Dylan McKay was dark; he was brooding; he was deeply flawed. All of these things made him the ultimate ’90s bad boy that you wanted desperately to believe had a heart of gold. But Dylan was so caught up in crazy stories—from his father’s supposed death by car bomb, to his involvement in the Peach Pit After Dark being robbed, to his empty relationship with Valerie, to the later revelation that his father was alive—what kept him grounded was the love triangle with Kelly and Brenda. When it came to Dylan, you ultimately wanted one of them to be with him in the end, because you knew that on his own he was too self-destructive.