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* CannibalClan: The Angel Family, to Fergie's dismay when he thinks playing along with their religious hillbilly slang had earned him mercy. We get a nice shot of a recent victim cooking on a spit when Dredd points this out to Fergie.

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* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: In the beginning, Judge Dredd makes three major mistakes in regards to the rioters firing down on him and the other Judges.
** First, he describes the mix of weapons fired on them as if they all share the same characteristics. Even guns that fire the same ammunition can differ in how they handle accuracy and recoil, but there's no reason to assume they all had the same range.
** Second, the idea of an effective lethal range. Calculation of effective range has more to do with the expectation that a shooter can actually hit who they are aiming at. The reason why it's not presented as lethal range is because bullets only need a relatively low amount of force to wound or kill because of their penetration.
** Third, the shooters were firing down. Their aim may be terrible, but the bullets are going to keep heading in that direction regardless because of gravity. In an example of both this point and number two above, people have been killed before by someone firing into the air because bullets come back down with enough force from gravity alone to kill someone.

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In the beginning, Judge Dredd makes three major mistakes in regards to the rioters firing down on him and the other Judges.
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First, he describes the mix of weapons fired on them as if they all share the same characteristics. Even guns that fire the same ammunition can differ in how they handle accuracy and recoil, but there's no reason to assume they all had the same range.
** *** Second, the idea of an effective lethal range. Calculation of effective range has more to do with the expectation that a shooter can actually hit who they are aiming at. The reason why it's not presented as lethal range is because bullets only need a relatively low amount of force to wound or kill because of their penetration.
** *** Third, the shooters were firing down. Their aim may be terrible, but the bullets are going to keep heading in that direction regardless because of gravity. In an example of both this point and number two above, people have been killed before by someone firing into the air because bullets come back down with enough force from gravity alone to kill someone.

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* CatchPhrase: Dredd has a few lines which he repeats on a few occasions.

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* CatchPhrase: CavalryBetrayal: The Aspen Penal Colony transport pilot thinks the Capture Team will rescue him.
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Dredd has a few lines which he repeats on a few occasions.



* CavalryBetrayal: The Aspen Penal Colony transport pilot thinks the Capture Team will rescue him.



** Dredd's first words on screen are his famous CatchPhrase PunctuatedForEmphasis. While his fellow Judges are crouching for cover in the middle of a blockwar, Dredd does a DynamicAkimbo while a microphone deploys in his helmet to relay his voice to his bike's PA system.

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** Dredd's first words on screen are his famous CatchPhrase [[CharacterCatchphrase catchphrase]] PunctuatedForEmphasis. While his fellow Judges are crouching for cover in the middle of a blockwar, Dredd does a DynamicAkimbo while a microphone deploys in his helmet to relay his voice to his bike's PA system.



* PreMortemOneLiner: By the end of the film, Dredd repeats his "Court's adjourned" CatchPhrase before dropping [[spoiler:Rico]] to his death below.

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* PreMortemOneLiner: By the end of the film, Dredd repeats his "Court's adjourned" CatchPhrase catchphrase before dropping [[spoiler:Rico]] to his death below.
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* OurClonesAreDifferent: The EvilPlan of Rico Dredd is to create a battalion of his clones with which to violently take control of Megacity One. Although the heroes manage to shut down the process before the clones are ready, it's clear they'd've emerged from their artificial wombs as grown adults. As a further case, Rico Dredd himself is a clone of Judge Dredd that glitched during the process, making him a genetically identical evil doppelganger.
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%%(ZCE)* CoolGun: The Lawgiver.
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* CloningBlues: Rico and Dredd are revealed to be genetically engineered by the Justice Department in the BackStory. The restart of these genetic experiments makes up a major portion of the rest of the plot.
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* AllegedLookalikes: The film got a lot of mockery for featuring Creator/SylvesterStallone and Creator/ArmandAssante as "identical twins" Joseph and Rico Dredd, who are both the clone sons of Chief Justice Fargo (Creator/MaxVonSydow). All three men have vastly different facial structures and body types. The whole thing runs on HollywoodGenetics, with Rico's DNA being so identical to Joseph's that he can frame him for a murder by planting the gun that Rico used, so they aren't non-identical twins or something like that.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: After the whole crazy situation has been resolved, Dredd refuses to become a Chief Judge [[spoiler:to replace the ones lost to Rico's massacre]] by saying that he's a Street Judge and he is late to his patrol, and riding off into the sunrise.

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* StupidStatementDanceMix: Done to the page quote, c/o Series/AttackOfTheShow. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueYUwcZV-n0 Roll that beautiful ham footage.]]
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* AvengingTheVillain: [[spoiler:[[DarkActionGirl Dr. Hayden]] attempts to do this when Dredd throws Rico off the Statue of Liberty -- appearing right afterward and taking aim at him with Fargo's shotgun whilst he's still hanging on from the ledge. However, she gets shot in the back by Judge Hershey before she can kill him]].

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* AvengingTheVillain: [[spoiler:[[DarkActionGirl Dr. Hayden]] attempts to do this when Dredd throws Rico off the Statue of Liberty Art/StatueOfLiberty -- appearing right afterward and taking aim at him with Fargo's shotgun whilst he's still hanging on from the ledge. However, she gets shot in the back by Judge Hershey before she can kill him]].
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* NotHelpingYourCase: Admittedly, Dredd was [[FrameUp pretty screwed by that point]] but, still, when you’re on trial for vigilante murder, you probably shouldn’t scream ''”[[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem I never broke the law, I am the laaaaw!]]”'' in open court.
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* HotScientist: Dr. Ilsa Hayden as played by Creator/JoanChen.
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* OfferingAnotherInYourStead: Fergie and Dredd have been captured by the cannibalistic Angel Family. When the Angel Family prepares to eat Fergie, he tries to convince them not to by saying "Eat Dredd! He works out!"

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* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Dredd uses a grenade round from his Lawgiver to blow up a guy's car without regard for the implications of doing so on a busy city street.


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** Dredd uses a grenade round from his Lawgiver to blow up a guy's car without regard for the implications of doing so on a busy city street.
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** The prototype Lawmaster with a hovering function which Dredd demonstrates to a class of cadets.

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** The prototype Lawmaster with a hovering function which Dredd demonstrates to a class of cadets. It is later apparently adopted by the SJS with its flaws still remaining.
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* AdaptationNameChange: The ABC Warrior is Hammerstein from ''ComicBook/ABCWarriors''.

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* AdaptationNameChange: The ABC Warrior is Hammerstein from ''ComicBook/ABCWarriors''.''ComicBook/ABCWarriors'', likely because ''ABC Warriors'' is a less well known property and the robot in question lacks Hammerstein's trademark hammer.
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* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Dredd uses a grenade round from his Lawgiver to blow up a guy's car without regard for the implications of doing so on a busy city street.

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