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4->''"Let’s look death in the face and say ‘Whatever, man.’ Let’s make our own luck."''
5-->-- '''Hugo "Hurley" Reyes'''
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7When you're stuck in a place like the Island, you know you're going to have to [[TookALevelInBadass take a few levels in badass]] pretty quickly to survive. Whether you're a spinal surgeon, a fugitive, a knife fighter, a ConMan, a torturer or even just a guy who likes chicken, everyone gets their fair share of SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments.
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11[[folder:Season 1]]
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13[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS01E01PilotPart1 Pilot, Part 1]]" (1x01)]]
14* The first scene, where Jack races through the chaotic wreckage of Oceanic 815, saving one life after another in full-doctor mode as there is screaming and explosions happening all around. Afterward, when he goes off by himself, we discover he sustained a nasty gash to his lower back when he landed in the jungle. Not only that, but he's also clearly dealing with some personal issues. And he still was able to do all ''that''. It's truly an EstablishingCharacterMoment for Jack.
15** Locke helping Jack to shift a part of the plane that landed on someone's leg is awesome considering that he only regained the ability to walk about a minute earlier.
16** Even while Jack is helping take care of the heavily pregnant and panicking Claire, he has the presence of mind to notice that Boone, who is trying to give CPR to the unconsious Rose, is using completely the wrong technique and save her himself.
17** Jack and Hurley save Claire from a falling plane wing, which explodes when it lands behind them.
18* The first appearance of The Monster, crashing through the trees [[NothingIsScarier unseen]], is as awesome as it is terrifying.
19-->'''Charlie:''' Terrific.
20* We don't know who Kate is. All we know is that she is scared to the point of tears of the whatever-it-is that tore the pilot out of the plane, and she does not want to go back although she knows she should. She counts to five. And then she stops hiding, interrogates Charlie, and goes back for Jack.
21[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS01E02PilotPart2 Pilot, Part 2]]" (1x02)]]
22* Sawyer's first moment of badassery. Something loud and feral is running towards the group...and they all flee, while he stands calmly, reveals a pistol from his person, and shoots what turns out to be a polar bear. His comments afterwards push this into a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} too. "I JUST SHOT A BEAR!"
23[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS01E03TabulaRasa Tabula Rasa]]" (1x03)]]
24* Kate flips the car she's in to escape from the Marshal in a flashback. The only reason it doesn't work is because she gives up her chance to escape to save the farmer who turned her in.
25* Jack calls out Sawyer on his EpicFail attempt at a MercyKill on the Marshal and (it's implied) finishes the job himself, proving he does have the courage to get his hands dirty.
26[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS01E04Walkabout Walkabout]]" (1x04)]]
27* Locke becomes the first character to stare down The Monster without fleeing in terror. He also gets an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome in catching a boar by himself, despite having said earlier it would take at least three people to do.
28* TheReveal that Locke was in a wheelchair before the plane crash. "Don't tell me what I can't do", indeed. His smirk at the very end of the episode as he watches the wheelchair burn is one of the most [[http://lostchap.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/john-and-fire.jpg badass smiles]] of the history of television.
29** Said flashback also reveals that when he regained the ability to walk just after the crash, the literal first thing he did was use those legs to help save someone else's life.
30[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS01E06HouseOfTheRisingSun House of the Rising Sun]]" (1x06)]]
31* Sayid's flying tackle on Jin when he attacks Michael.
32* Sun was able to learn English and make plans to run away and even ''fake her own death'' behind her husband and father's backs, proving she is not the meek, submissive wife that she had appeared to be.
33* Locke gets an AwesomenessByAnalysis moment in deducing Charlie's heroin addiction, and plays the TricksterMentor to perfection by convincing him to give up his stash in exchange for his guitar.
34[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS01E07TheMoth The Moth]]" (1x07)]]
35* This is a continuous Episode of Awesome for Charlie, as he rescues Jack from a cave-in and quits heroin in one fell swoop.
36[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS01E08ConfidenceMan Confidence Man]]" (1x08)]]
37* Sun cures Shannon's asthma by finding a eucalyptus plant and creating a remedy from it.
38[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS01E09Solitary Solitary]]" (1x09)]]
39* Danielle Rousseau managing to survive on the Island, alone, for sixteen years. It becomes even more impressive in hindsight, after we've seen the sheer number of dangers present on the Island. Her traps are effective enough to capture Sayid, a highly trained soldier.
40[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS01E10RaisedByAnother Raised by Another]]" (1x10)]]
41* Hurley and Boone, of all people, being the SpannerInTheWorks to Ethan's infiltration of the survivors by having the presence of mind to make a census and check it against the flight manifest.
42[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS01E12WhateverTheCaseMayBe Whatever the Case May Be]]" (1x12)]]
43* Rose calls out Charlie on how unhelpful his moping after Claire's disappearance is while everyone is helping move the camp up the beach and snaps him out of his funk.
44* Jack instantly sees through Kate's attempt to steal the key to the Marshal's case from right under his nose.
45* Jack gets Sawyer to hand over the case by threatening to withold the antibiotics for the wound on his arm.
46[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS01E15Homecoming Homecoming]]" (1x15)]]
47* Claire volunteers to use herself as bait to catch Ethan.
48* Jack gives a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to Ethan Rom. Especially cathartic in that the last time they saw each other, Ethan beat the shit out of Jack.
49* Charlie shooting Ethan in heavy rain, without much time to aim and getting him in the chest four out of six times, despite a complete lack of any real training with guns. A very satisfying KarmicDeath after he kidnapped Claire, hanged Charlie, killed Scott (of "Scott and Steve" fame) and generally terrorized the Losties for the entire episode.
50[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS01E20DoNoHarm Do No Harm]]" (1x20)]]
51* When Kate is grabbing supplies to try to save Boone's life, she just bluntly says what she needs and Sawyer immediately gives her everything she asked for without so much a witty quip.
52* Kate managing to deliver Claire's baby without Jack's help when he's occupied with trying to save Boone.
53* Boone, despite the horrific nature of his injuries, manages to FaceDeathWithDignity, convincing Jack to let him go when Jack turns to increasingly desperate measures to try to save him.
54[[AC:"[[{{Recap/LostS01E21TheGreaterGood}} The Greater Good]]" (1x21)]]
55* Sayid's confrontation with Locke at the end, where he sees right through Locke's lies and demands he take him to the real Hatch.
56-->''"John, no more lies."''
57[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS01E23ExodusPart1 Exodus, Part 1]]" (1x23)]]
58* The raft finally launches, especially when the score swells triumphantly.
59[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS01E24And25ExodusPart2 Exodus, Part 2]]" (1x24/25)]]
60* Charlie is wounded in the forehead by one of Rousseau's traps. Sayid tells him to go back to camp, but he insists [[{{Determinator}} he's not returning until they rescue Aaron]], and tells Sayid to give him whatever quick fix he would give a wounded soldier. So Sayid ''pours some gunpowder into the wound and lights it on fire.''
61* Kate scares off the Smoke Monster by throwing a stick of dynamite at it.
62* Locke finally blows open the damn Hatch with dynamite, and the season ends with him and Jack peering down the long shaft inside.
63[[/folder]]
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65[[folder:Season 2]]
66[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS02E02Adrift Adrift]]" (2x02)]]
67* Sawyer removes a bullet from his shoulder ''with his bare hands''.
68[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS02E03Orientation Orientation]]" (2x03)]]
69* Mr. Eko's CurbStompBattle against Michael, Jin and Sawyer is a hell of an EstablishingCharacterMoment. Just a few quick strikes with his Jesus Stick and he takes down all three of them single-handed.
70[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS02E07TheOtherFortyEightDays The Other 48 Days]]" (2x07)]]
71* Mr. Eko killing the Others that came to take him away on the first night after the crash.
72* Ana Lucia's fight with Goodwin. She eventually kills him by impaling him through the heart with a wooden spear.
73[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS02E10TheTwentyThirdPsalm The 23rd Psalm]]" (2x10)]]
74* Eko stares down the Smoke Monster, and doesn't even seem scared of it.
75[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS02E11TheHuntingParty The Hunting Party]]" (2x11)]]
76* The Others give the first indication of just how dangerous they are by capturing Kate offscreen and easily surrounding Jack, Locke and Sawyer when Jack questions how powerful they really are.
77-->'''Jack:''' I think you've got one guy up there with a gun. I think there's more of us than there are of you. I think if you had any real strength, you wouldn't have had to send a spy -- Ethan.
78-->'''Tom:''' That's an interesting theory. LIGHT 'EM UP!!!
79-->''[torches are lit, showing that the group is completely surrounded]''
80[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS02E13TheLongCon The Long Con]]" (2x13)]]
81* Sawyer's long con in order to take possession of the guns. He expertly plays Jack, Sawyer, Kate and Ana Lucia against each other, with nobody even suspecting him until it's far too late, then declares himself the new leader of the survivors.
82[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS02E15MaternityLeave Maternity Leave]]" (2x15)]]
83* Alex proves to be a thorn in the side of the Others for the first of many occasions by rescuing Claire from the Staff.
84[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS02E16TheWholeTruth The Whole Truth]]" (2x16)]]
85* The moment in which Creator/MichaelEmerson went from guest star to full-fledged cast member:
86--> '''"Henry":''' ''[eating cereal]'' Course if I was one of them - these people that you seem to think are your enemies - what would I do? Well, there'd be no balloon. So I'd draw a map to a real secluded place, like a cave or some underbrush, good place for a trap. An ambush. And when your friends got there, a bunch of my people would be waiting for 'em. Then they'd use them to trade for me. ''[jokingly]'' I guess it's a good thing I'm not one of them, huh? ''[beat]'' You guys got any milk? ''[LOST end screen]''
87[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS02E17Lockdown Lockdown]]" (2x17)]]
88* Jack utterly destroying Sawyer (a ''professional hustler'') in hand after hand of poker. In exasperation, Sawyer (who had recently conned the group out of their only cache of firearms) proposes one last hand and allows Jack to name the stakes. Jack decides to play for the medical supplies Sawyer was hoarding. After winning the hand (going all in with a pair of nines), Jack tells Sawyer he'll come around later for the meds. Sawyer asks why they didn't play for the guns, as Jack was [[ItMakesSenseInContext trying to build an army]] at the time. Jack scoffs and says "When I need the guns...I'll get the guns."
89* Sayid is convinced Henry Gale is not who he says he is. Everyone thinks his grief over Shannon has clouded his judgment but he is ultimately proven right. Ultimately, he goes to crazy extremes to prove he is right, down to digging up Henry's supposed wife's grave. Plus there's the wonderful OhCrap look on Ben's face when he realizes he's rumbled.
90-->''"Your whole story -- your alibi -- it was true. But still I did not believe it to be true. So I dug up that grave and found that there was not a woman inside. There was a man. A man named Henry Gale."''
91[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS02E18Dave Dave]]" (2x18)]]
92* Hurley's beatdown of Sawyer after he plays a cruel prank on him, making fun of his hallucinations of his imaginary friend Dave.
93[[AC:"[[{{Recap/LostS02E23And24LiveTogetherDieAlone}} Live Together, Die Alone]]" (2x23/24)]]
94* Not content to be the worrying wife left behind again when Jin goes off sailing with Sayid, Sun demands to go with them, knowing they are on a dangerous mission to find the Others.
95* The blast doors in the Swan turn out to be capable of holding up against dynamite when Eko tries to blast through them.
96* Desmond blows up the Swan by turning the failsafe key, fully believing he was making a HeroicSacrifice to save everyone on the Island. It's gets even better when the following season reveals he survived being at the center of the catastrophic electromagnetic charge.
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99[[folder:Season 3]]
100[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS03E01ATaleOfTwoCities A Tale of Two Cities]]" (3x01)]]
101* Juliet, in her very first episode, goes from baking muffins and hosting book club to tazing Sawyer during his escape attempt and knocking Jack out with a single punch.
102[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS03E02TheGlassBallerina The Glass Ballerina]]" (3x02)]]
103* Sun completely shuts Jin down when he starts to regress to his possessive Season 1 self, and makes clear that he doesn't boss her around anymore.
104-->''"My husband thinks we have to do as he says because he's the only one who knows how to sail. But he's wrong. I can help you sail the boat."''
105* Sun kills Colleen and manages to escape from the sailboat while being shot at by Tom.
106* Sawyer uses kissing Kate as a distraction to get an Other close enough to him to steal one of their rifles. Although Juliet makes him stop by pointing a gun at Kate, he's still able to use this fight to gather valuable intel on the Others' security to aid in a future escape. [[GambitPileup Then]] this turns into an Awesome Moment for [[MagnificentBastard Ben]], as it turns out he is listening in on Sawyer and Kate's conversation at the cages, and now knows exactly what Sawyer is planning.
107[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS03E04EveryManForHimself Every Man for Himself]]" (3x04)]]
108* Ben beats the crap out of Sawyer with a baton, and spends the episode playing the show's resident ConMan by making him believe in his fake pacemaker.
109[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS03E05TheCostOfLiving The Cost of Living]]" (3x05)]]
110* In a flashback, Mr. Eko kills three gun wielding drug lords with a machete while dressed as a priest. With his hands tied.
111* Eko's final speech before the Smoke Monster kills him, as he stands behind all the decisions he has made in his life and gets over his guilt and regret. It becomes even better on a rewatch, when you realize that Eko refusing to bow to the Man in Black's manipulations was one of the only things that went wrong in his BatmanGambit to kill Jacob, spanning centuries and involving dozens of people playing into his hands.
112-->''"I ask for no forgiveness, Father. For I have not sinned. I have only done what I needed to do to survive. A small boy once asked me if I was a bad man. If I could answer him now, I would tell him that... when I was a young boy, I killed a man to save my brother's life. I am not sorry for this. I am proud of this. I did not ask for the life that I was given. But it was given, nonetheless. And with it... I did my best."''
113[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS03E06IDo I Do]]" (3x06)]]
114* Although because of Kate's urgings Jack eventually agrees to perform Ben's surgery, Jack is pretty darn awesome after he first figures out Ben's scheme before Ben had intended and then shoots him down gloriously. He asks a lot of questions seeming to indicate he planned to do it, and when Ben gets all happy and says "We'll get whatever you need to do it" he just laughs and says "Oh, I was never going to do it. I just wanted you to know how you're gonna die."
115* Jack suddenly takes charge in the middle of the operation, knocking out the henchman next to him and holding Ben's life for ransom so that Kate and Sawyer can escape.
116-->''"Kate, dammit, run."''
117[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS03E07NotInPortland Not in Portland]]" (3x07)]]
118* Alex proves she is her mother's daughter by saving Sawyer and Kate from a group of armed Others with a slingshot, before hiding them in a camouflaged pit that she had previously dug [[CrazyPrepared just in case.]]
119* Juliet gives Danny Pickett three rounds to the chest without blinking an eye to help Kate and Sawyer escape.
120[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS03E10TriciaTanakaIsDead Tricia Tanaka is Dead]]" (3x10)]]
121* Hurley gives Charlie a fantastic DareToBeBadass speech to snap him out of his moping after Desmond told him he's going to die.
122-->'''Hurley:''' Snap out of it! Stop feeling sorry for yourself because someone said you're going to die. I've got an idea that's going to help us both. Now, it is dangerous. And there's a very good chance that you will die.
123-->'''Charlie:''' That's supposed to convince me to come with you?
124-->'''Hurley:''' It is. Because if you don't die, then we win.
125-->'''Charlie:''' Win?
126-->'''Hurley:''' Look, I don't know about you, but things have really sucked for me lately and I could use a victory. So let's get one, dude. Let's get this car started. Let's look death in the face and say, "whatever, man." Let's make our own luck. What do you say?
127* Hurley and Charlie go for a "victory or death" charge by rolling the van down the hill towards a nasty-looking bunch of rocks, and succeed in starting it. Even Sawyer, who has spent the entire episode ridiculing Hurley, is impressed.
128[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS03E11EnterSevenSeven Enter 77]]" (3x11)]]
129* Mikhail vs Sayid and Kate, an all out brawl with all three characters fighting as if their lives depend on it. First Mikhail floors [[ActionGirl Kate]] with one punch, then he has Sayid on the ropes as they crash around the room before Sayid finally takes him down and Kate grabs his rifle before finishing him with a kick to the face. Despite the fact that Sayid is one of the biggest badasses on the show, it's implied that Mikhail would have beaten him in a one-on-one fight.
130-->'''Mikhail:''' Why are we continuing to play this little game when we all know it has moved to the next stage?
131* Locke initiates the Flame's self-destruct sequence, destroying the Others' means of communication with the outside world and showing the first signs of his new agenda, independent of the other survivors.
132[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS03E12ParAvion Par Avion]]" (3x12)]]
133* While the rest of the group argue over what to do about the sonic fence at the Barracks, Locke [[CuttingTheKnot swiftly ends the debate]] by casually pushing Mikhail through to see what it does.
134* The group cleverly bypasses the fence by fashioning a ladder/bridge from a nearby tree and climbing over it.
135[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS03E13TheManFromTallahassee The Man from Tallahassee]]" (3x13)]]
136* Locke easily infiltrates Ben's house and holds him hostage. He also perfectly [[ShutUpHannibal shuts him up]] when Ben questions how Locke could think he knows the Island better than him.
137-->''"Because you're in the wheelchair, and I'm not."''
138* Locke destroys the Others' only means of leaving the Island by blowing up their submarine with C4 from the Flame. The badass way he apologizes to Jack as he waits for it to explode behind him is the icing on the cake.
139-->'''Ben:''' What if I told you that somewhere on this island, there's a very large box ... and whatever you imagined, whatever you wanted to be in it, when you opened that box, there it would be. What would you say about that, John?
140-->'''Locke:''' I'd say I hope that box is big enough to imagine yourself up a new submarine.
141* This then turns into an Awesome Moment for Ben, when it's revealed that he actually ''wanted'' Locke to blow it up, as it was the only way he could prevent Jack and Juliet from leaving the Island without breaking his word.
142[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS03E15LeftBehind Left Behind]]" (3x15)]]
143* Kate tries to ambush Juliet by attacking her with a snooker cue when she brings her a sandwich. Despite being caught off guard, Juliet instantly ducks her swing and flips her over with one move.
144* Kate gets her own back later. After Juliet accuses her of ruining Jack's chance of going home, the two get into a vicious fight while handcuffed together that ends with Kate dislocating Juliet's shoulder.
145* Hurley, of all people, manages to con Sawyer, by tricking him into being nice to people and stepping up to be a leader in Jack's absence.
146* Juliet reveals that the Smoke Monster can't get past the sonic fences at the Barracks, and stares it down as it makes a futile attempt to chase her and Kate through one.
147[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS03E16OneOfUs One of Us]]" (3x16)]]
148* Juliet gives Sayid and Sawyer an epic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, calling them out on their hypocrisy in trying to cast judgment on her while she is trying to save Claire's life. Both men are left absolutely speechless.
149-->''"You know it's interesting... that you two are now the camp's moral police. I'm curious, Sayid, how long was it before you told everyone on that beach exactly how many people you've tortured in your life. Do they know about Basra? And I'm sure the first thing you did when you got here, James, was to gather everyone in a circle, and tell them about the man you shot in cold blood the night before you got on the plane. So why don't we just skip the part where you two pretend to be righteous. I'm taking that medication back to Claire. And you're gonna let me. Because if she doesn't get it, she's gonna die. And the last thing that either of you need right now, is more blood on your hands."''
150[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS03E18DOC D.O.C.]]" (3x18)]]
151* When Mikhail stumbles across the group in the jungle, Jin chases him down and beats the crap out of him, finishing him off with a roundhouse kick to the head.
152* With no other weapons available, Desmond points a [[ImprovisedWeapon flare gun]] at Mikhail:
153-->'''Desmond:''' You've got five seconds to talk, or I fire this gun brother.
154-->'''Mikhail:''' That's a flare gun.
155-->'''Desmond:''' And how do you think it'll feel? Taking a flare to the chest at this range?
156* When Mikhail tries to steal Naomi's phone, Jin figures it out immediately and chases him down ''again'' to get it back.
157[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS03E19TheBrig The Brig]]" (3x19)]]
158* It's revealed that Anthony Cooper was the original Sawyer, who caused Sawyer's father to kill his mother and himself, and Sawyer kills him.
159-->''"Well, how about that. Sawyer's my name, too."''
160** There's a brilliant OhCrap look on Cooper's face when Sawyer reveals who he is.
161--->'''Cooper:''' Don't tell me I'm your daddy.\
162'''Sawyer:''' No. You killed my daddy.
163** Sawyer then forces him to read the letter he wrote him, and screams at him to [[SuddenlyShouting FINISH IT!!!]] when Cooper starts mocking his trauma and revenge mission. Finally, Cooper tears up the letter, at which point Sawyer snaps and strangles him with a chain while growling "You wanna go to hell!?"
164** Just to hammer home what an AssholeVictim Cooper is, Locke, his own son, actually ''thanks'' Sawyer for killing him.
165[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS03E20TheManBehindTheCurtain The Man Behind the Curtain]]" (3x20)]]
166* Locke beats the crap out of Mikhail in front of the entire Others' camp, and they all stand back and watch, even when Ben starts ordering them to stop him.
167[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS03E21GreatestHits Greatest Hits]]" (3x21)]]
168* Jack and Danielle laying out their plan to blow up the Others with dynamite by destroying part of the forest, while Jack gets a nice RousingSpeech:
169-->''"When Juliet told me they were coming, the first thing I thought was, 'Where the hell are we gonna hide this time?' But hiding's pointless. They're just gonna keep coming back. So I went out and I found some help. And for the past few days she's been bringing dynamite back from the Black Rock. For the very first time we know exactly what they want, when they're coming to get it, and they have no idea that we're gonna be waiting for 'em. So Juliet's gonna mark the tents with the white rocks just like she was told to, but there's not going to be any pregnant women inside; there's gonna be plenty of what we just used on that tree. So tomorrow night, we stop hiding, we stop running, we stop living in fear of them, because when they show up, we're gonna blow 'em all to hell."''
170* Karl is usually a downtrodden ButtMonkey, but he gets a legitimate moment of heroism when he rushes off to warn the survivors that the Others' attack is coming a day earlier than they thought.
171* Charlie saving a woman, who unbeknown to him is Sayid's lost love Nadia, from a mugger in an alley in a flashback. Nadia tells him three people walked past the alley and did nothing, and Charlie was obviously wary but did it anyway.
172-->'''Nadia:''' You are a hero, sir, and don't let anyone ''ever'' tell you differently.
173[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS03E22And23ThroughTheLookingGlass Through the Looking Glass]]" (3x22/23)]]
174* The showdown between the survivors and the Others at the beach:
175** Sayid and Bernard both hit perfect shots to blow up their dynamite. Although Jin's fails to detonate, he still takes out two Others by shooting them directly.
176** Sayid and Jin are thoroughly defiant prisoners, telling Jack over the walkie not to give in to Ben's demands no matter what. Sayid also spits in one of the Others' faces, and when they seem seconds away from executing Jin, his response (in Korean) is [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner "Go to hell."]]
177** Just as Sawyer and Juliet are contemplating how hopeless the situation seems, Hurley, tired of being told he'll "just get in the way", charges down Ryan Pryce with a DHARMA van, completely turning the tide of the battle.
178** This provides a distraction for Sayid's moment of awesome: tripping an Other and then snapping his neck, with his feet, while tied up, on his knees, on sand.
179** Sawyer kills Tom "for taking the kid off the raft." He also gets a great BondOneLiner afterwards.
180--->'''Hurley:''' Dude, it was over. He surrendered.
181--->'''Sawyer:''' I didn't believe him.
182* Desmond and Charlie's mission at the Looking Glass:
183** Charlie manages to be a general annoyance to the people holding him captive, and also [[IsThatWhatHeToldYou reveals a few things Ben hasn't told them about the outside world]]. He also gets a badass line in when he confidently predicts that the station will flood and turn off the jamming signal.
184--->'''Bonnie:''' But if this station floods, what happens to you?\
185'''Charlie:''' ''[matter-of-factly]'' I die.
186** Desmond pops out of his hiding place to shoot Mikhail with a speargun. Unfortunately, it also proves to be an Awesome Moment for Mikhail, as he again proves he is MadeOfIron by surviving long enough to kill Charlie.
187** Charlie convinces Bonnie to tell him the code to shut down the jamming signal by pointing out how stupid her UndyingLoyalty to Ben is.
188--->''"OK, Bonnie, we're both gonna die down here. All right, let's be perfectly honest. A one-eyed maniac just killed your friend, he shot you in the back. It would appear that your glorious leader, Ben, put him up to it. Are you a sodding idiot? You have the opportunity to make Ben very very angry. Why would you not take that?"''
189** Charlie [[FaceDeathWithDignity calmly accepts his death]], even after being given a fleeting moment of hope that he might make it out of all this alive and [[DyingMomentOfAwesome as he dies]], manages to convey important information to Desmond.
190* This line, which even Jack has to admit is a good one:
191-->'''Rose:''' Jack, if you say "Live Together, Die Alone", I'm going to punch you in the face.
192* Jack beats the hell out of Ben after he makes him think Jin, Bernard and Sayid are dead. He doesn't just hit him once, Jack tackles Ben to the ground in a rage and savagely beats his face in. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown And he doesn't stop until his hands are bleeding and Ben is unconscious.]] Then he calls Tom on the walkie and gives him a hell of a BadassBoast:
193-->''"I'm going to lead my people up to the radio tower. And I'm gonna make a call. And I'm gonna get 'em all rescued, every one of them. And then I'm gonna come find you, and I'm gonna kill you."''
194* After being shot, Locke fully recovers (but temporarily becomes paralyzed again), and decides to shoot himself in the head because he can't move his legs. Walt, who isn't even on the Island, appears and stops him. The man of 400 knives later gets up, walks to the radio tower, and chucks one of his weapons into Naomi's back.
195[[/folder]]
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197[[folder:Season 4]]
198[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS04E01TheBeginningOfTheEnd The Beginning of the End]]" (4x01)]]
199* Jack completely defying Locke's YouWouldntShootMe prediction by pointing a gun at his head and pulling the trigger, even though the gun turns out not to be loaded. It's a very dark moment for him, but it's hard not to enjoy the OhCrap look on Locke's face when he realizes Jack is not messing around anymore, especially after he's done everything in his power to sabotage all of Jack's attempts to get off the Island.
200[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS04E02ConfirmedDead Confirmed Dead]]" (4x02)]]
201* The survivors easily outwitting Miles, it's clear that Jack had learned his lesson after being outfoxed by The Others. Jack's wink at Kate before Sayid and Juliet spring into action is the icing on the cake.
202-->'''Jack:''' Put the guns down.
203-->'''Miles:''' Now why would I do that?
204-->'''Jack:''' Because our friends are out in the jungle right now holding a gun at your head, and his head. So I'm gonna forget about the misunderstanding. Just put the guns down.
205-->'''Miles:''' Come on, how stupid do you think I- ''[gunshots fly over Miles and Daniel's heads as Sayid and Juliet stroll out of the jungle]''
206-->'''Jack:''' I dunno, Miles, how stupid are ya?
207* Lapidus proving his AcePilot credentials by landing the helicopter on the Island in the middle of a storm.
208-->'''Miles:''' Hey, hey, Lapidus, where's the chopper? Where did it crash?
209-->'''Frank:''' Crash? The hell kind of pilot do you think I am? I put her down safe and sound, right over there.
210* Ben manages to talk his way out of death when Locke is about to execute him for shooting Charlotte, but keeps just enough information to himself that Locke can't just kill him right away.
211-->'''Ben:''' Her name is Charlotte Lewis! Charlotte Staples Lewis. Born July second, 1979, Essex, England. Parents David and Jeanette. Eldest of three, all girls. She was raised in Bromsgrove. Did her undergraduate studies at Kent. Took her [=PhD=] in Cultural Anthropology at Oxford. She's here with two other team members and a pilot. Their names Daniel Faraday, Miles Straume, and Frank Lapidus. Your instinct was right, John. These people are a threat, and if you shoot me you'll never know how great a threat they were. Because I know what they're doing here. I know what they want.
212-->'''Sawyer:''' What do they want?
213-->'''Ben:''' Me, James, they want me.
214-->'''Locke:''' How do you know all this?
215-->'''Ben:''' Because I have a man on their boat.
216[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS04E03TheEconomist The Economist]]" (4x03)]]
217* Hurley plays his role in Team Locke's gambit to outmaneuver Sayid and Kate perfectly, tricking them into believing they had left him behind.
218* How does Sayid get Charlotte back from Locke's camp? Easy. He just [[RefugeInAudacity trades her for Miles]], and Lapidus turns out to be ok with it, since Miles is a {{Jerkass}} and [[HatedByAll nobody likes him anyway]].
219[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS04E04Eggtown Eggtown]]" (4x04)]]
220* Infuriated that Kate broke Miles out of captivity to meet with Ben, Locke decides to make clear to Miles that he will not tolerate any more scheming from him, by sticking a grenade in his mouth and pulling the pin, forcing him to bite down on it to stop it from blowing him up.
221-->'''Locke:''' Enjoy your breakfast.
222[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS04E06TheOtherWoman The Other Woman]]" (4x06)]]
223* Juliet's fight with Charlotte at the Tempest.
224[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS04E09TheShapeOfThingsToCome The Shape of Things to Come]]" (4x09)]]
225* We again confirm that Ben is a formidable physical threat as well as a [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] when he takes down two Arab soldiers with assault rifles within seconds, armed with nothing but a baton.
226-->'''Ben:''' Oh, so you ''do'' speak English!
227* The Monster's incredibly badass attack on Keamy's mercenaries, where it's larger, faster, deadlier, and just generally cooler than ever before. Not to mention the implication that Ben is capable of summoning it whenever he wants, but has been holding this back for a [[GodzillaThreshold truly dire situation]] such as this.
228* Ben and Widmore's confrontation in Widmore's hotel room, as Ben calls Widmore out for murdering Alex even when he tries to shift responsibility, and promises to have his revenge.
229[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS04E10SomethingNiceBackHome Something Nice Back Home]]" (4x10)]]
230* While ostensibly a Jack-centric episode, this is one continuous Episode of Awesome for Juliet Burke. With Jack incapacitated by his appendix and in desperate need of surgery, Juliet immediately steps into a leadership position and organizes the survivors to acquire medical supplies and create a safe operating environment... on the beach. Even though Jack shows that he doesn't trust her to perform the surgery, insisting on only local anesthetic and Kate holding up a mirror so that he can direct the surgery, Juliet has him knocked out with chloroform and ejects Kate, and completes the surgery. Then, having realized that Jack has feelings for Kate, she gracefully bows out of any "race" for Jack's affections, because damn it, she's not going to get trapped in any interminable LoveTriangle if she can help it.
231[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS04E12TheresNoPlaceLikeHomePart1 There's No Place Like Home, Part 1]]" (4x12)]]
232* In a flashforward, Sun confronts her father and tells him that she knows what he forced Jin to do so they could get married, and reveals that she used the Oceanic lawsuit settlement money to buy '''controlling shares''' in her father's company. As he's taking this in, she [[TranquilFury very coldly]] assures him she will do what she wants. The amount of barely-concealed rage in her voice and shown on her face is especially jarring.
233* Ben calmly walks towards Keamy and his men to bring them away and let Locke get into the Orchid. "[[Creator/MichaelGiacchino Of Mice and Ben]]", indeed.
234-->''"My name is Benjamin Linus. I believe you're looking for me."''
235[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS04E13And14TheresNoPlaceLikeHomePart2 There's No Place Like Home, Part 2]]" (4x13/14)]]
236* The survivors and the Others [[EnemyMine teaming up]] to take down Keamy's mercenary team.
237** It's very satisfying to see the Others' trademark brutality and ambush tactics directed against someone who deserves it rather than our heroes for once. Especially impressive is the way they take down the heavily armed and armored mercenaries mostly using primitive weapons like [[RockBeatsLaser slingshots and garrottes]].
238** Sayid vs Keamy. The show's two best trained soldiers duke it out in an absolutely brutal melee, with both men using [[CombatPragmatist any weapons they can get their hands on]]. Finally, Richard [[ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind comes to the rescue]] at the last moment, shooting Keamy twice in the back when he tries to choke Sayid with a branch.
239* Ben [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill stabbing Keamy repeatedly in the throat]] in the Season 4 finale.
240-->'''Locke:''' You just killed everyone on that boat.
241-->'''Ben:''' So?
242* Sawyer jumping off the helicopter in order to give the Oceanic Six the chance to make it to safety, one of the most truly selfless things Sawyer has ever done.
243[[/folder]]
244
245[[folder:Season 5]]
246[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS05E01BecauseYouLeft Because You Left]]" (5x01)]]
247* Sayid's fight with Widmore's assassins at the safe house. He throws one of them onto the stack of knives in his dishwasher, ''after being hit by a double dose of horse tranquilizer.''
248* Daniel figures out on the spot how to send a message to Desmond in the future by contacting his past self, and it works.
249* Richard nonchalantly strolling out of the jungle to save Locke after he gets shot by Ethan.
250[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS05E02TheLie The Lie]]" (5x02)]]
251* Locke's BigDamnHeroes moment, showing up just in time to save Sawyer and Juliet from the 1950s Others and finishing off the last one by throwing a knife into his chest.
252* Hurley turns himself into the cops and faces three counts of murder rather than go with Ben. Granted, this time he probably should have gone with him, but at this point it totally serves Ben right that someone completely refuses to believe a word he says.
253[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS05E03Jughead Jughead]]" (5x03)]]
254* Locke easily tracks the young Charles Widmore back to the Others' camp, despite Widmore dismissing him as an old man who couldn't possibly know the Island as well as him.
255* Daniel's quick thinking saves him and the rest of the science team, as he successfully poses as a member of the United States Military, and then uses his knowledge of the future to convince Ellie to bury the Jughead bomb.
256[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS05E06ThreeOneSix 316]]" (5x06)]]
257* Eloise Hawking succeeds in finding the Island where so many others, including the very wealthy and well-connected Charles Widmore, failed.
258* Hurley saves up to 78 lives in one fell swoop when he buys the remaining seats on the Ajira plane.
259[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS05E08LaFleur LaFleur]]" (5x08)]]
260* The way Sawyer steps up to become a leader for the survivors after Locke leaves the Island. He spins an elaborate story on the spot to Horace, convinces Richard to back off when it looks like DHARMA and the Others are about to go to war, and manages to get himself and the others jobs with the Initiative despite Horace telling him he wasn't DHARMA material. By the end of the three year TimeSkip, he's become so invaluable that he's DHARMA's new Head of Security.
261* Sawyer and Juliet saving Amy from the Others, in particular the BaitAndSwitchGunshot as it looks like one of them has gotten a shot in at Sawyer, only for it to turn out that Juliet has sniped him from the bushes.
262[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS05E09Namaste Namaste]]" (5x09)]]
263* Frank Lapidus proves he is an AcePilot once again by landing Ajira Flight 316 on Hydra Island.
264* Sun delivers a ShutUpHannibal to Ben via an oar to the skull.
265-->'''Lapidus:''' I thought you trusted this guy.\
266'''Sun:''' [[BorrowedCatchphrase I lied.]]
267[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS05E10HesOurYou He's Our You]]" (5x10)]]
268* Sayid shooting young Ben may have been a very dark moment for him, but there's no denying it was cathartic.
269-->''"You were right about me. I am a killer."''
270[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS05E11WhateverHappenedHappened Whatever Happened, Happened]]" (5x11)]]
271 * Ben's OhCrap face when he wakes up to see the very much alive John Locke smiling down at him at the end of the episode. It's not even negated by the fact that it later turns out to not really be Locke
272-->''"Hello Ben, welcome back to the land of the living."''
273[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS05E12DeadIsDead Dead is Dead]]" (5x12)]]
274* Ben blowing away Caesar mid-speech with his own shotgun. "Were you looking for this?" BLAM!
275* TheReveal of what happened between Desmond and Ben at the docks. The audience had been given plenty of reasons to fear for Desmond and Penny after seeing out of context scenes of Ben covered in blood and the ominous moment where he tells Sun to tell Desmond he's sorry if she ever sees him again. It turns out that when Ben tried to kill Penny, Desmond beat the crap out of him and tossed him off a dock, with only one arm, seconds after Ben shot him.
276* The Monster plays Ben like a fiddle in a way that only becomes obvious in retrospect. It takes the form of Ben's daughter, and viciously gets him to knock off his scheming against Locke and do whatever Locke says from now on. Only it later turns out both Alex and Locke were actually the Man in Black/Smoke Monster all along, so this was all just one big BatmanGambit by him, and it worked perfectly.
277[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS05E16And17TheIncident The Incident]]" (5x16/17)]]
278* Hurley again shows up to save the day in a DHARMA van, arriving just in time to rescue Jack and Sayid when they're caught in a shootout at the Barracks.
279* Sawyer beats the crap out of Jack when he refuses to stop his insane plan to detonate the Jughead bomb, and calls him out on his selfishness in trying to erase the past three years of everyone's lives and risking killing everybody on the Island just because he screwed up his own life and his relationship with Kate.
280-->''"Who the hell do you think you are?! You think you can come here and do whatever the hell you want? I had a life here!"''
281* The Man in Black pulls off an incredibly elaborate gambit to trick Ben into killing Jacob, after centuries of planning. He spends the entire season playing the show's biggest MagnificentBastard for a fool, and his plan comes off perfectly.
282* The shootout between the survivors and the DHARMA crew at the Swan site is a pretty kickass action sequence.
283* All seems lost as the plan to reset the timeline that the last three episodes have built to fails when the nuke doesn't go off. Except Juliet survives falling hundreds of feet, then uses every bit of strength remaining in her battered body to whack the thing with a rock until it goes off.
284-->''"Come on, you son of a bitch!"'' [fade to white]
285[[/folder]]
286
287[[folder:Season 6]]
288[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS06E01And02LAX LA X]]" (6x01/02)]]
289* "Locke" revealing himself as the Man in Black/Smoke Monster and killing Bram and his followers in seconds.
290-->'''Man in Black:''' [[WhamLine I'm sorry you had to see me like that.]]
291[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS06E03WhatKateDoes What Kate Does]]" (6x03)]]
292* After being MIA for the entire fifth season, Claire reintroduces herself by blowing away two Others with a high-powered rifle.
293[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS06E06Sundown Sundown]]" (6x06)]]
294* Sayid, following Dogen's instructions, stabs the Man in Black in the chest the moment he encounters him in the jungle... and he [[NoSell nonchalantly shrugs it off]], looking more puzzled than hurt. He then proceeds to recruit Sayid to be his new [[TheDragon Dragon]] in a matter of minutes, once again proving his ManipulativeBastard credentials.
295* Though the Man in Black's attack on the Temple is mostly NightmareFuel, it does a great job of selling just how dangerous he is.
296** First, Sayid kick-starts the invasion by drowning Dogen, whose power was the only thing keeping the Man in Black out of the Temple, before casually slitting Lennon's throat when [[TooDumbToLive he sticks around to yell at him instead of running away]]. It's another dark moment for Sayid, but given what unhelpful {{Jerkass}}es the two have been and the way they've treated him, it's hard to say they didn't have it coming.
297** The Man in Black enters the Temple in his Smoke Monster form, and massacres most of the Others, sending the rest into hiding within minutes. Meanwhile Claire calmly watches from the pit she's being kept prisoner in as he zooms overhead.
298** Afterwards, Claire, Sayid, and Kate walk through the destroyed Temple while a creepy DarkReprise of "Catch A Falling Star" plays.
299[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS06E07DrLinus Dr. Linus]]" (6x07)]]
300* After Richard asks for an assisted suicide, not being able to kill himself due to being touched by Jacob, Jack puts some pieces together and realizes there's a chance the same applies to him. He proceeds to test it by lighting some unstable dynamite and waiting along with Richard, all while asking him some good questions for once and also venting about having been manipulated into this for his whole life.
301-->'''Jack:''' I just came from a lighthouse...where my name was etched in wood on a dial...I turned a mirror that somehow reflected the image of the house I grew up in. Jacob's lighthouse. He got Hurley to bring me out there because he wanted me to see what was reflected in that mirror. For some reason he wanted me to know that he had been watching me ever since I was a kid.
302-->'''Richard:''' Why?
303-->'''Jack:''' I have no idea why. But I'm willing to bet you that if Jacob went to that trouble, that he brought me to this island for a reason, and it's not blow up sitting here with you right now.
304-->'''Richard:''' That's a pretty big risk you're taking Jack.
305-->'''Jack:''' Yes.
306-->'''Richard:''' What if you're wrong?
307-->'''Jack:''' I'm not.
308[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS06E08Recon Recon]]" (6x08)]]
309* Sawyer reveals his plan to play the Man in Black and Widmore against each other so he can steal the submarine and escape the Island.
310[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS06E09AbAeterno Ab Aeterno]]" (6x09)]]
311* Jacob kicks Richard's ass when the Man in Black tricks him into trying to kill him. For a guy who had, thus far, basically sat around doing nothing, that was pretty hardcore.
312-->'''Richard:''' I'm already dead.
313-->'''Jacob:''' ''[proceeds to drown Richard]''
314-->'''Richard:''' ''[between gasps]'' STOP!
315-->'''Jacob:''' Why should I stop?
316-->'''Richard:''' Because I want to live!
317-->'''Jacob:''' That's the smartest thing you've said so far.
318* Hurley passes on Isabella's last message to Richard. He has to stop the Man in Black from leaving the Island, because if he doesn't, "Todos nos vamos al infierno." Which, for non-spanish speakers, means "We all go to hell."
319[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS06E10ThePackage The Package]]" (6x10)]]
320* The Flash-sideways Jin scores one when, after spending a whole episode appearing to be much less of a badass than the regular version when it comes to violence, he disarms one of Keamy's thugs with efficient, precise martial arts moves before giving him a MoeGreeneSpecial. And not just any thug, but the very same Mikhail. Same eye, too.
321[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS06E13TheLastRecruit The Last Recruit]]" (6x13)]]
322* Flash-sideways Sawyer (or James Ford, as he became a cop instead of a con man) heads with his partner Miles to arrest Sayid. Sayid convinces his sister-in-law Nadia to stall Miles while he heads out the back door...but finds that Ford had anticipated this and had prepared a trap with the house's garden hose.
323[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS06E14TheCandidate The Candidate]]" (6x14)]]
324* The Man in Black proves himself to be immune to bullets and have ridiculously good aim, and kills at least 8 of Widmore's mooks, one of whom with his bare hands.
325* The Man in Black engineers the deaths of Sayid, Jin, and Sun, without being able to harm them, by tricking Jack into bringing a bomb on board the submarine, which Sawyer then tampers with to arm.
326-->'''Man in Black:''' [[WhamLine Trust me, you don't want to be on that sub.]]
327* Jack knocking the Man in Black into the water. As it turns out, it was part of the Man in Black's plan all along, but it still took some BrassBalls to attack an EldritchAbomination like that.
328-->'''Man in Black:''' Whoever told you that you needed to stay had no idea what he was talking about.
329-->'''Jack:''' ''John Locke'' told me I needed to stay. ''[pushes him into the water]''
330* Jack sees through the Man in Black's {{Batman Gambit}} to get all the candidates to kill each other. Shame that Sawyer didn't listen, but the fact remains that Jack saw through the plan of the same man who was able to make [[MagnificentBastard Ben Linus]] his Xanatos bitch.
331* Sayid's HeroicSacrifice, in which he helps to save as many of his friends as he can by running as far as he can while carrying a bomb doomed to detonate. Also, he manages to tell Jack where to find Desmond (confirming that he successfully lied to the Man in Black's face about killing him) and what he needs to do next to stand a chance in hell of defeating the Man in Black.
332[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS06E16WhatTheyDiedFor What They Died For]]" (6x16)]]
333* The Man in Black nonchalantly slits [[{{The Scrappy}} Zoe's]] throat after Widmore demonstrates how pointless she really was.
334* Ben finally gets his revenge on Widmore for Alex's death, shooting him dead despite the Man in Black needing information from him, which the Man in Black could well have decided to kill him for.
335-->'''Ben:''' He doesn't get to save his daughter.\
336'''The Man in Black:''' [[VillainRespect Ben...you never cease to amaze me.]] Fortunately, he had already told me what I needed to know. So, no harm done.\
337'''Ben:''' Good... Did you say there were some other people to kill?
338* Jacob gives the remaining survivors the opportunity to volunteer to replace him, and Jack says that he'll do it [[JumpedAtTheCall with barely a second's hesitation]]. After spending six seasons as the reluctant leader and sceptic, Jack no longer has any doubts about his destiny.
339-->'''Jack:''' I'll do it... This is why I’m here. This is... this is what I'm supposed to do.\
340'''Jacob:''' Is that a question, Jack?\
341'''Jack:''' No.\
342'''Jacob:''' Good... Then it's time.
343[[AC:"[[Recap/LostS06E17And18TheEnd The End]]" (6x17/18)]]
344* ''Rose'' fearlessly stands up to the Man in Black.
345* Jack gives the Man in Black a fantastic ShutUpHannibal speech:
346-->'''Jack:''' You're not John Locke, you disrespect his memory by wearing his face, but you are nothing like him. It turns out he was right about just about everything. I just wish I could have told him that when he was still alive.
347* The final fight between Jack and the Man in Black. Some of the other fight scenes may have been better through choreography or other aspects, but the final fight became pure, untainted awesome through location alone: on a collapsing cliffside during a thunder storm.
348** Kate's BigDamnHeroes moment as the Man in Black has Jack at his mercy:
349-->'''Kate:''' I saved you a bullet.
350* Kate was generally considered a CreatorsPet on this show, but give the woman credit: she went back to the island in order to bring Claire home, and that's exactly what she did. The moment she grabs Claire's hand in the Ajira as it takes off, the fact that her "awakening" in the Alt-Verse was delivering Aaron, and the fact that ultimately the character of Kate ''wasn't'' defined by her RomanticPlotTumour: that was pretty awesome.
351* Frank. After spending most of his time on the show just tagging along after everyone else, finally gets to FLY THAT PLANE OFF THAT ISLAND after using little more than spit and duct tape to put it back together as the runway is disintegrating beneath the plane's wheels. He really is [[AcePilot one hell of a pilot]].
352* After spending almost his whole life as a CosmicPlaything on-top of not being taken seriously by the other characters, Hurley becomes the new [[BigGood caretaker]] of The Island.
353* Locke getting the last line of the series: "We've been waiting for ya."
354[[/folder]]

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