Judge Dredd patrols an over-populated metropolis in the 22nd ⦠When Dredd visited Alpha's 2190s, he found a dozen Cal clones running a corporation in former California. Other illustrators that contributed designs for the city included Simon Murton and Matt Codd. It was announced in June 2016 that Dredd 2 won't be moving forward despite a prolonged development phase because the film bombed at the box office. Add new page. Block-wars are a form of riot in which two or more neighboring City Blocks (large apartment blocks capable of housing upwards of 50,000 residents each) literally go to war with each other, often initiated by bored Citi-Def units of rival blocks. [80] Each city block contains a Citi-Def force in case of crises, though usually they turn up in Dredd as rogue factions waging block wars. A violation that would earn a citizen a few months in an Iso-Cube would get a Judge a twenty-year sentence, served as hard labour on the moon Titan, after surgical modification to enable the convict to survive outside there without needing an expensive space suit.[76]. One-third of Mega-City One still actively uses the Sky-Rail network while it awaits upgrading to the zoom-system. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. [28], City in 2099 - the Empire State Building is dwarfed and derelict. [11] Even as this took place, technological development advanced and America was able to send an astronaut, Major Indira Knight, on a mission out of the solar system. Chief Judge Griffin and a new Council of Five took control. [3]), A sprawling conurbation had sprung up in the 2020s, stretching from New York City to Washington and growing. Under Volt, the city had a degree of stability - the main crisis being the Children's Crusade, where millions of children abandoned the city and Justice Department controversially fired a missile at the leaders. Crazes known to have swept the city in the past have included Synchronized Leaping, PowerBoarding, and Boinging. Mega-City One partially inherited this after the fall of America. In 2079, a new batch of Academy of Law cadets were granted the full eagle. North-West Habitat Zone (Sectors 301 - 305); A small land-mass in Southern Ontario separated from the rest of Mega-City One by "Radlands" on all sides and connected to MegNorth by an elevated Megway. Mega Circular: Two-way, six-lane Meg-Way which bypasses through-sector traffic to benefit long-distance drivers. [32] The robots were already chafing at human rule in the early '80s, as were radical robophobic groups. Flyover: Skedway that passes over a city block (AKA Overzoom). Wayby: Small zones set aside Meg-Ways and Skedways in regular intervals where drivers can pull-off and temporarily park their vehicles. The twin hits of Necropolis and the zombie apocalypse of Judgement Day in two years left the city weakened (allowing Judge Grice's revenge plot in 2115 to work). [36] This would bring the city great wealth over time but also embroil it in constant wars against alien empires, indigenous alien races fighting conquest, and insurgents on the colonies. In the early 22nd century, it stretched roughly from southern Maine down through Florida, far into Ohio and/or West Virginia to the west, and to the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor in Canada in its north west. MegNorth (Sectors 241 - 300) Seat and most populous Sector of this Zone is the former city of Boston ,Massachusetts. 1 episode. It's possible to be buried but this is an expensive process: it costs a 950 credit release fee just to get the corpse back. Many have become desensitized to it and see it as a spectator sport. Defence-Div Judges, as seen on cover of Extreme Edition #17, The original United States Armed Forces no longer exist. [71] The Chief Judge was answerable only to the President of the United States. Some of the more common organised crimes include: After Chaos Day, organized crime has changed: new rackets have replaced the old, such as disguising people as mutants to smuggle them to the townships, dealing in black market clean water, or protection rackets that threaten to tell everyone you're shirking the work gangs. Even bits of recycled corpses have been put in food.[102]. [63], The results of remaining or moving from the new Sector 304 builds, This rebuilding was disrupted by the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse manifesting in 2142, which caused a great storm to hit the city and cause structural damage (and prompt a temporary evacuation into the Undercity). Games Movies TV Video. A brief list of some of these places can be found below: In the movie, the city is seen as consisting of New York City and adjoining parts of the Tri-State area of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Originally designed to house 350 million citizens, the population of Mega-City One soon swelled to an astounding 800 million people, a number that would remain constant until the city was devastated by the effects of the Atomic Wars - the Great Atom War of 2070 and later the Apocalypse War of 2104, which reduced its population to 400 million people with living space for half that number. Mega-Special #2's stab at explaining how Justice Dept works. Superslab: The longest Meg-Way in Mega-City One, bisecting the City from north to south. Martin Sinfield attempted a soft coup against Francisco on grounds of him being too 'liberal' with the mutant townships and their amenities, which led to his eventual arrest and the accidental discovery that serial killer PJ Maybe was the current mayor. [81] [78] From "The Cursed Earth" onwards, the city's armed forces have usually been presented as a branch of the Judges: stories by Gordon Rennie introduced a Defence-Div, 1990s spin-off Maelstrom had heavily armed STAR (Strategic Target Attack Retaliation) Judges to carry out targeted strikes, The Corps had Fireteams taken from the most antisocial cadets, and the Insurrection serials give the Special Judicial Squad its own space fleet and armed force to stamp out rebellions. [43]. That said, he still wants to board the series if ⦠These Mega-States are likely Meg-One, Meg-Two, Texas City, Las Vegas and Uranium City. The solution to this and the overcrowding was building up; "Mega-Blocks", gigantic housing project towers capable of housing entire cities' worth of populations from birth until death without anyone ever having to leave. 's Party who openly said they'd be corrupt. [16], Judges turn from protectors to oppressors in the 2070s, The 2070s saw harsh rationing and drinking water had to be checked for radiation. [86] In 2140, the city was able to despatch a squad of veteran Marines to the colony world Dominion to stop the Dark Judges but it was a lengthy journey. The citizens have invented a wide variety of pastimes, both good and bad. [61]. Provides a link between all the city blocks in any given sector. Baffling though these different systems may be, each is surprisingly efficient a vast majority of the time, typically becoming troubled only during large-scale emergencies. Twitter Facebook. Section 59d (AKA Crime Blitz): A coordinated search of an entire City Block by teams of Judges for incriminating evidence or signs of illegal activity. Part of the reason for this was recurring emergencies that could kill millions of citizens: the Dark Judge takeover of "Necropolis" in 2112, the zombie invasion "Judgement Day" of 2114, the meat virus in 2115, "The Doomsday Scenario" robot war in 2121, and the nuclear bombings of Total War in 2126. [108] The United States of the West concept was dropped entirely; a "United Cities of North America" of three megacities was mentioned in prog 42 and then itself dropped in favour of Mega-City One being an independent polity. A sharp increase in the cold war with the Sov Block began under Griffin, as East Meg One began to test the city for weaknesses. Judge Dredd says in a voiceover narration at the beginning that the population of the city is 800 million people. (After that, no mayor was mentioned for ten years) The most popular, and also the most efficient, was the aforementioned Mayor Ambrose (who was actually the serial killer PJ Maybe in disguise). As a sop to anti-robot sentiment after a scandal in 2082, Goodman had the Sector Four Browning Projects, a rogue robot enclave, sweeped clean and the droids recycled, as well as ending the robo-hunters to bring everything in-house. The Judges took control of the city, citing the Declaration of Independence to turf out President Robert L. Booth to public approval. The population growth was faster than the Judges could handle though: their numbers were still low and the post-Chaos Academy was still inadequate. The Governor of New York attempted to oppose the Judges on constitutional grounds, quietly helping to escalate tensions to help his career - ironically he would be saved from a murderer by the Judges, who exposed his crimes and cemented their position. Sector 13 is located near what was Trenton, New Jersey. The only people to travel between these Mega-States are Judges. [55] The conspiracy was soon exposed but it was Brit-Cit and Murphyville Judges that arrested the people involved, while Brit-Cit would go on to pressure Mega-City One to extradite Dredd and Fintan Joyce for killing Judges during the exposure. Having achieved this, humans promptly stuffed them in the Apetown ghetto and ignored them until they began forming crime syndicates. In 2138, relations between Brit-Cit and Mega-City One were breaking down; this escalated as the Grindstone Cowboys began destroying crucial Cursed Earth farms. Crime is endemic in Mega-City One, known as the Most Dangerous City in the World, with a serious crime occurring somewhere in Mega-City One every second of every day. It doesn't take much for the masses to join in when they see a good riot. While the first Judge Dredd story is set in "New York 2099AD", prog 3 retconned that and said New York was just part of Mega-City One. It flexed its muscles in 2055 when it imposed harsh immigration laws on American citizens that wanted to move to the city. On the east coast lies Speaking at Trekonderoga (via TrekMovie), Urban revealed he's not involved in the in-development project. http://ew.com/tv/2017/05/10/judge-dredd-tv-show/, https://judgedredd.fandom.com/wiki/Judge_Dredd:_Mega-City_One?oldid=11022. Megacity scientists were able to engineer apes (or "uplifts") to be human-level intelligent. Following Chaos Day, the Mayor's office is seen as a non-entity[73] and the Judges have attempted a (failed) major revamp of their structure. Mega-City One had more fully covered by 2080 and tried flexing its foreign policy muscles. Pedway: Pedestrian-only walkway found right across the City at all levels. [7], By 2039, the last police academies had closed. A retirement option is the Long Walk, where they leave the city to bring law to the Cursed Earth or Undercity. The series is made up of 90 volumes which contain thematic collections of stories about 2000 ADâs Judge Dredd and related characters, [dead link] as well as bonus material including previously unpublished ⦠Mega-City One is the initial setting of the 1995 film, though the majority of the second act shifts to Cursed Earth and the outer walls. Over time, all elements of Justice Department and the government have been run by Judges. By the 2180s, Mega-City One and the other major powers were on the verge of financial collapse with no end in sight. After reforms under Chief Judge Volt, the Mayor and his council have also been responsible for part of the city's planning permissions and some welfare controls. Hilda Magaret McGruder, Chief Judge by default as the only living councillor, rebuilt the city back into a functioning great power before resigning after a security failure. More successful, Mega-City One installed a friendly Judge regime in war-torn Brit-Cit[26] and Bruja[27], and was able to dominate the surviving European Union and resulting Euro-City into following its lead. The alien Zhind launched a massive attack on human space in 2138, considering humanity a dangerous 'child race' that needed to be violently quarantined. Before the city fell, McGruder was still Chief Judge, Anderson was head of Psi-Division, and Dredd remained a Street Judge. However, the City is very wide, extending to the Pennsylvania/Ohio Border. [56] An invasion by former Titan convicts under Aimee Nixon, turned into ice creatures by something on Enceladus, almost drove the city to breaking point, with both Hershey and Dredd powerless against Nixon's forces. A creator-owned Megazine strip called Armaggedon, written by Alan Grant and drawn by Carlos Ezquerra, was originally promoted as being part of Dredd's history and would lead to the development of the megacity. Median Strip: Protective barrier which prevents accidents in one half of a road from spreading to the other half. [69] (It's a handy coincidence that John Wagner would write Day of Chaos, a city-devastating event, around the same time Millar and Morrison had Mookie say the city was falling. Zipstrip: One or two-way pedestrian walkway that links blocks and smaller interchanges. Chief Judge Clarence Goodman established the Special Judicial Squad to protect against corruption and excesses from within Justice Department itself. Judge Dredd:Mega-City One. Underskeds are single-lane roads, often reserved for public service traffic only, that pass underneath skeds. Celebrating 40 years of the iconic character. [21], At some point, an early Space Corps had formed to control a limited space empire and there were colonies throughout the solar system. [37], That year would be blighted by two major crises that required Judge Dredd to stop. Millions of 'norm' citizens rioted, mutant hate crimes were ubiquitious, and the new mutant citizens often had to remain in segregated "mutant blocks" for their safety. [48] Emergency laws mean children from age 12 up can be required to do work. Slipzoom: One-way, between one to four lanes, used for larger interchanges. [17], Mutants had been allowed in the city initially, though there was shame involved for families who had them. However, for more mundane and non-essential tasks the Justice Department created and still maintains a municipal council that is lead by the Mayor of Mega-City One. [111] After a single storyline in 1992, this was quietly dropped. Logan and the Council rejected her report and had her placed under SJS surveillance. The Judge force had to use retrained foreign Judges and Cadets rushed into action to bolster its numbers, while a number of systems and services were privatized as Justice Department was unable to run everything solo[47]. In early strips, the Judges existed alongside a regular police force,[109] their reign was semi-popular with the citizens, and the people enjoyed robots doing the work, with the "Grand Judge" saying they wouldn't consent to work more than ten hours a week. In some cases, Judges have arrested mugging victims for incitement. An even more destructive event, the Robot Wars, broke out when the carpenter droid Call-Me-Kenneth developed the ability to commit crimes and instigated a robot uprising against the human slaves. This left various newly-independent robots eking out a living in the corners of the city, forming small communities; the Judges licensed robo-hunters to track down specific rogue robots to try and manage the problem. For big hits, they send in blitzers: hitmen with bombs implanted who will self-destruct if arrested so their employer can't be implicated. [8] and by 2047, Judges were still outnumbered by police five to one, but the police precincts had been militarised akin to the future Sector Houses. The city is divided into various sections, Long Island is "The Finger", and there are others, such as "Meg-East", "Meg-South", "Meg-West" and "Meg-Central". The first was the mutant Monkey possessing Chief Judge Goodman and forcing him to do 'reforms' that would throw the city into chaos, including a chaotic end of the mutant segregation laws that deliberately allowed in raiders; Cal, head of the Special Judicial Service almost took over before Dredd saved the day.[38]. A few years of hardship - starvation, disease, homelessness, and the segregation of fatties - was endured before the city was able to recover. Urban said in 2018 that he was in talks to star in the series. [87]. Simultaneously, she began to make use of the Black Ops Division to help expand her foreign policy. [40] (The isolated Hab Zone would descend into crime and corruption, and become known as "the Pit"). Mechanismo Mark 8s were allowed on the streets to boost numbers and became a fixture in the city. The city had to renumber its surviving sectors to make sense of the new setup. Set in a futuristic, dystopian United States, the Judge Dredd comics ⦠The internal geography of Mega-City One has often been ignored or changed, for the needs of any given story. In 2099, Justice Department constructed the Statue of Judgement - officially this was to show the citizens' gratitude for their protectors and coincidentally it dwarfed over the Statue of Liberty. [45] By 2137, corpses were still being cleared out and would be until 2139.[46]. Body-sharking: loaning money to people willing to put a loved one into cryonic storage for collateral. In 2134, a Sov revenge plot - "Chaos Day" - saw Mega-City One finally collapse. [34] Mega-City One had grown to the height of its size and power, with 800 million inhabitants and stretching down the east coast to Miami & east to annex Canada's Quebec City-Windsor Corridor. The Academy of Law trains Judges to work as Accounts Judges, medics, PR men, and spies. 2000 AD (Comic) Judge Dredd (1995 film) Dredd (2012 film) Characters. Twenty-four lanes, 1,220 kilometers in length (AKA Mega-City 500). [89], Compulsory euthanasia in an eldster block. [99]. Some asylums were set up abroad where prominent families could send their mutant relatives to be 'cared' for. What's on TV & Streaming What's on TV & Streaming Top Rated Shows ⦠Many Judges are clones, 'born' into service. Judge Dredd: Mega City One (TV Series) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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