Comments on: Top Ten Lost Badasses

By: Allison

Allison — Sat, 12 May 2007 00:12:13 +0000

Also, there was something not quite human about Ethan Rom. I think he might have been a robot. Robots don’t count.

By: Allison

Allison — Sat, 12 May 2007 00:10:35 +0000

I think Eko is still more badass than Smoky. He faced it down, twice. And managed to piss it off enough that, yeah, it killed him dead the second time, but he was stoic and unrepentant to the end.

Kate is fairly badass too. I’d rank her about at Locke’s level, along with Sayid, who beyond being gifted at torture is crafty and an astute judge of character. Kate’s as good at the tracking/survival stuff as Locke, and remember when she and Sawyer went to rescue Carl? Sawyer hesitated, she knocked the guard out without a backwards glance. I think she’s only stupid/annoying when she’s around Jack. Who is an arrogant creep.

Jin’s tough, as is Desmond, but I’m not sure either could be called badass.

By: Ivan Wolfe

Ivan Wolfe — Fri, 11 May 2007 22:29:52 +0000

My top three:

1. Smokey the Magic Smoke Monster (takes out Eko. That’s badassssss to the max!)
2. Claire (giving birth on a desert island – that takes some serious butt kickery)
3. Kate (only unmarried female castaway to have sex and still be alive a few episodes later. Obvioulsy the island knows not to mess with her!)

Bottom Three:
1. Danielle (was the wife of the President of the Interstellar Alliance, and she gave it all up to go live on a desert island? LAME!)
2. Mikhail (Eyepatches are so 1990s! What – does he think he’s a pirate or something? What a wannabe.)
3. Bernard (makes henpecked husbands look good).

By: Brian G

Brian G — Fri, 11 May 2007 21:26:07 +0000

I’ve seen Hurley slap around a few people in the show. In fact, I think he flopped on top of Sawyer in one episode. It was very satisfying.

By: john scherer

john scherer — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:44:46 +0000

No mention of Hurley in the non-badass category?? I always thought he was the ultimate cupcake.

By: Floyd the Wonderdog

Floyd the Wonderdog — Fri, 11 May 2007 17:11:52 +0000

No mention of the monster/ mist/ dark cloud?
No reference to the Medusa spider?
The shark with the Dharma tatoo?
The polar bear?

How anthropocentric of you.

By: Brian V

Brian V — Fri, 11 May 2007 10:08:27 +0000

Yeah, I think Kate is an annoying, one-note character (though I think part of my problem is with the actress playing her), and I don’t really see her as all that bad. She’s also stupid, which doesn’t really help her case.

By: meems

meems — Fri, 11 May 2007 08:28:55 +0000

I s’pose.

But I think Kate works out of desperation, not some internal sense of butt-kicking-ethically-motivated behavior (well maybe when she killed her dad), which is sort of a requirement for the moniker. I mean, she’s no Linda Hamilton in T2, you know?

By: Brian G

Brian G — Fri, 11 May 2007 07:33:17 +0000

Lately, Kate has not done some butt-kicking, but if you go back to the episodes when she was robbing banks and killing her father and evading authorities you will realize she’s a badass.

Jin could take Sayid. He tortures people, that’s about it. He tortures women, and anyone who is capable of doing that is not such a badass after all, but a coward.

By: meems

meems — Fri, 11 May 2007 05:14:51 +0000

I don’t even really like Kate. What’s with the attraction?

Jin above Sayid?? I don’t think so.

You were right to leave Sawyer off the list. He’s really soft inside.

Ben rocks.