Talk:Mega-City One

message: I removed a recent edit which stated there is no death penalty in MC-1. Dredd has been seen imposing the death sentence in a few stories, such as the Batman/Judge Dredd crossover Die Laughing, in The Apocalypse War when he executed Judge Griffin for treason, and also in a story in prog 630. Also Sov Judge Orlok was executed by the judges a couple of years ago.Richard75 23:16, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capital punishment 

message: "Mega-City One was constructed in the early years of the 21st century, to cope with the escalating population crisis in America. Mega-City One was one of three major areas to survive the nuclear war in 2070, due to an experimental laser missile-defence system built a year earlier."
:Shared universe continuity would suggest that Mega-City One was constructed in the mid 21st Century. Ro-Busters "Hammer-Stein's War Memoirs" implies that he begins his military career sometime after 2050 due to his human sergeant's wanting to see the Harlem Heroes play again. A later episode has one of Hammerstein's human colleagues saying that, when the war's over, he wants to help out with work on Mega-City One that has just begun contruction. As for the 'experimental laser defense system', I don't think it has ever been confirmed in the Judge Dredd strip itself (see below).
"It became an independent city-state in 2086 following the break-up of the United States at the end of the Second American Civil War."
:Unless I'm mistaken, the year 2086 (as with the experimental laser defense system) is something decided upon by fan John Talbot for his unofficial "A History of Mega-City One" that featured in the 1984 Judge Dredd Annual. As with 2000 AD's shared universe continuity, a fair bit of Dredd continuity is based on fan speculation that has been given semi-official status due to things like the Games Workshop RPG and 2000adonline's using such speculation as its basis. Obviously, the Origins storyline may well confirm such speculation during its year-long run but until then I would suggest a few minor edits where necessary. HalfWhit 09:30, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As unfeasible as the twenty year time frame may seem (having said that, this is a world in which interstellar travel has become a reality by 2070), it's something that can be verified by shared universe stories; unlike the statement "early 21st century" which, I presume, is based on the speculative date of 2031 suggested by John Talbot and propagated by the Dredd RPG and 2000adonline. HalfWhit 13:56, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They also had a robot workforce which would have speeded up construction. As mentioned here the writers may have made MC1 a bit too big so it is possible they overestimated the sheer area of the thing when proposing the time to build it. It is also possible that this didn't mean the whole thing sprang up in that time - it could have spread from a core area and/or the major work on blocks may have been more gradual as the population spiralled. Bottom line - it is sci-fi and you can suspend your disbelief and if they say it took 20 years then it took 20 years ;) (Emperor 01:11, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: General continuity

message: I don't claim to know anything about this topic and I just stumbled across the articles completely inadvertantly, but it seems very odd to have a separate history article rather than integrating the history into the main article on the city itself. Otto4711 23:16, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I was wondering this myself. Thing is the history entry has been red linked for a long time now and I had assumed there was some kind of plan for it but it may be someone just threw it in at random and it stuck. I'd support a merge unless someone has a cunning explanation for why they should be separate. (Emperor 01:14, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There's most likely no reason at all, so I've gone and merged them.Richard75 17:31, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

message: The section on Law is nice and all, but is about the Judges, not Meg 1.
A note stating that the Law is enforced by the Judges, with a link to the relevant article would be better, IMO.
193.243.227.1 (talk) 15:56, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have moved some of that material to the Judges article. However I have left most of it as it is because only four sentences are actually about judges. The rest I think is still about the city. Richard75 (talk) 22:44, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Judges != City 

message: "In extreme cases even the death penalty may be imposed, although relatively sparingly compared with the present day" Erm WTF? The general impression that a reader is going to gather from the system of law is one where execution is handed out on a regular basis. Furthermore even if the statement was true, "compared with the present day" - is about as general as it gets. Most developed states outlaw execution anyway.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Caspar esq. (talk • contribs) 22:10, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Although people are frequently killed resisting arrest, few people are actually sentenced to death. I will look at this paragraph and see about changing it. Richard75 (talk) 13:03, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death Penalty 

message: Although Mongoose Publishing's "Judge Dredd Archives" series says that Texas City was called Mega-City Three up until the 2080s, a Judge Dredd episode in prog 1515, written by John Wagner, refers to it as Texas City in a flashback to 2052. Wagner is the creator of Judge Dredd and author of the majority of Dredd stories, whereas some parts of the Archives books are cut-and-pasted from Wikipedia articles. So I would suggest that references to MC3 -- which do not appear in any episode of Judge Dredd -- should be removed in favour of "Texas City." Richard75 (talk) 20:26, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you cite any of the other sources, particularly ones in the comic? I think the MC3 name originates with fans and has never appeared in any official work until now, but I am prepared to be proved wrong. Richard75 (talk) 21:49, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mega City Three / Texas City 

message: Is there a reference for "Palais-De-Boing is a chain of purpose-built structures designed for Boingers"?  Sounds dubious to me.  Silver starfish (talk) 21:47, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Prog 136; added. Richard75 (talk) 22:03, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: OK.  Silver starfish (talk) 22:20, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Boingers 

message: In the first reference on this article there is a link to this page on archictectsjournal.co.uk, which comes up as a subscriber-only page. Obviously it is better to have a page which anyone can read. When I Googled "mega-city one" (without quotes) the fourth result to come up was that website (search results here), and when I clicked on the link it worked: the article was visible. Yet when I cut-and-pasted the web address into this Wikipedia article and then clicked on it, it was subscriber-only again. Can anyone fix this? Richard75 (talk) 16:26, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to Architects Journal website 

message: Substituted at 23:37, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

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message: The history section should be removed. It takes up over a quarter of the page, consisting only of a long list with nothing but in-universe references. JIP | Talk 11:25, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of history section