Mutants were prohibited from entering the city, and those who attempted to enter by scaling the city walls would be arrested and expelled, or killed resisting arrest.

ĭue to the ban on citizenship, mutants are forced to live in the radioactive wasteland outside the city, the inhospitable and lawless Cursed Earth This ban did not end till 2130. Later stories would state that some justify the apartheid by the alleged threat to the gene pool but Dredd remarks that is just an excuse, and the science does not support it. The issue before, he'd considered mutants as a whole to be sick, sometimes meaning physically and other times meaning nuts or crazy, and in need of pity. A chapter in ' The Cursed Earth' saga (1978) expanded on this by showing that mutants were themselves the victims of irrational prejudice by normal people - 'norms' - and Dredd is honestly surprised to meet a benign mutant, remarking 'I guess all mutants aren't crazy or evil'. Another early issue would have Dredd reveal mutants have been banned from the city, on grounds that ' hate ordinary people because they themselves are warped'. Mutants first appeared in 2000 AD prog 4 (1977), described as raiders from outside the city, in the 'wilderness from the Atomic wars '. Their genetic mutations (which are inherited by their children) cause them to exhibit bizarre physical deformities. Mutants are de novo mutations created by Radiation or radioactive contamination following the Great Atom War of 2070 and later after the Apocalypse War of 2104. 2 Mutant Immigrants living in Mega city One.Mutants are genetically-flawed, physically deformed people who are the subject of prejudice and apartheid in the 22nd Century Although they have appeared in Judge Dredd since the strip's earliest stories in 1977, a major story arc beginning with 'Mutants in Mega-City One' in June 2007 and ending with ' Tour of Duty' in July 2010 dealt specifically with their struggle against apartheid in Dredd's city, Mega-City One. This Article will mainly focus on the types of deformed Mutants.Īt any rate, Mutants are the subject of a number of stories in the Judge Dredd science-fiction series published in British comic 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine. There are also some that are also not De-formed Such as Cassandra Anderson.

There were some that had been exposed to too much radiation from the various Atomic wars, and there were some that were created from experimentation on human subjects for scientific knowledge to find cures for new diseases. Mutants in the Judge Dredd Universe were created in a number of ways. Mutants are present in the Judge Dredd Universe.

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