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* BrainUploading: A former lover of Jack's uses a disposable [[ComicBook/RogueTrooper biochip]] to temporarily implant her personality into Jack to help her commit suicide (the [[IncrediblyLamePun point]] being that she trusted Jack to dispose of her body without getting caught). However, the chip doesn't completely degrade as it's supposed to and Jack is left with some mental trauma, which it takes brain surgery to excise.

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* BrainUploading: A former lover of Jack's uses a disposable [[ComicBook/RogueTrooper biochip]] to temporarily implant her personality into Jack to help her commit suicide (the [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} point]] being that she trusted Jack to dispose of her body without getting caught). However, the chip doesn't completely degrade as it's supposed to and Jack is left with some mental trauma, which it takes brain surgery to excise.
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* LoopholeAbuse: Jack is capable of beating a LieDetector test by mentally rewriting the questions he's asked, so he can technically give an honest answer. For example, if asked if he has recently consumed alcohol, he takes it to mean in it as pure ethanol that is completely unsullied by bourbon goodness. So, when asked if he's been involved with any murder, he is able to answer with "Not that I can recall", which is technically true because the murder in question is technically a suicide only with the victim in question having [[GrandTheftMe hijacked his body]] to do the deed.
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* HasAType: Jack seems to be drawn to women who are or have been judges at some point. Notable examples include Galen [=DeMarco=], Anne Thrope, and SJS Judge Kovacs (who, rather hilariously, is there to assess whether Jack has been indiscreet, while her uniform shows off her figure).
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** Jazzalite is an drug that causes the person injected with it to [[StuffBlowingUp explode]] [[DeathBySex upon contact with semen]]. [[spoiler: Bob, the bartender at the High Dive, out to avenge the death of his wife, injects a number of alien prostitutes with the drug and succeeds in wiping out a number of high ranking members of the local crime Syndicate before being caught. His intention is to assassinate The Boss using this method, but her affair with Colm O'Leary means that "Shite" gets offed instead.]]

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** Jazzalite is an drug that causes the person injected with it to [[StuffBlowingUp explode]] [[DeathBySex [[OutWithABang upon contact with semen]]. [[spoiler: Bob, the bartender at the High Dive, out to avenge the death of his wife, injects a number of alien prostitutes with the drug and succeeds in wiping out a number of high ranking members of the local crime Syndicate before being caught. His intention is to assassinate The Boss using this method, but her affair with Colm O'Leary means that "Shite" gets offed instead.]]



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%%* TheFutureIsNoir* TheFutureIsNoir: While set in 22nd century Mega City One, the strip is at its core a FilmNoir with a HardBoiledDetective protagonist who relays the story with a PrivateEyeMonologue, a DeliberatelyMonochrome art style, and cases that don't always end on a high note.

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* FantasticDrug: Crystal Blue, a hallucinogenic downer [[spoiler: made from Raptaur venom]] that is so powerful that users must take another drug, [=RedStimm=], to shake off its effects. ''Very'' Illegal.
** Though, it also has a use in overcoming [[spoiler: Bachmann's brainwashing effects.]]

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Crystal Blue, a hallucinogenic downer [[spoiler: made from Raptaur venom]] that is so powerful that users must take another drug, [=RedStimm=], to shake off its effects. ''Very'' Illegal.
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Illegal. Though, it also has a use in overcoming [[spoiler: Bachmann's brainwashing effects.]]
** Jazzalite is an drug that causes the person injected with it to [[StuffBlowingUp explode]] [[DeathBySex upon contact with semen]]. [[spoiler: Bob, the bartender at the High Dive, out to avenge the death of his wife, injects a number of alien prostitutes with the drug and succeeds in wiping out a number of high ranking members of the local crime Syndicate before being caught. His intention is to assassinate The Boss using this method, but her affair with Colm O'Leary means that "Shite" gets offed instead.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Jack is into Galen Demarco big time.
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''The Simping Detective'' is a SpinOff from ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'', set in the seedy [[WretchedHive Angeltown]], the most dangerous and crime-ridden sector in [[MegaCity Mega-City-One]]. Its main character, Jack Point, is a [[DeepCoverAgent Wally Squad Judge]] posing as a private investigator. Jack is a [[SmokingIsCool chain smoking]], [[AnythingThatMoves womanising]], [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] with a penchant for [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking dressing as a clown]].

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''The Simping Detective'' is a SpinOff from ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'', set in the seedy [[WretchedHive Angeltown]], the most dangerous and crime-ridden sector in [[MegaCity Mega-City-One]]. Its main character, Jack Point, is a [[DeepCoverAgent Wally Squad Judge]] posing as a private investigator. Jack is a [[SmokingIsCool chain smoking]], [[AnythingThatMoves [[ReallyGetsAround womanising]], [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] with a penchant for [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking dressing as a clown]].
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"Hitting" is typically distinguished from "kicking" in common usage.


* WouldntHitAGirl / WouldHitAGirl: Jack, when he discovers an ex-Psi judge is manipulating animals to attack him, states in a monologue panel that there is no justification for hitting a woman, [[HypocriticalHumor right before kicking her in the face]].

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* WouldntHitAGirl / WouldHitAGirl: Jack, when he discovers an ex-Psi judge is manipulating animals to attack him, states in a monologue panel that there is no justification for hitting a woman, [[HypocriticalHumor [[ExactWords right before kicking her in the face]].
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* InterSpeciesRomance: Most of the Boss's goons are into aliens. Bob, the bartender down at the High Dive, uses this to start eliminating underbosses by injecting alien prostitutes with Jazzalite, a substance which [[DeathBySex violently explodes upon contact with semen]].

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* InterSpeciesRomance: Most of the Boss's goons are into aliens. Bob, the bartender down at the High Dive, uses this to start eliminating underbosses by injecting alien prostitutes with Jazzalite, a substance which [[DeathBySex [[OutWithABang violently explodes upon contact with semen]].

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* AntiHero: Take a wild guess.

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* AntiHero: Take a wild guess.Jack.

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* WretchedHive: Angeltown is considered to be a shithole even by Mega City One standards. Jack notes that it's been deregulated in some ways (the legality of gambling, or at least the enforcement of such). Doesn't help that most of the judges are on the take.


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* WretchedHive: Angeltown is considered to be a shithole even by Mega City One standards. Jack notes that it's been deregulated in some ways (the legality of gambling, or at least the enforcement of such). Doesn't help that most of the judges are on the take.

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* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Take a guess what sector Angeltown is located in.



* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Take a guess what sector Angeltown is located in.

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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: In Jack Point's words, Colm O'leary's nickname "Shite" is "either the natural reaction to coming face-to-face with him or a character description."

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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: In Jack Point's words, Colm O'leary's nickname "Shite" is "either the natural reaction to coming face-to-face with him or a character description."description".
* ObfuscatingStupidity / ObfuscatingInsanity: Pretty much the main reason Jack dresses like a cross between Phillip Marlowe and [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Krusty The Klown]].
* {{Oireland}}: Colm "Shite" O'Leary's dialogue is all written phonetically and filled with stock Oirish phrases. Reading it aloud will produce the most sterotypical Oirish accent going (ie. that non-existent one that Hollywood believes is real). Justified, as in universe, Ireland is a theme park depicting Irish sterotypes.



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* ObfuscatingStupidity / ObfuscatingInsanity: Pretty much the main reason Jack dresses like a cross between Phillip Marlowe and [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Krusty The Klown]].
* {{Oireland}}: Colm "Shite" O'Leary's dialogue is all written phonetically and filled with stock Oirish phrases. Reading it aloud will produce the most sterotypical Oirish accent going (ie. that non-existent one that Hollywood believes is real). Justified, as in universe, Ireland is a theme park depicting Irish sterotypes.

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* HeroesWantRedheads: Jack is into Galen Demarco big time.



* HeroesWantRedheads: Jack is into Galen Demarco big time.
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* CoolPet: Cliq [[spoiler: and later Larf, Cliq's offspring]]. Jack went through some difficulty to get a Raptaur as a pet, as in an early story, he was faced against a pack of them. It was only when he found the remnants of one (Raptaurs leave offspring behind when they die) that he was able to put one to good use.

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