YMMV / Dark Angel (1986)

• Ensemble Dark Horse: Troy is very popular with the fans due to his Byronic Hero style character and his willingness to sacrifice his own happiness for Heaven's.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Just try and find a reader who doesn't think that Troy — not Logan — was the love of Heaven's life and that she should have married him instead. Troy might have been Heaven's uncle, but it's not like the previous series didn't have an incestuous couple working things out. In fact, she was still planning on marrying Troy even after the "uncle" reveal and it was just Troy's apparent death that put a stop to that. He was much more sensitive and caring towards Heaven than Logan who had No Sympathy for Heaven's abuse at the hands of Kitty and Cal, said point-blank to her face that she was Defiled Forever to him.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Tom writes Heaven a sad letter saying that he's given up his dreams of going to college, mentioning that while as children they'd talked about him one day running for President, no one would ever vote for someone with such a strong hillbilly accent. Seven years after this book was published, Bill Clinton — who had a strong Arkansas accent — became President and served two terms.
• Narm: Tom's heroic death is somewhat marred by the fact that he dies from being mauled by a lion while dressed as a literal clown.