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#12. Juliet Burke


And here we are! Coincidentally my 32-year-old self's choice for Hottest on the Island is also the best (main) female character on LOST. And I mean this as no insult to Juliet, who is great, but it is a sad state of affairs when the best female lead they could write isn't even in the top 10.

Juliet is kind of a slow burn. She's a bit of a bitch and very untrustworthy when we first meet her, and we're unsure if her ploy to get Jack to kill Ben is genuine or simply a power move. But Juliet's backstory really helps turn her into a true protagonist. She is basically a prisoner on the Island, trapped in a never-ending series of miscarriages and death. It's incredibly miserable and makes you want her to get home more than half of the Flight 815 folks.

But where Juliet really shines is in her relationship with Sawyer. In many ways, she is the anti-Kate--someone who makes her partner better, keeps them out of drama, can take care of herself, and generally doesn't fuck everything up. And given how badly the writers destroyed these kinds of self-reliant characters in season 6, her death in the first episode seems more like a mercy killing.