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 bar, nestled in a cardboard box with the word ourobouros scribbled on the side.

Lister was the lowest ranking officer on a ship of 169, the third technician. But since then he has lived an astounding life and after awaking from a three-million-year slumber, Lister has played pool with planets, been attacked by a killer kebab and defeated cybernetic war-machines time and time again. He is also the god of a race of cat-people.

Lister lost his virginity at the tender age of 12 in the sandpit of a golf course in Bootle but he's now dedicated to resurrecting and winning over the one true love of his three-million year life: Miss Kristine Kochanski, the long dead navigation officer of the Dwarf.

Spiritually, Lister is a pantheist and believes God to be in all things.

It is his ambition to marry Kochanski and start a frugal life at a farm on the Earth islands of Fiji.

His twin sons are 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.

Dave Lister is also known as 'the king of crap' for purchasing a talking toilet, a toaster with artificial intelligence and two robot goldfish.

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 very elderly man who dies while making love to his supermodel wife. We'll see.