History YMMV / DarkAngel

* HoYay: Normal confessing to "gladiator" dreams about Alec in "Fuhgeddaboudit". Also a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.

* FandomSpecificPlot: Fics where Max goes into heat around Alec and he responds as a male cat would to a female cat in heat.

** White's underling Otto Gottlieb is played by Craig Veroni, who later was Dr Peter Grodin, a prominent scientist in the first season of ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' and target for [=McKay=]'s sarcsam until his HeroicSacrifice during the Wraith siege.

* IAmNotShazam: Occasionally one finds people on the internet who think Max goes by the name "Dark Angel". She doesn't. The title is a reference to her dark past, dark complexion, angelic features, and job as a bike messenger ("angel" literally means "messenger").

** Tinga's husband Charlie Smith was played by Sebastian Spence, best known as the lead Cade Foster in ''Series/FirstWave'', who was also Lt Noel "Narcho" Allison on ''[[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Battlestar Galactica]]'' and Lt Jim "Sunshine" Kirby in the prequel ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaBloodAndChrome''.

** Speaking of BSG, the Cylons must have landed on Earth after all: Creator/RickWorthy (Simon) guest stars as Detective Clemente in the finale, Creator/CallumKeithRennie (Leoben) is the town sheriff in "Exposure", where Creator/AaronDouglas (Chief Tyrol) plays a suspicious hotel manager, Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster) is Logan's recurring hospital contact Dr Beverly Shankar, and Creator/GracePark (Boomer and Athena) plays an X5 in the premiere of Season 2 (the one whose breeding partner "failed to meet the minimum mission requirements").

** Speaking of BSG, the Cylons must have landed on Earth after all: Creator/RickWorthy (Simon) guest stars as Detective Clemente in the finale, Creator/CallumKeithRennie (Leoben) is the town sheriff in "Exposure", where Creator/AaronDouglas (Chief Tyrol) plays a suspicious hotel manager, Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster) is Logan's recurring hospital contact Dr Beverly Shankar, and Creator/GracePark (Boomer and Athena) plays an X5 in the premiere of Season 2.

* FanPreferredCouple: Despite Max being paired with Cale in canon, Max/Alec is far more popular. Many fans see their bickering as BelligerentSexualTension. Others see it just as bickering and find the idea of them together squicky even if they are NotBloodSiblings.

* FanPreferredCouple: Max and Alec, despite the [[NotBloodSiblings pseudo-incestuous aspect]] noted on the main page.

** Many people on forums confess to only watching for Creator/JensenAckles. Unfortunately, this usually means they watch only "Pollo Loco" and Season Two, and thus don't appreciate that Season One is also good.

** Creator/MichaelWeatherly, who played Logan Cale, would later be cast as Special Agent Anthony [=DiNozzo=] on ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', a role he held for thirteen years. Interestingly, Weatherly has said that he based his performance as Tony partly on Jensen Ackles's Alec.

** Marrow, the villain of "Love in Vein", is played by Creator/SamWitwer, whose many roles include Crashdown on ''[[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Battlestar Galactica]]'', Hyde on ''Series/OnceUponATime'', the voices of the Son and Darth Maul in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' franchise, and Aidan on the American version of ''[[Series/BeingHumanUs Being Human]]'' (from ActuallyNotAVampire to actually a vampire).

** Marrow, the villain of "Love in Vein", is played by Creator/SamWitwer, whose many roles include Crashdown on ''[[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Battlestar Galactica]]'', the voices of the Son and Darth Maul in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' franchise and Aidan on the American version of ''[[Series/BeingHumanUs Being Human]]'' (from ActuallyNotAVampire to actually a vampire).

* RetroactiveRecognition:

** Nicole Bilderback (Brin) played an unnamed member of Cordelia's posse of "Cordettes" whom the Master demonstrated his blood-draining machine on in the alternate reality of the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E9TheWish "The Wish"]]. Lisa Ann Cabasa (Tinga) played a likewise unnamed injured Potential Slayer in the last three episodes of ''Buffy'''s seventh season.

** Conversely, thanks to Creator/KevinDurand's dogboy makeup, fans will likely ''not'' recognize Joshua as Lord Zipacna from three episodes of ''Series/StargateSG1'' unless they zero in on his voice.

** Logan's ex-wife Daphne was played by Creator/SamanthaSmith, who would go on to play Mary Winchester (Dean's mother) on ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''.

** Around the same time this show ended, Creator/AshleyScott (Asha) got her own ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl series as Helena Wayne/Huntress in ''Series/BirdsOfPrey''.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Ben/X5-493 only appeared in one episode, but proved popular with the fans and with the writers, so much so that they decided to bring Creator/JensenAckles back as his clone, albeit with a very different personality. They planned to introduce the character of Alec either way (if Jensen had been unavailable, he'd have been unrelated to Ben), but preferred to have Jensen play him. As noted on the main page under "MusclesAreMeaningless", it was the same producer who'd objected to casting him before who now wanted him back after seeing him act, and the episode "Pollo Loco" was so well received that the series was renewed for a second season on the promise of "more like this!".

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Ben/X5-493 only appeared in one episode, but proved popular with the fans and with the writers, so much so that they decided to bring Creator/JensenAckles back as his clone, albeit with a very different personality. They planned to introduce the character of Alec either way (if Jensen had been unavailable, he'd have been unrelated to Ben), but preferred to have Jensen play him. As noted on the main page under "MusclesAreMeaningless", it was the same producer who'd objected to casting him before who now wanted him back after seeing him act.

** Crossovers with ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' where Alec somehow became Dean Winchester (which requires a change in the time setting, since ''Supernatural'' is set in the present day and ''Dark Angel'' is set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture). Or where Dean was the source of Alec and Ben's DNA (which is more plausible).

* FandomSpecificPlot: Fics where Max goes into heat around Alec.

** Conversely, thanks to Creator/KevinDurand's dogboy makeup, fans will likely ''not'' recognize him as Lord Zipacna from three episodes of ''Series/StargateSG1'' unless they zero in on his voice.

* HoYay: Normal confessing to "gladiator" dreams about Alec. Also a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Ben/X5-493 only appeared in one episode, but proved popular with the fans and with the writers, so much so that they decided to bring Creator/JensenAckles back as his clone, albeit with a very different personality. They planned to introduce the character of Alec either way (if Jensen had been unavailable, he'd have been unrelated to Ben), but preferred to have Jensen play him.
* FanPreferredCouple: Max and Alec, despite the pseudo-incestuous aspect noted on the main page.