History Film / JudgeDredd

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Griffin, [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves after Rico betrays him.]] Given how many people he murdered/helped Rico murder, you don't feel bad for him when Rico commands the ABC Robot to graphically tear him limb from limb.]]

* DirectLineToTheAuthor:The novelization is written in the style of an InUniverse text book retelling one of Dredd's adventures for trainee judges.

''Judge Dredd'' is a 1995 film adaptation of [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd the comic book of the same name]] directed by Danny Cannon and starring Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/ArmandAssante and Creator/DianeLane.

* HotScientist: Dr. Ilsa Hayden.

* MoralDissonance: For being the ultimate, bred-for-the-purpose Judge with justice and fairness at the top of his moral code, Dredd sure doesn't seem to consider it particularly troubling to shotgun a few completely innocent guards who just happened to be unlucky enough to have a crooked master, or to cause others following him on hoverbikes to crash into the scenery. Or to crash one of said hoverbikes into a building (presumably containing at least some innocent people) and exploding ''several floors'' of it.

'''Dredd''': '''YOU BETRAYED THE LAW!'''\\
'''Rico''': '''[[ChewingTheScenery LAAAAAWWWWWWW!]]'''

'''Rico''': A means to an end.\\
'''Dredd''': You started a massacre!\\
'''Rico''': I caused a revolution!\\
'''Dredd''': YOU BETRAYED THE LAW!\\

'''Rico''': '''[[ChewingTheScenery LAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWW!]]'''

'''Dredd''': YOU BETRAYED '''THE LAW!'''\\
'''Rico''': '''LOOOOOAAAW!'''

'''Dredd''': YOU BETRAYED THE LAW!\\

->'''Dredd''': You killed innocent people--!\\

'''Dredd''': YOU BETRAYED '''THE LAW!'''\\

* CoolGun: The Lawgiver.

** Near the beginning of the film, a street rioter kills rookie Street Judge Brisco, and as Dredd lists off the sentences for his various crimes, the perp sarcastically asks if the murder nets him life in prison before attempting to kill Dredd. Dredd kills him before remarking that the punishment is "Death."
** After Dredd executes a perp who committed a crime punishable by death, he says his CatchPhrase, "Court's adjourned."

The most dangerous of the Mega-Cities is Mega-City One, and to combat those dangers is the toughest of the Judges. His name is Judge Dredd.

Convicted of a crime he didn't commit, Judge Dredd is out to bring justice to the situation which has befallen him as he uncovers the nasty conspiracy surrounding the perfect criminal, Rico.

%%* DisneyVillainDeath: Rico, courtesy of Dredd.

* FailsafeFailure: The Judges' Lawgiver guns can't be activated safely be anyone except them. Anyone else will be electroctued. Rico though, even after he's been convicted of murder, can still activate one. No one thought to remove his authorization when he was convicted? This could be justified though if his accomplice, Judge Griffin, kept him authorized to use it.

* LanternJawOfJustice: Love him or hate him for removing the helmet, but Stallone had the perfect jaw for this role.

** [[{{Catchphrase}} "I am the law!"]] are the first words we hear Dredd say on screen.
** Rico says, "I am the new beginning!"

* HollywoodTactics: Dredd's room clearing tactics (standing in a doorway and dropping down from a storey above into an apartment full of armed thugs) would get him killed in RealLife. In fact, [[LeeroyJenkins the overzealous Judge Brisco]] attempts to mimic these tactics and [[TooDumbToLive gets himself]] [[RealityEnsues killed for it]].

* RealityEnsues: Judge Brisco's attempts to emulate Dredd's tactics alert the armed thugs to his presence and he is killed instantly.

* BriefcaseBlaster: Dredd gets a metaphorical slap-in-the-face about The Law of the Megacities when the very supposedly-airtight system he sought to defend and praise has him arrested for the presumed murder of a news critic and his wife, since the DNA imprint on the weapon matched his. ([[spoiler:It was actually Dredd's brother, Rico, who fired the weapon]].) Fergie later temporarily wakes him up to the problems inherent in The Law, as they travel to the prison:

* BornAsAnAdult: An intended occurrence for the new Janus Project clones, but [[Squick Rico lets them out a little early.]]

* BornAsAnAdult: An intended occurrence for the new Janus Project clones, but Rico lets them out a little early.
* BriefcaseBlaster: The gun Rico uses to shoot the prison warden in the throat.

''Jude Dredd'' is a 1995 film adaptation of [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd the comic book of the same name]] directed by Danny Cannon and starring Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/ArmandAssante and Creator/DianeLane.