10 Times Supervillains Quit

7. Judge Death Takes A Mental Health Day - Judge Dredd

Mister Freeze Arkham Manor
2000 AD

In the future of 2000 AD, all law is enforced by Judges, a specialised police force. With the kind of overblown authority and freedom that the cops of today only think they have, they are judge, jury, and executioner all rolled into one.

Judge Death is a Judge from an alternate Earth, who realised that the ultimate crime was life, and the only sufficient sentence was death. After all, it is pretty much impossible for anyone to commit a crime when everyone is dead. You can't argue with his logic! You could, however, argue with his methods, after he teamed up with his fellow Judges Fire, Fear, and Mortis, and killed everyone on the planet.

Hungry for more justice, the four Judges hopped dimensions and attempted to do it all over again. Thanks to a certain Judge named Dredd, they were defeated and locked up.

In the short one-shot, The Judge Who Laughs, Death manages to escape his cell. Surprisingly, he doesn't go straight to Mega City One and begin purging it of all life, but instead pops into the prison psychiatrist for a quick therapy session.

As it turns out, Judge Death has been having trouble sleeping, something that even the personification of death itself needs to do. Doctor Hiser helps him get to the bottom of his problems, and as a thank you, he reaches inside her chest to stop her beating heart.

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Jimmy Kavanagh is an Irish writer and co-founder of Club Valentine Comedy, a Dublin-based comedy collective. You can hear him talk to his favourite comedians about their favourite comics on his podcast, Comics Swapping Comics.