Dylan Dalmatian

Dylan Dalmatian is the deuteragonist of thw British Uk Disney Channey TV show 101 Dalmatian Street based upon the overall 101 Dalmatians franchise with the novel and film all of the same names. 
He is the step-brother of Dolly and her side of the family and a step-son of Doug side of the family. While he is the biological son of Delilah Dalmatian and the adoptive one of Doug Dalmatian. And he is the biological elder brother of many of his and Delilah’s side of the family.
== His Admirable Ranking ==
=== Debated Validations ===
* The first episode implies Dylan has misanthropy as he was shocked to see Mr. Fuzzy at the front of the house refusing to let him come inside the house. He later begins to accept him and helps him find his heart which shows he isn’t entirely misanthropic at all. As he still wanted to keep Mr. Fuzzy despite how destructive it has been simply keeping him.
** Additionally, he has shown to have genuine care for Clarissa’s human pet Hugo. Which further on elaborates he isn’t misanthropic at all.
** He also develops a brief friendship with Hunter de Vil and doesn’t necessarily hold any grudges against him at all and was scared of him and his family getting captured by Hunter de Vil who posed as a threat at the time to be given to Cruella de Vil for her sinister plans.
* Similar to Pongo and Perdita in Stephen Herek's 101 Dalmatians Live-Action Duology Film Series. His communications through the perceptions of human character’s views translates to barks. Which would imply Dylan and his animal peers lack a moral agency. Yet, considering Hunter de Vil is the only human that knows Dylan and his family could talk. So, Dylan and his animal peers has sentience in this universe and have moral agencies.
* Numerous episodes shows him being an antagonist. Some of the times out of some self-absorbed behavior, while he is possessed/brainwashed, or some form of paranoia. However, he overcomes his antagonistic role and feels remorse when realizing he did something wrong. Thus, him being an antagonist isn’t really much of a solid enough prevention.
* His fear for Portia isn’t necessarily xenophobic. As some of what Portia obsesses over is weird like how she likes “dead things”, or got Dylan to do many weird messed up things on some episodes. Furthermore, Dylan’s fear for Portia is understandable. Plus, his love for Portia continues as a reoccurring theme.
* It is debatable if his corrupting factors are canon in "Puppy Dreams" Part 1-2 or if they are simply dreams that didn’t truly happened.
** On that same episode, he subconsciously wags his tail to call Hugo. Which might show mischievousness. Yet, it is likely he didn’t intend to do this and it might have been nothing more than accident.
* He has slightly more resources than Pongo and Perdita who did the same admirable acts as him earlier on during the 1956 novel and 1961 film. However, Dylan saved his family many more times with not as much resources through a wide-range of settings which makes this somewhat debatable if he does fail any more standards to the two or not.
* While his control freak behavior add along his mischievousness are what makes him less likely to qualify. He ultimately cares for his friends and family and he can admit to the wrong deeds eventually which shows his corrupting factors aren’t too severe compared to Dolly who is so a lot more mischievous, arrogant, and rebellious.
* While he did went rogue or got out of emotion on many episodes, these moments are just heating-up periods. He doesn’t usually react this way by his own will. And other characters like Dolly, Clarissa, or Portia or another character provokes him into temporarily subverting out of his heroical ways. So, it is likely Dylan doesn’t intentionally mean any direct harm nor does he like being as villainous.
* It can be argued he is way too xenophobic to be an admirable character. Hence the fact that he literally was pulled off of Near Pure Good alongside Dolly for similar reasons. Yet, Dylan at least pushes aside his xenophobic ways against locals and cats having a respect for them. Which would make Dylan more admirable if anything.
** He did refuse to defend Deepak when the Dimitri’s made fun of him and Cats. Yet, he off-screen corrected their behavior.
** Also, his brief xenophobia against “locals” merely caused his life along with his family’s. Although, it is likely he didn’t know the direct harm he merely caused and he likely didn’t mean it.
** He makes fun of Portia and Dante for Cerberus yet the Dante confirms that it wasn’t actually real and Dante, Portia, and Spencer made it up to teach him a lesson and they take that lesson to far causing Dylan to almost become somewhat of a supporting antagonist.
** There was a huge heating up period of him mocking Clarissa alongside a crowd that laughed at him and her kind on “D-Factor” was likely him giving her a taste of her own medicine. As Clarissa is known to be a xenophobe and the crowd laughed along and we’re nothing more than bystanders praising Clarissa’s xenophobic behavior. So, Dylan’s heating up period from this moment is likely justified. Plus, he wasn’t willing to say anything rude about Portia which shows he isn’t willing to go the route to mess up the terms between his crushes after understandably being undeservingly humiliated.
* Some can interpret his kill count of fleas as lethality. Yet, this may be unlikely since the Fleas DID pose as threats throughout the story almost harming his family and taking over Camden Town. So, this would make him at best a Righteous Killer than a Lethal.
* The messes Dylan and Dolly and occasionally some of his family cause when breaking into Clarissa’s house about possibly two times at best since the first season were for reasons to check to see if Hugo and Clarissa were okay and bring back a jewelry he thought Dorthy stole. So, these break-ins are likely not even severe enough preventions.
* He became envious when Diesel won at the sniffing contest which made Dylan reluctant from working with Diesel to find out the identity of the culprit behind the vandalism. Yet, this is somewhat justified (apart from accusing Diesel for the vandalism even though eventually realizing it wasn’t the case) as Dolly kept making fun of him for a while. And Dolly has been the type to make fun of Dylan when it comes to any failures and misfortunes. So, the envy isn’t that much of a prevention. And considering that he broke Diesel out of the slammer. It only showed he pushed aside his envy and did an admirable act if anything.
=== What at least makes him admirable enough? ===
* Unlike Dolly Dalmatian, Dylan is known to be a responsible family member who strongly prefers not to get into trouble.
* Although, he was initially reluctant to accept Mr. Fuzzy (a human). He was merely surprised likely since he never saw one in his earlier life. And he developed a friendship with Mr. Fuzzy and was convinced by Doug Dalmatian for Mr. Fuzzy to be with his own people. 
** Dylan tries to get Mr. Fuzzy to find his heart instead of keeping him in the Dog House.
* He is in no way misanthropic. As he is shown to care about humans like Mr. Fuzzy a human wanting to take care of him after being somewhat more reluctant earlier on. As well as Hugo who is Clarissa’s human pet and Hunter De Vil who was the secondary antagonist who was a human.
* In a video game dedicated to Boom Night he and Dolly saves his Dalmatian family.
* He and Dolly tried to rescue the youngest Dalmatian pups Dorthy.
* He warned Dolly about Sid using her to get acorn nuts.
* He saved Dolly from falling down Big Ben Clock.
* He alongside Dolly some of the occasions has either helped or saved their friends and family a number of times.
* Despite the fact that Dylan wanted to keep Mr. Fuzzy to do his chores. He eventually chose to let him go to be with the other humans and helps him find a love interest making Dylan a Bond Creator. 
* He has even helped or saved a Dolly many of the times.
* His over the top personality or brainwashed/possessed selves are not in any way caused by him. But by those around him. And he eventually realizes this and doesn’t know what happened through the times he dissociated and at times would regret the way he may have reacted eventually getting to realize what he had done while in the dissociative state. Thus, this can’t be a valid enough corrupting factor.
* He has pushed aside his envious animosity and skeptical feelings about Diesel (with almost thinking he was the culprit behind the Camden Park vandalization) to work with Dolly and the pups to jailbreak him.
* He was genuinely shocked to see Dolly accusing Dorthy for stealing when Dorthy doesn’t steal to begin with. Which shows how Dylan has good faith in others and isn’t that quick to judge as opposed to Dolly.
* He tried his best to manage the flea situation by putting the Dalmatians down the basement. He then got all of the fleas extracted from his siblings and transported it to Clarissa.
* Although, he does contract the fleas back to Clarissa. She WAS the one who has caused the respective episode’s plot in the first place as she was revealed to
* give a moon rock with fleas to Dylan. She was even happy about Hugo calling pest control and seemed happy with everything that was happening up to this point until the fleas got back to her.
* Although, he has many flaws albeit him not telling Dolly about Hunter, making fun of Dante and refusing to listen to him when he saw Cuddles who worked for Hunter. He admits to his wrong many of the times.
* While being rejected on Near Pure Good for his xenophobic ways. He redeems his wrong ways. Yet, he does react the same way in D-Factor meaning that he does at least have a capability of being xenophobic still. Yet, this is mainly contributed by a whole range of antagonists that provoke Dylan to become this xenophobic way. Such as Chips who stole from Dylan and barfed on Dylan and Summer’s paw alongside Clarissa who humiliated him and has a huger prejudicial xenophobia than Dylan himself and his friends that did laugh at him when being humiliated. Yet, considering his love for Portia refuses to make fun of her. Although, he did make fun of her and Dante for the Cerberus Three Skull, although Portia and Dante and Spencer did go to far lengths. Dylan however to an extent learns from his mistakes for the most part and likely doesn’t mean any genuine harm.
* In spite of the highest admirable standards whether or be from Pongo, Perdita. They have had more resources being slightly more wealthier. And Dylan has saved his family plenty of more times to count many of the times with minimal resources he has which makes him stand out further more. 
=== What makes his admirability insufficient? ===
* He has way too much control freak, naive, mischievous and arrogant, and hypocritical type of behavior. Worst of all, this usual nature was an on-and-on occurrence where he refused to listen to Dante and did not tell Dolly the truth. Part of these actions ultimately leads Hunter de Vil and Cruella de Vil were both able to track down the Dalmatians.
* With these inconsistencies, Dylan fails the in-story standards to Fergus, Sid, Big Fee who managed to save the Dalmatians with fewer resources. Add along Summer who is a Heroic Benchmark. 
== Trivia ==
* Dylan Dalmatian is one of the first few Insufficiently Admirable heroes to be onto this page.
* His admirability may be sufficient enough to be suitable on Heroic Benchmark due to his standard heroism.
* He isn’t on Inconsistently Admirable since he is considered standard good similar to Fergus and Summer.
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