10 Greatest Anti-Heroes In Comic Book Movies

5) Judge Dredd

A similar character to the Punisher in means and method is Judge Dredd. A rare example of a British-created superhero making it big, the character appeared in a misguided 1995 movie starring Sylvester Stallone and then again in a fan-acclaimed film with Karl Urban, simply titled Dredd, in 2011.

Unusually for a comic book hero, catching criminals is actually his job. Dredd hails from the futuristic Mega-City One where he is part of a force of street judges, who act as judge, jury and executioner to the city’s criminals. To Dredd, things are black and white – if the perp is guilty, then they deserve to die.

A faceless instrument of the law, one of the crimes of the Stallone film is that he took off his helmet. Thankfully, the newer film fixed this and Karl Urban made a terrific Dredd. Though we have to say, Stallone probably had the better jawline…