No he isn't. Dredd is good, Captain is better (and I love Dredd, but I know when he bites the dust).
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cap would win this in hth but dredd with his gun and bike makes it a different story unless cap did somethin to stop dredd using his gun and bike he would lose..
Cap could deflect Dredd's gunshots for the most part, and avoid rushes with the bike. He would probably be able to knock Dredd off the bike easily enough, and then the two would engage in a h2h/shootout style battle. Cap could take it, perhaps, but it depends on the circumstances of how well he got off to a start.
Good fight. Other than Batman, Captain America is the only other superhero that I would consider the best hand to hand combatant. Cap could easily block and avoid Dredd's gun assault's long enough to engage him in some h2h combat, and then Dredd is just history.
I can just see it now. Dredd is about to yell to Cap that he's under arrest when Cap simply uses his lighting reflexes to slam the edge of his shield on Dredd's throat. End of fight lol.
Cap dodges bullets like it's his job. And he can run at nearly 60 miles per hour, meaning he could probably sprint a bit faster, making the bike Dredd is on almost useless. Unless Dredd decides to go over sixty, at which point it would become fairly difficult to aim that gun(no matter what the action movies say, it's HARD to hit a moving target. It's even harder to hit one when YOU are moving as well.)
Combine this with the fact that Captain America has been able to hit missiles in the air? I think he would be able to decapitate Dredd with his shield, before he even gets his gun unholstered.
And if it came down to hand to hand, this goes to cap in an even larger curbstomp.
But a missile flies MUCH faster than a truck, and at higher altitudes. I was trying to show Cap's meticulous aim and projection capabilities, not the strength of his throw.
With the bike I think this would be a solid Dredd win.
There's no reason for Dredd to be on the bike, he'd probably be better off using it as a diversion, or for covering fire, or order it to wheel around cap to facilitate some kind of flanking maneuver.
Cap ordinarily being able to dodge gunfire doesn't really mean anything concrete here either, Dredd is not a normal crook, he has pretty much superhuman skills with a gun (able to draw aim and fire his gun in a ludicrous 1/600th of a second according to one story), unless Cap is like Neo I think he would have difficulty here, Dredd could cover the whole area in well-aimed bullets in a second.
The Lawgiver is also a versatile weapon, If Cap uses his shield Dredd could switch to Ricochet and alternate between frontal and bounce shots.
If Dredd swaps to Hi-Ex and Cap blocks it shouldn't he be thrown backwards anyway? that would pretty much lead to him being dead too.
I'm not really even sure how it would end in straight hand to hand, Dredd is pretty damn resilient, he's taken multiple super-human level punches before, and was skilled enough to fight batman to a draw (though honestly I think Captain would take the majority here, his stamina is too good and he's most likely noticeably stronger than Dredd).
The biggest danger is the shield throw I think, that could well take out Dredd decisively, and quickly, though a miss, or serious but non-fatal injury on Dredd would probably result in Cap being dead (and heck, the bike providing cover could probably cut the feasibility of using this attack anyway).
He can take explosions and move at Superman speed now?
Maybe the Cap should be counted as being his earlier incarnation then, being that this is a pretty old thread.
The Batman fight is also cannon (for Judge Dredd at least).
Judge Anderson had a premonition of a Bat saving MegaCity 1 in the normal 2000ad strip, a premonition that is subsequently mentioned in Vendetta in Gotham (the crossover with the main Batman/Judge Dredd fight), she was in space prior to that crossover and the writer was told that he had to end his story early so that she would be back in MegaCity 1 in time for that crossover to take place. Deputy Chief Judge Herriman also dies in the "Die Laughing" crossover, 2000ad readers had to buy that book to actually know what had happened to him.
Judge Hershey becomes Deputy in the Judge Dredd Megazine due to the Herriman murder in Die Laughing, so you could say that her rise to eventually becoming Chief Judge of MegaCity 1 was helped along by one of the Joker's inventions.
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