List of minor characters in Judge Dredd
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This is a list of minor characters in the British comic strip Judge Dredd appearing in 2000 AD, Judge Dredd Megazine and related publications. They are listed alphabetically by surname, in categories.
[edit] Judges of Mega-City One
[edit] Beeny
A cadet in the Academy of Law, America Beeny was inducted by her father just before his untimely death and served the next ten years well (she is not at present a canditate for the accelerated graduation program, as far as we know). As with all tenth year cadets she was required to plan and execute an investigation on her own. Allowed to choose a partner, she chose to work with Judge Dredd and decided to take another look at the events of the previous America story, since she had decided that the first investigation had failed badly (leading to the Total War terrorist bombings).
Dredd has noted Beeny's skill, comparing her to a ten year man, though he did suspect that her insistence on going through the paper trail first was a means of needling him. (Dredd's hatred of paperwork is legendary).
In spite of her parentage (she was descended from anti-judicial activists America Jara and Bennet Beeny), America Beeny appears to have the makings of a very good Judge. She does however want to reform the system from the inside. With both parents dead, the closest thing she had to family was her father's old robo-servant Robert. When Robert was destroyed in an attempt on her life Dredd observed "we're your family now."
[edit] Brufen
Tek-Judge Brufen was head of Tek Division (2108-2110), Justice Department's research and development scientists, succeeding Judge Renbow and taking his seat on the Council of Five. By this time he had already invented the Manta Prowl Tank. He was assassinated by the Judda. His seat on the Council was taken by Judge Odell. However due to an oversight an artist on a later story, Tale of the Dead Man, depicted Brufen still alive two years later.[1]
[edit] Dekker
Judge Dekker first appeared in 1984 as a rookie judge, being evaluated by Dredd to assess her suitability to become a full judge. She passed with flying colours, with Dredd even telling her that she was the best rookie he had ever had. [2] She did not reappear in the strip again until 1991, when writer Garth Ennis used her as Dredd's sidekick. [3] By this time an experienced street judge, she was killed off in the 1992 story "Judgement Day" (set in 2114).
An alternative, evil version of Dekker from a parallel universe appeared in the 1994 novel Dread Dominion. [4]
[edit] Feyy
Psi-Judge Feyy was a psi judge with precognitive power. It was Feyy who on his death bed prophesised that Mega-City One would be destroyed unless the Judge Child, Owen Krysler, could be found and installed as the city's ruler. On average Feyy's predictions were assessed to be 88.8% accurate.
[edit] Fish
Deputy Chief Judge Fish was not a human but in fact a goldfish. When Judge Cal became chief judge he quickly went insane, and appointed his pet fish as his deputy. (The character of Judge Cal was based on the insane Roman emperor Caligula, who in real life nominated his horse for the office of senator.) Fish was assassinated by Judge Slocum, at the instigation of Judge Dredd. He was succeeded by Deputy Chief Judge Grampus, who himself was not human either, but of an alien race called the Kleggs.
[edit] Grampus
Deputy Chief Judge Grampus was the leader of an army of Kleggs: alien mercenaries hired by the insane tyrant Judge Cal to oppress the population during his reign of terror in 2101. He succeeded Judge Fish as Cal's deputy. When Cal announced his plan to gas the entire population to death, he allowed the Kleggs to leave, but before they could board their spaceships Judge Dredd led an assault to stop Cal. The Kleggs tried to surrender, but the judges slaughtered them anyway for their crimes. Grampus was killed by judges Dredd, Giant and Kelso. He was succeeded by Deputy Chief Judge Pepper.
[edit] Greel
Tek-Judge Greel was head of Tek-Division and succeeded Judge Quiggley as head of the Mechanismo robot judge programme. He was briefly acting chief judge in the year 2116. However he was implicated in an assassination attempt on Chief Judge McGruder when one of his robots attempted to kill her. Although his alleged guilt was never proved, McGruder curtly demoted him to a junior position in Traffic Control, effectively finishing his political ambitions for ever. He was succeeded as head of Tek-Division by Judge McGovern.
[edit] Herriman
Deputy Chief Judge Paul Herriman was originally a street judge. When in 2116 Judge McGruder resigned as chief judge, Herriman was one of the candidates in the election to replace her. Running against Judges Dredd, Volt and Hershey, Herriman came third. Chief Judge Volt appointed Herriman deputy chief judge. In 2117 Herriman became the first deputy chief judge to regularly preside over meetings of the ruling Council of Five following Volt's decision to abolish the chief judge's ex officio chairmanship of the Council. He was assassinated by Judge Mortis in 2120 while he was acting chief judge. He was succeeded as deputy chief judge by Judge Hershey.
[edit] Kurten
Judge Barry Kurten was a street judge who developed mental problems, and had hallucinations of a little blue man called Mo who told him what to do. Mostly Mo told him to use excessive force when arresting people, leading Kurten to commit acts of increasing violence, culminating in murder. When he realised that Judge Dredd had him under surveillance he stole a large sum of money from drug dealers and fled the city, setting himself up as a judge in Ciudad Barranquilla, where the judges take a more relaxed view of judge brutality. Kurten thrived in his new city, and became so notorious for his violent behaviour that he became known among the locals as "El Diablo," the Devil. When Chief Judge Batista refused Mega-City One's extradition request, Judge Dredd secretly infiltrated Ciudad Barranquilla disguised as one of Batista's judges and assassinated Kurten.
[edit] Logan
Judge Logan is Dredd's assistant. He has made a number of appearances, first in 2003 in the story "The Satanist"[5] before appearing in the Total War storyline.[6] He is currently in "Origins."
[edit] McTighe
Tek-Judge McTighe is head of Tek Division and a member of the ruling Council of Five. He is the longest-serving head of Tek-Division to appear in the comic, as that office usually tends to have a high rate of turnover. He succeeded Judge McGovern in 2120, and joined the Council shortly afterwards, following the death of Judge Herriman.
[edit] Morphy
Judge Morphy was the senior judge who supervised Dredd's Final Assessment to become a full judge, when Dredd was a rookie in 2079. During most of Dredd's career he mentored him, giving advice when needed, and was in many ways a father figure to him. He was killed in the line of duty in 2112, only a few months short of retirement. Dredd took his death very badly and almost murdered one of the killers, restraining himself only at the very last moment. The perpetrators were sentenced to thirty years.
[edit] Nimrod
Nimrod was a cadet at the Academy of Law. He was cloned from the DNA of Judge Dredd or Chief Judge Fargo, but was genetically modified to give him greatly enhanced sensory abilities. Unfortunately the genetic modification process was far from perfected, and his body began to react adversely to the changes that had been wrought upon him. He lost his mind, and severely disfigured himself when he set himself on fire in a suicide attempt. Eventually he was scheduled for euthanasia.
[edit] Odell
Judge Odell was an elderly judge who was responsible for rehabilitating the ex-Judda Kraken and training him to become a judge following the Judda's failure to conquer Mega-City One.
Odell joined the Council of Five following the assassination of Tek-Judge Brufen in 2110. Although seconded to the Academy of Law he continued to wear the uniform of a street judge. He firmly believed in Kraken's change of loyalties, and his frequent and passionate defence of Kraken persuaded Chief Judge Silver to overrule Dredd's judgement of him and promote him to full judge. Consequently when Kraken became a Dark Judge and participated in the destruction of the city, Odell took it badly and committed suicide.
[edit] Omar
Psi-Judge Omar became head of Psi Division after his predecessor Ecks was killed in the Apocalypse War. He personally assisted Judge Dredd in his investigation into the haunting of a sector house, and later he exonerated Judge Anderson when she was accused of negligently permitting the Dark Judges to escape and threaten the city. When psi-criminal Shojun the Warlord unleashed the demonic Seven Samurai on the city, Omar volunteered to sacrifice his own life in a suicide attack to destroy them using a psionic amplifier. He was succeeded as head of Psi-Division by Judge Shenker.
[edit] Pepper
Judge Pepper was deputy chief judge from 2101 to 2103, succeeding DCJ Grampus.
After losing a leg in the 21st century he retired from active service and became a tutor at the Academy of Law, where he taught many of the city's most important and senior judges while they were cadets, including Judge Dredd and future chief judge Cal. When Chief Judge Cal became insane Pepper volunteered to fight with Dredd to depose the tyrant. In the moment of victory Dredd was offered the position of chief judge, but he declined in favour of Judge Griffin. Griffin then appointed Pepper as his deputy.
Two years later Pepper was assassinated by game show contestants from a reality television show, in which contestants gained points by confessing to crimes they had not yet been caught for. Pepper's death led to the show being taken off the air.
[edit] Perrier
Judge Perrier first appeared in the story "The Apocalypse War". She did not appear again however until years later when writer Garth Ennis took over the strip and resurrected her and Dekker as sidekicks for Judge Dredd. Both were killed off in "Judgement Day".
[edit] Plaski
Judge Ferd Plaski was a senior street judge who contested the first election for chief judge in 2116. However he was blackmailed into withdrawing his candidacy, and the election was won by Judge Volt. He had had a daughter following an illicit liaison with a civilian two decades earlier, and although Chief Judge Goodman had decided that a reprimand was sufficient punishment, the threat to make this information public made his candidacy untenable. The blackmailer, Judge Surly Porter (a play on the name Shirley Porter, a real-life politician accused of rigging an election), was arrested by Dredd.
[edit] Prager
Judge Prager is one of the judges who chose to take the Long Walk into the Undercity. After four years down there he made his first appearance, in prog 328, when he saved Judge Dredd who had been transformed into a werewolf. [7] He next appeared decades later to warn the judges of a new threat to the city from Bones but it turned out Prager, himself, had now become a werewolf. Declining the cure he helped defeat Bones' army and resumed his Undercity patrol. [8]
[edit] Priest
Judge Priest was a street judge in Sector 301, Mega-City One's most crime-ridden sector. He became so frustrated with one criminal who kept being diverted from normal incarceration because of his psychiatric problems, and then released as pronounced cured, that one day he simply shot him when he surrendered. From that day on he began murdering any suspect who he either could not prove was guilty or could not sentence to an adequate punishment. His partner Judge Struthers was complicit in Priest's crimes, though Priest was the instigator. When Struthers was killed in the line of duty, Priest became mentally unbalanced. When Priest's crimes were uncovered he confessed, but later escaped from custody and embarked on a killing spree, this time slaughtering innocent citizens. He finally committed suicide.
[edit] Quiggley
Tek-Judge Quiggley took over from Judge Stich as head of the Mechanismo robot judge programme after the Mark I robots ran amok. However he was demoted when his Mark IIs also failed a field test. He was succeeded as head of the project by Judge Greel. When Judge Dredd tried to interfere with his continuing work on the Mark IIA robots Quiggley became desperate, and ordered the robots to kill Dredd. He was sentenced to 20 years of hard labour on the penal colony on Titan.
[edit] Quincy
SJS Judge Quincy was one of four SJS judges who assassinated Chief Judge Goodman in 2101 on the orders of Judge Cal. He also tried to kill Judge Dredd, shooting him in the head with a rifle. When Cal became chief judge, his first manifestation of his developing insanity was to order Quincy to undress and perform all of his duties in his underwear, as punishment for a uniform infraction (a missing button). His fate was not recorded in the comic.
[edit] Roffman
Judge Roffman works in the Public Surveillance Unit. He originally served in the SJS in Sector 301, but was transferred to Street Division in Sector 303 after bugging his superior officer's office. Due to his inexperience he bungled a raid and inadvertently discharged his weapon, shooting and wounding another judge. Suspended from duty, his efforts to make amends (again by spying on his new commanding officer) backfired and almost resulted in the end of his career. Instead Judge Edgar, head of PSU, recognised that his suspicious and devious character made him ideally suited to surveillance work, and she recruited him. He flourished in his new role, and continues to assist Judge Dredd in investigations, distinguishing himself in the search for the members of the Total War terrorism organisation when they began detonating nuclear bombs around the city.
[edit] Sanchez
Judge Sanchez was a newly graduated Judge when Mr. Bones released the Incubus on Mega-City One. She fought alongside Dredd and Judge Giant in the defence of the Grand Hall of Justice but it appeared the strain would break her. However, the various perils (including being inpregnated by the Incubus) helped mould her into a strong judge. She is currently one of the team assisting Dredd in "Origins".
[edit] Slocum
SJS Judge Slocum served Judge Cal during his brief reign of terror. He killed Deputy Chief Judge Fish on Dredd's orders. His role in Fish's death went undetected, but he was later executed for inadvertently calling Cal "crazy," then a capital offence. He was paralysed and then pickled alive in a giant vat of vinegar.
[edit] Other Judges
[edit] Armitage
Detective-Judge Armitage is a British Judge much hated throughout the Brit-Cit Justice Department. His real name is unknown and his trait is that he never carries a gun. Yet Armitage's knowledge of weapons is extensive, mainly due to his activities during the Brit-Cit Civil War of 2092-99, when he fought on the losing side. After the war Armitage joined up as a Judge, but became cynical and morose when his lover Liora was killed by the crime lord Efil Drago San, in revenge for the Detective Judge crippling him. Although this means he has gained a reputation for being impossible to work with Armitage has done outstanding work in the Brit-Cit Justice Department's plainclothes homicide division.
Rookie Judge Treasure Steel has, although both harbouring a grudging respect for each other, become his closest friend and ally.
[edit] Bhaji
Psi-Judge Bhaji came to Mega-City One on a cultural visit at a particularly bad time, since it coincided with former Judge Grice's devastating attack on the city with a killer virus. Bhaji predicted the events in a psi-dream, warning him that Judge Dredd would be the man left to pick up the pieces. Bhaji helped recapture Mega-City One from within his renegade group. The visiting Judge worked well with Psi-Judge Janus during the struggle and their combined efforts helped saved the city from the virus and contributed to the ultimate defeat of Grice.
[edit] Bulgarin and Kazan
Supreme Judge Bulgarin was ruler of East Meg One until the Apocalypse War. He delegated the invasion of Mega-City One to his most trusted general, War Marshal Kazan. However Bulgarin's confidence was misplaced as Kazan assassinated him and took his place. Kazan was executed by Dredd at the end of the war.
[edit] Anatoli Kazan
Anatoli Kazan is the crippled clone son of War Marshal Kazan. He originally served the surviving judges of East-Meg One, and was a thorn in Judge Dredd's side, but he later defected to Mega-City One where he offered to help Defence Division. Dredd was highly suspicious of Kazan's true motives and persuaded the Chief Judge not to trust him, but the Council of Five overruled them and voted to employ Kazan (under strict supervision). This appears to be the beginning of a story arc in which Kazan will most likely become a significant villain as it is developed by writer Gordon Rennie.
[edit] Joyce
Judge-Sergeant Joyce is an Irish Judge. He partnered with Dredd when Dredd was sent to Ireland to extradite a suspect in 2113. In the following year he was supposed to accompany Dredd on a suicide mission to kill the necromagus Sabbat, but was knocked unconscious and replaced by Johnny Alpha, which saved his life. He was seriously injured during a hazardous extradition assignment to Mega-City One.
[edit] Perpetrators
[edit] Dr. Bolt
Dr. Bolt was a robot scientist who performed unauthorised mind control experiments on prisoners in a Cursed Earth prison camp. He also released dangerous alien Dune Sharks on Mega City One, which led to Judge Dredd leading a mission to locate their source.
[edit] Mr Bones
Mr Bones (original name Dan Dan Riboshevsky) was born in Mega-City One in 2084. Routine scanning showed he had a genetic predispostion for evil and he was expelled from the city to live with other mutants in the Cursed Earth. He returned entering the Undercity to raise an army but when this was foiled he returned with an even more deadly threat - the Xenomorph. He came across them when he left the Cursed Earth for a career as a space pirate. It is their acid blood which disfigured him and he died when they turned on him.
[edit] Call-Me-Kenneth
Call-Me-Kenneth was a robot who appointed himself as leader of all rogue robots during The Robot Wars. Kenneth was a carpentry droid driven to rebel by his poor treatment by his owner. Kenneth, equipped with a chainsaw, attacked a number of humans and nearly killed Dredd before being disabled.
In an unusual display of clemency Kenneth was rebuilt in a new body. Drawn by Ron Turner (the original version was designed by Carlos Ezquerra) this version is more human like and is equipped with a large drill and a third eye. Supposed to have been reprogrammed, he instead went on the rampage again and raised a whole army of robots to take over the city.
[edit] The Creep
Beneath Mega City One is the Undercity (the remains of old New York City). Strangest of all the monsters and mutations that lurk beneath Mega City One is the one known as the Creep.
The Creep was a brilliant but strange maniac able to morph his face and body into every terror imaginable. He takes great delight in torturing those who come from the Mega City down into the Undercity who disturb his playground of horrors.
On one occasion The Creep tortured a hunting party that descends to the Undercity. An example of his bizarre behaviour was transplanting the head of one of the members on to the neck of his pet crocodile Yorkie.
The tiny terror ventured into Mega City One during Necropolis, meeting the four Dark Judges. Judge Fire burned the Creep alive. Judge Fear stared into his face and Judge Mortis touched his flesh but the malignant mutant survived their attentions. In the end the quartet fled this invincible monster.
The Creep remains at large, apparently immortal and utterly inexplicable.
[edit] Vitus Dance
Vitus Dance was a freelance assassin from the Cursed Earth. He had psionic powers, including pyrokinesis (the ability to set fires with his mind), levitation, and the power to control the minds of others. The strength of his powers was amplified scorpion poison, and he carried two pet scorpions with him to sting him when necessary. In 2117 Dance was hired by mob boss Nero Narcos to kill an informer in judicial custody, a task which he accomplished by allowing himself to be arrested to get close enough to his victim, and then escaping. He was caught by Judges Dredd and Castillo, and served four years in solitary confinement, during which time he became insane. He escaped by faking his own death and then breaking out of the ambulance taking him to the morgue. Narcos still hoped to use him, but Dance tried to take over his mind. Narcos escaped and betrayed Dance to the Judges, who eventually killed him after many of them were slain.
[edit] Bert Dubinski
Bert Dubinski was the first criminal Judge Dredd ever arrested, at the beginning of his Final Assessment to graduate to full judge. Dredd sentenced him to thirty-five years for murder in 2079. On his release in 2114 Dubinski tracked Dredd down to reminisce about old times, as he had followed Dredd's career ever since, but he found that Dredd was not interested in being friendly with a criminal. Enraged, he tried to kill Dredd, but failed and refused an offered opportunity to surrender. Dredd killed him without compunction.[9]
[edit] Father Earth
Half-man, half-plant, Father Earth was a bizarre mutant and prophet who believed that Mega-City One had to be destroyed to free the Earth of its tyranny of concrete and steel. Attracting thousands of mutant and outcast followers, he combined his "oneness" with nature with a ruthless streak against the city dwellers.
One key group of followers, The Doomsday Dogs, blew up Mega-City One's Power Tower and unleashed molten lava on its streets, which enabled Father Earth and his army to invade the city and attempt to overrun it. The threat of this artificially created "volcano" was soon ended, but the mutant leader set free a host of deadly exhibits from the Mega-City Botanic Gardens so continued to be a danger to the city.
Ironically, Father Earth was killed by the very thing he embraced, a plant, becoming entwined in a man-eating piece of vegetation he called the "God Plant".
[edit] Ueno Hama
Originally a 'sleeper' robot spy placed in Hondo City by the Mega-City One Justice Department, Ueno Hama became part of the population as a scaffolder. Unfortunately, a building site accident damaged his circuits and switched him into attack mode, so he began killing Hondo City officials with ruthless efficiency - on a kill or be killed policy.
It made an attempt to kill Judge-Inspector Totaru, but Judge Dredd stepped in to save his Hondo counterpart. Dredd engineered a massive explosion to destroy the robot - and therefore the evidence of Mega-City One's involvement in the whole sordid affair.
[edit] Hester Hyman
Hester Hyman was an ordinary wife and mother who became so despairing of life under the tyranny of the Judges that she turned to terrorism to raise publicity for the cause of democratic reform. Her death at Dredd's hands spurred many ordinary citizens to campaign for democracy.
[edit] Robert Krush
Robert Krush was the main villain in the "House of Pain" story. Robert appeared to be simply the aide of businessman Faustus Krush but revealed himself to have secretly been Faustus' half-brother; he left him imprisoned in the House of Pain and took Faustus' place after a face-change operation. The House of Pain itself was a fictional prison organization that tortured criminals who escaped the Judges and, once broken, used them to capture other criminals. The Judges raided the facility and have turned it into a new Iso-Block. [10]
[edit] Monkey
The Monkey was an outcast that telepathically took over Chief Judge Goodman's mind in 2098-99. He made Goodman order the Judges to allow hordes of hostile mutants, who had been exiled from the Mega-City into the Cursed Earth radiation desert, to re-enter the city. This resulted in massive loss of life, and prompted Judge Cal to attempt to usurp Goodman as chief judge. Cal's coup d'etat was delayed when Judges Dredd and Chambers defeated the parasite at the eleventh hour, but came to fruition two years later when Cal had Goodman assassinated. Chambers and dozens of other judges were killed in the catastrophe, as well as thousands of civilians. [11]
[edit] Murd the Oppressor and Sagbelly
Murd was an ancient necromancer and ruler of the planet Necros for ten thousand years. He was served by a multitude of creatures armed with swords, and had a giant toad called Sagbelly as a pet. Sagbelly had a wart from which a dangerous substance called Oracle Spice oozed, which could be used to foresee the future but which was fatal to most users. Dredd required the Oracle Spice to help him to find the Judge Child, but was actually killed by Murd when he arrived on Necros. Murd then brought Dredd back to life, intending to feed him alive to Sagbelly. This establishes Murd as one of Dredd's most dangerous foes of all time, since although Dredd has come close to death many times, only Murd has actually killed him. Once restored to life, however, Dredd wasted no time in killing both foul creatures.
Although Murd only appeared in two episodes before being killed off, he and Sagbelly were immensely popular with readers, and Murd was used again in a few cameos. Most notable of these was in a flashback to a time before his death in an episode of "Judgement Day", in which he appeared as the tutor and mentor of Sabbat the Necromagus.
Another incarnation of Murd from a parallel universe appeared years later in the story "Helter Skelter."
[edit] Raptaur
Raptaur is the name of a deadly species of alien. They can dismember people in seconds with razor-sharp claws, and their preferred food is human brains. They also secrete a toxin which saps the will to live and encourages their prey to submit without resistance. Dredd encountered and eventually killed one in 2113. Jack Point owns one as a pet.
[edit] Spikes Harvey Rotten
There have been two characters with this name.
The first was a biker who was killed in Mega-City One while attempting to win an illegal race. He was not a noteworthy character.
The second was created by Pat Mills as a sidekick for Dredd in the 1978 story The Cursed Earth. He was also a biker and a criminal. Dredd had him paroled from custody to accompany him on his perilous mission across the Cursed Earth desert, as he was familiar with the territory from his days smuggling guns there. When all of the judges who accompanied Dredd were killed along the way, Spikes still fought by Dredd's side. He was killed only a short distance from Mega-City Two.
[edit] Sabbat the Necromagus
Sabbat was the villain in the story "Judgement Day". He started the Fourth World War and tried to kill everyone in the world.
[edit] Albert Sherman
Albert Sherman was a child prodigy who wanted to become King of Mega-City One because he was bored. He planted five nuclear bombs in the city and threatened to detonate them unless he became King of the city. Dredd stopped him but was unable to punish him because he was too young to be prosecuted. Instead Dredd forced him to enlist in the Academy of Law, where he would receive extremely strict discipline. [12]
[edit] Whitey
"Whitey" was the first perp to appear in the Judge Dredd strip, in 2000 AD prog 2. He murdered the first judge to appear in the strip, Judge Alvin, prompting Dredd to arrest him and sentence him to life on Devil's Island: a prison with no need for walls as it is located on a traffic island where the traffic never stops and attempting to cross the road means certain death.
Whitey was the first Judge Dredd villain to return in a sequel, when he escaped in #31 and in the comic's tenth anniversary issue, #520. Dredd killed him in his last appearance.
Whitey also had a brother, who tried to rescue him, destroying the World Trade Center in the process (in a story published in 1977).[13]
[edit] Kenny Who?
Kenny Who? is a comic artist from CalHab (Scotland), who was arrested by Dredd for assaulting comics editors who programmed a robot to imitate his style, without paying him. He first appeared in a 1986 story written as a satire on the then policy of British comics of not paying royalties to artists and writers. After this policy was ended, he appeared in two comedy sequels.
The question mark was part of his surname, which was a running joke each time he tried to introduce himself, when people would become confused and rephrase the question.
The character is actual based on artist Cam Kennedy and his storylines (drawn by Kennedy) dealt with issues he encountered in the American comic industry.
[edit] Others
[edit] Aaron A. Aardvark
Aaron A. Aardvark changed his name from Eric Plunkett to be the first person in the phone book. Unfortunately his bid for fame resulted in him being the first citizen to be executed when the insane tyrant Chief Judge Cal decided to execute the entire population of Mega-City One in alphabetical order.
[edit] Bella Bagley
Bella Bagley was an unlucky-in-love woman who fell in love with Dredd. When he rejected her advances she became insane and had to be incarcerated in the psycho-cubes. Escaping twice, on the second occasion she finally decided to kill Dredd in a fit of jealousy and was shot dead. [14]
[edit] Dolman
Dolman was a cadet at the Academy of Law. He was cloned from Judge Dredd's DNA. Although he performed well at the Academy, he resented his lack of control over his own life and chose to leave the Academy and Mega-City One. He transferred to an offworld Space Academy.
[edit] Blondel Dupre
Blondel Dupré was one of the leaders of the movement for restoring democracy in Mega-City One. She led the Democratic March of 2109 and the 2113 referendum campaign. She retired after losing the vote.
[edit] Mrs Gunderson
Mrs Gunderson is an elderly, deaf and almost blind woman, who mainly appears in cameos to provide comic relief pertaining to her misinterpretations of what she hears people say or her failure to notice what is happening around her. Her main story was "Young Death", the story of Judge Death's origin, in which she unknowingly was Death's landlady while he lay low hiding from the judges. Miraculously she survived the encounter. Walter the Wobot presently serves as her house robot.
[edit] Maria
Maria was Judge Dredd's maid who, along with Walter the Wobot, provided an early glimpse into Judge Dredd's homelife. (In early stories she was described as Dredd's landlady, but this was later revised to maid.) Written with a stereotyped Italian accent, the story Whatever Happened To Maria would reveal she was not Italian at all but faking it for reasons unknown. After years of working for Dredd and even joining in the resistance in the Apocalypse War, she was kidnapped by Mean Machine Angel and his brother Fink, who mistook her for Dredd's wife, after which she resigned and vowed never to work for Dredd again. She became a homeless alcoholic. Maria died in 2126 and left all her money (revealed to be a sizeable amount despite her homelessness) to Dredd.
[edit] Max Normal
Max Normal was, for a while, Judge Dredd's best informant. In a city teeming with citizens dressed in unusual, eccentric or downright bizarre fashions, Max stood out for dressing conservatively in clothes which in the mid-twentieth century would have been perfectly normal. He wore a pinstripe suit and a bowler hat, carried an umbrella, and wore a carnation in his buttonhole. He had refined tastes, eschewing water and only ever drinking champagne: this saved him from being contaminated by the Block Mania virus which infected the city's water supply in 2104. His one concession to 22nd-century living was his fondness for playing shuggy, an advanced version of billiards played on an uneven surface of hills and valleys. He stopped working for Dredd after criminals held him hostage in an attempt on Dredd's life.
[edit] Mrs Pasternak
Mrs Pasternak was an elderly woman who looked after Vienna Dredd when she was a child. She died in 2125.
[edit] Public Defender 314
Although citizens in Mega-City One do not have trials, they are still permitted a right of appeal, and those who can not afford human lawyers are assigned robots. Public Defender 314 is one of them. He has a malfunction which causes him to speak out loud parts of his internal monologue, which is used for comic effect in the stories he appears in.
[edit] Satanus
Satanus was a cloned dinosaur who attacked Dredd in "The Cursed Earth." Although Dredd believed Satanus to have been killed, he actually survived. He has since appeared in non-Dredd stories such as Nemesis the Warlock.
[edit] Citizen Snork
Citizen Snork is a man with an unnaturally large nose. He is an occasionally recurring character used mostly for comic effect, but also illustrating the eccentric and bizarre nature of futuristic life in the 22nd century, where unemployment is almost universal and the bored citizens take up all manner of strange and extreme hobbies to entertain themselves. Snork deliberately grew his nose to gargantuan proportions (using growth hormones and other methods) to gain the largest nose in the city (population 400 million). This however made him a target for assassination by various individuals, and at the height of his fame he had to be bodyguarded by Judge Dredd. In the final attempt on his life his original nose was severed and destroyed. However in his last appearance in the comic it had been regrown or replaced.
[edit] Tweak
Tweak was a cute furry alien who played a major role in "The Cursed Earth".
After humans arrived on his home planet, Tweak arranged for his people to go into hiding underground until he could gather more information about them. After utilising the power of mind probes he was able to determine that human history was littered with violence, exploitation and hatred - so, as President of his world, he decided that no contact should be made with the humans at all.
After his children were captured, Tweak decided to let himself be captured and posed as a 'dumb alien' rather than risk the humans exploiting the vast mineral resources of his planet - which Tweak's people ate - and leaving Tweak's race to starve. Convincing the humans he was unintelligent, Tweak and his family were sold into slavery in the Cursed Earth, although he was separated from them. After escaping and finding his family dead Tweak was recaptured but escaped again, thus the Slay-Riders were employed to kill him. Judge Dredd stepped in to save the alien, upon which Tweak helped him to deliver the 2T(FRU)T virus antidote to Mega-City Two.
After the mission, Dredd arranged for Tweak to be returned to his home planet. Dredd insisted the planet was of no value, and Tweak's people were left in peace.
[edit] References
- ^ 2000 AD #662, 1990
- ^ Judge Dredd (all by John Wagner/Alan Grant and Kim Raymond):
"Superbowl" (in 2000 AD #370-371, 1984)
"Bingo" (in 2000 AD #372, 1984)
"The Making of a Judge" (in 2000 AD #373, 1984) - ^ Judge Dredd: "Muzak Killer" (by Garth Ennis and Dermot Power, in 2000 AD #746-748, 1991)
- ^ Dread Dominion (Stephen Marley, May, 1994 ISBN 0-352-32929-7)
- ^ "The Satanist" (by John Wagner and Charlie Adlard, in 2000 AD #1350-1356, 2003)
- ^ Total War (by John Wagner):
"Terror" (with art by Colin MacNeil, in 2000 AD #1392-1399, 2004)
"Total War" (with art by Henry Flint, in 2000 AD #1408-1419, 2004) - ^ Judge Dredd: "Cry of the Werewolf" (by John Wagner/Alan Grant and Steve Dillon, in 2000 AD #322-328, 1983)
- ^ Judge Dredd: "Out of the Undercity" (by John Wagner and Carl Critchlow, in 2000 AD #1313-1316, 2003)
- ^ 2000 AD #775
- ^ "House of Pain" (by Gordon Rennie and artists Ian Richardson (1-3, 6) and PJ Holden (4-5), in 2000 AD#1485-1490, 2006)
- ^ "Monkey on My Back" (by Garth Ennis and John Higgins, in Judge Dredd Megazine #204-206, 2003)
- ^ Judge Dredd: "New Year is Cancelled" (by John Wagner and Brendan McCarthy, in 2000 AD #146, 1980)
- ^ 2000 AD 1978 Annual
- ^ Bella Bagley's 2000 AD profile
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- The Creep's profile
- Judge Dekker profile
- Mrs Gunderson's profile
- Judge Logan's profile
- Maria's profile
- Judge Roffman's profile
- Tweak's profile
- Walter's profile
- Kenny Who?'s profile
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