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Main city in the Gauge Dredd universe

Mega-City 1
Mega-Metropolis One before the Apocalypse State of war
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Type	Metropolis-state
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Publisher	Rebellion Developments

Mega-City One is a fictional city that features in the Estimate Dredd comic book series and related media. A post-nuclear megalopolis covering much of what is now the Eastern United States and some of Canada, the metropolis's verbal geography depends on the writer and artist working the story. From its offset advent information technology has been associated with New York Metropolis'due south urban sprawl; originally presented equally a hereafter New York, information technology was retconned as the middle of a "Mega-City Ane" in the very next story.^[i]

The Architects' Journal placed information technology at No. ane in their list of "comic book cities".^[ii]

Development [edit]

When the series Judge Dredd was being developed in 1976–77 it was originally planned that the story would be set in New York, in the well-nigh future. Withal, when artist Carlos Ezquerra drew his kickoff story for the series, a skyscraper in the background of i panel looked so futuristic that editor Pat Mills instructed him to draw a full-page affiche of the metropolis. Ezquerra's vision of the city – with massive tower blocks and endless roads suspended vast distances higher up the footing with no visible means of back up – was so futuristic that it prompted a rethink, and a whole new city was proposed. Art director Doug Church suggested that the city should extend along the entire Eastern Seaboard, and be called Mega-City One, and his idea was adopted.^[3]

While the commencement Judge Dredd story is fix in "New York 2099AD", prog 3 retconned that and said New York was only office of Mega-City One.^[4] The back of prog 3 included an Ezquerra "Futuregraph" poster of Mega-Metropolis One (a folio from an unused Dredd story), which said the urban center stretched from Montreal to Georgia and had 150 million citizens; it was part of the "United States of the West" (USW).^[v] Prog 4 so established that Mega-City One was surrounded by wildernesses from the Atomic Wars. The 150 million population was later revised to 100 meg in earlier strips^{[ citation needed ]} and abruptly bumped to 800 million later on.^{[half dozen]} The United states of america of the West concept was dropped entirely; a "United Cities of Due north America" of three megacities was mentioned in prog 42 and then itself dropped in favour of Mega-Urban center One existence an independent entity.

In early strips, the Judges existed aslope a regular police,^[seven] were popular with the citizens, and the people enjoyed robots doing the piece of work, with the "Grand Judge" saying they would not consent to work more than ten hours a calendar week.^[8] Over time, the strip would have the Judges as a feared police-country strength with sole ability; prog 118 (written when unemployment was going up in Britain) established that citizens resented being unemployed and took upwardly bizarre crazes to bargain with the boredom, and this remained part of the strip from then on.

Description [edit]

Mega-City One evolved out of a growing conurbation stretching from Boston to Washington DC, which took grade in the 21st century to cope with the escalating population crunch in the United States and – as a solution chosen to deal with the high crime charge per unit – led to the introduction of the Judge arrangement.

Mega-Urban center One was i of 3 major areas to survive the nuclear war in 2070, due to an experimental laser missile-defense organisation built not long before. Apart from those megacities, the Usa has been reduced to the Cursed Earth.

Eventually, Mega-City 1 extended to Miami, Florida, which became a holiday resort,^[nine] and spread west into Ohio and/or West Virginia.^[10] The megacity was built over the top of the old cities and the polluted Ohio River, creating the lawless Undercity,^[eleven] though a few buildings similar the Empire State Building and Statue of Liberty were moved to Mega-City One for the tourists.^[12] Maps of the city^[13] show that in the early 22nd century, it stretched roughly from southern Maine down through Florida and to the n-east has captivated the Quebec Metropolis-Windsor Corridor in Canada. 800 million citizens lived in the metropolis at this indicate.

The population and urban center sprawl were halved past nuclear attack and Soviet invasion in 2104 (in the 1982 story "The Apocalypse State of war"), with the loss of the unabridged due south in a saturation nuclear strike. The northward-west and upper due north were also lost, leaving the city stretching from roughly New Hampshire through North Carolina and losing the Canadian territory. A pocket-size office of the northward west survived: the N West Hab Zone,^[xiv] separated from the residuum of the city by a stretch of radioactive wasteland chosen Nuke Alley and linked to the main metropolis by a bridge. The population remained at effectually 400 million from 2104 until 2134.

Mega-City Ane has a far greater population density than any city in the present-twenty-four hours world. Most city dwellers (citizens) live in huge apartment blocks (50,000+), though many citizens live a perpetually nomadic existence in vehicular mo-pads (mobile homes) due to inadequate housing provisions. These citizens travel the city via the many public ship routes available, rarely stopping. Some mo-pads are quite luxurious, consummate with swimming pools.

For authoritative purposes the city is divided into 305 sectors, most of them renamed to fit the new size of the city subsequently the Apocalypse State of war, and clumped into Central, North, South, Eastward, and W. Sectors one (the heart) to 300 institute the main urban center. The N-West Hab Zone encompasses sectors 301-5. The Hab Zone was mostly ignored past the city and Sector 301 became disparagingly nicknamed "The Pit" due to its high law-breaking rate, until Chief Judge Volt had it cleaned upwardly in 2118. Other slum areas have been called "Angeltown" (Sector 13'south slums) and "the Depression Life". By the fourth dimension of the comics setting English is no longer considered the official language of Mega-Metropolis One being replace by a local bastardisation call Meg Speak, with each sector or sometimes fifty-fifty blocks having its own dialect and accent.^{[ citation needed ]}

Following the events of the 2011–12-story Twenty-four hours of Anarchy (fix in 2134), Mega-City 1 was left in ruins and almost ninety% of its population was killed. After decades of being the primary megacity and superpower on World, the urban center is now broke and in severe decline with many judges considering the situation unsustainable.^[fifteen]

However over the following few years the city began to grow again due to immigration, taking in of refugees and the gradual return of millions of citizens who sabbatum out the plague overseas and off world. By October 2137 the population stood at seventy two one thousand thousand and was growing rapidly reaching 100 million around 2139. Nonetheless the destruction of the Academy of Police during Chaos 24-hour interval has disrupted the supply of cadets, and it is all the remaining judges can do to cope with the expanding population as it will exist years before replacement of losses is reliable again.^[16]

In 2019 a story ready in 2141 stated that the population had been revised upwardly to 130 million, due to a number of reasons, including the overestimation of the number of deaths in Anarchy Twenty-four hours, a declining death rate since then, and births and immigration. It as well confirmed that many citizens fled either before or during the Chaos plague and take been slowly returning in the 7 years since, and that the Chaos bug disproportionately killed the elderly ensuring a college number of fertile age survivors to repopulate the city. Past this point then CJ Hershey believed the city could once again safely absorb such a vast increase in numbers, equally many undamaged blocks remained available to be re-inhabited.^[17]

Other territories [edit]

Mega-City One has protectorates and colonies exterior of the metropolis walls:

• Mega-City One held joint jurisdiction over Atlantis, an underwater city located mid way across the Atlantic along with Brit Cit until 2143 when it was destroyed by a mafia hit squad during a failed striking, killing most of its population.
• Various colonies on other planets, used as both settings and background item in Dredd and its spin-off strips. Constabulary and the metropolis's central government are enforced past Colonial-Marshal Judges; ethnic aliens and MC-ane colonialists are often oppressed and some cause insurgencies. Military forces are ofttimes mentioned as being space based (run into Military). The spin-off strip Insurrection showed that the Special Judicial Service have an outer-space army to deal with whatever colonies where the judicial staff declare independence. The chief push into space began roughly in 2095, under Chief Judge Goodman, as a fashion of supplying the urban center with resources that a post-state of war Earth could no longer provide.^[eighteen] The near famous colony is the penal colony on Titan, where corrupt Judges are sent.
• Various farms, mines, prisons, and protectorate townships in the Cursed Earth. The Cursed World Auxiliaries patrol the area for Justice Department.^[19] The city used to have mutant camps, where mutants built-in in the city were deported,^[twenty] only these were ended after the repeal of the mutant apartheid laws.
• Townships One through Four: since 2130, the bulk of mutant citizens live in big towns outside of the city. Police enforcement is more often than not done by mutant deputies, and different the urban center they still use the jury trial organisation (unless a approximate demands otherwise).

City Blocks [edit]

Blocks are huge and can exist considered to be a small town in themselves. Each one will typically possess a hospital, gymnasium, schoolhouse, and shopping district. A citizen can quite literally alive their whole lives without leaving their block.^[21] Due to the high unemployment rate, boredom is rife among citizens – this, coupled with the high loyalty citizens develop to their blocks, along with a city-defence militia for about city blocks, leads to many "Block Wars", riots (more similar pocket-size wars) between two or more than blocks.

Blocks are named afterward famous or historical figures, often with current events in heed. A typical example – shortly subsequently the Nicole Kidman and Tom Prowl separation in that location was an episode with cake war breaking out between the "Kidman" and "Cruise" Blocks.^{[ volume & outcome needed ]} A proposed crackdown on civil rights in U.k. led to a block beingness named David Blunkett Block in one story.^{[ volume & upshot needed ]}

Government [edit]

Since the abolition of autonomous government in America in 2070, Mega-Urban center One has been a dictatorship run by the Justice Department. It subsequently became an independent metropolis-land following the break-up of the United States and had already been granted autonomy inside the Union in 2052. Its ruler is the Primary Judge, in current stories (as of July 2020) Judge Logan.^[22] He is accountable to a council of five senior judges. The citizens are permitted to take an elected metropolis council and mayor, merely with no meaning power: the idea is that a facade of democracy will placate near people.^[23]

In 2113 a referendum was held in which the people were allowed to decide whether to restore democratic government, but by this time the retentivity of democracy had become and then distant that the majority of citizens did not bother to vote, and most of those who did opted to retain the status quo.^[24]

In the early years of Judge Dredd, Mega-City One had non been established as a dictatorship – "The Royal People Breeder" (2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 1978) mentioned "presidential candidate Howard Surb", while "Ryan's Revenge" (Dan Dare Annual 1979) had the Mayor giving orders to Justice Department. The Luna-1 story arc briefly mentioned the governing trunk "the G Council of Judges" and "the Triumvirate", part of a unified land called the United Cities of North America,^[25] but this was dropped by prog 61.

Listing of mayors of Mega-City One [edit]

(This is non a complete list of mayors, only only of those who appeared in the comic.)

• Mayor Amalfi
• Mayor Jim Grubb
• Mayor Dave the Orangutan, an actual orangutan who was elected as a mass protest vote against incompetent politicians.^[26]
• Mayor Lindberg
• Mayor Katz
• Mayor Donald Byron Ambrose, really serial killer PJ Maybe in disguise (having murdered the real Ambrose – and Katz – before the election)
• Mayor Tony Blore
• Mayor Denny Oneman

The identity of the electric current mayor is not known (every bit of Dec 2019).

For a listing of chief judges run across here.

A story in 2000 AD #32 featured a cameo function past a graphic symbol referred to as "City Father Washington," whose status and part in the urban center's history has not been elaborated on.^[27]

Noncombatant population [edit]

The citizens are shown to be a mixed bag. 98% are unemployed (due to advances in robotics) and range from lazy and sloth-like to highly rebellious violent criminals, aptitude on destroying and killing as much equally they can for whatever reason they can recall of at that time, if any. Most of the Judges seem to view them like a well-loved dim cat, stupid, greedy but with an unseen value that's worth protecting with everything they accept. Although at times they've shown a huge lack of empathy towards them, such as when Primary Estimate Francisco asked them if a large number that were on welfare could commit suicide in his Christmas bulletin in gild to help residuum the budget for the following yr.^[28] Some Judges openly view them as a nuisance to be removed, or similar Judge Manners, as a sub-man race to be used and abused as the Judges see fit.^[29]

The citizens occupy their time with many strange and outright baroque hobbies, such as simping (recreational stupidity), bat gliding, sky surfing and peeping (spying on people at dwelling and in public), which is illegal when done for voyeuristic purposes, but legal when done under the authority of a Approximate. If whatsoever of these always go out of hand, and at that place is no legal justification for banning, the Judges simply impose a heavy tax on them, restricting them to only the few very wealthy citizens.

Virtually are poorly educated and many can barely read or write, some sectors are said to be entirely illiterate,^[thirty] but Judges aren't that concerned, as information technology makes it easier for them to command and they can weed out the more intelligent but when major crimes occur.^[31] Those that can read though are not much improve, for instance, when a book that detailed how to commit suicide was released, thousands of previously not suicidal citizens (including the book's author) killed themselves since they had read how to do it in the book.^[32] At one point in some of the more dangerous blocks, the Judges took to putting sedative drugs into the air systems to help keep the citizens more than docile and easier to control.^[31]

Some though do testify huge promise, intelligence, and take extremely useful skills, many top scientists and engineers are not Judges. Virtually of the cities biggest advancements in areas such as food, new materials, non weapon or military engineering, medicine and compages and construction design (including the Halls of Justice) came from ordinary citizens. All the major businesses and entertainment (autonomously from Justice Department propaganda channels) figures are citizens as are a lot of the city's diplomats, but they always report to a Gauge earlier making any decisions. Not all valued skills are the same equally the real earth ones, examples of this are man taxidermy and professional gluttony. Nigh of the highly intelligent citizens end upwardly in crime such as PJ Maybe, and Nero Narcos, as they are very limited in the wealth or power they can attain (the amount of real ability a denizen can gain though is very limited) legally.

Law [edit]

Mega-Urban center One's laws are harsh, with many crimes non found in present-solar day law. Possession of sugar, for example, is illegal, as is the smoking of tobacco outside of licensed Smokatoriums, and coffee is banned as an illegal stimulant. The laws are enforced by the Judges, who are a combination of a judge and police officer. Ordinary laws are enforced more than harshly than the present solar day, equally a political choice to deal with the high crime charge per unit. Most ordinary citizens are sent to the Iso-Cubes, tiny cells located within huge prisons. For case, one strip saw a citizen sentenced to a calendar month in the iso-cubes for littering, while in another story a citizen was given six months for jay walking. Judges impose immediate sentences on the spot, commonly lengthy sentences of imprisonment (or "encubement"). In extreme cases even the death penalisation may be imposed, although relatively sparingly compared with the present day, reserved for mass murder or endangering the security of the metropolis, but sometimes it is used but to make an example or to intimidate the citizens.^[33] Nevertheless, many criminals are shot to death while resisting arrest, and resistors who survive Judge set on oft receive a whole-life cube term.^[34]

The Judges themselves are not exempt from the police; in fact they are expected to obey information technology more strictly than whatsoever other. A violation that would earn a citizen a few months in an Iso-Cube would get a Gauge a twenty-year sentence, served every bit difficult labor on Saturn's moon, Titan, after surgical modification to enable the convict to survive outside without needing an expensive infinite suit. (Titan is a moon of Saturn in reality, but was located over Jupiter in an early Dredd strip.) When Judges practise make a pocket-sized mistake (anything where the citizen is alive and not in an intensive care ward) such every bit wrongful arrest or search they do have to pay the citizen a compensation fee if at that place is no crimes to be charged with. On that basis, if they can't notice whatever bear witness for the chief charge, then they will look for whatsoever modest crime or misdemeanours to accuse to citizen with to get themselves off the hook.^[35]

Firearm possession is only legal with the proper permit firearms permit, which is very hard to obtain. The only real exception is for Citidef units, which may utilize heavy weapons. (Since Block Mania the security on these is extreme and they are merely issued during wartime.) In spite of this, many firearms are in circulation; some are sold on the blackness market while others are left over from the diverse invasions that have occurred over the past thirty years. Some families even so possess twentieth-century handguns that have been handed down through the years. These are sometimes plant by criminal offence blitzes and will usually earn culprits the same penalisation as a lasblaster from their time period.

Torture is ordinarily illegal, but in extreme circumstances and with orders from the Master Guess they employ it (both physical and psychological), for example when time is of the essence, due to the urban center being in severe danger (or the Justice Departments authorisation is). They used that reason to torture Total War cell leaders leading to the deaths of several of them.^[36] The Judges covered this upwards, "absorbing" them past faking centre attacks, strokes or whatever was realistic or user-friendly at that time and and so told their adjacent of kin they had died, with this they could do whatever they wanted to them. They also used torture on the leading democrats earlier the democratic march, such as keeping an elderly democrat awake all night then releasing him without accuse, knowing he would have to march all day the following twenty-four hours and making severe threats to some other involving his young children.^[37]

Military [edit]

The original United States Armed services no longer exists: the explanation in "Origins" was that Chief Approximate Goodman had built up the Judges until they were a match for the United States Regular army, as a precaution confronting President Berth. When Booth was overthrown subsequently the Atomic Wars, the remains of the U.s. Army were routed and finally destroyed in 2071'south Battle of Armageddon. (In the immediate aftermath of the war, armed services subject broke downwards and the Judges had to impale or arrest soldiers that were preying on the citizens.)^[38]

Mega-Urban center I's war machine forces are inconsistently portrayed. During crises inside the city, regular Judges or Citi-Def are almost always shown doing the fighting instead and the war machine is commonly mentioned in outer space – "Day of Anarchy" eventually explained that they're unlicensed to act confronting the noncombatant population.^[39] From "The Cursed Earth" onwards, the city's armed forces have commonly been presented equally a co-operative of the Judges ("Judge-Troopers"): stories past Gordon Rennie introduced a Defence-Div, 1990s spin-off Maelstrom had heavily armed STAR (Strategic Target Set on Retaliation) Judges to carry out targeted strikes, and the Insurrection serials give the Special Judicial Service its own infinite fleet and armed force to postage out rebellions. In contrast, stories past John Wagner have presented the military as a separate group, with some members believing the Judges are too lenient.^[twoscore] Uniforms differ depending on the story. The STAR Judges were given an origin every bit founded in 2108 by Commander Brand, with Brand and his original team secretly left to die subsequently committing an human action of genocide in 2111 (this was covered upwards as a legitimate act of war and the STARs turned into martyrs, assuasive Mega-City I to however merits the devastated planet).^[18]

The chief war machine force mentioned is the Space Corps, equanimous of marines and fleets, who fight against alien races that threaten the colonies. (When originally introduced in The Corps spinoff, they were Judges from the Academy of Law but in after stories these are recruited citizens.) Another force are the Genetic Infantry: genetically engineered men, bred in a lab to be dedicated soldiers.^[41] (The story Warzone had an ex-Genetic Infantry soldier who was a primitive version of the Genetic Infantry from Rogue Trooper.^[42]) The Citi-Defs (Citizen Defense force) are a reserve force equanimous of citizens.^[43] Each city cake contains a Citi-Def strength in case of crises, though normally they turn upwards in Dredd as rogue factions waging block wars.

In very rare, drastic and often concluding stand scenarios the Justice Departments auxiliaries are issued weapons and fight alongside Judges, such as in the latter stages of both the Apocalypse State of war and Judgement 24-hour interval.^[44]

Mega-City One also runs spy networks and a Blackness Ops Partition of Judges. Under Approximate Bachmann, their agents were brainwashed to worship the city as a god.

Post-obit "Twenty-four hours of Chaos", the regular war machine (particularly the Space Corps) have been helping to keep order in Mega-Metropolis One. Tensions exists between them and the Judges.^[45] By 2136, following Chaos 24-hour interval and a dual war with the Xhind/colonial insurgency, Mega-City I no longer had the military power to stop a rebellion on Titan.^[46]

Crimes [edit]

Many crimes in Mega-Metropolis One are controlled by flamboyant mob bosses:

• Blitzers: hitmen with self-destruct bombs implanted inside them which detonate if they give up when apprehended.
• Body-sharking: loaning money to people willing to put a loved 1 into cryonic storage for collateral.
• Chump-dumping: conning aliens into believing World is a paradise, taking their money, and then dumping them into space.
• Face changing crimes: the illicit use of confront changing machines to commit crimes and fraud.
• Futsies: People who can no longer handle the fast footstep of life begin to suffer from "Future Shock," become psychotic and brainstorm to commit crimes.
• Numbers racket: ownership computer passcodes for industrial theft.
• Organ leggers: those who cut up citizens and sell their organs on the black market.
• Perp running: transporting felons off-earth.
• Psycos: telepathic protection rackets.
• Stookie glanding: butchering Stookies, an intelligent conflicting race, for the anti-aging drug they produce.
• Umpty-baggers: pushers of umpty, a candy that tastes and then expert it forms an instant psychological habit.

Leisure [edit]

Near work in Mega-City One is carried out by robots; this has led to problems with colorlessness and unemployment.^[47] Colorlessness has fostered many problems in the city, with citizens spending their leisure time rioting over jobs, experimenting on their neighbors, and running amok in the streets.^[47] Weird fads include Block Wars (wars between neighboring flat blocks, waged by each block's defence militia), "ugliness clinics", and odd fashions.

Leisure in Mega-City One consists of a number of weird and wonderful futuristic hobbies and attractions, including:

• The Aggro Dome was conceived as a way for frustrated citizens to let off steam without endangering their young man Meggers. Within the domes, citizens tin can vent their acrimony on robots, mock storefronts, and parked vehicles. Aggro Express, the owners of the Aggro Dome franchise, petitioned for Judge replicoids to be added to a number of their buildings as a target for client retaliation. The request was promptly refused. Afterward problems on opening day Dredd did his best to close the place for proficient but failed^{[ volume & issue needed ]}. Somewhen the dome airtight in the mid 2120s afterward visitor numbers vicious besides depression to turn a turn a profit.^{[ book & issue needed ] [ citation needed ]}
• The Alien Zoos are ever-popular attractions, featuring the most bizarre creatures from the Milky Manner galaxy and across.
• The Central Mega-City Library is open free of accuse to the public and is the storehouse of information on Mega-City One and beyond, past and nowadays. Late fees are very high.
• The Dream Palace is a popular leisure activity – for some, a growing necessity – and the ultimate in escapism. Customers are plugged into dream machines where their dreams are made real. Morpheus, Inc. own the original chain of dream palaces, but were unsuccessful in blocking the expansion of rival Dream Parlours, back street services utilizing reconditioned dream machines. Some parlours offer other "diversions" to supplement their income.
• The Mega-City Chamber of Horrors features robot replicas of history's about infamous villains.
• The Mega-Urban center Museum is 1 of the tallest buildings in Mega-City Ane. Information technology specializes in the history of Mega-City I, and is abode to the most complete records of pre-atomic American civilisation in N America. A transceiver beacon is sited atop the museum's roof, for apply by the Justice Department.
• The Museum of Death focuses on murderers, warfare that resulted in mass death, and historical instruments of torture.
• The Palais-De-Boing is a chain of purpose-congenital structures designed for Boingers. Boinging is illegal outside of the Palais-De-Boing.^[48]
• The Smokatoriums are behemothic, stinking domes – the only locations inside Mega-City Ane limits where information technology is legal to smoke tobacco and nicotine-related products.^[49]
• The White Cliffs of Dover were imported from a cash-starved Brit-Cit in the aftermath of the Atomic State of war. It remains a pop attraction fifty-fifty though it is nothing more than a aging pile of rock, chalk, and sand.
• Stookie is an illegal drug made from the glands of an intelligent conflicting species that stops its users' aging. Withdrawal from Stookie causes users to rapidly reach their 'real' ages. In one of the Judge Dredd novels, an injection of "pure, undiluted" Stookie causes the user to revert to a younger age.
• Heaven surfing, where citizens use powered, floating surfboards to race and perform stunts.
• Batgliding, in which citizens don winged bat suits to fly on the thermals above Mega-City One.

Transit systems [edit]

The high population density of Mega-City I requires a circuitous system of transport. This oftentimes serves equally accommodation as well as a means of getting around the city.

Pedestrian [edit]

• Back street: Ii-manner passages, located in Onetime Town and City Lesser.
• Broad-Way: A big pedestrian plaza.
• Crossway: Whatsoever pedway intersection (a.yard.a. Crosslink).
• Eeziglide: One-way pedestrian conveyance that functions every bit a man conveyor-belt.
• Pedway: Pedestrian-only walkway found right across the City at all levels. Subpeds are enclosed pedways that run under Pedways.
• Zipstrip: I or two-way pedestrian walkway that links blocks and smaller interchanges. Enclosed zipstrips are chosen Pipeways.

Vehicular [edit]

• Boomway: I or two-way multi-level Mega-Way (between four and ten lanes width, 2 to four levels height).
• Filter: Ane-way go out or entrance to and from parking areas.
• Flyover: Skedway that passes over a city block (a.k.a. Overzoom).
• Inter-Block Zoom: Maglev railroad train-system which replaced the old Heaven-Rails network in the belatedly xx-first century. Provides a link between all the metropolis blocks in whatsoever given sector.
• Intersection: Road junction.
• Judge'due south Lane: Two-fashion road that runs parallel to major roadways, reserved for Justice Section usage.
• Median Strip: Protective bulwark which prevents accidents in 1 half of a road from spreading to the other half.
• Mega Round: Two-mode, six-lane Meg-Fashion which bypasses through-sector traffic to benefit long-altitude drivers.
• One thousand thousand-Way: Largest road design in Mega-Metropolis Ane. Two-style, between four and twenty lanes, and central reservation (a.one thousand.a. Megaway, Speedway, Superhighway, Ten-Pressway).
• Parkarama: Basis vehicle park.
• Podport: Hover vehicle park.
• Skedway: One-way highway, between one and v lanes. Interskeds connect 1 skedway to some other (a.k.a. Feedway). Underskeds are single-lane roads, often reserved for public service traffic only, that pass underneath skeds. Overskeds are the same, but pass over skeds.
• Sky-Rail: Obsolete monorail public transit-system introduced in the early on 21st century. One-tertiary of Mega-Metropolis Ane still actively uses the Sky-Rail network while it awaits upgrading to the zoom-arrangement. The largest Sky-Rail intersection in the Metropolis is Hell's Junction.
• Slipzoom: One-way, between one and four lanes, used for larger interchanges. An Underzoom (a.1000.a. Flyunder) is a single-lane road oft reserved for public service traffic only that passes nether a Slipzoom.
• Superslab: The longest 1000000-Mode in Mega-Metropolis I, bisecting the City from due north to due south. Twenty-iv lanes, one,220 kilometers in length (a.thou.a. Mega-City 500).
• Wayby: Small zones set bated Million-Means and Skedways in regular intervals where drivers can pull-off and temporarily park their vehicles.
• Zoomtube: The almost recent traffic innovation in Mega-City One. An enclosed road-arrangement where all traffic is platooned and computer-controlled for optimum speed and driver-safety.

History [edit]

As Estimate Dredd stories are prepare 122 years into the futurity and progress frontwards in 'existent time' (stories from 1977 are ready in 2099, and stories from 2022 are set in 2144), they take an extensive fictional chronology.

Stories in earlier problems would link Dredd to the chronology of the Invasion!, Ro-Busters, and Harlem Heroes strips: Mega-City One's structure is mentioned in Ro-Busters once it had moved to 2000 Ad, and in a story that follows from Invasion!, while Mega-City One appears in Harlem Heroes and its lead graphic symbol Giant is the father of Judge Behemothic. The erstwhile two strips have since been retconned out of Dredd history.

• Before 2027: President Nib Clinton is briefly replaced and impersonated by a time-travelling mutant criminal. Commercial spaceflight begins in 2001 with the PanAstra shuttle, flying to Mars orbit; the start flying discovers an conflicting corpse, the first public discovery of conflicting life.^[50] The International Aeronautics and Space Administration offers a x 1000000 credit prize to anyone who finds life on the moon; explorer C.W. Moonie discovers a microscopic virus, infecting himself in the process.^[51] Jimmy Carter'south head is added to Mount Rushmore.^[52] By the late 2020s a conurbation stretches from New York to Washington DC in an attempt to comprise the populace of the East Coast states. This will somewhen become the starting time Mega-City, a new kind of urban development to house greater numbers of people. The evolution causes huge amounts of civil unrest and gang-related offense.^[53]
• 2027: An brotherhood of street gangs, led by the P Street Posse, storms the White House itself. Due to intimidation of the jury, no convictions occur. This incident will lead to the creation of the Judge System to police the country. Eustace Fargo is appointed Special Prosecutor for Street Crime by President Thomas Gurney.^[53]
• 2028: President Gurney re-elected due to his back up for instant street justice.^[53]
• 2031: First deployment of the Judges in the United States, led past Chief Judge Fargo.^[54] Special centres train the new recruits, often hand-picked from the regular police, and old style judges have to undergo the new judge training program with the power to captive and sentence criminals on the spot.
• 2039: The success of Mega-City One inspires the creation of more Mega-Cities – Mega-City Ii is planned to cover the Western seaboard and Texas City volition embrace Texas and other southern states. Other nations volition follow.^{[ volume & effect needed ]}
• 2050: World is a mess of pollution, starvation, and wars. On June 3, Major Indira Knight, who developed America's orbital laser weapons, is the first human to exit the solar system.^[55] The Harlem Heroes win the Earth Aeroball Championship.^[56]
• 2051: Fargo resigns and attempts suicide, but survives with serious injuries. He is secretly placed in suspended blitheness and his death is faked. Deputy Chief Approximate Solomon becomes chief estimate.^[57]
• 2052: Congress passes the Autonomy Act, giving all-encompassing powers of self-government to the three American mega-cities. Each mega-urban center has its ain master approximate: Solomon continues to serve as chief judge of Mega-Metropolis Ane.^[58]
• 2057: Deputy Chief Guess Goodman becomes master judge and creates the Council of Five. Psi Division created.^[58]
• 2064: A new process of accelerated cloning, with DNA taken from senior Judges, is created by Morton Judd to quickly bolster Justice Section's ranks. Joe and Rico Dredd are 2 of the first clones from this process, growing to physiological age 5 in a thing of months.^[59]
• 2066: Six clones, including the Dredd twins, are inducted into the Academy of Law.^[58]
• 2068: Vice President Robert L. Booth is elected president, gaining support under the line that the rest of the world was living off America's backs.^[60] (It afterward emerges that he rigged the election.^[61])
• 2069: International relations are soured when Booth sends troops to seize control of foreign oil reserves^[60] in the Middle Due east. This volition afterward exist consider office of World War 3 between "Western Backer Nations" and Arab states^[62] just Brit-Cit is the only European land not to condemn it.
• 2070: President Booth starts the Atomic Wars on June 12, 2070 to mass public back up; this comes as the senior judges are discussing whether to confront him. Despite Booth's promises, America's nuclear screens fail to keep out many of the retaliatory strikes.^{[60] [63]} Well-nigh of the planet is devastated in a nuclear holocaust, and the globe's Mega-Cities are amidst the few to survive relatively unscathed due to experimental light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation defences. All Judges and the military are deployed to maintain gild in the decaying lodge, with the Judges forced to constantly fight confronting soldiers for committing criminal acts. It is discovered that Booth rigged the election and killed a witness to conceal the offense.^[64] Shocked and betrayed, the citizens of America rise upward against the government and phone call for the Judges to take over the country. Fargo, secretly reawoken from suspended animation, advises Goodman to take over as ruler of the Usa in a insurrection. Berth is sentenced to 100 years in suspended blitheness, but has enough loyal followers and robotic Mek-troops to fight a ceremonious state of war confronting the Judges until 2071.^[65]
• 2071: The Boxing of Armageddon. At the heart of the Cursed World, near Mega-City Ii, Berth's army is finally defeated at the cost of the lives of ane hundred grand judges and troopers.^[66] The Hiroshima Accord is settled past the various global Mega-Cities.^[67]
• 2070+: Massive inflow of homeless refugees from the Cursed Earth cascade into the Mega-Cities, causing a massive amount of block construction. Space is becoming even tighter. Genetic apartheid laws are soon brought in to keep mutants out of Mega-City One: officially this is because the mutants are irrationally vehement against "norms",^[68] and to protect the factor pool from contamination.
• 2077–78: Mega-City 1 citizens are still running h2o through geiger counters. A desire for decadence causes the bloody new deathsport inferno to take the world past storm. The Harlem Heroes reform equally the Harlem Hellcats. When the Hellcats refuse to work with the gambling syndicates, they're forced to play to the death against robots; the brutality of the '78 Hellcats Murders leads to scared fans leaving and a judicial crackdown that destroys the sport.^[69]
• 2080: The Mega-City 5000 wheel race is banned when the Mutant and Spacer gangs start killing each other mid-race.^[70] (Information technology will continue illegally until 2100) The commencement competitive eating contests brainstorm.^[71]
• 2083–86: Civil war breaks out between Mega-City I and Texas Metropolis, the latter feeling it is existence dominated by the other Mega-Cities while MC-One and Two oppose its secession in the interests of unity and the highly valuable resources Texas owns. The state of war leads to years of stalemate, and Mega-City One decides the conflict is pointless and allows Texas to secede.^[72] Note: this upshot mayhap retconned by story "Origins."
• 2088: Establishment of Luna-one, a moon-based Mega-Metropolis, by all three American Mega-Cities to renew and cement relations between them. Government of the colony is divided initially betwixt all iii cities, with a senior judge being sent every 6 months to take over as Guess-Marshal.^[25]
• 2089: The first instance of Future Shock Syndrome or "futsie".^[73]
• 2095: Chief Judge Goodman announces a policy of mass interstellar colonisation, as post-state of war Earth is low on resource.^[74] A decadent youth culture has congenital up effectually drugs, the pinstripe sound, and illegal comics.^[75]
• 2099: Population is now over 800 million. Chief Approximate Goodman, possessed by a malevolent psychic mutant called the Monkey, is forced to undermine the stability of the city to accept it descend into anarchy; Judge Dredd takes the Monkey out.^[76] The Statue of Judgement is erected in honour of the Judges.^[77] Renegade droid Telephone call-Me-Kenneth starts the highly destructive First Robot War, devastating large areas of the city.^[78] Judge Dredd becomes the concluding Gauge-Align of Luna-1 to serve a vi-month tour of duty: Judge Tex succeeds him every bit permanent Marshal of Luna-ane.^[79]
• 2101: Deputy Chief Judge Cal, head of the Special Judicial Team, has Goodman assassinated and assumes control. He brainwashes most of the Judges into obeying him, brings in alien Kleggs as mercenaries, and implements increasingly insane and dictatorial rules – twice sentencing the entire city to death. Judge Dredd leads a rebellion against him and eventually succeeds, with resistance member Approximate Griffin taking over as principal judge. Under Cal, a vast wall has been built around Mega-City One. The powerful mutant Father Earth leads a massed assault on Mega-City I, destroying Ability Tower (a controlled volcano) and unleashing a flood of lava, earlier being stopped.^[eighty] A few months later, an invasion of mutant spiders leads to the burning of entire sectors.
• 2102: Judge Death arrives in Mega-City One and kills dozens before he is captured. The dying Psi-Approximate Feyy predicts an apocalypse will occur in 2120 that can but be averted if a figure known as the Estimate Child, who will become Master Guess, can be plant; Judge Dredd leads a mission to retrieve the Child, but to determine him to be evil and go out him stranded on an alien world.^[81]
• 2103: The Soviet block of East-Meg One, using robotic pirate Captain Skank as a proxy, secretly seize command of Mega-Metropolis One nuclear weapons and launch an attack on the city, destroying several sectors; after being caught, they nuke one of their ain sectors as compensation. Approximate Death is freed by the other Nighttime Judges; they go on a killing spree in Billy Carter Block before their physical forms are destroyed.^[82]
• 2104: Orlok the Assassinator drugs the metropolis water supply, increasing the assailment of the population and leading to block wars springing upwardly across the entire city – which turns out to have just been a diversion. With the Judges tied up with the Block Mania, the Sov Judges of East-Meg Ane launch the Apocalypse War. A coordinated attack shatters Mega-City 1's defences, leaves multiple blocks destroyed by nuclear weaponry (the south of the city faces "full nuke out!" killing 150 million), and leads to a massed invasion past Sov forces. A bitter resistance is put up past Judges and Citizen-Defence units, despite heavy losses and the death (after being brainwashed into a Sov agent) of Chief Guess Griffin. Victory is achieved when a squad led by Dredd causes the nuclear devastation of the entire East-Meg One. Estimate McGruder becomes the new chief judge and oversees the rebuilding of the devastated city.
• 2107: A time travel mission is deployed to 2120 to determine the truth of Feyy'due south death-bed prediction. The Mega-City 1 of the future is discovered to be devastated and ruled by demonic creatures (including a zombie Judge Dredd) nether a mutated grade of the Judge Child – now revealed to be responsible for the great disaster. The Judges take activeness to ensure this hereafter is averted. Subsequently the Dark Judges proceeds physical course again and, using personal teleporters, cause massacres across the city – even in the M Hall of Justice – without being stopped. They are eventually defeated and trapped in dimensional limbo.^{[ volume & issue needed ]}
• 2108: Shojun the Warlord unleashes the demonic 7 Samurai on Mega-City One, killing thousands – including the caput of Psi-Partitioning. McGruder steps downward and is replaced by Approximate Silver. Pro-democracy activists take over a TV station and are executed live on air by Dredd.^{[ volume & issue needed ]}
• 2109: Under Silver's orders, Dredd leads the Judges in a dingy-tricks performance to undermine the upcoming Democratic March – including having Wally Team (clandestine) Judges in the crowd provoke a riot, and so the Judges have an excuse to go in and employ violence while seemingly having the moral high ground.^[83]
• 2110: Morton Judd and his Guess-clones – the Judda – launch an attack on the Hall of Justice. They are defeated and their base in the Oz Radback is destroyed. A Dredd-clone named Kraken survives and is eventually turned into a Mega-City Guess.
• 2112: Fortean manifestations occur in the city and across the globe, as the subterranean Deros attempt to invade; an East Million ii/MC1 Psi team stops them. Dredd resigns and takes the Long Walk, following doubts about the Judge Organisation caused both by Kraken and his part in breaking up the Democratic March. Silver covers up Dredd's retirement and Kraken assumes Dredd'due south place. While in the Cursed Globe, Dredd is injured and rendered amnesiac by the Sisters of Death. Meanwhile, the Sisters of Death are able to psychically influence Kraken into helping them cross over into Mega-Metropolis One and to free the Dark Judges from limbo. The metropolis is turned into a Necropolis – the Judges are under psychic control, with Silver abandoning his post and existence turned into a zombie for Death'southward amusement; decay, disease, starvation and suicide are rampant; and the Dark Judges hold daily cullings. A scattering of judges who escaped brainwashing, including Dredd and McGruder returned from their Long Walks, are able to banish the Sisters, execute Kraken and capture the Dark Judges (except Death), but not before lx million citizens have been killed. McGruder assumes the post of Chief Judge again, but without a Council of Five. The Hunters Gild organises the sponsored charity massacre "Death Aid" for Necropolis orphans. The anonymous effigy later known equally Tempest takes covert control of Mega-Urban center 1's criminal underworld.^{[ volume & issue needed ]}
• 2113: Under Dredd'due south urging, a plebiscite is held where the citizens will vote whether or non, following the failure of the Judges to stop Necropolis, to bring dorsum democracy. Judge Grice and others attempt to assassinate Dredd to end this, and are arrested. The citizens, every bit Dredd predictable, vote to keep the Judges – those few that can be bothered to vote. The undead Silver tries to reassume command just is executed for dereliction of duty.^{[ volume & event needed ]}
• 2114: Judgement Mean solar day – the fourth dimension-travelling Sabbat the Necromagus unleashes zombies upon every Mega-City on World. An international coalition of Judges is sent to have him out, but non earlier five entire Mega-Cities accept been nuked when it appears they're lost to the zombies. The terminal expiry price is three billion. Post-obit the loss of many Judges to the zombies, McGruder instigates the Mechanismo project – robot Judges – to the outrage of many Senior Judges, every bit it becomes clear she is increasingly senile and unstable.^{[ volume & issue needed ]}
• 2115: Grice breaks out of the Titan penal colony and takes over the city past infecting the population with the deadly Meat Virus, incapacitating many Judges. Afterward much random death and destruction, including the devastation of the Statue of Judgement, Grice is defeated. Dredd deliberately sabotages the Mechanismo project.^{[ book & result needed ]}
• 2116: A gathering of Senior Judges endeavor to make McGruder step down but to no avail. After her pet Mechanismo project goes incorrect and a rogue Mechanismo robot tries to kill her, she finally steps down from role. An election is held amongst the Judges and Judge Volt becomes the new main estimate.^[84]
• 2117: Satan emerges from the fallen Icarus asteroid, shrugs off every Justice Department attack and threatens to destroy the metropolis; Psi-Guess Anderson barely defeats him.^[85]
• 2118: Judicial crackdown on the Frendz law-breaking syndicate in Sector 301 leads to major retaliation, with heavy rioting and gang violence that puts the Sector'southward judges in a retreat. Later on a siege at Traffic Station Alamo, the battle is won past the Judges.^[86] McGruder dies in battle in the Cursed Earth (rather than compulsory euthanasia).^[87] Mega-City One briefly attacked by dune sharks.^{[ volume & event needed ]}
• 2121: Fifteen one thousand thousand children depart the urban center for an hush-hush haven in the Cursed Globe.^[88] Crime lord Nero Narcos triggers the Marker Two Lawgivers to self-destruct and and then starts the Second Robot State of war. The Judges are briefly overthrown before Dredd, with help from Brit-Cit, reprograms Narcos' robot reinforcements to turn on their comrades and the Judges are able to retake command. Guess Volt commits suicide over the upshot, which is hushful up; Approximate Hershey becomes the new chief judge.^{[ book & issue needed ]}
• 2123: An regular army composed of perps from parallel universes, led by an change-dimensional Judge Cal, invade Mega-City One.^{[ volume & event needed ]} Mega-City One, Brit-Cit, and Hondo ally to forbid a partnership betwixt Due east-One thousand thousand Ii and the alien Lawlords, an obvious starting time step in a Lawlord conquest of Earth.^[89]
• 2124: Orlok captured, just not before releasing a virus that kills tens of thousands of citizens. Judge Expiry escapes confinement.^{[ volume & issue needed ]}
• 2125: Mutant terrorist Mr Bones attacks the Hall of Justice with a hostile alien species. Orlok put on trial so executed on alive TV.^{[ book & issue needed ]}
• 2126: Terrorist group Full War triggers multiple nuclear bombs, resulting in the deaths of four million people.^{[ volume & event needed ]}
• 2127: Hundreds of thousands of citizens have been left homeless by the bombings, and live in overcrowded, crime-ridden emergency camps. The Half-Life plague, spread by a traitor in Psi Division, spreads a wave of murderous violence that eventually kills 1 meg people. The Sisters of Death launch some other set on, with unabridged blocks beingness wiped out by plagues and poltergeist activity.^{[ volume & issue needed ]}
• 2128: Mega-Metropolis One leads a peacekeeping mission to Ciudad Barranquilla during a civil war; this turns out to exist a pretense for authorities change, putting in a new Supreme Gauge that they tin control.^{[ volume & upshot needed ]}
• 2129: Death of Judge Fargo. A portal opens to the night-matter composed fifth dimension Kaluza; demonic creatures invade the city, slaughtering whole sectors and causing crime-increasing psychic backlash until the Judges invaded Kaluza and shut the portal down.^[90] Thirty city-blocks designed past Findhorn Gask plow out to secretly exist giant robots, which come up to life and rampage through the city, before being convinced to stop and turned into a satellite city.^[91] Council of Five discusses and rejects a proposal by Dredd to end the mutant ban; rejection followed by a massive crackdown by Dredd on the city'south Mutant Farm facilities. Attempted coup by Space Corps veterans under General Vincent. Series killer PJ Maybe, under a false identity, becomes Mayor of Mega-City One.^{[ volume & issue needed ]}
• 2130: The anti-mutant laws are discussed again due to pressure from Dredd and repealed out of fear he will resign otherwise; there is widespread rioting by citizens as a result, followed by frequent hate crimes confronting mutant migrants.^{[ book & upshot needed ]}
• 2131: Events and disasters from the Bible devastate the Low Life. Senior judges, against the mutant rights laws, force a vote on replacing Hershey as primary approximate in the hope of undoing the changes. Judge Francisco becomes main estimate, and the entire Council of 5 is replaced. The decision is made to build townships for mutants, and Dredd is exiled to them.^[92] The townships volition use mutants as Deputies and allow trial-by-jury. Subtle conflict exists between Francisco and his Council.
• 2132: Deputy Chief Judge Sinfield usurps Francisco using brainwashing drugs and becomes acting chief judge.^[93] Laws get even harsher for mutants. PJ Maybe attempts to electrocute Sinfield, hospitalising him, and his identity is discovered by the Judges. Sinfield is arrested and Francisco returns to role. MC-1 covertly deploys psychic weapons in Sino-Cit territory, testing how they can handle psi-warfare.^[94] Subsequently a vicious war with corrupt Judges, the Hondo yakuza take over the Low Life's criminal underworld.^[95]
• 2133: Francisco attempts to balance the upkeep with various cost-cut measures, with the buzzword "the Big Community". A nuclear bomb is detonated in Sector 17, killing half a million people. The Depression Life's Judges, particularly the Wally Team, are purged due to criminal infiltration.^[96] The Blackness Ops Division under Approximate Bachmann quietly assassinates the Township Chief Judge of mutant Township Three and his deputies, in lodge to put a less liberal Judge in charge.^[97] New elections for Mayor are held, with several candidates killed by an escaped Maybe; East-Meg agents capture a prominent biologist and prepare to unleash the "Anarchy Problems" bio-weapon on the city.^[98]
• 2134: The Anarchy Bug is released, in conjunction with multiple terrorist assaults and Sov demolition – foreign allies but transport robots due to fear of infection. Most of the Academy of Law and Public Surveillance are killed (and the Statue of Judgement destroyed); the Night Judges temporarily escape. A (rejected) proposal to only murder the infected is made public, sparking a vast uprising that devastates the city and allows the Bug to spread; an overwhelmed Justice Section is forced to genuinely murder the infected and only wins confronting the uprising because the smoke from burning blocks drives insurgents off the streets. By the fourth dimension the virus dies out, 350 million citizens and sixty% of the judges are expressionless; Justice Section is near collapse, bolstered by a 40,000 strong mutant regular army from the Cursed World townships. Francisco resigns and Hershey forms an interim authorities.^[99] The economy has complanate and welfare ends;^[100] Space Corps Marines are recalled to the city to aid restore order but are soon at odds with both Judges and citizens after trying to airstrike a rebellious block.^[101] Guess Bachmann attempts a coup, in which many judges and citizens are killed; information technology is prevented in function by a returning Gauge Smiley, founder of Blackness Ops.^[102]
• 2135: After a trial set on on Gateway colony, the alien Xhind launch an invasion of human being space; the war lasts sixteen weeks. The Battle of 43 Rega is Mega-City One's one risk to stop the Xhind reaching the Inner Colonies and relies on a peace deal with Luther's rebel forces; immediately after victory, MC-1 forces massacre the rebels.^[103]
• 2136: Under ex-Judge Aimee Nixon, the Titan convicts revolt and go out to form an contained colony on Enceladus; the weaker MC-1 is forced to accept this.^[46] Justice Department is exposed as having 24/7 surveillance in all of the newly congenital city blocks and suspend the programme after widespread riots (the journalist who broke the story is later 'murdered').^[104] The alien Lawlords take control of the 2050s orbital lasers and declare rule over Mega-City 1, just are beaten back.^[105]
• 2137: By October 2137 the population stands at seventy two meg and is growing rapidly. All the same the destruction of the Academy of Police force during Chaos Day has disrupted the supply of cadets, and it is all the remaining judges can do to cope with the expanding population every bit information technology will be years earlier replacement of losses is reliable over again.^[16]
• 2138: Texas City attempts to take over Mega-City One in a insurrection, simply is thwarted by Gauge Dredd and others.^[106]
• 2139: Mega Metropolis Population estimated at 100 million citizens.
• 2140: Late in the year Dredd discovers the involvement of Approximate Smiley in the events that led up to the Apocalypse War. With assist from other Judges, Dredd ambushes and kills Smiley on the west wall.
• 2141: Continuing return of those who fled the urban center and the discovery that the initial death price from Chaos day had been overestimated sees the urban center's population return to 130 million. Main Judge Hershey announces her intention to leave the part for the second time and nominates Estimate Logan to succeed her in the subsequent election.^[107] Afterwards appointing a Mechanismo robot to the Council of Five there was an attempted coup against him by onetime quango members. Intervention by Dredd lead to the conspirators surrendering and existence detained.^[108]

Other cities mentioned in Judge Dredd [edit]

The first mention of other megacities came in Robot Wars, with a Texas Metropolis Oil freighter.^[109] In the later Luna 1, when Dredd was appointed Judge-Marshall of the Luna-1 colony, the narration states that the colony is run past "the 3 bully cities of North America"^[110] of which one is Texas City in the adjacent issue. The Get-go Luna Olympics would innovate "the Sov-Cities".^[111] Mega-Urban center 2 on the West coast was introduced in the story The Cursed Earth (1978). Since then, the exact number, location, nature, and even proper name of megacities fluctuates depending on the writer and strip.

In other media [edit]

Motion picture [edit]

Mega-Metropolis One is the initial setting of the 1995 film, though the majority of the second deed shifts to Cursed Earth and the outer walls. Nigel Phelps was the production designer that oversaw the design of the city, chosen because he previously designed the fantastical version of Gotham City for Tim Burton'south Batman. Other illustrators that contributed designs for the metropolis included Simon Murton and Matt Codd.

Mega-City One is the setting of the 2012 film Dredd, though information technology occupies a smaller area than described in the comics. According to Judge Dredd (Karl Urban), the boundaries of Mega-Metropolis One reach "from Boston to Washington D.C." (similar to the real-life concept of the Northeast megalopolis) and contains a population of 800 1000000. The city blocks are big, brutalist structures that tend to be slum areas; each block can seal itself off with blast shields and communications blackouts in case of war.^[112] Technology is much less advanced (exterior of Justice Department equipment) and all non-Judge vehicles resemble early-21st-century models.

Idiot box [edit]

Approximate Dredd: Mega Metropolis One is a TV series that was announced as in evolution on x May 2017. The population of the urban center in the Idiot box series is advertised as "iv hundred million citizens".^{[113] [114]}

See too [edit]

• Estimate (2000 Advertising)

References [edit]

• "The A–Z of Judge Dredd," past Mike Butcher (Hamlyn, 1995). (ISBN 978-0600584087)

1. ^ 2000 Advertisement No. 2 and 3
2. ^ Top 10 comic book cities: #ane Mega City 1, Architects' Periodical, July eight, 2009
3. ^ Pat Mills'southward blog Archived November 10, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, September 22, 2012 (retrieved November 12, 2012).
4. ^ Progs ii and 3: "Judge Whitey" and "The New You."
5. ^ Prog iii "Futuregraph" map, reproduced at Pat Mills's web log Archived November 10, 2012, at the Wayback Motorcar, September 22, 2012
6. ^ Prog 59
7. ^ Progs 10–12, "Robot Wars" Parts 1–3; Prog 30, "Return of Rico"
8. ^ Prog 11
9. ^ 2000 AD Annual 1980: "Mega-Miami"
10. ^ Prog 100: the Ohio River runs under the metropolis
11. ^ Prog 36: "The Troggies Function ane"
12. ^ Gauge Dredd Megazine 293: "Storm: Time Zippo Function two"
13. ^ Prog 62: "Tweak's Story", the cover of prog 245, and prog 355: "Bob'due south Law"
14. ^ Prog 355, "Bob's Constabulary"
15. ^ 2000 Advertizing prog 1808: "Judge Dredd: The Common cold Deck," function 3
16. ^ ^{a b} Guess Dredd: Megazine Meg 365: Judge Dredd: Terror ascent part ane
17. ^ 2000 Advertizing #2115 (23 January 2019)
18. ^ ^{a b} "Maelstrom", Megazine ii.73–two.80
19. ^ Judge Dredd Megazine #218: "Damned Ranger" part 1
20. ^ 2000 Advertising #1546
21. ^ 2000 AD #117–118
22. ^ 2000 Advert #2118
23. ^ 2000 AD #1744
24. ^ 2000 AD #756
25. ^ ^{a b} 2000 AD prog 42
26. ^ "Portrait of a Politician," in 2000 Advert #366–368 (1984)
27. ^ "Komputel", by John Wagner and Mike McMahon, in 2000 Advertizing #32, 1977
28. ^ The Chief Judge'south Speech 2000AD prog 2011
29. ^ "Rotten Manners" 2000AD #1306–1307
30. ^ Total State of war 2000 AD #1408–1419
31. ^ ^{a b} Revenge of the Egghead Million 36
32. ^ A Rough Guide To Suicide 200AD #761
33. ^ 2000 Advertising progs 261, 630, 1337, Judge Dredd Megazine #one.01–1.07 and Batman vs. Judge Dredd: Dice Laughing (1998)
34. ^ Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs Death (2003)
35. ^ 2000 AD #1204
36. ^ "Total War" 2000 Advertizing #1408–1419
37. ^ "Revolution" 2000 Ad #531–533
38. ^ Prog 2007: "Origins Role xiv"
39. ^ Prog 1779
40. ^ "Reprisal", prog 1317; "Solar day of Anarchy" in prog 1750; Approximate Dredd: Mandroid trade paperback
41. ^ "Reprisal", prog 1317
42. ^ Megazine #238
43. ^ First introduced in prog 198, "Pirates of the Black Atlantic Part 2"
44. ^ 2000AD progs 786–799, Judge Dredd Megazine 2.04–2.09: "Judgement Day"
45. ^ Prog 1801-ii, "Payback"
46. ^ ^{a b} Prog 1862 to 1869: "Titan"
47. ^ ^{a b} "'Judge Dredd," June 22, 1989, Whole Earth Review, No. 63 Pg. xc
48. ^ "Palais De Boing," 2000 Advertising prog 136
49. ^ Hodgkinson, Tom. "Idle thoughts: What'south really backside the anti-smoking antechamber," November 12, 2005, The Guardian, Pg. 5
50. ^ Progs 919–927, "The Exterminator"
51. ^ Prog 46, "Meet Mr Moonie"; IASA mentioned in "Judge Dredd: Eclipse"
52. ^ 2000 Advertisement #65
53. ^ ^{a b c} 2000 Advert prog 1510
54. ^ Gauge Dredd: Origins part six, 2000AD prog 1510
55. ^ Progs 1984 and 1986, "Cascade" Function 1 and 3
56. ^ 2000 Advertizement Prog 27: "Harlem Heroes"
57. ^ 2000 AD prog 1514
58. ^ ^{a b c} 2000 AD prog 1515
59. ^ Estimate Dredd: The Return of Rico, 2000 Advertizement prog thirty; Judge Dredd: A Case for Treatment, 2000 Advert prog 389
60. ^ ^{a b c} 2000 AD prog 1516
61. ^ Origins, 2000 AD prog 2007
62. ^ Prog 543: "Killkraze Part 1": Killkraze Combat Park has a WWIII zone, with the Western Capitalist Nation side or the Arab side
63. ^ Guess Dredd: Fog On The Eerie, 2000 Ad progs 1037–1040
64. ^ "Origins," 2000 AD prog 2007
65. ^ 2000 Ad prog 1530
66. ^ Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Part 23, prog 83
67. ^ Dredd's World, Guess Dredd Mega-Special #one; Anderson, Psi Division: Shamballa, 2000 AD prog 701
68. ^ 2000 AD #22
69. ^ Inferno by Tom Tully and Massimo Belardinelli, progs 36 — 75, and Judge Dredd Year One: Habiliment Fe (chapter 3) by Al Ewing
70. ^ Judge Dredd Year One – Cold Low-cal of Twenty-four hours
71. ^ Judge Dredd Twelvemonth 1 – Vesture Atomic number 26 (chapter 4)
72. ^ 2000 AD Almanac 1984 text feature, also shown on the 2000AD prog 169 cover and mentioned in the Dread Dominion book
73. ^ Megazine #275: "Tales from the Black Museum: Build a Ameliorate Mousetrap"
74. ^ Megazine 2.73: "Maelstrom function i"
75. ^ Megazine 270: Tempest: Hither Comes Trouble Role four
76. ^ Judge Dredd Megazine, #204–206
77. ^ 2000 Advertising prog 7
78. ^ 2000 Ad progs 10–17
79. ^ 2000 Ad prog 59
80. ^ Progs 122-25, "Father Earth"
81. ^ The Judge Child, progs 156 to 181
82. ^ "Judge Death Lives", progs 224 to 228
83. ^ Progs 531-33: "Revolution"
84. ^ Volt takes function from prog 915
85. ^ Judge Dredd Megazine 3.01-7
86. ^ "Bongo War", progs 992 to 999
87. ^ Prog 1009
88. ^ 1050–61: "Judge Anderson: Crusade"
89. ^ "Lawcon", Megazine 3.76 to iii.79
90. ^ Judge Dredd Megazine: Blood of Satanus III, from #257
91. ^ Judge Dredd Megazine #257–264
92. ^ Prog 1649, Nether New Management
93. ^ 2000 AD #1667
94. ^ Megazine #299
95. ^ 2000 Advertisement #1709
96. ^ Low Life: "The Deal" prog 1750 (2011)
97. ^ "The Family Man", Judge Dredd Megazine 312-three
98. ^ Judge Dredd: "Day of Chaos" progs 1743 to 1763 (2011)
99. ^ Progs 1775–89
100. ^ Prog 1790
101. ^ Prog 1793-vi and 1801-ii
102. ^ 2000 Advertizing progs 1803–1812
103. ^ Megazine 34-2: "Insecurrection 3"
104. ^ Prog 1878: "Mega-City Confidential Part 5"
105. ^ Prog 1896-9, "Cascade Role three-half-dozen"
106. ^ 2000 AD progs 1973–1990
107. ^ 2000 Advertisement prog 2115
108. ^ 2000AD prog 2122
109. ^ Prog 17
110. ^ Prog 42
111. ^ Prog fifty
112. ^ Used by Ma-Ma in the flick every bit a way to trap Dredd and Anderson inside Peachtree Block
113. ^ BBC News: Judge Dredd: Mega-City One TV series 'in development'
114. ^ BBC News: Judge Dredd TV Show: Rebellion'due south CEO talks about production

External links [edit]

• Travels in Toon Town – part two, Building Design, September 26, 2007
• Lowlife: Creation Part Five: All The Joy I See Through These Architect'south Optics, by D'Israeli, April 1, 2009

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