History Series / LOST

* BigDamnHeroes: Hurley in the third season finale; the Others in the fourth season finale, Kate in the series finale.

* GodNeverSaidThat: The producers never said that the show would never have time travel. They once said that the then ongoing season two had no time travel -- and it ''didn't'' -- but never that there would ''never'' be time travel. Additionally, they never stated that there was one huge clue left in the pilot -- in fact, they explicitly said there ''wasn't'', and the last one to be made significant was the single white tennis shoe Jack found. Yet this is repeated until today.
** In an example of "Word of Mistaken God," an excellent way to see if someone is making something up about a producer comment is to see if they attribute it to J.J. Abrams, who has had little involvement in the series since season 1, helping to set it up, write and direct the pilot, and contributing to only a very few episodes since (the last being in S3).

As the show goes on, more and more questions arise as [[MythArc the secrets of the island are slowly uncovered]]. The island seems to have magical properties as well as a unique abundance of superpowerful electromagnetism. Furthermore, flashbacks reveal more and more connections between the characters' pasts as if to suggest that it may have been more than coincidence that this specific group of people was all on Flight 815 together with each other. This lead to the show acquiring a widespread public opinion that it had become a victim of TheChrisCarterEffect with this being the dominant image in the mainstream media in the show's later years. Many fans felt it wrapped it all up with a GainaxEnding to boot.

* IKnowKungFu: Kate suddenly has tracking skills; they weren't revealed before because YouDidntAsk.

-->'''The Joker''': I can hear you all now. "How did this happen? [[spoiler: Can I get me some of that crazy cure]]? I want answers, damn it! Now." Well, here's the thing. Answers don't give you ever lasting satisfaction. Sometimes, you need to brace yourself for disappointment. Now think about it. Imagine your favorite show. You've been through it all. [[{{LOST}} The ups, the downs, the crazy coincidences. And then, BANG! They tell you what it's all about. Would you be happy? Does it make sense?]] [[spoiler:How come it all ended in ''a church'']]?

* ArthurDent: Most of the characters with no history in the MythArc, but it's most noticeable with Frank Lapidus, especially in Season Five. [[spoiler:Yet he's also the one who gets everyone off the island; ''both times'']].

** Ben and Danielle are also supposed to be the same age (as are Michael Emmerson and Mira Furlan, who are both in their 50's). Yet the only time they interact ([[spoiler:on the island]]) is in a flashback where Danielle at 29 is played by Melissa Farman, and Ben at 29 is played by Michel Emmerson ([[PaperThinDisguise wearing a wig]]).

** Ben and Danielle are also supposed to be the same age (as are Michael Emmerson and Mira Furlan, who are both in their 50's). Yet the only time they interact is in a flashback where Danielle at 29 is played by Melissa Farman, and Ben at 29 is played by Michel Emmerson ([[PaperThinDisguise wearing a wig]]).

-->'''The Joker''': I can hear you all now. "How did this happen? [[spoiler: Can I get me some of that crazy cure]] I want answers, damn it! Now." Well, here's the thing. Answers don't give you ever lasting satisfaction. Sometimes, you need to brace yourself for disappointment. Now think about it. Imagine your favorite show. You've been through it all. [[{{LOST}} The ups, the downs, the crazy coincidences. And then, BANG! They tell you what it's all about. Would you be happy? Does it make sense? [[spoiler:How come it all ended in a church?]]

* CreatorBacklash: PaulDini, who worked on the series during it's early days, wrote this gem for TheJoker in ''BatmanArkhamCity'' as a sort of TakeThat.

-->'''The Joker''': I can hear you all now. "How did this happen? [[spoiler: Can I get me some of that crazy cure]] I want answers, damn it! Now." Well, here's the thing. Answers don't give you ever lasting satisfaction. Sometimes, you need to brace yourself for disappointment. Now think about it. Imagine your favorite show. You've been through it all. [[{{LOST}} The ups, the downs, the crazy coincidences. And then, BANG! They tell you what it's all about. Would you be happy? Does it make sense? How come it all ended in a church?]]

** The Man in Black can lay strong claim to being the show's ultimate Grand Master of the XanatosGambit, both in terms of effectiveness and speed, after the events of "The Candidate" in which on extremely short notice he creates a situation that causes [[spoiler:six main characters to unknowingly place themselves in a death trap]], and also [[spoiler:keeps himself clear of his own trap and makes the six think they were double-crossing him when they locked him out]]. The end result: [[spoiler:''[[KilledOffForReal three main characters dead.]]'']] Not bad work, considering he only had minutes to plan this all out and [[spoiler:build the bomb his trap relied on]].
** In ''The End'', [[spoiler:Jack makes a daring XanatosGambit by which to kill the Man in Black, helping the [=MiB=] carry out his own plan the destroy the island, all on the assumption that this plan will backfire on the [=MiB=]. What makes it even ballsier is that Jack flat out tells the [=MiB=] that he's running this gambit.]]

* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: [[spoiler:The Man in Black]] used one of these on Ben, taking Alex's form and explicitly telling him to follow everything Locke [[spoiler:[[XanatosGambit aka the Man in Black]]]] says.

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: After the season 5 finale the (apparently) deceased John Locke probably qualifies as the poster boy of this trope, having been manipulated his whole life, first by his father, then by Ben and finally by the entity who has now taken his place. Unless Jacob's enemy [[DarkIsNotEvil will turn out to be the good guy, after all]]. Note also that Ben becomes one of those [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bastards]] who is pulling off dozens of {{Xanatos Gambit}}s while ''at the same time'' being an UnwittingPawn himself. He's a pawn in the greater plan concocted by [[TheManBehindTheMan Jacob's enemy]].]]

* XanatosRoulette: Sometimes you wonder just how Ben could have planned for some things. He could just be [[XanatosSpeedChess good at improvising and adapting his plans]], though.

** Even the BigBad is given a FreudianExcuse and is [[BeyondTheImpossible a very sympathetic character]] in his [[ADayInTheLimelight Day in the Limelight]]

* OracularUrchin: Walt, [[OrIsIt maybe]].
* OrIsIt: Pretty much the entire series.

* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: Whatever happened, happened. [[OrIsIt Maybe.]]

* MessageInABottle: Attempted and failed... [[OrIsIt or was it?]]

--> '''Charlie:''' Hairspray? Uh, I hate to be the one to break this to you...

** And the BigGood messed around with peoples' lives, which got many people killed. However, The end of the show seems to vindicate these actions explicitly, by saying that [[spoiler: even though many died, their time on the Island was the most important part of their life, and they felt it was worth it in the end]]. The things his followers do in his name range from morally questionable to ChaoticEvil. Widmore, undoubtedly the man behind the "purge" of the Dharma Initiative, is unapologetically LawfulEvil, and was the leader of the Island for many years before Ben staged a coup. It does remain unclear how many of these acts Jacob approved of, and which were the result of people being tempted by selfishness and their baser nature (or possibly under the influence of the MIB).

An [[GenreBusting action/adventure/all types of speculative fiction/mystery/dramedy/crazy show]] created by [[JJAbrams J. J. Abrams]] of ''{{Alias}}'' fame.

* IPulledAWeirdAl:
--> '''Hurley:''' ...You just totally ScoobyDoo-ed me, didn't you?

* BoobsOfSteel: Ilana; to a lesser extent, Juliet and middle-aged Eloise Hawking.