List of Red Dwarf characters

This is a list of characters from the TV sitcom Red Dwarf.

Because he is a hologram, he cannot leave the ship unless someone else is carrying a portable device made by Kryten. Also, he is a “non-essential resource”, so if the ship runs low on power or Lister dies, Rimmer will be shut down. In season 6, Legion ("Legion"-S6E2) upgrades Rimmer’s hardware to ‘Hard Light’, making Rimmer immortal and indestructible, and also allowing him to touch and feel things. At the In the middle of Series VII, a chance encounter with an old acquaintance leads him to depart leaves the crew to do something meaningful with his existence (Stoke Me A Clipper - S7E2). This Rimmer hologram is never seen again - other than in a dream (Blue, S7E5) - but a non-hologram Rimmer is part of the resurrected crew in Series VIII. By series IX, the resurrected Rimmer is a hard-light hologram once more - possibly as a cause of the events at the end of Series VIII (Only The Good..., S8E8) or as original canon in line with events up to Series VII’s opener (Tikka To Ride, S7E1). He has had a poor relationship with practically everyone he has ever known, especially his own father. Even he finds himself unbearable when he encounters an alter-ego or a hologram of himself. It is implied that Rimmer caused the original catastrophe due to his shoddy maintenance work, a suspicion he himself harbours. In early episodes, he claims to not believe in God or religion due to his upbringing in an unusual denomination. In later episodes, he proves that he is rather open-minded about theology and philosophy.

Lister long claims to have never known his father. Lister is put in stasis for 18 months as punishment for bringing a cat on board the ship. He is woken 3 million years later, long after all other humans have died out. He sees “future echoes” ("Future Echoes"-Season 1, Episode 2) which confirm that he will have at least 2 sons (Jim and Bexley) and will live to at least 175. He also learns that Cat’s species believed him to be their god ‘Cloister’ ("Waiting for God"-S1,E4), but Cat never makes this connection. He later becomes pregnant after having intercourse with his female alter ego in another dimension ("Parallel Universe"-S2,E6). Lister discovers that he is his own father in a ‘failsafe’ that prevents the universe from ending ("Orobouros"-S7,E3). A wormhole shows Lister an alternate timeline in which Kochanski survived the accident and he is the Hologram and Kochanski’s husband. Kochanski gets stuck in their timeline, but she and Lister never properly get together. He also loses his arm when he is infected by a virus ("Epideme"/"Nanarchy"-S7,E7-8), but this is restored with the Red Dwarf ship by Kryten’s nanobots. In series IX, he is the last human again, but the ship believes he is two people (himself and his own son). Lister realises how close he came to winning Kochanski and becomes even more determined to get her back. While he is normally sarcastic and lazy, he can be self-sacrificing and intelligent when someone’s life is in danger.

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