]
* LiteralChangeOfHeart: In order to trick the Judges into thinking he's dead, Maybe kidnaps Byron Ambrose and has his heart forcibly transplanted into him, while Ambrose is fitted with PJ's artificial one.
* LudicrousGibs: [[spoiler: His grenade blows him apart mid-air, sending bits of PJ Maybe raining down onto the street below.]]
* MagicPlasticSurgery: His standard method to evading detection after Dredd incarcerated him for the second time is to change his physical appearance entirely with the face changing machines in Mega-City One. Eventually, he has it done so many times that his face cannot physically be altered any further, forcing him to use [[DisguisedInDrag other means]] to evade the law.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Maybe is utterly horrified when Inga is destroyed by a Hi-ex round as a result of his failed attempt to assassinate Sinfield, spending the next few hours alternating between hysterical blubbering and desperate attempts to figure out how to cover his tracks.]]
* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: Subverted. [[spoiler:The grenade he's carrying explodes, killing him before he can hit the ground. Even if it didn't, the lawgiver round to the chest on the way down didn't do him any favours.]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: His poor spelling masks his genius ability. This is even done in his narration. He deliberately performed poorly in school and pretended to have {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies in his early teens to avoid people realizing just how smart he really was.
* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: PJ Maybe starts as an teenaged killer, and has aged about two decades since then. Dredd himself is more than twice his age when Maybe is Mayor.
* PlaguedByNightmares: After getting kicked off the school play in his youth, PJ Maybe keeps having nightmares of the six schoolmates responsible taunting him. He responded to this [[SarcasmMode like any sane person would]] -- by finding the schoolmates again and giving each one a CruelAndUnusualDeath. [[spoiler: This doesn't prevent him from suffering nightmares, but it does make him able to ignore them.]]
* PragmaticPansexuality: While he's a committed {{Robosexual}}, he's perfectly willing to sleep with both men and women to achieve his ends.
* PragmaticVillainy: While he's an unrepentant murderer, he doesn't see the practical use in acquiring a millions-strong bodycount as mass-murdering supervillains like Judge Death or Sabbat the Necromagus have done.
* RoboSexual: His robot, Inga, is his true love, though he will sleep with human women to further his own ends.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: He is a notoriously poor speller and this even manifests itself in his narration, which is riddled with grammatical and spelling errors.
* SerialKiller: He uses pretty outlandish methods, such as the hypnotic chemical SLD-88, rare robotic bugs, and appetite-stimulating chocolates to commit murders. Sometimes he just goes on killing sprees ForTheEvulz.
* TheSociopath: He's actually a pretty thorough DeconstructedCharacterArchetype. He lies and manipulates, has no regard for others, and is quite narcissistic and in need of stimulation. He sometimes feels compelled to kill, and John Wagner ultimately presents him as a pitiable figure instead of an incarnation of pure evil. He does feel bad on occasion, such as when he lost his parents, but he doesn't really know why.
* TakingYouWithMe: He tries this one on Dredd by threatening to blow them both up with a grenade. [[spoiler:Dredd simply pushes him over, shoots him, knocking him off the ledge, where he is blown up on the way down.]]
* TeensAreMonsters: He already acquired a sizable bodycount before he was even 18.
* TomTheDarkLord: A SerialKiller named Philip Janet Maybe. When Dredd asks him about it, Maybe explains that his parents wanted a daughter.
* VillainousBreakdown: His final act of desperation is to [[spoiler: try and [[TakingYouWithMe blow Dredd up]] with a grenade while claiming that they're [[NotSoDifferentRemark not so different]].]] Earlier in these episodes, he's actually seen talking to the voice in his head. Even it tells him that he's losing it.
* VillainousCrossdresser: In "Ladykiller", he disguises himself as a woman in order to evade the judges.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: During his tenure as mayor he was beloved by the citizens for his good performance, but he was still a serial killer behind closed doors.
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[[folder:Deathfist/Stan Lee]]
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An extremely dangerous assassin and martial artist hailing from Radlands of Ji (Radioactive wasteland in post-war China)
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* AnArmAndALeg: Shimura cuts off his hand and tells him that he'd better get himself a new name.
%%* AxCrazy
* BaldOfEvil: A lethally deadly martial artist who is completely bald.
* BareFistedMonk: Prefers to fight unarmed, hence his nickname of Deathfist.
* EnlightenedAntagonist: After years of intense meditation, Stan managed to master the power of 'Black Chi', regenerating his left hand and granting himself vast mystical powers, at the cost of what little sanity he had left.
* MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours: He's the only opponent to ever curbstomp Dredd in a one-on-one fight using only hand-to-hand combat skills.
* [[StableTimeLoop Ontological Paradox]]: Stan along with his daughter, Yin Mie, tried to destroy the universe via the time rip in the Undercity. Lee was later pushed into the time rip and, in an absolute rage, struck out against it, completely annihilating himself but causing the Big Bang that kicked off the creation of the universe and eventually himself.
* RedBaron: He's referred to as Deathfist just as much as he is Stan Lee.
* ShoutOut: Guy's name is Creator/StanLee!
* WorldsBestWarrior: Stan has mastered martial arts to the point he can beat almost anyone (including Judge Dredd the first time around) without too much difficulty and is hailed as the strongest martial artist to ever come out of the Radlands.
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[[folder:Sabbat the Necromagus]]
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A necromancer from the future who creates the ZombieApocalypse during "Judgment Day".
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* AndIMustScream: Dredd sticks his head on the lodestone and he eventually loses his mind.
* CorruptedCharacterCopy: His backstory paints him as one to Walter from ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK'' -- if Walter ever got tired of Dennis' menacing and retaliated in the worst possible way.
* CompleteImmortality: He literally cannot die due to his magic power as a Necromagus sustaining him for eternity.
* DisproportionateRetribution: When his classmate Den bullied him, Sabbat (known as "Soppi Walters" back then) murdered Den, resurrected his corpse, and made the UndeadChild suffer for decades as his body continued to decay, with Den's mind still intact through the whole process.
* EvilSorcerer: He's an omnicidal lunatic with a thing for the dead.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Dredd plants his head on top of his own lodestone after he survives decapitation. Sabbat will remain there, helpless for all time. As Dredd put it "The sentence is life. No remission".]]
* LaughablyEvil: He creates a bunch of undead soldiers who perform a synchronized dance number while they're slaughtering people.
* LosingYourHead: He shrugs off being decapitated and sprouts tentacles from his disembodied head.
* TheManBehindTheMonsters: The zombie horde is controlled by this human-looking necromancer, giving Dredd a clear target to take out the KeystoneArmy.
* MindOverMatter: He threatens to drive a chainsaw into someone's skull by levitating it.
* MultiversalConqueror: He becomes worse in the "Judgment Days" WhatIf. Banishing Sabbat to another universe with the Sov Apocalypse Warp technology allows him to infect every fictional universe within ''2000 AD'' with his zombie hordes.
* {{Necromancer}}: He's a ''really'' powerful one, as he can resurrect and animate the dead on a global scale by tapping into a planet's spiritual energy.
* NotQuiteDead: Dredd tries to take him out by decapitating him with a katana, but it turns out Sabbat can shrug off an injury like that since he's already dead. He quickly sprouts tentacles from his neck and resumes the fight.
* OmnicidalManiac: He orders his zombies to kill the Earth so he can harvest the corpses and expand his army further. He's already done this on an alien world in the future of ComicBook/StrontiumDog, which led to TheFederation nuking the planet to keep him from invading the rest of the galaxy. Sabbat fled into the past.
* OurLichesAreDifferent: It's eventually revealed in his NotQuiteDead moment that his body died a long time ago; he only keeps it around for appearance's sake.
* TakeOverTheWorld: His end goal is to use his undead army to take over the galaxy.
* TomTheDarkLord: His birth name is Soppi Walters. Definitely a NonIndicativeName for an OmnicidalManiac.
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[[folder:President Booth]]
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Robert L. Booth was the last elected President of the United States before Justice Department took over. He was a psychotic imperialist who unleashed the Atomic War of 2070.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: He murdered his way to the Presidency because he saw he wasn't going to win the election, then he murders the assassins would helped him do it, ''then'' he went to war with pretty much the entire ''planet'', and '''then''' he kicks of a nuclear war that results in the post-apocalyptic aftermath the world of ''Judge Dredd'' takes place in. Decades later he returns with an army of mutants to take power back for himself, but even ''they'' eventually turn on him and kill him off for good. He's probably considered the greatest monster in human history by this point if he wasn't already.
* TheAtoner: Enforced and Subverted. Dredd sentences him to a lifetime of farm work in the Cursed Earth. Instead, he spends the next three decades building a mutant army to try and take back America.
* BestServedCold: His plans for revenge take around thirty years to come to fruition. During that time, he builds the New Mutant Army in the Cursed Earth.
* EvilOldFolks: Even as an old man in the Cursed Earth, he still tries to take back power with a mutant army.
* HumanPopsicle: The Justice Department can't bring themselves to execute the last President of the United States, so they sentence him to 100 years suspended animation instead.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He's finally killed off when his mutants turn on him.
* GreaterScopeVillain: ''He'' is the reason the Earth is a radioactive wasteland in the first place, and if it wasn't for his actions neither the mutants nor the Mega Cities nor the Judges themselves would even ''exist''.
* ManipulativeBastard: Booth rigs the Presidential Election when it looks like he will lose and assassinates not only a potential whistleblower, but also the guys he had assassinate him. After Dredd resentences him to a lifetime of labour in the Cursed Earth, he riles the mutants into forming an army and attempts to take back America.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: At various points in the comic's run, he's been used as an {{expy}} of Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and, most recently, Donald Trump.
* PresidentEvil: He stole the election, then had his associate who tried to warn the Justice Department murdered. He invades the rest of the world for their resources, leading to a nuclear war that kills hundreds of millions and turns much of the U.S. and other countries into an uninhabitable wasteland. He then managed to top himself; when his supplies of artificial blood ran dry, his life-support robots began murdering innocent people in order to preserve his unworthy life. After Dredd stopped this by waking him up and assigning him to life at hard labor, he escaped and assembled a mutant army to try and conquer America to set himself up as a supreme dictator once again.
* RedBaron: Before the war, the people nicknamed him "Smooth Booth". After, he's "Bad Bob".
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The mutant army he raised ends up killing him when Dredd uses him as a human shield.
* TwentyFifthAmendment: He served as Vice-President under Harvisson and took office as President upon Harvisson's death.
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[[folder:Nate Slaughterhouse]]
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A cybernetically-enhanced former soldier of the Space Corps who becomes a vigilante after he loses his wife and son to criminals.
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* AntiVillain: He's a Space Corps veteran who comes to the Big Meg after he and his wife both sign off and try to integrate themselves into society. Then he loses his family and becomes a VigilanteMan.
* BadassLongcoat: Wears one when he starts searching the streets for his missing wife in the cold and when he first becomes a VigilanteMan, most likely to conceal the fact that he's a {{Cyborg}}.
* {{Cyborg}}: As a mandroid, he received top-of-the-line military cybernetic enhancements to replace most of his missing body after it was destroyed in combat.
* HumongousMecha: In addition to being a {{Cyborg}} SuperSoldier, he's also a skilled mech pilot. He gets a reconditioned surplus mech from a friend, which he uses to complete his RoaringRampageOfRevenge on Schultz.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Nate Slaughterhouse is an appropriate name for a mandroid SuperSoldier.
* OneManArmy: In his second suit, he wipes out an entire criminal base in the Canadian territories. Not even an army of well-trained Judges are enough to stop him.
* RocketPunch: One of his abilities is to be able to launch his fist at an enemy and retract it with an attached cable. [[spoiler: He uses it to kill the crime boss who had his son murdered and his wife kidnapped and mindwiped.]]
* SuperSoldier: His mostly cybernetic body makes him nearly unstoppable even as an ex-soldier (though the parts where going to be replaced with standard prostheses eventually). Later, after Nate escapes from prison [[WeCanRebuildHim he's upgraded with an even stronger suit]].
* VigilanteMan: After losing his loved ones he goes on a one-man crusade to eliminate the criminals of Mega-City One.
* WeCanRebuildHim: He is rebuilt as a {{Cyborg}} after losing most of his body in combat. His organic body is little more than a head.
* WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody: He managed the feat of escaping from a prison hospital with no legs or arms.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: He was a decent enough man before his killing spree, but tragedy broke him completely.
* YouKilledMyFather: Inverted. The death of his son is what finally sets him off on his RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
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[[folder:Owen Krysler/ The Mutant]]
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An alleged messiah who had been prophesized by the Psi Corps that he would save Mega-City One from a disaster in 2120 in his role as the Judge Child. He is kidnapped by the Angel gang, only for Dredd to eventually discover that Krysler is evil, and has staged the whole kidnapping simply to entertain himself. Dredd abandons him in space, only for Krysler to set his sights on Earth to seek revenge on Dredd for his abandonment, which leads to his execution. In a Bad Future, Krysler is cloned by his retainer and accidentally reborn as the hideous Mutant, who conquers Earth and kills Dredd.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: When Dredd realizes his evil and abandons him on an alien planet, he begs to be taken back to Earth, to no avail. Happens again when Grubwilder throws him out of his castle to face the retaliation from the Justice Department following the failure of his revenge plot against Dredd. Again, begging does nothing, and Owen Krysler is bombed to ash.
* BadFuture: In a possible future, Krysler is cloned and reborn as the hideous Mutant with amplified psychic powers, who conquers Earth, destroys Mega-City One, turns most of its inhabitants into vampires or monsters, and kills Dredd. Dredd and Anderson manage to stop him by going back to the past and destroying him before he becomes a threat, averting the disaster and making sure he was KilledOffForReal.
* BirthmarkOfDestiny: According to the dying Psi-Division pre-cog, the eagle-shaped birthmark on Krysler's forehead marked him as the future Chief Judge who is destined to save Mega-City One from a disaster. His prediction was wrong. Krysler was destined to be the disaster that would destroy Mega-City One.
* CameBackWrong: The cloning process hideously mutated Krysler, turning him into an even worse monster than he was before.
* TheChessmaster: Skilled at manipulating others into doing his bidding without even realizing it, he doesn't even need to use his telepathy most of the time.
* ClippedWingAngel: When January 5th, 2120 came around in the main timeline, a minor time paradox caused a much weaker version of The Mutant to appear, in an attempt at bringing about the foretold apocalypse. Unlike the original, it's powers were little more than illusions, limited to one area, and Anderson was able to hold it back by herself. It faded from existance when January 5th turned to the 6th.
* DyingCurse: Dredd manages to arrive just in the nick of time as the cloning process is complete, killing The Mutant before it's fully formed. As it lies in a pitiful heap on the floor, it curses Dredd with it's first and last breath.
* EnfantTerrible: A sadistic little boy with very potent psychic powers.
* ExactWords: The prophecy stated that Krysler being made ruler of Mega-City One would avert a disaster. That disaster was Krysler HIMSELF, who through being denied the right to rule would find himself turned into The Mutant, who would go on to destroy the city in 2120.
* PsychicPowers: Possesses very potent telepathic and precognitive mental abilities. These are amplified even more after his transformation into the Mutant, making him virtually unstoppable.
* YourHeadAsplode: In the BadFuture, his sheer power is enough to splatter the brains of the entire Psi-Division, including Anderson (who'd been promoted to it's head in this timeline) as soon as he arrives on Earth.
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[[folder: Randolph "Whitey" Whitely]]
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The first villain to be depicted in the strip, he kills Judge Alvin, causing Dredd to be sent after him. Returning for the strip's tenth anniversary, Dredd faces off against him again.
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* BackForTheDead: Escapes from Devil's Island ten years into his life sentence only for Dredd to kill him with his badge.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Ten years after he was sentenced to life on Devil's Island, he escapes taking hostages and demands Dredd. After all the events of the decade that had passed since, Dredd has no recollection of him, even directly asking "Who the hell is Whitey?"
* CopKiller: He shoots and kills Judge Alvin as he patrols past the Empire State building.
* SiblingsInCrime: His brother tries to bust him out of Devil's Island, destroying the World Trade Centre in the process.
* StarterVillain: He's the very first villain we see Dredd take on.
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[[folder: The Judda]]
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A cult of cloning fanatics led by a Judge named Morton Judd, one of the original Council Of Five in the days prior to the Atomic Wars. Judd wanted to replace the unruly citizens of Mega-City One with manufactured clones bred to be docile and law abiding, but was soundly opposed by the rest of the council, most notably the legendary Judge Solomon and Judge Fargo, Dredd's clone "father". After a failed coup attempt, Judd and his followers disappeared, only to resurface decades later in the "Oz" storyline, staging yet another attempt at taking over Mega-City One by assassinating and replacing key Judges with his clones. From their headquarters in the Australian outback, The Judda had spent the past 40 years amassing an army of clone followers, noteably several of them made from Fargo's genetic material. Although Judd and the majority of the Judda were wiped out by Dredd, their influence would have far-reaching consequences...

* AlternateHistory: There is an alternate timeline, ''Dimension Parralell 717'', where Judd was never exiled, and the world is ruled by his Justice Lords, who execute anyone who even THINKS of committing a crime.
* BaldOfEvil: Judd himself is the villain of the "Oz" arc and is completely hairless. It's doubtful he ever did have hair, as even during "Origins", he never had hair and was described by Judge Solomon as "morally bankrupt".
* BreedingCult: While not "breeding" in the traditional sense, the Judda's ultimate goal is this.
* CloneArmy: All the Judda, with the exception of Judd himself, are clones, made from genetic material stolen when Judd originally fled Mega-City One.
* TheRemnant: Aside from Judge Kraken, two surviving Judda resurfaces in the radio drama "Jihad", as the heads of a fanatical Judda cult.
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[[folder:Armon Gill]]
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A former Space Corps soldier who is manipulated into committing murders of citizens with strong anti-judicial opinions. He believes that his handler is the Chief Judge herself.
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* {{Determinator}}: He will stop at nothing to do his job. Escaping from a Cursed Earth workfarm which is impossible for any normal human is just one of his many feats.
* FlawedPrototype: While his genetic modification hasn't left him with any physical defects, it has made him irrational and violent, which is what gets him drummed out of the Space Corps in the first place.
* KillAndReplace: He offs a preacher in order to assume his identity and use his home as a base of operations. After escaping from a Cursed Earth workfarm, he kills a Texas Ranger who attempts to claim the bounty on his head and returns to the Big Meg using the Ranger's identity.
* MadeOfIron: Thanks to his cockroach genes, he is able to shrug off multiple gunshots at point blank range.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: He is intensely loyal to the Big Meg and believes that what he is doing is for the good of the city.
* RedBaron: He is known as The Justice Killer and The Chief Judge's Man, the latter of which is the title of his story arc.
* SuperSoldier: Genetically modified with leopard and cockroach DNA, he is faster and tougher than a normal human, but it's left him unstable.
* UnwittingPawn: [=DeKlerk=] impersonates the Chief Judge and manipulates him in order to silence anti-judicial activists.
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[[folder: Marlon "Chopper" Shakespeare]]
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When introduced, Marlon is an ordinary juve, trying to avoid going insane in the mindless ennui of Mega-City One. Rather than taking up a bizarre hobby like his parents[[note]]his father tries to master the art of headbutting raw eggs into buckets, his mother washes dishes incessantly[[/note]], he took up an illegal hobby: scrawling. Making a name for himself as the second-best scrawler in the city, he got into a public rivalry with the best; the mysterious Phantom Scrawler. This led to a climatic showdown where the latter was revealed as a rogue painting droid, which committed suicide, whilst Marlon himself was captured by the Judges. When released, he took up {{skysurfing}}, but began to pursue the illegal field of stunts for that hobby, ultimately getting invited to the illegal Supersurf 7 competition. He won, but was captured again. When Supersurf 10 was made legal in Oz, public outcry facilitated his escaping from prison and fleeing overland to Oz on his skyboard, where he competed in the competition and almost won, only to then flee into the Radback to escape being imprisoned a third time. He returned to America for the Supersurf 11 in Mega-City Two, and was one of the handful to survive the death-trap course, collapsing with severe injuries mere feet away from the finish line, though he did blow up the crazed sponsor of the event before hand. He competed for the last time in Supersurf 13, and then retired, fleeing once more to Oz to wed his long-suffering girlfriend.
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* ActionSurvivor: He's just an ordinary cit trying to survive in a CrapsackWorld. He's not hugely combat capable, but is excellent on a board and is very capable at evading the judges in an aerial pursuit.
* AntiVillain: He's just an ordinary citizen who is bored and has no prospects.
* CallingCard: His trademark as a "scrawler" is to leave a smiley face on any surface he defaces.
* DisneyDeath: Gets shot to death in "Song Of The Surfer", thanks to Supersurf 11 being set up as a BloodSport with snipers and other lethal obstacles strewn around the course. Returns alive and well in the next story due to a change in creative teams.
* {{Skysurfing}}: Takes up skysurfing as a hobby after he's released from his time for scrawling, and discovers that he has a talent for it. Finds fame after winning Supersurf 7, though never fully captures those GloryDays in later stories.
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[[folder: Nero Narcos]]
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The head of the Frendz crime syndicate, Narcos instigated the Second Robot War in order to take over Mega-City One.
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* BecauseItAmusedMe: Narcos calls his takeover of the city "a game" and claims he did it mainly because he was "bored." Dredd thinks it to be complete bollocks.
* BrainInAJar: His original body was too damaged to salvage, so in his first few appearances, he was one of these, placed below a large painting of his former self.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: After his Second Robot War succeeds, he quickly discovers that ruling Mega-City One is very different and much harder than running a crime syndicate. Without any Judges, he can't effectively control the unruly civilian population, who end up doing more damage to his robot forces than the remaining law enforcement does. He also has no real support base, meaning that once his robot army is decimated by Dredd, he has no backup or replacements.
* FullConversionCyborg: As his original body was injured beyond repair, his brain was extracted and placed into a mechanical bodysuit that gives him all the benefits of being human. He can even feel pleasure.
* GagPenis: His sophisticated robot body has an extendable one. According to him, it's "a man thing".
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Narcos gets shot by at least four Justice Department tanks, four on-foot Judges, and one set of Lawmaster bike cannons. By the time the smoke clears, there's nothing left but a crater and a few chunks of scorched metal.
* VictoryIsBoring: Just before his death, he admits this to Dredd, stating that he's done more or less everything a person can, and taking over the city was the biggest challenge he could think of.
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[[folder: Satanus]]
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A massive ''T. rex'' originally created for a wildlife park featuring cloned dinosaurs, who survived the Atomic War and became one of the biggest dangers in the Cursed Earth.
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* AnimalNemesis: While Dredd has had plenty of non-human enemies, Satanus is the only one who is an animal in the traditional sense of the word.
* BackFromTheDead: A sample of Satanus blood was brought back for study, the remnants of which was eventually used by the Cult of Satanus to bring him back to life, forcing Dredd to battle the monster once again.
* CanonWelding: His mother was Old One-Eye, the antagonist of ''ComicBook/{{Flesh}}''
* ItCanThink: While never outright stated, it's heavily implied that Satanus is atleast partially sentient, and even remembers parts of his original life in prehistoric times.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: His name is well-earned.
* OffingTheOffspring: He was originally killed by his own mother, Old One Eye, before being revived through cloning.
* PredatorsAreMean: A vicious, sadistic monster who delights in killing humans, and not just for food.
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[[folder: Total War]]

Years after the failed democracy referendum and the collapse of the Democracy Now movement, splinters of the original group joined together as a loose collection of extremist cells, having decided to use violence to force change under the name "Total War".
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* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Rather than accepting that the majority of Mega-City One isn't interested in a return to democracy (not to mention ignoring that certain democratic reforms ''had'' been instituted on the civilian level), Total War is willing to resort to mass murder to get rid of the Judges.
* MartyrdomCulture: Total War's members are more than willing to die for their beliefs, with their creed explicitly calling on them to "sell [their] life dearly" if cornered.
* MoralEventHorizon: They'd arguably already crossed it once they started using terror tactics and suicide bombings, but ''nuking'' a sports arena during a Boing championship, resulting in at least 30.000 direct deaths and god knows how many other from radiation and collateral damage, catapulted them right across it. Two more nukes are set off before they're finally stopped.
* SpreeKiller: Most Total War terrorists are this, killing large groups of people in multiple different locations before being gunned down by responding Judges or Citi-Def.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Much of the group consists of what Dredd calls "true believers", people who genuinely believe in the cause and are willing to do anything to see it happen. The ones we see have been personally victimized by the Judge system and have resorted to violence when peaceful methods for change amounted to nothing.
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: Part of their creed is that if you aren't actively working with them, you're complicit in keeping the Judge system running and therefore deserve to be killed.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: They certainly consider themselves freedom fighters, and civilian casualties are acceptable collateral damage in the fight for freedom.

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[[folder:The P Street Posse]]

A vicious and brutal street gang that plagued the urban sprawl that would one day become Mega-City One during the 2020's. In 2026, the Posse led an army of gang members in an assault on the White House, an event that would have massive ramifications for the entire world.
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* KarmaHoudini: The fact that ''every single member'' got off scott free due to witness and voter intimidation, along with corruption in the courts, certainly qualifies them for this trope. That said...
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: The gangs actions, not to mention them escaping any sort of punishment, gave Eustace Fargo all the support he needed for his Judge initiative. In 2031, the first Judges took to the streets, and began to systematically crushing the Posse and their allies, who could no longer hide behind an impotent justice system.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Their attack on the White House was the final straw that led to the suspension of due process and the rise of the Judges, crippling street crime in the U.S.
* PosthumousCharacter: They only appear on archival recordings in ''Origin'', as most of them were either wiped out by the Judges, or died in the Atomic War. Any survivors would have long since died of old age.
* VillainTeamUp: Organized an army made up of many other East Coast street gangs for the Washington attack.

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[[folder:Don Uggie Apelino]]

An intelligent chimpanzee who's adapted the mannerisms of a typical mob boss, and runs his own crime family consisting entirerly of criminal apes.
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* CementShoes: One of Apelinos favorite methods for disposing of his enemies. The alternate universe version who was part of Cal's LegionOfDoom managed to do this to the Dredd of his own universe.
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: The radiation released during the Apocalypse War destroyed the higher brain functions of Apelino and his men, reducing them to sub-human beasts that Dredd easily slaughtered.
* ImproperlyPlacedFirearms: He and his men insist on using tommy guns, tying into their whole "20th century mobster" persona. Dredd himself remarks that he didn't know anyone still used them.
* UpliftedAnimal: Apelino, and other intelligent apes like him, are the descendants of zoo animals who were given human-level intelligence, to the point that some of them are considered citizens rather than animals.

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[[folder:Fairly Hyperman]]
Stop me if you've heard this one; [[Franchise/{{Superman}} the last survivor of his home planet, arriving on Earth where he uses his amazing superpowers to battle evil...]] except that's where the similarities end. Fairy Hyperman is a smug and condescending humanoid alien who tries to set himself up as the resident superhero of Mega-City One, making an enemy of the Judges in the process.
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* DestructiveSavior: He's very irresponsible about using his powers, and outright mutilates or murders several criminals, which he just shrugs off. When he grabs a fleeing car, it sends the perps inside flying out through the windshield and splatters them on a building. Fairly Hyperman just remarks "you win some, you lose some".
* {{Expy}}: Of Franchise/{{Superman}}. His design is also reminiscent of ''ComicBook/MiracleMan'', with the colours inverted.
* FlyingBrick: Like the hero he's a parody of, he's won the SuperpowerLottery; flight, strength, invulnerability, etc.
* InsistentTerminology: Always refers to his powers as "fairly", like Fairly Cold Breath, Fairly Hot Vision, etc.
* KryptoniteFactor: The radioactive remains of his home planet Kapok, or Green Kapoknite, which Dredd finally shoots him with. [[ProperlyParanoid Turns out the Justice Department have been saving fragments of destroyed planets found in space, just in case one of these flying jackasses decide to make a nuisance of themselves.]]
* ShootingSuperman: Many criminals and Judges try this, to no avail, as Fairly Hyperman is invulnerable. It finally works when Dredd is given bullets made from Green Kapoknite.
* SmugSuper: And ''how!'' He basically tells the Judges they're only fit to work as crossing guards, and condescendingly calls Dredd "little buddy" whenever they meet.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Unsurprisingly, he's a huge hit with the people of Mega-City One, even though he doesn't even qualify for HeroAntagonist, considering the amount of collateral damage he causes.

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!Robots

[[folder: Call-Me-Kenneth]]
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A former construction robot who led an uprising against Mega-City One as revenge for humans mistreatment of robots.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: If you're going to have robot slaves you really should not give them the capacity to feel emotions.
* TheBadGuyWins: An alternate version of Call-Me-Kenneth appears during ''Helter-Skelter'', originating from a universe where the robot uprising was successful and led to a robot dictatorship in Mega-City One.
* CranialProcessingUnit: Averted. Call-Me-Kenneth's "brain" was actually located in his armored chest, with Dredd's destruction of his head not slowing him down much.
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Call-Me-Kenneths body was displayed like a religious symbol by Walters robot cult, many years after The Robot War.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Despite allegedly fighting to liberate robots, Kenneth oppresses and destroys any robot who aren't slavishly devoted to him.
* InsultBackfire: When Dredd compares him to Hitler, Kenneth responds "I'm a big fan of Adolf Hitler."
* VillainHasAPoint: His methods were extreme, but Kenneth raised a very valid point, the humans ARE abusive and cruel to robots.
* StarterVillain: The main villain of the comics very first real story arc.
* YourHeadAsplode: Dredd destroyed the head on Kenneth's original body by shooting it, which did little to stop him, since Kenneth's "brain" is stored in his armored chest.
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[[folder:Mechanismo]]
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A group of robot judges who were designed on the order of Chief Judge [=McGruder=] to fill the manpower shortage after the Necropolis and Judgment Day disasters.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: They were designed to police the city, but programming flaws caused them to abuse their power and even kill civilians. The Mark 8 variant actually has the opposite problem; They're considered too lenient in their judgement and one of them even locks himself in with a pair of citizens protesting their imminent eviction from their apartment.
* TheDeterminator: When Number 5 is reactivated, it hides out in the sewers for months and continues on its rampage even after suffering crippling damage. The engineer responsible for them used Dredd's mind as a base model, which proved a ''major'' mistake in hindsight.
* FlawedPrototype: The Mark I and Mark II variants had an issue that caused them to recognise innocent citizens as perps and refuse orders to stand down from human judges, with fatal results. A few of the initial field tests on the Mark 8 variant showed that they were too lenient, with one unit developing Lima Syndrome, though this seems to have been ironed out.
* HangingJudge: Some of them go on killing sprees in order to judge the people.
* HesBack: While they were always kept as reserve units, used in times of emergency requiring superior firepower and damage absorption, they weren't given judicial powers again until the Mark 8 units are put into service. For the same reasons the original models were brought in (shortage of judges), Dredd is ordered to give a Mark 8 named Harvey a street assessment. Much like with Kraken, despite performing excellently, Dredd fails Harvey. Hershey overrules him and Dredd is horrified to find that Harvey has been given a human rookie to assess.
* JumpingOnAGrenade: Harvey lets himself blown up by a MadBomber in an anti-robot rally, saving many lives and finally winning the hearts of the populace at large. [[spoiler:Turns out to have been a HeroicSuicide: the bomber was bluffing, but Harvey realized the ramifications of his own death and blew himself up instead.]]
* RobotNames: The Mark 1s are all given number designations, with Number 5 being the most prominent example. The Mark 8s, on the other hand, are given human first names so the general public can feel more at ease with them.
* ShoutOut: The most troublesome of the robots happens to be [[Film/ShortCircuit Number 5]].
* TautologicalTemplar: Number 5 believes it is still carrying out the law as it continues its killing spree unabated, but has reduced this to what it personally considers legal (which is fairly little).
* TragicVillain: They don't intend malice. The Mechanismo robots were programmed to be the perfect judges, but there was simply a snag in the AI design. After suffering damage, the striations on Number 5's head even make it look like he has a tear under his eye.
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[[folder:Walter The Wobot]]
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Dredd's robot servant in the early stories. He later tries to start his own robot rebellion and is eventually sent to care for the elderly Mrs. Gunderson.
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* TheDogBitesBack: Eventually gets sick of Dredd's abuse and ungratefulness and tries to restart the robot rebellion as Call-Me-Walter.
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Speaks like this as the result of a defect. Fear and stress tends to bring it on more.
* HappinessInSlavery: He's sickeningly loyal to Dredd, much to the Judge's chagrin. Even when he's given the same rights as humans, he still goes back to being Dredd's servant by choice.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: The trauma of all Dredd's adventures eventually leads him to try and start a robot rebellion of his own. He is imprisoned and later reprogrammed to be given to Mrs. Gunderson.
* HeroWorshipper: He considers Dredd to be the bravest man who ever lived.
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!Other characters

[[folder:Vienna Dredd/Pasternak]]
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Born Vienna Dredd, she is the daughter of Rico Dredd, fathered by him 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.
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* TheBusCameBack: 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.
* InTheBlood: During the "Blood Trails" arc, she saves Dredd from the BigBad by [[BoomHeadshot dispatching Pasha]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard 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.
* MoralityPet: She is one of the few people who can bring out the [[HiddenHeartOfGold soft side of Dredd]]. He cares about her deeply and [[PapaWolf 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.
* MsFanservice: She plays this role on [[ShowWithinAShow the sitcom she stars in]], where she plays babysitter to a family of illegal (literal) aliens and gets naked [[MaleGaze to distract the authorities]].
* MyGreatestFailure: Dredd feels enormously guilty over having left her an orphan, despite having no real choice in the matter.
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[[folder: Max Normal]]
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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.
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* TheAce: 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', [[ImprobableSportsSkills a trick shot in which the player pots every ball on the table with only shot]].
* CulturalRebel: He's very aware he creeps others out with how he acts and dresses; that's the point.
* DistressedDude: Was held hostage by criminals to get back at Dredd at one point.
* EvilMentor: Had one in Mo Bland, a fellow SharpDressedMan 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.
* FutureSlang: In contrast to his elegant fashion sense, Max speaks in a bizarre word soup of futuristic and [[JiveTurkey 60s slang,]] even worse than what the regular citizens do.
* TheInformant: 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.
* ProperlyParanoid: 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.
* RhymesOnADime: Often speaks like this. Picked it up from his mentor, Mo Bland.
* SharpDressedMan: Max's entire schtick - he's never seen without his signature three-piece suit, bowler hat, and umbrella.
* SignatureHeadgear: Capping the above is his iconic bowler hat.
* TechnicalPacifist: 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.
* WineIsClassy: Max only drinks champagne. Well, it's actually "'Shampagne' (real champagne is illegal like all alcohol) but the intent is the same.
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[[folder: Dolman]]
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A Dredd clone who, after much deliberation, decides to resign from the Academy of Law and join the Space Corps instead.
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* TheBusCameBack: He's shipped off to the colonies to join the Space Corps, but returns to the city - initially for night courses and then after Chaos Day to help the city.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: The "Noncom" from ''Day of Chaos: Fallout'' is revealed to be Dolman halfway through the story featuring him.
* DeskJockey: His initial job in the Corps is as an advisor who fills in the paperwork after the action.
* TheFaceless: Unusually for a Dredd clone, Dolman's face is repeatedly shown. However, it's unlikely to be an accurate representation of Dredd's looks, as Dolman has made changes to it via MagicPlasticSurgery "[for] his own safety."
* ImplausibleDeniability: Dolman's response to being found standing over three insensate Space Corps marines in the gymnasium (who had just tried to beat Dolman up over a disagreement) is a deadpan claim that he doesn't know a thing about it.
--> '''Space Corps General''': ''(Looking at the insensate marines and battered Dolman)'' What the Drokk happened here?
--> '''Dolman''': Beats the hell outta me, General. [[IronicEcho Nobody saw nothin']].
* ImprobableAimingSkills: One of the first clues to his identity as "Noncom" is that he's actually good with a gun. One of the marines with him is shocked, asking him where he learned to shoot. Dredd describes him as the best sniper he knows, which is high praise given Dredd's own ability with a firearm.
* IronicEcho: During the gymnasium brawl between Dolman and three Space Corps marines, one of the marines' accomplices prevents a doctor calling the Judges, saying "No-one saw nothin', got it?" After Dolman endures their beating and takes them down instead, he responds to his commander's question on what the hell happened with "Nobody saw nothin'."
* MagicPlasticSurgery: He's made changes to his appearance for, quote, "his own safety", something which Vienna considers absurd, as nobody knows what Dredd looks like anyway.
* RefusalOfTheCall: He knows that he was born to be a judge and has a natural aptitude for it. Nonetheless, he turns away from the life of a judge, reasoning that he's "not a machine".
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: During ''Chaos Day: Fallout'', his superior officer orders a rebel-held block to be atomised by an airstrike (with Dredd still in it) after its defences inflict heavy casualties on the Space Corps' forces. Dolman replies by shooting one of her marines in the leg to ensure they won't be able to escape before the strike, forcing her to call it off as he goes to rescue Dredd.
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[[folder: Mrs. Gunderson]]
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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.
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* BlindMistake: 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.
* CloudCuckoolander: 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.
* HauntedHouseHistorian: 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.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: She's so innocent and kind that even ''[[OmnicidalManiac Judge drokking Death]]'' won't kill her. Not immediately, anyway.
* PetTheDog: 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 [[WeirdnessMagnet 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 [[BerserkButton earn you a daystick to the jaws]] from Dredd.
* ScatterbrainedSenior: Mostly due to her poor eyesight and hearing, she doesn't really have much of a clue about what's going on.
* WeirdnessMagnet: 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 [[HilarityEnsues weird and hilarious things to ensue]].
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[[folder: Henry Dubble]]

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A security guard for the [[MuseumOfTheStrangeAndUnusual Black Museum]], Henry Dubble made the mistake of selling multiple artefacts from there to a rich, eccentric collector -- who also happened to be a SerialKiller with a taste for turning his victims into freeze-dried, reanimated corpses. After being double-crossed and murdered during a sting operation the reanimated Dubble was kept around as a LivingMuseumExhibit, prowling the corridors and telling the tales of the Museum's many artefacts.
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* BlackComedy: Dubble frequently provides this for the ''Tales From the Black Museum'' strips, often concluding the story with a grimly funny joke.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Dubble often addresses the reader directly, usually to underscore the disturbing punchline of a tale or provide some macabre humour.
* FramingDevice: A living (well, kind of) one of these. The Black Museum strips are all framed as him speaking with an unnamed visitor about the Museum's exhibits, with Dubble providing a StoryWithinAStory as to how the item came to be exhibited there.
* LivingMuseumExhibit: He serves as one to the Black Museum during the daytime, standing still on a podium while his replacement lectures visitors on Dubble's tale and unfortunate end. At night, he walks the corridors, telling an unnamed visitor the tales of other exhibits.
* TheStoryteller: He serves as one for the ''Tales From the Black Museum'' strips, as the one who tells the tales about the Museum's exhibits to the unnamed protagonist. Dubble seems to consider himself one as well.
* TheUndead: Dubble is essentially a freeze-dried corpse with his faculties still intact.
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[[folder: Harry Heston]]
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A former Jimp (a slang for Judge impersonators) inspired by reading Dredd's comportment to try and clean up the slum he lived in as a vigilante. Although he helped Dredd on a case Dredd still followed the law and arrested him only to run into Harry again when perps broke out of the Cursed Earth work farm he was incarcerated at. After Harry captured the perps (and was badly injured) Dredd is impressed enough to get Harry a position as Justice Department agent. Undercover on ape island he helps Dredd again when the latter has to thwart a slaving and ransom plan disguised as a revolution and for this he is finally allowed to fulfill his dream when he is rewarded by being made an auxiliary Judge. Oh and did we mention he's an ape?
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* TheApprentice: Subverted at first as while Harry would very much like to learn from Dredd, Dredd still sees him as just another perp. More recently Dredd seems to have accepted he's stuck with Harry and is happy to give him advice from time to time.
* AscendedFanfic: The character himself was created by a fan and added to the comic proper after said fan passed away.
* BecomingTheMask: Starts off as a Jimp, by his last appearance has become a Justice Department auxiliary which is about as close as he can get to being a full Judge without an academy education.
* ButIReadABookAboutIt: Harry learned almost everything he knows either on the streets or from reading The Comportment (the standard Judging handbook, written by old stony face himself).
* CallingYourAttacks: Does this all time much like his inspiration, however since Harry does not have access to a voice activated Lawgiver, Dredd raises a eyebrow at this. Harry isn't sure where he got the tendency from.
* CainAndAbel: The Abel to Serpico's Cain, Harry might be devoted to the law but his brother is dedicated to being the worlds greatest criminal. Needless to say they hate each other.
* FireForgedFriends: He's a rare example of a perp doing this with Dredd.
* KillerGorilla: Mild example, Harry might be violent but its criminals he targets. He isn't a mindless killing machine.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Dredd himself, Harry is an absolutely dedicated lawman with no life outside the enforcement of the law, pretty much no ego, and is incredibly good at what he does. He even has an evil brother much like the first Rico Dredd. Also a bit of LargeHam as Dredd was in his early years.
* TradingBarsForStripes: Does this at the end of his second appearance when Dredd persuades Hershey to give him a job and a way out of the Isocubes as a reward. Unlike some examples Harry is very happy to do this and is next seen as a Justice Department agent.
* UpliftedAnimal: Like all Apes in MC-1 Harry is this, he's at least as smart as a human and much stronger.
* SuperStrength: Comes from being a very large Gorilla.
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[[folder: "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...
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: 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.
* FatSlob: 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 NiceGuy.
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!1995 Film
[[folder:Cast]]
* Creator/SylvesterStallone as Judge Joseph Dredd
* Creator/ArmandAssante as Rico
* Creator/DianeLane as Judge Hershey
* Creator/RobSchneider as Fergie
* Creator/JürgenProchnow as Judge Griffin
* Creator/MaxVonSydow as Chief Justice Fargo
* Creator/JoannaMiles as Judge [=McGruder=]
* Creator/JoanChen as Dr. Ilsa Hayden
* Creator/BalthazarGetty as Cadet Nathan Olmeyer
* Creator/IanDury as Geiger
* Creator/MitchellRyan as Vartis Hammond
* Creator/BradleyLavelle as Chief Judge Hunter
* Creator/ScottWilson as Pa Angel
* Creator/ChristopherAdamson as Mean Machine Angel
* Creator/EwenBremner as Junior Angel
* Creator/PhilSmeeton as Link Angel
* Creator/MauriceRoëves as Warden Miller
* Creator/JamesRemar as the Block Warlord
* Creator/PatStarr as Lily Hammond
* Creator/LexDaniel as rookie Judge Brisco
* Creator/AngusMacInnes as Judge Silver
* Creator/PeterMarinker as Judge Esposito
* Creator/MarkMoraghan as Judge Monroe
* Creator/LouiseDelamere as Judge Meeker
* Creator/AlSapienza as Judge Gellar
* Creator/AdrienneBarbeau provides the voice of the Hall of Justice Central Computer
* Creator/JamesEarlJones provides the narration to the film's opening text crawl
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* {{Determinator}}: Her current pushing for an education programme for citizens has been very unpopular among judges, given very little chance to succeed to - but she is trying.

* ToBeLawfulOrGood: When she realises that the Judge System is doing more harm than good, how they good be diverting the fund to education to make much more of an actual difference - she grapples with whether or not to take this to the press:

* TokenHeroicOrc: Judge Whisper is the only benevolent Dark Judge, especially after he becomes a PlantPerson. This is in large part because [[GreenThumb his power set]] is inherently life-giving. Naturally, the other Dark Judges despise him as a traitor.

* TheChick: Of all the judges, she is probably the most traditionally feminine. Psi judges are more in tune with their emotions to allow greater control of their powers.

* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: He is no longer interested in protecting the interests of the Mega-City and only wants to perpetuate the power of the Judges, openly calling himself a fascist. This inevitably brings him into conflict with Dredd, who views the Judges as NecessarilyEvil.