High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Others are a group of fictional characters who inhabit the mysterious island in the American television series Lost. Most serve as antagonists to the series` main characters, although later in the series they seem less hostile to the survivors of Flight 815 and become their allies to overcome greater threats. According to the character Sayid Jarrah, at least 50 Others were living on the north side of the Island at one point.Wizard magazine rated them the 98th greatest villains of all time.