Locke seems to have something of a monopoly on these. Throwing the knife right next to Sawyer's head in the first few episodes of S1, returning from the dead and taking out Naomi in the Season 3 Finale, doing what I thought was the work of a small army of Others in this episode. Only one who's got anything on him is Mikhail.

Locke seems to have something of a monopoly on these. Throwing the knife right next to Sawyer's head in the first few episodes of S1, returning from the dead and taking out Naomi in the Season 3 Finale, doing what I thought was the work of a small army of Others in this episode. Only one who's got anything on him is Mikhail.
That was one of my favorite scenes of the episode. Locke didn't have too much to do in this episode but when he did it was great. It captured everything about Locke heroic and half crazy, he kills three people then calmly walks outs and says hello to Sawyer and Juliet like they're meeting at a party.

That was one of my favorite scenes of the episode. Locke didn't have too much to do in this episode but when he did it was great. It captured everything about Locke heroic and half crazy, he kills three people then calmly walks outs and says hello to Sawyer and Juliet like they're meeting at a party.
Yeah, I really loved that scene too.
Though I do think that we will see Locke was backed up by a few Others.
The rocks that took out the guys seemed to come from those slingy thingies.

Yeah, I really loved that scene too.
Though I do think that we will see Locke was backed up by a few Others.
The rocks that took out the guys seemed to come from those slingy thingies.

Those weren't rocks and except for the guy that got knifed in the chest Locke shot them. And I don't think that Locke could be backed up by some others because they went way back to a pre Dharma, pre 815 crash time. Those military uniforms looked 50s era to me.

Locke seems to have something of a monopoly on these. Throwing the knife right next to Sawyer's head in the first few episodes of S1, returning from the dead and taking out Naomi in the Season 3 Finale, doing what I thought was the work of a small army of Others in this episode. Only one who's got anything on him is Mikhail.

Now that you mention it, they do seem to give Locke those kinds of entrances (action/pause/show character standing silently). I think his debut scene with the thrown knife was so good, it might have inspired them to use it as a pattern. It kind of establishes him as a silent man of action, which he is.

As far as character debut scenes, I'd have to rank that #1 for dramatic effect, then Rousseau's debut in "Solitary" where she was electrocuting Sayid #2.