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6 unusual facts about Judge McGruder


Judge McGruder

She led the resistance to the invading forces during the Apocalypse War after Chief Judge Griffin was killed and Judge Dredd was taken prisoner.

She was later shot dead along with the Council by Rico.

Her first names are a reversal of the first names of Margaret Hilda Thatcher, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the time the character was introduced to 2000 AD.

She resigned after four years in office following the Seven Samurai incident, blaming herself for a massacre she thought she could have prevented (although most of her colleagues were more forgiving and begged her to stay), and took the Long Walk into the Cursed Earth.

In the 1995 feature film there was a character called Judge Evelyn McGruder who was played by Joanna Miles.

McGruder

Judge McGruder, fictional character in the Judge Dredd stories



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