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  • The end of Blood Trails, after Vienna dispatches Pasha, she and Dredd share an embrace. Dredd may be the living embodiment of the law, but deep deep down, he'll always do his best for his niece.
  • This moment with Anderson.
  • This exchange from the end of Trifecta:
    Dredd: Maybe Mega-City One is hell — right now I'll admit it's hard to argue but...
    Dirty Frank: But we will never float above it, looking down. No matter how bad things get, we will never abandon it. It is... Home.
  • After Dredd kills Rico, he carries his body alone stating "He ain't heavy, he's my brother."
  • After Beeny's robot is killed at the end of Cadet, she notes that he was like family. Dredd reassures her that the justice department is her family now.
  • Just before Dredd takes the Long Walk, he releases the remaining prisoners arrested during the Democratic march in an attempt to atone for his actions during said march. He reckons that it's only a token gesture, but Blondel Dupré doesn't forget it and she later muses that Dredd was good enough to do that for her.
  • Dredd essentially going against the entire city to repeal the mutant ban so that others like his cousins can enter the Big Meg.
  • Before he executes him, Dredd tells Kraken that he doesn't blame him for what happened, as the Sisters Of Death nearly killed him. Kraken thanks him before Facing Death With Dignity.
  • In one of the flashback scenes in Origins, Dredd and his clone brother Rico are taking a short break from guarding Fargo. They promise each other that they'll always stick together no matter what.
  • Any time Dredd decides to use legal loopholes to help out citizens. Examples include allowing a grieving husband to euthanise his brain dead wife after his Roaring Rampage of Revenge on the mob that was responsible, reserving an apartment for a former academy classmate for when she gets out of the cubes after he deals with some thugs trying to get her out so a new block can be built, advising Mrs Gunderson to becomes a Haunted House Historian when she finds herself in financial difficulty because she can't keep tenants and granting Mercy Kills to irradiated citizens during the Apocalypse War.
  • Dredd goes out his way after Necropolis to have Yassa (a young boy who helped him in the Cursed Earths and was mutilated by a sister of death for his troubles) and his mother brought to the city, with them granted residence and Yassa new eyes.
  • When Dredd found out the reason a little girl had broken the law, was because she hadn't gotten the proper treatment she needed for her brain, following an emergency transplant: not only did he take her family to get it, but he agreed to have the city pay for it when they couldn't. Then checked up on the juve later on. He had no obligation to do so as a Judge, it was his own call. Sadly turned to tearjerker, when a bullying incident lead to the child running onto the road and dying when hit by a car.
    Bonnie Crickle: Thank you for everything you've done for me Judge Dredd. I can speak properly now, and understand things. And the doctors say I can soon go home.
    Judge Dredd: I'm very happy for you, Bonnie.
  • At the end of the Dark Justice/Dominion/Thanatopia arc, Judge Whisper turns on his fellow Dark Judges, teaming up with the alien Um to implant the suggestion of betrayal in their minds and seal his brothers in a neverending duel while preventing the Sisters from interfering. The last time Roscoe visits them, Whisper has turned into a tree, finally at peace with his fate and freed of the troubled thoughts that plagued him as a human.
  • The Day of Chaos arc saw Mega City One's population devastated by the Chaos Bug, to the point there were only around 50 million people left by the time the dust settled. However, more recent progs had revealed that thanks to immigration, gradual return of refugees (They underestimated how many fled) and new births, Mega City One's population is rapidly recovering, and within a decade the population had shot back up to 180 million people. Despite having received the worst East Meg One remnants had to offer, Mega City One has not only survived it but is looking like it's well on the way to recovery.
  • Several stories featuring Chopper really emphasize how much he means to others, as an athlete, counter-culture symbol and as a friend. In Oz, seemingly the entire population of both Mega-City-One and Oz support his release and journey to Australia, with a riot almost breaking out when it was believed Dredd abused the law to arrest him in another nation.
  • Christmas with the Dredd family. Having some personal time one Christmas Dredd goes to see Vienna who happily greets and invites him in. Already at the table where she left a seat for him just in case is Dolman and Rico who Dredd greets, along with who Vienna introduces as her political science professor boyfriend Jarred. Dredd and Rico are only there for a short time before a call out, but when it’s said how Dredd didn’t open his present Vienna says how she thinks he already got what he wanted.

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