List of Dark Angel characters

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This is a list of the key characters in the TV Series, Dark Angel.

1 Main Characters (2000 – 2002)
2 Recurring Characters: Season 1 (2000 – 2001)
3 Recurring Characters: Season 2 (2001 – 2002)

[edit] Main Characters (2000 – 2002)

Max Guevara/X5-452 (Jessica Alba, Geneva Locke and Brittany Cuevas): Max is a genetically enhanced transgenic super-soldier who escaped from Project Manticore. She can be identified by the bar code on the back of her neck: number 332960073452. In order to blend in with normal society, she works as a courier for Jam Pony Express. It also helps her circulate with greater freedom in post-Pulse Seattle.; Max also uses her messenger job to help scout potential targets to cat burgle. She uses this money to fund her search for her fellow Manticore escapees. Max teams up with Eyes Only in the pilot. Her friends include her roommate Kendra (Jennifer Blanc) (part of season 1), and her Jam Pony co-workers, Original Cindy, Herbal Thought (Alimi Ballard) and Sketchy (Richard Gunn), and Alec (in Season 2).
Logan Cale (Michael Weatherly): Logan is the cyber-journalist, Eyes Only, who uses his knowledge of computer technology to bring down the corrupt power brokers of the new millennium. Heir to a family fortune, Logan hacks into television cable networks and delivers his scathing video messages. Max and Logan develop a partnership and close friendship, as she helps him to take out bad guys, and he helps her track down her fellow Manticore escapees. He often refers to Eyes Only in the third person, even when talking to people in the know. Det. Matt Sung (Byron Mann) is his trusted police contact who often provides information, and otherwise aids him. When Logan becomes disabled and confined to a wheel-chair, he's assisted by Bling (Peter James Bryant), his live-in physical therapist, up until he meets Phil; the Street Sweeper (Rainn Wilson) in "I and I Am a Camera" who provides him with an exoskeleton allowing him to walk.
Original Cindy (Valarie Rae Miller): Original Cindy (a.k.a. O.C.) is Max's best friend, co-worker and drinking buddy. In the middle of Season One, she discovers that Max is an escaped supersoldier from Manticore and, after some debate, becomes her roommate for the rest of season one. At the start of Season Two, O.C. learns that Logan is Eyes Only. She usually refers to herself in the third person and is a lesbian.
Normal (J.C. McKenzie): Normal's real name is Reagan Ronald. He runs the Jam Pony Express courier service and is nicknamed Normal because his conservative attitude clashes with his somewhat anarchic surroundings. He is a hard taskmaster, often annoyingly saying "bip, bip, bip," to mean "hurry!"; Normal dotes on Alec and calls him his "golden boy," which is especially ironic considering his strong prejudice against transgenics.; After skillfully helping an X-5 deliver her baby, he realizes the error of his ways.

[edit] Recurring Characters: Season 1 (2000 – 2001)

Colonel Donald Michael Lydecker (John Savage)

Colonel Lydecker is one of Manticore's senior officers and the arch-enemy of Max and Zack. He remains attached to the X5 program and tries to recapture the super-soldiers, to whom he refers as "his kids." Eventually Lydecker switches sides after the project's director betrays him and kills one of "his kids." He becomes a valuable ally taking down Manticore but disappears under mysterious circumstances early season 2.

Zack/X5-599 (William Gregory Lee)

Zack was Max's unit leader back at Manticore, and it was his idea to escape. He is very protective of his fellow escapees (especially Max) and doesn't trust regular humans. In the episode "… And Jesus Brought a Casserole" he sacrifices himself to save Max by giving her his heart. (Using new experimental cybernetics, Zack survives and makes a cameo appearance in the Season 2 Pilot Designate This and later returns briefly as a cyborg in the season 2 episode Some Assembly Required).

Ben/X5-493 (Jensen Ackles)

Ben was an especially favorite unit-mate of Max's. He often made up stories explaining things they didn't have answers to (i.e. death, and the anomalies in the basement), and entertaining them making them feel special and loved. While at Manticore he created a religious ideology for "the Blue Lady," after receiving an illustrated card of the Virgin Mary.

Unfortunately, in the real world he felt lost, and nothing made sense to him anymore. His gifted imagination and tendency for story telling, developed into full blown psychosis, and he became a serial killer, hunting down priests after tattooing his barcode on the back of their necks to make them a more worthy sacrifice. He offered the teeth of his victims to the Virgin Mary, his "Blue Lady." Max tracked him down to stop him, and during combat, breaks his leg. He asked her to kill him rather than let him be taken by the Manticore retrieval team closing in.

Ben had an identical twin, Alec/X5-494 (see below), who was a main character all of season 2.

Tinga/Penny Smith/X5-656 (Lisa Ann Cabasa): Tinga was another escapee with Max and the others. She managed to assimilate into normal society, and married Charlie Smith (Sebastian Spence), had a child named Case, and worked in a bakery. In "The Kidz are Aiight", she escapes to Canada with Zack, returns for her family in "Hit a Sista Back", and is then captured by Manticore in exchange for her son's return.; Her capture and death was a very strong influence in Lydecker's defection from Manticore.
Case Smith (Malkolm Alburquenque): He only appeared in "Hit a Sista Back" but should be mentioned as he is the nephew of Max Guevara and the only child of Tinga. At five years old he had accelerated motor control, heightened spatial recognition, and advanced logical thinking: in short, traits of an X5. Which surprises Manticore, since their laboratory mixings of X5 DNA with human DNA resulted in very poor offspring. He's last seen going into hiding along with his dad Charlie, bidding a tearful goodbye to his mother and Max, who fears she may never see him again after/having just learned/learning of his existence.
Sebastian (Jade C. Bell): Sebastian is Logan's friend and a mute quadriplegic who communicates via a machine that verbalizes his thoughts. He is a conspiracy theorist and a technological genius (similar in some ways to Stephen Hawking) who helps Max and Logan solve mysteries through the use of computer technology.

[edit] Recurring Characters: Season 2 (2001 – 2002)

Alec McDowell/X5-494 (Jensen Ackles): Alec is named by Max, and is introduced as Max's breeding partner at Manticore, an order vehemently protested by Max. When Manticore gets destroyed, Alec escapes to the outside world. A genetically enhanced super-soldier, he makes money using less than questionable means, while wheeling and dealing, but often follows Max's example, such as working at Jam Pony, and being a cat burglar.; Alec is a rogue in the mold of Han Solo or Gambit and often presents a cavalier attitude to the world, while hiding his darker emotions. He was, at first, a self-absorbed magnet for trouble, but becomes a valuable ally for Max and eventually, her friend.; He is the identical twin of Ben, Max's dead unit-mate, which was very difficult for Max.; Being a clone of one of the '09 escapees also caused Alec a lot of trouble, in Manticore and out in the world.
Ames White (Martin Cummins): This character could be said to replace Lydecker as Max's primary nemesis. He's a government agent charged with tracking down and exterminating Manticore escapees in order to conceal the organization's existence, White is also part of an ancient cult (known only as the "Conclave") that have infiltrated various levels of society and, over thousands of years, bred super-humans that are formidable fighters equal to most of the genetically-enhanced Manticore projects0.
Raymond 'Ray' White: Ames' son, who was kidnapped by the Familiars. The breeding cult put him through a mysterious ceremony to see if he would survive exposure to a potentially lethal pathogen for 'the coming'. Thankfully Ray's immune system kicked in with the right antibodies, and he survived. Max rescued him, and Logan arranged for Ray to be placed in a secure environment away from the Familiars. This caused Ames, deprived of his son, to increase his hostility towards Max.
C.J.: He's Ames' younger brother, who was locked up in a mental institute. He lets slip a shocking secret concerning him and Ames White: they are, in fact, Sandeman's sons.
Joshua (Kevin Durand): An early Manticore experiment, Joshua was engineered with canine DNA and consequently has some unusual facial features, as well as exceptional strength even by transgenic standards. As the very first successful Manticore creation, he has no bar code. At Manticore, he often roamed in the basement, unchecked and would take care of the rest of the "downstairs people" by giving them food. He and Max develop a very close friendship, and he often copies some of the things she says, since he's unfamiliar with normal speech.

Because of his beastly appearance, creative ways had to be found to hide him from public view. He had a brief romance with a blind woman named Annie Fisher, before she was murdered by Agent White to frame the transgenics. His enormous strength helped turn the tide in the climactic battle with the breeding cult members.

Asha Barlow (Ashley Scott): Asha is a member of S.1.W., a militant resistance movement against government corruption. She works closely with Logan on Eyes Only missions but it is unclear whether she knows that he's Eyes Only.; She's also infatuated with Logan, and had a near hook-up with Alec.
Sandeman: Sandeman is a figure who is often referred to but appears only briefly in the series in a form of a faceless flashback Max has later in Season 2. He was part of the same ancient cult as Ames White but rejected it and created Manticore. Joshua and Isaac (Joshua's younger brother) were his first creations. In addition, Sandeman created X5-452 (aka Max Guevara), in whom he implanted a message in an ancient language related to the cult, which manifests itself as tattoo-like markings on her skin. Max was created as a means to stop the ancient cult. This is hinted at in early season 2 episodes, as she is said to have no "junk DNA".
Annie Fisher (Kandyse McClure): Joshua's short-lived girlfriend. The two meet when Joshua is on his porch due to the fleas in his house, and after realizing Annie is blind, Joshua talks with her. As the two begin getting close, Alec convinces Joshua it is dangerous to see Annie, and he breaks up with her. They later meet up again while Joshua is being chased by vigilantes, and he leads her into the sewer where he's forced to tell her the truth about himself. Although first being upset, Annie wants to feel Joshua to see what he really looks like, and understands why he lied to her. She tells him to escape and leave her behind, and that she'll tell the police he went in a different direction. Unfortunately, Ames finds her and snaps her neck to frame Joshua for murder.