The main characters in Lost have killed many other people over the course of the show. Many kills were cases of self defense and the defense of others either individually or in combat. Many were murder. Of those, some are premeditated, some are spur of the moment; some are manslaughter. At least one, that of US Marshal Edward Mars, was euthanasia.
Main Character | Off the Island | On the Island | Kill Count | Notes | |
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Man in Black |
N/A |
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47 | Orchestrated the death of Jacob. ("The Incident, Part 1") Attempted to murder the entire group of Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Sayid, Hurley, Jin, Sun and Frank. ("The Candidate") | |
Sayid Jarrah |
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17 | Attempted to kill young Ben. ("He's Our You") Sayid was also in the army, part of a firing squad and participated in a morally questionable Basra Incident. ("Outlaws") ("One of Us") | |
Benjamin Linus |
8 | Attempted to kill Desmond and Penny. ("Dead Is Dead") Ben's birth killed his mother, Emily Linus. ("The Man Behind the Curtain") He also caused the Kahana explosion, which killed Michael, Jeff, Hendricks and three survivors. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 3") | |||
Mr. Eko |
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8 | ||
Jack Shephard |
No known kills |
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6 | Attempted to kill Locke. ("The Beginning of the End") Gave Libby a lethal overdose of heroin to help her pass away comfortably. ("?") | |
Charles Widmore |
No known kills |
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6 | ||
James Ford |
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5 | Attempted to euthanize Edward Mars, but shot him in his lung rather than the heart. Also buried Nikki and Paulo alive and caused the submarine explosion that killed Sayid, Sun, Jin, the Sub captain and one of Widmore's men. ("Exposé") ("The Candidate") | |
Mikhail Bakunin |
No known kills | 5 | Mikhail may have killed off island, during his time in the Soviet Army. ("Enter 77") | ||
Claire Littleton |
No known kills |
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4 | Claire attempted to kill Kate. ("Recon") Although a main character since Season 1, Claire's first on-screen murder was shown in the last season, Season 6. | |
Ana Lucia Cortez |
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4 | |||
Martin Keamy |
No known kills |
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4 | It is possible he was the one to kill Danielle or Karl, or both, since their shooters were concealed in the jungle. ("Meet Kevin Johnson") | |
Juliet Burke |
No known kills |
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3 | ||
Kate Austen |
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3 | |||
Danielle Rousseau |
No known kills | 3 | |||
Jin-Soo Kwon |
No known kills | 2 | |||
Michael Dawson |
No known kills |
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2 | Shot himself once and tried to shoot himself again. | |
John Locke |
No known kills | 2 | |||
Bernard Nadler |
No known kills |
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2 | ||
Charlie Pace |
No known kills |
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1 | ||
Hugo Reyes |
No known kills | 1 | He also buried Nikki and Paulo alive. ("Exposé") Hurley also blamed himself for a collapsing deck accident that killed two people. | ||
Eloise Hawking |
No known kills | 1 | |||
Desmond Hume |
No known kills |
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~252 | Desmond also caused the crash of Oceanic 815. ("Live Together, Die Alone, Part 2") | |
Richard Alpert |
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No known kills | 1 | Attempted to kill Keamy. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2") | |
Sun-Hwa Kwon |
No known kills | 1 | Attempted to kill Ben. ("This Place Is Death") | ||
Paulo |
No known kills | 1 | He allowed Nikki to be paralysed by a spider, which eventually led to her being buried alive. ("Exposé") | ||
Goodwin Stanhope |
No known kills | 1 | Attacked and attempted to kill Ana Lucia. ("The Other 48 Days") | ||
Roger Linus |
No known kills | 1 | |||
Jacob |
No known kills | 1 | Assaulted Alpert, when he tried to kill him on MiB's behalf. ("Ab Aeterno") | ||
Ethan Rom |
No known kills | 1 | Shot Locke, ("Because You Left") and later, after infiltrating the survivors, kidnapped Charlie and battled Jack, Kate, Sayid, Sawyer and Locke. | ||
Charlotte Lewis |
No known kills | No known kills | 0 | Aimed a gun at Kate. ("The Other Woman") | |
Daniel Faraday |
No known kills | No known kills | 0 | He was involved in a gun fight at the DHARMA Barracks. Aimed a gun at Richard. ("The Variable") | |
Ilana Verdansky |
No known kills | No known kills | 0 | Ilana pointed a gun at Sayid ("He's Our You"), Frank Lapidus ("Dead Is Dead") and The Man in Black ("LA X, Parts 1 & 2") on different occasions. She almost killed Ben as revenge for Jacob's murder, but eventually had a change of heart ("Dr. Linus") ("He's Our You") ("Dead Is Dead") ("LA X, Part 2") ("Recon") | |
Miles Straume |
No known kills | No known kills | 0 | Aimed a gun at Jack. ("Confirmed Dead") | |
Shannon Rutherford |
No known kills | No known kills | 0 | Attempted to kill Locke. ("The Greater Good") | |
Nikki Fernandez |
No known kills | No known kills | 0 | She paralysed Paulo, which then led to him being buried alive. ("Exposé") |