Talk:Mega-City One

Capital punishment

I removed a recent edit which stated there is no death penalty in MC-1. Dredd has been seen imposing the death sentence in a few stories, such as the Batman/Judge Dredd crossover Die Laughing, in The Apocalypse War when he executed Judge Griffin for treason, and also in a story in prog 630. Also Sov Judge Orlok was executed by the judges a couple of years ago.Richard75 23:16, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

General continuity

"Mega-City One was constructed in the early years of the 21st century, to cope with the escalating population crisis in America. Mega-City One was one of three major areas to survive the nuclear war in 2070, due to an experimental laser missile-defence system built a year earlier."

Shared universe continuity would suggest that Mega-City One was constructed in the mid 21st Century. Ro-Busters "Hammer-Stein's War Memoirs" implies that he begins his military career sometime after 2050 due to his human sergeant's wanting to see the Harlem Heroes play again. A later episode has one of Hammerstein's human colleagues saying that, when the war's over, he wants to help out with work on Mega-City One that has just begun contruction. As for the 'experimental laser defense system', I don't think it has ever been confirmed in the Judge Dredd strip itself (see below).

"It became an independent city-state in 2086 following the break-up of the United States at the end of the Second American Civil War."

Unless I'm mistaken, the year 2086 (as with the experimental laser defense system) is something decided upon by fan John Talbot for his unofficial "A History of Mega-City One" that featured in the 1984 Judge Dredd Annual. As with 2000 AD's shared universe continuity, a fair bit of Dredd continuity is based on fan speculation that has been given semi-official status due to things like the Games Workshop RPG and 2000adonline's using such speculation as its basis. Obviously, the Origins storyline may well confirm such speculation during its year-long run but until then I would suggest a few minor edits where necessary. HalfWhit 09:30, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

The laser defence system was explicitly mentioned by President Booth's advisors in The Hunting Party (in the time travel story arc in progs 1037-1040). Your other points are good ones (although I doubt that 20 years or less would really be sufficient time to build a huge city the size of MC1, this is probably a bit of a mistake on Pat Mill's part). Richard75 10:44, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

As unfeasible as the twenty year time frame may seem (having said that, this is a world in which interstellar travel has become a reality by 2070), it's something that can be verified by shared universe stories; unlike the statement "early 21st century" which, I presume, is based on the speculative date of 2031 suggested by John Talbot and propagated by the Dredd RPG and 2000adonline. HalfWhit 13:56, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

They also had a robot workforce which would have speeded up construction. As mentioned here the writers may have made MC1 a bit too big so it is possible they overestimated the sheer area of the thing when proposing the time to build it. It is also possible that this didn't mean the whole thing sprang up in that time - it could have spread from a core area and/or the major work on blocks may have been more gradual as the population spiralled. Bottom line - it is sci-fi and you can suspend your disbelief and if they say it took 20 years then it took 20 years ;) (Emperor 01:11, 2 November 2006 (UTC))

Merge proposal

I don't claim to know anything about this topic and I just stumbled across the articles completely inadvertantly, but it seems very odd to have a separate history article rather than integrating the history into the main article on the city itself. Otto4711 23:16, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

I was wondering this myself. Thing is the history entry has been red linked for a long time now and I had assumed there was some kind of plan for it but it may be someone just threw it in at random and it stuck. I'd support a merge unless someone has a cunning explanation for why they should be separate. (Emperor 01:14, 2 November 2006 (UTC))

There's most likely no reason at all, so I've gone and merged them.Richard75 17:31, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Judges != City

The section on Law is nice and all, but is about the Judges, not Meg 1.
A note stating that the Law is enforced by the Judges, with a link to the relevant article would be better, IMO.
193.243.227.1 (talk) 15:56, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

I have moved some of that material to the Judges article. However I have left most of it as it is because only four sentences are actually about judges. The rest I think is still about the city. Richard75 (talk) 22:44, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Death Penalty

"In extreme cases even the death penalty may be imposed, although relatively sparingly compared with the present day" Erm WTF? The general impression that a reader is going to gather from the system of law is one where execution is handed out on a regular basis. Furthermore even if the statement was true, "compared with the present day" - is about as general as it gets. Most developed states outlaw execution anyway. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Caspar esq. (talk • contribs) 22:10, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Although people are frequently killed resisting arrest, few people are actually sentenced to death. I will look at this paragraph and see about changing it. Richard75 (talk) 13:03, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Mega City Three / Texas City

Although Mongoose Publishing's "Judge Dredd Archives" series says that Texas City was called Mega-City Three up until the 2080s, a Judge Dredd episode in prog 1515, written by John Wagner, refers to it as Texas City in a flashback to 2052. Wagner is the creator of Judge Dredd and author of the majority of Dredd stories, whereas some parts of the Archives books are cut-and-pasted from Wikipedia articles. So I would suggest that references to MC3 -- which do not appear in any episode of Judge Dredd -- should be removed in favour of "Texas City." Richard75 (talk) 20:26, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

I dissagree I belive that as it had been called Mega-City Three plenty of times before I think Wagner made a mistake and it did not get noticed untill the storie was published, there are plenty more sources in both the comic and spin off books that mention it being called Mega-City Three. The new books set the time line stright and back on track. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.132.149.172 (talk) 20:33, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Can you cite any of the other sources, particularly ones in the comic? I think the MC3 name originates with fans and has never appeared in any official work until now, but I am prepared to be proved wrong. Richard75 (talk) 21:49, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

The orginal 2000AD A-Z of Judge Dredd referes to it as Mega-City Three and I ama certain I have read it in several issus but will need time to search through them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.132.149.172 (talk) 22:18, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Boingers

Is there a reference for "Palais-De-Boing is a chain of purpose-built structures designed for Boingers"? Sounds dubious to me. Silver starfish (talk) 21:47, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Prog 136; added. Richard75 (talk) 22:03, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

OK. Silver starfish (talk) 22:20, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Link to Architects Journal website

In the first reference on this article there is a link to this page on archictectsjournal.co.uk, which comes up as a subscriber-only page. Obviously it is better to have a page which anyone can read. When I Googled "mega-city one" (without quotes) the fourth result to come up was that website (search results here), and when I clicked on the link it worked: the article was visible. Yet when I cut-and-pasted the web address into this Wikipedia article and then clicked on it, it was subscriber-only again. Can anyone fix this? Richard75 (talk) 16:26, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Mega-City One/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

Start-Class rating seems harsh, but there is definitely significant work that can be done on this article. Article is informative, but needs editing. There are some inaccuracies/contentious issues (e.g. Mega-City One first appeared, and has made most appearances in the weekly 2000AD comic, not Judge Dredd). The article also is written in a style that seems to mix fictional and real life theory. In addition, the present style assumes some prior knowledge of the Judge Dredd universe to understand it fully ("perps"). Centrepull (talk) 06:51, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

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Is the 2000AD universe "post-apocalyptic"?

I'm on the fence about this one - but while we deliberate, and as per BRD the original version should stay in place.

I can see arguments for both sides - whilst there is a thriving society and civilisation still on the planet, it's also made clear that vast swathes of it - Cursed Earth, Black Atlantic, Radlands of Ji, etc - are desolate and radiation soaked and essentially uninhabitable.

The post-apocalyptic article is no help, as it specifically states in the lede "Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, science fantasy or horror in which the Earth's technological civilization is collapsing or has collapsed" - this may support the change, but the same article also includes an entire section devoted to Judge Dredd here which also shows that the term is fluid and can be applied to scenarios that don't meet the strict criteria.

In short, I think the inclusion is warranted as although it doesn't meet the literal description, the term is generally accurate. Chaheel Riens (talk) 10:59, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

I disagree with calling Dredds Earth as post apocalyptic, simply because it just is not. The world as people known it didn't end with World War 3 or 4 even. The Cursed Earth & Radlands of Ji are not uninhabitable as many non mutated people live out there and stories such as Origins show The Cursed Earth as in a process of recovery. A post apocalyptic world in general view is something like the Fallout games and Dredds world is leagues better then that. A "dystopian" city is far better fitting then post apocalyptic which is highly inaccurate description of the overall world and the city, Mega City One is not a nice place, but its not somewhere where all civilization, technology and society has been lost.86.129.243.122 (talk) 15:30, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Another thought post apocalyptic is global term with Mega City One only being a single location, the world over all defiantly is not, thriving settlements and people are everywhere, technology is advancing, trade is normal, space travel and other types of exploration (time travel, interdimensional) are being explored, the Earths population seems to as high as ever, its extremely lively for somewhere where the world has supposedly ended and people are picking up the pieces and humanity is just scraping by. 86.129.243.122 (talk) 15:41, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

There are sources and references that do refer it "post apocalyptic" though:

• Empire Online[1]
• The Telegraph[2]
• The Irish Times[3]
• "Comics through time"[4]

Chaheel Riens (talk) 15:52, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Also, please desist in your editwarring. Chaheel Riens (talk) 15:55, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

True, but it doesn't change that "post apocalyptic" just doesn't fit right and is over all incorrect, some of the sources as well are not written by expert in the subject matter, just general journalist doing a quick story with little basic research on the overall subject, Dredds world overall or even Mega City One as a whole is not like Fallout (Civilization was not completely wiped out), Mad Max (there is still some order and resources are not that scarce) or The Stand (humanity is still numbering more than is good for its self).86.129.243.122 (talk) 16:04, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Also, I am not the one who began edit warring or unnecessary continuing it.86.129.243.122 (talk) 16:07, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

You are edit warring, just stop it. Richard75 (talk) 18:55, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

What it shows is that your intrepretation of post-apocalyptic doesn't match that of Dredd's world. It matches Wikipedia's interpretation - it has a dedicated section in the Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction article - and it matches that of reliable sources. In this case, it seems a reasonable addition.

PS: Who exactly (apart from you, obviously) is a subject matter expert in the post apocalyptic? Perhaps somebody like M. Keith Booker, who supports the description of post-apocalyptic in Dredd in his book "Comics through time" as I mention above...

PPS: Yes, you are edit warring - whether you are right or not doesn't negate the action. Chaheel Riens (talk) 20:32, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

I've inserted "post-nuclear" which ought to be unobjectionable. Richard75 (talk) 21:02, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

The main Judge Dredd article describes the world as "The setting of Judge Dredd is a dystopian future Earth damaged by a series of international conflicts", "dystopian" is a far better description then "post apocalyptic" and could easily be place behind post-nuclear, also checking other more scientific Wikipedia pages such as "Global catastrophic risk" Dredds WW 3 was not apocalyptic world ending nuclear war (and nuclear war in fact has only a 4-1% chance of actual putting us in any often fantasized post apocalyptic world). 86.129.243.122 (talk) 22:05, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Removal of history section

The history section should be removed. It takes up over a quarter of the page, consisting only of a long list with nothing but in-universe references. JIP | Talk 11:25, 16 December 2019 (UTC)