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* HeroesWantRedheads: His love interest is Charlotte, after all.
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* TheTeam: Naomi - TheLeader; Miles - TheLancer; Faraday - TheSmartGuy[=/=]TheHero; Lapidus - TheBigGuy; Charlotte - CommunicationsOfficer.
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* NotQuiteDead: While no one explicitly comments on it, Frank appeared doomed after the explosion that sunk Widmore's submarine and killed Sayid, Jin, and Sun. The finale reveals that he managed to survive, clinging to a bit of flotsam from the wreck as floated in the water.

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* NotQuiteDead: While no one explicitly comments on it, Frank appeared doomed after the explosion that sunk Widmore's submarine and killed Sayid, Jin, and Sun. The finale reveals that he managed to survive, clinging to a bit of flotsam from the wreck as that floated in the water.
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* TheTeam: Naomi - TheLeader; Miles - TheLancer; Faraday - TheSmartGuy[=/=]TheHero; Lapidus - TheBigGuy; Charlotte - TheChick.

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* TheTeam: Naomi - TheLeader; Miles - TheLancer; Faraday - TheSmartGuy[=/=]TheHero; Lapidus - TheBigGuy; Charlotte - TheChick.CommunicationsOfficer.



-->'''Translator''': ''How many different languages do you have to read that in before you believe it's true?''
-->'''Charlotte''': ''How many different languages are there?''

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-->'''Translator''': ''How many different languages do you have to read that in before you believe it's true?''
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true?''\\
'''Charlotte''':
''How many different languages are there?''
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* DisappearedDad: His father,[[spoiler:Dr. Pierre Chang]], wasn't around when he was a child since he was on the island.

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* DisappearedDad: His father,[[spoiler:Dr.father, [[spoiler:Dr. Pierre Chang]], wasn't around when he was a child since he was on the island.
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* DisappearedDad: His father,[[spoiler: Dr. Pierre Chang]], wasn't around when he was a child since he was on the island.

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* DisappearedDad: His father,[[spoiler: Dr.father,[[spoiler:Dr. Pierre Chang]], wasn't around when he was a child since he was on the island.
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* HotScientist: Daniel and Sawyer most certainly recognize her hotness.
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A physicist and professor who parachuted onto the Island from a helicopter sent by the freighter Kahana. He was distinguished by his polite demeanor and his scientific insight into the Island's mysterious properties. He was the son of Eloise Hawking and Charles Widmore, who were both former leaders of the Others. Daniel spent his entire adult life studying space-time. His experiments with time travel debilitated his girlfriend and damaged his memory, forcing him to flee his Oxford professorship, but his illness was healed when he arrived on the Island.

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A physicist and professor who parachuted onto the Island from a helicopter sent by the freighter Kahana. He was distinguished by his polite demeanor and his scientific insight into the Island's mysterious properties. He was the son of Eloise Hawking and Charles Widmore, who were both former leaders of the Others.Others, and Penelope Widmore's half-brother. Daniel spent his entire adult life studying space-time. His experiments with time travel debilitated his girlfriend and damaged his memory, forcing him to flee his Oxford professorship, but his illness was healed when he arrived on the Island.

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* DwindlingParty: Naomi dies in the fourth season premiere, with Charlotte following around the halfway mark in Season 5, and Daniel meeting his end near the end of the same season, leaving only Miles and Frank. Subverted with Frank's [[NotQuiteDead apparent]] death in Season 6; despite poor odds, he manages to survive, and he and Miles make it to the end of the series.



* TheTeam: Naomi - TheLeader; Miles - TheLancer; Faraday - TheSmartGuy[=/=]TheHero; Lapidas - TheBigGuy; Charlotte - TheChick.

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* TheTeam: Naomi - TheLeader; Miles - TheLancer; Faraday - TheSmartGuy[=/=]TheHero; Lapidas Lapidus - TheBigGuy; Charlotte - TheChick.



* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Sawyer. It's more prominent in the flash sideways when they are partners on the police force. They also seem very close in the main timeline (enough for Miles to call him "Jim" in a friendly manner).

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* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Sawyer.Sawyer, after a few years working together. It's more prominent in the flash sideways when they are partners on the police force. They also seem very close in the main timeline (enough for Miles to call him "Jim" in a friendly manner).



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!!Frank J. Lapidus



* BunnyEarsLawyer: Frank may be an alcoholic ConspiracyTheorist, but he's an exceptional pilot, managing to land a helicopter, undamaged, on the Island during a storm.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Frank tries to deny Keamy a return to the Island on these grounds; the Freighter can't approach the Island on its own, so anyone who wants to get there would need to be flown by Frank, meaning that Keamy can't just kill him for refusing to fly his men back to the Island to kill everyone. Keamy gets around this issue by killing ''other'' people to force Frank's cooperation, which ultimately works.



-->''"Half the stuff he says goes way over my head, the other half goes way, way over."''

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-->''"Half the stuff he [Faraday] says goes way over my head, the other half goes way, way over."''



* NiceGuy: While a bit eccentric, Frank is a solid, dependable friend, willing to stand up to a raging [[SociopathicSoldier Keamy]] to protect innocent lives.
* NotQuiteDead: While no one explicitly comments on it, Frank appeared doomed after the explosion that sunk Widmore's submarine and killed Sayid, Jin, and Sun. The finale reveals that he managed to survive, clinging to a bit of flotsam from the wreck as floated in the water.



* SpotTheThread: Frank realizes that the supposed Flight 815 wreckage is a fake when he sees the pilot's body; having known Seth Norris for years, Frank knows that Seth never took off his wedding ring, and Seth's supposed corpse wasn't wearing one.



* DeathByIrony: Played for horror; Daniel is shot dead by his own mother while she is pregnant with him, and Daniel realizes as he dies that for his entire life, Eloise ''knew'' this would happen.



* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: The shy, polite, and soft-spoken Daniel is entirely the opposite of his ruthless and domineering father, Charles Widmore.



* MadScientist: His experiments in TimeTravel, while actually successful, killed all his animal test subjects because they had no concept of a constant. They also wrecked his memory and left his girlfriend Theresa permanently bedridden.

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* MadScientist: His experiments in TimeTravel, while actually successful, killed all his animal test subjects because they had no concept of a constant. They also wrecked his memory and left his girlfriend Theresa permanently bedridden. Lampshaded by Sawyer, who explicitly calls Daniel a mad scientist while convincing Juliet to stick around.



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!!Charlotte Staples Lewis


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* GoOutWithASmile: Played tragically; as Charlotte dies, she mentally flashes back to her first meeting with Daniel, and she dies innocently smiling as she says "I'm not allowed to have chocolate before dinner".
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* NiceHat: In the flash-sideways. Fun fact: the hat Daniel wore actually belongs to Jeremy Davies.

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* ChildProdigy: A child prodigy who cares only about science and graduated Oxford with a doctorate as a teenager.



* HollywoodNerd: A child prodigy who cares only about science and graduated Oxford with a doctorate as a teenager.

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* KidFromTheFuture: After travelling back in time to the 1970s he enrolls in the Dharma Initiative and ends up working alongside his parents for three years.



* TookALevelInBadass

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* %%* TookALevelInBadass
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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: In "316", when Jack realizes that Frank is the pilot of the Ajira flight and asks to see him, Frank's reaction is to greet Jack warmly without making much out of it. While he does wonder why Jack would be going to Guam, it's more in a casual way, thinking they're just making conversation. It's only as Frank's eyes drift off to the rest of the cabin and he spots the rest of the Oceanic Six onboard that he realizes things are not going to go according to plan and that the group is probably on their way back to the Island.

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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: In "316", when Jack realizes that Frank is the pilot of the Ajira flight and asks to see him, Frank's reaction is to greet Jack warmly without making much out of it. While he does wonder why Jack would be going to Guam, it's more in a casual way, thinking they're just making conversation. It's only as Frank's eyes drift off to the rest other areas of the cabin and he spots the rest of the Oceanic Six onboard that he realizes things are not going to go according to plan and that the group is probably on their way back to the Island.
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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: In "316", when Jack realizes that Frank is the pilot of the Ajira flight and asks to see him, Frank's reaction is to greet Jack warmly without making much out of it. While he does wonder why Jack would be going to Guam, it's more in a casual way, thinking they're just making conversation. It's only as Frank's eyes drift off to the rest of the cabin and he spots the rest of the Oceanic Six onboard that he realizes things are not going to go according to plan and that the group is probably on their way back to the Island.
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* BadassBeard: In Season 4.
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* PetTheDog: One from from his first flashback before he even showed his nicer qualities. Miles was hired by a woman to clear the spirit of her grandson from her home. At first Miles asks for twice his fee, but when when he finds money the grandson left in his room, he gives the extra half he asked for back to the woman.
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He starts out as this to the science team, to the extent that none of them care when Sayid trades him to Locke's group for Charlotte.
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* OnlySaneMan: Frank is the person closest to normal in perhaps the entire cast. [[MemeticMutation Weirdest damn funeral he's ever been to.]]

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* OnlySaneMan: OnlySaneByComparison: He's an alcoholic and a ConspiracyTheorist (although some of those conspiracies turned out to be correct), but Frank is still the person closest to normal in perhaps the entire cast. [[MemeticMutation Weirdest damn funeral he's ever been to.]]
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-->'''Frank''': Crash? The hell kind of pilot d'you think I am?

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-->'''Frank''': Crash? The hell kind of pilot d'you think I am?am? I put her down safe and sound right over there.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGoldJerkWithAHeartOfGold: He is extremely aggressive to almost everyone in the show. However, he has good intentions and doesn't mean anyone harm.
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* NiceGuy: He is kind and has a very polite demeanor. He is clearly disturbed whenever someone in the show is put in harms way.
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* {{Adorkable}}: For all his quirks, Daniel is well meaning, nice, and helpful whenever he can afford to be. His attempts to repair his fractured memory and test his time machine also show that he is positively giddy whenever he experiences positive developments.

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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: More low-key than most examples, but Daniel admits that he's in love with Charlotte when convincing Richard that he can be trusted to examine the hydrogen bomb.
* TheAtoner: In the last few episodes of Season 4, Daniel goes out of his way to show the survivors that he means well after their bad first impressions of the Freighter team.



* BrokenAce: A prodigy who excelled at basically anything he put his mind to. His passion for music was crushed at an early age by his mother, who insist that he become a physicist. He proceeded to become a physicist and genius scientist who eventually dabbles in time travel, but this leads him to have a rather miserable life that is ultimately cut short.

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* BrokenAce: A prodigy who excelled at basically anything he put his mind to. His passion for music was crushed at an early age by his mother, who insist insists that he become a physicist. He proceeded to become a genius-level physicist and genius scientist who eventually dabbles in time travel, but this leads him to have a rather miserable life that is ultimately cut short.short.
* CartwrightCurse: Both of the women he falls in love with end up tragically dying as a result of his actions.



* FlatWhat: To Daniel, after he watches her knock Kate out with the butt of her pistol.



* HotScientist: Daniel and Sawyer most certainly recognise her hotness.

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* HotScientist: Daniel and Sawyer most certainly recognise recognize her hotness.
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* BrokenAce: A prodigy who excelled at basically anything he put his mind to. His passion for music was crushed at an early age by his mother, who insist that he become a physicist. He proceeded to become a physicist and genius scientist who eventually dabbles in time travel, but this leads him to have a rather miserable life that is ultimately cut short.


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* TookALevelInBadass: During Season 5, when the time travel scenario begins. Daniel becomes more confident and begins to take a more active leadership role, challenging Sawyer, matching wits with Richard and eventually leading the mission to use the Jughead bomb to prevent the Incident and change everyone's future.
* UnwittingPawn: To his parents.
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* AntiHero/AntiVillain: For much of the fourth season, the survivors go back and forth on whether or not they can trust them. It turns out they can, but it's the other people on the freighter everyone has to worry about.

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* AntiHero/AntiVillain: AntiHero / AntiVillain: For much of the fourth season, the survivors go back and forth on whether or not they can trust them. It turns out they can, but it's the other people on the freighter everyone has to worry about.

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* AntiHero/AntiVillain
* TheDeterminator

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* AntiHero/AntiVillain
AntiHero/AntiVillain: For much of the fourth season, the survivors go back and forth on whether or not they can trust them. It turns out they can, but it's the other people on the freighter everyone has to worry about.
* TheDeterminatorTheDeterminator: All of them are very driven people, even Miles at times.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Save perhaps for Naomi, they all have selfish reasons for going to the Island. However, they all abandon the Freighter folk around the time Keamy and his associates show their true colors.



* HeelFaceTurn: We are initially given a very poor first impression of a few of them, but they ultimately become allies of the castaways.



* ScienceHero

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* ScienceHeroScienceHero: Daniel and Charlotte, at least.



* WellIntentionedExtremist

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* WellIntentionedExtremistWellIntentionedExtremist: Again, Daniel and Charlotte.

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