Joseph Dredd

This article is about the character. For the series, see Judge Dredd (series).

Joseph Dredd
Biographical Information
Gender	Male
Family	Eustace Fargo (clone father), Rico Dredd (clone brother), Vienna Dredd (niece), Rico (clone brother), Dolman (clone brother)
Position	Senior Judge
Affiliation	Mega-City One Justice Department, Luna-1 Justice Department
Alignment	The Law
Status	Alive
Behind the Scenes
First Appearance	2000 AD Prog 2
Portrayed by	Sylvester Stallone (1995 film) Karl Urban (2012 film)

Judge Joseph Dredd is a fictional character created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra. He first appeared in the second issue of the British weekly anthology comic 2000AD (1977). He is the magazine's longest-running character.

Biography

Birth and Training

After the attempted suicide of Chief Judge Fargo in 2051, it was decided to have him cloned to continue his lineage. Under the control of the Justice Department's Head of Genetics Morton Judd, in 2066. Joseph Dredd and his brother Rico Dredd were 'born' at an accelerated age of five years old, having been artificially created and incubated in a laboratory where during growth, their minds were computer programmed with language skills and all aspects of the law, therefore allowing them to be immediately enrolled as cadet judges into the city's Academy of Law.

The Dredd cadets trained for thirteen years before graduating as full judges two years early on account of their exceptional progress in the Class of '79, the two of them at the top of their intake throughout with Rico proving to be only slightly more skilled in areas such as marksmanship and combat fighting.

It was during their training in 2070 that the then President of the United States launched a paranoid nuclear attack on nations around the world he believed posed a threat to his rule and started what would become called The Atomic Wars.

In the immediate aftermath of the nuclear exchange and the worldwide devastation it caused, Rico and Joe were temporarily granted full judicial powers despite their young age under the exceptional circumstances and briefly left the Academy to join adult judges on the streets of the surviving Mega-City One where martial law had been imposed to deal with the total chaos and breakdown of society in the wake of the war. Here, they got a real taste of dispensing justice among the madness and had to shoot to kill for the first time. They both met Fargo in person together for the first time whilst part of a team sent to rescue him from a full-scale assault by Booth's loyal military forces, the crazy President realising that Fargo and his judges represented a continued threat to him. Since his suicide attempt years earlier, Fargo had been kept in suspended animation until able to benefit from new surgical procedures to repair the brain damage caused by his self-inflicted gunshot. Shortly afterwards Booth's remaining army was defeated and he was finally deposed and arrested by the judges of the Mega-City One Justice Dept for war crimes and it having been discovered that he secured his presidency via corruption and murder in the first place. Feeling unable to execute America's last president, the judges instead sentenced Booth to a 100 year period of punitive suspended animation and locked him away in the secure Fort Knox. Fargo too was also placed back into suspended animation after his health drastically deteriorated, meeting his clones one last time before doing so. Two weeks later, however, it was discovered that Fargo's frozen body had been mysteriously stolen from its facility without a trace.

Returning to complete their Academy training, cadets Joe and Rico underwent the standard Cursed Earth Familiarisation assessment commonly known as the Hotdog Run. During this, Rico was critically injured in a fall, to the extent that Joe thereafter believed it to have permanently affected Rico's mind and permanently twisted his personality. After Rico's physical recovery, the two made it together to rookie judge status and undertook their final street assessment, Joe under the supervision of experienced Judge Morph and Rico under Judge Kenner. Both Dredds passed this final test and were simultaneously awarded their black helmets and full eagle badges, being sworn in as new judges of Mega-City One and immediately hitting the streets to carry out the role they had literally been created for.

Early Cases

Joe Dredd quickly made a name for himself on the streets of Mega-City One, taking down vicious criminal gangs and apprehending murderers, becoming a hero amongst the citizens. Rico Dredd, however, chose a different path and quickly became corrupt, bending then breaking the law to his own will and for personal financial gain. Rico's protection rackets soon resulted in more murder, this time witnessed by Joe who confronted his clone brother and, resisting from returning fire and shooting Rico, instead took him alive and arrested him for murder. The mandatory sentence for judges who break the law being twenty year hard labour on the judicial prison colony on Saturn's moon, Titan, Rico was shipped off-world and underwent the harsh 'Titan treatment': being surgically altered and fitted with cybernetic breathing and voice implants having had his nose and mouth sealed so that he could work manually mining rocks in the vacuum of space without the need for a cumbersome environment suit slowing him down.

These events failed to affect Dredd's own efficiency as a judge, if anything strengthening his resolve even further, and he continued to make his presence on the streets felt, his personal actions alone bringing down crime rates significantly in city sectors in which he was posted. Twenty years into his service, in 2099, Dredd was assigned to Sector 6, during which time crime rates had fallen drastically. He tackled the notorious judge killing criminal known as Whitey and his gang who had holed up in the derelict Empire State Building, sentencing the lawbreaker to imprisonment on the Devil's Island penitentiary located on a huge manmade island surrounded by highways full of non-stop 200 mile an hour traffic where criminals were effectively marooned..

After several more cases in which Dredd easily overcame a variety of lawbreakers, he was called upon to take out a rampaging carpentry robot named Call-Me-Kenneth, gone amok and indiscriminately killing citizens. Dredd disabled and virtually destroyed the robot, only for it to be rebuilt as part of an experiment to discover why it had malfunctioned and killed contrary to its programming in the first place. Accidentally reactivated ahead of schedule, Call-Me-Kenneth resumed his previous psychopathic behaviour and rallied an entire army of thousands of the city's various working robots to his cause of overthrowing and exterminating their humans masters, whom the robots referred to as being "fleshy ones."

This uprising led to the first Robot Wars, during which Dredd met the placid drinks vending robot Walter, a small servo-droid with a speech impediment caused by his abject terror when he thought his human masters would destroy him. Dredd and Walter successfully put an end to Kenneth's revolution and regained control of the city before Dredd tracked down and personally destroyed Call-Me-Kenneth for good this time. Dredd's heroic stature was cemented and along with several other loyal robots who had assisted Dredd, Walter in particular was rewarded with being officially declared Mega-City One's only free robot, granted full citizenship rights usually reserved for humans only. Despite his new status, Walter idolised Dredd and chose to remain at his side, becoming his personal servant and living with Dredd in his apartment along with Dredd's cleaner/landlady Maria.

In the aftermath of the Robot War, Dredd went on to assess Rookie Judge Giant, son of a famous Aeroball player from decades earlier. After a shaky start, Rookie Giant displayed exceptional courage and judgement in taking down a gang of child kidnappers and Dredd recommended he be awarded the title of full judge of Mega-City One; over the years that followed, Judge Giant became a valuable ally to Dredd, assisting him in numerous cases and saving his mentor's life.

Other cases saw Dredd defeat the fanatical Neon Knights, a gang of bigoted robot-hating thugs; thwart a plot to destroy the city by the mutated denizens of the abandoned Undercity beneath Mega-City One's streets called Troggies ; apprehend and deliver justice to another corrupt judge called Gibson, a former Academy classmate of Dredd's who had been robbing and killing citizens whilst disguised as a criminal calling himself Mutie The Pig; and battle Don Uggie Apelino and his Ape Gang, a bunch of sentient talking chimpanzees given intelligence by human genetic experiments and who took on the guise of 1930's American gangsters to commit crime throughout the Mega-City.

However, Dredd's most important confrontation during this era was the return of his brother, Rico. Having served his twenty year sentence on Titan and now disfigured by the surgery he was forced to undergo, Rico returned to Mega-City One in 2099 seeking revenge against the man who had apprehended him: his own clone brother, Joe. Setting a trap for Dredd in his own apartment and then holding him at gunpoint, Rico wanted Joe to know how much he'd suffered before challenging Joe to a final shoot-out, Rico knowing that he had always been quicker on the draw than Joe during their Academy days as cadets together. However, having spent the last twenty years toiling in the lower gravity environment of the moon of Titan, Rico's reactions had slowed... only a split second but still enough for Joe to get the drop on him - shot by Joe, Rico died in his brother's arms and Joe carried his sibling's body outside to the waiting authorities himself, past the gathered crowds of onlookers. The incident deeply affected Joe and he would forever feel regret at having been forced to shoot his clone twin.

Dredd soon found himself chosen by the Judge's Council to be new Judge-Marshal in charge of the law enforcement team posted on the Moon's combined American Mega-City colony of Luna-1, a six month secondment. During his time there, Dredd cleaned-up the colony, transforming it from being a largely lawless cesspit of corruption and crime into an industrious and lawful habitation made safe for its citizens, having encountered killer cars, the evil Moonie Corporation, the Luna Olympic Games and a short-lived war with Russian Sov-Block judges attempting to seize land along the way! At the end of his remarkable tenure, Dredd left Luna-1 in the safe permanent hands of his trusted former Deputy, Judge Tex of Texas City.

The Cursed Earth

Shortly after his return to the streets of his much-missed Mega-City One, Dredd was selected to lead a small team of judges in a mercy mission to deliver vital vaccine to Mega-City Two on the other side of the country on America's western seaboard, where a terrible plague was turning its own millions of citizens into kill-crazy psychopathic cannibals! Unable to make the journey by air due to Mega-City Two's landing ports having become overrun by crazed plague victims, Dredd was forced to travel by land across thousands of miles of radioactive wasteland created by the Atomic War of 2070... a nightmarish hell known as The Cursed Earth! Dredd personally selected and 'persuaded' criminal biker Spikes Harvey Rotten to join the mission on account of his knowledge of the terrain they would be travelling through from his days as a former gun runner.

Along the way through this hell on Earth environment, Dredd faced and fought many bizarre and dangerous foes the likes of which he had never encountered before in the city, and which tested even his considerable skills and abilities to their absolute limit of endurance. Dredd's journey led him into the path of venomous flying rats the Devil's Lapdogs; the crazed Brotherhood of Mutants led by Brother Morgar, who despised normal humans; robot vampires protecting the last President of the USA 'Bad Bob' Booth, the man who had initiated the nuclear war that forever changed the world thirty years previously; warring burger corporations battling for customers; genetically engineered dinosaurs let loose from an old amusement park including the savage and seemingly unstoppable black tyrannosaur, Satanus (another 2000 AD crossover event, Satanus's mother having been the tyrannosaur named Old One Eye who led the dinosaur revolt against time travelling humans in the comic's early strip FLESH, and later Satanus son Golgotha would appear in A.B.C Warriors); a mad scientist and his psychotic giant creations; and the Mafia 'judges' running Vegas City in a mockery of the law!

Midway through his journey, Dredd had lost several of the judges under his command but gained a new teammate in the form of Tweak, a super-intelligent rock eating alien taken from his home planet along with his family by human explorers and sold into slavery to a Cursed Earth plantation owner. Tweak had escaped too late to prevent his family from being shot dead and was being hunted down by the vicious Slay Riders who chased runaway slaves when Dredd intervened and saved him.

Eventually the remaining team reached Death Valley, the last major obstacle before reaching Mega-City Two. Here they encountered the Legion of the Damned, an entire army of reactivated robot Mek-Troopers left buried in the desert sand after the Atomic War thirty years previously and programmed to kill judges on sight! With only Dredd, Spikes and Tweak left standing having survived attack after attack for several days, Spikes was mortally wounded and went out in a kamikaze blaze of glory, taking as many of the war droids with him as possible before being finally shot down for good. Dredd and Tweak managed to create a diversion and escaped the robots on foot, each in possession of a crate of the vital plague vaccine on their backs but losing each other in a desert sand storm soon afterwards. With sixty miles of scorching desert to cross on foot, Dredd began to hallucinate and ended up crawling through the sand and close to death from dehydration and the intense heat. Refusing to give up, his iron will saw him reach the gates of Mega-City Two and he managed to drag himself to his feet and stagger inside before collapsing. After life saving medical treatment, Dredd awoke to learn that Tweak too had survived and reached the city, and the vaccine both had carried had been administered to stop the spread of plague and save Mega-City Two. On Dredd's orders, Tweak was returned to his home planet to live in peace and, after several days of recuperation, Dredd boarded a flight to return to Mega-City One the easy way, his deadly mission across The Cursed Earth finally accomplished..

The Day the Law Died

Having only just returned from his journey, Dredd was almost instantly arrested by SJS Judges after being framed for murdering a newspaper editor and his photographer. While not putting up and resistance during his arrest and trial, Dredd was horrified at the thought of the surgical modifications he would be forced to go through on Titan and decided to fight against his sentence. Going into hiding in MC-1, Dredd was able to get information on who framed him from his informant Max Normal, who led him to a robot designer named Chick Parker. Dredd broke into Parker's home, only to find him dead, and his killer to be a robot duplicate of himself. The fake Dredd robot revealed that he was the one who framed Dredd and proceded to try and kill the original. It failed, however, and was burned out in a furnace. Fishing its head from the furnace as evidence, Dredd proved his innocence and set out hunting for whomever it was that commissioned the robot from Parker in the first place.

Shortly after, Chief Judge Goodman fell victim to an assassination. In his dying words, he gave Dredd a clue that led him to find the SJS as the responsible party. After making this discovery, he was shot by SJS Judge Quincy, which left him in a coma for several days. During this time, Judge Cal, head of the SJS division, was instated as the new Chief Judge and quickly went about setting a new tyrannical rule. Dredd eventually awakened from his coma and pieced together that Cal was responsible for the Dredd Robot, Goodman's death and the attempt on his life. He confronted Cal shortly after he instated his pet fish as the new Deputy Chief Judge, but was overpowered and sent for execution, only to be rescued by his former cadet Judge Giant.

Giant took Dredd to a safe-house where he met up with a group of Judge Tutors including Griffin, Pepper, Kelso, Schmaltz, Holbein and Clubman. They planned to usurp Cal from his position. Dredd agreed to assist them, first storming a TV studio and sending a message out to the citizens to help in taking down Cal. Afterwards, Dredd's group and the angry mob of MC-1 citizens stormed the Grand Hall of Justice, but got as far as the doors before a large swarm of darkness covered the sky. Massive reptilian aliens known as Kleggs began descending from the sky en mass. The Kleggs slaughtered much of the crowd and several of Dredd's Judges.

With his revolution in tatters, Dredd went into hiding as Cal lost his mind even more, instating the Kleggs as Judges and forcing the citizens to build a colossal wall around the city. At one stage, Cal decided to begin executing the citizens in alphabetical order. In order to stop this, Dredd assassinated Deputy Chief Judge Fish, causing Cal to loose heart. Cal promoted the Klegg leader Grampus to take the place of Fish before falling into a depression, which only deepened when nobody attended the funeral of Judge Fish. Grampus gathered a pack of Klegg Hounds to hunt down Dredd and his men, which led the reptiles to their underground hideout. The unprepared Judges were massacred, and as Dredd and the few survivors fled in a road liner, Cal himself fired off an explosive, sending the vehicle hurtling into the Underbelly. The combined efforts of the Klegg attack and the crash ended up killing a majority of the Judges, including Schmaltz, Clubman and Holbein. Stuck in the Underbelly, the surviving rebels (Consisting of Dredd, Giant, Griffin, Pepper and Kelso) encountered a hulking oaf named Fergee. After a savage beating from Dredd, Fergee surprisingly decided to help the Judges and led them to the safety of his home.

While hiding out in Fergee's home, Dredd and the others deduced that Cal had ensured loyalty amongst the Judges through hypnosis. Meanwhile, Cal began building large gas chambers, which he intended to use to poison the city's populace. Acting quickly, Dredd, Fergee and the others launched a final assault on Cal. They destroyed his hypnosis tapes and began shooting down the Klegg invaders. Cal fled to the peak of the Statue of Judgement and planned to activate the gas, only for Fergee to go out as a hero and toss both himself and Cal from the edge of the railing, causing them to hurtle down to their death. Afterwards a memorial statue was placed for Fergee, and Griffin was instated as the new chief Judge.

Later, Dredd made an example out of criminals by defeating many single-handedly and exiling them from the city in a dumptruck. Dredd met his niece Vienna, daughter of Rico, and while Dredd meant well, he had no time for family.

Judge Dredd met his most fearsome menace, Judge Death, who intended to wipe out all life. Dredd stopped him, at the price of imprisoning his ally Psi-Judge Cassandra Anderson in a plastic stasis while Judge Death possessed her. Later, he met the Dark Judges, further undead galactic menaces. They broke Death free and killed many citizens, but in the end Dredd and Anderson were able to defeat them in their own dead dimension.

When a precognitive vision showed that a Judge Child would be able to save Mega-City One from an ominous fate, Dredd and Judge Hershey traveled through space to find him. When they did, Dredd recognized the child as pure evil, and left him behind, disobeying his orders.

Mega-City One's conflict with the Sov Judges reached its breaking point when they caused The Apocalypse War. With Chief Judge Griffin dead and drug-induced mania tearing the city apart, Dredd launched nukes against the Sovs, killing millions in Russia's East-Meg, and ending the war. Much of Mega-City One was destroyed, but Dredd decided to stay on the streets where he was needed, and declined the Chief Judge position. Later, Dredd first met young serial killer Phillip Janet Maybe, and ended the threat of the Judge Child, during which he lost his eyes. They were replaced with bionic ones.

After a democracy movement shook Dredd's faith in the system, he took the long walk into the Cursed Earth. There, the creators of the Dark Judges, the Sisters of Death, scarred Dredd's skin, and he took on the name of the Dead Man. Dredd returned to Mega-City One when it was turned into a Necropolis by the Sisters of Death and the Dark Judges, and helped restore the city to normal. Afterward, Dredd received a rejuve treatment and his skin and tissues were fully restored.^{[citation needed]} Later, Mechanismo robot Judges were put on the streets, much to Dredd's suspicion. In the surrounding decade, Dredd met Batman, Lobo, and fought a Predator.

In 2117, Dredd ran his own sector house. In 2125, Dredd came face to face with a xenomorph menace. In 2129, Dredd dealt with the issue of Mutant discrimination in his city.

Due to his increasing age, Dredd underwent rejuve treatments to stay active.

Weapons and Equipment

Judge Dredd has a large Lawmaster motorbike, which has powerful side-mounted cannons and a centrally-mounted laser (the 'Cyclops' laser), and has full Artificial Intelligence. 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. These are standard issue for Judges, firing six types of ammo such as Standard bullets, Rubber Ricochet, Armour Piercing, Heat-Seeking, Incendiary and Hi-Ex. 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.

Family

• Rico Dredd - brother, fellow clone of Chief Judge Fargo
• Vienna Dredd - niece, daughter of Rico Dredd
• Rico - clone of Judge Dredd
• Dolman - clone of Judge Dredd
• Kraken - fellow clone of Chief Judge Fargo
• The Judda - fellow clones of Chief Judge Fargo
• Paris
• The Fargo Clan
• Nimrod
• Judge Semper - renamed to Judge Dredd, clone of Judge Dredd

Alternate versions

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 2120 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-1.

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 2080s civil war, becoming Deputy Chief Judge and conquering Mega-City Two in 2099, 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 2116, 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.

Creation

John Wagner, by request from Pat Mills, came up with the concept behind Judge Dredd and Carlos Ezquerra came up with the character design. Writer Peter Harris, artist Mick (Michael) McMahon and Wagner further developed the character.

Dredd's face

Dredd's face is infamously never seen, making him a faceless, austere icon of the law. John Wagner stated in 1995: "It sums up the facelessness of justice − justice has no soul. So it isn't necessary for readers to see Dredd's face, and I don't want you to". Stallone taking the helmet off for the 1995 film has long been held against it - ironically Ezquerra once said "Stallone's Rocky Balboa was a good contemporary model" - and it was a requirement for the helmet to remain on in both the planned 2000s Dredd films and the the 2012 Dredd.

Gaze into the faces of Dredd? L to R: Bisley, Ezquerra, Smith

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 . As a quick fix, the strip went out with a 'CENSORED' bar and changed the dialogue to imply something bad had happened to his face. After this, it became a trope. Simon Bisley drew Dredd's face in Judgement on Gotham but this was removed from the early pencils.

Accidentally, Dredd's face was revealed during Dredd Angel when Ron Smith drew Eustace Fargo, founder of Justice Department. 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, 2000AD style chin.

Trivia

• In Carlos Ezquerra's original design, he "decided to give him some large lips - to put a mystery as to his racial background". He departed after one story, annoyed that his strip wouldn't be the debut, and didn't tell anyone about his choice - and the comic was black-and-white, so it wasn't immediately obvious. Mike McMahon initially drew Dredd as a black man, while Brian Bolland and Ron Smith drew him as white and the coloured pages established him as caucasian.
• Dredd's backstory of being 'born' five years old was made up to cover up a plothole: readers had spotted that if Dredd graduated in the Class of '79, he'd have been thirteen.

See Also

• Appearances of Joseph Dredd
• Judge Dredd (Sylvester Stallone)
• Joseph Dredd (Karl Urban)

Judge Dredd
Main Characters	Judge Dredd - Judge Hershey - Judge Anderson - Judge Beeny - Judge Buell - Galen DeMarco - Dirty Frank - Judge Edgar - Chief Judge Fargo - Judge Francisco - Judge Giant - Judge Goodman - Judge Griffin - Judge Guthrie - Judge Janus - Judge Karyn - Judge McGruder - Judge Niles - Judge Rico - Judge Shenker - Judge Silver - Judge Solomon - Judge Volt - Detective-Judge Armitage - Inspector Shimura - Devlin Waugh - Johnny Woo - Judge Larter - Judge Jack - Judge Agee - Judge Bennett - Judge Castillo - Judge Dekker - Judge Goon - Deputy Cheif Judge Herriman - Judge Kruger - Judge Munn - Judge Perrier - Judge Prager - Judge Minty - Detective-Judge Steel - Detective Judge Trant - Judge Kazan - Chief Judge Ohno - Judge-Inspector Akio Anaba - Judge Marshall Lawson
Recurring Villains	Angel Gang - Mean Machine Angel - Elmer Angel - Junior Angel - Link Angel - Judge Bachmann - Oola Blint - President Booth - Judge Cal - Dark Judges - Rico Dredd - Armon Gill - Judge Grice - Morton Judd - Kleggs - Judge Kraken - Mechanismo - Stan Lee - Marty Zpok - PJ Maybe - Nero Narcos - Orlock - Shojun the Warlord - Judge Sinfield - Call-Me-Kenneth - Mr. Moonie - Murd the Oppresor - Owen Krysler - Don Uggie Apelino - Captain Skank - Father Earth - Kazan - Bulgarin - General Blood'n'Guts - Satanus - Satan - Fink Angel - Ratty - Rhode Island Red - Phobia - Nausia - America Jara - Cesare - Judge Mortis - Judge Fear - Judge Death - Judge Fire - Manners - Ramses - Trapper Hag - Sabbat - Wu Yang - Yin Mie - Randolph Whitely - Judge Choke - Judge Sleep - Judge Sludge - Judge Burroghs - Judge Fistula - Judge Skinner - Judge Stigmata - The Seven Samurai - Rex Peters - Slocum - Kenny Who? - Nosferatu - Grampus - Heavy Metal Kid - Ratty - Elvis - The Warlords - DeGaulle - The Joker - The Scarecrow - The Riddler - Arnold Wesker - Lobo - Judge Kurten - Pink Eyes - Aimee Nixon - Mr. Bones - Effil Drago San - Bella Bagley - Dune Sharks - Xenomorphs - Ueno Hama - Raptaurs - The Explosive Man - Judge Sherman - Ankhhor - President Clinton Box - Pamelina Oswin
Other Characters	Chopper - Vienna Dredd - Fergee - Yassa Povey - Jacob Sardini - Walter the Wobot - Henry Ford - Spikes Harvey Rotten - Tweak - Tony Tubbs - Otto Sump - Mrs. Gunderson - Sensitive Klegg - Jack Point - Maria - Benneet Beeny - Grunwalder - Old Joe Blind - Max Normal - Toots Milloy - Mr. Harke - Mr. Burr - Jim Grubb - Dave the Orangutan - Nimrod - The Creep - Johnny Alpha - Wulf Sternhammer - The Fargo Clan - Randy Fargo - Jubal Fargo - Hocus Ritter - Batman - Harry Henson
Storylines	America - The Apocalypse War - Block Mania - City of the Damned - The Cursed Earth - Day of Chaos - Democracy - The Doomsday Scenario - The Hunting Party - The Judge Child - Judgement Day - Mechanismo - Mutants - Necropolis - Origins - Oz - The Pit - The Robot Wars - Tour of Duty Trifecta - Wilderlands
Crossovers	Judge Dredd vs. Aliens - Judgement on Gotham - Predator vs. Judge Dredd - Mars Attacks Judge Dredd