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The Sandman (Franchise)
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The Sandman is a fantasy media franchise spinning out of The Sandman (1989), initially written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics. It focuses on the affairs of Dream, a powerful being in charge of stories, beliefs, dreams, and nightmares of every living thing.The main story concerns Dream in the aftermath of a decades-long imprisonment by humanity, and how he adjusts to both his realm the Dreaming and the waking world with his change in perspective. To a lesser extent, the franchise also concerns the dealings of his siblings, the Endless, a dysfunctional pantheon of seven anthropomorphic personifications of certain universal functions, as well as other side stories set within the universe.The franchise is ostensibly set in The DCU, and in fact began as an attempt to revive The Sandman starring Garrett Sanford, the Silver Age Sandman. Both Sanford and Wesley Dodds, the Golden Age Sandman, would retroactively be included in Dream's mythos. | |
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Abel says as much in Fables and Reflections, indicating that their Biblical backstory did not happen on Earth. Cain likewise states that none of them, including the Endless, looked remotely human at the time. | |
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Life Will Kill You | |
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Life Will Kill You: An overarching theme and motif of Death, who meets many, many minor characters who all meet mundane ends, such as electrocution, car accidents, and even Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. It's demonstrated again in Brief Lives, where a man who's been alive for 15,000 years dies because of a random construction accident, and again in Time of Your Life, when she's nonchalant about the Balancing Death's Books deal. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: In The High Cost of Living, someone says they would like to die between two virgins at the moment of orgasm, via elephant crushing. In Endless Nights, someone does exactly that. This comes up occasionally in other places too; it's more of a Running Gag. Also in Endless Nights, Despair talks with Rao (Krypton's sun) about her plan to create the ultimate being of despair. Namely, for an unstable planet to host life and leave a single survivor when it dies. Apparently she thinks that the life on that world would be more beautiful, because at any time it could be destroyed. Superman is NOT in the throes of Despair though, so it looks like her plan backfired. In the same issue, the green sun and Dream's alien girlfriend represent the sun and a resident of Oa, which form the background of the Green Lantern stories. If her developing energy powers and her role as a protector of the planet are any indication, she may be one of the founders of the Corps. | |
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The Older Immortal | |
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The Older Immortal: This shows up in multiple fashions in the franchise, but the most prominent example is the Endless themselves, who in order of age are Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, the twins Desire and Despair, and Delight/Delirium. They are either as old as or only slightly younger than the current universe, and predate most known deities and immortal figures. | |
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Earth Is Young | |
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Earth Is Young: This Verse goes for the postmodern Type D version. Time, history, and reality are all very relative concepts, and what says that an act of creation can't be retroactive anyway? Putting together evidence from Season of Mists, "The Parliament of Rooks", Brief Lives, and Lucifer, it appears that in this Verse the fossil record is true, if incomplete, but the Garden of Eden plot and the war in Heaven happened — 10 billion years ago, before Earth was even formed. Abel says as much in Fables and Reflections, indicating that their Biblical backstory did not happen on Earth. Cain likewise states that none of them, including the Endless, looked remotely human at the time. In Endless Nights, Sol, the personification of our Sun, plays a minor role. Oa, the home of the Guardians of the Universe, already has sentient beings, but Sol says explicitly that none of his planets have life yet. The conclusion reveals that this has been a bedtime story from Sol to young, lifeless Earth. | |
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Running Gag | |
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In The High Cost of Living, someone says they would like to die between two virgins at the moment of orgasm, via elephant crushing. In Endless Nights, someone does exactly that. This comes up occasionally in other places too; it's more of a Running Gag. | |
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