Line #71 Characters/LostDharma


1	'''BEWARE OF SPOILERS.''' Due to the nature of the show with its many WalkingSpoiler characters, twists and turns, no spoilers are whited out so a page of pure white can be avoided.
2
3	!The DHARMA Initiative
4
5	[[foldercontrol]]
6
7	!Leadership
8
9	[[folder:Horace Goodspeed]]
10	!!Horace Goodspeed
11	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goodspeed_horace_2013.jpg]]
12	[[caption-width-right:250:''"[[NiceGuy Hey, welcome to the Island, man! Namaste.]]"'']]
13	->'''Played By:''' Creator/DougHutchison
14
15	The leader of the DHARMA Initiative on the Island and also worked as a Mathematician.
16	!!!Tropes
17	* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Following a fight with Amy, Horace gets drunk and starts setting off dynamite early in the morning.
18	* CharacterDeath: He dies in the Purge.
19	* DiesWideOpen: After being gassed during the Purge. Ben closes his eyes as a sign of respect.
20	* DrowningMySorrows: After finding out that Amy kept Paul's ankh, he argues with her and gets drunk as a result.
21	* ExtremeDoormat: Horace lets everyone walk right over him, especially Radzinsky.
22	* HippieTeacher: Only he's an administrator and has unruly subordinates.
23	* NiceGuy: He's a perfectly pleasant person, and the only Dharma member that Ben seems to have liked.
24	* NewAgeRetroHippie: Like many of the Dharma members.
25	* PosthumousCharacter: He was killed during the Purge, but appears frequently in flashbacks and the time-travel storyline in season 5.
26	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Pretty much the reason the far-less-reasonable Radzinsky usurped his position.
27	* SecondLove: For Amy, and he's very insecure about it.
28	* StupidBoss: He lacks authority or respect, and can't even lie convincingly. He also drunkenly starts blowing up trees after a fight with Amy.
29	[[/folder]]
30
31	[[folder:Radzinsky]]
32	!!Stuart Radzinsky
33	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/radzinsky_stuart_9845.jpg]]
34	[[caption-width-right:250:''"[[ForScience If Edison had been afraid of the consequences we'd still be sitting in the dark.]]"'']]
35	->'''Played By:''' Creator/EricLange
36
37	->''"I came to this Island to change the world, Pierre; that's exactly what I intend to do."''
38
39	A member of the DHARMA Initiative who worked at the Flame station in 1977 as Head of Research, enjoying a relatively high leadership position within the Initiative.
40	!!!Tropes
41	* ArcVillain: Radzinsky is the main villain of the Dharma Initiative arc during season 5.
42	* BaldOfEvil: He's bald on top with longer hair around the side of his head.
43	* BeardOfEvil: He has a full beard.
44	* BerserkButton: Don't threaten the Swan.
45	* BigBad: Of the season 5 Dharma arc.
46	* CharacterDeath: Radzinsky dies off-screen, blowing his brains out in the Swan Station according to Kelvin.
47	* ControlFreak: He's explicitly mentioned in his casting call as 'controlling'. Horace never truly has a leash on him, and Radzinsky swiftly takes charge when Horace tries to calm him one too many times.
48	-->'''Horace''': Hey. Hey! Stop! Damn it, stop. That is an order. I'm still in charge here.
49	-->'''Radzinsky''': No, you ''were'' in charge, Horace. But if we're gonna protect our people and all the work we're doing here, you don't have the stomach for what happens next.
50	* DrivenToSuicide: Some time after the Purge, but before Desmond's arrival on the island.
51	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Looks mildly shocked when Phil punches Juliet.
52	* FourEyesZeroSoul: He wears a set of thick, nerdy glasses but that doesn't make him harmless. He's an obsessive maniac who won't hesitate to kill.
53	* ForScience: His main reason behind wanting to build the Swan.
54	* HairTriggerTemper: Even the slightest disruption to his day is enough to send him into a rage.
55	* HotBlooded: It doesn't take much to have him reaching for his gun.
56	* {{Jerkass}}: Radzinsky is rude, short-tempered, bloodthirsty, needlessly sarcastic, overly controlling and paranoid.
57	* LaserGuidedKarma: Okay, Stu, you love your precious Swan station so much? How about you spend the rest of your life basically imprisoned inside it, in solitude, until you go insane and blow your brains out?
58	* PhotographicMemory: Part of what makes him such a genius, and how he was able to map out the lockdown mural.
59	* PosthumousCharacter: He blew his brains out in the Swan station long before the events of the series, but appears via time travel.
60	* TooDumbToLive: If your men start dying because of electro-magnetic energy, you should usually stop trying to release '''all''' of it.
61	* WellIntentionedExtremist: Like the rest of the Dharma Initiative, there are some noble intentions behind the lunacy.
62	[[/folder]]
63
64	[[folder:Pierre Chang]]
65	See [[Characters/LostMainOtherCharacters Main Other Characters]]
66	[[/folder]]
67
68	!Security
69
70	[[folder:Jim [=LaFleur=]]]
71	Alias of James 'Sawyer' Ford. See [[Characters/LostMainSurvivors Main Survivors]]
72	[[/folder]]
73
74	[[folder:Jin]]
75	See [[Characters/LostMainSurvivors Main Survivors]]
76	[[/folder]]
77
78	[[folder:Miles]]
79	See [[Characters/LostMainFreighter Main Freighter]]
80	[[/folder]]
81
82	[[folder:Phil]]
83	!!Phil
84	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/phil_9546.jpg]]
85	[[caption-width-right:250:''"[[{{Jerkass}} I'm gone ten minutes, and you're having a hootenanny?]]"'']]
86	->'''Played By:''' Creator/PatrickFischler
87
88	A member of the DHARMA Initiative who worked in security under the authority of James "Sawyer" Ford, who was using the alias of "Mister" [=LaFleur=].
89	!!!Tropes
90	* BigOlEyebrows: They're...very prominent.
91	* BoundAndGagged: By Sawyer after he comes to him about the video evidence.
92	* CharacterDeath: During the incident, flying magnetic poles shoot right through him.
93	* TheDragon: To Radzinsky, eventually.
94	* EvilIsPetty: He's a rules freak who chews out his co-workers for having a bit of fun on the job.
95	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: By flying magnetic poles!
96	* ItsPersonal: With Sawyer, after the whole [=LaFleur=] deception is revealed. Phil seems very angry that Sawyer BoundAndGagged him.
97	* {{Jerkass}}: He's usually in a bad mood, although from time to time he exhibits a little bit of niceness.
98	* PosthumousCharacter: Died many years prior to the start of the series proper.
99	* WouldHitAGirl: He strikes a tied-up Juliet hard enough to make her bleed, for the purposes of making Sawyer talk.
100	[[/folder]]
101
102	!Scientists
103
104	[[folder:Amy]]
105	!!Amy Goodspeed
106	->'''Played By:''' Creator/ReikoAylesworth
107
108	->'''Juliet''': Have you and Horace decided on a name?
109	->'''Amy''': Yeah, we have. [[WhamLine We're gonna name him Ethan.]]
110
111	A member of the DHARMA Initiative on the Island in the 1970s and was the first member of the Initiative to meet the time travelling survivors. She was the wife of Horace Goodspeed and the mother of Ethan Rom.
112	!!!Tropes
113	* CharacterDeath: WordOfGod is that she died in the Purge.
114	* HappilyMarried: To Paul, and later has a not-entirely-happy marriage with Horace.
115	* MamaBear: For Ethan.
116	* LadyMacbeth: In her few appearances, she proved to be ''much'' more bloodthirsty than her husband.
117	* PosthumousCharacter: Long dead before the events of the series begin.
118	* UglyGuyHotWife: She married somewhat below her station.
119	* WhamLine: The revelation that she's Ethan's mother.
120	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: According to WordOfGod, she died in the Purge.
121	[[/folder]]
122
123	[[folder:Lara Chang]]
124	!!Lara Chang
125	->'''Played By:''' Leslie Ishii
126
127	Pierre Chang's wife and the mother of Miles Straume. She was a member of the DHARMA Initiative and lived on the Island in the 1970s.
128	!!!Tropes
129	* CharacterDeath: Lara dies of cancer prior to the series.
130	* PosthumousCharacter: She's long dead of cancer by the time the series starts.
131	* TheTopicOfCancer: It isn't said explicitly, but it certainly looks like she's dying of cancer when Miles visits her.
132	[[/folder]]
133
134	!Motor Pool
135
136	[[folder:Juliet]]
137	See [[Characters/LostMainOthers Main Others]]
138	[[/folder]]
139
140	[[folder:Kate]]
141	See [[Characters/LostMainSurvivors Main Survivors]]
142	[[/folder]]
143
144	!Workmen
145
146	[[folder:Roger]]
147	!!Roger Linus
148	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/linus_roger_5976.jpg]]
149	[[caption-width-right:250:''"I thought I was gonna be the greatest father ever. You know? I guess it didn't work out that way."'']]
150	->'''Played By:''' Creator/JonGries
151
152	->''"[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Kinda hard to celebrate on the day you killed your mom. She was just seven months pregnant. We went for a hike, but you had to come early. Now, she's gone. And I'm stuck here on this island...with you.]]"''
153
154	The father of Benjamin Linus, whom he regularly abused, both verbally and possibly physically, and berated as a child. He was employed as a DHARMA Initiative "Workman," and his uniform featured the Swan station logo.
155	!!!Tropes
156	* AbusiveParent: To Ben, who he abuses verbally and physically.
157	* TheAlcoholic: After finding out he's to be a janitor for the Dharma Initiative, he begins drinking heavily.
158	* AlcoholicParent: Ben often comes home to find him passed out in an alcoholic stupor.
159	* AssholeVictim: While he does show a slightly more likeable side right before his death, he was still an abusive, self-pitying jerk, so it's hard to feel sympathetic when Ben gasses him to death.
160	* ButtMonkey: Things never do go very well for him; his beloved wife dies, he feels humiliated in his job, becomes an alcoholic and is eventually murdered by his son.
161	* CharacterDeath: Ben murders him with a poisonous gas canister during the Purge.
162	* DespairEventHorizon: After Emily's death, he falls into depression and self-loathing.
163	* DrowningMySorrows: For the rest of his life.
164	* HairTriggerTemper: He flies off the handle whenever Ben messes up even a little.
165	* HiddenDepths: In the flash-sideways, he's still bitter but treats Ben much better. In the timeline-actual, he has a little more complexity than most abusive parent characters. Sure, he's a bastard, but he knows he's a bastard. Roger seems to be stuck in a cycle of anger, despair, self-loathing and alcoholism. He is also very distressed and authentically worried when he finds out Ben got shot by Sayid. It's one of the few times where he actually acts like a real father.
166	* {{Jerkass}}: An abusive drunk who easily takes offence at harmless suggestions.
167	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: As bad as he was, he later seemed to genuinely regret how much of a bastard he'd been to Ben and tries to make amends. Unfortunately, Ben is burning his bridges at that point.
168	* KarmicDeath: Killed by the son he abused and tormented.
169	* PosthumousCharacter: He's first seen as a skeleton.
170	[[/folder]]
171
172	[[folder:Ben]]
173	See [[Characters/LostMainOthers Main Characters]]
174	[[/folder]]
175
176	[[folder:Jack]]
177	See [[Characters/LostMainSurvivors Main Survivors]]
178	[[/folder]]
179
180	!Other Personnel
181
182	[[folder:Kelvin]]
183	!!Kelvin Inman
184	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/inman_kelvin_9883.jpg]]
185	[[caption-width-right:250:''"[[JadedWashout Just savin' the world.]]"'']]
186	->'''Played By:''' Creator/ClancyBrown
187
188	->'''Desmond''': Why did you leave your army, Kelvin, huh?
189	->'''Inman''': Because men followed my orders.
190
191	A member of the U.S. Army and later the DHARMA Initiative. He manned the Swan station after his arrival on the island, originally with his partner Stuart Radzinsky, by himself for a time, and later with Desmond.
192	!!!Tropes
193	* BeardOfSorrow: Kelvin was deeply depressed and disillusioned during his time in the Swan station.
194	* CharacterDeath: Desmond tackles him in a rage, knocking his head against some rocks and killing him by accident.
195	* DeathByFallingOver: When Desmond tackles him, Kelvin hits his head on some rocks and dies.
196	* DrowningMySorrows: Inman deals with his sense of hopelessness by getting drunk in the Station.
197	* JadedWashout: By the time Desmond meets Kelvin, he's become a disillusioned and bitter man.
198	* {{Jerkass}}: He's pretty condescending and gets irritated when Desmond questions him.
199	* JustFollowingOrders: Implied to be part of the reason he became a JadedWashout.
200	* PosthumousCharacter: He's killed by Desmond, just a few minutes prior to the plane crash and thus the beginning of the series.
201	* ManipulativeBastard: Manages to convince Desmond to stay underground pushing a button, effectively stealing three years of his life so that he could repair a boat in secret. And he's also the one who drove Sayid to start torturing.
202	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Kelvin has become disillusioned with the button and decides to leave.
203	-->''"Screw the button, man. Who knows if it's even real?"''
204	* ShellShockedVeteran: He's haunted by his experiences during the Gulf War.
205	* SmallRoleBigImpact: He drives Sayid to become a torturer, and is therefore responsible for everything that leads to. His deception of Desmond causes the latter to leave the Swan at a critical moment, and this causes the crash of Flight 815.
206	* TemptingFate: He orders Desmond not to leave the Swan, right after learning he was kicked out of the army for disobeying orders.
207	* WhamLine: He reveals to Sayid in a single line that he speaks Arabic, meaning he was capable of performing the interrogation he made Sayid do.
208	[[/folder]]
209
210	[[folder:Annie]]
211	!!Annie
212	->'''Played By:''' Madeline Carroll
213
214	Ben's childhood friend on the Island.
215	----
216	* AbortedArc: Along with Alex, Darlton said that Annie was one of the two most significant women in Ben's life. They even said, "Annie is going to prove to be very significant in Ben's life" but she's never seen again. Michael Emerson, Ben's actor, expressed some disappointment they never returned to Annie's story.
217	* ChildhoodFriends: With Ben in the Dharma Initiative.
218	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: She was meant to be very important to Ben's story, but disappears entirely after a single episode. She was apparently evacuated with all the other Dharma children in 1977 and didn't return.
219	* OnlyFriend: To a young Ben, who wasn't exactly the most out-going of kids. Annie was the only person to befriend him.
220	[[/folder]]
221
222	[[folder:Oldham]]
223	!!Oldham
224	->'''Played By:''' Creator/WilliamSanderson
225
226	A chemist and DHARMA Initiative member who performed interrogations.
227	!!!Tropes
228	* TheAloner: Lives all the way on the outskirts, completely in isolation from the rest of the Dharma Initiative.
229	* ColdBloodedTorture: Oldham is given a good bit of build-up, so it's expected, but he uses a chemical mixture instead of physical torture. Traumatic, sure, but nothing compared to what Sayid's done.
230	* CreepyMonotone: Never raises his voice.
231	* TheDreaded: Sawyer is very wary of taking Sayid to him, referring to him as a psychopath.
232	* EvilCounterpart: To Sayid. Sawyer even remarks,''"'[[TitleDrop He's our you.]]"''
233	* FourEyesZeroSoul: He wears a big nerdy pair of glasses, and is widely considering to be a complete psychopath.
234	* SoftSpokenSadist: Maintains William Sanderson's soft Southern drawl even when interrogating prisoners.
235	* TortureTechnician: He's set up as this, but he doesn't use overly extreme methods and relies on a chemical mixture.
236	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's unknown whether [[spoiler:he died in the Purge]], defected to the Others or just left the island.
237	[[/folder]]
238
239	[[folder:Hurley]]
240	See [[Characters/LostMainSurvivors Main Survivors]]

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