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** Even though his badassery was only [[Memetic Badass|memetic]], Richard Alpert could be said to have suffered from this, having spent most of season 6 in a state of [[Heroic BSOD]] instead of actually doing anything badass. It's made worse because he BSOD'd after the first time he ever really ran into trouble. Before that, he got by on just standing around and looking badass without ever actually doing anything.

* [[Bellisario's Maxim]]: Largely averted, due to the extreme amount of attention to detail and hidden clues. However, this often backfires, since fans attribute significance to ''every'' little detail, and minor things like getting the date of a real-world event wrong become central points of theories.

* [[Broken Base]]: ...Yes. And the finale too.

* [[Canon Sue]]: Many think this of Jack and Kate.

* [[Fan-Preferred Couple]]: {{spoiler|Sawyer and Juliet.}}

* [[Foe Yay]]: Tons between Ben and Locke.

* [[Growing the Beard]]: A lot of fans were hooked right from the outset but the fourth episode of the series "Walkabout" where we find out {{spoiler|Locke couldn't walk before the crash}} is the earliest episode to hint at deeper supernatural elements on the island and is remembered for having the series' first big plot twist.

* [[Hell Is That Noise]]: The clicking noise of the Monster when its travelling, just hearing it leads to so many an [[Oh Crap]] moment from the Losties when they realise its near.

* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Since almost the beginning of the show, viewers have {{spoiler|theorized, ''over and over'', that everyone died in the crash and the Island is Purgatory, even after repeated debunking}}. The final revelation of the series? {{spoiler|The ''flash-sideways timeline'' is Purgatory, or the next best thing -- though the Island and all the events that happened on and/or off it in normal continuity was all real.}}

* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Ben, {{spoiler|Jacob and the Man in Black}}.

** Also in a flash-sideways, Ben gets out-magnificent-bastarded (!) by the principal of the high school where he works.

* [[Memetic Badass]]: Lapidus, Richard.

* [[Memetic Mutation]]:

** Hugo throwing the Hot Pocket at Ben. "Hello Hugo." "HYAA!"

* [[Memetic Sex God]]: Lapidus, Richard.

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|The Man in Black tricking the main characters into activating his timebomb}}, resulting in the deaths of {{spoiler|Jin, Sun and Sayid}}.

* [[Narm Charm]]: One would argue that, Michael's repeated shoutings of "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALT!", given their justification, come off less narmful than anybody else in the same situation.

* [[The Producer Thinks of Everything]]: Despite a lot of the show's criticism claiming the contrary, anyone who actually watched the show through all 6 seasons knows that ''way'' too many things ''do'' add up for it to all be "made up as they go along".

** Even in the ''first couple of episodes'' there was Foreshadowing of the events of the last couple of seasons, including {{spoiler|the sounds of the Monster playing on the soundtrack during the final close-up of Locke at the end of "Tabula Rasa", and Locke's dialogue about backgammon in ''the very pilot'' ("a game played between two sides, one light, the other dark").}}

* [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]]: Jack's popularity within the fanbase significantly increased during seasons 5-6 and season 4's flashforwards.

** Kate had enough awesome moments in the [[Grand Finale]] to put her in this category.

* [[Special Effect Failure]]: Not common, but glaring when it happens.

* [[Stoic Woobie]]: Juliet was a brilliant fertility expert with an ex-husband who controlled her every move, and had a cancerous sister who she was helping. She came to the island because she was mislead into thinking she was going to conduct experiments for a scientific company in Oregon. She found out her duty on the island was to try to prevent pregnant women and their children from dying, and she [[Failure Is the Only Option|failed countless times]]. She then slowly became Ben's slave while her chances of leaving and seeing her sister became slimmer each year. Despite all these hardships she maintains a stoic demeanor, but [[Not So Stoic|when she slips]] you just want to give the girl a big fat hug.

* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: The fact that Walt has become a stereotypical urban black kid growing up without a dad is apparently the reason Harold Perrineau was not pleased with his character's fate.

** "The Candidate" {{spoiler|killed off three members of the cast in order to show how evil and serious the threat from MIB was. This has many people believing that the producers considered the non-white, foreign members of the cast to be "expendable". Even Jimmy Kimmel had to joke about it.}}

{{quote| "Widmore used to be important..."}}

* [[Wangst]]: Jack, though he gets significantly better in Seasons 5 and 6.

* [[The Woobie]]: Every. Single. Main. Cast. Member. Even the [[Big Bad]] during his [[Day in The Limelight]].

** Danielle Rousseau, arguably the most tragic character seen. {{spoiler|She was forced to kill her friends including the love of her life, had her baby taken away, spent 16 years as [[The Aloner]] going nuts, and when she was finally reunited with her daughter [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|she got]] [[Anyone Can Die|killed off]]}}.

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