History YMMV / Dredd

* MoralEventHorizon: Ma-Ma crosses it for some in the audience in her ''very first scene'', in which she orders a trio of drug dealers to be [[FlayingAlive skinned alive]] and thrown off a ''very'' high balcony, having been [[CruelAndUnusualDeath dosed up on Slo-Mo beforehand to draw out the pain for as long as possible.]] She crosses it for everyone else when she callously massacres an entire floor of innocent people with gatling cannons just to kill the two protagonist Judges. Which even then, she fails at doing.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/DomhnallGleeson as the Clan Techie. While Gleeson had appeared in small roles in some high-profile films before this one, he had yet to make a name for himself. Combined with his character's bizarre appearance, this means many people didn't recognize him on first viewing. Even the WebVideo/CinemaSins narrator joked about this by calling the character Discount Domhnall Gleeson before correcting himself.

* SignatureScene: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJH-zUYOoc Dredd's speech to the inhabitants of Peach Trees]], particularly his stony delivery of the character's iconic [[CatchPhrase "I am the law".]]

WinBackTheCrowd: Fans of the comic (and non-fans too) hated the Stallone version. While fans of the comic do (grudgingly) admit that the Stallone film did get the over-the-top look of the Mega City One, the Cursed earth, and the judges uniforms (to a point - rookies should have had white helmets (this one missed that too), the helmets were missing the iconic X on the visor, and Dredd’s codpiece is weird) correct, the characters, particularly Stallone as Dredd, were so awful that the the movie was a bitter disappointment. This gritty version is much more faithful to the comic and Karl Urban's portrayal as Dredd was highly praised.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Domhnall Gleeson as the Clan Techie. While Gleeson had appeared in small roles in some high-profile films before this one, he had yet to make a name for himself. Combined with his character's bizarre appearance, this means many people didn't recognize him on first viewing. Even the WebVideo/CinemaSins narrator joked about this by calling the character Discount Domhnall Gleeson before correcting himself.

** Mega-City One looks very convincing thanks to the slow production that gave the CGI artist the time and allowed good communication needed to craft believable, lifelike dystopian environments that still hold up a decade later, in comparison to some modern productions that have bigger budgets but end up with less convincing looking CGI due to a rushed development phase.

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The Slo-Mo scenes are ''gorgeous'', and provide a handy in-universe excuse for the film to use BulletTime.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: The Clan Techie. While quite underrated and a bit-part at best in the movie, he's played by Domhnall Gleeson, who went on to star in quite a few high-profile movies after ''Dredd''. The Clan Techie has garnered a small fanbase as a result. One of the sequel comics actually focuses on his life after the Peach Trees incident.

** "Perps were [[{{Beat}} ...]] uncooperative," and variations of it.

** "[Insert random comment] is an automatic fail."

* TheWoobie: The Clan Techie, who had his eyes gouged out by Ma-Ma with her own hands, had them replaced with cybernetic ones and is threatened with death or torture if he fails. Or if she's bored. [[spoiler: Thank god Anderson let him go.]]

* HilariousInHindsight:
** Ma Ma's death by being shot and thrown from a height would be echoed in [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd the comics]] in the form of PJ Maybe's death.
** In the legolambs ''Dredd: The Musical'' song, a Creator/KarlUrban impersonator complains about not getting a sequel, while ''Film/{{Thor}}'' gets one. Now, Urban is playing Skurge in ''Film/ThorRagnarok''.
** Urban's casting as Skurge is hilarious in and of itself, as Skurge is ''also'' known as the Executioner in the comics.
** A piece of graffiti in the drug den where Kay is arrested looks strikingly similar to the logo of Website/YouTube horror vlogger Shrouded Hand.
** Slo-Mo is almost identical to [[VideoGame/Fallout4 Jet,]] even though its most recent rendition wasn’t revealed until two years later when ''Fallout 4'' was released.
** This won't be [[Series/TheBoys last time]] Karl Urban plays a gun-toting anti-hero in a live-action adaptation of [[ComicBook/TheBoys a comic]] that Creator/GarthEnnis was involved with.

* UncannyValley: The Techie working for Ma-Ma looks ''off'' thanks to his cybernetic eyes having significantly larger irises/pupils than natural eyes, plus the irritated red skin around them.

** A piece of graffiti in the drug den where Kay is arrested looks strikingly similar to the logo of YouTube horror vlogger Shrouded Hand.

* WhatAnIdiot: Yup, the best place for a homeless person to lounge about is directly below the blast door of an apartment complex. It's not like it can drop on you and squish you like a tomato.

** Cassandra Anderson was given a judge aptitude test as a child which deemed her unsuitable. She was entered into the judge academy anyway on special instruction, but her record was never better than borderline and her final score was 3% below a passing grade. However, in the words of the Chief Judge: "She is the most powerful psychic we've ever come across by a huge margin." Because of her unprecedented level of psychic power, Anderson is given another second chance with a supervised day in the field with Judge Dredd. The reason given is that Anderson's psychic abilities are desperately needed by the Hall of Justice in the war for Mega City One. But Anderson's [[{{Telepathy}} telepathy]] makes her borderline academy record and marginally-lower than a passing grade very suspicious. It should have been simple for her to do very well academically with her ability to read minds. Another interpretation of Anderson's academic history is that she is still unsure of whether she is suitable or wants to be a judge, and her failing grade [[ObfuscatingStupidity consciously or unconsciously reflects that]] - and the Chief Judge suspects or is aware of this and sending her out into the field anyways - [[SinkOrSwimMentor "Sink or swim. Chuck her in the deep end."]]

** Cassandra Anderson was given a judge aptitude test as a child which deemed her unsuitable. She was entered into the judge academy anyway on special instruction, but her record was never better than borderline and her final score was 3% below a passing grade. However, in the words of the Chief Judge: "She is the most powerful psychic we've ever come across by a huge margin." Because of her unprecedented level of psychic power, Anderson is given another second chance with a supervised day in the field with Judge Dredd. The reason given is that Anderson's psychic abilities are desperately needed by the Hall of Justice in the war for Mega City One. But Anderson's [[{{Telepathy}} telepathy]] makes her borderline academy record and marginally-lower than a passing grade very suspicious. It should have been simple for her to do very well academically with her ability to read minds. Another interpretation of Anderson's academic history is that she is still unsure of whether she is suitable or wants to be a judge, and her failing grade [[ObfuscatingStupidity consciously or unconsciously reflects that]] - and the Chief Judge suspects or is aware of this and sending her out into the field anyways - [[SinkOrSwimMentor "sink or swim"]].

** Cassandra Anderson was given a judge aptitude test as a child which deemed her unsuitable. She was entered into the judge academy anyway on special instruction, but her record was never better than borderline and her final score was 3% below a passing grade. However, in the words of the Chief Judge: "She is the most powerful psychic we've ever come across by a huge margin." Because of her psychic ability, Anderson is given another second chance with a supervised day in the field with Judge Dredd. The reason given is that Anderson's psychic abilities are desperately needed by the Hall of Justice in the war for Mega City One. But Anderson's extreme psychic abilities make her marginally-lower than a passing grade very suspicious, as well as her borderline academy record. If she can read minds, it should have been simple for her to do very well academically. Another interpretation of Anderson's academic history is that she is still unsure of whether she is suitable or wants to be a judge, and her failing grade [[ObfuscatingStupidity consciously or unconsciously reflects that]] - and the Chief Judge is fully aware of this and sending her out into the field anyways - [[SinkOrSwimMentor "sink or swim"]].