The Man In Black & Randall Flagg (another MIB) by atlant1s

I just wanted to add to the many parallels between LOST and Stephen King, in particular his Dark Tower series, which I've been thinking is one of the main influences of the show, ever since I started watching. Here's one more.

Randall Flagg is King's "Uber villain," and was the main antagonist in The Stand, which Darlton have said is a big inspiration to the show (The Stand, as well as many of King's other works, are incorporated into the Dark Tower universe). The first book of the DT, speaks of Flagg as "The Man In Black," which I found ironic. Later on in the series, we find that he can take others' shapes. Even moreso, there's a passage in which Flagg recalls "waking up" in different realities, as different people, and it usually takes him some time to remember himself. Needless to say, he's also a few thousand years old, and can "jump" through realities.

Flagg usually wears people down and manipulates them into doing things he wants to be done.

With all that we've seen of the MIB + Locke business, as well as other apparitions, it reminded me too much of "Flagg," one of a number of names he uses, another of which being Faraday =)