Judge Doom yellow-tinted glasses; he also carries a pocketwatch, as well as a cane which is revealed to be a saber in disguise, for use in emergency situations. During the writing process, Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman were unsure of whom to include as the villain in the plot of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". They wrote scripts that had either Jessica Rabbit or Baby Herman as the villain, but they made their final decision with newly created character Judge Doom. Price and Seaman based the scheme of Judge Doom of destroying Toontown for a freeway by a planned unproduced sequel of
Judge Dredd and his name are sometimes invoked in discussions of police states, authoritarianism, and the rule of law. Judge Dredd made his live action debut in 1995 in "Judge Dredd", portrayed by Sylvester Stallone. Later he was portrayed by Karl Urban in the 2012 adaptation "Dredd". When comics editor Pat Mills was developing "2000 AD" in 1976, he brought in his former writing partner, John Wagner, to develop characters. Wagner had written a "Dirty Harry"-style "tough cop" story, "One-Eyed Jack", for "Valiant", and suggested a character who took that concept to its logical extreme. Mills had developed a horror strip called