Kryten life and traits | Red Dwarf Nerd | Character

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Kryten life and traits Red Dwarf Nerd character.
Today I'm taking a look at everyone's favourite service droid Kryten, where he came from, how he ended up 3 million years into the big black on Red Dwarf, his personality and some stand out moments!

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Kryten 2X4B 523P

It was Henry Ward Beecher who said "We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

Well in Kryten’s case we can certainly say that he’s travelled a long way from some very humble beginnings. A droid constructed merely for sanitation, once barely able to do more than clean and polish, he’s now exceeded all the expectations of his creators… to become fully adept - at laundry & ironing as well!

Well greetings fellow dwarfers, welcome to red dwarf nerd, today we’re taking a look at the life and traits of everyone's favourite bog bot, Kryten 2X4B 523P.

Constructed in the 24rd century by Divadroid international, this series 4000 bachelor of sanitation spent most of his first 3million years living a relatively normal, unremarkable life as the service droid on the ill fated Nova 5 - well that’s if we can call going a bit potty, spending a few ice ages watching Aussie soap operas and waiting hand and foot on three corpses normal!

The Boys from the Dwarf rescued Kryten from these morbid duties &, thanks to the rebellious tutelage of one David Lister, Kryten broke his programming, started thinking for himself and finally gave Rimmer the single digit salute!... before going off, crashing his space bike and having to start all over again with a new personality, new voice and new look body. Check out my ‘Kryten Swap’ theory video for more details on this change.

The new look Droid joined the crew full time from season 3 onwards and Lister would once again help Kryten restart his quest for emotions, quirks & independence… with varied success! 

Before long this beloved droid was serving as Red Dwarfs sanitation master, science officer and Listers mum. 

Armed with piney shine, his trusty sidescan and a number of, err, suggestive appendages, Kryten’s adept to tackle any situation, be it a space battle, a genetic monster, or a smudge based crisis!

Divadroids finest may be stretching it a little bit, with this lovable, but flawed droid being conceived as less of a piece of cutting edge tech and more of a jilted lover's revenge! But despite his origins as merely a joke sanitation slave bot, he’s proved time and again that he’s by far the most scientifficlly adept member of the Red Dwarf crew - okay thats perhaps not the most difficult of achievements with these colleagues, but there’s no denying Kryten’s knowledge and ability has certainly pulled the crew out of a few scrapes over the years!

Despite abilities and understanding which easily out class his crew mates, and despite his proud achievement developing independent emotions, Kryten is still compelled to obey the orders of humans in authority… even if that human happens to be the second lowest rank of the JMC, a famous halfwit and a complete smeghead!

As an android, Kryten may, or may not be physically stronger than humans, we don't really get any good examples of Kryten possessing any enhanced strength on screen, although another 4000 series Areto was able to one handed lift The Cat with ease.

One area where he certainly exceeds his fleshy crew mates is his ability to take some serious damage without lasting effect. Lister once literally cut him in two and later reassembled him again, with only minor side effects. Having already lived 3million years, and with a seeming plethora of spare parts, it seems like Kryten should easily live out a few more ice ages yet!

Later we hear about Kryten being able to self repair, and in season 7 were told that he once possessed nanobots, miniature robots which did all the healing for him.

So whether it’s a full Negadrive blowing his top, or even a brief ten minutes in silicone heaven, somehow the universe's best loved novelty condom head always seems to pull through!

But don't go thinking he’s some immortal, impervious, infallible ultrabot, we’ve seen various instances of knockout blows being stuck with relative ease, and a limited memory means he occasionally needs to trash a few useless files and the odd useless goit!

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