History Trivia / DarkAngel

* HostilityOnTheSet: Jensen Ackles related that Jessica Alba was cold to him due to stress from carrying the weight of the show on her shoulders, but she spoke to him near the end of filming the season to apologize. Apparently, Creator/JamesCameron put a lot of pressure on her.

* HostilityOnTheSet: Jensen Ackles related that Jessica Alba was cold to him due to stress from carrying the weight of the show on her shoulders, but she spoke to him near the end of filming the season to apologize.

** Biggs was originally going to be Krit, but Joshua Alba was unavailable at the time. There were also plans to have Syl take on what eventually became Cece's role and to bring back Lisa Ann Cabasa as Tinga's twin. Fortunate for Krit and Syl, since both would have been BackForTheDead.

** This series has nothing to do with the 1990 film ''Film/DarkAngel'' (aka ''I Come in Peace''), which is about a vice cop fighting an alien drug dealer, or the 1994 film ''Film/DarkAngelTheAscent'', which is about a teenage demoness who was born in Hell coming up to Earth and becoming a vigilante. Or with the TV series ''Series/Angel'', about the eponymous vampire.

** This series has nothing to do with the 1990 film ''Film/DarkAngel'' (aka ''I Come in Peace''), which is about a vice cop fighting an alien drug dealer, or the 1994 film ''Film/DarkAngelTheAscent'', which is about a teenage demoness who was born in Hell coming up to Earth and becoming a vigilante.

** This series has nothing to do with the 1990 film ''Film/DarkAngel'' (aka ''I Come in Peace''), which is about a vice cop fighting an alien drug dealer, or the 1994 film ''Film/DarkAngelTheAscent'', which is about a young demoness who was born in Hell coming up to Earth and becoming a vigilante.

** This series has nothing to do with the 1990 film ''Film/DarkAngel'' (aka ''I Come in Peace''), which is about a vice cop fighting an alien drug dealer, or the 1994 film ''DarkAngelTheAscent'', which is about a young demoness who was born in Hell coming up to Earth and becoming a vigilante.

** There is a video game ''Dark Angel'' based on this series, which should not be confused as having anything to do with the video game ''Dark Angel: Vampire Apocalypse''.

** Joshua had a younger brother named Isaac, who was also played by Creator/KevinDurand. Despite being played by the same actor, they weren't technically twins - Joshua was older (and not just by a few minutes), Joshua is brown-haired while Isaac had shorter black hair and wasn't quite as big as Joshua, and Isaac had a barcode while Joshua doesn't.

** Joshua had a younger brother named Isaac, who was also played by Creator/KevinDurand.

* FridayNightDeathSlot: Shipped here in its second season. The show that replaced it in that particular timeslot? ''Series/{{Firefly}}''. Cue fan-war.

* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Louise, a woman who's revealed to be trans in "Out", was played by trans woman actress Jessica Crockett. It's listed as the first time a trans woman character on any television series was played by a real trans woman.

** There is also an adventure supplement for ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' with the title Dark Angel, and though both the game and the show are set in near-future Seattle, the adventure was released about a decade before the TV show first aired.

** Biggs was originally going to be Krit, but Joshua Alba was unavailable at the time. There were also plans to have Syl take on what eventually became Cece's role and to bring back Lisa Ann Cabasa as Tinga's twin.

** Biggs was originally going to be Krit, but Creator/JoshuaAlba was unavailable at the time. There were also plans to have Syl take on what eventually became Cece's role and to bring back Lisa Ann Cabasa as Tinga's twin.

** Creator/GenevaLocke played both Max's younger self in flashbacks and her X7 clone in the present.

** It originally would have been Lydecker handling Alec in the "Berrisford Agenda" flashbacks rather than his subordinate Sandoval.

** Some X5s have [[CloningBlues clones]], such as Ben's clone Alec (both are played by Creator/JensenAckles) and Max's clone Sam (both are played by Jessica Alba).

* DevelopmentGag: When Max meets self-made "superhero" Phil in the episode "I and I Am a Camera", he asks her if her name stands for Maximum Girl. "Maximum Girl" was a working title for the show.

** There is a video game Dark Angel based on this series, which should not be confused as having anything to do with the video game Dark Angel: Vampire Apocalypse.

** The audition tapes on the season one DVD reveal that there were originally going to be only six escapees, rather than the final number of twelve, and that Jondy was to be the subject of "Cold Comfort" and not Brin.

** Geneva Locke played both Max's younger self in flashbacks and her X7 clone in the present.

* FridayNightDeathSlot: Shipped here in its second season. The show that replaced it in that particular timeslot? Firefly. Cue fan-war.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Jessica Alba (Max) and Michael Weatherly (Logan). They were engaged.

** There is also an adventure supplement for TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}} with the title Dark Angel, and though both the game and the show are set in near-future Seattle, the adventure was released about a decade before the TV show first aired.
* StarMakingRole: For Jessica Alba.

** Biggs was originally going to be Krit, but Joshua Alba was unavailable at the time. There were also plans to have Syl take on what eventually became Cece's role and to bring back Lisa Ann Cabasa as Tinga's twin.

* ActingforTwo:
** Some X5s have [[CloningBlues clones]], such as Ben's clone Alec (both are played by JensenAckles) and Max's clone Sam (both are played by Jessica Alba).

* ActingforTwo: some X5s have [[CloningBlues clones]], such as Ben's clone Alec (both are played by JensenAckles) and Max's clone Sam (both are played by Jessica Alba).

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: There is a video game Dark Angel based on this series, which should not be confused as having anything to do with the video game Dark Angel: Vampire Apocalypse.

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** Nana Visitor AKA Major Kira Nerys from Deep Space Nine as Madame X/Dr. Elizabeth Renfro
** John Savage as Lydecker counts for anyone who's seen ''Film/TheDeerHunter''.
** Hey! [[Series/{{NCIS}} Tony DiNozzo]] is Logan! And Michael Weatherly has said he was inspired by ''Dark Angel'''s Alec.
** ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'': Sharon/Boomer (Grace Park) as a female breeding X5, Leoben (Callum Keith Rennie) as a sheriff, Chief Tyrol (Aaron Douglas) as a hotel manager, Tory (Rekha Sharma) as Dr. Beverly Shankar, Crashdown (SamWitwer) as a transgenic named Marrow, Cally (Nicki Clyne) as an X6 named Fixit, Dualla (Kandyse [=McClure=]) as Joshua's girlfriend Annie Fisher, Narcho (Sebastian Spence) as Tinga's husband Charlie Smith, Elosha (Lorena Gale) as a teacher, Simon (Rick Worthy) as Detective Ramon Clemente, Gaeta (Alessandro Juliani) as Max's work friend Druid.
*** Grace Park is the only actor to have played both a transgenic and a Cylon.
** ''Series/{{Caprica}}'': Agent Durham (Brian Markinson) as Dr. Sam Carr.
** ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'': Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) as Phil, the "superhero" who gave Logan his exoskeleton.
** ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Mary Winchester (Samantha Smith) as Logan's ex-fiancée Daphne. Meg Masters (Nicki Aycox) as Max's sister Syl.
*** This is funny, as it means JensenAckles and Nicki Aycox, in addition to playing enemies on ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', have played brother and sister on ''DarkAngel'', although Ben and Syl didn't appear onscreen together.
*** If we're going down that route, then this also means that Max's love interest was engaged to the woman who becomes the mother of her ''sort of'' ''[[{{VitriolicBestBuds}} partner-in-crime]]''. And considering it's a bit of a running gag in the fandom (especially of Alex/Max shippers) that Logan was a lot older than then 19y/o Max, having Mama!Winchester his ex-fiancée just about proved the point.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The audition tapes on the season one DVD reveal that there were originally going to be only six escapees, rather than the final number of twelve, and that Jondy was to be the subject of "Cold Comfort" and not Brin.