History Trivia / Dexter

* TheWikiRule: The [[http://dexter.wikia.com/wiki/Home Dexter Wiki]].

** Taken UpToEleven with Harrison: he was portrayed by Brandon Michael Bass in Season 3 (during an ImagineSpot), by several uncredited babies in Season 4, by twins Luke and Evan Kruntchev from Seasons 5 to 7, and by Jadon Wells in Season 8.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Narrowly averted in 2010, when Creator/MichaelCHall won a nasty fight with cancer.

** Sirko was supposed to ladt the entire season like every other Dexter villain, but because of Ray Stevenson's schedule conflicts he had to be written out earlier than anticipated, resulting in the last two episodes being about Dexter hunting down Estrada, the man who ordered his mother's death. Had Stevenson stuck around, Sirko would have filled Estrada's role for the final two episodes.

* CreatorBacklash: A year after the show ended, Creator/MichaelCHall admitted he'd never actually watched the finale and "I think the show had lost a certain amount of torque. Just inherently because of how long we’d done it, because of the storytelling capital we’d spent, because our writers may have been gassed." In 2020, after the announcement of the revival, Hall admitted in an interview that the conclusion of the series in Season 8 was unsatisfactory and that this was the chance to give the protagonist a more appropriate outcome.

* ActorAllusion:
** Creator/MichaelCHall previously played a funeral home director on ''Series/SixFeetUnder.'' So when Dexter goes to a funeral home in the season 5 premiere, and the roles are reversed, the show makes the most of it, from a set that looks like the Fisher funeral home to the director offering tissues.
** Creator/EnverGjokaj guest stars as a character named Viktor, possibly a reference to his role as Victor in ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}''.

* BigNameFan: J. Michael Straczynski praised the show for being the only one he'd seen able to create the same sense of "a freight train slowly coming toward the characters over weeks, months, or even years" that he was constantly trying to achieve on ''Series/BabylonFive''. Though mind you, he said this when only two seasons had aired, and there's no word on what he thought of the less popular ones.

* CastIncest: Michael C. Hall (Dexter Morgan) and Creator/JenniferCarpenter (Debra Morgan) were married for a couple of years while playing adopted siblings. They were divorced on December 2, 2011.

* CreatorBacklash: A year after the show ended, Michael C. Hall admitted he'd never actually watched the finale and "I think the show had lost a certain amount of torque. Just inherently because of how long we’d done it, because of the storytelling capital we’d spent, because our writers may have been gassed." In 2020, after the announcement of the revival, Michael C. Hall admitted in an interview that the conclusion of the series in Season 8 was unsatisfactory and that this was the chance to give the protagonist a more appropriate outcome.

** Colin Hanks, Mos Def, and Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos in Season 6.

** Charlotte Rampling and [[spoiler:Yvonne Strahovski (again)]] in Season 8.

* TheWikiRule: The [[http://dexter.wikia.com/wiki/Home Dexter Wiki]].

* CreatorBacklash: A year after the show ended, Michael C. Hall admitted he'd never actually watched the finale and "I think the show had lost a certain amount of torque. Just inherently because of how long we’d done it, because of the storytelling capital we’d spent, because our writers may have been gassed."

-->"In the very last scene of the series, Dexter wakes up. And everybody is going to think, 'Oh, it was a dream.' And then the camera pulls back and back and back and then we realize, 'No, it's not a dream.' Dexter's opening his eyes and he's on the execution table at the Florida Penitentiary. They're just starting to administer the drugs and he looks out through the window to the observation gallery. And in the gallery are all the people that Dexter killed—including the Trinity Killer and the Ice Truck Killer (his brother Rudy), [=LaGuerta=] who he was responsible [for] killing, Doakes who he's arguably responsible for, Rita who he's arguably responsible for, Lila. All the big deaths, and also whoever the weekly episodic kills were. They are all there. That's what I envisioned for the ending of Dexter. That everything we've seen over the past eight seasons has happened in the several seconds from the time they start Dexter's execution to the time they finish the execution and he dies. Literally, his life flashed before his eyes as he was about to die. I think it would have been a great, epic, very satisfying conclusion."

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Narrowly averted in 2010, when Michael C. Hall won a nasty fight with cancer.

** Jimmy Smits in Season 3.
** John Lithgow in Season 4.
** Julia Stiles, Jonny Lee Miller, and Peter Weller in Season 5.
** Colin Hanks, Mos Def, and Edward James Olmos in Season 6.
** Ray Stevenson and Yvonne Strahovski in Season 7.

Trivia for the series ''Series/{{Dexter}}'':

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome : Season 5's nanny, who was part of a minor subplot of Dexter trying to balance work, his obsession, and being father to a toddler. She's last seen at Harrison's birthday party. In Season 6, Batista's sister has taken the job.

* FakeNationality / Fake Ethnicity:

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** [[Film/TheWarriors Ajax]] became a cop after he got busted. Whoda thunk it?
** Look, Dexter's new nanny (on season 5) is [[TheTudors Queen Catherine of Aragon]].
** Not to mention [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Tasha Yar]] as Harry's nurse.
** Sci-Fi nerds will recognize [[StarWars Senator Bail Organa]] as Dexter's new best friend.
** And [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Crashdown]] as creepy taxidermist Neil Perry.
** Miguel Prado really should consider running for president. He played Matthew Santos in ''Series/TheWestWing''.
** Wait a second... Is that [[Series/SixFeetUnder David Fisher]]? [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything And he's dealing with dead people and having conversations with his dead father!]]
** When did [[Film/WhiteChicks Lisa]] become a cop?
** Dexter's dating (and later marries) [[Series/{{Angel}} Darla]].
** Also in Season 1, one of Dexter's targets is Sam Merlotte from Series/TrueBlood.
** Look, Rita's wife-beating coke-addled ex-husband is [[Series/{{Supernatural}} Lucifer]]! Huh, who knew? He really turned nasty once he left [[Series/{{Lost}} that island]].
** [[Series/StargateSG1 Bra'tac]] killed [[spoiler: Dexter's mother]]... no! it was [[TheTerminator Enrique!]]
** And [[Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun Dick Solomon]] [[spoiler: killed his wife]].
** The FBI-Agent Lundy is [[Series/CriminalMinds Frank]] and in the German dub is voiced by the same voice-actor as [[Series/CriminalMinds Gideon]]. Quite confusing when watched side by side.
** Dexter is related to [[Film/NationalTreasure John Wilkes Booth]] and [[Film/TheExorcismOfEmilyRose Emily Rose]].
** Franchise/RoboCop plays a DirtyCop who is investigating Dexter. [[Film/RoboCop1987 Dick Jones]] is a serial killer.
** [[Series/BandOfBrothers Malarkey]] is [[spoiler:one of Lumen's rapists]].
** [[Series/EliStone A lawyer with an aneurysm]] is the BigBad of season 5.
** [[Series/{{Everwood}} Colin Hart]] causes a lot of trouble as a drug dealer in season three.
** Film/{{May}} is [[spoiler:the first victim of the ring of rapists organized by Jordan Chase]], and is still in some sort of [[MoreThanMindControl really messed-up]] relationship with him.
** Poor [[Series/{{Popular}} Mary Cherry]]; she married a rapist who was murdered by Dexter as shown in the penultimate episode of season five.
** Hey, it's the bad guy from ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension''! And that's Buckaroo Banzai!
** Nicky seems to have stopped hanging out with [[Film/TheBourneSeries Jason Bourne]] and changed her name to Lumen.
** [[Series/{{Elementary}} Sherlock]] is now SerialKiller Jordan Chase.
** Vince's intern is [[Series/{{Heroes}} Daphne Millbrook]].
** [[Series/GossipGirl Evil Uncle Jack]] is a dirty cop who loves Deb! Well that explains how he can afford the Cadillac...
** Season 7 Mafiya Don baddie is [[Series/{{Rome}} Titus Pullo]]! Kicking latin asses while outnumbered since 52 BC!
** Holy shit, [[ThePunisher Frank Castle]] in a story about a vigilante who tracks down and murders bad guys. And HE's one of the bad guys!
** [[Series/{{Heroes}} Isaac Mendez]]? What are you doing in Miami?
** Schizoid [[Series/UnhappilyEverAfter Jack Malloy]] left behind his talking puppet and is now a police chief.
** [[Series/{{Dollhouse}} Victor]]'s in this show? His name is Viktor?
** [[Franchise/MassEffect Miranda Lawson]] is Dexter's new girlfriend.
*** [[Series/{{Supernatural}} Bobby Singer]] is her father.
* HeyItsThatVoice:
** In the Japanese dub, Dexter is, ironically, [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure J.Geil in the TV series]], another SerialKiller, except J.Geil is the '''opposite''' of Dexter in every aspect.

** Hey, it's the bad guy from BuckarooBanzai! And that's Buckaroo Banzai!

** Miguel Prado really should consider running for president. He played Matthew Santos in TheWestWing.

** And [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Crashdown]] as creepy taxidermist Neil Perry.

** Mexican-American Christian Camargo as [[ButNotTooForeign plain old American]] Rudy Cooper [[spoiler:/ Brian Moser]].

** [[GossipGirl Evil Uncle Jack]] is a dirty cop who loves Deb! Well that explains how he can afford the Cadillac...

** Enver Gjokaj guest stars as a character named Viktor, possibly a reference to his role as Victor in ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}''.

** Michael C. Hall previously played a funeral home director on ''Series/SixFeetUnder.'' So when Dexter goes to a funeral home in the season 5 premiere, and the roles are reversed, the show makes the most of it, from a set that looks like the Fisher funeral home to the director offering tissues.

** Englishman Jonny Lee Miller as Jordan Chase.
** Australian Yvonne Strahovski as Hannah [=McKay=].

* FakeRussian: Irishman RayStevenson as Ukrainian Isaak Sirko.