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* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance: He offers the Dwarfers a cloth map that apparently shows every planet, derelict and wormhole in the galaxy, despite being smaller than a sheet of A4 paper.


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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: He offers the Dwarfers a cloth map that apparently shows every planet, derelict and wormhole in the galaxy, despite being smaller than a sheet of A4 paper.
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*** Subverted in that while he does make a show about blaming others, he does deep down blame himself, even though ironically this is one situation where he'd be justified in placing the blame on someone else: specifically the idiot who assigned him such a crucial task in the first place, as Kryten elonquently points out to the Justice Conputer.

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*** Subverted in that while he does make a show about blaming others, he does deep down blame himself, even though ironically this is one situation where he'd be justified in placing the blame on someone else: specifically the idiot who assigned him such a crucial task in the first place, as Kryten elonquently eloquently points out to the Justice Conputer.
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*** Subverted in that while he does make a show about blaming others, he does deep down blame himself, even though ironically this is one situation where he'd be justified in placing the blame on someone else: specifically the idiot who assigned him such a crucial task in the first place, as Kryten elonquently points out to the Justice Conputer.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: At first the character was credited only as "Kochanski", but judging by the name written on her hologram box in Series 1 (which reads "KOCHANSKI C.Z.". The Z stands for Zoe.), Kochanski's first name was meant to be spelled "Christine". Then the first novel came out and spelled it "Kristine". Then the TV series [[ReWrite officially established the spelling as "Kristine"]].

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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: [[InconsistentSpelling Spell My Name With An S]]: At first the character was credited only as "Kochanski", but judging by the name written on her hologram box in Series 1 (which reads "KOCHANSKI C.Z.". The Z stands for Zoe.), Kochanski's first name was meant to be spelled "Christine". Then the first novel came out and spelled it "Kristine". Then the TV series [[ReWrite officially established the spelling as "Kristine"]].
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: At first the character was credited only as "Kochanski", but judging by the name written on her hologram box in Series 1 (which reads "KOCHANSKI C.Z.". The Z stands for Zoe.), Kochanski's first name was meant to be spelled "Christine". Then the first novel came out and spelled it "Kristine". Then the TV series [[ReWrite officially established the spelling as "Kristine"]].

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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: [[InconsistentSpelling Spell My Name With An S]]: At first the character was credited only as "Kochanski", but judging by the name written on her hologram box in Series 1 (which reads "KOCHANSKI C.Z.". The Z stands for Zoe.), Kochanski's first name was meant to be spelled "Christine". Then the first novel came out and spelled it "Kristine". Then the TV series [[ReWrite officially established the spelling as "Kristine"]].

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!Other Races:
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In this universe, holograms were once human, being the echoes of dead humans who uploaded their neural patterns before their demise. They look identical to humans, so are differentiated by a large H on their forehead. The most prominent member of this race in the series is Rimmer, but other holograms do occasionally pop up.

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!Other Races:
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A failed attempt to transform a mutton vindaloo into a chicken vindaloo using the DNA modifier,
this universe, holograms were once human, being half man, half curry serves as the echoes of dead humans who uploaded their neural patterns before their demise. They look identical to humans, so are differentiated by a large H on their forehead. The most prominent member of this race in the series is Rimmer, but other holograms do occasionally pop up.MonsterOfTheWeek for "DNA".


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* ImplacableMan: The beast is so tough that it's able to NoSell bazookoid blasts without even slowing down.
* KryptoniteFactor: The only thing that can kill it is lager.
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!Other Races:
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In this universe, holograms were once human, being the echoes of dead humans who uploaded their neural patterns before their demise. They look identical to humans, so are differentiated by a large H on their forehead. The most prominent member of this race in the series is Rimmer, but other holograms do occasionally pop up.
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* ActionGirl: In the hallucination created by the psirens, she's shown as this by "killing" attacking psirens.

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* ActionGirl: In the hallucination created by the psirens, she's shown as this by "killing" attacking psirens. Her book counterpart is skilled at judo.
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* VaryingCompetencyAlibi: In the episode "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIVJustice Justice]]", Rimmer is charged with over a thousand counts of second-degree murder because he [[ItsAllMyFault secretly blames himself]] for killing the crew. Kryten gets him off by pointing out that he's such an inept screwup that the real blame should go to the smeg head who put him in charge of such a critical operation.

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* BrutalHonesty: Over the series, he makes little effort to hide his LackOfEmpathy or [[ItsAllAboutMe his vanity]], particularly when it can be PlayedForLaughs.



* TheDitz: "''Felis sapiens'', bred from the domestic cat and about half as smart". It's also generally implied that the Cat is just a doofus even for cats.

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* TheDitz: "''Felis sapiens'', bred from the domestic cat and about half as smart". It's also generally implied that the Cat is just a doofus even for cats.cats, and generally ''explicit'' that he is the least intelligent of the main cast by a good margin.



* DumbassHasAPoint: [[spoiler:In "The Promised Land", he points out to Rimmer that his consciousness is simply a computer recreation of the orginal Rimmer's mind, and that his thoughts are the result of what the computer surmises the real Rimmer would be thinking.]]

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* DumbassHasAPoint: [[spoiler:In "The Promised Land", he points out to Rimmer that his consciousness is simply a computer recreation of the orginal original Rimmer's mind, and that his thoughts are the result of what the computer surmises the real Rimmer would be thinking.]]



* PassThePopcorn: Any time Rimmer's in trouble, or humiliated, the Cat grins gleefully and plans to celebrate. During "Thanks for the Memory", the Cat actually ''has'' popcorn on hand while watching the black box. In "Rimmerworld", his reaction to Rimmer being stuck on a planet on his own for six hundred years is just to lament there's no champagne around. When Kryten proposes rescuing Rimmer from an escape pod by shooting it down, Cat's first response is to ask to be the first to do so.

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* PassThePopcorn: Any time Rimmer's in trouble, or humiliated, the Cat grins gleefully and plans to celebrate. During "Thanks for the Memory", the Cat actually ''has'' popcorn on hand while watching the black box. In "Rimmerworld", his reaction to Rimmer being stuck on a planet on his own for six hundred years is just to lament there's no champagne around. When Kryten proposes rescuing Rimmer from an escape pod by shooting it down, Cat's first response is to ask to be allowed to take the first to do so.shot.



* UpliftedAnimal: His race naturally evolved from housecats.

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* UpliftedAnimal: His race naturally evolved from housecats. Unusually for the trope, this is portrayed as a natural process, resulting from the housecats being left alone for literally millions of years, rather than being altered by human (or other) scientists.

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->'''Played By''': Alexandra Pigg (pilot episode); Creator/ClareGrogan (1988, 1993); Creator/ChloeAnnett (1997-?)

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[[folder:Captain Frank Hollister]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/MacMcDonald (1988, 1999, 2017)
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The overweight captain of ''Red Dwarf'' who is killed off (along with the rest of the crew bar Lister) halfway through the first episode. Hasn't stopped him being the most frequently recurring non-main cast member.

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->'''Played By''': Creator/MacMcDonald (1988, 1999, 2017)
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->'''Played By''': Alexandra Pigg (pilot episode); Creator/ClareGrogan (1988, 1993);

Navigation Officer Kristine Kochanski was the love
of ''Red Dwarf'' Lister's life and ex-girlfriend, who is killed off (along with perished in the rest of radiation leak that wiped out the crew bar Lister) halfway through the first episode. Hasn't stopped him being the most frequently recurring non-main cast member.crew.


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* ActionGirl: In the hallucination created by the psirens, she's shown as this by "killing" attacking psirens.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Her American counterpart is shown being incredibly cold towards Lister. [[WordOfGod Doug Naylor]] expressed disgust at this, wondering why Lister would ever fall for someone so awful.
* AlliterativeName: {{Ret Con}}ned from her first name originally being Christine to Kristine.
* AmicableExes: They're not stated to have had a relationship until later in the series, but Lister and the first Kochanski appeared to be this, judging by the brief scene they shared together in "The End."
* BrainyBrunette: The second Kochanski definitely qualifies.
** The first one has to be fairly smart as well, given that she was an officer.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In her earliest appearances when played by Creator/ClareGrogan, she was quite friendly, flirty with Lister and had a Scottish accent. By the time she had joined the main cast (and Grogan had been replaced by Creator/ChloeAnnett) she was rather neurotic, very upper class and had an English accent ([[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent although still canonically from Scotland]]).
** On the other hand, the second Kochanski is from an ''alternate'' reality. Presumably alt!Kochanski experienced a slightly different upbringing, though she still ended up on ''Red Dwarf'' and dated Lister.
* {{Chickification}}: In the ''Can't Smeg, Won't Smeg'' special, she complains that she doesn't want to taste the dishes being prepared because she had already eaten a stick of celery the previous week and spends most of the episode in the corner as a NervousWreck before being practically in tears when forced to eat the food, before puking it up into the waste disposal unit.
* FakeShemp: The Kochanski seen at the end of ''Stasis Leak'' was played by assistant floor manager, Dona [=DiStefano=] because Creator/ClareGrogan was told she was done filming for the day and went home.
* IdenticalGranddaughter: In a LotusEaterMachine, in the novels, the gang get back to Earth where Lister marries an identical descendant who's also called Kristine Kochanski.
* TheLadette: In the ''Last Human'' novel, thanks to filling in the missing Lister's role in several of the scenes based on the TV series, she's this. As ''Last Human'' was written before series VII, it's based on Creator/ClareGrogan's portrayal.
* TheLostLenore: Lister is devastated at her death in "The End". He hopes to one day resurrect her so that they can live together.
* LoveInterest: Played with.
** In the novels, she is; both of the "third volumes" feature Lister getting a happy relationship with her; in "Backwards" they live out a happy life together on Backwards Earth but she ultimately leaves him due to the reverse-aging before the Boyz arrive to get him. In "Last Human", they end up returning to the normal dimension and ultimately restart the human race.
** In the TV series, Lister spends the first six seasons pining after his dimension's version of Kochanski. In the seventh and eighth seasons, whilst he ''tries'' to court her alternate universe counterpart, and Kryten is afraid he'll succeed, she is ambivalent about how she feels, since she generally perceives Lister as an inferior stand-in for her own dimension's version. [[spoiler:Subverted in that she ultimately abandons him to go back to her own dimension.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Of the crew in series 7. Unlike the rest of the boys, she's much saner and more sensible. Usually, at least.
* {{Retcon}}: In the first few series she was Lister's friend whom he had a secret crush on, but never had the nerve to ask out. The tie-in novels make her his ex-girlfriend, something which was eventually retconned into the TV series even before she joined the main cast with their past relationship referenced as early as "DNA". (True, the Kochanski who ends up joining the crew is from an alternate reality, but it's clear from her conversations with this world's Lister that he now remembers them being in a relationship and her breaking up with him.)
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: At first the character was credited only as "Kochanski", but judging by the name written on her hologram box in Series 1 (which reads "KOCHANSKI C.Z.". The Z stands for Zoe.), Kochanski's first name was meant to be spelled "Christine". Then the first novel came out and spelled it "Kristine". Then the TV series [[ReWrite officially established the spelling as "Kristine"]].
* TraumaCongaLine: The second Kochanski gets separated from her much more intelligent, sophisticated Lister, stuck on the dilapidated garbage heap that is ''Starbug'', with a much more uncouth crew, along with the quarters with the pipes capable of driving anyone to dementia, followed by Kryten accidentally destroying her only clothes.
* ViolentGlaswegian: Her book counterpart is an accomplished judoka, something she uses against the Longman clones.
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[[folder:Captain Frank Hollister]]
->'''Played By''': Creator/MacMcDonald (1988, 1999, 2017)
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The overweight captain of ''Red Dwarf'' who is killed off (along with the rest of the crew bar Lister) halfway through the first episode. Hasn't stopped him being the most frequently recurring non-main cast member.
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* CloneAngst: Well, ''Hologramatic'' angst. Rimmer has made it clear that while he has all the memories and feelings of A.J. Rimmer, he is just a copy and he is naturally upset about it.
-->Lister, I'm not really here! I'm not really ''me''! Don't you see? I'm a computer simulation of ''me''. '' That's me,'' there, that pile of albino mouse droppings.
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* ConstantlyCurious: [[StealthPun Possibly because he's a cat]], but he asks a ''ton'' of questions. This ranges from simple things like constantly asking "What is it?" over and over to asking genuine questions about a situation the others are thinking. This also allows him to serve as an AudienceSurrogate to an extent, asking questions the viewer might have so they can be explained by Kryten or Holly.
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* ChestOfMedals: In his book appearance, his jacket is described as being so filled with medals that it's heavily weighed down and audibly clicks when set down anywhere. This is a contrast to Rimmer, whose medal stack consists only of medals for long service.
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* GutturalGrowler: Originally, his actor went with NoIndoorVoice, but this didn't really work so he tried a growling voice instead.



* GutturalGrowler: He speaks in a low growl. Justified in that the actor wanted to cover up his Scottish accent.
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* EccentricAI: 3 million years of isolation in deep space has left them rather computer-senile: a DeadpanSnarker who occasionally counts by ''banging against their screen'' and who is not above playing pranks on the others.
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* AlternateSelf: Has several in alternate futures, timelines and realities:
** The second episode "Future Echoes" introduces Lister's older self, who at 171 was able to communicate with his 25 year old self due to knowing that he was experiencing the future echoes at the time. "Stasis Leak" would show a 30 year old Lister who at somepoint found a way to travel back in time and marry Kochanski and "Out of Time" revealed that in one possible future Lister became a brain in a jar after him and the others began abusing time travel.
** "Parallel Universe" introduces his GenderFlip counterpart Deb Lister, who despite acting exactly how he does he considers disgusting while claiming that he's charming. After sleeping together she becomes the "father" of their twin boys Jim and Bexley. There's also a version of him who become a hologram after dying on Red Dwarf, while Kochanski became the last human alive.
** "Timeslides" shows an alternate timeline created when Lister advised his 17 year old self to invent tension sheet, leading him to become ridiculously wealthy on Earth but dying in a plane accident. "The Inquisitor" also showed an alternate Lister who could have existed if the specific sperm and egg cell that created our Lister didn't meet.
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* FormerlyFat: Apparently, in his youth Lister was taunted for being overweight, thanks to Grandma Lister's own dieting habits. He tried to cut down after she died, and apparently required a second piece of chalk for the ChalkOutline.

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* FormerlyFat: Apparently, in his youth Lister was taunted for being overweight, thanks to Grandma Lister's own dieting habits. He tried to cut down after she died, and because she apparently required a second piece of chalk for the ChalkOutline.
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* NoSoAboveItAll: Despite initially acting grand and all powerful, Kryten's comment that the Universe will die in several billion years causes him to experience a temporary mid-life crisis. The Universe mentions how he's been "expanding", is not as "hot as they was" and has only created one planet with intelligent life, which Rimmer comments is debatable. After Kryten calms him down and explains how creating life is truly impressive, the Universe thanks them and then tells Kryten to get rid of red mechanoid suit because it "sucks". He's also fine with Butler calling him Uni, showing that he acts different when with close friends.

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* NoSoAboveItAll: NotSoAboveItAll: Despite initially acting grand and all powerful, Kryten's comment that the Universe will die in several billion years causes him to experience a temporary mid-life crisis. The Universe mentions how he's been "expanding", is not as "hot as they was" and has only created one planet with intelligent life, which Rimmer comments is debatable. After Kryten calms him down and explains how creating life is truly impressive, the Universe thanks them and then tells Kryten to get rid of red mechanoid suit because it "sucks". He's also fine with Butler calling him Uni, showing that he acts different when with close friends.

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