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I removed the “Villain Has a Point” example. This was about how the Future Dwarfers were engaging in a time travel in a safe way, even if they were bad people. The quote the trope page, “For this trope to apply, the work has to directly acknowledge in some way, often via the protagonists' reactions, that the antagonists raise some legitimate points about the situation they and the protagonists find themselves in, without portraying them as ultimately justified in behaving as they do.“ This example argues why the villains’ actions may be justified but does not establish a case of the show or the protagonists acknowledging this in any way. So I do not believe the trope applies here.


* TragicTimeTraveler: The Dwarfers come across a Time Drive whilst pursuing Red Dwarf. The origin for this time machine is already bad enough, with the previous owners having died of influenza of a trip to the 20th Century, but it gets worse when the Dwarfers meet a future version of themselves which have abused the Time Drive and have become TimeTravellingJerkasses. In the resulting fight, both crews are killed and it is only through a paradox that our Dwarfers survive another day.
* VillainHasAPoint: It's never said out loud, but while the Future Dwarfers are engaging in time travel, they are engaging in probably one of the ''safest'' forms of time travel. The show has shown before that every action, even miniscule, has massive effects on the future, and the episode after this one, ''actively reinforced that''. Their future selves merely show up to eat good food and are guests of people who are occasionally [[{{Understatement}} a bit dodgy]], and don't change anything, because they must have figured that to change just the one thing, they change the whole world. That said, they have become deplorable people in the process, they are still socializing with utterly deplorable people and are willing to keep doing so.

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* TragicTimeTraveler: The Dwarfers come across a Time Drive whilst pursuing Red Dwarf. The origin for this time machine is already bad enough, with the previous owners having died of influenza of a trip to the 20th Century, but it gets worse when the Dwarfers meet a future version of themselves which have abused the Time Drive and have become TimeTravellingJerkasses. [[TimeTravelingJerkass Time Travelling Jerkasses]]. In the resulting fight, both crews are killed and it is only through a paradox that our Dwarfers survive another day.
* VillainHasAPoint: It's never said out loud, but while the Future Dwarfers are engaging in time travel, they are engaging in probably one of the ''safest'' forms of time travel. The show has shown before that every action, even miniscule, has massive effects on the future, and the episode after this one, ''actively reinforced that''. Their future selves merely show up to eat good food and are guests of people who are occasionally [[{{Understatement}} a bit dodgy]], and don't change anything, because they must have figured that to change just the one thing, they change the whole world. That said, they have become deplorable people in the process, they are still socializing with utterly deplorable people and are willing to keep doing so.
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* TragicTimeTraveler: The Dwarfers come across a Time Drive whilst pursuing Red Dwarf. The origin for this time machine is already bad enough, with the previous owners having died of influenza of a trip to the 20th Century, but it gets worse when the Dwarfers meet a future version of themselves which have abused the Time Drive and have become TimeTravellingJerkasses. In the resulting fight, both crews are killed and it is only through a paradox that our Dwarfers survive another day.
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* RobotsEnslavingRobots: When the crew believe that Lister is actually a robot of a lesser model than Kryten, Kryten wastes no time in ordering Lister around.
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* TimeTravelingJerkass: The future crew.

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* MissingStepsPlan: The Dwarfers try the time machine for the first time and go to the 15th century... only they haven't actually moved from their current location, they're in deep space in the 15th century. They concede that in order to get to where they really want to go, they need a faster-than-light drive to supplement the time machine.



* RealityEnsues: The Dwarfers try the time machine for the first time and go to the 15th century... only they haven't actually moved from their current location, they're in deep space in the 15th century. They concede that in order to get to where they really want to go, they need a faster-than-light drive to supplement the time machine.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: Discussed. Both the present and future crew decide to fight to the death. The future Dwarfers have superior artillery, but killing their present forms would end their existence as well, meaning almost certain mutually assured destruction. Both sides sneer at each other that they would rather go down dying than end up like their alternates.

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* BolivianArmyEnding: The episode (and the season) ends with our heroes dead and one of the ''Starbug''s destroyed. And it would be four years before the cliffhanger was resolved.
* BottleEpisode: The episode is nearly entirely confined to ''Starbug'', and features only the main four cast members.

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* BolivianArmyEnding: The episode (and the season) ends with our heroes dead and one of the ''Starbug''s ''Starbug'' destroyed. And it would be four years before the cliffhanger was resolved.
* BottleEpisode: The episode is nearly entirely confined to ''Starbug'', and features only the main four cast members. Although they do also play the Dwarfers' future selves.



* {{Cliffhanger}}: Season VI ends with the lead characters apparently murdered by their evil future selves; the audience had to wait four smegging years to find out how they got out of it.
* DarkerAndEdgier: While the initial half of the episode is pretty silly, with Lister being revealed to be a robot (complete with emergency call-out number on the inside), the latter half...not so much. The Dwarfers are confronted with depraved future versions of themselves who are so outright degraded they murder three of them in quick succession.

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* {{Cliffhanger}}: Season VI ends with the lead characters apparently murdered Dwarfers being killed by their evil future selves; the audience had to wait four smegging years to find out how they got out of it.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Rimmer, when he declares that they should fight their future selves. And, when all is lost, he figures out that he can solve the problem by destroying the Time Drive. Which he does, just before ''Starbug'' gets destroyed.
* DarkerAndEdgier: While the initial half of the episode is pretty silly, with Lister being revealed to be a robot (complete with emergency call-out number on the inside), inside) and then revealed to be human, the latter half...half ... not so much. The Dwarfers are confronted with depraved future versions of themselves who are so outright degraded they murder three of them in quick succession.

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