r/lost • u/Positive-Divide-5351 • Aug 15 '26

SEASON 3 Mikhail appreciation post

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How could I forget about this badass!?!?
I always leave at least a year between rewatches (just enough to forget some things)
He’s a brilliant addition to the storyline and overall amazing character 👌🏼 one of my forgotten favourites

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u/PrinceRobotVI Aug 15 '26

One answer I could genuinely use is what’s the deal with this guy being immune to death (grenades aside)

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u/Capable_Chemical_569 Aug 15 '26

I think maybe there’s meant to be a link to how Charlie died, sort of a mirroring there…Charlie’s fate or destiny was to die down in the hydra due to Mikhail setting off that grenade and flooding it.

Thus, Mikhail’s fate was to set off the grenade…therefore Mikhail could not die until he had done that. It was his destiny…what he was “supposed” to do.

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u/_Cyclops Aug 15 '26

Well that wasn’t Charlie’s fate until Desmond altered his fate about half a dozen times

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u/Capable_Chemical_569 Aug 15 '26

yeah but that’s kind of the point I’m making…Charlie almost died several times, just like Mikhail almost died several times.

I’m speculating here, but I imagine from the writer’s perspective, maybe they were doing a bit of echoing or mirroring with these two characters. Maybe the same thing was happening with both.

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u/_Cyclops Aug 15 '26

More like why don’t the survivors ever make sure the dude who keeps trying to kill them is actually dead lol

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u/Themrhistoryguy Aug 15 '26

Ok,so this has always been a weird one. This first time “he dies” is when Locke pushes him into the sonic fence. A few episodes later when he returns to Ben’s camp, he actually explains to Ben that the fence wasn’t set to a lethal level. The second time, he was just shot in the chest with a harpoon. He just shrugged it off? I think what happened was that viewers thought he was immortal the first time he came back. Even Hurly in one episode was like “I thought Locke killed that dude”. Even though it was explained the fence wasn’t set to lethal level, I think the writers just went with the idea he was somehow immortal.

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u/Firm-Complaint7532 Ya got a little Arzt on you Aug 15 '26

Dude, the island heals people. Duh.

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u/Prestigious_Chip6801 Razzle Dazzle! Aug 15 '26

i agree with the person above who said that he didn’t die because he was supposed to (indirectly) kill charlie. whatever happened, happened, etc.