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* [[Abusive Dad]]: Roderick Burgress is not winning any father of the year awards. He physically abuses Alex, blatantly using him as a servant rather than a son.
* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]: When he and Rose manage to enter {{spoiler|Jed's mindscape, Dream smiles when he sees a little boy in a cape and mask approach him, saying that ''he'' is the Sandman who must face the King of Nightmares. Dream is very amused and asks if that's what Gault told Jed what Morpheus was. It's implied he finds Jed adorable in the getup. Rose is more down-to-earth, reassuring Jed that she's here to help her little brother and they're not going to fight him.}}
* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: John Dee in the comics was a shriveled man with a haunted expression in his eyes. As David Thewliss plays John, he is fairly handsome, just looking lost before realizing he can get his ruby back.▼
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The Corinthian gets more to do here by appearing in the first arc rather than being the [[Arc Villain]] in ''Doll's House''. Dream ended up on Earth hunting down the Corinthian, who escaped to become a real-life nightmare. That allowed Roderick Burgess to capture him. ▼
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: Neil freely admits that he was making up as he went when writing the first comics' run of ''Sandman'', hence why stuff like the Vortex's true vortex had inconsistent details. Forty years and hindsight allow him to tighten the timeline. Namely, Dream and Lucienne, rather than admiring Rose as the vortex, are cautious about if her powers will awaken.
▲* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The Corinthian gets more to do here by appearing in the first arc rather than being the [[Arc Villain]] in ''Doll's House''. Dream ended up on Earth hunting down the Corinthian, who escaped to become a real-life nightmare. That allowed Roderick Burgess to capture him.
▲* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: John Dee in the comics was a shriveled man with a haunted expression in his eyes. As David Thewliss plays John, he is fairly handsome, just looking lost before realizing he can get his ruby back.
* [[Adaptational Heroism]]:
** For what little it's worth, John Dee has a smaller body count compared to his comic counterpart. He doesn't want to kill anyone stopping him from getting his ruby, and {{spoiler|spares Rosemary, giving her his amulet of protection}}. And indeed when he gets the ruby, rather than {{spoiler|use it to kill people [[For the Evulz]], he notes how everyone in the diner has dark secrets and uses its power to make all the negativity and resentment come out, along with the passion and confessions}}.
** One for Dream; while he does save {{spoiler|Rose's life in the comics, he does plan to kill her if her Vortex powers awaken which they do, explaining that if he doesn't, she'll have the power to destroy Earth and infinite worlds. Here, he's adamant that despite her powers, she's not the one causing the problems in the Dreaming and agrees to help train her on how to use them to find Jed, if she helps him track down errant dreams. Lucienne and Gilbert know that he will ''have'' to kill the vortex eventually, but Dream delays it because he doesn't like killing and becomes fond of Rose's company. Rose is the one who offers to sacrifice herself so that she doesn't hurt her friends or family, realizing that her powers are too dangerous after they inadvertently empower the Corinthian}}.
** One thing in the Corinthian's favor: he does not prey on children, and he doesn't kill everyone that he meets. Heck, he even sleeps with Carl when the latter hits on him, and refuses to eat his eyes. His [[Establishing Character Moment]] in the comic is showing him preparing to murder a teenaged kidnap victim in a hotel tub. One thing to his credit is that when {{spoiler|he kidnaps Jed after murdering Clarice and Barnaby, he does not lay a finger on the kid, and even treats him to ice-cream while bargaining with his sister}}.
* [[Adaptational Personality Adjustment]]:
** Lucien in the comic was more of [[The Caretaker]] of the Dreaming, who fusses over Morpheus when the latter collapses. Lucienne, in contrast, is portrayed as a [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]] that is not afraid to speak her mind to Dream about if it's safe for him to travel to Earth alone, has been running the Dreaming when he's held captive for a hundred years, and sends a raven to help him when he hunts down his tools. While Lucienne reasonably fears that if Dream loses his temper that he will send her and {{spoiler|Fiddler's Green}} to Eternal Darkness, she also stands up to him if he's being unreasonable or narrow-minded.
** Joanna Constantine II is more flippant than her comic counterpart John Constantine was with Morpheus. When Dream showed up on John's doorstep, he tiredly agreed to help the King of Dreams. Joanna tells Dream that he has to wait while she handles another exorcism and negotiates to get her fees tripled. Unlike John, who is fairly careful with his artifacts, Joanna reveals she left Dream's bag of sand at an ex's place after ghosting her. {{spoiler|She goes [[My God, What Have I Done?]] after learning this careless act led to Rachael trying the sand due to not knowing any better, getting poisoned and dying}}.
** Hob Gadling was a [[Technical Pacifist]] in the comics; he loses any fights where someone targets him. The show has him take on Lady Johanna Constantine I's goons with his fists, to protect Dream.
** Greek muse Calliope in the comics is a [[Broken Bird]] and all-around [[Nice Girl]]. While she is nice in the show, she's much more defiant towards Erasmus when the latter has imprisoned her, and later Richard Madoc when he takes ownership of her. Calliope outright tells Richard that if he wants her ideas honorably, he would free her and then worship her, as the muses used to be worshipped. She also more actively plays [[The Long Game]] when the Fates tell her that only her ex Dream can save her; Calliope reads the newspaper and sees the Sleeping Sickness has ended. Knowing what that means, she contrives a [[Distress Call]] by writing "Morpheus" on a piece of paper. When Richard says the name aloud and burns the paper, she doesn't react, because saying Dream's name will summon him. Calliope also tells Morpheus she wants to be free, but doesn't want him to think that he still owns her as a wife. She specifies that she doesn't want Richard to be hurt later. Unlike in the comic where Calliope looks at Richard with pity after Dream curses him, she gives a tiny smile.
* [[Adaptational Villainy]]: The Burgesses had one thing in their defense in the comic book; they had no idea about the harm they were causing to the world and had mistaken Dream for Death during his centuries-long captivity. When the Corinthian tells Roderick, as well as Alex, what they really imprisoned, Roderick uses Dream's items to make himself rich. Alex has it worse in that he nearly frees Dream a few times, but hesitates.
* [[Adaptational Weakling]]:
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