Judge Doom Roger Rabbit" was released by Walt Disney Company as part of the Roger Rabbit lineup. Film director Robert Zemeckis compared Judge Doom's invention of "the dip" to eliminate all the toons as Hitler's Final Solution. While a fictional character, Judge Doom's scheme is ultimately based on the development of the existing Southern California freeways. The film is set in 1947 where Judge Doom plans to destroy Toontown over building a freeway and buy off the Pacific Electric railway to dismantle it. According to him it will boost automotive businesses which indeed it did in real life. This scheme has been
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