History JudgeDredd / TropesQToZ

* TheSyndicate: The earliest known crime syndicates during Mega-City One's heyday were the Ape Gang and the [[TheMafia Mega-City Mafia]], which operated alongside smaller sector-wide crime syndicates such as the Danforth Syndicate, while various other organisations such as the Frendz Mob and the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Syndicate]] also occasionally gained dominance in the underworld. Several Mega-Cities such as the Pan Andes Conurb, Cuidad Barranovilla and Vegas City also had their crime syndicates act as the law within their jurisdiction, while others such as Sino-Cities and Brit-Cit had them either having already infiltrated the Justice system from the very beginning and/or had most of their [[CorruptPolitician Government]] and [[DirtyCop senior Judges]] on their payroll. Other cities and locations with their own dominant criminal organisation include an unnamed one based on Luna City One, the Hondo-City Yakuza, the Hong Tong Triads and Efil Drago San's Brit-Cit based organisation.

* ReminiscingAboutYourVictims: ''Boyhood of a Superfiend'' serves as [[OmnicidalManiac Judge Death]]'s OriginsIssue. It's basically one long use of this trope as Death, being interviewed by a terrified journalist, happily recalls all the people whom he gruesomely murdered during his long career of killing every living thing.

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* TheSyndicate: The earliest known crime syndicates during Mega-City One's heyday were the Ape Gang and the [[TheMafia Mega-City Mafia]], which operated alongside smaller sector-wide crime syndicates such as the Danforth Syndicate, while various other gangs also occasionally gained dominance alongside the aforementioned bigger syndicates, such as the Frendz Mob and the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Syndicate]]. Some Mega-Cities such as the Pan Andes Conurb, Cuidad Barranovilla and Vegas City also had their syndicates also act as the law, while others such as Sino-Cities and Brit-Cit had them either having already infiltrated the Justice system from the very beginning and/or had most of their [[CorruptPolitician Government]] and/or [[DirtyCop senior Judges]] on their payroll. Other cities and locations with their own dominant criminal organisation include an unnamed one based on the Moon, the Hondo-City Yakuza, the Hong Tong Triads and Efil Drago San's Brit-Cit based gang.

* TheSyndicate: The earliest known criminal gangs during Mega-City One's heyday were the Ape Gang and the [[TheMafia Mega-City Mafia]], with various gangs occasionally also dominating the underworld alongside them such as Frendz Mob and the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Syndicate]]. Smaller scale syndicates also exist, dominating the underworld of entire sectors. Other Cities with their own syndicates include an unnamed criminal organisation based on the Moon, the Hondo-City Yakuza, the Vegas Mafia, the Hong Tong Triads and Efil Drago San's Brit-Cit based criminal organisation. Following a series of crises in Mega City One combined with a crackdown of the major gangs within the city have left various smaller gangs filling the void.

* TheSyndicate: The earliest known criminal gangs during Megga-City One's heyday were the Ape Gang and the [[TheMafia Mega-City Mafia]], with various gangs occasionally also dominating the underworld alongside them such as Frendz Mob and the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Syndicate]]. Smaller scale syndicates also exist, dominating the underworld of entire sectors. Other Cities with their own syndicates include an unnamed criminal organisation based on the Moon, the Hondo-City Yakuza, the Vegas Mafia, the Hong Tong Triads and Efil Drago San's Brit-Cit based criminal organisation. Following a series of crisis' in Mega City One combined with a crackdown of the major gangs within the city have left various smaller gangs filling the void.

* TheSyndicate: The earliest known criminal gangs during Megga-City One's heyday were the Ape Gang and the [[TheMafia Mega-City Mafia]], with various gangs occasionally also dominating the underworld alongside them such as Frendz Mob and the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Syndicate]]. Smaller scale syndicates also exist, dominating the underworld of entire sectors. Other Cities with their own syndicates include an unnamed criminal organisation based on the Moon, the Hondo-City Yakuza, the Vegas Mafia, the Hong Tong Triads and Efil Drago San's Brit-Cit based criminal organisation. Following a series of crisis' in Mega City One[[labelnote:List of Crisis's]]Chaos Day, Judge Bachmann's coup attempt, Luthor's Insurrection, Aimee Nixon's Titan revolt, attack's by Rothman [=MacCallum=], various invasions by the Law Lords, Texas City & the Enceladus aliens, the propaganda war led by the Son's of Booth and the "Machine Law" protest[[/labelnote]] combined with a crackdown of the major gangs within the city have left various smaller gangs filling the void.

* UndeadAbomination: The Sisters of Death are spectral, psychic, extremely powerful extradimensional entities which appear as rotting, vaguely female corpses in their spirit forms. Whatever they really are, their morality revolves around the inherent sinfulness of life and thus seek to exterminate all of it. However, their "project" the Dark Judges, who are equally monstrous and messed up, were former humans.

** [[BadassGrandpa An old sniper]] with HollywoodTourettes and ImprobableAimingSkills.

* SerialEscalation: The escalation of the destruction witnessed in the Apocalypse War with East-Meg One. What starts with a HatePlague that turns Mega-City One into a gigantic citizen riot gives way to dropping nuclear warheads on top of it which gives way to detonating nukes in the Atlantic Ocean so as to hit the Big Meg with a GiantWallOfWateryDoom over two kilometers high (and 1,500 long). When Mega-City One finally retaliates, they launch 25 nuclear warheads, each one [[WeaponOfMassDestruction powerful enough to wipe out all of East-Meg One twice over]], that inadvertently get warped to an AlternateUniverse where they cause an EarthShatteringKaboom on an Earth [[CrowningMomentOfFunny where everyone is a hippie and world peace has been declared for 200 years]].

* TalkToTheFist: [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome "Gaze into the fist of Dredd!"]] This is also one of Dredd's favorite responses to lippy creeps.

* SuspiciouslyCleanCriminalRecord: In one chapter, the Judges do a random sweep of citizens' apartments and become highly suspicious when one person turns out not only to have zero violations in his apartment, but has never broken any of Mega-City One's laws in the past. Note that the Meg is such an oppressive hellhole that it's practically impossible for someone to not break any. Powdered sugar and caffeine are illegal.

* SubvertedKidsShow: There's a comic in which a kid's show host finds out that his wife (who played another onscreen character) is cheating with one of his assistants. He proceeds to teach the kids how to throttle someone to death, before Dredd bursts in and breaks it up.

* StoryArc: ''Judge Dredd'' stories generally come in two different modes. The one-shot comics are "Day in the life" stuff and are generally more [[BlackComedy darkly comedic]] in tone, with Dredd often showing him much of a zero-tolerance asshole he can be. The so-called Mega-Epics are huge story lines that generally last about half a year to a year, are more serious in tone and tend to make several changes to the status quo.

* ReminiscingAboutYourVictims: ''Boyhood of a Superfiend'' serves as [[OmnicidalManiac Judge Death]]'s OriginsIssue. It's basically one long use of this trope as Death, being interviewed by a journalist, happily recalls all the people whom he gruesomely murdered during his long career of killing every living thing.

* RecruitingTheCriminal: In "The Cursed Earth", Dredd needs to recruit a second biker to deliver a pack of vaccines to Mega-City Two. Though plenty of Judges are willing, Dredd recruits convicted criminal and mutant Spikes Harvey Rotten, who is the best biker in the Big Meg and knows the Cursed Earth very well.

* SovietSuperscience: In the earlier stories, the Sov Block show off a host of new superweapons, such as impenetrable battle armour, laser beams that pass harmlessly through any material and explode at a preset range and the Apocalypse Warp, a shield that sends nuclear weapons into alternate realities.

* StarshipLuxurious: After the Day of Chaos, four thousand of Mega-City One's wealthiest citizens decide to escape the [[CrapsackWorld hellhole that planet Earth has become]] to find a new world to settle. Their years of travel will be spent on the luxurious ''Mayflower'' colony ship, with artificial beaches, forests, a baseball park, and good dining. Unfortunately, their choice to only staff the ship with a single sheriff and no heavy duty weaponry (it was meant to be a peaceful utopia, see) means that they're all easy pickings when the [[OmnicidalManiac four evil Dark Judges]] hitch a ride on the ship.

* StrangeCopInAStrangeLand: Happens whenever Dredd leaves Mega-City One to pursue criminals in foreign jurisdictions. He'll note that local judges are too lax or corrupt, but is forced to abide by their laws.