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#22. Charles Widmore
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Ah, Widmore. On one hand, he is an amazing supervillain who exhumed hundreds of bodies to stage the Flight 815 crash. On the other hand, he is an incompetent boob who hires geologists to stage a military coup on a magic island. To say he is an inconsistent presence on LOST is an understatement.

At the end of the day, Widmore really just wants to regain control of the Island. And he is a pretty solid bad guy when that's all it is. But digging further, it becomes readily apparent that he is quite underdeveloped. Why exactly does he care about being the top boss on some primordial rock, especially when he is presumably a billionaire in the "real world"? We're given almost no backstory for him other than the fact that he was in the military, and later became the leader of the Hostiles. We know little about his desires, his motivations other than "me want Island again."

And you know what? It's serviceable enough. Like all too many characters on this list, he'd probably rank a tad higher if not for season 6, in which he comes to one of the most hilariously underwhelming and forgettable ends of anyone on the show, let alone one of the primary antagonists.