History RedDwarf / TropesAToI

* ForcedTransformation:
** The Cat after becoming [[spoiler:Duane "Duke of Dork" Dibbley]] as part of a series of InvoluntaryTransformation scenes of the appropriately named "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIEmohawkPolymorphII Emohawk: Polymorph II]]". Subverted and inverted with Rimmer; [[spoiler:Ace]] is brave and selfless by contrast to normal Rimmer.
** Lister is turned into a chicken, then a hamster in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIVDNA D.N.A.]]".

* BalefulPolymorph:
** The Cat after becoming [[spoiler:Duane "Duke of Dork" Dibbley]] as part of a series of InvoluntaryTransformation scenes of the appropriately named "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIEmohawkPolymorphII Emohawk: Polymorph II]]". Subverted and inverted with Rimmer; [[spoiler:Ace]] is brave and selfless by contrast to normal Rimmer.
** Lister is turned into a chicken, then a hamster in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIVDNA D.N.A.]]".
* BarbershopQuartetsAreFunny: In "Officer Rimmer", Rimmer gets four of his bioprinter created clones to form a barbershop quartet, complete with a Rimmer-ified version of "Mister Sandman".

* AccidentalSuicide: This was how Rimmer died in the first episode. He repairs a drive plate improperly, causing it to leak radiation and [[KillEmAll kill everyone]] on the ship (except for Lister, who was in stasis at the time), including himself.

* CluckingFunny: Lister was transformed into a chicken in "DNA".

** Taken UpToEleven by ''[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Back To Earth}} Back to Earth]]'', where [[spoiler:the ENTIRE plot is caused by the ending sequence of an episode aired well over a decade ago, well before the hiatus began! "I'm going to eat you, little fishy..."]]

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Primarily the Cat. Being descended from cats, he can't be properly judged by human standards. By cat standards he's a perfectly regular cat - which makes him vain, self-centered, egotistical and sex-crazed, with a tendency to jump out at things, hiss, and make yowling cat noises and dance when he just walks down corridors.

* FanDisservice: Lister making out with a Psiren and a Gelf in Series VI, as well as a WalkingCorpse in Series VII. Supposedly this was specifically done as joke on Craig Charles after the actor complained about Chris Barrie getting too many kissing scenes.

* FaintInShock:
** Rimmer does it in "Psirens" after viewing a graphic demonstration of how and what the eponymous monsters eat
** In "Epideme" The Cat freezes up and keels over after seeing Kochanski apparently chop off her own arm. (Amusingly, he's just left lying on the floor, incredulous index finger still extended.)

* GeneticAbomination: Several.

* The [=BEGGS=], who are genetically-engineered to consume rubbish and are mentioned to be capable of eating people.

* AmbiguousCloneEnding: It's unclear which Rimmer is the Rimmer we see from ''[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Back To Earth}} Back to Earth]]'' onwards (the one from Series I-VII who [[spoiler:became Ace Rimmer]] or the one from Series VIII who [[spoiler: may or may not have died during the series cliffhanger]]) as Series X presents evidence for both scenarios.[[note]]Series X!Rimmer talks about remembering being killed by the radiation leak, which only happened to the first Rimmer, but also mentions dealing with the chameleonic microbes, which happened with the second Rimmer.[[/note]][[note]]Both Rimmers events may have been recorded by the ships onboard hologramatic computer, the assumption in-universe is it collects everything you learn or know, because you'd be useless as a hologram if you signed up for the spacecorps as a Janitor, worked your way up to Captain, died, and were resurected as a Janitor again. SO! Holo-Rimmer has the same DNA as Series 8 Rimmer, so series 8's actions are appended to the "A.J.Rimmer" file sometime after the end of series 8, possibly while S8 is still alive.[[/note]]

** This was also how [[spoiler: the Simulant was defeated in "Justice." He had intended to attack Lister but thanks to the effects of the justice field [[StopHittingYourself (which reverses any crime committed on the user)]], winds up being dealt the same blows that he intended to make instead and is destroyed as a result]].

** ''[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Back To Earth}} Back to Earth]]'' does it. The crew meet [[spoiler: Creator/CraigCharles, who plays Lister]], and Rimmer asks for his own sitcom (Chris Barrie starred in ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'', which alluded to Brittas having a similar event occur in his past to Rimmer).

* AmbiguousCloneEnding: It's unclear which Rimmer is the Rimmer we see from ''[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Back To Earth}} Back to Earth]]'' onwards (the one from Series I-VII who [[spoiler: became Ace Rimmer]] or the one from Series VIII who [[spoiler: may or may not have died during the series cliffhanger]]) as Series X presents evidence for both scenarios.[[note]]Series X!Rimmer talks about remembering being killed by the radiation leak, which only happened to the first Rimmer, but also mentions dealing with the chameleonic microbes, which happened with the second Rimmer.[[/note]][[note]]Both Rimmers events may have been recorded by the ships onboard hologramatic computer, the assumption in-universe is it collects everything you learn or know, because you'd be useless as a hologram if you signed up for the spacecorps as a Janitor, worked your way up to Captain, died, and were resurected as a Janitor again. SO! Holo-Rimmer has the same DNA as Series 8 Rimmer, so series 8's actions are appended to the "A.J.Rimmer" file sometime after the end of series 8, possibly while S8 is still alive.[[/note]]

** This is also how [[spoiler: Lister beats the Inquisitor.]]
** In “Fathers and Suns”, Lister uses it on ''himself.'' For context, every year, Lister normally gets very drunk and writes himself a Father’s Day card. This year the next morning he finds a video from the perspective of his father talking to him like a son telling him he's a disappointment and to go get his tooth filled and join the engineering corps before watching the next message. Dave being Dave skips ahead immediately only to find message two rebuking him for just skipping ahead and tells him to go do what he said once more. Dave skips again only to be threatened with having his guitar flushed out an airlock if he skips once more. Dave skips again and at first the message acts like he believed Dave completed his tasks and to go over and play a song on the guitar. When Dave goes he finds it's a cutout and his real guitar is floating in space and he's warned to go do it now or he'll get more of daddy's discipline.

* BetterThanSex: In "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season I Me2}} Me2]]", Rimmer [[spoiler: copies himself and moves in together,]] he describes his new life of discipline as "better than sex". Of course, he's soon proven wrong when it turns out [[spoiler: even he doesn't like himself.]]

** [[spoiler: The end of "Only The Good..." where it is undetermined whether Rimmer or the rest of the crew survived for that matter]]. This one notably remains unresolved in the revived series, which has not clearly answered how Red Dwarf was not destroyed or even which version of Rimmer the one in the new episodes is meant to be.
*** Given that Series X Rimmer retains memories of both his living and dead counterparts, and their actions, we can assume this is a 3rd Rimmer, who is made up of both his couterparts memories. After Series 8 Rimmer died, most likely after the events of "Only The Good" and was resurrected using his Series 1-7 holo-disk, which contained the most recent backups of his personality on-hand, along with his "Alive" memories the crew were able to amalgamate a Rimmer who was up-to-date on their adventures without having "actually" been there.

** Given that the show did return for Series XI and XII in 2016-17, "The Beginning" proved not to be, er, the end -- but the show did however insert another sort of bookend into Series XII's final episode "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonXIISkipper Skipper]]". "The End" contains the famous ''"[[EverybodysDeadDave Everybody's dead, Dave]]"'' scene with Holly the ship's computer attempting to explain the gravity of the situation to a newly-revived-from-stasis Lister. 30 years on, in "Skipper" [[spoiler: Rimmer temporarily ends up on a version of the ''Red Dwarf'' looking uncannily like he and it did in the original series, including Norman Lovett returning as Holly to walk him through a nearly identical scene where ''"'''Nobody''''s dead, Arnold"''.]]

** Taken UpToEleven by ''[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Back To Earth}} Back to Earth]]'', where [[spoiler: the ENTIRE plot is caused by the ending sequence of an episode aired well over a decade ago, well before the hiatus began! "I'm going to eat you, little fishy..."]]
** Hilariously used in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIIStokeMeAClipper Stoke Me a Clipper]]". Where [[spoiler: the pet crocodile of a Nazi Captain that Ace used to surf out of an exploding plane winds up landing on two soldiers heads after Ace escapes a base.]] Was für ein Kerl indeed.

* BrotherSisterIncest: In "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season III The Last Day}} The Last Day]]" Rimmer theorizes this is why Lister's parents abandoned him. [[spoiler: His words are almost prophetic, in that that they were actually mother and son. Where he's his own father... it's weird, okay?]]

* TheCaligula: In "Rimmerworld", [[spoiler: Rimmer genetically engineers an entire society made of clones of himself. He becomes TheCaligula of his own society only to be overthrown by his underlings, much like the historical figure this trope is based on.]]

* AchillesPowerCord: In [[Recap/RedDwarfThePromisedLand "The Promised Land"]] , Rimmer burns out his light-bee battery, and is forced to string a chain of these across the ship in order to stay powered up.

** In "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVQuarantine Quarantine]]" [[spoiler:Rimmer, suffering from a holographic virus that sends him crazy, attempts to cut off Lister, Kryten, and the Cat's oxygen supply.]]
** Lister [[spoiler:is stripped of his free subscription of JMC Oxygen after resigning his post in "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season X Fathers and Suns}} Fathers and Suns]]".]]

* AnswersToTheNameOfGod: In the Series X episode "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season X Lemons}} Lemons]]", a man's name is actually Jesus. [[spoiler: Not the famous one, but the crew manage to convince him that he is for a while.]]

* AntagonistTitle: The series has a few of these; "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season II Queeg}} Queeg]]", "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season III Polymorph}} Polymorph]]", "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season V The Inquisitor}} The Inquisitor]]", "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIPsirens Psirens]]", "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season VI Legion}} Legion]]", "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season VI Gunmen of the Apocalypse}} Gunmen of the Apocalypse]]", " [[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIEmohawkPolymorphII Emohawk: Polymorph II]]", and "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season VII Epideme}} Epideme]]".

** Lister and Cat, entirely [[IAteWhat unintentionally]].

* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: What lands them in the brig during Series VIII. Despite being found innocent of the original charges against them, because they used classified crew data for their own advantage, they are found guilty of a totally ''different'' crime.

* ArtifactTitle: For half of the 1990s. Season V saw adventures move increasingly away from the titular ''Red Dwarf'', and Season VI took place entirely without the ship as the characters had lost it. By the time it returned for Season VII it had been unseen for five real-life years.