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* ''[[The Sandman]]''
** During ''A Game of You'', it's revealed that Barbie's dreams feature this. As Princess Barbara, she is the rightful ruler of a realm where the Cuckoo has taken her throne, and introduces chaos through the power of compulsion. Armies march through peaceful villages and terrify the citizens, anthropomorphized creatures that can talk or perform magic. Barbie notes that while the Land is still beautiful, it is no longer home and won't be unless she defeats the Cuckoo. Martin Tenbones tells her that the Porpentine, a magical sugar gem, is what keeps the Land intact so she must never let the Cuckoo destroy it. {{spoiler|Barbie fails; the Cuckoo slaughters most of her friends, brainwashes the rest, compels her to destroy the Porpentine. Dream comes and ends the Land's time in the Dreaming, so all the dead inhabitants enter the palm of his hand}}. Even worse, when Dream appears, he breaks it gently to Barbie that {{spoiler|Cuckoos are ''supposed'' to invite this level of destruction. Their nature is to grow in a dream world that isn't there, leave by any means possible, and fly to their hearts' content. He says that if Rose hadn't inadvertently interfered with Barbie's dream, the Cuckoo would have been able to leave sooner.}}
** ''The Kindly Ones'' implies that Dream either invokes or {{spoiler|passively lets it happen when Loki and Puck kidnap Daniel, the baby designated as Dream's heir, and frame Dream as the culprit for burning Daniel alive. Daniel's mom, Hippolyta Hall, invokes the wrath of the Furies aka the Kindly Ones on Dream, and lets them rampage in his realm. Most of the Dreaming inhabitants get slaughtered, though some like Gilbert and Mervyn Pumpkinhead fight to the bitter end to protect their King. Despite the residents' best efforts the rampage only ends with Dream's death, and he more than welcomes it once the Kindly Ones let him say goodbye to his sister Death. Daniel, who is now rapidly aged to an adult as the new Dream with the previous avatar's memories, is not pleased by his mother's stupidity, the amount of destruction that he has to repair, and the inhabitants whose lives were senselessly lost. Gilbert refuses to be revived, meaning that Daniel has to live with the loss, along with many other losses and a changed landscape. Daniel has to face what this new world means; as the King of Dreams, he has the choice to be a better leader than Morpheus, to adjust the rules as he sees fit. He decides to face this uncertainty, with Matthew's help, and embrace the changes. Later series like ''The Dreaming'' and ''Nightmare County'' go into how the Dreaming has changed as a result, with the Corinthian becoming a borderline [[Anti-Hero]], a far cry from his [[Arc Villain]] counterpart}}.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
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