Judge Kraken is a fictional character in the Judge Dredd comic strip featured in the long-running UK comic 2000 AD. Kraken was originally one of the Judda, a tribe of rogue clones of Chief Judge Fargo created by the renegade Judge Morton Judd and based beneath Ayers Rock in what is left of Australia (See Oz). A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... Judge Dredd, drawn by Mike McMahon for the first ever story Judge Joseph Joe Dredd is the main character of the longest-running strip in the British comic 2000 AD, having been featured there since its second issue in 1977. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... 2000 AD logo 2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction oriented comic. ... As a word, clone was first coined by J.B.S. Haldane as subject for theoretical replication of a frog, though the term clone is derived from κλων, the Greek word for twig. In horticulture, the spelling clon was used until the twentieth century. ... Uluru (also Ayers Rock or The Rock) is a large rock formation in central Australia, in the Northern Territory. ...

Kraken was taken prisoner by Mega-City One judges following the failed Judda teleporter incursion into the Grand Hall of Justice, after which he underwent a lengthy process of deprogramming in order to overcome his loyalty to the Judda. He was then trained with the intention of eventually replacing Judge Dredd (technically his clone brother), who had been showing increasing signs of disillusionment with the judge system. Mega-City One is a huge fictional city covering much of what is now the Eastern United States in the Judge Dredd comic book series. ... Judge is a title held by several significant characters in the Judge Dredd series, which appears in the British comic book 2000 AD. In the fictional future history of the series, the role of Judge combines those of judge and police officer, thus avoiding long legal wrangles by allowing for... Teleportation, or teletransportation, is the process of moving objects (or more likely with present techniques, fundamental particles) from one place to another by encoding information about the object, transmitting the information to another place, such as on a radio signal, and creating a copy of the original object in the... Deprogramming is a form of coercive persuasion in which a persons parents hire professional faith breakers to get their child to leave a religious group which they regard as spurious (i. ...

Matters finally came to a head in the events recounted in the story Tale of the Dead Man, when Dredd was asigned Kraken (now a Cadet Judge) to assess his suitability to adopt the role as a full street Judge. Kraken performed impeccably, his skills and judgement outshining even those of his assessor. However Dredd was able to detect lingering traces of loyalty to the creed of the Judda, and failed Kraken, who was then sentenced to death by lethal injection. Cadet Judges appear in the fictional universe recounted in the Judge Dredd comic strip that appears in the UK comic 2000 AD. Before becoming fully fledged Street Judges, Cadet Judges must serve 15 years at the Academy of Law where they will receive the intensive training and conditioning that will...

Immediately following this assessment, Dredd announced his resignation from the Judges, and took 'the long walk' into the Cursed Earth. However, Chief Judge Silver had secretly ordered that Kraken be spared from execution, and, over-ruling Dredd's decision, appointed him a full Judge. He furthermore covered up Dredd's disappearance from the city by using Kraken to assume his identity (See Countdown to Necropolis). In the long-running British comic strip Judge Dredd, The Long Walk is taken by retired Judges who feel that they can no longer be effective within Mega-City One, instead choosing to take law to the lawless in either the radioactive wastes of the Cursed Earth or the Undercity... The Cursed Earth is a part of the fictional universe recounted in the Judge Dredd series that appears in the UK comic book 2000 AD. Following the Atomic Wars of 2070 most of the U.S.A. became a radioactive wasteland. ...

Shortly afterwards Kraken was visited by the Sisters of Death, who, by manipulating his doubts and confusion, were able to control his mind. They used him to trap Psi Judge Kit Agee, whose body they used as a psychic dimension bridge between Mega-City One and Deadworld, then to bring back the Dark Judges themselves from dimensional limbo, thus creating Necropolis. In the fictional Judge Dredd universe recounted in the UK comic 2000 AD, the Dark Judges were originally a group of lawkeepers from a parallel dimension, led by Judge Death, who had determined that all crime was committed by the living, thus, by his logic, all life was a crime. ... The Dark Judges are recurring villains in the fictional Judge Dredd universe recounted in the UK comic 2000 AD. They are Judge Death, Judge Fire, Judge Fear and Judge Mortis. ...

Dredd, with assistance from Judge Anderson, Chief Judge McGruder and a handful of Cadet Judges, was eventually able to defeat the dark judges. Kraken, who was by now himself a Dark Judge, was summarily executed by Dredd for his crimes against the city. Judge Cassandra Anderson, created by writer John Wagner and artist Brian Bolland in 1980, is a fictional character that started as a supporting character in the comic strip Judge Dredd of 2000 AD and eventually rose in prominence and became the star of her own strip. ... Judge McGruder is a fictional character in the Judge Dredd stories published in the comic book 2000 AD. She was first female Chief Judge of Mega-City One, and the first Judge to become Chief Judge twice. ...