
After all, this is the man who coldly murdered half a billion people (innocent and otherwise) during the finale of "Apocalypse War," and routinely executes lawbreakers on the spot. As the bootheel of Mega City One's fascist government, Dredd is no hero. One thing Dredd's creators have never shied away from is depicting their future lawman as a less-than savory figure.īetween enduring apocalyptic wastelands, battling mutants, and averting the end of the world (on several occasions), it can be easy to forget what Dredd is at his essence.

The character has been depicted as a comic book action hero, a stone-faced straight man to a futuristic world of oddities, and the only thing standing between Mega City One and certain doom. Since his creation in 1977, John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra's Judge Dredd has served many functions.
