Judge Riggs – The Judges from Judge Dredd and Martin Riggs from Lethal Weapon
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Riggs
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Location:Hall_of_Judgement
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:Who_Judges_the_Judges%3F
https://judge-dredd.fandom.com/wiki/Judges
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Riggs
https://madmax.fandom.com/wiki/Halls_of_Justice
Lawyer Extraordinaire, Mary Pason is representing Ned Collie at his trial. There is no question that Ned is guilty of the crimes he is accused of committing. Judge Raelee is presiding over the trial. After uncovering the fact that Ms. Bowder is a Marleybonian infiltrator and putting Judge Judi and Claudia Bee on the stand, Mary needs proof of the lawlessness of the judges. She sends you to the Hall of Judgment to photomance any lawlessness.
The Judges of Wallaru are the law. Here are their rules:
We don’t take off our helmets.
We enforce the law equally.
We follow orders.
We seize the dream.
Chief Judge: “You’re all out of control! You’re loose cannons! You tap dance right over the line like the rules don’t apply to you!”
Riggs: “I get results”
Chief Judge: “You get unnecessary explosions!”
Riggs: “Those explosions get results!”
Chief Judge: “Those explosions cost more than the crimes you’re fighting! Like, you, you destroyed a casino to catch something called Meowiarty.”
Harry: “I was feelin’ lucky, punk.”
Chief Judge: “I don’t even know what YOUR deal is.”
Kobra: “I don’t like the law.”
Chief Judge: “You are the law! You’re all on suspension. I order you to get out of here.”
Riggs: “Think we’ll just arrest this Wizard and save the day instead!”
Judge Riggs gets results by using unnecessary explosions.
Judge is a title held by several significant characters in the Judge Dredd series. The role of Street Judges combines those of judge and police officer, thus avoiding long legal wrangles by allowing for criminals to be tried and sentenced on the spot.
The Judges themselves are not above the law — a violation that would earn a citizen a few months in an Iso-Cube would get a Judge a twenty-year sentence, to be served at hard labor on Saturn’s moon, Titan.
Martin Riggs is a fictional character from the Lethal Weapon film series created by Shane Black. Riggs was originally played by actor Mel Gibson in all four films from 1987 to 1998, and later by Clayne Crawford in the Fox television series from 2016 to 2018.
Originally a member of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Narcotics Division, upon being reassigned to the Homicide Division, Riggs is partnered up with straight-laced sergeant Roger Murtaugh. Riggs and Murtaugh remain partners and best friends throughout the film series.
Martin Riggs joined the U.S. Army at age 19, eventually becoming a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces, receiving specialized training in weaponry and hand-to-hand combat. Most of Riggs’ time in special forces is in Vietnam, where he served as an assassin under the CIA’s “Phoenix Project”. During this time, he shot a man with a sniper rifle from a long distance (1000 yards) in Laos; while his ability as a trained killer later affects his mental health, he thinks of it as “the only thing I was ever really good at”.
In 1984, Riggs’s wife of 11 years, Victoria Lynn, dies in a car accident, sending him into a deep depression. Driven by grief to the brink of suicide, Riggs regularly puts himself (and anyone else near him) in danger, hoping that someone will kill him. This total disregard for his own life makes him completely fearless, turning him into a “Lethal Weapon”. By the end of the first film, however, he vows to move on with his life. In the second film, it is revealed that Victoria was actually murdered during an attempt on Riggs’s life.
The Hall of Judgement is inspired by the Halls of Justice from the movie Mad Max.
The current list of all the (known) Wallaru references are located here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
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Halls of Justice image is borrowed from the Mad Max Fandom wiki and is copyright Warner Bros.
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