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LovelyMover
Looks like a Bolland drawing
SkeletorOverlordofEvil
And has a fucking awesome song by Anthrax.
gnomedeplume
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idrinkcheapbeer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LASD_deputy_gangs
theabyssthatlooksbackintoyouandofferscandy
So, does that mean that democratic government no longer exists? Because cops are murderous gangs now, not in a nearby dystopian future.
LupusLilium
Find it weird trying to compare criminal police of today with the Judge Justice system. Police these days manufacture infractions and break
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laws as they see fit. Judges (or at least Dredd) follow the law to the letter and don't offer up their own opinion on how the law should be.
Sniffmeenob101
Judge Dredd was a favourite of mine but the entire 2001Comic was way ahead of the curve and I wish there was a movie made that lived up to D
duktayp
Karl Urban
TheSecondPiewackit
Fun fact... The stars on the flag behind him represent the 5 megacities of North America.
qtRaven
Judge Judy and Executioner.
MickeA
We really need this manga!
Thisisnottheend
I thought Judge Dredd was about how a post-scarcity world would drive people stupid and insane through boredom, and how limey humour is good
psmith00
The judges recognized people who were suffering mental breaks and treated them better than cops do now.
TheStateVsThomasLight
It’s worth noting that on the 2012 movie the only time he shows some semblance of fear is at the hands of another Judge.
Chalybos
Nonononoooo Dredd was not over 10 years ago … there’s been some sort of mistake.
PimpinKen
Don't feel too bad. I saw the Sylvester Stallone version in the theatre
DakotaWolf
Fear? Or outrage, I think he was generally upset a judge could be bought, especially for so little
BIGboyhotdog
“I Am The Law”funckin awesome song by ANTHRAX
lonelyrangerofthedreams
Just sci fiction…
unknownmale
Dredd and Dexter have a lot in common.
SecretCatPolicy
The cops are just the biggest gang. Always have been.
Bluedemon82384
Mr. "I am the law"
futhor
It's a new book! https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/I-am-the-Law-How-Judge-Dredd-Predicted-Our-Future/Michael-Molcher/9781786185709
Kakhtus
RESPECT THE BADGE !
ClownishAntics
One of the short stories said that the reason Dredd wasn't killed by the myriad of dumb shit he's put through, is that he was part of the >
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worst 0.1%, a true remorseless murderer that brutalises on instinct. And it was lucky he ended up as a badge, not a killer of worlds.
Blethigg
Tell that to East Meg One!
CaptSchmidtGaming
Yea well? you wanna know what makes doom different?
CaptSchmidtGaming
Please tell me. Because I would love to know.
Card1974
michiyl
Is that a Vulcan or Romulan on the left?
qtRaven
That's Prince Namor of Atlantis.
Misteree8
Dredd is this just made to look cool and enticing, like the starship troopers movie. Klendathu drop is still a bad ass score
weidermeijer
Except they are meant to look like Hugo Boss Nazis.
Dontstopbelever2000ismyfavoritesoap
Starship Troopers is satire, you're not supposed to root for the humans
Misteree8
Thats my point. Pauls movies where so good it made you root for the fascists, or corporations (robocop)
Dontstopbelever2000ismyfavoritesoap
The fuck part pf Robocop made you root for OCP?! They're literally the villains ya noodle
Misteree8
Uh, robocop is their product and you rooted for their property. They own him at the end of the day.
AtsaMattaForMe
devolutionary
That flick really should have had a sequel.
huntakiller
isn't one in the making
L0rdinquisit0r
urban wanted a series apparently, he liked the role.
SoberAndBored
There was going to be a series: Judge Dredd: Mega City One. Various scripts and concepts were floated, and it was eventually greenlit in
SoberAndBored
late 2019, to start filming in mid 2020. Covid happened and the series was dropped.
laurence475
yep
SoberAndBored
/a/fL1Axm8
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Crowlands
I remember in one of the novels, there were a gang of sponsored, livestreaming, mass murderers.
Crowlands
Firing grenade launchers into crowds of people while making sure the cameras can see the branding logos on their armor.
judgeReactionPilot
The US is a tiktokers bad day from this.
Filanwizard
Judge Dredd has shown more restraint than some American cops do. Shit in the opening of Dredd he did give that dude a chance to surrender.
jimmythehat1
Dredd doesn't come off as afraid that often. Cops are just straight up acting out of fear for their own lives more often than not in all of
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the "bad cop" interactions. Rolling up on children with an object in their hand and shooting before asking any questions is a chicken shit
jimmythehat1
move.
Filanwizard
And mind you the shit that dude did before and he was armed holding a hostage would have warranted immediate lethal force.
Filanwizard
Meanwhile in some cities the cops just shoot people, Even before they see anything that warrants escalation to use of physical force.
ChainmailleAddict
Legit, I'm pretty sure he spared a kid pointing a gun at him too by using non-lethal rounds.
gnomedeplume
Yes, in fiction you can construct a scenario in which the actions of the protagonist were correct and justified
TheSecondPiewackit
Which is why Dredd is basically a Noble Fascist. A fictional scenario where the most brutal judgment is always justified.
TheSecondPiewackit
I enjoy it for the same reason I enjoy Iron man. Takes everything I hate and makes me love it. A war-profiteering billionaire industrialist.
SecretCatPolicy
Whereas in reality, you actually HAVE TO be correct and justified...unless you have a special badge, apparently.
TheSecondPiewackit
Dredd is a sorta rule-interpreting robot, which is what makes him a perfect judge. He doesn't tolerate corruption which is why he's fiction.
Blethigg
Lawful neutral.
abrazenfool
Erm, RoboCop ?
ChristosMylordos
Yes, Robocop has taken a lot of influences from Judge Dredd
TheMyuChan
Despite all of it, Dredd still has a sense of integrity. He follows the law rather than just enforcing it. Still a dystopian hellscape...
kojenk
In the clown detective side comic the MC waits for a judge he can bribe. Then curses his luck when it fkn turns out to be Judge Dredd.
IFoldlyGo
IIRC, one of the comics had a judge hitting a perp on the head after the perp had been arrested and cuffed. So Dredd arrested the judge
gnomedeplume
still great that the best example of an authoritarian system will lock you up for the slightest infraction but might be lenient sometimes
StanielRonathan
Though that was always a point of contention between Wagner and Grant. Grant greatly disliked the notion that Dredd has any humanity and-
TheMyuChan
Oh, interesting! I had no idea. Personally I like the idea of him doubting, but I can see benefit to both.
StanielRonathan
wanted the series to go even more grotesque as a satire and parody; Wagner wanted Dredd to have tiny sparks of doubt about the Judge System-
StanielRonathan
to better stress they didn't actually agree with the way the setting works (especially when kids began writing in about how aligning with-
StanielRonathan
Dredd, who until then was an unquestioning and unapologetic linchpin to a brutal fascistic system). Grant eventually left, letting Wagner's-
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vision prevail.
LifeIsADanceOfMinds
As was pointed out to me - J Dredd was an English comic poking a great deal of fun at the US. I don't think the US ever really got the joke.
TheWeebleWobler
more to the fact we probably embraced it, which is all together more frightening.
Attaroo
Fascism in Britain has it's own history, even in it's media. Hell, check out Pink Floyd's The Wall.
TheSecondPiewackit
You should see what the Irish megacity is.
Mavgurian
Tír na nÓg ?
Marsupialmessiah
Ros fuh dah!
brotherbuzz
US never gets the joke cuz the US is the punchline
OmnipotentBeing
ChazzK
JD: "Let's make a comic parodying US gun glorification and 80's action movie cliches." US: "HEY SLY, we've got just the movie for you!"
RayneOfSalt
It takes the piss out of thatcherism more than the US.
MikeReese9
I got the joke right away ...
Saro87
Some of us think it a complement. Kinda like police using the punisher symbol.
SecretCatPolicy
How is totally misunderstanding something a compliment? Dredd is satire and Punisher hates cops. It just makes them look profoundly stupid.
circlebreaker
*cop sews Thin Blue Line Punisher skull patch onto bulletproof vest*
jwillustrat
The US was just like “whoa… that’s BADASS!”
trojanplatypus
We're getting it now. Boy, are we getting it.
ThisIsYourLifeNow
Some even think it's an instruction video.
Bumbleoni
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sturmhauke
I always assumed it was just another piece of copaganda, written by and for right-wing hardliners.
thomaslivingston1258
Not at all. It's pure satire. A lot of the laws in it are so ridiculous; including a ban on granulated sugar.
StanielRonathan
Wagner created the narrative push of democracy activists/terrorists because people were writing in indicating they were agreeing with the-
StanielRonathan
the setting and Dredd, who at that time was entirely an unapologetic fascist. Grant disagreed with adding any shred of humanity or morals-
StanielRonathan
to Dredd and instead wanted to go even harder into grotesque satire. But JD was always a parody of police-states and authoritarianism within
StanielRonathan
US and Great Britain culture, with a knack for predicting trends in those subjects before they become more open public concerns