Top Ten Lost Characters

The best characters from the television series Lost.
The Top Ten
1 James 'Sawyer' Ford

Sawyer was the most in depth character. He had an emotional past that gives him purpose and a way to understand him, he is also a very sarcastic and hilarious guy. He in my opinion gives the best performance acting wise, and his character always knows how to spice things up when they are dull.

He is easily the best character! He has one of the two most tragic backstories (The other being Locke's) and is one of the coolest characters. He is such an a-hole and that's what you'd love about him. He is sarcastic and loves to give people nicknames. He won't let anyone push him around and I definitely ship him with Kate.

I admit I hated sawyer at the beginning of season 1 but he later started to grow on me. Without him the show would suck. He adds most of the humor and fun into the show. I'm happy he's at the top of this list. 1. Sawyer 2. Charlie 3. Kate 4. Locke 5. Claire 6. Jack 7. Sayid

2 Desmond Hume

Desmond is by far the most relatable, in a weird way. He's completely lost his mind, and holding onto the last straws of sanity. Everything seems to happen when he's not there, but because of his experience with the island he feels responsible for not seeing this twist coming. Most people would not be as collected as Sayid always is. Most of us would not be as confident as Sawyer. We would all react just like Desmond.

Definitely my favorite in the show. The episode where he first began to experience time travel while on the freighter was probably my favorite episode of the entire series.

Desmond brings a lot of emotions to the show. Desmond and Penny are the best couple in my opinion. All Desmond centric episodes are awesome. See you at the top of the list, brother.

3 John Locke

His character is the reason Lost is so great, and the performance is also amazing.
The list should go:
1. John Locke 2. Desmond Hume 3. Benjamin Linus 4. Charlie Pace 5. Sawyer Ford 6. Sayid Jarrah 7.Juliet Burke 8. Mr. Eko 9. Kate Austen 10. Jack Sheppard
Honorable mentions: Jack Sheppard, Jin Kwon, Sun Kwon, Michael Dawson, and Frank Lapidus.

By far the best character on lost. Shame no one listened to him he was always right when jack admits it in the last episode. It's some that Ben killed Locke as well. But he was a great character played by a good actor

I can't believe this wasn't on this list for this long, he should be number 1 or at least in the top 3 along with Benjamin Linus.

4 Sayid Jarrah

Sayid should be at the top of the list. Or, at least, in the top #5.
I love Charlie... but Sayid is one of the deepest character. He's smart, sensitive, caring, strong, determined and USEFUL, which is very important in this island. He's so UNDERRATED! He deserves to be way up, guys. Sayid won't play the guitar like Charlie does... but his storyline is way more interesting than Charlie's. Gotta love Sayid... I just wish everybody would love him more.

He's one of the most useful survivor on the island, and he's also one of the toughest guys there, and he also has one of the best stories in my opinion.

The most skilled character. Only he had the complete skillset to survive on the island. Too bad he ended up sacrificing himself to save his friends.

5 Charlie Pace Charlie Pace is a fictional character on ABC's Lost, a television series chronicling the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island.

Charlie the best! He stars in an x men movie which is cool and lord of the rings, also amazing. I'm pretty sure he only died because he had to film for the two towers which sucks. The whole story arch with the drug thing was good and his relationship with Claire is great. The only bad thing is how when he and Claire are together he's sometimes just kinda a jerk sometimes. Anyhow great character in a great show.

Charlie, the show's embodiment of how much one experience can change a person. We could sympathize with him because there was always something else for him to learn just as is the case with everyone else in real life. Above all, he was the bravest of the survivors and the way he faced danger made him so memorable and admirable. He was a rockstar and a hero in every sense.

Charlie is so cool and funny. I love his "sad" background and his addiction in drugs, and how he got over of it. I feel pity for him because first people thought that he was "just a kid"

6 Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes

4 8 15 16 23 42! He reminds me of me! We both are big, we both are superstitious, and we both have crazy hair! Laugh out loud.

I would never be able to watch this show without Hurly or James They are the best and add lots of comedy into the T.V. show

He's great, but sometimes there were scenes that made me annoyed.

7 Jack Shephard

The only truly selfless character of the show. He had a tragic past and upbringing, heroic disposition, but was also a complex and flawed enough character that we were always yearning for a resolution and happiness for him. He made mistakes but always made them for the right reasons (at least in the first few seasons), and wasn't afraid to stand up to characters like Sawyer and Locke, who many people seem to prefer but I find both more concerned with themselves than others (understandable considering what they went through and I still love them as characters), which ultimately makes me prefer Jack.

What the writers did with his character, and particularly his relationship with Kate, was in my opinion the worst mistake of the series, as well as the greatest missed opportunity; they took away his scepticism, his compassion and care for others, and his love for Kate; the old Jack would never have left her, or agreed to lying (for no reason) about the other survivors in the first place.

8 Benjamin Linus

He is so calm and nice. He is basically a gentleman. However, he is also secretly evil. Because of this, I am glad they kept him alive throughout the series. I'm glad they made him an antihero in the end.

He's so calm and nice while being so evil. Makes me wonder if the others are the good guys.

Sharp mind, cunning, lots of depth to his character. I found him very fascinating.

9 Kate Austen Katherine Anne "Kate" Austen is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost, played by Canadian actress Evangeline Lilly.

I don't get why people don't like Kate, she was a strong compelling female character and she had an interesting backstory, as well as interesting relationships with Sawyer and Jack.

She really pushed the envelope of how such a good person can get in the worst situation and then come out even better. She had such a big heart. She and Hugo are my faves...

All kate ever does on the island is help find trails and create love triangles, she is a useless and boring character, even shannon did more than kate!

10 Juliet Burke

I think it's fair to say the writers of LOST were great at fleshing out male characters, but not so great at writing female characters... But in my opinion, the best female character was easily Juliet. Her enigmatic character was often misleading, and the audience were never sure whether to trust her (or even like her! ) But through flashbacks, we came to realise that she was just like the other losties; trapped on the island against her will. She developed a great relationship with Sawyer... and then, well, we all know what happened...

She should be top five. Liked her from the very beginning. Shame they had to kill her of like that. But it was such a good way to leave the show. Shea the best female character of the show

Intelligent, beautiful, badass, and ultimately a truly good person. Elizabeth Mitchell was astounding and should have won an Emmy.

The Contenders
11 Mr. Eko

The most badass character of all. He had a very deep past and personality. He's also the only one who ever stood up to the Smoke Monster, and looked it right in the face.

Plenty of wonderful characters on the show, but Eko is hands down the best.

The hardest in the game.

12 Sun Kwon

Sun is such a diverse person. Her character development is great and her relationship with Jin is so meaningful. I love her, she's very likeable and when there is a scene with Sun, she shines brightly.

Sun was one of the most developed characters in the show! She's very underrated and deserves to be higher.

13 Jin-Soo Kwon

Jin is awesome. He comes across as a bit of a dick at first in the first few episodes but then we realize what he had to do and how he did the things he did for his wife.

I wanted to cap his knees when he was rude to sun in the first season. then I liked him after he owed up to his junk

One of the best characters. Should be number one.

14 Richard Alpert

He doesn't wear eyeliner like most people think, his lashes are just really long and dark.

He should be in the top ten because I know how hard it is to get the eyeliner off your face, he deserves it

15 Daniel Faraday

He's such a genius!

16 Boone Carlyle

I new Boone would be favorite character since that situation with the pen in the first episode. Without they would have never found the hatch. Too bad he died so early in the show.

Why did he die so early. He became one of my favorite immediately with how much I smile. I cried for a while the day I watched his death

Ian Somerhalder, enough said.

17 Miles Straume

Funny and witty, well developed character with a link the to island

18 Claire Littleton

She's kinda annoying I mean, honestly. I liked her in the beginning, she was hella chill and she seemed like? I don't know a nice throw into the whole characters with her pregnancy, you know? but then some wack stuff happened

Claire and Charlie are the two best characters.

Come on, 17? He should be higher!

19 Jacob
20 Man in Black

Once you go black you never... never go back baby

21 Ethan Rom
22 Penny Widmore

The constant, enough said.

23 Vincent

Every time Vincent was there. The moment on the show was made 100x better. Vincent Forever.

How is he so bad in this list? He should be at least in top 5. Damn it, he is a badass dog!

Vincent is smarter than everyone in lost.

24 Libby Smith

Libby is pretty good. Not in my top 15, or even 20 though. It was a bit useless to make a episode at the end where we find out she was in the mental hospital. Sad death though.

25 Frank Lapidus

How is he not #1, great looking, smart, and a pilot, yes Frank is the complete package.

Lapidus deserves to be in at least the top ten... ' Lapidus, man; he's pretty awesome.

Who the hell likes Ethan more than Frank Lapidus?

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