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** ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'' kicks off with the dead engineer Saunders being depressed over his new status as a [[VirtualGhost hologram]]: quite apart from being unable to touch anything, he's also left saddled with a truckload of bureaucracy, [[FantasticRacism not allowed shore leave with the rest of the crew]], and left with the awful knowledge that because his marriage is now null and void, his wife will meet someone else. He's so upset that he tries to thump the desk in front of him in a rage, only for his hand to pass right through it and [[GroinAttack smash himself in the balls]]. As such, when Flight Coordinator [=McIntyre=] commits suicide and dooms Saunders to be switched off so that the more important crewmember can take his place as ''Red Dwarf's'' hologram, Saunders nothing short of overjoyed.
** As with the TV show, Rimmer is immediately gloomy after being brought back as a hologram, and most of his first few lines are to lament how depressed he is about it -- to the point that he even [[LackOfEmpathy talks over Lister]], who's still in mourning for the rest of the ''Red Dwarf'' crew and almost drank himself to death in grief. For good measure, Rimmer makes it clear that along with the inability to touch anything, he's also bummed over being a "[[FantasticSlur dirty deadie]]" like the other holograms that he and his brothers used to abuse.
** In ''Better Than Life,'' Rimmer's unconscious self-loathing results in the eponymous VR game inflicting a ruinous streak of bad luck on him that ends with Rimmer being jailed as a disembodied essence, [[GrandTheftMe having his repossessed body claimed by Jimmy Jitterman]], and ending up trapped in the body of prostitute Trixie [=LaBouche=]. Rimmer is not happy with any of it, least of all the pain of having to flee the prison with no bra. In the days that follow, he's stuck in the company of the Jittermans, who routinely subject him to sexist insults, physical abuse, and borderline enslavement, leaving Rimmer silently despairing over just how much he's lost in his new body.
** Zig-zagged in ''Last Human.'' [[RobotBuddy Kryten]] is initially [[RevelingInTheNewForm very happy]] when he uses the DNA machine to turn himself into a human, despite Kochanski warning him that treating his transformation as the ultimate solution for all his problems is a big mistake. However, he soon becomes gripped with uncharacteristic anger and petulance once he realizes that [[MortalityEnsues he's going to die like any other mere mortal]], even more so when [[FirstInjuryReaction he's injured for the first time in an accident]]. Worse still, the fact that his human body makes him ''less'' useful to his friends leaves him humiliated and snippy. As such, once the team regains control of the DNA Machine, Kryten decides to become a mechanoid again.
** ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'' kicks off with the dead engineer Saunders being depressed over his new status as a [[VirtualGhost hologram]]: quite apart from being unable to touch anything, he's also left saddled with a truckload of bureaucracy, [[FantasticRacism not allowed shore leave with the rest of the crew]], and left with the awful knowledge that because his marriage is now null and void, his wife will meet someone else. He's so upset that he tries to thump the desk in front of him in a rage, only for his hand to pass right through it and [[GroinAttack smash himself in the balls]]. As such, when Flight Coordinator [=McIntyre=] commits suicide and dooms Saunders to be switched off so that the more important crewmember can take his place as ''Red Dwarf's'' hologram, Saunders nothing short of overjoyed.
** As with the TV show, Rimmer is immediately gloomy after being brought back as a hologram, and most of his first few lines are to lament how depressed he is about it -- to the point that he even [[LackOfEmpathy talks over Lister]], who's still in mourning for the rest of the ''Red Dwarf'' crew and almost drank himself to death in grief. For good measure, Rimmer makes it clear that along with the inability to touch anything, he's also bummed over being a "[[FantasticSlur dirty deadie]]" like the other holograms that he and his brothers used to abuse.
** In ''Better Than Life,'' Rimmer's unconscious self-loathing results in the eponymous VR game inflicting a ruinous streak of bad luck on him that ends with Rimmer being jailed as a disembodied essence, [[GrandTheftMe having his repossessed body claimed by Jimmy Jitterman]], and ending up trapped in the body of prostitute Trixie [=LaBouche=]. Rimmer is not happy with any of it, least of all the pain of having to flee the prison with no bra. In the days that follow, he's stuck in the company of the Jittermans, who routinely subject him to sexist insults, physical abuse, and borderline enslavement, leaving Rimmer silently despairing over just how much he's lost in his new body.
** Zig-zagged in ''Last Human.'' [[RobotBuddy Kryten]] is initially [[RevelingInTheNewForm very happy]] when he uses the DNA machine to turn himself into a human, despite Kochanski warning him that treating his transformation as the ultimate solution for all his problems is a big mistake. However, he soon becomes gripped with uncharacteristic anger and petulance once he realizes that [[MortalityEnsues he's going to die like any other mere mortal]], even more so when [[FirstInjuryReaction he's injured for the first time in an accident]]. Worse still, the fact that his human body makes him ''less'' useful to his friends leaves him humiliated and snippy. As such, once the team regains control of the DNA Machine, Kryten decides to become a mechanoid again.
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** In ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'', to Lister's [[BigNo horror]], the Cat's [[LotusEaterMachine digitally sculpted fantasy]] sees him, solely for recreation, [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals shoot a dozen dogs]] -- ''Better Than Life'' notes "unnecessary cruelty to small, furry animals" to be integral to his psychological makeup. In ''Backwards'', when [[spoiler:the Apocalypse Virus affects Rimmer's light bee to boil him alive]], the Cat sees him off with a [[AskAStupidQuestion sarcastic jibe]].
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** In ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'', to Lister's [[BigNo horror]], the Cat's [[LotusEaterMachine digitally sculpted fantasy]] sees him, solely for recreation, [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals shoot a dozen hunting dogs]] -- ''Better Than Life'' notes "unnecessary cruelty to small, furry animals" to be integral to his psychological makeup. In ''Backwards'', when [[spoiler:the Apocalypse Virus affects Rimmer's light bee to boil him alive]], the Cat sees him off with a [[AskAStupidQuestion sarcastic jibe]].
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the show, Kryten only appears at the start of series 2. Here, he's found almost immediately after the portion of ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'' adapting '"Future Echoes", and is actually present for some of the adapted "Me2", a series 1 episode.
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the show, Kryten only appears at the start of series 2. Here, he's found almost immediately after the portion of ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'' adapting '"Future Echoes", and is actually present for some of the adapted "Me2", "[=Me2=]", a series 1 episode.
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the show, Kryten only appears at the start of series 2. Here, he's found almost immediately after the portion of ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'' adapting '"Future Echoes", and is actually present for some of the adapted "Me Squared", a series 1 episode.
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the show, Kryten only appears at the start of series 2. Here, he's found almost immediately after the portion of ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'' adapting '"Future Echoes", and is actually present for some of the adapted "Me Squared", "Me2", a series 1 episode.
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Rimmer's immediate superior Petrovich is in the first novel for only a few pages, mainly to escort Lister into stasis. However it turns out pate in the novel he was a drug dealer in life, and is how the Better Than Life game so crucial to the end of the first novel and start of the second got on the ship.
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: Rimmer's immediate superior Petrovich is in the first novel for only a few pages, mainly to escort Lister into stasis. However it turns out pate in the novel later on he was a drug dealer in life, and is how the Better Than Life game so crucial to the end of the first novel and start novel/start of the second got on the ship.
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** While Kochanski, Petersen, Chen and Selby all appear the novel replaces the main officers from the pilot episode. Captain Hollister is replaced by a woman named Kirk (seemingly just so the writers can do a Star Trek joke), while Todhunter becomes a shadier character called Petrovich.
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--> ''Could he have fantasized the invention of a Time Machine just so he could bring back Caesar, Bonaparte and Patton - the three greatest generals in history - simply in order to beat them at 'RISK', the strategic war game for ages fifteen and over? Could he really be that small-minded?''
* ArmorPiercingResponse: Played for laughs in ''Backwards'': at the end of his tether with the now-teenage Lister and Cat's antics, Rimmer shuts down their needling him about his (non-existent) sex life by pointing out that under the rules of the backwards universe, Cat didn't lose his virginity by having sex with the hillbilly girl, he ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext became a virgin'']].
* ArmorPiercingResponse: Played for laughs in ''Backwards'': at the end of his tether with the now-teenage Lister and Cat's antics, Rimmer shuts down their needling him about his (non-existent) sex life by pointing out that under the rules of the backwards universe, Cat didn't lose his virginity by having sex with the hillbilly girl, he ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext became a virgin'']].
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--> ''Could he have fantasized the invention of a Time Machine just so he could bring back Caesar, Bonaparte and Patton - the three greatest generals in history - simply in order to beat them at 'RISK', the strategic war game for ages fifteen and over? Could he really be that small-minded?''
small-minded?'' [[note]] Yes. Yes, he could.[[/note]]
* ArmorPiercingResponse: Played for laughs in ''Backwards'': at the end of his tether with the now-teenage Lister and Cat's antics, Rimmer shuts down their needling him about his (non-existent) sex life by pointing out that under the rules of the backwards universe, Cat didn't lose his virginity by having sex with the hillbilly girl, he ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext became avirgin'']].virgin]]''.
* ArmorPiercingResponse: Played for laughs in ''Backwards'': at the end of his tether with the now-teenage Lister and Cat's antics, Rimmer shuts down their needling him about his (non-existent) sex life by pointing out that under the rules of the backwards universe, Cat didn't lose his virginity by having sex with the hillbilly girl, he ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext became a
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* ActionisedSequel: Whereas ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'' focuses largely on coping with life in space, ''Better Than Life'' sees escape from a black hole; abandonment on a frozen planet and contest with a Polymorph. ''Last Human'', with infiltration of a GELF penal colony; an elemental gestalt of pure rage, and a sociopath AlternateUniverse version of Lister, has a more turbulent pace. Much of ''Backwards'' sees the crew struggling either to escape or survive.
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* ActionisedSequel: Whereas ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'' focuses largely on coping with life in space, ''Better Than Life'' sees escape from a black hole; abandonment on a frozen planet and contest with a Polymorph. ''Last Human'', with infiltration of a GELF penal colony; an elemental gestalt of pure rage, and a sociopath AlternateUniverse version of Lister, has a more turbulent pace. Much of ''Backwards'' sees the crew struggling either to escape or survive.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Downplayed in that it's [[{{Jerkass}} Rimmer]] we're talking about, but even he has a few of these moments throughout the first two books. While he still gleefully makes fun of Lister when he thinks his immediate future is getting blown up in the drive room, when the moment actually arrives, he tells Lister not to go in an impulsive attempt to avert his death (as opposed to his ghoulish enjoyment in ''Future Echoes''). [[spoiler:He also makes sure Lister's will is carried out to the last insane detail when he dies fighting the Polymorph -- and is actually ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness joyful]]'' when Holly comes up with a plan to resurrect him. Even more so when he figures out what, or rather who, is being sent to Backwards Earth with him.]]
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** Downplayed in that it's [[{{Jerkass}} Rimmer]] we're talking about, but even he has a few of these moments throughout the first two books. While he still gleefully makes fun of Lister when he thinks his immediate future is getting blown up in the drive room, when the moment actually arrives, he tells Lister not to go in an impulsive attempt to avert his death (as opposed to his ghoulish enjoyment in ''Future Echoes''). [[spoiler:He also makes sure Lister's will is carried out to the last insane detail when he dies fighting the Polymorph -- and is actually ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness joyful]]'' when Holly comes up with a plan to resurrect him. Even more so when he figures out what, or rather who, is being sent to Backwards Earth with him.]]]]
** In "Gunmen of the Apocalypse", Lola the bartender laughed along with everyone else when Jimmy taunted Kryten. In ''Backwards'', Lola (renamed "Hope") is one of just two people who treat him with kindness.
** Downplayed in that it's [[{{Jerkass}} Rimmer]] we're talking about, but even he has a few of these moments throughout the first two books. While he still gleefully makes fun of Lister when he thinks his immediate future is getting blown up in the drive room, when the moment actually arrives, he tells Lister not to go in an impulsive attempt to avert his death (as opposed to his ghoulish enjoyment in ''Future Echoes''). [[spoiler:He also makes sure Lister's will is carried out to the last insane detail when he dies fighting the Polymorph -- and is actually ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness joyful]]'' when Holly comes up with a plan to resurrect him. Even more so when he figures out what, or rather who, is being sent to Backwards Earth with him.
** In "Gunmen of the Apocalypse", Lola the bartender laughed along with everyone else when Jimmy taunted Kryten. In ''Backwards'', Lola (renamed "Hope") is one of just two people who treat him with kindness.
* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: Lister's attempts to make enough money to leave Mimas in the first book are often sabotaged by his need to combat the depressing atmosphere by going to bars and spending all the money on drinks.
* GeniusDitz: In ''Last Human'', the Cat (with some help from the luck virus) is able to come up with both the means for Starbug to cross an entire galaxy to get to Lister, but also devise a way to power such a jaunt.
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* HillbillyIncest: In ''Backwards'', the crew are accosted by an enraged hillbilly and later encounter a dead body that looks a lot like that hillbilly. Kryten surmises that the corpse is probably the first hillbilly's brother or cousin, and Rimmer snidely remarks, "Probably both. Probably his father and his uncle, too."
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* HillbillyIncest: In ''Backwards'', the crew are accosted by an enraged hillbilly and later encounter a dead body that looks a lot like that hillbilly. Kryten surmises that the corpse is probably the first hillbilly's brother or cousin, and Rimmer snidely remarks, "Probably both. Probably his father uncle and his uncle, father, too."
* HoppingMachine: The primary mode of transportation on Mimas are "Hoppers", vehicle that get around by leaping through the air.
* ImplausibleDeniability: When Lister goes to collect Rimmer for his return fare, he finds Rimmer arguing with the staff of the android brothel. When Rimmer realises Lister is there, he immediately starts acting like he was made to believe he was in a restaurant the whole time.
* KillerBearHug: In ''Backwards'', Famine Apocalypse brings Lister into a crushing embrace that breaks nearly every bone in Lister's body.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: In "Gunmen of the Apocalypse", Kryten's sheriff persona had no name. In ''Backwards'', he is called "Iron" Will Carton.
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* NaturalDisasterCascade: PlayedWith in ''Better Than Life''. When Lister arrives on Earth -- which has been pretty much ''destroyed'' by humans' ill treatment of it before they abandoned it -- the planet reacts by hurling pollution variations of natural disasters (acid rain, oil storms, earthquakes and lightning) at him specifically until he offers to make things right in GaiasVengeance proper.
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* NaturalDisasterCascade: PlayedWith in ''Better Than Life''. When [[spoiler:When Lister arrives on Earth -- which has been pretty much ''destroyed'' by humans' ill treatment of it before they abandoned it -- the planet reacts by hurling pollution variations of natural disasters (acid rain, oil storms, earthquakes and lightning) at him specifically until he offers to make things right in GaiasVengeance proper.]]
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* SpottingTheThread: In ''Backwards'', Kryten's sheriff persona starts to realise something is off with his life when Lister starts asking him questions about who his parents were, or where he came from. He soon realises that he can't remember what happened before sunup.
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** Lister's much more normal-seeming life is envied by Rimmer - but Lister is secretly kicking himself for constructing his entire fantasy life around Kristine Kochanski, a woman who he's still obsessed with after three million years despite only dating for not even two months before she dumped him for a catering officer. He's well aware of how sad this is, and how empty his "life" is as a result.
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** Lister's much more normal-seeming life is envied by Rimmer - but Lister is secretly kicking himself for constructing his entire fantasy life around Kristine Kochanski, a woman who he's still obsessed with after three million years despite only dating for not even two months before she dumped him for a catering officer. He's well aware of how sad this is, and how empty his "life" life is as a result.
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** Also in ''Backwards'', [[spoiler:Kryten chooses to use what little time he has left after being mortally wounded by the Apocalypse Gang to cure the Navicomp instead of saving himself. It doesn't save Starbug, but it does buy Lister and Cat enough time to get to Ace's ship and ump to a different reality before it crashes]].
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** Also in ''Backwards'', [[spoiler:Kryten chooses to use what little time he has left after being mortally wounded by the Apocalypse Gang to cure the Navicomp instead of saving himself. It doesn't save Starbug, but it does buy Lister and Cat enough time to get to Ace's ship and ump jump to a different reality before it crashes]].
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** ''Last Human'' adapts the events of "DNA", but where there Kryten's transformation is the result of the Cat's screwing about, here it's deliberate on Kryten's part.
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** ''Last Human'' adapts the events of "DNA", but where there Kryten's transformation is the result of the Cat's screwing about, here it's deliberate on Kryten's part.part as a result of his desire to become human.
** ''Backwards'' takes the events of "Gunmen of the Apocalypse" and gives them a much grimmer twist. [[spoiler:Unlike the episode where defeating the virus frees the group unharmed to avoid the imminent crash by the skin of their teeth, here Rimmer and Kryten actually ''die'' beating the Apocalypse Boys and the virus isn't cured in time to stop the ship crashing into a planet. Lister and Cat are forced to dimension jump to survive, meeting alternate versions of Rimmer and Kryten in the process]].
** ''Backwards'' takes the events of "Gunmen of the Apocalypse" and gives them a much grimmer twist. [[spoiler:Unlike the episode where defeating the virus frees the group unharmed to avoid the imminent crash by the skin of their teeth, here Rimmer and Kryten actually ''die'' beating the Apocalypse Boys and the virus isn't cured in time to stop the ship crashing into a planet. Lister and Cat are forced to dimension jump to survive, meeting alternate versions of Rimmer and Kryten in the process]].
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** Also in ''Backwards'', [[spoiler:Kryten chooses to use what little time he has left after being mortally wounded by the Apocalypse Gang to cure the Navicomp instead of saving himself. It doesn't save Starbug, but it does buy Lister and Cat enough time to get to Ace's ship and ump to a different reality before it crashes]].
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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: After jumping to an alternate reality at the end of ''Backwards'', Lister is able to prove to Rimmer it's really him by reminding him of the gazpacho soup incident, something only the two of them shared in the first book.
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** Everyone bar Kryten in ''Backwards'': compared to the original books and ''Last Human'' there's far more genuinely mean-spirited bickering, arguments and jibes between Lister, Rimmer and Cat, to the point where virtually none of the reluctant cameraderie of the show is present - best seen when Cat completely seriously tells Lister at the end that [[spoiler:Rimmer's death was a good thing as he won't be around to annoy them any more]]. Justified in many ways: they've been stuck in a backwards world with only each other for company, Lister and Cat have deaged to teenagers and thus are even more immature than normal, and once they return to the main universe they find out they've lost their ship to an army of psychotic Agonoids and have to regain it before their supplies run out. Needless to say, tensions are ''incredibly'' high.
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** Everyone bar Kryten in ''Backwards'': compared to the original books and ''Last Human'' there's far more genuinely mean-spirited bickering, arguments and jibes between Lister, Rimmer and Cat, to the point where virtually none of the reluctant cameraderie of the show is present - best seen when Cat completely seriously tells Lister at the end that [[spoiler:Rimmer's death was a good thing as he won't be around to annoy them any more]]. Justified in many ways: they've been stuck in a backwards world with only each other for company, company for a decade, Lister and Cat have deaged to teenagers and thus are even more immature than normal, and once they return to the main universe they find out they've lost their ship to an army of psychotic Agonoids and have to regain it before their supplies run out. Needless to say, tensions are ''incredibly'' high.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: In ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'', to Lister's [[BigNo horror]], the Cat's [[LotusEaterMachine digitally sculpted fantasy]] sees him, solely for recreation, [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals shoot a dozen dogs]] -- ''Better Than Life'' notes "unnecessary cruelty to small, furry animals" to be integral to his psychological makeup. In ''Backwards'', when [[spoiler:the Apocalypse Virus affects Rimmer's light bee to boil him alive]], the Cat sees him off with a [[AskAStupidQuestion sarcastic jibe]].
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** In ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'', to Lister's [[BigNo horror]], the Cat's [[LotusEaterMachine digitally sculpted fantasy]] sees him, solely for recreation, [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals shoot a dozen dogs]] -- ''Better Than Life'' notes "unnecessary cruelty to small, furry animals" to be integral to his psychological makeup. In ''Backwards'', when [[spoiler:the Apocalypse Virus affects Rimmer's light bee to boil him alive]], the Cat sees him off with a [[AskAStupidQuestion sarcastic jibe]].
** Everyone bar Kryten in ''Backwards'': compared to the original books and ''Last Human'' there's far more genuinely mean-spirited bickering, arguments and jibes between Lister, Rimmer and Cat, to the point where virtually none of the reluctant cameraderie of the show is present - best seen when Cat completely seriously tells Lister at the end that [[spoiler:Rimmer's death was a good thing as he won't be around to annoy them any more]]. Justified in many ways: they've been stuck in a backwards world with only each other for company, Lister and Cat have deaged to teenagers and thus are even more immature than normal, and once they return to the main universe they find out they've lost their ship to an army of psychotic Agonoids and have to regain it before their supplies run out. Needless to say, tensions are ''incredibly'' high.
** In ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'', to Lister's [[BigNo horror]], the Cat's [[LotusEaterMachine digitally sculpted fantasy]] sees him, solely for recreation, [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals shoot a dozen dogs]] -- ''Better Than Life'' notes "unnecessary cruelty to small, furry animals" to be integral to his psychological makeup. In ''Backwards'', when [[spoiler:the Apocalypse Virus affects Rimmer's light bee to boil him alive]], the Cat sees him off with a [[AskAStupidQuestion sarcastic jibe]].
** Everyone bar Kryten in ''Backwards'': compared to the original books and ''Last Human'' there's far more genuinely mean-spirited bickering, arguments and jibes between Lister, Rimmer and Cat, to the point where virtually none of the reluctant cameraderie of the show is present - best seen when Cat completely seriously tells Lister at the end that [[spoiler:Rimmer's death was a good thing as he won't be around to annoy them any more]]. Justified in many ways: they've been stuck in a backwards world with only each other for company, Lister and Cat have deaged to teenagers and thus are even more immature than normal, and once they return to the main universe they find out they've lost their ship to an army of psychotic Agonoids and have to regain it before their supplies run out. Needless to say, tensions are ''incredibly'' high.
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Played for laughs in ''Backwards'': at the end of his tether with the now-teenage Lister and Cat's antics, Rimmer shuts down their needling him about his (non-existent) sex life by pointing out that under the rules of the backwards universe, Cat didn't lose his virginity by having sex with the hillbilly girl, he ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext became a virgin'']].
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* HeroicBSOD: Both Rimmer and Lister briefly have this near the end of ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'', once they realise they're stuck in Better Than Life.
** Rimmer is appalled that not only is his fantasy insanely small-minded - incredible wealth, power, beautiful wife, humiliation of those he hates - but that he can't even allow himself to be happy there, fantasizing that his wife is cheating on him with the pool boy. He uses his Time Machine to bring back his own father [[HumiliationConga just to be his chauffeur]], and even he's aghast at his own pettiness when he works it all out.
** Lister's much more normal-seeming life is envied by Rimmer - but Lister is secretly kicking himself for constructing his entire fantasy life around Kristine Kochanski, a woman who he's still obsessed with after three million years despite only dating for not even two months before she dumped him for a catering officer. He's well aware of how sad this is, and how empty his "life" is as a result.
** Rimmer is appalled that not only is his fantasy insanely small-minded - incredible wealth, power, beautiful wife, humiliation of those he hates - but that he can't even allow himself to be happy there, fantasizing that his wife is cheating on him with the pool boy. He uses his Time Machine to bring back his own father [[HumiliationConga just to be his chauffeur]], and even he's aghast at his own pettiness when he works it all out.
** Lister's much more normal-seeming life is envied by Rimmer - but Lister is secretly kicking himself for constructing his entire fantasy life around Kristine Kochanski, a woman who he's still obsessed with after three million years despite only dating for not even two months before she dumped him for a catering officer. He's well aware of how sad this is, and how empty his "life" is as a result.
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* ArmchairMilitary: Always a facet of Rimmer's character in the show, here it's taken to spectacular new heights. Unwittingly stuck in the Better Than Life game, Rimmer fantasizes the invention of a time machine so that...well, see for yourself.
--> ''Could he have fantasized the invention of a Time Machine just so he could bring back Caesar, Bonaparte and Patton - the three greatest generals in history - simply in order to beat them at 'RISK', the strategic war game for ages fifteen and over? Could he really be that small-minded?''
--> ''Could he have fantasized the invention of a Time Machine just so he could bring back Caesar, Bonaparte and Patton - the three greatest generals in history - simply in order to beat them at 'RISK', the strategic war game for ages fifteen and over? Could he really be that small-minded?''
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* BattleRoyaleGame: Every Agonoid wants to be the one to kill Lister. So a twisted game is created wherein they race down interconnected corridors, each leading to a single door, with the contestants encouraged to do whatever it takes to make it through the doors before they close. The Agonoid who makes it through the final door will receive the honor of killing Lister.
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* BattleRoyaleGame: Every Agonoid wants to be the one to kill Lister. So a twisted game is created wherein they race down interconnected corridors, each leading to a single door, with the contestants encouraged to do whatever it takes to make it through the doors before they close. The Agonoid who makes it through the final door will receive the honor of killing Lister. [[spoiler:It never gets used for its intended purpose, with a repaired Djuhn'Keep instead using it to wipe out the other agonoids before any of them can steal his place as the killer of the last human]].
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** Lister trying to revive Kochanski as a hologram, and the whole plot of "Balance of Power" and "Confidence and Paranoia". Instead, Rimmer creates the duplicate by using the ''Nova 5'''s systems instead.
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** Lister trying to revive Kochanski as a hologram, and the whole plot of "Balance of Power" and "Confidence and Paranoia". Instead, Rimmer creates the duplicate by using the ''Nova 5'''s systems instead.systems.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: We find out in ''Last Human'' that Yvonne [=McGruder=] was transferred off ''Red Dwarf'' when the ship reached Miranda, the last port of call before the radiation leak happened, so unlike her TV series counterpart, didn't die on board. [[spoiler: Being pregnant with Rimmer's child might have had something to do with it.]]
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: While Rimmer has always been this in the TV show, the crew usually have enough moments of true companionship to show they do care for him on some level. In ''Backwards'', on the other hand, Cat's reaction to [[spoiler:Rimmer actually dying in the Apocalypse Western simulation]] is to snidely comment that one of the plus points of having to flee to a new alternate reality is that at least there's no Rimmer.
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* HillbillyIncest: In ''Backwards'', the crew are accosted by an enraged hillbilly and later encounter a dead body that looks a lot like that hillbilly. Kryten surmises that the corpse is probably the first hillbilly's brother or cousin, and Rimmer snidely remarks, "Probably both. Probably his father and his uncle, too."
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Downplayed in that it's [[{{Jerkass}} Rimmer]] we're talking about, but even he has a few of these moments throughout the first two books. While he still gleefully makes fun of Lister when he thinks his immediate future is getting blown up in the drive room, when the moment actually arrives, he tells Lister not to go in an impulsive attempt to avert his death (as opposed to his ghoulish enjoyment in ''Future Echoes''). [[spoiler:He also makes sure Lister's will is carried out to the last insane detail when he dies fighting the Polymorph -- and is actually ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness joyful]]'' when Holly comes up with a plan to resurrect him.]]
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Downplayed in that it's [[{{Jerkass}} Rimmer]] we're talking about, but even he has a few of these moments throughout the first two books. While he still gleefully makes fun of Lister when he thinks his immediate future is getting blown up in the drive room, when the moment actually arrives, he tells Lister not to go in an impulsive attempt to avert his death (as opposed to his ghoulish enjoyment in ''Future Echoes''). [[spoiler:He also makes sure Lister's will is carried out to the last insane detail when he dies fighting the Polymorph -- and is actually ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness joyful]]'' when Holly comes up with a plan to resurrect him. Even more so when he figures out what, or rather who, is being sent to Backwards Earth with him.]]
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* GoodShapeshiftingEvilShapeshifting: The Polymorph in ''Better Than Life'' is first encountered transforming by [[TransformationHorror splitting open and turning inside out]], accompanied by [[ShapeshiftingSound sickening crunching sounds]], firmly identifying it as a villain long before it attacks. By contrast, Reketrebn the Symbi-morph of ''Last Human'' shapeshifts by simply turning blue and folding in on themself. Plus, despite having a range of forms almost as impressive as the Polymorph's, Reketrebn never uses their powers for offense: even when cornered and directly threatened, they prefer to [[StoneWall hunker down as a sofa until her attackers get bored]] - indicating that they're more trustworthy than the Symbi-morph mutineers aboard the ''Mayflower.''
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** In ''Backwards'', Lister is kicked in the groin by a police officer.
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In November 2023, Rob Grant announced that he was working on a prequel TV series called ''Red Dwarf: Titan'' with an accompanying novelization.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'', the crew spend a great deal of time repairing the ''Nova 5'' and mining thorium to fuel its duality jump drive, in order to return to Earth. After the crew escape the Game in ''Better Than Life'', no one even mentions the fact that they have a ship capable of interstellar travel in the docking bay -- even when ''Red Dwarf'' faces obliteration by an oncoming planet.
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** In ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'', the crew spend a great deal of time repairing the ''Nova 5'' and mining thorium to fuel its duality jump drive, in order to return to Earth. After the crew escape the Game in ''Better Than Life'', no one even mentions the fact that they have a ship capable of interstellar travel in the docking bay -- even when ''Red Dwarf'' faces obliteration by an oncoming planet.
** In ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'', the crew spend a great deal of time repairing the ''Nova 5'' and mining thorium to fuel its duality jump drive, in order to return to Earth. After the crew escape the Game in ''Better Than Life'', no one even mentions the fact that they have a ship capable of interstellar travel in the docking bay -- even when ''Red Dwarf'' faces obliteration by an oncoming planet.
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** Talkie Toaster is destroyed by Kryten in ''Better Than Life'', but is specifically noted as getting repaired at the end of the novel (even if he now thinks he's a moose). The character then completely disappears from both writers' sequel novels, with only a fleeting mention by Holly in ''Backwards'' even acknowledging his existence.
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* AnOddPlaceToSleep: During his time on Mimas Lister ends up sleeping in a luggage locker suitable for storing only two smallish suitcases. It's mentioned that when he gets to Red Dwarf that at first he can't sleep unless he basically sleeps in a ball, sitting upright, with his arms around his knees.
