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The maintenance robots of the ''Red Dwarf'', and frequently serving as Rimmer's hands before his hard-light upgrade (much to their displeasure).
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He's this to Kryten. He's an artist, scientist and writer who broke his programming on his own, speaks languages better than Kryten and is loved by everyone, including [[spoiler:the ''Universe'' itself who he has on speed dial]].
*{{Foil}}: To Kryten, being the same model but created earlier. They both suffered the loss of their crew and were therefore forced to evolve beyond their programming, the difference is that Butler did far more than Kryten ever did.
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!!The Universe
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The literal universe itself, which is apparently a sentient being that the Dwarfers were able to speak to through an old research station.
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* CosmicEntity: It's the universe, it's literally all matter, space and time. However Kryten makes it clear that the Universe isn't in fact god, since while it is the universe and created everything within it, it doesn't know everything and is surprised to learn he's going to die.
* 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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!!The Universe
-> '''Played By:''' Daniel Barker (2016)
The literal universe itself, which is apparently a sentient being that the Dwarfers were able to speak to through an old research station.
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* CosmicEntity: It's the universe, it's literally all matter, space and time. However Kryten makes it clear that the Universe isn't in fact god, since while it is the universe and created everything within it, it doesn't know everything and is surprised to learn he's going to die.
* 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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The maintenance robots of the ''Red Dwarf'', and frequently serving as Rimmer's hands before his hard-light upgrade (much to their displeasure).
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The novels explain that many of The Cat's "flaws" can't really be judged by human standards any more than the morals of an alien -- he's ''not'' human; he's descended from cats and Lister and Rimmer are the first humans he has ever encountered.
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* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Arnold '''Judas''' Rimmer, named after Judas Iscariot. In-Universe, it’s explained that he got the middle name because his mother was a member of the Church of Judas, which believed Judas switched places with Jesus and was the one crucified, and named him that in Judas’ honor.
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* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Arnold '''Judas''' Rimmer, named after Judas Iscariot. In-Universe, it’s explained that he got the middle name because his mother was a member of the Church of Judas, which believed [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade Judas switched places with Jesus and was the one crucified, crucified]], and named him that in Judas’ honor.
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* {{Expy}}: Lister is an evolution Grant Naylor's previous character Dave Hollins. In the ''Dave Hollins: Space Cadet'' sketches from ''Radio/SonOfCliche'' Dave Lister/Hollins was written as a parody of Dave Bowman from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.
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* TheFashionista: They are obsessed with fashion, with it being said that they invented the trouser press before the wheel.
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* TheAllegedBoss: He insists that being the highest-ranking officer on board, he's in charge. However, he's the highest-ranking officer because everyone else is dead. Of the other cast members, he had to threaten Lister into obeying in the first series by withholding his cigarettes and the Cat with bribery. When Kryten later shows up, he only obeys because he's programmed to do whatever a human tells him to, no matter how psychotic they are. Even then Kryten gets around that eventually. By series 5, Lister and the Cat are more likely to just ignore Rimmer until he sulks off.
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* TheAllegedBoss: He insists that being the highest-ranking officer on board, he's in charge. However, he's the highest-ranking officer because everyone else is dead. Of the other cast members, he had to threaten Lister into obeying in the first series by withholding his cigarettes and the Cat with bribery. When Kryten later shows up, he only obeys because he's programmed to do whatever a human tells him to, no matter how psychotic they are.that human is. Even then Kryten gets around that eventually. By series 5, Lister and the Cat are more likely to just ignore Rimmer until he sulks off.
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* ILied: Manages to deceive the crew into wasting time looking for a cure on a planet already destroyed to get rid of it.
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* NothingPersonal: Tries to claim as such to Lister. Sure, it's going to kill him, then reanimate his corpse to do the exact same to Kochanski, but that's just life. Lister, understandably, doesn't agree. Kryten tries plying information out of it on the grounds that as a mechanical lifeform the two of them have no quarrel.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: With someone's brain patterns recorded, being a hologram is effectively resurrection. However, the computer runtime and power requirements to generate a hologram are astronomical, meaning that your only two options are to be either a mission critical crew member on a Space Corps vessel or very rich.
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* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: It didn't take long for them to turn on humanity, since they never got to go to war and they definitely weren't ThreeLawsCompliant. The Agonoids got their war in the Grant literary continuity, but it was all too brief and they ended up rebelling when the Space Corps ordered them to be decommissioned.
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* BarbieDollAnatomy: Series 4000 mechanoids don't have genitals, something which gets Kryten classified as a woman. Apparently averted for mechs assigned to Italian starship with the reasoning that they fit in better if they could stand around cupping themselves like their human crewmates.
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* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Some simulants, particularly the ones from "Gunmen Of The Apocalypse", "Trojan", and "The Beginning" can pass for human. So much so that Lister even tries to ask one out on a date. Others, most notably the classic Simulant from "Justice, who appears to be partially damaged to begin with, and the Agonoids from Grant's solo book, who are described as having once looked human but age has discoloured their skin and removed the facade from their teeth.
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* TortureTechnician: The Agonoids in ''Backwards'', knowing that it could be a long time, if ever again that they have an opportunity to kill, devise various methods amongst themselves to draw out Lister's death using various elaborate and painful means.
* ToServeMan: The Simulant in "Beyond A Joke" notes that humans taste good in mint sauce.
* ToServeMan: The Simulant in "Beyond A Joke" notes that humans taste good in mint sauce.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: One of things the crew buy from the Kinatowawi in ''Last Human'' is a squad of reprogrammed simulants in various states of disrepair that accompany Lister on his raid of the Cyberia prison complex. In the RPG, a player can also choose a simulant as their character.
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* BackForTheFinale: Was supposed to come back to save the crew alternate ending for Season Eight. Though this wasn't the finale, the show did go off the air for eleven years.
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* FirstInjuryReaction: In ''Last Human'', Kryten uses a DNA modifier to transform himself from a mechanoid to a human. Soon after, an accident caused by the Cat's clumsiness causes Kryten to fall down a flight of stairs, sustaining many injuries one after the other (in what the narration calls his "introduction to pain"). Kryten is not just in agony, but outraged that his pristine new body is already a "write-off" due to a nasty scar on his leg.
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*** And again in "Only the Good...", where he literally kicks Death in the balls, citing that "only the good die young."
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* FantasticRacism: In the first book, it's stated that holograms are discriminated against and treated as second-class citizens because they are seen by the living as a reminder of their own mortality. Holograms often hold equal rights marches. Given the power and computer run time requirements, only the mega-rich and mission-critical Space Corps personnel are resurrected as holograms. Rimmer had once thrown a stone at one of these marches as a child and one of his early thoughts after his death is that he's now a "dirty deadie".
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* FantasticRacism: In the first book, it's stated that holograms are discriminated against and treated as second-class citizens because they are seen by the living as a reminder of their own mortality. Holograms often hold equal rights marches. Given the power and computer run time requirements, only the mega-rich and mission-critical Space Corps personnel are resurrected as holograms. Rimmer had once thrown a stone at one of these marches as a child and one of his early thoughts after his death is that he's now a "dirty deadie". The series briefly touches on this too, where Channel 27's employment of a hologram as a newsreader is considered progressive.
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* TooDumbToLive: After their war, the two factions built ships to carry them back to Fuchal, planning their directions based on "holy writing", which was actually Dave's old shopping list. The ones who followed this list flew smack-dab into an asteroid. The others took this as a sign their course was righteous, and flew on.
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A "race" made up by Dave Lister in order to bluff some simulants. However, in one reality out there the Great Vindaloovian Empire truly does exist, having evolved from discarded curries to a semi-humanoid state.
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* TheEmpire: Their main government is the Great Vindaloovian Empire.
* FantasticRacism: They despise all humans, considering them vermin and have dedicated themselves to wiping out whatever's left.
* ThemeNaming: Vindaloovian names sound suspiciously like curry dishes consumed by humans.
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* BodyHorror: Especially so in the book "Better Than Life", which talks about cars made out of flesh and fleshy blobs designed to win sporting matches.
* GeneticAbomination: They are creatures that do not look pleasant to look at, resembling either hairy apes, ugly animalistic creatures, or outright blobs. They were also created through genetic engineering.
* FantasticRacism: In the book series, they were treated poorly in spite of the fact that they're technically humans, having no voting rights and it being not illegal to kill them. After a short uprising, humanity decided to just leave them on Earth, which was now the dumping ground of the solar system, to die.
* HumanSubspecies: As the novels point out, they were created with human DNA, so are technically human subspecies. Too bad this is not recognized by anyone, with them being barred from human activities by voting.
* MixAndMatchCritters: The [=GELF=]s in "Last Human" are largely depicted as matches between different varieties of animals, including the Dolochimp (part Dolphin, Chimp, and Locust) and Alberog (part Albertross, Frog, and Bear}.
* OrganicTechnology: It is mentioned in the second novel that some of them were developed to fulfill the role of electrical products, leading to living cars with bony exteriors and flesh interiors, and vacuum cleaners which also served as pets. Of course, [=GELF=]s were essentially modified humans that were being treated as slaves so they rebelled as a result.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: In the novels, they eventually have an uprising against humanity, but are swiftly defeated. Meanwhile, one of the comic book strips had the GELF inhabitants of a pleasure planet rise up, leading to the planet being cordoned off.
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[[folder:Polymorph/Emohawk]]
Intended to be the perfect warrior, these creatures were judged to be too insane for this purpose and went sent off in genetic disposal units. They are the perfect shapeshifters, and they use their skills to manipulate those around them so that they can suck up their emotions.
In spite of their madness, Kinitawowi have managed to partially domesticate these creatures, creating a bird-like variant called the Emohawk. On top of their preexisting ability to remove emotions (apparently a commodity amongst the Kinitawowi), they can suck out aspects of one's personality, as Rimmer and the Cat find out.
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* AbstractEater: They largely subsist from emotions. Emohawks take it further by eating personality aspects as well.
* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: Whilst the TV series positions the Polymorph as specifically engineered by humans for the purposes of war, the books have them as the descendants of those GELFs left behind on Garbage World, their talents coming about thanks to having to survive the conditions of a DeathWorld.
* BioweaponBeast: In the TV series, they were engineered as the perfect weapon for war, but proved to be insane to be put to any use.
* CutenessProximity: Baby Polymorphs try to convince people to not throw them out by transforming themselves as cute animals.
* FeatheredFiend: The Emohawk resembles a bird, but is even more dangerous than the Polymorph, able to suck out both the emotions and a personality aspect of a person.
* {{Objectshifting}}: They are capable of transforming into random objects, including beach balls and food.
* {{Portmanteau}}: Emotion + Hawk = Emohawk.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: What makes them so dangerous is that they can transform into anything. If the Smegazine is correct, they can even turn into a spaceship.
* XenomorphXerox: They take a heavy resemblance to Xenomorphs, including a secondary mouth that extends from inside the primary mouth.
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[[folder:Pleasure GELF]]
Intended to be the perfect partner, these [=GELF=]s use their telepathic abilities to take on the appearance of who the
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: One of the few types of [=GELF=]s to speak in English, although unlike the later appearance of the [=BEGG=]s, this is not commented on.
* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder: They appear differently to each person, which can be confusing when it needs to converse with an entire group of them.
* BlessedWithSuck: They can become anybody's greatest sexual and romantic fantasy... which, of course, means nobody respects you for being you. It also causes confusion when dealing with groups of people, as it appears and converses differently to everyone. Plus, with the power turned off, they look like a hideous BlobMonster.
* BlobMonster: Their real appearance resembles a large pile of snot.
* NonHumanNonBinary: Being androgynous, they don't actually have any genders, although Camille uses female pronouns and Hector male.
* ShapeshifterSeducer: Sex workers who appear as the perfect mate to anyone they talk to.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: The Symbimorphs in "Last Human" are quite similar to them, being shapeshifters whose abilities are largely used for sexual desires, although their appearance is more human in nature.
* TokenHeroicOrc: In a sense, they are the only form of GELF to not antagonize the Dwarfers, with Kryten even getting into a brief InterspeciesRomance with one.
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[[folder:Despair/Hope Squid]]
Creatures which usually come about as part of an accelerated evolution process on uninhabited moons, these creatures survive through their ink, which has adverse effects on whoever they squirt it on the case of the males, it's despair, whilst in the case of the females, it's joy. The trouble is that they're too efficient at their role, and moons where they evolve at usually end with all other lifeforms dead.
* BizarreSexualDimorphism: The effects of the ink vary depending on the sex - if it's a female, it induces pleasure, whilst a male will induce despair.
* DrivenToSuicide: The general fate of anyone squirted with the ink of a male, killing themselves out of despair. Even animals do it.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: They came about as an attempt at creating life on an ocean planet. It worked all right, but it led to a creature that spread destruction wherever it went.
* {{Hallucinations}}: Their ink induces hallucinations of either joy or despair as a defense tactic.
* TentacledTerror: They are squid-like creatures that can induce whoever they induce their ink to kill themselves. They even largely appear as tentacles in their appearances.
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[[folder:Psirens]]
Insectoid monsters created for unknown reasons, these creatures hang around asteroid belts, crashing ships with their illusions and luring them in so that they can suck out their brains.
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* BrainFood: They usually suck out the brains of any victims who fail to evade them. They even have a slurpy straw to do so.
* MasterOfIllusion: Their form of luring in prey involves using illusions to trick them into their homes.
* OurSirensAreDifferent: These sirens are giant genetically modified insects that use psychic illusions to lure in spaceships.
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[[folder:Kinitawowi]]
One of the more intelligent and friendly race of [=GELF=]s, these furry creatures lead a tribal existence in deep space, although have managed to hoard a variety of technology over the years. They are happy to trade with others, although this usually comes with a forced marriage...
* AllThereInTheManual: The website provides an explanation for how they appeared in deep space - they were considered genetic waste and sent off to space due to their abundance of mucus. They were told that they were to become great space explorers to get them to agree to this.
* DumbMuscle: They're not exactly smart, but it's not exactly a good idea to piss them off, or they will kill without remorse.
* HairTriggerTemper: Described as such in the RPG, apparently having tempers as "short as a pigmy's wedding tackle".
* KillerSpaceMonkey: They resemble giant apes and are described as resembling gorillas in ''Last Human''.
* MarriageOfConvenience: According to the RPG, they have a habit of doing this, sometimes exchanging their children for marriage for something as minor as a novelty hat. This is expanded from their original appearance, where one specimen is willing to give the Dwarfers a necessary component of their ship in exchange for Lister marrying one of their members.
* MixAndMatchCritters: They're described as a cross between Gorillas and Hippos in ''Last Human''.
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[[folder: Biologically Engineered Garbage Gobblers ([=BEGGs=])]]
Designed to consume garbage, these forms of [=GELF=]s have a habit for gambling, which proves to be an issue for Lister when he accidentally gives away Rimmer and Starbug to them.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: They are capable of speaking English, with the explanation given that they were taught it by a person who went to English school before going on to consume the poor guy.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Being designed to consume garbage, they are capable of eating "sediment, sludge and slop", although this leaves them permanently drunk. This proves to be their undoing when they all die thanks to choking on the electric wires they were chewing.
* TheGambler: They usually participate in friendly poker games, which proves to be an issue for Lister when he gambles away Rimmer and Starbug.
* ImAHumanitarian: They are perfectly willing to consume the occasional human, as one person who went to an English Boarding School found out.
* LowCultureHighTech: They have a groinal exploder in spite of their otherwise basic culture, which they had recovered from the [=ERRA=] station.
* SmarterThanYouLook: They're clearly not intelligent enough to have created the groinal exploder, but they do see through Lister's rouse of getting them to accept the "spoon of destiny" and ask for another game.
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[[folder:The Sakenyako]]
A tribe of [=GELF=]s very similar to the Kinitawowi, they end up taking Butler on as an honorary member when he saves them.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Butler was able to cure them of their "skin demons", leading them to consider him an honorary member of their tribe, make him godfather to their chief's daughter, and giving him a lifetime's supply of GELF Berry Wine.
* FantasticRacism: The one specimen we see doesn't have a high opinion of humans, considering them scum.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: They look much like Kinitawowi and have a similar mix of cultural and technological aspects.
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!Other Races:
[[folder:Holograms]]
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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* AndroidIdentifier: They look identical to humans, so need the H to distinguish themselves. The tie-in novel ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'' describes it as "the stigma of the dead".
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: They have a giant H on their forehead to distinguish them from normal humans. That said, it is possible to remove it, as seen with the hologrammatic version of Ace Rimmer.
* FantasticRacism: In the first book, it's stated that holograms are discriminated against and treated as second-class citizens because they are seen by the living as a reminder of their own mortality. Holograms often hold equal rights marches. Given the power and computer run time requirements, only the mega-rich and mission-critical Space Corps personnel are resurrected as holograms. Rimmer had once thrown a stone at one of these marches as a child and one of his early thoughts after his death is that he's now a "dirty deadie".
* HardLight: Series 6 introduces "hard light", which allows holograms to be capable of touching things. Rimmer gets upgraded with it by Legion and later holograms such as Ace Rimmer, Katerina Bartokovsky, and Howard Rimmer are seen using the technology.
* {{Hologram}}: They are the projected simulations of dead people after all.
* {{Intangibility}}: "Soft-Light" holograms are unable to touch or interact with anything unless it is specially adapted for them. It does come with the benefit of allowing them to pass through doors or walls.
* VirtualGhost: They're hologrammatic simulations with the memories of dead humans inserted into them. How they take it varies.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: According to Katerina in "Back to Earth", killing a hologram is fine. Unfortunately for her, she is a hologram, and Rimmer has no qualms about tossing her under a bus. It's examined more seriously in "The Promised Land", where Rimmer realizes that he is just a simulation and tries to kill himself.
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[[folder:Simulants:]]
Killer robots designed for a war that never took place, some escaped the dismantling program and now prowl around deep space. They have a strong hatred for humans and will torture and kill any they come across.
The episode "Twentica" introduces a subspecies called "Expanoids". Unlike normal Simulants, they seek to enslave humanity.
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* AdaptationNameChange: They're called "Agonoids" in the novel "Backwards".
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: It's telling that the kindest of the Simulants is the still insane Inquisitor.
* ColdBloodedTorture: They usually do this to humans they don't instantly kill, stocking their ships up with supplies to keep them alive with. Some humans have even been tortured for four decades in complete agony.
* FantasticRacism: They despise humans, and will relish any opportunity to torture and kill them in cold blood. Especially notable since they get along well with other species, and have even teamed up with GELF species.
* KillerRobot: They're more interested in crushing the bones of anyone they come across than being nice guys. Especially humans.
* RobotSoldier: They were built for a war that never took place although they still have the strength and manpower to attack anyone who stands in their way.
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[[folder:Mechanoids]]
These robots were designed to be robot maids, coming in several varieties such as the remarkably human Series 3000, the standard Series 4000, and the advanced but easy-to-drive insane Hudzen-10. The most prominent member is Kryten, but others have appeared as well.
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* RidiculouslyHumanRobots:
** The Series 3000 robots looked so much like humans that they were replaced for being unsettling, although it is claimed that some escaped and hid in society.
** The Series 4000 robots are capable of things such as guilt, belief, lying, getting addicted to drugs, etc, usually due to installed chips.
* RobotMaid: They were designed to do domestic daily tasks and have attachments such as a groinal attachment to help them out with cleaning.
* RobotReligion: They were programmed to believe in "Silicon Heaven" to keep them docile.
* ThreeLawsCompliant: The idea of "Silicon Heaven" is intended to induce non-violence from these robots by convincing them that if they work hard enough, they will go up there. They are also programmed more straight-forwardly to not kill humans, although it is possible to get around this as seen with the one Hudzen-10 droid we see figuring out workarounds to killing the Dwarfers (including deciding that Lister is "barely human")
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[[folder: Felis Sapiens]]
This race is descended from Lister's cat Frankenstein, who managed to survive the radiation leak which killed almost everyone else. They view Lister as their god and ended up in a Holy War over him. In the end, the survivors decided to leave Red Dwarf to search for their Promised Land of Fuchal. Their main representative in the series is the Cat, although the fate of the species as a whole is left unclear until "The Promised Land".
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* AllHailTheGreatGodMickey: They consider Lister to be their god and have had Holy Wars based around how he was going to set up his fast food business.
* BizarreAlienBiology: They have colored organs, a heartbeat that sounds cooler than a human's and a decorated stomach wall.
* CatFolk: They're descended from a single female cat and show traits of their feline ancestors, including cat flap doors, and eating meat from tins.
* CuteLittleFangs: The one thing which distinguishes them from humans psychically is their small cute fangs protruding out of their mouths.
* TheFashionista: They are obsessed with fashion, with it being said that they invented the trouser press before the wheel.
* LittleBitBeastly: The only distinguishing them from humans is their small fangs.
* SillyReasonForWar: Had a war about whether the hats that Lister was going to use for his business were going to be red or blue. The worst part is that they were both wrong - they were meant to be green.
* WolverineClaws: They have retractable claws as a carry-over from their cat heritage. The Cat has them as well according to a deleted scene in "The Promised Land" but they are smaller and more ineffectual.
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