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** He is shown making origami figures of squid’s throughout their time in the new dimension. Though this serves as part of the WholePlotReference to ''Film/BladeRunner'', it is implied Cat is doing it because his instincts are the only one to realize something is wrong and making the figures is the only way he can process it.

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[[caption-width-right:350:CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass in its smeggiest form...]]

-->'''Kryten:''' ''[[Film/TheWildOne Whaddaya got?!]]''

* In the opening sequence of "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIIStokeMeAClipper Stoke Me a Clipper]]", Ace Rimmer escapes a death trap, surfs a crocodile from a plane while shooting Nazis, gets shot and only complains because "This was my best top, dammit!", saves the DistressedDamsel, escapes on a motorbike while shooting more Nazis and has sex with said Distressed Damsel before seeking first aid. What a guy.

* At the end of "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonXICanOfWorms Can of Worms]]"; Rimmer, Lister and Kryten are trapped in a lift with six Polymorph copies of themselves and unable to tell which ones are real. When the lift opens, the Cat shoots every polymorph dead - ''VideoGame/TombRaider'' style - without harming his crewmates. This is taking into account that Cat was unable to bring himself to kill the polymorph babies less than an hour ago.

-->'''Lister:''' Yeah Rimmer. Right. Absolutely. Now all the corpses can lie there, safe in the knowledge that they snuffed it for peace, and can now happily decompose in a land of freedom... [[YouBastard ya smeghead.]]

--> ''Lister''': Okay. That's it. You've got two minutes to get off this ship. I don't know how we became you, but I sure as hell don't intend to help you carry on doing what you're doing.

--->'''Lister:''' Yeah, it's the old backfiring-time-gauntlet trick! [[PreMortemOneLiner You just bought yourself a one-way ticket to]] ''[[RetGone oblivion]]''.

-->Okay. That's it. You've got two minutes to get off this ship. I don't know how we became you, but I sure as hell don't intend to help you carry on doing what you're doing.
*** And every time they stall, he runs the clock out.
*** When future!Cat points out that he'll be killing himself in the future, Lister responds:
-->What've I got to lose? I'm in a jar.
*** When future!Rimmer makes one last plea, Lister blasts the wall above his head.
-->Twenty seconds, into the airlock and git.
*** Rimmer and Cat are with him. It says a lot that even characters as self-serving and vain as they despise what they'll become and decide to take a stand.

--->'''Rimmer:''' Have we got any chance of winning?\\

*** And Rimmer being the only person left, and deciding to be heroic and attempting to destroy the time drive. It's ambiguous if he does or not before their Starbug is blown up, but they survive anyway.

* In "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVTerrorform Terrorform]]", when the crew finally find Rimmer chained up in the dungeon about to tortured by a hideous depraved monster, that could easily kill them all, what does Lister say when deciding to whether to try and save him?
-->'''Lister''' Set Bazookoids to kill, stuff and mount, we're going in.

-->That's it. You've got two minutes to get off this ship. I don't know how we became you, but I sure as hell don't intend to help you carry on doing what you're doing.

-->What've I got to lose, me jar?

* Rimmer, from "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIOutOfTime Out of Time]]":

'''Rimmer:''' Better dead than smeg!
** And Rimmer being the only person left, and deciding to be heroic and attempting to destroy the time drive. It's ambiguous if he does or not before their Starbug is blown up, but they survive anyway.

** Also doubles as a nice CallBack to his and Lister's conversation in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIVJustice goes Future Echoes]]", about trying to cheat death by beating up the Grim Reaper when he comes to collect your soul.

* The Toaster gets one in ''Better Than Life''. By way of a pair of metal discs jammed into its bread slots, it ''kills a smegging polymorph''. His signature CatchPhrase is even used as a PreMortemOneLiner.

* The end of "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIGunmenOfTheApocalypse Gunmen of the Apocalypse]]". The crew finally reach the cockpit moments before crashing into a lava moon. Desperate attempts to pull away lead to them crashing into the lava. A few moments pass..."YEE HAAAAAW!" They emerge again, and fly away into the sunset (segueing into to a special Western version of the Theme Song, at that).

* Lister at the end of "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIBalanceOfPower Balance of Power]]", [[spoiler: [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments falsely]]]] announces to Rimmer that he has just passed his chef's exam and therefore now outranks him.

* By the end of "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVBackToReality Back to Reality]]", it's Holly of all people who [[spoiler: prevents the crew from killing themselves]]. Not only that, she managed to ''easily'' kill the [[spoiler: Despair Squid]]. Holly displays cunning and guile not seen since "Queeg".

* "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIEmohawkPolymorphII Emohawk: Polymorph II]]": [[spoiler: Ace Rimmer]] and [[spoiler: Duane Dibley]] ''in the same episode''. Especially when [[spoiler:Ace]] decides to jump on the activated grenade, not even knowing that he would be completely safe. What a guy!

** Normal Rimmer did a surprisingly good job at fending off the holo-knight, [[spoiler: even if it was just Lister in disguise.]]
** Rimmer deciding to [[spoiler: become the new Ace Rimmer]]. With the completely awesome reveal that [[spoiler:enough Rimmers' have become Ace for a time that in one dimension there is a Saturn-like planet with rings made up entirely of their remains.]]

* Kryten again, in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIIBeyondAJoke Beyond a Joke]]" when the rest of the crew prioritise a VR version of ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' over Kryten's elaborate anniversary meal. [[spoiler:After attempting to assassinate the game characters with mixed success, he imports a tank from a World War 2 game. "Perhaps you didn't hear me! I said: Supper. Is. Ready!" BOOM! (And yes, that is the tank that James Bond drove in ''Film/{{Goldeneye}}''.)]]

* Rimmer [[spoiler: Using a GroinAttack ''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu on the Grim Reaper]]'']] in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIIIOnlyTheGood Only the Good...]]"

* When Rimmer [[spoiler:kills [[FemmeFatale Katerina]] by pushing her in front of a car, just after she explains why killing holograms is okay to justify ''her'' killing ''him''.]] Complete subversion when you consider that he's usually the one whose attempts to quote weird regulations are thwarted by someone more knowledgeable.
** Even better when you realize it's a CallBack to the Series III episode "The Last Day" where Rimmer remarks on how most people don't get time to realize a bus is about to kill them.
--> Well at least he gets 24 hours notice! That's more than most of us get. All most of us get is "Mind that bus!" "What bus?" splat...
* Rimmer gets another one later when [[spoiler: confronting the creator of ''Red Dwarf'', and forcing him to write Rimmer a happy ending.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Rimmer''': Write me a girl who likes me! And on our wedding, ''don't'' make us [[SurpriseIncest find out she's my long-lost sister!]]]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Creator''': Damn! How did you know I was thinking that?]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Rimmer''': Because I know how you think.]]

* "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonXTheBeginning The Beginning]]". [[spoiler: Rimmer]] - yes, [[spoiler:RIMMER]] - [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in Badass]], and comes up with a plan to defeat the Simulants. And at the end of the episode, said level seems to be staying.
** He [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in Badass]], comes up with a plan THAT WORKS PERFECTLY, and crowns it off with a final [[DeadpanSnarker snark reply]]. The icing on the cake comes when the Simulants, known for being utterly ruthless cybernetic killing machines, start ''begging for their lives''. [[spoiler: Arnold Judas Rimmer]] you MagnificentBastard.

* The Cat manages to fool [[spoiler: [[MadScientist Telford]]]] into thinking he switched sides. He asks [[spoiler: Telford]] for a gun, so he can shoot his crewmates. Upon receiving a pistol, The Cat calmly [[BoomHeadshot shoots him in the face]]. When he notes that he's finally mastered his "Pokey Face" and Lister corrects him, he notes that only needs to know how to do it, not to say it.
* At the end of "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonXIIMCorp M-Corp]]" Rimmer, Kryten and Cat are confronted by the seemingly all powerful M-Corp sales AI, with Lister minutes away from dying (due to being forced to sell his lifespan), who insists they carry on buying things or she'll kill them all. Kryten responds by asking [[spoiler: for a virus that will disable her, saving Lister and letting them escape.]]

* In ''The Last Human'', Rimmer goes toe to toe with the BigBad in a PAINT STRIPPER and lives up to the expectations of his [[spoiler:illegitimate son, a rough and tumble space marine]] which frees him from his many neuroses and allows him to become a hero of Ace Rimmer proportions... [[spoiler: and is then shot in the light bee. Somehow he survives and performs a HeroicSacrifice to defeat The Rage and allow his friends to reach shelter. The ending implies that this act allows Lister and Kochanski to rebuild the human race.]]

* The end of "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIGunmenOfTheApocalypse Gunmen of the Apocalypse]]". The crew finally reach the cockpit moments before crashing into a lava moon. Desperate attempts to pull away lead to them crashing into the lava. A few moments pass..."YEE HAAAAAW!" They emerge again, and fly away (segueing into to a special Western version of the Theme Song, at that).

--->'''Kryten:''' I'm not afraid, Mr Death, sir. I believe my friends have bought me enough time to complete the antidote program. Now, if you'll forgive the rather confrontational imperative: (gunslinger voice) go for your guns you scum sucking molluscs!

[[caption-width-right:350:CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass in it's smeggiest form...]]

--> "He's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny more reliable than a garden strimmer...]]"

** Cat telling him exactly what he needs to hear to break out of his funk and take that first step in acquiring that level in badass. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny While gleefully playing with a piece of string on a stick.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass in it's smeggiest form...]]

-->"Yes, I'm nothing. But from where ''I'' started... 'nothing' is ''up."''

* Lister's scene in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVHoloship Holoship]]", where one of the genius holograms scouts Starbug. After being insulted, Lister proceeds to start mocking the guy and then [[ScrewYouElves threatens him]] for being a stuck up jackass. When the hologram reminds him he can't be hurt, Lister mentions they have a holowhip, and starts looking more and more deranged, eventually ''eating his cigarette'' as he squares up. The hologram flees. (The cigarette part [[ThrowItIn wasn't scripted]]. To this day, Creator/CraigCharles admits he has no idea as to why he ate the cigarette.)