Dredd: Difference between revisions

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Dredd may be "the law", but he's not unreasonable. He only employs deadly force in the [[Action Prologue]] when the criminals run over and kill a pedestrian, and he even offers a deal when the last one takes a hostage (life without parole -- as opposed to death, which he delivers when the criminal refuses the offer). During the early moments of her evaluation, Anderson and Dredd come across a vagrant (sentence: three weeks in the iso-cubes), but she advises leaving him to focus on the murder, which Dredd agrees with, advising the vagrant "Don't be here when we get back." {{spoiler|His ultimate decision to pass Anderson despite the latter arguably having committed two of the three instant-fail offenses- losing her weapon and incorrect sentencing- can be interpreted as this:. Anderson lost her Lawgiver, but she also ensured its destruction by letting Kay try to shoot her with it, thus definitively denying its control to anyone whosoever; she is also willing to defend her decision to let Ma-Ma's computer expert go as one that is reasoned and logical rather than one driven by any sort of impulse, demonstrating herself to be genuinely interested in upholding law and justice even when convinced that she'll be stripped of the professional obligation to do so at the end of the day. It would appear that Dredd is willing to entertain the idea of upholding the law to the letter in manners that are not immediately apparent or available to him (in this case, due to Anderson's psychic talent).}}