Fergee (Judge Dredd character)
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Fergee is a fictional character in the Judge Dredd universe, first introduced in prog 100 of the UK comic book 2000 AD.
Finding himself on the wrong side of the law more than once, Fergee finally sought refuge from the Judges in the Undercity. Setting up home near the highly polluted Ohio River - aka the Big Smelly - he soon proved himself the 'top dog' amongst the mutants and outcasts who lived there. When Judge Dredd crashed through the city bottom in a roadliner, during the anti-Cal rebellion, Fergee saw the Judge and his fellow rebels as intruders on his territory. He introduced himself as the King of the Big Smelly and took on Dredd in hand-to-club combat, losing.
Fergee then led Dredd back up to Mega-City One, helping him capture a patrol-wagon, upon which Dredd appointed him an honorary Judge. He helped Dredd dispatch a group of Kleggs who had taken over Dredd's apartment in Rowdy Yates Conapts, so that Walter the Wobot could be enlisted to try and steal one of Cal's Judge briefing tapes.
Fergee enjoyed his new position and took his responsibilities more seriously than even Dredd could have dared hope during the final battle to depose Cal. When the mad Chief Judge tried to press the fatal button, which would gas the entire city, at the top of the Statue of Judgement, Fergee charged into him and carried him off the top of the structure. He fell to his death along with Cal, but Judge Dredd ensured that Fergee's sacrifice would always be remembered in Mega-City One by erecting commemorative statues of him all over the city.
Fergee's catchphrase & battlecry is Easy the Ferg!