Who is dredd

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More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. The future America is an irradiated waste land. The only force of order lies with the urban cops called "Judges" who possess the combined powers of judge, jury and instant executioner. Known and feared throughout the city, Dredd is the ultimate Judge, challenged with ridding the city of its latest scourge - a dangerous drug epidemic that has users of "Slo-Mo" experiencing reality at a fraction of its normal speed.

During a routine day on the job, Dredd is assigned to train and evaluate Cassandra Anderson, a rookie with powerful psychic abilities thanks to a genetic mutation. A heinous crime calls them to a neighborhood where fellow Judges rarely dare to venture - a storey vertical slum controlled by prostitute turned drug lord Ma-Ma and her ruthless clan. It is also capable of responding to orders from the Judge, such as driving itself. It is connected to the Justice Department who can receive and transmit information from and to the bike and is equipped with a video communication system.

He also has a handgun which is named the Lawgiver. It is DNA-coded so that no one else may use the weapon - it will explode if it reads an incorrect palm-print. It can also fire tracking bullets, stun shots, and more, although it requires loading to do so. Other weapons he carries as standards include a Scattergun pump-action shotgun , a " daystick " long two-handed cudgel , and a boot knife.

His uniform consists of a navy-blue bodysuit; green padded boots, knee pads, elbow pads and gloves; golden alloy shoulder pads the right in the shape of an eagle - the symbol of the Justice Department , and a blue and red helmet which almost entirely hides his face and has protective lenses, a respirator and communicator built in.

The multidimensional rogue's gallery in Helter Skelter all hailed from worlds where Dredd was killed except for Rico who kept him on ice to torture each year and they were triumphant - the discovery that there was a world where Dredd won caused them to invade in a fit of hate. In the version of where Owen Krysler took over, Dredd was killed and then resurrected as a zombie slave. This zombie was accidentally brought back in time and would eventually 'wake up' to rampage across Luna Dread Dominion depicted a timeline where Joe shot Rico dead instead of taking him alive: the trauma led to him becoming increasingly more violent and to read voraciously in the hope of replacing the 'bleeding heart' Chief Judge Goodman, who he saw as weak.

He also renamed himself "Dread", wearing his brother's old badge where the bullet went through the second "E" This resulted in him subjugating Mega-City Three in the s civil war, becoming Deputy Chief Judge and conquering Mega-City Two in , and then allowing Judge Cal to take over so he could 'save' the city and become Chief Judge.

He would tighten his grip on "Dreadcity" with his reformed Council the Hammerfist , create a pretext to nuke and conquer the Sov Block sacrificing parts of the other American cities to make it convincing , and from this position of strength, conquered the world. Oz resistance was so fierce he exterminated the whole country and renamed it Woz. By , Dread was absolute dictator of seven solar systems and absolutely insane.

His timeline was more technologically advanced by use of fully unleashing psi power to the point of easily beating up Sabbat and that technology was used to create immense, baroque devices of pure sadism. Psionic ultraterror waves kept the slave populations too afraid to resist. John Wagner , by request from Pat Mills , came up with the concept behind Judge Dredd and Carlos Ezquerra came up with the character design.

Dredd's face is infamously never seen, making him a faceless, austere icon of the law. So it isn't necessary for readers to see Dredd's face, and I don't want you to". The trend of never showing his face started when Dredd was meant to be 'demasked' in prog 8, with Dredd so impressive that it scares the perps, but Massimo Belardinelli 's art hadn't quite pulled it off. After this, it became a trope. In the later A Question of Judgement three-parter, it was established that Dredd and Rico were clones of Fargo - and since then, Fargo's head above the chin has always been obscured!

The comic book adaptation of the Stallone film was drawn by Ezquerra, whose take on Stallone still has a craggy, AD style chin. Judge Dredd Wiki Explore. Ilsa Hayden. Recent blog posts Forum. Explore Wikis Community Central. This freewheeling anthology title would later popularize such motley characters as the futuristic adventurer Halo Jones, the bounty hunter Johnny Alpha, and my personal favorite Sam Slade the Robo-Hunter , who was often accompanied by his incompetent mechanical sidekick Hoagy and a sentient robotic cigar named Stogie who was invented because AD editors wanted to cut back on characters' tobacco use.

As for Judge Dredd — not to be confused with deceased reggae singer Judge Dread — he was conceived by writer John Wagner, AD editor Pat Mills, and artist Carlos Ezquerra as a no-nonsense tough cop taken to ludicrous, futuristic extremes. And since his creation, oodles of comic creators have taken a crack at the character. As Wagner once recalled of his design instructions to Ezquerra:.

As far as I can remember, [they were] pretty sketchy. I think I sent him the newspaper advert for Death Race with a picture of a grim bike rider in leathers and helmet and the instructions "something like this. If you've seen my scripts, you'll know I don't use fifty words when I can get away with one. And as the years have wended on, Dredd has become pop culturally synonymous with "the ultimate draconian cop. By the time Dredd is an adult, most of the continent is a radioactive hellhole called The Cursed Earth.

Here are some wonderfully depressing maps of Dredd's world. Because of the Mega-City One's sprawl, population, and science gone wild, the street judges — who must eschew all relationships including sexual ones in the name of the law — are granted the all-in-one legal powers of judge, jury, and executioner.

For example, one of the prisons in Mega-City One is just a giant ladder-less pillar surrounded by elevated highways. And nobody epitomizes the Judges' lifestyle quite like Dredd. For example, he almost never takes off his helmet, will arrest you for the slightest infraction, and barely sleeps.

Explains Wagner , "He usually only gets ten minutes in the sleep machine, hardly time to disrobe. Despite being an extreme martinet, Dredd has become one of the most beloved and iconic comic book heroes out there. As Wagner's noted of the character's enduring appeal:. If you were in a sticky spot there's no one you'd rather have on your side than old Joe — even if you did have to do a couple of years for your trouble.