Benjamin Linus

Benjamin Linus, also known as Ben Linus, Dean Moriarty and Henry Gale, is one of the main characters from the Lost series.
== Charactah Account ==
Ben is a long-time resident of the Island and a leader of the Others. Though often a calm, eloquent antagonist, Ben's insecurity and jealousies sometimes brought out a petulant, reckless side. He remained, however, an expert manipulator, a liar and a murderer, and he served as an antagonist to the survivors for a long time.
For all his awful deeds and less than admirable qualities, Ben has genuinely suffered in his life, his goals are often for the betterment of his people, and, in later seasons, he pits himself against greater evils like Widmore and the Man in Black.
Ben might be slight of build, but he's fast and highly skilled. Plays up the bookworm part of it so much that it's still jarring whenever he decides to remind you that he's a merciless and capable killer. Put a baton in his hand and watch him wreck everybody.
== Appearance ==
=== TV Series ===
* Lost Season 2
* Lost Season 3
* Lost Season 4
* Lost Season 5
* Lost Season 6
== Trivia ==
* Ben was the sixth character to ever have a flash-forward and the first who was not onboard Oceanic Flight 815 to get one.
* Ben was the twenty-fourth character to ever have a flashback.
* Ben is one of 22 main characters to have their names appear in a soundtrack title.
* Ben's episode count is 59 as of "The End", making him the character with the most appearances who was not on Flight 815.
** Ben appeared in eight episodes as a guest star before being promoted to main cast.
** One of his appearances was made solely by his flash sideways counterpart.
* Ben is one of the seven characters to have a flashback, a flash-forward and a flash sideways episode centered around them. The other six are Hurley, Sayid, Kate, Sawyer, Sun and Jack.
* Ben is one of only two characters to be members of four out of the five major factions on the Island, the DHARMA Initiative, the survivors, the Ajira survivors, the Others and the Kahana crew. Ben wasn't part of the Kahana crew, though was part of the four others. Miles is the other character to be a part of four major Island factions.
* Ben has never met Boone, Shannon, Pierre, Nikki, Paulo, Daniel and Christian. However, he has met the rest of the main characters.
** It is highly likely that Ben saw a dying Libby after Michael had released him from the Hatch.
** Ben met Jin when he was a young child.
** It's highly likely that Ben has met Pierre Chang at the DHARMA Initiative, since he spent much time there.
** Paulo saw Ben from the bathroom of the Pearl, but they never formally met.
* Ben has been seen to visit six of the ten known DHARMA Initiative stations: the Swan, the Pearl, the Hydra, the Flame, the Orchid and the Lamp Post. However as he was leader of the island for a significant amount of time and had connections with all the other stations it can be strongly assumed he has visited at least most of the others if not them all.
* When Ben asks Jack to pick up Locke's body, he tells him it's at the corner of Grant and Hayes. Named after president's Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes, "Ulysses" is the novel Ben read aboard Ajira 316, and Rutherford is the surname of 815 survivor Shannon Rutherford.
* Ben commonly uses a 16" telescopic baton as a weapon.
* In a way, Ben is the cause of both his parents' deaths.
** Emily died giving birth, and Roger died when Ben gassed him.
** Both of Ben's parents died on his birthday.
* Ben says that he hates needles, although he may have said this as part of conning Sawyer.
* Juliet told Ben about his tumor the day before the crash. However, 72 days after the crash, Ben told Jack, "Two days after I found out I had a fatal tumor on my spine, a spinal surgeon fell out of the sky."
* Ben's tumor was on his L4 vertebra.
* On Ben's passport, part of the serial number reads "HNSO", which is similar to Hanso.
* When given a copy of The Brothers Karamazov by Locke, Ben asked, "You don't have any Stephen King?" Three months earlier, Ben had displayed a dislike of one of King's novels, Carrie, to Juliet.
** The story of The Brothers Karamazov revolves around four brothers who murder their father.
* In "Through the Looking Glass", Ben's eyes change from green when he is talking to Richard Alpert, to a greyish-blue when he is talking to Jack.
* Ben's use of the alias "Henry" in Season 2 earned him the nickname "Benry" among some fans.
* The vehicles that were used in the opening scene of "The Man Behind the Curtain" could inform the year of Ben's birth:
** An anonymous source associated with the production claims that he was ordered to get cars 1963 or older for the Portland scene.
** The green car appears to be a Dodge Dart two-door Hardtop '65 (the rear lens, front hood, and grille are different from '63 and '64 models)
* In the Season 3 DVD commentary for "The Man Behind the Curtain", it is explained that Ben, as leader, and Richard Alpert, as someone who nominates the leader, keep each other in "check" by having the power to pick each other's replacement on the Island.
** Also in the commentary, the producers describe the battle between Ben and Locke as being a multi-chapter showdown for the title of "Master of the Island".
* At the barracks, Ben's study prominently features preserved moths in framed displays. At least one of these was taken with him to the ruins.
* Both Ben and Locke were born prematurely and named by their mothers, who had the same name, Emily.
* The piece of music Ben is playing in "The Shape of Things to Come" is "Prelude in C-Sharp minor" by Sergei Rachmaninoff.
* Ben shows many signs of being a sociopath: excessive lying, manipulation, kills with no guilt or mercy, has few emotional attachments to anyone, claims Juliet is his "property."
* Ben has been assaulted more than any other character in the show. He has a tendency to be brutally beaten by someone for various reasons, such as the torture received from Sayid in "One of Them', the passionate pummeling unleashed by Jack in ", Through the Looking Glass, Part 2, the angry assault from Sawyer in "Confirmed Dead" , and the beating dished out by Desmond in "Dead Is Dead".
* Ben has stabbed someone to death in a finale twice. (Martin Keamy and Jacob)
* Ben appears to believe in God. He took the fact that a spinal surgeon felt out of the sky, shortly after he found out he had a fatal tumor on his spine, as proof that God exists.
** Though Ben could, as always, be lying.
* Ben is a compulsive liar, but any time he gives "his word", he holds to it, no matter what.
* Ben declares that if the Island is going to sink, he will go down with it. This is a traditional attribute of a sea captain, to go down with his ship, and refers to the role in which Ben sees himself as leader of the Island.
** Also Ben has no family or friends that we know back in the real world. The island is all he has and he sees no point in returning to the real world.
* Ben is one of nine male main characters alive at the end of the series, not counting the flash sideways.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Benjamin Linus at Lostpedia
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