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* First episode: 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.
** It's also a CMOA for Evangeline Lilly. This was her first "real" acting gig.
* Jack: After Ben manipulates him into performing surgery on him, 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.
** Later on, when Jack punches Ben in the face.
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** Turning himself into the cops and facing 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.
** His beatdown of Sawyer after one too many fat jokes.
** Read this sentence slowly: Hurley threw a Hot Pocket at Benjamin Linus.
*** Ben's understated "did that just happen?" reaction to said pastry assault doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
** More of a subtle/time release one, but he {{spoiler|saves up to 78 lives in one fell swoop when he buys the remaining seats on the Ajira plane}}
* Charlie: A lot of his actions in the third season finale. He manages to be a general annoyance to the people holding him captive, and also [[Is That What He Told You?|reveals a few things Ben hasn't told them about the outside world]]. He figures out the code to shut down the blocking signal, and [[Heroic Sacrifice|as he dies]], manages to convey important information to Desmond.
** "And what will happen to you?" "Oh, I'll die."
* Sun gets two: In Season 5, she delivers a [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] to Ben via an oar to the skull.
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** Then in a Season 4 flashforward, she {{spoiler|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 '''all''' her father's holdings. As he's taking this in, she [[Tranquil Fury|very coldly]] fires him.}} The amount of barely-concealed rage in her voice and shown on her face is especially jarring.
* Jin: Chasing down and beating the crap out of Mikhail.
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*** Not just any thug, but the very same Mikhail. Same eye, too.
* Ben: Pretty much every appearance in the 4th season. But especially when he summoned the smoke monster to brutally attack the people who killed his daughter. There's also...
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** "''[[Papa Wolf|You killed]] [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|my daughter]]''!"
** And when we finally discover that he's a formidable physical threat as well as a [[Chessmaster]] when he takes down two Arab soldiers with assault rifles within seconds. And when told he's blown up the freighter due to killing Keamy, who had a detonator to the explosives on the ship hooked up to his heart, his only response is "So?"
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** ''There's no place like home'', part one, as Ben calmly walks towards Keamy and his men to bring them away and let Locke get into the station. ''Of Mice and Ben'', indeed.
** The moment in which Michael Emerson went from guest star to full-fledged cast member:
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** Michael Emerson's bone-chilling delivery of the line "He changed the rules," followed by ''Ben summoning the smoke monster to kill the mercenaries who had just murdered his daughter'' made for what is perhaps one of the best moments of the series.
* Desmond: Shooting Mikhail with a speargun.
** Better yet, Desmond points a flare gun at Mikhail:
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'''Mikhail:''' That's a flare gun.
'''Desmond:''' And how do you think it'll feel, taking a flare gun to the chest at this range? }}
** Beating the crap out of Ben and tossing him off a dock, seconds after being shot.
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** "Sawyer's my name, too."
*** And the way he inhumanly snarls "You wanna go to hell!?" while delivering the coup de grace.
** Also {{spoiler|jumping off the helicopter in order to give the Oceanic Six the chance to make it to safety--quite possibly the first truly selfless thing Sawyer has ever done}}.
** And killing Tom "for taking the kid off the raft."
*** Speaking of which, when he and Michael are on the remains of the raft, after having hauled Michael out of the water (shark infested no less) while having a bullet in him, he removes the bullet, ''with his bare, frakkin' hand!''
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** Although {{spoiler|that wasn't actually Locke.}}
* Heck, Locke had one of the series' first crowning moments of awesome in "Walkabout." Don't tell me what I can't do, indeed.
** Also, his smirk at the very end of the episode as he watches the wheelchair is one of the most badass smiles of the history of television. [http://lostchap.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/john-and-fire.jpg\]{{Dead link}}
* The Monster: Its incredibly [[Badass]] attack on the soldiers in ''The Shape of Things to Come'', where it's larger, faster, deadlier, and just generally cooler than ever before.
** Season five: The Monser {{spoiler|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.}} Awesome.
*** This is even better in retrospect. {{spoiler|both Alex and Locke were actually the Man in Black, so this was all just one big [[Kansas City Shuffle]] by him.}}
* Frank Lapidus {{spoiler|landing Ajira flight 316. Now THERE'S a pilot!}}
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** [[No Name Given|Esau]]/[[Fan Nickname|UnLocke]] reveals that in one fell swoop, he has been using ''both'' the series' [[Magnificent Bastard|Magnificent Bastards]] as [[Unwitting Pawn|Unwitting Pawns]].
* Dr. Chang gets a ''brilliant'' CMOA in season 5's "Follow The Leader".
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'''Hurley''': Dude, that's ridiculous.
'''Dr. Chang''': What year were you born? What year?
'''Hurley''': Uh... 1931?
'''Dr. Chang''': You're 46?
'''Hurley''': Yeah. Yes, I am.
'''Dr. Chang''': So you fought in the Korean War?
'''Hurley''': ...there's no such thing.
'''Dr. Chang''': Who's the President of the United States?
'''Hurley''': ... All right, dude, we're from the future. Sorry. }}
* All seems lost as the plan to erase the entire timeline that the whole second half of season five was leading up to fails as the nuke doesn't go off. Except Juliet survives falling dozens of feet, then uses every bit of strength remaining in her battered body to whack the thing with a rock until it goes off.
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** Juliet's first CMOA comes with a bullet and a distraction that allows Sawyer and Kate to escape: "Danny" BANG! This troper knew she'd be a main character immediately after that moment.
* A Crowning Moment for the filmmakers is the scene in which Jacob meets Locke for the first time. You know, the part where he's sitting calmly reading while ''Locke comes flying out of an eighth story window behind him.'' [[HSQ|Holy Shit]].
* After being MIA for the entire fifth season, Claire reintroduces herself by blowing away two Others with a high-powered rifle. Can you say [[Took a Level
** This troper believes Claire to now officially be the replacement for Rousseau.
* The Man in Black's attack on the Temple, killing most of the Others and sending the rest into hiding within minutes. And earlier that day, when he nonchalantly shrugged off Sayid's huge dagger to the chest and proceeded to recruit him with just a few sentences.
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** Nonchalantly slitting [[The Scrappy]] Zoe's throat after Widmore demonstrates how pointless she really was.
** Hell, right out of the gate in Season 6: {{spoiler|[[Wham! Line|"I'm sorry you had to see me like that.".]]}}
* In "Ab Aeterno," when Richard says aloud he's "changed his mind," meaning {{spoiler|he wants to side with the smoke monster/Locke monster,}} Hurley arrives and relays the words of Richard's deceased wife Isabella to Richard. While the scene is slow and more of a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], the real kicker comes at the end of Hurley and Richard's conversation. Hurley has a concerned look on his face and Richard asks if something's wrong. Hurley says Isabella has one more message. Richard has to stop the "man in black," AKA {{spoiler|the smoke monster/Locke monster}} from leaving the island, because if he doesn't, {{spoiler|"...''todos nos vamos al infierno.''" Which, for non-spanish speakers, means "We all go to hell."}} For this troper, that moment was so damn shocking yet a "holy crap, this is gonna get awesome" moment.
** Before that, the scene where {{spoiler|Jacob kicks Richard's ass}} was pure win. For a guy who had, thus far, basically sat around doing nothing, that was pretty hardcore.
*** And let's not forget the dialogue at that scene:
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Jacob: * proceeds to drown Richard*
Richard: * between gasps* STOP!
Jacob: What's that?
Richard: I want to live!
Jacob: That's the smartest thing you've said so far. }}
* Jack had one in "The Candidate":
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Jack: ''John Locke'' told me I needed to stay. (pushes Flocke into the water) }}
* ''Rose'' gets one in the finale by fearlessly standing up to Fake Locke.
* Another Rose one: "Jack, if you say 'Live Together, Die Alone', I'm going to punch you in the face."
* Kate in the finale:
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* That whole fight was pretty much made of win. This troper's favorite part was after seeing Jack jumping up and preparing to slam down on {{spoiler|Locke/MIB}}, then cut to commercial.
** 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. Awesome.
** Hell, it's Jack bringing his fists to a knife fight. If that isn't CMoA I don't know what is. But for me, {{spoiler|1=the CMoA of maybe the whole series is the final shot, where Jack dies in the same bamboo forest where he first landed. The entire shot is a reversal of the first shot ''of the entire series'', complete with Vincent, the shoe stuck to a tree, and finally, the famous eye shot as Jack dies and his eyes close.}}
*** You forgot part of it: {{spoiler|Jack gets fatally stabbed by the Man in Black during the fight, but still lasts long enough to say his tearful goodbyes to the ones leaving the Island, make it back to the Heart of the Island, make Hurley his replacement, drag Desmond out of the Heart and send him to safety, restore the Island, and then still manages to wander off to the bamboo forest and watch the others fly away before dying}}. To reiterate, he does all of the above while {{spoiler|bleeding to death from the large gaping wound in his stomach}}.
** ''We seriously cannot forget this part'': when Ben says that {{spoiler|Locke/MIB}} has a boat, then cut to a shot overlooking that boat, the very same person grinning that he'll finally get off the island. Then just after he starts climbing down, a soul-chillingly awesome 'LOCKE!!!' is heard, and Jack is standing there, a minor chord playing to accentuate his badassery. {{spoiler|Locke's/MIB's}} grin fades as he draws his knife... Jack sees this, but he's not afraid. In fact, his expression says '''"Bring it"'''.
* Really, the entire finale is a CMOA for Darlton, as well as screen-writing in general.
* Jack again:
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* Seriously, the finale gets one just for undoing all of the [[Badass Decay]] Jack had been suffering through and reminding us why we loved him in the first place.
* Kate was generally considered a [[Creator's Pet]] 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 [[Romantic Plot Tumour]]: that was pretty awesome.
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** Which is the last line of the series. Of course Locke had to get it.
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