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The most important thing to know about Dave Lister is that he's the last human man in the known universe. The second most important thing to know is that his best clothes have only two curry stains down the front.

A baby orphan, he was discovered under a pool table in a Liverpool pub (the Aigburth Arms), nestled in a cardboard box with the word ouroboros scribbled on the side. He was roughly six weeks old at this time, his birthday is offically 14th October 2155. Because of the confusion Lister celebrates his birthday "most of the time". He was adopted, but his adoptive father died when he was six. His adoptive mother apparently followed soon after, and he was raised by his "gran", presumably the mother of one of his adoptive parents. She was a tough, pipe-smoking woman, who nutted the headmaster when he came bottom in French and whose cooking led to his being nicknamed "Fat Boy" until he was thirteen. He decided to lose weight after he was shocked to find that the coroner used so much chalk around his grandmother when she got run over. He suffers from claustrophobia after a vengeful husband caught Lister making love to his wife in the supermarket he worked at. The man kidnapped the naked Lister, locked him in a box and threatened to chuck him into a river. Lister begged for mercy and was finally released onto the stage of a local theatre in the nude, in the middle of the Bootle Amateur Players' production of The Importance of Being Earnest. When he was 17, he formed a band called "Smeg and the Heads." Their only hit song was called "Ommm." The young Lister kept saying "crypto fascist", much to the horror of his older self.

Lister was the lowest ranking officer on a ship of 169, the third technician, and spent his time performing tasks too menial for the skutters, under the hated supervision of Arnold Rimmer, or getting drunk with his friends Olaf Petersen, Selby and Chen. But since then he has lived an astounding life and after awaking from three million years in stasis, Lister has played pool with planets, been attacked by a killer kebab, eaten an edible pot noodle and defeated cybernetic war-machines time and time again. He is also the godThis article focuses on the concept of singular, monotheistic God . See deity, gods, or goddesses for details on divine entities in specific religions and mythologies. God is a term referring to the supreme being generally believed to be ruler or creator of a race of cat-peopleFelis sapiens (rendered "Felix Sapiens" by Kryten's replacement in the episode "The Last Day") is a fictional intelligent humanoid species from the Red Dwarf television series. The series generally refers to them simply as cats''. Cats are the product of known as Cloister the Stupid.

Lister lost his virginity at the tender age of 12 in one of the bunkers of a golf course in BootleBootle is a town in Merseyside, North West England. It forms part of the Liverpool urban area, and is the administrative headquarters for the metropolitan borough of Sefton. The old civic centre of the town contains impressive Victorian buildings such as but he's now dedicated to resurrecting and winning over the one true love of his three-million year life: Miss Kristine KochanskiKristine Kochanski is a character on the British sitcom Red Dwarf''. She was the ship's Navigation Officer, and the ex-girlfriend of Dave Lister before she was killed by a radiation leak. In the first episode (before the accident) she was played by Clare, the long dead navigation officer of the Dwarf.

Lister was an atheistAtheist" redirects here. For the music group, see Atheist (band). Atheism is the condition of lacking theistic belief. Etymology The term atheism (French atheisme from athee meaning atheist, from Greek atheos, meaning godless : a-, without; + , theos, mea at first, but is now a pantheistPantheism simply stated, means " God is All" and "All is God". It is the view that everything is of an all-encompassing immanent God. More detailed definitions tend to emphasize the idea that natural law, existence and/or the universe (the sum total of al and believes God to be in all things. He can understand the international language Esperanto - at least, he can understand it better than Rimmer.

It is his ambition to marry Kochanski and start a frugal life at a farm on the Earth islands of Fiji. In the book Better Than Life, which is not consistent with the series, Lister eventually discovers Earth, but finds that it is ruled by eight feet cockroaches. He becomes their king and plans to rebuild the planet. The others find him thirty-four years later (after believing Lister was missing for a fortnight due to a time dilation). Later, after Lister is killed by a polymorph, his body is taken to a different universe where time runs backwards and is told that he will be rescued in thirty four years time. Two accounts of what followed (again, inconsistent with each other) are Backwards and The Last Human. The latter also features yet another alternate Lister, this one adopted by a disturbed upper-middle class couple, rather than "our" Lister's adopted parents, and suffering extreme sociopathy as a result.

In the series, he has twin sons named Jim and Bexley after the Zero-G football player, Jim-Bexley Speed. Lister gave birth to the twins himself after a sexual liaison with his female alter-ego from a female-orientated alternate universe. Due to them being born in a different reality to their conception both of them grew to be eighteen years old within three days, so in order to make sure they didn't die within a fortnight Lister sent them back to their mother's dimension.

Dave Lister is also known as 'the king of crap' for purchasing (among other things) a talking toilet, a toaster with artificial intelligence and two robot goldfish, which he named Lennon and McCartney (one which swims backwards). He hates pot noodle. While trapped on an ice planet, and given a choice of either dog food or pot noodle, he exclaimed "Well it's pretty obvious what will get eaten last...I can't stand pot noodle". After eating the dog food, he says "Now I know why dogs lick their testicles...it's to get rid of the taste of their food."

The future of Lister is uncertain as several glimpses of this future have been enjoyed by viewers of the show. He may end up as a brain in a jar, or maybe as a 181-year-old man who dies while trying to take a bra off with his teeth, and in one episode where Lister changed the past he ended up as a billionaire who died in a plane crash making love to his supermodel wife. One future that was given in the episode Stasis Leak (in which Lister travels back in time 5 years after the episode and marries Kochanski in the past) apparently did not play out (although it's theoretically possible it happened early in the 200 years between series 5 and 6, and was never referred to again for some reason), so we'll just have to wait for what will really happen.

When Lister meets an alternate universe incarnation of his long-lost love, Kochanski, he is given the chance to create an IV child. When the child is born, he takes it back in time and space to the pool table when he was first discovered. Lister is essentially his own father and thus the human race can never die out. Presumably he is also the father of the various alternate universe Listers we've seen (as most of them would not have had this opportunity), lending some credence to his claim to be "the definitive version".