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* DesignatedProtagonistSyndrome: When your two ''main characters'' (Jack and Kate) are the most divisive among the fandom, you have a bit of a problem.
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* LoveItOrHateIt: "Across the Sea", "The End", and season 6's flash-sideways plot.
** Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof had known for ''years'' how polarizing the final episode would inevitably be. They were ''proud'' of this fact.
** Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof had known for ''years'' how polarizing the final episode would inevitably be. They were ''proud'' of this fact.
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* InternetBackdraft: Lots. Specially after the finale.
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*LauncherOfAThousandShips: Claire. Paired in Fandom with just about anyone she shared a frame with.
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* AssPull: The Man in Black's nature and FreudianExcuse.
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* CommitmentAnxiety: Due to the show's ContinuityLockout, it was difficult for some new viewers to jump in at later seasons without seeing any of the prior episodes.
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* {{HSQ}}: Pretty much guaranteed to double during season premiers and finales.
** Locke, Desmond, and Ben episodes also tend to be slathered in {{HSQ}}.
** Locke, Desmond, and Ben episodes also tend to be slathered in {{HSQ}}.
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** Don't forget Mr. Eko, he had quite a fanbase during his short time in the series, and when he was eventually killed off, many fans were outraged and disappointed.
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** Even though his badassery was only [[MemeticBadass memetic]], Richard Alpert could be said to have suffered from this, having spent most of season 6 in a state of HeroicBSOD instead of actually doing anything badass.
*** It's made worse because he BSOD'd after the first time he ever really ran into trouble. Before that, he got by on just standing around and looking badass without ever actually doing anything.
*** It's made worse because he BSOD'd after the first time he ever really ran into trouble. Before that, he got by on just standing around and looking badass without ever actually doing anything.
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** Even though his badassery was only [[MemeticBadass memetic]], Richard Alpert could be said to have suffered from this, having spent most of season 6 in a state of HeroicBSOD instead of actually doing anything badass.
***badass. It's made worse because he BSOD'd after the first time he ever really ran into trouble. Before that, he got by on just standing around and looking badass without ever actually doing anything.anything.
* BellisariosMaxim: Largely averted, due to the extreme amount of attention to detail and hidden clues. However, this often backfires, since fans attribute significance to ''every'' little detail, and minor things like getting the date of a real-world event wrong become central points of theories.
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* BellisariosMaxim: Largely averted, due to the extreme amount of attention to detail and hidden clues. However, this often backfires, since fans attribute significance to ''every'' little detail, and minor things like getting the date of a real-world event wrong become central points of theories.
* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: Deserves a mention as this affected ''Lost'' like almost nothing else in the whole of popular culture.
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** A number of fans also speculated that Tom was gay after he told Kate, "You're not my type." This was later confirmed in the episode "Meet Kevin Johnson."
*** Actually a case of SureWhyNot, as the actor apparently changed his portrayal based on the fan reaction to that line.
*** Actually a case of SureWhyNot, as the actor apparently changed his portrayal based on the fan reaction to that line.
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** A number of fans also speculated that Tom was gay after he told Kate, "You're not my type." This was later confirmed in the episode "Meet Kevin Johnson."
*** Actually a case of SureWhyNot, astype," and the actor apparently changed his portrayal based on the fan reaction to that line.line. The episode "Meet Kevin Johnson" later confirmed that Tom was gay.
*** Actually a case of SureWhyNot, as
* ShockingSwerve: ''"We have to move the island."'' Of course, that plot line was tied up quite well and it did prove to be invaluable to the MythArc, but at the time it was pretty weird.
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* VillainDecay: As of the end of Season 5, [[TheChessmaster Ben]] has been reduced to just another pawn in The Man in Black's extended chess match against Jacob.
** He knows it too, and isn't the least bit happy about it. It should be noted that only a few episodes after we learned Ben led the Others we found out Jacob gave the orders (the list for instance), so we should have seen this one coming.
*** Though it's implied that Ben's mere existence and free will is the "loophole" that Jacob's nemesis needed to kill Jacob, making him the most important character in the show...
** He knows it too, and isn't the least bit happy about it. It should be noted that only a few episodes after we learned Ben led the Others we found out Jacob gave the orders (the list for instance), so we should have seen this one coming.
*** Though it's implied that Ben's mere existence and free will is the "loophole" that Jacob's nemesis needed to kill Jacob, making him the most important character in the show...
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**Jacob. He knows it too, and isn't the least bit happy about it. It should be noted that only a few episodes after we learned Ben led the Others we found out Jacob gave the orders (the list for instance), so we should have seen this one coming.
*** ** Though it's implied that Ben's mere existence and free will is the "loophole" that Jacob's nemesis needed to kill Jacob, making him the most important character in the show...
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotDidactic: See below. [[EpilepticTrees Some people think]] that there seems to be a little too much religious symbolism for it not to have some sort of message. Not only are there mentions of yin and yang, the I Ching, [[RhymesOnADime dharma, karma]]...
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* KarmaHoudini: Ben for some. There's the idea that Alex's death more or less absolves him and moves him towards redemption. However, when you think hard about how many people the guy is responsible for killing, including ordering the death of Charlie, being indirectly responsible for Michael's death and almost Jin's and being directly responsible for Locke's murder amongst countless others, its feels like the writers just let him off the hook.
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* GoodTroiEpisode: Kate's season 5 episodes. Most of the other episodes centred on her are more than hated by the fandom.
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* GoodTroiEpisode: Kate's season 5 episodes. Most of the other episodes centred centered on her are more than hated by the fandom.fandom.
* GrowingTheBeard: Alot of fans were hooked right from the outset but the fourth episode of the series "Walkabout" where we find out [[spoiler: Locke couldn't walk before the crash]] is the earliest episode to hint at deeper supernatural elements on the island and is remembered for having the series' first big plot twist.
* GrowingTheBeard: Alot of fans were hooked right from the outset but the fourth episode of the series "Walkabout" where we find out [[spoiler: Locke couldn't walk before the crash]] is the earliest episode to hint at deeper supernatural elements on the island and is remembered for having the series' first big plot twist.
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* CharacterDerailment: Sawyer and Charlie in season two, though they snap back later. Some might say Kate after Season 1 or 2.
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* CharacterAlignment: The series provides examples of:
** LawfulGood: Hurley; Frank Lapidus; Jin (post-season 1)
** NeutralGood: Jack; Rose and Bernard; Juliet (later seasons); Sun; Ilana
** ChaoticGood: Kate; Sawyer (post-season 1); Desmond
** LawfulNeutral: Sayid; Richard; Horace; Dr. Chang; Jacob
** TrueNeutral: Locke; Juliet (at first)
** ChaoticNeutral: Rousseau; Sawyer (at first); Miles
** LawfulEvil: Tom; Widmore
** NeutralEvil: Anthony Cooper; Ben (at first)
** ChaoticEvil: Keamy; Pickett (both of them); Radzinsky; The Smoke Monster[[spoiler:/"Locke" (season 5 and 6)/The Man In Black]]
*** As of season 6, [[spoiler:Claire and -maybe- Undead!Sayid]] (temporarily).
*** Keamy could [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation feasibly]] fall under Lawful Evil, as he really is just following orders. Granted, he uses what leeway he has to pick the most psychotically monstrous actions available, but even that's ultimately in the name of the job.
** And almost all of these can be challenged with AlternateCharacterInterpretation.
** LawfulGood: Hurley; Frank Lapidus; Jin (post-season 1)
** NeutralGood: Jack; Rose and Bernard; Juliet (later seasons); Sun; Ilana
** ChaoticGood: Kate; Sawyer (post-season 1); Desmond
** LawfulNeutral: Sayid; Richard; Horace; Dr. Chang; Jacob
** TrueNeutral: Locke; Juliet (at first)
** ChaoticNeutral: Rousseau; Sawyer (at first); Miles
** LawfulEvil: Tom; Widmore
** NeutralEvil: Anthony Cooper; Ben (at first)
** ChaoticEvil: Keamy; Pickett (both of them); Radzinsky; The Smoke Monster[[spoiler:/"Locke" (season 5 and 6)/The Man In Black]]
*** As of season 6, [[spoiler:Claire and -maybe- Undead!Sayid]] (temporarily).
*** Keamy could [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation feasibly]] fall under Lawful Evil, as he really is just following orders. Granted, he uses what leeway he has to pick the most psychotically monstrous actions available, but even that's ultimately in the name of the job.
** And almost all of these can be challenged with AlternateCharacterInterpretation.
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* UnfortunateImplications: The fact that rWalt has become a stereotypical urban black kid growing up without a dad is apparently the reason Harold Perrineau was not pleased with his character's fate.
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* UnfortunateImplications: The fact that rWalt Walt has become a stereotypical urban black kid growing up without a dad is apparently the reason Harold Perrineau was not pleased with his character's fate.
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This Troper. Also, when and how was it a \"pairing\"? Fetish Fuel is off-wiki now. Narm belongs in Darth Wiki.
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* CrackPairing: [[spoiler:Ben Linus and Danielle Rousseau in the flash-sideways universe.]]
** But it was so beautiful! This troper cried like a little girl.
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* TroperTales/FetishFuel: [[FetishFuel/LiveActionTV See here.]]
* HellIsThatNoise: The clicking noise of the Monster when its travelling, just hearing it leads to so many an OhCrap moment from the Losties when they realise its near.
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* {{Narm}}: Jack can be a pretty big source of this if you freeze frame some of his [[http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Jackface facial expressions]]. And let's not forget "THEY TOOK MY SON!"
** Which of course spawned from the Narmtacular (big inhale): [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0LpiK9rEFA WAAAAAAAA-HO-HO-HALT!!!!]]
** The fact that in every other episode of Season Five, whether it's necessary or not, somebody says, [[{{Airplane}} "But that's not important right now".]]
** When Kate is telling her husband why they can never be together:
--->'''Kate''':''Taco night?! I don't '''DO''' taco night!''
** Every scene that Jack and Achara share in "Stranger in a Strange Land" is made of pure narm. [[FetishRetardant Especially their forced sex scene.]]
** Richard Alpert explaining to Kate and Sawyer the consquences of [[spoiler:an injured young Ben entering the Temple.]] Taken out of context, it suffers some UnfortunateImplications.
--->'''Richard''': ''If I take him, he's not ever going to be the same again.''
--->'''Kate''': ''What do you mean?''
--->'''Richard''': ''What I mean is that he will forget this ever happened and that his innocence will be lost.''
** The Others were originally a pretty enigmatic and threatening group, but then came Alex and her attempts to threateningly brandish a slingshot (at the camera, no less). Apparently, young Others are trained by reading Dennis the Menace cartoons.
*** When one observes the damage made on about [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLSQ5wjYBSo 1:37 seconds of this video]], a slingshot doesn't look so mild anymore.
** Which of course spawned from the Narmtacular (big inhale): [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0LpiK9rEFA WAAAAAAAA-HO-HO-HALT!!!!]]
** The fact that in every other episode of Season Five, whether it's necessary or not, somebody says, [[{{Airplane}} "But that's not important right now".]]
** When Kate is telling her husband why they can never be together:
--->'''Kate''':''Taco night?! I don't '''DO''' taco night!''
** Every scene that Jack and Achara share in "Stranger in a Strange Land" is made of pure narm. [[FetishRetardant Especially their forced sex scene.]]
** Richard Alpert explaining to Kate and Sawyer the consquences of [[spoiler:an injured young Ben entering the Temple.]] Taken out of context, it suffers some UnfortunateImplications.
--->'''Richard''': ''If I take him, he's not ever going to be the same again.''
--->'''Kate''': ''What do you mean?''
--->'''Richard''': ''What I mean is that he will forget this ever happened and that his innocence will be lost.''
** The Others were originally a pretty enigmatic and threatening group, but then came Alex and her attempts to threateningly brandish a slingshot (at the camera, no less). Apparently, young Others are trained by reading Dennis the Menace cartoons.
*** When one observes the damage made on about [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLSQ5wjYBSo 1:37 seconds of this video]], a slingshot doesn't look so mild anymore.
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** Some fans actually point out that the Man in Black has a perfectly valid reason for everything he does. He wants to ''leave'', whereas his jailor, Jacob, doesn't want to but can't leave ''anytime he wants''.
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* IKnewIt: Speculation was that based off his nickname, "Mr. Friendly", Tom's full name was Tom Friendly. Eventually the producers confirmed this was true.
** A number of fans also speculated that Tom was gay after he told Kate, "You're not my type." This was later confirmed in the episode "Meet Kevin Johnson."
*** Actually a case of SureWhyNot, as the actor apparently changed his portrayal based on the fan reaction to that line.
** On a more plot-relevant level, a lot of fans, upon finding out that [[spoiler:post-return to the Island, Locke is not really Locke anymore]], speculated that [[spoiler:he was actually the Smoke Monster in Locke's form.]] Sure enough, in the Season 6 premiere...
** A number of fans also speculated that Tom was gay after he told Kate, "You're not my type." This was later confirmed in the episode "Meet Kevin Johnson."
*** Actually a case of SureWhyNot, as the actor apparently changed his portrayal based on the fan reaction to that line.
** On a more plot-relevant level, a lot of fans, upon finding out that [[spoiler:post-return to the Island, Locke is not really Locke anymore]], speculated that [[spoiler:he was actually the Smoke Monster in Locke's form.]] Sure enough, in the Season 6 premiere...
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The writers have had some fun with this in season 6, via the flash sideways.
* MagnificentBastard: Ben, [[spoiler:Jacob and the Man in Black]].
** Also in a flash-sideways, Ben gets out-magnificent-bastarded (!) by the principal of the high school where he works.
*** Oh ho ho, it wasn't just ANY principal bastard. IT WAS THE [[HeyItsThatGuy ASSHOLE]] FROM {{GHOSTBUSTERS}} AND [[DieHard DIE HARD 2]]!!
** Also in a flash-sideways, Ben gets out-magnificent-bastarded (!) by the principal of the high school where he works.
*** Oh ho ho, it wasn't just ANY principal bastard. IT WAS THE [[HeyItsThatGuy ASSHOLE]] FROM {{GHOSTBUSTERS}} AND [[DieHard DIE HARD 2]]!!
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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE This commercial]] first aired during a recent season six episode and now seems to be somewhat memetically associated with the show. For instance, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t612HVRew4&feature=related a recreation of the commercial using screenshots of Richard]].
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* FanNickname:
** Head writers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse are generally referred to as "Darlton" or "Team Darlton".
** Fenry for Ben when he was "Fake Henry," becoming "Benry"
** Losties or Lostaways for the original group
** Tailies and Boaties for those who arrived in the plane's tail and the freighter, respectively;
** {{Guyliner}} for Richard Alpert--though he's not actually wearing any at all; [[RealityIsUnrealistic Nestor Carbonell's eyes are naturally like that]].
** Smokey for The Monster
** [[spoiler:The Man in Black]] has a whole bunch thanks to having [[NoNameGiven no name revealed]]: [[MeaningfulName Esau]], [[spoiler:Un-Locke]], [[spoiler:the Smoke Monster, or Smokey for short]]. [[spoiler:"The Locke-ness Monster" probably wins for creativity.]]
** And of course the Muppet Dr. Chang in Lost Untangled has his own series of nicknames for everyone, several of them possibly borrowed from the fan community
** Head writers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse are generally referred to as "Darlton" or "Team Darlton".
** Fenry for Ben when he was "Fake Henry," becoming "Benry"
** Losties or Lostaways for the original group
** Tailies and Boaties for those who arrived in the plane's tail and the freighter, respectively;
** {{Guyliner}} for Richard Alpert--though he's not actually wearing any at all; [[RealityIsUnrealistic Nestor Carbonell's eyes are naturally like that]].
** Smokey for The Monster
** [[spoiler:The Man in Black]] has a whole bunch thanks to having [[NoNameGiven no name revealed]]: [[MeaningfulName Esau]], [[spoiler:Un-Locke]], [[spoiler:the Smoke Monster, or Smokey for short]]. [[spoiler:"The Locke-ness Monster" probably wins for creativity.]]
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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: [[Awesome/{{Lost}} Has its own page.]]
* MemeticMutation:
** "We have to go quack, Kate. WE HAVE TO GO QUAAAAACK!"
** Richard Alpert has become the show's Chuck Norris (in terms of unseen badassery) and Big Boss (in terms of being the mancrush of all male fans). Among other things, Jughead is apparently Richard's third testicle and he has had an orgy with every female on the show.
*** "DON'T BOTHER ME!!!"
** Fans have begun rewriting Locke's suicide note to Jack to say humorous things. "Jack, I wish you had believed it was butter, [[IncrediblyLamePun because now I'm toast]]. JL."
** The [[http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Jackface Jackface]] meme.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE This commercial]] first aired during a recent episode and now seems to be somewhat memetically associated with the show. For instance, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t612HVRew4&feature=related a recreation of the commercial using screenshots of Richard]].
** Did anyone notice the ocean?
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY19m4AxVIc Do you want eggs? He can make you some good poached eggs.]]
** The scene from "Everybody Loves Hugo" where Desmond slides his sunglasses back over his eyes make for some good [[{{CSI}} Horatio Caine]] comics.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6uAAFdJMBc HEY! You got yourself a fish biscuit! How'd you do that?]]
** Hugo throwing the Hot Pocket at Ben. "Hello Hugo." "HYAA!"
** "We have to go quack, Kate. WE HAVE TO GO QUAAAAACK!"
** Richard Alpert has become the show's Chuck Norris (in terms of unseen badassery) and Big Boss (in terms of being the mancrush of all male fans). Among other things, Jughead is apparently Richard's third testicle and he has had an orgy with every female on the show.
*** "DON'T BOTHER ME!!!"
** Fans have begun rewriting Locke's suicide note to Jack to say humorous things. "Jack, I wish you had believed it was butter, [[IncrediblyLamePun because now I'm toast]]. JL."
** The [[http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Jackface Jackface]] meme.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE This commercial]] first aired during a recent episode and now seems to be somewhat memetically associated with the show. For instance, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t612HVRew4&feature=related a recreation of the commercial using screenshots of Richard]].
** Did anyone notice the ocean?
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY19m4AxVIc Do you want eggs? He can make you some good poached eggs.]]
** The scene from "Everybody Loves Hugo" where Desmond slides his sunglasses back over his eyes make for some good [[{{CSI}} Horatio Caine]] comics.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6uAAFdJMBc HEY! You got yourself a fish biscuit! How'd you do that?]]
** Hugo throwing the Hot Pocket at Ben. "Hello Hugo." "HYAA!"
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: [[Awesome/{{Lost}} Has its own page.]]
* TheProducerThinksOfEverything: Despite a lot of the show's criticism claiming the contrary, anyone who actually watched the show through all 6 seasons knows that ''way'' too many things ''do'' add up for it to all be "made up as they go along".
** Even in the ''first couple of episodes'' there was Foreshadowing of the events of the last couple of seasons, including [[spoiler:the sounds of the Monster playing on the soundtrack during the final close-up of Locke at the end of "Tabula Rasa", and Locke's dialogue about backgammon in ''the very pilot'' ("a game played between two sides, one light, the other dark").]]
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* YouFailLogicForever: Miles's response TheWoobie: Every. Single. Main. Cast. Member. [[BeyondTheImpossible Even]] the BigBad during his DayInTheLimelight.
** Danielle Rousseau, arguably the most tragic character seen. [[spoiler:She was forced toHurley's attempts to understand time travel paradoxes.kill her friends including the love of her life, had her baby taken away, spent 16 years as TheAloner going nuts, and when she was finally reunited with her daughter [[ShootTheShaggyDog she got]] [[AnyoneCanDie killed off]]]].
** Danielle Rousseau, arguably the most tragic character seen. [[spoiler:She was forced to
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* HilariousInHindsight: Since almost the beginning of the show, viewers have [[spoiler:theorized, ''over and over'', that everyone died in the crash and the Island is Purgatory, even after repeated debunking]]. The final revelation of the series? [[spoiler:The ''flash-sideways timeline'' is Purgatory, or the next best thing -- though the Island and all the events that happened on and/or off it in normal continuity was all real.]]
** It makes it even funnier when you realize that after being told [[spoiler: the Island wasn't purgatory]] over and over again, NO ONE theorized that [[spoiler: that's what the FS really is]].
** The January 4, 2011 U.S. Mega Millions lottery (worth $355 million) had a very significant amount of overlap with The Numbers, with [[http://www.tmz.com/2011/01/05/lost-numbers-pay-off-in-megamillions-lottery-hurley/ 4, 8, 15, 25, 47 and the bonus 42]]. Playing The Numbers would have netted a person $150, and apparently there were 9,078 people who did just that.
** It makes it even funnier when you realize that after being told [[spoiler: the Island wasn't purgatory]] over and over again, NO ONE theorized that [[spoiler: that's what the FS really is]].
** The January 4, 2011 U.S. Mega Millions lottery (worth $355 million) had a very significant amount of overlap with The Numbers, with [[http://www.tmz.com/2011/01/05/lost-numbers-pay-off-in-megamillions-lottery-hurley/ 4, 8, 15, 25, 47 and the bonus 42]]. Playing The Numbers would have netted a person $150, and apparently there were 9,078 people who did just that.
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* MemeticSexGod: Lapidus.
* MemeticSexGod: Lapidus.
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** Even though his badassery was only [[MemeticBadass memetic]], Richard Alpert could be said to have suffered from this, having spent most of season 6 in a state of HeroicBSOD instead of actually doing anything badass.
*** It's made worse because he BSOD'd after the first time he ever really ran into trouble. Before that, he got by on just standing around and looking badass without ever actually doing anything.
* BrokenBase: ...Yes. And the finale too.
** Even though his badassery was only [[MemeticBadass memetic]], Richard Alpert could be said to have suffered from this, having spent most of season 6 in a state of HeroicBSOD instead of actually doing anything badass.
*** It's made worse because he BSOD'd after the first time he ever really ran into trouble. Before that, he got by on just standing around and looking badass without ever actually doing anything.
* BrokenBase: ...Yes. And the finale too.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: There are, of course, several in a show with this many characters. Rose and Bernard deserve special mention. Both Desmond and the BreakoutVillain Ben started out this way with [[BreakoutCharacter their popularity earning them major roles]]. [[TheWoobie Daniel Faraday]] and [[OnlySaneMan Frank Lapidus]] both have small, but very devoted fanbases.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: There are, of course, several in a show with this many characters. Rose and Bernard deserve special mention. Both Desmond and the BreakoutVillain Ben started out this way with [[BreakoutCharacter their popularity earning them major roles]]. [[TheWoobie Daniel Faraday]] and [[OnlySaneMan [[ArthurDent Frank Lapidus]] both have small, but very devoted fanbases.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: There are, of course, several in a show with this many characters. Rose and Bernard deserve special mention. Both Desmond and the BreakoutVillain Ben started out this way with [[BreakoutCharacter their popularity earning them major roles]]. [[TheWoobie Daniel Faraday]] has a and [[OnlySaneMan Frank Lapidus]] both have small, but very devoted fanbase.fanbases.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: There are, of course, several in a show with this many characters. Rose and Bernard deserve special mention. Both Desmond and the BreakoutVillain Ben started out this way with [[BreakoutCharacter their popularity earning them major roles]]. [[TheWoobie Daniel Faraday]] has a small, but very devoted fanbase.
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* AlasPoorScrappy: Shannon, Nikki, Paulo.
* CreepyAwesome: Ben, Eloise Hawking.
* DracoInLeatherPants: Sawyer, before he grew into a legitimately likable character.
* DracoInLeatherPants: Sawyer, before he grew into a legitimately likable character.
* FoeYay: Tons between Ben and Locke.
** After the pilot aired, Sawyer was said to be the characters audiences hated the most, and he spent the rest of the season as a unsympathetic, antagonistic JerkAss. But thanks to character development, he's become popular for reasons ''other'' than how hot he is with his shirt off.
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* TheScrappy: Jack, Kate, (though see RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap above) Nikki & Paolo, and in season 6, Zoe.
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* TheScrappy: Jack, Kate, (though see RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap above) Nikki & Paolo, Michael in season 2, Ana Lucia and in season 6, Zoe.
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* {{Wangst}}: Jack, though he gets significantly better in Seasons 5 and 6.
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* CanonSue: Many think this of Jack and Kate.
* CharacterAlignment: The series provides examples of:
** LawfulGood: Hurley; Frank Lapidus; Jin (post-season 1)
** NeutralGood: Jack; Rose and Bernard; Juliet (later seasons); Sun; Ilana
** ChaoticGood: Kate; Sawyer (post-season 1); Desmond
** LawfulNeutral: Sayid; Richard; Horace; Dr. Chang; Jacob
** TrueNeutral: Locke; Juliet (at first)
** ChaoticNeutral: Rousseau; Sawyer (at first); Miles
** LawfulEvil: Tom; Widmore
** NeutralEvil: Anthony Cooper; Ben (at first)
** ChaoticEvil: Keamy; Pickett (both of them); Radzinsky; The Smoke Monster[[spoiler:/"Locke" (season 5 and 6)/The Man In Black]]
*** As of season 6, [[spoiler:Claire and -maybe- Undead!Sayid]] (temporarily).
*** Keamy could [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation feasibly]] fall under Lawful Evil, as he really is just following orders. Granted, he uses what leeway he has to pick the most psychotically monstrous actions available, but even that's ultimately in the name of the job.
** And almost all of these can be challenged with AlternateCharacterInterpretation.
* CharacterDerailment: Sawyer and Charlie in season two, though they snap back later. Some might say Kate after Season 1 or 2.
* CharacterAlignment: The series provides examples of:
** LawfulGood: Hurley; Frank Lapidus; Jin (post-season 1)
** NeutralGood: Jack; Rose and Bernard; Juliet (later seasons); Sun; Ilana
** ChaoticGood: Kate; Sawyer (post-season 1); Desmond
** LawfulNeutral: Sayid; Richard; Horace; Dr. Chang; Jacob
** TrueNeutral: Locke; Juliet (at first)
** ChaoticNeutral: Rousseau; Sawyer (at first); Miles
** LawfulEvil: Tom; Widmore
** NeutralEvil: Anthony Cooper; Ben (at first)
** ChaoticEvil: Keamy; Pickett (both of them); Radzinsky; The Smoke Monster[[spoiler:/"Locke" (season 5 and 6)/The Man In Black]]
*** As of season 6, [[spoiler:Claire and -maybe- Undead!Sayid]] (temporarily).
*** Keamy could [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation feasibly]] fall under Lawful Evil, as he really is just following orders. Granted, he uses what leeway he has to pick the most psychotically monstrous actions available, but even that's ultimately in the name of the job.
** And almost all of these can be challenged with AlternateCharacterInterpretation.
* CharacterDerailment: Sawyer and Charlie in season two, though they snap back later. Some might say Kate after Season 1 or 2.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: There are, of course, several in a show with this many characters. Rose and Bernard deserve special mention. Both Desmond and the BreakoutVillain Ben started out this way with [[BreakoutCharacter their popularity earning them major roles]]. [[TheWoobie Daniel Faraday]] has a small, but very devoted fanbase.
* EpilepticTrees: One wild fan theory was the TropeNamer. Yeah, it's [[MindScrew that kind of a show]]. We've a very active WildMassGuessing page if you've got a crazy fan theory to share.
* EpilepticTrees: One wild fan theory was the TropeNamer. Yeah, it's [[MindScrew that kind of a show]]. We've a very active WildMassGuessing page if you've got a crazy fan theory to share.
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* FanonDiscontinuity: The only thing that ''isn't'' guaranteed to fall under here for someone somewhere is early-to-mid season 1. Beyond that, it varies massively.
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* HoYay: By union set:
** Jack and (Sawyer, Locke, Sayid, Hurley);
** Sawyer and (Sayid, Hurley, Jin);
** Charlie and (Hurley, Desmond)
** [[LesYay Kate and Claire]]
** There was definitely a good amount of HoYay between Charlie and Desmond. After all, in the flash-sideways it was Charlie [[spoiler:who triggered the beginning of Desmond's memories of the island.]]
** Also, Ben and Locke in the flash-sidways/alternate universe [[spoiler:afterlife]]. Of course this can also be seen as NoYay
** Plus, there's Richard/Jacob. And In "The End" there's some implied Miles/Richard. Miles' actor even said that Miles would be the one to [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean take care]] of Richard after they [[spoiler:left the island.]]
** Jack and (Sawyer, Locke, Sayid, Hurley);
** Sawyer and (Sayid, Hurley, Jin);
** Charlie and (Hurley, Desmond)
** [[LesYay Kate and Claire]]
** There was definitely a good amount of HoYay between Charlie and Desmond. After all, in the flash-sideways it was Charlie [[spoiler:who triggered the beginning of Desmond's memories of the island.]]
** Also, Ben and Locke in the flash-sidways/alternate universe [[spoiler:afterlife]]. Of course this can also be seen as NoYay
** Plus, there's Richard/Jacob. And In "The End" there's some implied Miles/Richard. Miles' actor even said that Miles would be the one to [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean take care]] of Richard after they [[spoiler:left the island.]]
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* RuinedFOREVER: Quite a few people have complained that "Across the Sea" did this to the series.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: Not common, but glaring when it happens.
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* VillainDecay: As of the end of Season 5, [[TheChessmaster Ben]] has been reduced to just another pawn in The Man in Black's extended chess match against Jacob.
** He knows it too, and isn't the least bit happy about it. It should be noted that only a few episodes after we learned Ben led the Others we found out Jacob gave the orders (the list for instance), so we should have seen this one coming.
*** Though it's implied that Ben's mere existence and free will is the "loophole" that Jacob's nemesis needed to kill Jacob, making him the most important character in the show...
** Let's just say this: Ben in early seasons: Leader of the Others and MagnificentBastard. Ben at the end of the series:[[spoiler: Hurley's sidekick]]
** He knows it too, and isn't the least bit happy about it. It should be noted that only a few episodes after we learned Ben led the Others we found out Jacob gave the orders (the list for instance), so we should have seen this one coming.
*** Though it's implied that Ben's mere existence and free will is the "loophole" that Jacob's nemesis needed to kill Jacob, making him the most important character in the show...
** Let's just say this: Ben in early seasons: Leader of the Others and MagnificentBastard. Ben at the end of the series:[[spoiler: Hurley's sidekick]]
