Her har nettstedet IGN samlet en liste over de meste overraskede dødsfallene i løpet av Lost. Det er også mye spennende lesning rundt hvilken effekt de forskjellige dødsfallene har hatt på seriens.
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#10: Mr. Eko's Kills
Episodes: "The Other 48 Days," "The 23rd Psalm," "The Cost of Living"
We learned in flashbacks that Mr. Eko was the most murderous survivor of Flight 815 (well, that we know of so far), killing at least six people prior to arriving on the island, and killing two of the Others soon afterwards. This is part of what made Eko such as intriguing character -- he was a ruthless killer but became more and more religious on the island, from a vow of silence after killing the Others to building a church. The dichotomy of Mr. Eko was perhaps best demonstrated in the flashbacks in "The Cost of Living," wherein we see Eko standing up to a local warlord, killing him and his two gunmen, all with a machete in a church.
Mr. Eko's murders in his first flashback (in the episode "The 23rd Psalm") were perhaps his most shocking, as we didn't yet know he was a lifelong criminal, let alone a killer. We had seen Eko kill two Others with a rock in "The Other 48 Days" but in his first flashback, we first meet him as a child, as he pulls the trigger on an old man, in order to save his brother Yemi from having to do the same. And in the same episode, we see Mr. Eko slit the throats of two drug dealers after one insults him by saying, "You have no soul."
#9: Edward Mars
Episode: "Tabula Rasa"
Introduced in the pilot, US Marshall Edward Mars was soon revealed as the agent who was escorting Kate (as his prisoner) back to the United Sates, when Flight 815 crashed. Mars is badly injured in the crash by a piece of shrapnel, and Jack works hard in the first few episodes to keep him alive, despite not having any of the proper tools and resources.
While not a major character, Mars became the first survivor of the crash to die that the audience had spent any significant amount of time with, and flashbacks have continued to reveal that he is notably tied to Kate and her history. As for the events of his death, they were fairly horrific, as his cries of pain got worse and worse thanks to his injuries, causing Sawyer to decide to put Mars out of his misery.
Unfortunately, Sawyer completely screwed up, shooting Mars in the chest in a manner that didn't kill him off, and obviously made the situation even worse and more upsetting, as his anguish continued. Knowing nothing could be done that would save the man, Jack decided to more skillfully do what Sawyer had attempted, and threw Sawyer out of the tent they were keeping Mars in. Moments later, the awful cries stopped, and while we don't see the specific action Jack took to end Mars's life, it was clear the doctor has been forced to cross a line he never had before.
#8: Leslie Arzt
Episode: "Exodus Part 2"
Arzt, we hardly knew ye. But ninth grade science teacher Leslie Arzt's death was one of the most shocking and unexpected deaths in the series. Introduced in the first season episode "Born to Run," poor Arzt would meet his end in the season finale, "Exodus Part 2." When we first meet Arzt, he's using his science teacher skills to demonstrate to the fellow survivors that monsoon season is coming so a raft heading for rescue would need to leave immediately in order to be able to head north before the trade winds shift to the south.
When the castaways decided to blow up the hatch and retrieve some dynamite that Danielle Rousseau knew the location of, Arzt volunteered to go along, since he knew the chemistry and how to properly handle dynamite. Ironically, it was Arzt himself who accidentally triggered one of the old sticks of dynamite, exploding messily. This led to one of Hurley's best lines ever: "Dude, you got a little Arzt on you."
#7: Colleen
Episode: "The Glass Ballerina"
Colleen makes her first and only "living" appearance in the season three episode "The Glass Ballerina." During a heated confrontation between Sun and Colleen on Desmond's sailboat, Sun panics and fires a shot into Colleen's abdomen. Colleen is rushed back to Hydra Base where Jack attempts to save her life but it's too late. What follows is a very telling ritualistic funeral ceremony with the Others all dressed in white garb. They send Colleen out to sea in a Viking style funeral pyre to the soft tunes of "I Wonder" by Brenda Lee.
Soon after her death it is revealed that Danny Pickett was Colleen's husband. Danny's rage gets the better of him and he takes his frustrations out on Sawyer who he repeatedly beats and eventually attempts to kill.
#6: Yemi
Episode: "The 23rd Psalm"
Of the survivors from Oceanic Flight 815 that landed on the other side of the island, away from the main party which Lost surrounds, was a man known only as Mr. Eko. As you get to know him through his back-stories more and more, you learn of his brother, Yemi, who was a Catholic priest in their homeland of Nigeria. It seems that Mr. Eko saved his younger brother, Yemi, from the grasps of Nigerian militants when they were younger, and as a result ended up living a life of crime while Yemi went on to become a man of the cloth.
However, Eko and Yemi get caught up in a web of lies and deceit with one another. Eko, a well-known criminal in their Nigerian locale, bribes his brother to make him a priest so that he can illegally ship heroin to places where the drug is in demand under the guise of missionary work. In return, drug money is given to Yemi so that he can use it to better his church and his economically-struggling community. The plane in which the drugs were to be shipped is the very plane that Boone and Locke find in the jungle, the one that ends up taking Boone's life upon its decent from the treetops and cliff it hangs on to the ground below. Nonetheless, events around the plane also end up taking Yemi's life, who is shot by the Nigerian army in an attempt to shield his brother from their bullets after ratting them out on their illegal activities.
Ironically, Yemi plays a major role in dreams and visions back on the island, even though he's theoretically been dead for the duration of the real-time events in Lost. In fact, he is the last "person" his brother Eko sees before Eko is slain by the island's black clouded "monster."
#5: Shannon
Episode: "Abandoned"
Starting off as the most annoying character on the show, it took quite a while for fans to warm up to Shannon. With a complicated back-story and sympathetic flashbacks we were able to see that she was more than she originally appeared. This may have been what attracted her stepbrother Boone and fellow survivor Sayid into falling in love with her. But as things started to get better for her, she began seeing visions in the forest (of Walt), and was thought to be going crazy. As it would turn out, it didn't matter whether Walt was real or an apparition as Ana-Lucia would mistakenly shoot her before we could get an answer.
Thanks to the good people at ABC, the promo for this episode and the commercials leading up to it did everything possible to hint at who was going to die. This may have lessened the overall effect of the death for most of the hardcore audience, but new fans of the series getting into the show a little late (maybe enjoying it on DVD), will be shocked by the decision to kill off Shannon - as her character just became likable and her relationship with Sayid was taken to the next level. So, between the chaotic situation leading up to the death and the fact that she was shot by Ana-Lucia, we firmly believe that Shannon's death may be one of the most shocking and unexpected deaths so far on Lost.
#4: Boone
Episode: "Do No Harm"
In the first season of Lost, we got to know a character named Boone Carlyle fairly well, and chances are you came to really like him. He was often seen trying to help individual survivors of the crash out in various ways, and attempted to contribute to the survival of the group as a whole, unlike his "sister" Shannon (who actually ends up being his step-sister). He even risks his own life trying to save a fellow passenger from drowning, only needing to be saved by Jack when he himself nearly drowns.
However, things change when Boone makes a connection with fellow castaway Locke in order that they may hunt and catch boar together to feed the group of remaining survivors. That connection turns into a friendship of secrecy that unveils the original "hatch" and, ultimately, the DHARMA Initiative. Things begin to unravel from there, and Boone ends up one of the island's very first casualties, something Locke described as "a sacrifice the island demanded."
Locke and Boone find a plane in the jungle that ends up being connected to Mr. Eko and his brother, Yemi, during one of their pseudo-hunts (though, chronologically, you wouldn't know that when first seeing the events unfold). This plane was a drug smuggling plane that somehow ended up crashing on the island. Locke's ability to walk on the island free of his mysterious paralysis seems to have been taken away temporarily at this point, necessitating Boone's ascent to the plane's location in the canopy above. However, after finding the drug-filled Virgin Mary statues and a radio that actually works (he communicates with the other survivors of the crash), the plane falls to the ground below, mortally wounding Boone. Locke originally keeps the real cause of Boone's injury a secret, as he watches his young friend die soon after his accident.
#3: Ethan Rom
Episode: "Homecoming"
In the first season, the Others sent one of their own, Ethan Rom (whose name was even an anagram for the "Other Man"), to spy on the survivors from the front section of Flight 815. Infiltrating the group as a survivor, Ethan was able to fit in until Hurley made a census - showing that Ethan was never on the flight manifest. Upon being discovered as an 'Other,' Ethan abducted Claire and Charlie, for reasons still unknown. The fallout of this situation had an angry Charlie (who can blame him, he was left for dead) shooting Ethan before the rest of the survivors could question him.
While Ethan Rom was not a "good guy," his death was still very significant to the show. His death wasn't so much significant because of the fact that it was Charlie who shot him, but more so because he was the only person on the show up to that point that could have given any information about what is happening on the island. In effect, by killing off Ethan the writers were given plenty of time to string us, the viewing public, along as to who the Others are and what their true intentions may be… making Ethan's death the most frustrating death so far on Lost.
#2: Ana-Lucia & Libby
Episode: "Two for the Road"
Yes, Ana Lucia & Libby are technically two Lost deaths but considering they were killed within seconds of each other we decided to bundle them up into one morbid package.
Introduced at the start of season two, both characters had an immediate impact on the series as part of the new group of "tailies." They even had their own flashback episodes and love interests. Suddenly, that all came to an unexpected end in "Two for the Road." Michael shoots both Ana-Lucia and Libby in order to free Ben and eventually be reunited with his son Walt.
Why kill both characters? Some believe that it may have something to do with the two actresses' DUI (Driving Under the Influence) charges that they received weeks earlier. Even Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who portrayed Mr. Eko, left the series soon after he was arrested for driving without a license. Of course, the show's producers have dismissed this theory. Now that Ana-Lucia, Libby and Mr. Eko have departed… we can only fear for poor Bernard.
#1: Mr. Eko
Episode: "The Cost of Living"
Some of the many fans of Mr. Eko were no doubt watching his final episode, "The Cost of Living" with a sense of dread. After all, the commercials had already announced that someone was dying that week, and Mr. Eko was the subject of the flashbacks on "The Cost of Living"; going by the history of Shannon and Ana-Lucia, if there's a major death, there's a good chance that person gets a flashback episode as a swan song.
But before that week, it was hard to imagine Mr. Eko could be going so soon. Introduced in season two as one of "the tailies" -- the group of survivors who'd been in the tail end of the plane when it crashed -- Eko quickly became a standout on the series and evolved into a fan favorite, with his combination of toughness and calm demeanor. While Ana-Lucia and Libby's deaths were genuinely shocking, Eko was clearly the best and most interesting of the tailies, and it was gratifying to see him evolve into what seemed to be a major character, who would continue on well past his ill-fated fellow tailies.
However, as we all know now, that wasn't the case, as Eko instead met his maker just a few episodes after Ana-Lucia and Libby. Eko had seen the mysterious smoke monster before, but his second encounter would prove much more dire, as the smoke monster showed much more direct aggression and action than we'd ever seen from it, grabbing Eko and physically smashed him against the trees repeatedly, before slamming him to the ground in a final death blow.
Locke said Eko's final words were a warning that the rest of the survivors were next, which doesn't bode well for any of them. One thing is for sure; Eko's death proved that the unexplained smoke monster was something that those on the island very much needed to fear and be on guard against. We're just sorry it took the demise of such a cool and interesting character in order to get that message across.
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