Irony

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The fugitive marries a police officer ("I Do")

In literature and film, irony is defined as:

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A technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated.

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In Lost, a number of points of cosmic irony occur, in which fate appears to be playing a cruel joke on some of the characters (some know it as "poetic justice"). This article lists some of these examples, but is by no means a comprehensive list.

Occurrences

Every Season

The Others held kidnappings to improve people's lives but do not hesitate to kill anyone that impedes to achieve their goals.
- Ethan kidnapped Claire to try to save her from death but killed Scott and almost killed Charlie to do that.
- The Others kidnapped several Tailies so they had a better life but ordered that Goodwin kill Nathan.
- The Others kidnapped Alex, who was given a home, but wanted to kill her boyfriend Karl.
- In an act where he protects the Island, Mikhail kills Bea Klugh.
- So that Jack could complete the surgery, Juliet did not hesitate to kill Danny Pickett.
- Ben chose to kill many people to operate their plans, among them Jin, Sayid, Bernard, Charlie, Greta and Bonnie.
The DHARMA Initiative was conducting research on the Island that could help prevent the end of the world, outlined by Alvar Hanso in the Sri Lanka Video. However, their experiments in The Swan accidentally tapped into an electromagnetic phenomenon which had the power to destroy the world.

Season 1

Kate's fugitive status as yet unknown, is voted to carry the gun because she is the most trustworthy. ("Tabula Rasa")
Kate, who is 'born to run', crashes on the Island where she has nowhere to run. ("Tabula Rasa")
Locke was denied the right to go on an "authentic aboriginal walkabout tour", only to land on the Island and engage in a similar experience. ("Walkabout")
Jack joins Rose on the beach, who reintroduces himself by saying: "I'm the guy who told you not to worry about the turbulence." ("Walkabout")
Boone tried to save Joanna Miller who was drowning. He almost drowns and she died. Boone has been saving lives and she practiced swimming. ("White Rabbit")
Sayid was a torturer in Iraq, left the survivors' camp out of shame for torturing Sawyer, and then was tortured by Danielle Rousseau. ("Solitary")
Claire boarded a plane in order to give up her baby, only to be stranded on an island where she has no choice but to raise it as her own. ("Raised by Another")
Charlie sung "Itsy Bitsy Spider" to Aaron when he couldn't calm Aaron's crying. He incorrectly sung the lyrics as "...Down came the rain and drowned the spider out," while Charlie happens to later die himself of drowning. (Could the spider climb up the spout again in Season 6?) ("The Greater Good") ("Through the Looking Glass")
When Shannon is worried about Boone, Kate consoles her by saying, "If there's anyone on this island that your brother's safe with, it's Locke." It is ultimately Locke who leads Boone to his death. ("All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues") ("Deus Ex Machina")
Walt tells Sawyer "it's stupid to lie about your name", talking about Ethan. Sawyer has been lying about his name for years. ("All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues")
Christian Shephard says to Sawyer: "These bastards think Americans can't hold their liquor." He dies soon after of a massive heart attack most likely triggered by alcohol abuse. ("Outlaws")
Jin agreed to work for Mr. Paik in order to keep Sun, only to have the work that he was doing for him be a factor that was driving them apart. ("...In Translation")
Jin spent much of his life being ashamed of being the son of a fisherman, only to find that fishing is what makes him a valuable provider on the Island. ("...In Translation")
Michael built the raft in order to get Walt off the Island, even though Walt was secretly the one who wanted least to leave. ("...In Translation")
After winning the lottery, Hurley's grandfather died, lightning struck the priest at his funeral, his brother Diego's wife left him for a woman, his new home caught fire, his mother broke her ankle before seeing the new home, and Hurley was wrongly arrested as a drug dealer. ("Numbers")
Hurley won millions in the Mega Lotto Jackpot, and ended up on the Island, where money has no value. ("Numbers")
When Boone tells Locke that he should see Jack about his failing legs, Locke says that "Jack wouldn't know the first things about what's wrong with [him]". As a spinal surgeon, Jack would be the most qualified person on the island to understand Locke's back injury. ("Deus Ex Machina")
Locke told Boone the captain on Star Trek was "piss-poor" because his redshirt-wearing men always died on missions. Later Boone died because of a mission Locke requested Boone help him complete. ("All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues") ("Deus Ex Machina")
Boone survived one plane crash to only die in another one less than a month later. ("Deus Ex Machina")
Danielle spent 16 years lamenting that the Others kidnapped her child, only to turn into a baby kidnapper after she finds out about Aaron. ("Exodus, Part 1")
Arzt was annoyed that he was never included on A-Missions, although he died in the course of his first one. ("Exodus, Part 2")
Arzt professed to be an expert on dynamite and gave a lecture on how unstable it is, just before it blew him up. ("Exodus, Part 2")
Charlie finally makes a conscious effort to quit heroin, only to find a plane full of it, and in Virgin Mary statues, when Charlie is a Catholic). ("Exodus, Part 2")
Hurley is told that it is "his lucky day" by one of the flight attendants, which is ironic considering his situation with luck and what was to come next. ("Exodus, Part 2")

Season 2

Despite the fact that the raft had been traveling for a day and half at night, the currents still carry Michael and Sawyer back to the Island, the place they were hoping to escape from, and the place that they now wish to return to, in order to rescue Walt. ("Adrift")
Locke escaped a life of sitting at a cubicle, only to end up a slave to 'the button' in the Swan. ("Walkabout") ("Adrift")
On meeting, both the Losties (Sawyer, Jin and Michael) and the Tailies believe the other party to be "The Others". ("Orientation")
Hurley struggled with an eating disorder, and is put in charge of all the DHARMA food in the Swan. Finally was on his way to beating said disorder, only to have more food drop from the sky. ("Everybody Hates Hugo") ("Dave")
Rose tells Hurley that her husband Bernard has a mouth full of "sweet teeth", referring to his fondness of candy. We later find out that Bernard is actually a dentist. ("Everybody Hates Hugo")
Sun loses her wedding ring as Eko asks Jin about his. ("...And Found")
Jin originally bumped into Sun because he was looking away from her at another woman in orange, who Tai Soo had warned him would signal his true love. ("...And Found")
Rose told Hurley, when speaking of Shannon: "Poor thing, it can't be easy losing the one person you love on the Island." She said this even though her husband was missing and Hurley presumed him to be dead. ("Abandoned")
Shannon was told she can start a new life on the Island, only to have Ana Lucia shoot and kill her soon after. ("Abandoned")
Sayid claimed to be able to tell if anybody was lying, but didn't believe Shannon saw Walt, which ultimately led to her death. ("Collision")
Sawyer tells Jack he loves Kate. Kate and Jack kiss minutes later. ("What Kate Did")
Jin spent all of his marriage telling Sun what to do. Now the roles are reversed. ("The Hunting Party")
Jack tells his wife the truth about the kiss between him and an another woman, thinking that a bit of honesty might help an already failing marriage. Jack indeed says that he will "fix this". On the contrary, his wife was cheating on him all along, and she is ultimately the one who leaves him. ("The Hunting Party")
Locke was the one who helped Charlie stay off the drugs, but is ultimately the one who gets Charlie to re-enter drug addiction (the plane, Claire,...). ("The Hunting Party")
Charlie refuses to give Ana Lucia the gun because the last time she used one, she murdered someone. However, this is also true for Charlie, as, excluding "Exodus, Part 1" where he did not use his gun, he murdered Ethan the last time he handled a gun. ("The Whole Truth")
Libby claimed to be a psychologist, and helped people through mental health issues, but she herself was a patient at Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute. ("Dave")
While on their honeymoon, Rose tells Bernard that she would have rather have it spent on a beach than in the Australian desert. They crash on the Island on their way home from Australia only to be separated from each other for the first month and a half. ("S.O.S.")
Bernard made the biggest push to build the SOS sign and bring them all salvation, only to later find that he has the most to lose in Rose if they leave. ("S.O.S.")
Jack tells Kate he invited her on his mission to find the Others and propose a trade because the Others do not want Kate or Jack. Jack and Kate are two characters who the Others do want, and who are on the list that Bea later gives to Michael. ("S.O.S.")
Ana Lucia killed a man for killing her unborn child, and is later killed by a man trying to save his child. ("Collision") ("Two for the Road")
Ana Lucia survived being strangled by Ben, only to be shot my Michael later that same day. ("Two for the Road")
Eko saves Yemi's life by taking his place in a criminal gang, and as adults, Yemi tries to save Eko's soul, asking him to confess instead of running drugs. Ironically, it is Yemi who is killed by the military troops he reported Eko to, while Eko is mistaken for Yemi, allowing him to take Yemi's place and assume the life of a priest. Earlier in the episode, Yemi had said Eko could never be a priest. ("The 23rd Psalm")
Hurley was indirectly responsible for his love interest's death, Libby, as he was the one who forgot the blankets. ("Two for the Road")
Libby gave Desmond The Elizabeth, but misses his reappearance back on the Island in the boat one day after being murdered. ("Three Minutes")
Desmond was imprisoned in Southway Garrison for something involving a cowardly act, but ended up being a hero on the Island for turning the fail-safe key. ("Live Together, Die Alone")
Locke began the season as the person most determined to push the button, and ended it as the one least likely to. ("Live Together, Die Alone")

Season 3

Jack is imprisoned by Ben, whom he imprisoned only a short time before. ("A Tale of Two Cities")
Jin was sent to kill Jae Lee, who, unbeknown to him, was having an affair with his wife and decided to spare him, only to see him land on his car in an apparent suicide. ("The Glass Ballerina")
Locke worked for a farm growing drugs, only to help Charlie overcome his drug addiction on the Island. ("Further Instructions") ("The Moth")
Sawyer was a con man who Ben fooled in the pacemaker con. ("Every Man for Himself")
Jack is a spinal surgeon who lands on an island where he can save someone he despises with a tumor in his spine. ("The Cost of Living")
Kate was a fugitive from the law, and married a police officer. ("I Do")
Juliet makes a dark joke to Richard Alpert that the only way she could leave Edmund Burke's laboratory is if a bus ran him over. Later on, he is mid-sentence with her, when he steps into the middle of the street and a bus with an Apollo Candy ad on its side runs over him. ("Not in Portland")
Charlie is performing the Oasis song Wonderwall when Desmond sees him on the street, and singing the line "Maybe... you're gonna be the one that saves me..." Desmond saves everyone on the Island, and maybe everyone in the world, by turning the fail-safe key in the Swan. He also saves Charlie several times.
In the same scene when Desmond starts ranting about knowing Charlie, Charlie says "This is why we don't do drugs." Later on, Charlie becomes a heroin addict. ("Flashes Before Your Eyes")
Achara states that Chet likes Jack in the restaurant, but Chet later beats up Jack. ("Stranger in a Strange Land")
A lucky rabbit's foot is attached to the DHARMA Van key Hurley finds. ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead")
David Reyes tells his son just before he leaves for Australia that it is never too late for a fresh start. Moreover, when Hurley is leaving for Australia, his father tells him he is going to wait for him when he comes back. ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead")
The last thing David Reyes says to Hurley as a child is It's only one candy bar, Hugo, live a little. The first thing he says to Hurley when he returns 17 years later is Wow, your mom wasn't kidding about those candy bars. ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead")
One of the stations' name is The Flame. It ultimately blows up in flames. ("Enter 77")
Mikhail was extremely reverent of Him, but the philosopher from which he derives his name would have been indifferent. Philosopher Mikhail Bakunin rejected all forms of authority, even God himself. ("Par Avion")
Locke, who was previously in a wheelchair, meets Ben, his 'enemy', who ultimately ends up in a wheelchair. ("The Man from Tallahassee")
Avoiding his father is the main reason why Locke doesn't want to rescued and why he blows up the submarine. Later his father turns up on the Island anyway. ("The Man from Tallahassee")
Locke says that none of survivors would deliberately hinder an attempt to get off the island in "...In Translation", but he blows up the submarine, deliberately preventing Jack and Juliet from leaving. ("The Man from Tallahassee")
Nikki Sanchez worked as a guest-star on Expose and therefore inevitably got killed off at the end, just like Nikki did on Lost. ("Exposé")
Nikki warned Paulo not to smoke, so as not to leave behind any evidence after murdering Zuckerman, and said: "let's not poison ourselves," which is exactly what they end up doing. ("Exposé")
Nikki and Paulo didn't want to end up like Shannon and Boone as an arguing couple, but they not only end up dead, just like Shannon and Boone, but they also end up that way as the result of an argument. ("Exposé")
Kate advises Cassidy to "call the cops and have him locked up", only to become stranded on the same island as Sawyer and have a relationship with him. ("Left Behind")
Hurley conned Sawyer, the con man. ("Left Behind")
Downtown is playing in Juliet's car while she is leaving unknowingly for the Island. The same music is heard when she learns she cannot leave the Island, and when Oceanic Flight 815 crashes. ("A Tale of Two Cities") ("One of Us")
Cooper's death frees Locke and Sawyer from the bitterness they kept for a lifetime against the same man. ("The Brig")
Anthony Cooper discovers James Ford used his alias on "some kind of revenge kick." It turns out the name Cooper used, Tom Sawyer, was also taken from the character by the same name, and is not his real name as well. ("The Brig")
Anthony Cooper tells Sawyer "Don't tell me I'm your daddy" to tease him about his questions. In more than one way, Anthony Cooper is more of a father to Sawyer than to Locke, he even inherited the same "nick name/last name". ("The Brig")
Sawyer is on a mission to find and kill the original Sawyer and crashes on the Island. The original Sawyer ends up on the Island with Sawyer. ("The Brig")
After the purge, Richard asks Ben if he wants them to retrieve his father's body, but Ben declines his offer probably because Ben had come to hate his father so much that he did not think he deserved an actual grave, but because of his decision, Hurley later finds the van and uses it to kill people from Ben's group and rescue Jin, Bernard, and Sawyer. ("The Man Behind the Curtain") ("Through the Looking Glass")
Ben kills his father on purpose after years of his father blaming him for accidentally killing his mother. ("The Man Behind the Curtain")
Charlie's brother, Liam, tells him that out of the two of them, Charlie is the one who is going to have a family and live past 30. However, Liam is the one who settled down and Charlie ends up dead at 25. ("Greatest Hits") ("Through the Looking Glass")
Ben hands Alex the gun she gave to Locke so he could protect himself, and with which he shot Locke; she accepts it with a bloodied hand, and soon passes to Karl to be used against the Others to help the Losties. ("Greatest Hits")
Desmond, who saved Charlie's life multiple times, indirectly caused Charlie's death by refusing, over Charlie objections, to take Mikhail prisoner several days earlier. ("D.O.C.") ("Through the Looking Glass")
Throughout season three, Charlie never knows how he is going to die, so Desmond must save him, since he can do nothing to prevent it; yet when he finally does know when and how he will die, he chooses to accept it instead of saving himself. ("Through the Looking Glass")
Charlie says "so much for fate" when about to stop the jamming signals, thinking that despite Desmond's predictions, he doesn't have to die; shortly after he drowns. ("Through the Looking Glass")
Sawyer uses a gun to kill Tom, the man who shot him and kidnapped Walt on the raft. ("Exodus, Part 2") ("Through the Looking Glass")
The survivors are said to have a 'fresh start' on the Island. However, the Others have detailed files documenting the survivors' lives before the Island. ("Through the Looking Glass")
In perhaps the most ironic part of the show, after having fought for the chance to leave the Island, Jack desperately wants to go back. ("Through the Looking Glass")
Off the island, Jack tells Kate he is tired of lying, despite that it is he who forced the group to lie. ("Through the Looking Glass") ("There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3")
In the flash-forward, Jack was the hero who saved the family from the burning wreckage. However, it is revealed later that he was the one who caused the accident. ("Through the Looking Glass")
Jack "becomes" his father, the drunkard and irresponsible surgeon, and Kate stops wanting to run and gets back home. ("Through the Looking Glass")

Season 4

Miles states that Naomi's words "tell my sister I love her," was a code for danger since he reveals Naomi didn't have a sister, and uses the example holding a gun "so right now, Jack would say, tell my sister that I love her." Jack actually does have a sister, Claire. ("Confirmed Dead")
The acknowledgment of Ben's information about Charlotte, the woman he tried to kill, saves his life. ("Confirmed Dead")
Locke says that Ben's bullet would have killed him if he had a second kidney, so Locke would have been dead if Anthony Cooper never stole his kidney. (Wasnt Ben aware of Locke's stolen kidney?) ("Confirmed Dead")
Frank Lapidus was meant to be the pilot of Oceanic Flight 815 and he ends up on the Island anyway. ("Confirmed Dead")
Naomi said that her team was unsuitable for such a high-risk operation, and Matthew Abaddon said that it was her job to keep them alive, yet it was Naomi who died. ("Confirmed Dead")
Sayid says that the day he trusted Ben is the day that he sold his soul, yet we see that he is working for Benjamin in the flash-forward. ("The Economist")
On the Island, Sayid is using diplomacy and trying to honor a dead woman's body. Off the Island, he becomes a pragmatic assassin. ("The Economist")
Sayid says the job he's on is proving harder than he first thought. Elsa suggests she thought he was staying in Berlin because of her, which in fact he is. ("The Economist")
Kate prefers not to take Aaron in her arms, saying she would do a terrible job in raising a baby. Claire jokes that Kate should try motherhood sometime. In the future, Kate not only has a son, she actually ends up raising that same child that sparked the conversation. ("Eggtown")
Kate devises her plan in order to deceive Locke, so she can know from Miles whether it is safe for her to leave the Island or whether she should stay there. When she finds out that everyone knows she is wanted and that she shouldn't leave, Locke won't let her stay in the Barracks because of her setup. ("Eggtown")
Ben finds himself being held against his will in his own basement. ("Eggtown")
Jin tells Sun he is learning English for her. Sun learned English so she could get away from Jin. ("Eggtown")
Even though Locke is the self-proclaimed leader in his group, he remains in Ben's hands concerning information about the Island. ("Eggtown")
In 1996 Daniel wonders if his future self knows about his meeting with Desmond, to which Desmond says Daniel probably forgot. Daniel replies sarcastically, "Yeah, how would that happen?" Daniel would later suffer from some form of memory loss. ("The Constant")
Goodwin was allegedly making a case for Ana Lucia to be brought into the Others' society, but she killed him. ("The Other Woman")
Claire tells Locke that the freighter people may consider them hostile. The Survivors thought that the Others were hostile. ("The Other Woman")
Locke, who used to call Ben a hypocrite and a Pharisee for living in the Barracks, is now living there with him. ("The Other Woman")
Jin tells Sun that she will never lose him. In the flash-forwards we see that he's either dead or left behind. ("Ji Yeon")
Sayid turns in Michael because he works for Ben. In the future (as seen in "The Economist"), Sayid himself works for Ben. ("Meet Kevin Johnson")
Michael made terrible sacrifices to get Walt back from the Others, only to lose him again after telling him about killing Ana Lucia and Libby. ("Meet Kevin Johnson")
Frank talks to Michael about the idea of finding 815 survivors alive. ("Meet Kevin Johnson")
Michael trades Jin's Rolex watch for a handgun with which to kill himself. On the Island, Jin tried to kill Michael over the same watch. ("Meet Kevin Johnson")
Ben says that Charles Widmore is "without conscience" even though Ben killed, amongst other people, his own father. ("Meet Kevin Johnson")
When Michael attempts his automotive suicide, an optimistic song is playing. ("Meet Kevin Johnson")
Michael is seen attempting to fix the engines, the same that he agreed to sabotage. ("Meet Kevin Johnson")
In "The Beginning of the End", Locke said that everyone who wanted to live should join him at the Barracks. The Barracks were later stormed by the freighter commandos, and several people were killed. ("The Shape of Things to Come")
Ben wakes up wearing a parka in the middle of the desert. ("The Shape of Things to Come")
Locke did not want to execute Ben in front of Alex in "Confirmed Dead", and ultimately it is Alex who is executed in front of Ben. ("The Shape of Things to Come")
Jack, the surgeon, comes out as a stubborn patient in an operation performed on him by someone else. ("Something Nice Back Home")
Jack despised his father for being an alcoholic, yet that's exactly what he becomes in his post-Island life.
- Not only does Jack become an alcoholic, but he abandons his life after coming home from the Island to fly all around the world with his gold pass from the airlines, perhaps trying to recapture his past on the Island.
- Similarly, after losing his medical license, Christian abandoned his life and ended up in Australia on a drinking binge trying to reconnect with his past, i.e. Claire. When Jack's mother sent him to find Christian, it ultimately led Jack to the Island. ("Something Nice Back Home")
Six of the Losties arrive on the freighter looking for safety, only to find it is rigged with explosives. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 1")
Carole Littleton compliments Kate about her baby, without realizing that he is her own grandson. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 1")
Kate assists Frank with removing his handcuffs, while she herself is a fugitive. ("There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3")
Ben killed Keamy with Keamy's knife. ("There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3")
The helicopter crew tries to get to the freighter, thinking that it will save their lives. At the same time, Desmond, Michael and Jin want to get off the freighter because they are all about to die when the bomb explodes.
We are led to believe from the flash-forwards that the Oceanic Six left the people on the Island, while in fact the Island 'left' them. ("There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3")
Michael is killed by a bomb that is not his while not wanting to die, while he was earlier wanting to die, but his bomb would not detonate. ("There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3")
Jack spent his whole time on the Island trying to get him and all the Losties off it, thus entering into conflict with Ben and Locke. In the flash-forwards, Locke persuades him that he made a mistake by leaving, and tries to convince the Oceanic 6 to go back and is reduced to seeking Ben's help for this purpose. ("Through the Looking Glass") ("There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3")
Jack, a man of science, feels compelled to accept the logic of Locke, a man of faith, concerning the lie that will have to be told to the outside world. ("There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3")
We are led to believe from the flash-forwards that the Oceanic Six left the people on the Island, while in fact the Island has "left" them. ("There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3")
The Orchid Orientation video clearly states not to put any metallic objects inside the vault, yet this is exactly how Ben uses it to gain access to The Wheel. ("There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3")
Michael dies in an explosion, as he had originally planned to, but not by the bomb he had brought aboard. ("There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3")

Season 5

Neil complains about Bernard's incapability of creating fire, just before being shot with a flaming arrow. ("The Lie")
"Jones", a man whom Locke refuses to kill, is later revealed to be a young Charles Widmore, who would ultimately become the nemesis of the survivors. ("Jughead")
When Jones returns to his camp, he tells Richard that there is no way that he could have been tracked by a "sodding old man" and that he knows more about the island than Locke, when in reality, Locke is an expert at tracking and has learned a great deal about the island since he first crashed there. ("Jughead")
Jin is rescued by Danielle Rousseau's science expedition, meaning once again he is among a group of people whose language he cannot speak nor understand. ("The Little Prince")
Jin gives his wedding ring to Locke so he can use it to convince Sun that he is dead, and Ben, who uses it to convince Sun that Jin is alive, takes it from Locke. ("This Place Is Death")
Ben convinces Locke not to kill himself, only to murder him minutes later. ("The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham")
Sawyer, the career criminal, is head of security for the DHARMA Initiative in 1977. ("LaFleur")
Jack, a successful, and well educated surgeon, is given the lowly position of "Workman". ("Namaste")
Sayid is given a truth serum while a captive of the DHARMA Initiative in 1977 and states numerous facts about the future that are all true, but which his captors dismiss as lies. ("He's Our You")
After putting a huge effort into escaping the Island, the Oceanic Six ultimately decide to return after their lives get worse, while the survivors who didn't leave the Island lead enjoyable lives and do not want to leave. ("316") ("LaFleur")
Sayid, Juliet, Kate, Sawyer and Jack, all people who hate Ben and have suffered extensively at his hands, are responsible for him becoming the man that he is. ("Whatever Happened, Happened")
Jacob's nemesis disguised as John Locke, Ben's murder victim, welcomes Ben "back to the land of the living". ("Whatever Happened, Happened")
Miles has lived all his life without knowing his father, only to find him back in year 1977, just after his own birth. ("Some Like It Hoth")
Daniel is killed by his mother, Eloise. ("The Variable")
Kate goes back to rescue her friends, but instead is captured herself. ("Follow the Leader")
The Others stored the hydrogen bomb in the tunnels and DHARMA built their barracks right on top of it.("Follow the Leader")
The survivors of Flight 815 knew nothing about Jacob, but many of them had met him; The Others knew and revered Jacob, but none of them ever met him. ("The Incident, Parts 1 & 2")
Hurley worries about people asking him questions about the year 1977, like the name of the president. Sawyer says not to worry, it's not a game show. Later, Chang is quizzing Hurley to confirm they are from the future, and asks him who is the president. ("Namaste") ("Follow the Leader")

External links

SWLS "Points of Irony" thread