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[–] Egon@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why did they make Dredd a paragon though? Seems like that'd ruins the sature

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's someone who believes fully in the system and has absolute faith in it, despite the system being obviously corrupt and never actually improving things.

It has been a long time since I've read 2000 AD, so I'm probably a little rusty on it.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just seems weird to me that they'd make him competent rather than a fool

[–] AynRandsGrindcoreBand@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

that's the point of Dredd - he's an immovable force in a world that is always changing - 2/3 of MC1 was destroyed in The Apocalypse War (maybe the best Dredd story of all time, with The Small House being a close second) and while the system utterly collapsed he pulled everything back from the brink. Although in later years, as Dredd has grown older, the storylines have gave him a lot more depth and perspective - recent events caused him to seriously question the system he spent an entire lifetime protecting and it's a theme that crops up now and then in subsequent story arcs proving him to be way more than the Future Dirty Harry he was initially created and satirised as.