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#9. Miles Straume


Miles is important to the show because he was really the one to take the sardonic comic mantle from Charlie at a time the series desperately needed some levity. But Miles is more than Charlie 2.0. While he has that same cheeky personality, he has a bit more edge to him. He's outwardly selfish--even through the imminent apocalypse, his main focus is Paulo and Nikki's diamond stash rather than the friends he's made over the past 3 years. And I really find that refreshing in a time when everything just gets so damn saccharine or so damn ridiculous.

Miles's backstory is interesting enough (and definitely more unique than even most of the main characters), but the real enjoyment of his character is how he elevates the others around him. He is the perfect partner for the roguish snark of Sawyer; he is one of the few who rightfully rolls his eyes at Locke and Jack; and his scenes with Hurley are some of the funniest in the series. My favorite line perhaps in the entire show is when someone asks if Hurley was able to track Jacob, and Miles says "Not unless he was covered in bacon grease." It's so incredibly rude but all the more enjoyable because we know that Hurley is one of his better friends on the Island.

Miles is just a great stand-out by looking at this sea of terrible personalities and deciding that he doesn't really need to care about anyone but himself.