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* Psi-moon of [[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVTerrorform Terrorform]]. Imagine a place, where all your nightmares, all your vices, all of your traumas become ''solid.'' And now imagine it formed from mind of '''[[TheAllegedBoss Second Technician]] [[NervousWreck Arnold]] [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood Judas]] [[ButtMonkey "Smeghead"]] [[WellDoneSonGuy Rimmer]] [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex BBc, SSc]] '''
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* The Rimmer monster from "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonXIOfficerRimmer Officer Rimmer]]". Not only is the concept of an insane, multi-headed Rimmer that resembles a [[VideoGame/{{Fallout}} Centaur]] a frightening enough concept on its own, it ''absorbs'' the other Rimmer clones, making it more powerful.

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* The Rimmer monster from "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonXIOfficerRimmer Officer Rimmer]]". Not only is the concept of an insane, multi-headed Rimmer that resembles a [[VideoGame/{{Fallout}} [[Franchise/{{Fallout}} Centaur]] a frightening enough concept on its own, it ''absorbs'' the other Rimmer clones, making it more powerful.
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*** After Lister starts wondering where exactly Paranoia went, Confidence casually admits he murdered him. By shoving him into a waste disposal unit and watching his remains drift off into space.

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*** After Lister starts wondering where exactly Paranoia went, Confidence casually admits [[ProperlyParanoid he murdered him.him]]. By shoving him into a waste disposal unit and watching his remains drift off into space.
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** The RPG expands on this in one of its pregenerated campaigns where one of the crew arrives as nothing more than a pile of bones in a wheelbarrow.

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** Rimmer asked Holly to help him make a funeral video for himself, complete with footage of the radiation leak hitting the Drive Room and killing him and Captain Hollister. Which Lister sits down to watch with some popcorn.



*** After Lister starts wondering where exactly Paranoia went, Confidence casually admits he murdered him.

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*** After Lister starts wondering where exactly Paranoia went, Confidence casually admits he murdered him. By shoving him into a waste disposal unit and watching his remains drift off into space.


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** The fact that Holly managed to create a device to cross dimensions via an accidental miscalculation that should have killed them. Rimmer even seems to accept his fate in a sing-song tone.
* Any hologrammatic crew member can have control of their body taken away from them by their ship's computer if it should choose to do so, and can force them to run five miles unconscious as Queeg demonstrated.
** Holly fails to warn the crew in time about a meteor about to crash into the ship. It badly damages the Hologram Simulation Suite, which leads to Lister nearly being blown up trying to fix it.
*** Rimmer is implied to [[AndIMustScream be completely aware as the malfunctioning Hologram Simulation Suite computers force him]] to take on the personalities of the dead crew at random.
---> '''Rimmer:''' That was horrible, I never want to go through that again!


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*** Kryten claims that his programming makes him obey Rimmer's orders, no matter how insane and deranged they sound. Rimmer manages to get him to go along with helping him steal Lister's body in the middle of the night, claiming he has Lister's permission, despite the use of chloroform.


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** Rimmer's TranquilFury when he discovers that Lister has destroyed a priceless family heirloom that he saw as the only sign of respect his father ever gave him, and that the sacrifice Lister made to prolong his life that won his respect was actually a lie.
* When Lister alters history so he never got trapped on the ship using the titular ''Timeslides'', the present-day Cat and Kryten cease to exist. Lister never smuggled a cat onboard to lead to the creation of Cat's species, and Kryten never got rescued from the Nova 5.
** Rimmer, having somehow managed to accidentally make himself human again via time travel, immediately blows himself up by accidentally putting his fists through some crates of explosives that are in the cargo hold.


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** Rimmer manages to telekinetically slam a fire axe into Kryten's spine while not even in the room. A close-up of his staring eyes is overlaid on the scene, as if he can see everything they're doing.


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** Rimmer, voicing Mr Flibble, says that "Uncle Arnie" is going to "fry them alive with his hex vision" for being naughty.


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* Rimmer becomes stranded on a desolate world for six centuries, and manages to create an entire society of Rimmer clones who are far more ruthless and self-serving than he is. He's imprisoned by them for most of it.
* The [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Armageddon Virus]], used as a last-ditch effort by the Simulants, locks Starbug's navigation controls on a collision course with a volcanic moon.
** Kryten has to dedicate his entire CPU to fighting it, nearly loses, and the Bug is restored with only seconds to spare.


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* Katerina manages to corner the crew on a street corner, informing Rimmer that its ethically and morally okay to kill a hologram. Rimmer nods, then shoves her in front of a passing bus that smashes her light bee.
---> '''Rimmer:''' [cheerfully] Right, come along.
---> '''Kryten:''' She didn't see that coming, did she? I did...
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* The DNA modifier is pretty horrific, especially if being operated by someone who doesn't know what they're doing. Lister alone [[BalefulPolymorph ends up]] as a chicken, a hamster, and a miniature ''Franchise/RoboCop''/Lister hybrid. There's also the curry monster, [[ImplacableMan who shrugs off bazookoid blasts like they were nothing]], but, is fortunately [[KryptoniteFactor susceptible to lager]].

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* The DNA modifier is pretty horrific, especially if being operated by someone who doesn't know what they're doing. Lister alone [[BalefulPolymorph [[ForcedTransformation ends up]] as a chicken, a hamster, and a miniature ''Franchise/RoboCop''/Lister hybrid. There's also the curry monster, [[ImplacableMan who shrugs off bazookoid blasts like they were nothing]], but, is fortunately [[KryptoniteFactor susceptible to lager]].

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** Everything about the insane Rimmer, really. What should be a ridiculous scene of him sitting there in a red and white striped gingham dress and army boots is very much not, helped by Chris Barrie's CreepyMonotone and ThousandYardStare, and the fact the lives of Lister and the Cat are now in the hands of a man who has gone from childishly petty to utterly insane.



---> '''Dr Lanstrom:''' "Schopenhauer was right, wouldn't you say? 'Life without pain has no meaning'? Gentlemen... [[OhCrap I wish to give your lives meaning]]." (''howls, eyes glowing'')

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* The bleak alternate reality of the Despair Squid, especially once the boys step outside and learn it's been in the grip of a totalitarian government for three decades. You can still vote, but if you vote wrong, you're killed "purify" democracy.
* The Despair Squid itself, a product of sped-up evolution that hunts prey by driving them to suicide. And it's eaten everything on the planet. You only have to briefly ''touch'' its ink to be taken to suicidal despondency.
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* The vision of an alternate America, in which UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy's impeachment and J. Edgar Hoover becoming president conspired to produce a re-run of the Cuban Missile Crisis turned UpToEleven, resulting in all the country's major cities being deserted, is unsettling to say the least.

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* The vision of an alternate America, in which UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy's impeachment and J. Edgar Hoover becoming president conspired to produce a re-run of the Cuban Missile Crisis turned UpToEleven, up to eleven, resulting in all the country's major cities being deserted, is unsettling to say the least.

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* From ''Last Human'', there's the alternate Lister. In his timeline, rather than the poor but loving family our Lister wound up with, this one was adopted by rich parents... who were abusive psychotics who'd managed to fool the child services. We get one glimpse of this Lister's mother, who goes into a screaming rage when Lister politely tries to turn down some dessert she's made. End result? A totally sociopathic Lister who murders the rest of the ''Starbug'' crew just to get at the story's plot device. Worse, his inner monologue confirms he was already not right in the head before this. His choice of family just wound up making a bad situation so much worse.
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* The karma drive. Not only can it can be reprogrammed by anyone with the correct skills, but the amount of control that it can have over your life is extremely detailed. Even in its ''good'' state this was apparent with the quote from Professor Barker: ''So, we're all supposed to live the Mega Core dream. Where the married stay married, sons call their fathers "Sir", and everyone eats lots of homemade apple pie?'' implying that you could go as far as to program in a stereotypical 1950s style social structure into the device and force you to uphold it. And then once we get into the ''bad'' programming of what is essentially complete ''watch the world burn anarchy,'' you start to realise just what a dictator or psychopath could do with such a device. It is potentially one of the most socially destructive weapons ever made and yet ironically was never intended to be one.

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* The karma drive. Not only can it can be reprogrammed by anyone with the correct skills, but the amount of control that it can have over your life is extremely detailed. Even in its ''good'' state this was apparent with the quote from Professor Barker: ''So, we're all supposed to live the Mega Core Corp dream. Where the married stay married, sons call their fathers "Sir", and everyone eats lots of homemade apple pie?'' implying that you could go as far as to program in a stereotypical 1950s style social structure into the device and force you to uphold it. And then once we get into the ''bad'' programming of what is essentially complete ''watch the world burn anarchy,'' you start to realise just what a dictator or psychopath could do with such a device. It is potentially one of the most socially destructive weapons ever made and yet ironically was never intended to be one.

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** Mr. Flibble. Just Mr. Flibble.

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** Mr. Flibble. Just Mr. Flibble.Even though he's just a deranged Rimmer [[ConsultingMisterPuppet usind a hand puppet as a proxy,]] he still manages to be terrifying, especially when [[RedEyesTakeWarning his eyes glow red.]]
-->'''Rimmer:''' ''([[TranquilFury Shaking with rage]])'' Mr Flibble's very cross. You shouldn't have run away from him. What are we going to do with them, Mr Flibble?\\
''(Mr Flibble appears to whisper in Rimmer's ear, leaving Rimmer aghast.)''\\
'''Rimmer:''' We can't ''possibly'' do ''that''!\\
''(Mr Flibble tilts to look at the crew.)''\\
'''Rimmer:''' Who'd clear up the mess?
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* Lister himself takes part in the LethallyStupid trope in Series X, [[spoiler: acting frighteningly nonchalant to the fact he had a hand in [[TooDumbToLive Professor Irene's]] death.]]

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*** [[spoiler: Lister not only "paying in life" when he's forced to buy things, but by the time the others find him, he's an elderly man indoctrinated into doing nothing but impulse buying.]]
*** [[spoiler: To get rid of the M-Corp programming and restore his full perception, they have to wipe Lister's mind and restore it from a backup file from the hologram recording systems. Which Lister hasn't used since he was ''twenty-three.'' Kryten outright states that he'll have to "rebuild his personality" from the ship's security footage of the missing time.]]

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* In "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIIIOnlyTheGood Only the Good]]", Rimmer, on return from the mirror universe in search of a formula to stop the virus about to ravage the ship, [[RealityEnsues finds the abandoned corridors engulfed in flames]]. As he sinks to the ground in despair, things seem so desperate as to entail a visit from [[TheGrimReaper a cloaked, hooded, scythe-carrying spectre]]. Quickly [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] into [[DenserAndWackier madcap whimsy]], as Rimmer simply [[GroinAttack knees him in the groin]] and runs away.

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