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1	Welcome to the Fridge section of ''Series/{{Lost}}''. It can be quite extensive due to the series' [[MindScrew complex nature]] and JigSawPuzzlePlot. Be wary, unmarked spoilers ahead. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.
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7	Love it or hate it, the show has a [[{{Pun}} fridge full]] of fridge brilliance.
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9	* In the Season 1 episode "White Rabbit" the Man in Black as Christian baits Jack (who is a candidate) into falling off a cliff, which conforms with the rules that he can only kill a candidate indirectly. He does the same thing with Hurley in "Dave", if you subscribe to the theory that Hurley's visions of Dave on the Island were the Man in Black and not just [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane ordinary hallucinations.]] Note that both Jack and Hurley became protectors of the Island in the end. Most of the Man in Black's plans work around complex traps, deceit and indirect manipulation (when he's not in smoke-form, anyway). He was observing the Losties since the moment they crashed, so he must have understood very early on that a number of the Losties were candidates and therefore couldn't be directly killed by him; apparently he decided that Jack seemed to be the most "obvious choice" in terms of a successor to Jacob and promptly tried to lure him to his death first in an uncharacteristically straightforward manner. At some point, the Man in Black obviously noticed the same dangerously redeeming potential in Hurley and also attempted to dispose of him by driving him to suicide. Both times, the Man in Black sensed a real threat; both times he abandoned his chessmaster tendencies to deal with the problem as swifly and directly as he could; and both times he turned out to be 100% correct.
10	* A story-within-a-story novel briefly featured on the show was released in print between Seasons 2 and 3 as part of Lost Experience ARG. Even though it was supposedly "written" by a character from the show and contained references to Alvar Hanso, Paik Industries and Widmore Corporation, it turned out to completely fictional even in the word of ''Lost'' and offered no valuable clues or hints whatsoever. Except one, prominently featured on the cover. The title of the novel is ''Bad Twin'' which, once FridgeBrilliance kicks in, pretty much sums one of the biggest twists of the Final Season and could explain much of what's going on if you knew what it ''actually'' meant.
11	* The apparitions of Christian Shephard in places where the Man in Black couldn't possibly be (on the freighter with Michael, off the island with Jack, in the distant past with Locke) appeared to be egregious plot holes, but make more sense if it's assumed that, at least some of the time, the apparitions were actually the soul of Christian Shephard himself and not the Man in Black.
12	* More theory than actual brilliance: One of the questions was why Locke and Ben wound up in Tunisia after they turned the donkey wheel. Well--Tunisia = part of the Roman Empire and home of Carthage. What if this is where the Man in Black and Jacob's mom was from, and this is the home MIB wanted to get back to?
13	* Ben is originally the show's resident MagnificentBastard. However he suffers a massive VillainousBSOD after his daughter is killed by Keamy, a mercenary hired by his enemy Charles Widmore, and again after he discovers he's been the UnwittingPawn to the Man in Black the whole time, and as a result suffers VillainDecay as well leading to his HeelFaceTurn. However at the end of the series he appears to pull a FaceHeelTurn by becoming TheDragon to the Man in Black and betraying Widmore before finally killing him, then seemingly agreeing to kill the remaining survivors for [=MiB=], and during this time [=MiB=] tells him about the boat he plans on using to escape the Island. However it's revealed that Ben was a FakeDefector who immediately returned to the survivor's side after [=MiB=] went to the heart of the Island without him and he saves Hurley from being crushed by a tree. While stuck under the tree, Ben tells Kate about MIB's boat in order to help them escape, but it's also likely that he knew MIB would be heading there too, and that the survivors, especially Kate, wanted to kill him to avenge the deaths of their friends on the sub. Sure enough, Kate shows up in the nick of time to stop [=MiB=] from killing Jack, which leads to the Man in Black's death. So not only did he outgambit his enemy who was at least partially responsible for his adopted daugther's death, but he also outgambits the SMOKE MONSTER, who had used him as a pawn for years, showing that even after pulling a HeelFaceTurn, he was still a MagnificentBastard.
14	* Taweret was the Egyptian goddess of childbirth and fertility. Juliet mentions that a man's sperm count on the Island is five times the normal amount. It's no wonder that the Egyptians would consider the Island an appropriate place to worship Taweret and build a statue of her, as they probably considered their higher fertility levels there to be a gift from her.
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18	* In early season 1, when Locke shows Walt backgammon, he states that the game is "Two players, two sides. One is light, one is dark." This pretty much summarizes the relationship between Jacob and his candidates and the Man in Black, way before the creators even thought of the conflict.
19	* The Monster's sound effects play while showing Locke in "Tabula Rasa", foreshadowing his encounter with the Monster in the following episode and that the Man in Black has big plans for him over the course of the series.
20	* After Rousseau kidnaps Aaron, Sayid explains her actions by pointing out that she's a mother who lost her child "just like Claire." In Season 6, after losing Aaron for three years, Claire has essentially become exactly like Rousseau, living wild in the jungle and making booby traps.
21	* This exchange basically foreshadows the final battle of the series:
22	-->'''Jack:''' If we survive this, if we survive tonight, we're gonna have a Locke problem. And I need to know that you got my back.
23	-->'''Kate:''' [[BigDamnHeroes I got your back.]]
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27	* The Swan has a film reel Orientation, the Pearl uses VHS. This is because the Electromagnetism abundant in the Swan would wipe a VHS tape.
28	* WordOfGod has heavily hinted that the apparitions of Walt that Shannon sees in Season 2 were actually the Man in Black. Although this contradicts the rule that he can only impersonate dead people, which the writers presumably [[{{Retcon}} hadn't thought of yet,]] it fits with the Man in Black being unable to kill candidates directly and having to rely on other means, as he lures Shannon to her death by causing her to run out into the jungle where she is mistakenly shot by Ana Lucia.
29	* It's never directly explained why the others needed Michael to bring Hurley, Kate, Sawyer and Jack to the others (except for needing Jack to operate on Ben). Then, in the penultimate episode of the series, 4 seasons later, those 4 characters are the remaining living candidates to replace Jacob.
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33	* The opening scene of Season 3 is a CallBack to the start of the Season 2 premiere. Both intially appear to be flashbacks to before the crash but are revealed to be taking place on a new area of the Island.
34	* Eko was killed by the Smoke Monster. Eko was therefore not a candidate. It seems harsh that Eko was killed in response to his declaration that he did what he had to do and was therefore not sorry. But what if Eko was a candidate until, in embracing his past, he made himself no longer a screwup, thereby dropping off the list of potential candidates and becoming killable by the monster? This suggests that MIB seeks consciously to invoke RedemptionEqualsDeath for candidates, which would also explain why he apparently appeared to Michael as Christian Shephard to tell him he could "go now" just before his death.
35	* "The Cost of Living" ends with a shot of Eko and Yemi as kids walking off into the sunset. Eko is absent from the Flash-Sideways because he already moved on. His time with Yemi before they were corrupted was his favorite part of the life, whereas everyone else was still incomplete.
36	* The events at the cabin in "The Man Behind the Curtain" make a lot more sense on a second viewing, when it becomes clear that at this point, the cabin was being used by the Man in Black rather than Jacob and after Ben's admission in "The Incident" that he didn't think there was anybody there and was just as surprised as Locke when chairs started flying around the room. Ben's plan was to go in and argue with an empty chair, pretend Locke was "too limited" to see Jacob and damage Locke and the rest of the Others' belief that Locke was special to secure his own place as the leader, as he was worried that Locke was getting too popular. The Man in Black took advantage of this to craft his own manipulation based on Ben's jealousy of Locke. He made objects fly around the room, confirming to Ben's surprise that Jacob apparently was in the cabin, and spoke to Locke but not Ben, causing Ben, who has never seen Jacob, to believe that Locke is special and ''he'' is the one who is "too limited". This is essentially a dry run for his plan to kill Jacob: get Ben to kill Locke, take on Locke's form to demand an audience with Jacob, and then convince Ben to kill him, and it almost works as Ben shoots Locke and leaves him for dead at the end of the episode. The only thing that prevented the plan working there and then were Ben not being thorough enough in killing Locke, coupled with Island magic/Walt (which may have been influenced by Jacob) saving him because he still had "work to do".
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40	* When Locke confronts the man in the cabin (he was the Man in Black posing as Christian and pretending to speak on Jacob's behalf), he claims "I'm here because I was chosen to be". Look at Christian/MIB right after that! He has to repress a grin and then gives John a BS approving face, stating "That's absolutely right" with a mocking light in his eyes. It looked weird back then if you noticed it, but now that we know what the MIB thought of Locke and what he was planning for him...
41	* At the end of "The Constant", Daniel finds a note in his journal saying that Desmond will be his constant if anything goes wrong. At first glance, this seems strange, since Daniel specifically states that a constant must be someone the person cares about, Desmond and Daniel aren't that close, and Desmond seemingly wasn't able to use Daniel as his constant despite meeting him in both time periods. However, Desmond is living proof that Daniel's time travel theories, which he has dedicated his entire life to, are true and he is not a crackpot. That's why Daniel cares enough about Desmond to use him as a constant.
42	* Sayid’s reaction to seeing Michael on the freighter is remarkably calm, considering Michael betrayed them, killed two of the Losties, and sold out four more of them to be potentially imprisoned. Except for the fact that Sayid of all people knows what it’s like to have to betray your forces and kill former allies to release someone you love from captivity. Sayid realized at some point that him and Michael are not so different, which is why he remained calm until he realized Michael also sabotaged the freighter.
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46	* How did 'the ancients' know that one spot in particular would be such an effective place to set up the infamous Frozen Donkey Wheel? Because Locke, Sawyer and the time-flashing assorted losties had brought the rope through time to be stuck in this spot, presumably to be found later [[FridgeHorror (along with Charlotte's body)]] by the people who built the well.
47	* When Locke is set to turn the Frozen Donkey Wheel, he asks Christian to help him up since he's broken his leg, but he refuses. On a first viewing, it seems there's some [[ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself vague mystical reason]] that Christian can't help, but once you know that Christian is really [[BigBad the Man in Black]], it's clear that he did it just [[ForTheEvulz to be a dick.]]
48	* Juliet was brought to the island to help the Others with the fertility issues. In the season five finale she damaged Jughead enough to cause the incident, [[WordOfGod which is strongly hinted]] to be the cause of the pregnancy issues in the first place.
49	* While the Man In Black is masquerading as John Locke the whole Season 5, almost all of his lines are actually truth, FromACertainPointOfView. One notable example is his statement that Jacob "made him the way he is", which at first seemed like a reference to Locke's apparent resurrection, but "Across the Sea" reveals it to actually be referencing the fact that Jacob was the one who turned him into the Smoke Monster.
50	* Kate is revealed to be a Universal Donor so she can donate blood to the young Ben after he's shot by Sayid, even though she never mentioned this when Jack needed someone to give blood to Boone back in Season 1. However, given that Charlie points out most members of the camp don't know their blood type, it's likely Kate was among them and was inspired to find out her blood type by this incident in case she ever needed to make an emergency donation.
51	* Juliet tells Sawyer in the season 5 finale that she's going to help Jack because "I changed my mind." At first, this seemed somewhat contrived and cheesy in a "Ha ha, women change their minds" kind of way. However, a major theme of the show is fate vs. free will, and free will seems in that episode to be a concern of Jacob's, and Juliet's first scene in the series is debating the existence of free will on the island, and she apparently dies at the end of the episode to allow the plan to succeed, so now that line seems like a mission statement.
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55	* The BigBad is trying to do what the heroes were trying to do back in seasons 1-4.
56	* In "LAX" Jack feels like he recognizes Desmond when he sees him on the plane, but doesn't have any reaction to Rose or Bernard. Desmond is the first person he remembers in the Flash-Sideways because he was the last person Jack saw before he died.
57	* Rose and Bernard exchanging "I missed you" isn't because he just came back to his seat; it's because they (always two of the most spiritually aware characters in the series) already realize they're in the afterlife, and they're reflecting on the time they had to be apart on the Island.
58	* If the Sideways is purgatory [[MindScrew or something]], then that may mean at some point in the main timeline, the keystone is removed again and the island is destroyed. [[MyGreatestFailure Hm, I wonder why Ben didn't want to move on..?]]
59	** Actually, this was a clever bit of {{Foreshadowing}}. As shown in ''Across the Sea'', the Source is where all life comes from. It only makes sense that, in Purgatory, there would be no life, thus no Source, and a sunken island (''L.A.X.'')... Quite the bit to take in.
60	* Several characters die in the Flash-Sideways. Though this might seem like FridgeHorror, as we're left to wonder if those characters are permanently trapped in their corpses in the afterlife or simply undergo CessationOfExistence, it turns into brilliance when you realise the only characters who suffer this fate are Keamy and his team, who were among the only characters in the series to be presented as irredeemably evil. Dying in the Flash-Sideways is ''Lost'''s version of Hell. Similarly, Anthony Cooper, another irredeemable bastard, is brain dead in purgatory. Thus he can't even ''think'' about moving on.
61	* The would-be adopted mother of Aaron in the flash-sideways was crying because her husband left her. He didn't leave her in the obvious sense; he left her because he moved on.
62	* Eloise Hawking, by refusing to let Desmond take Daniel with the rest of the cast out of the sideways world, is giving Daniel the life she didn't let him have when he was alive. He and Charlotte don't move on with everyone else because that way they get a chance to have a life together.
63	** Eloise's statement, asking Desmond not to take her son, has a double meaning. Not only does she mean physically take him... but if Desmond reminds Daniel he will remember that Eloise knew her entire life that if he went to the island he would die. And she still sent him there. His last moments on Earth were crying because she set him up to die. If Desmond reminds Daniel no amount of kindness she showed him in the alternate timeline will matter... he will know what she did when he was alive and never forgive her. Reminding him would ''take'' her son away and leave the child that hates her.
64	** Likewise, Ben chose to stay behind rather than move on with the Losties even after he discovered that he was in Purgatory and could remember his former life on the island -- he stated that he wasn't "ready" yet. Why not? Well, by deciding not to move on with the Losties, it allowed him to instead stay with Alex, supporting her as her tutor, as a father-figure and as a friend. He could watch her succeed and grow into the adult that she would have been if she'd been born away from the island with a normal life and a clean slate. Now that he could remember all the terrible things he did during his life, Ben still felt guilt over Alex's death; he chose to stay behind and see his adopted daughter achieve the future that she missed out on. He wasn't ready to lose her again. (There also seem to be some sparks between Ben and Danielle, suggesting that they are going to experience the other part of parenthood- having a partner with whom to raise their child. They don't meet until this point because, in the real world, Danielle missed the first 16 years of her daughter's life- now she's had equal time with her and is now ready to join Ben as co-parents.)
65	* Vincent lying down next to Jack in the final moments. At first you think it's just a cute scene and a reference to how they meet way back in the first episode. Then you realize later on that [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Jack, whom on the first episode has a speech about DyingAlone, doesn't have to die alone]]. Then [[TearJerker it gets very dusty...]]
66	* Jacob, and the other Island Protectors, were guarding The Source (represented by a big light). What is the last thing that happens in the sideways universe? Christian leads them ''into the light''.
67	* The Man in Black/Smoke Monster killed his adoptive mother, the crime which lead to Jacob throwing him into The Source and made him Smokey. He ended up being killed BY an adoptive mother himself, Kate.
68	* In "The End" MIB taunts Jack (as the new Protector of the island) saying that he seems like the "obvious choice". Jack throws this back at him by responding that no-one chose him, and he made the decision himself. MIB is very noticeably thrown by this, and with good reason; Jack is deciding his destiny for himself, rather than letting anyone choose him like Locke did, making him a real threat to MIB, whereas Locke was only a pawn who MIB could manipulate.
69	* At one point, Ben mentions to Jack how Juliet looks like Jack's ex-wife, Sarah. In the FlashSideways/purgatory Juliet is Jack's ex-wife instead of Sarah.
70	* More fridge brilliance in the DVD epilogue as Hurley and Ben pick up Walt saying he can help his father, then drive off leaving the audience hanging, but this probably explains why Michael and Walt were conspicuously missing from the Flash-sideways timeline and the church at the end.
71	* In "Ab Aeterno", Richard is sent to kill Jacob and Jacob beats the snot out of him. Then watch the last scene with Jacob, MIB, and Ben in season 5. The MIB certainly has had time to work out the kinks in the loophole. Jacob didn't resist when Ben tried to kill him, not only because he was hoping he was wrong about Ben, but also because escaping from the room would have meant revealing himself to his people, something he refuses to do. Thus, by trying to escape, he would have violated his own code of ethics.
72	* The differences in timeline of the flash-sideways represent what the characters believe they should have done. The things that aren't different represent the things that they believe were the right choices.
73	** Jack has a son that allows him to realize the hardships his own father went through with him. Also he and Juliet are AmicablyDivorced from each other, helping them both come to terms with their ugly divorces from their real lives.
74	** Kate [[AllThereInTheManual accidentally killed an employee of her biological father's instead of her biological father]].
75	** Sawyer is a cop instead of a con man. He also manages to let go of his need for revenge on Anthony Cooper instead of killing him.
76	** Eloise Hawking allowed her son Daniel to pursue his dream as a musician.
77	** Ben has a much better relationship with his father, and chooses Alex over power when he made the opposite decision on the Island.
78	** Desmond has Widmore's approval, and Widmore accepts that Desmond is a good man deserving of it, in sharp contrast to their previous antagonistic relationship. Widmore also gets to actually be a father to Daniel when he didn't get to in life.
79	** Hurley, instead of believing he's cursed, says he's the luckiest guy in the world. He has accepted his good fortune and accentuates the positive, not the negative.
80	* In the pilot, the cast was facing the camera and sitting in aisles of a plane while it was crashing. The tail end behind them ripped off, opening the plane to a harsh crash. Completely contrasted in "[[GrandFinale The End]]" in which the cast was facing the camera and sitting in aisles of a church. Christian opened the door behind them, letting in a white light and enabling them to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence. Talk about BookEnds.
81	* The series ends by having the main cast remembering everything important that happened in their lives (which was on the island with their TrueCompanions, accepting it, and [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence moving on]]. In a way this is what the creators are trying to tell their fans: you had this incredible journey with these people, but now it's over; just accept it and see what else is out there.
82	* Why wasn't Richard in the Flash-Sideways? It's because he was more than 100 years old when he met the losties. In his ideal life, his wife wouldn't have died in 1867, he never would have traveled to the island, and he would have died (naturally or otherwise) long before the losties were even born.
83	* Desmond's catchphrase: "see you in another life" always seemed irrelevant, meaningless and a strained attempt to connect the flashbacks with present-day happenings. Now in the final season, those words are ''literally true''. He ''is'' meeting everyone in another life!
84	** Jack also uses the catchphrase on Desmond in "The End", just before he dies. Once again, it is literally true.
85	* When Kate tells Jack that she had missed him so much, it seems like a throwaway line. But after the ending in which Jack dies protecting the Island and Kate flies away on the Ajira flight with Claire, it has become the beginning of the teary-eyed sequence that was the last half hour of the End. Of course, Kate would have missed Jack quite a bit as she probably died forty or so years after he did.
86	* Regarding Christian Shephard, by the end he behaves a lot like... a Christian Shepherd.
87	* In the episode "Across the Sea," Jacob and his brother's flashback episode, there is a character referred to only as "Mother." She is played by Allison Janney, the same actress who played C. J. Cregg on The West Wing, and she is not the kids' actual mother. C. J. stands for "Claudia Jean." The boys' real mother's name is Claudia.
88	* The job of good speculative fiction is to make some kind of statement about the human condition. Darlton's brilliance was to illustrate their statement using not just the show, ''but their fanbase''. What's their statement? That spending your life trying to find out the answers to the big questions is a disappointing and ultimately fruitless use of your time on this Earth: every answer will be disappointing, or will just lead to more questions, and that's assuming there actually ''is'' an answer. The value of a human life is in the connections we make, with family and friends and other human beings. Within the show, this is illustrated through the characters and their eventual fates. Compare Daniel (trying to unlock secrets of the universe) and Locke (determined to unravel the mysteries of the Island) to Kate (adopting Aaron), Sawyer (devoting himself to keeping the time-travelling Losties safe and getting everyone off the Island) and Jack (sacrificing himself to save everyone else). But the REAL brilliance is that this statement was even more perfectly illustrated by fan reactions to the GrandFinale. The fans who were only concerned with getting answers to the mysteries were disappointed and wound up regretting their time spent watching the show. The fans who were more concerned with the characters and their journey thought the finale was fantastic and moving.
89	* Sawyer's line to Juliet during their reunion in the flash-sideways, when they remember their lives, is just so brilliant, and [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments incredibly]] [[TearJerker moving]]. After they both remember that Sawyer couldn't save Juliet as she fell down the magnetic pit, he grabs her into a tight embrace and whispers, "I got you. I got you baby." Because he couldn't get her the first time.
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93	* A print-out at the soon to be closed warehouse shows the date it's printed on as "Wed 24-08-10". An earlier on-screen caption states that it's "the present day", therefore meaning 2010. However, 24 August 2010 was a Tuesday. According to ''The Lost Experience'' - which is considered canon - the DHARMA Initiative fell in 1987, meaning the computer would have dated to no later than then. As a result, it's not hard to imagine that it would have been affected by the Millennium Bug, causing the computer to think it was 1910. In 1910, 24 August fell on a Wednesday.
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98	* In episode 16, "Outlaws", one of Sawyer's flashbacks reveals that his mother ordered him under his bed so his father would think he was at his grandparents' house. After killing his wife, Sawyer's father enters his son's room and shoots himself. But why would he go there unless... Suddenly it seems Mrs. Ford made the right choice to have her son hide.
99	** This also makes the fact that Sawyer expends so much time and energy in the pursuit of Anthony Cooper, who he blames (rightly) for the death of his family, rather sad, considering that Mr. Ford had likely intended to kill Sawyer after he killed Mary Ford and before he killed himself. Sawyer was seemingly trying to avenge a man who was going to kill him as a child anyway. Then again, at least he got to avenge his mother too.
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103	* Ben's line "My mother taught me" is not exactly fridge ''horror'', but once you remember his backstory [[spoiler: of how his mother died giving birth to him, leading his father to blame him and berate and abuse him throughout his life, leading to him killing him during the purge]], it suddenly seems all the more bitter.
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107	* The FlashSideways was stated by Christian as a place where people unite with [[TrueCompanions the people who made their lives worth living]] in order to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence. Aaron reunited with Claire. He hadn't seen his mother since he was a baby. She was pregnant with him, and gave birth to him in the flash-sideways. So, unless baby Aaron is just some sort of placeholder, what kind of life (or lack there-of) did he have to think of this as the best part of his life?
108	* What will Alex say in the Flash-Sideways when she remembers how she died? Even if Ben does stick around to be the mentor and father-figure to her that he always wanted to be, it's going to take a long time before she forgives him for that.
109	* Jin declaring that he and Sun will never be apart again, and deciding to stay and die with her instead of saving himself may seem sweet and poignant... until you realize they've just orphaned their baby daughter.
110	* In Season 6, the main goal is to prevent the Man in Black from leaving the island. This seems smart at first, given that he's an invincible immortal mass-murderer and, at one point, Widmore even claims that the Man in Black's release will result in the end of the world. But then "Across the Sea" aired, which shows that the Mother was deadset on her son's not escaping even before he became a Smoke Monster. So basically, she's just trying to keep him on the Island because she's possessive and crazy. The only reason the Man in Black has been trapped this whole time and subsequently becomes a danger and a manipulative sociopath because his mother murdered all of the people he loved. All he ever wanted was a normal life, which his mother took from him.
111	* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': The ending of "The End" gives us a pretty bad bit of Fridge Horror: so we know Michael's spirit was trapped on the island, but there was a chance that maybe it was the power of the Man in Black or the same thing that acted as the source of his power that was keeping Micheal and the other ghosts there. But given that Michael was absent entirely from the flash-sideways universe, which we find out is purgatory, this means nothing that happened on the island in The End changed his fate, or that of the other souls trapped in the jungle. Poor Michael is still trapped on the island, long after his friends have moved on to the afterlife. The Epilogue mitigates this somewhat, since it's implied that the purpose for which Ben and Hurley bring Walt back to the Island is to help his father move on.
112	* Keamy, Omar, and Mikhail all died in the afterlife. What happens to them? Do they move on to their next Subsequent Life with the exception that it is truly a sideways translation, stagnating until they achieve the realizations required to pass into a more advanced Subsequent Life? Or are they just trapped in the Flash-Sideways forever, unable to move or think, as LaserGuidedKarma for their actions on Earth?
113	* Kate, Claire and Sawyer's reunions with Jack, Charlie and Juliet are very heartwarming, but the fact that their afterlife soulmates are the same people they were with on the Island who died decades before them may imply they never truly moved on with their lives or found love again.
114	* Jack's Flash-sideways son David disappears from the story with zero fanfare after Locke reminds Jack that he doesn't exist. So if he was a real person taking on a different form, what happened to him? If he was never real to begin with, what ''was'' he?

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