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#16. Penelope "Penny" Widmore


Contrasting with Keamy, who is probably the most unapologetically "bad" character on the show, we have the character who personifies "good" more than anyone else: Penny. Penny is one of many searching for the location of the Island; but unlike everyone else, her motivations are pure and are driven solely by the desire to find the man she loves and bring him home--not to use the Island for her own purposes.

And it's that relentless drive to find Desmond that makes Penny so likable. Her only real downside is that she has very little screentime compared to others on this list, the exception being in the hands-down best episode of the series "The Constant." If anything, that just goes to show you how fantastic that episode is--that we can be talking about a relatively minor character, by virtue of her involvement in that one 40 minutes of TV, as one of the better ones on the show.