The son of morally ambiguous business tycoon Jack McKay and his hippie ex-wife, Iris McKay, Dylan starts the series with a reputation for being a dangerous loner.
19 Facts About Dylan McKay
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Dylan McKay eventually starts dating Brenda, and despite her father's protests, the two soon fall in love.
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However, when Dylan McKay takes Brenda to Mexico against her father's wishes, her father forbids her to date him.
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Brenda refuses to obey and moves in with Dylan McKay, who becomes increasingly unhappy in the relationship.
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When Dylan McKay's father is prematurely released from prison, Kelly helps Dylan McKay re-establish a healthy relationship with his father.
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Dylan McKay spends the remainder of the third season managing his relationship with Kelly and with the rest of his friends, graduates from West Beverly High School in the season finale.
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Dylan McKay is initially skeptical, but eventually accepts them as family.
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Dylan McKay then starts taking drugs and sleeping with Valerie Malone, who discovers his drug problem and his true financial situation and tells the rest of Dylan McKay's friends.
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Dylan McKay continues in his downward spiral until his friends hold an intervention.
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Dylan McKay agrees to go to rehab, but checks out after only one day.
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Dylan McKay offers her a trip around the world with him.
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Brandon is threatened by Dylan McKay and proposes to Kelly, forcing her to choose between the two.
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Dylan McKay takes his Porsche out of storage and, after much thinking, sells it and decides to burn the money, where he runs into a drug dealer that gives him heroin.
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Dylan McKay began to move around a lot and rarely visited Sammy.
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Dylan McKay kept in contact with Brandon, from whom he obtained Brenda's email.
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In episode 6, Dylan McKay calls Brenda while she is talking to Kelly and Ryan.
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Ryan asks Kelly why Dylan McKay would call Brenda's phone, not hers, if he wanted to talk to Kelly.
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In episode 10, Kelly comes back to Beverly Hills and reveals that a romantic reunion with Dylan McKay did not work out, as he has the same commitment issues that plagued their relationship before.
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Dylan McKay was considered one of the show's most popular characters, and a prime example of the "bad boy" archetype in popular culture.