Dante also becomes a love interest for Maggie, but she’s now absent from the show.
His courtship with Enid is possibly meant to reflect that, but it felt more like a last stab at emotional relevance.
His introduction coincided with Alpha’s, meaning his death wouldn’t have meant as much at the time.
Alden doesn’t have a direct comic book counterpart, but he was likely intended to be a stand-in for the source material’s Dante, whose comic survival isn’t a hard blueprint to go by for the TV version.