History Lost / TropesUToZ

* WeAllLiveInAmerica: In one particular episode, a woman is on life support and her doctor says that she will be well looked after, the which the patient's sister comments that they can't pay for that. The issue: The hospital is in New South Wales, Australia, where Medicare (or the SIRA, given that it was the result of a car accident) would take care of the bills.

* VillainousExodusMotive: All The Man in Black wanted was to leave the Island.

** Partway through season four "Kevin Johnson", the janitor on the freighter, turns to the camera to reveal he's actually Michael in disguise.

* WhamEpisode:
** All of the {{Season Finale}}s count in their own way.
*** Season 1: The Hatch has finally been opened, but there's no discernible way in. Michael, Jin, Sawyer, and Walt are attacked by the Others, Walt is kidnapped, Sawyer is shot, and the raft is destroyed.
*** Season 2: Michael betrays the survivors and has Jack, Kate, and Sawyer captured. Locke and Desmond accidentally blow up the Hatch.
*** Season 3: The survivors manage to send a distress call despite [[spoiler:Charlie's]] death, [[spoiler:but the FlashForward reveals that while Jack and Kate managed to escape, Jack's convinced they need to return]].
*** Season 4: [[spoiler:The freighter explodes. Ben moves the Island. The Oceanic Six finally manage to escape the Island]].
*** Season 5: [[spoiler:The survivors in the past accidentally cause The Incident, setting the stage for the own plane crash 27 years later. In the present, Ben murders Jacob]].
*** Season 6: [[spoiler:The true nature of the flash sideways is revealed. Jack manages to kill the Man in Black, passing the title of Island Protector off to Hurley before dying. The survivors move on to the afterlife]].
** The Candidate: [[spoiler:The survivors are all candidates for the title of Protector of the Island, and Jacob has been monitoring and controlling their every move their entire lives. Jack takes on the role as Protector]].

** A non-bullet variant in the pilot. Jack initially refuses to remove the large piece of shrapnel stuck in the Marshall's stomach as he assumes rescue is coming and they'll be transferred to a sterile environment where the wound can be properly treated. After it becomes clear that help isn't coming, Jack removes the shrapnel and tries to treat the wound with the few antibiotics they were able to scrounge from the plane. It doesn't work and the Marshall is left in such pain the only option left is to [[MercyKill put him out of his misery]].

* WorldOfMysteries: The Island. Though some of its mysteries are resolved, many others (like Hurley's cursed numbers) are not; besides, in-universe, characters and organisations who devote themselves to unravelling the Island's mysteries '''always''' meet a bad end.

* YearZero: Season 2 Finale established that Oceanic 815 crashed and started the whole thing on September 22, 2004, the same day that ''The Pilot, Part 1'' episode was first aired and, you know, started the whole thing. Since then, fans were able to give all events of Seasons 1-4 an exact date based on the clues within the series. However, a TimeSkip followed and events on Seasons 5-6 can only be put down to the year they happen in, with no precise dating except in relation to each other.

%%* TheUnsolvedMystery: Several.

%%* WhamEpisode:
%%** The {{Season Finale}}s, with several in between.
%%** "The Candidate" is probably the biggest non-finale wham episode of the series.

%%* WorldOfBadass: The Island, and flash-sideways LA. %%(Not enough context in the entry.)%%

* YouFailLogicForever: Miles' in-universe response to Hurley's attempts to understand time travel paradoxes. Nevertheless, they talk about it long enough that Hurley brings up what Miles concedes is a valid point: [[spoiler: why didn't Ben remember Sayid as the guy who shot him when he was a kid when they 'met' for the first time in Season 2?]]
** Which is explained later that episode when [[spoiler: Richard tells Kate and Sawyer that Ben will have no memory of what happened.]]
** Not even though, because Ben [[spoiler: lived with Sawyer, Juliet, Jin and Miles for three whole years in the 70s]], and yet he does not remember any of them. There weren't THAT many people in the Initiative.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Richard. [[spoiler:After Jacob's death, he desperately wants to die himself because he thinks his work for Jacob was all for nothing, but he can't.]]
** But subverted in the very last episode. When Richard learns that he [[spoiler:finally ages, he tells Miles that he now realizes he wants to live after all.]]

* WithMyHandsTied: Sayid once killed an armed man ''with his ankles''.
* WindowLove: Kate and Jack through a glass barrier, in season 3.
* WomanScorned: Kate goes through this Jack after he gets addicted to pills and abandons her and Aaron. [[OfficialCouple She eventually forgives him, though.]]

* WorldOfBadass: The Island, and flash-sideways LA.

* AWizardDidIt: Kind of ends up [[spoiler: being the explanation for the entire show]]. Everytime something happens that obviously relies on too much heavy ContrivedCoincidence or just plainly [[MindScrew doesn't seem to make any sense]], just [[MST3KMantra relax]] and repeat "The Island did it".

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* ViewersAreGeniuses: You remember that cheeky shot of Ben reading {{Ulysses}}? Well, ''Lost'' might as well be called ''Intertextuality: The TV Show''. It '''does''' make sense, but if you want to understand it fully you better be prepared to do some Wikipedia legwork, because you're going to need a working knowledge of Hellenic and Buddhist philosophy, Jungian psychology, the principles of cultural clash and the process of "Othering", theories about the subjective nature of reality and the lack of absolute truth, et cetera, et cetera.