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== The Sandman/Dream ==

Dream of the Endless. The Lord Shaper (one name of '''[[I Have Many Names|many]]''' he's acquired). The personification of dreams and creativity, and his realm helps shape its opposite - reality. He can change his appearance; while he is always male, people may see him differently, usually as a member of their own ethnic group; their own race (in the case of Fairies); or their own species, for example with cats. Note that this is not always a physical change: different characters observing him at once may perceive different forms (Martian Manhunter and Scott Free for example), implying that he primarily exists as part of the mind. The third of the Endless.

 

 

 

{{quote|'''Nuala''': "You ... you ''want'' them to punish you, don't you? You want to be punished for Orpheus's death?"

'''Dream''': "..." }}

 

* [[Aloof Big Brother]]

* [[Anti-Hero]]

* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]: This is the most common interpretation of the series' plot.}}

* [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette]]

* [[Fatal Flaw]]: Implied to be his [[Lack of Empathy]].

** Or, more precisely, his sense of duty and tradition (remember all true Fatal Flaws are admirable to some extent). As Neil Gaiman summarized the series, {{spoiler|"The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision."/spoiler}}

'''Morpheus:''' No. I could not.

'''Death:''' No, you couldn't, could you? }}

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Dream takes his responsibilities very seriously - and rightly so, since he does things like routinely prevent the world's collapse - but they include some necessary cruelties. He creates nightmares right alongside pleasant dreams (the Corinthian, for example, is definitely ''supposed'' to be terrifying and murderous, just not in the way he chose to be), and said collapse-prevention involved taking the life of an otherwise pleasant person who had no inkling of the danger they posed. And these are the ''necessary'' cruelties - he's also stunningly vindictive and holds long, long grudges while not quite comprehending how ''his'' actions might hurt anyone else.

* [[The Gump]]: Was involved in the careers of [[William Shakespeare]] and Joshua Norton, among others.

* [[The Stoic]]: Most of the time.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]

 

=== Daniel ===

{{quote|'''Daniel''': "Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement all the while."}}

 

* [[Black Eyes]]: He has the same eyes as Morpheus.

* [[Dream Weaver]]

 

 

== The Endless ==

Dream is one of seven siblings that represent omnipresent concepts; they appear as co-stars frequently. The following Tropes apply to all of the Endless.

 

* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: Of the concepts indicated by their names.

* [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]]: While all of them can assume any form they choose, they each have a preferred human-like shape that they assume in front of mortals.

* [[Time Abyss]]: Much like the concepts they embody, they have always existed.

* [[The Shadow Knows]]: All of them except Death (the most approachable) and Destruction (who is retired) have odd eerie shadows, hinting that they are hiding a darker form.

 

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{{quote|''Destiny continues to walk ... He is holding a book. Inside the book is the universe.''}}

 

* [[All Powerful Bystander]]

* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: ''Very'' literal. If he says something will happen, it will.

* [[Blind Seer]]: Perhaps. He definitely ''looks'' blind ... but there are those who say that far from being sightless, Destiny's eyes can see everything all at once, in every time and place. He just doesn't limit his vision to a single where and when.

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: Sort of. He dislikes getting involved in people's troubles, but will if it's in his book.

* [[In the Hood]]

* [[Non-Linear Character]]: On occasion, he'll mention in advance he's going to say something "in error" several minutes before he proceeds to do so, and then act like he didn't mean to say it. Don't think about that too hard, it'll make your head explode.

* [[Prophet Eyes]]

* [[The Watcher]]

 

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{{quote|'''Death''': "It always ends. That's what gives it value."}}

 

 

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: It never explicitly comes up in the series, but it's hinted more than once that pissing off Death is not a good idea.

* [[Complete Immortality]]: More than any of the other Endless, to the point an aspect of her becomes mortal for one day each century to keep her in touch with the lives she collects.

* [[Cool Big Sis]]

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]

* [[Don't Fear the Reaper]]: Really, she is ''exactly'' the sort of person you need to see at a stressful moment such as [[Death Tropes|death]]; comforting, gentle, and easy to get along with while holding a quiet and firm authority.

* [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette]]: Her demeanour isn't eerie at all, but she ''is'' the incarnation of death. And, like most of the Endless, she has bone-white skin and jet-black hair.

* [[The Grim Reaper]]: She ''was'' grim once, [[Perky Goth|but got over it]]. As for the reaper part, she complained to her brother Destiny, "Next you'll be wanting me to carry a scythe!"

* [[The Messiah]]: She loves everyone, with the kind of deep and abiding compassion that comes only from knowing them very well.

* [[Mama Bear]]: When Desire gloats over upsetting Dream, Death quickly calls Desire to heel.

* [[Non-Linear Character]]: This comes with being there whenever someone or something in the universe dies, be it planets, persons, or concepts. She's not [[The Omniscient|omniscient]], though.

** This contrasts sharply with Dream, who can definitely only be in one place at once.

* [[Perky Goth]]: Arguably an [[Ur Example]].

* [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]]: Nearly everyone in and out of universe agrees that Death is the most attractive woman in the series.

* [[The Scottish Trope]]: Death's siblings never address her by name, or even refer to her by name. '''''Never.'''''

* [[When She Smiles]]: Just look at her smile. Makes you wanna fall in love with her, doesn't it?

* [[Woman in Black]]: Completely subverted.

 

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'''Delirium''': "Except our sister." }}

 

* [[The Atoner]]

* [[Awesomeness By Analysis]]: Thanks to his domain, he can see patterns everywhere.

* [[Black Sheep]]

* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]

* [[Warrior Poet]]

 

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{{quote|'''Rose:''' Are you going to hurt me? Kill me? Mess me up?

'''Desire:''' No more than usually; No; And perhaps a little. But only with Love. }}

* [[Ambiguous Gender]]/[[Hermaphrodite]]: Desire has never been satisfied with just one of anything.

** [[Everybody Wants the Hermaphrodite]]: Milks this for all its worth to that end.

** Desire seems to react this way whenever it finds someone capable of resisting its temptations. One of the short stories in ''Book of Dreams'' centers around a man who thwarts Desire by pointing out that it can be beaten by true love. Desire, of course, [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|claims they are the same thing.]] This is odd because in another story Desire does point out that they are different.

* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: The dialogue in Desire's word balloons is in sharp-edged letters.

* [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]]

* [[Smoking Is Cool]]

* [[Threw My Bike on the Roof]]: Desire often torments people just because he/she/it can.

 

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{{quote|'''Daniel''': "The person who was responsible for the death of the first Despair will take the rest of eternity to die. Only then will his pain cease ... and he had better cause for what he did than you."}}

 

* [[Posthumous Character]]

 

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{{quote|'''Despair''': "Today he's sitting in their family room, realizing that his life is over, wondering if he has the courage to physically end it. He doesn't. Isn't it beautiful?"}}

 

* [[Animal Motifs]]: Rats.

* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]/[[He Is Not My Boyfriend]]: Her relationship with the ghost of [[Edgar Allan Poe]].

* [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette]]

* [[Eye Scream]]

* [[Fangs Are Evil]]

* [[Fat Girl]]

* [[Magic Mirror]]: Well, they aren't ''exactly'' magic, since they're the other sides of all mirrors in the universe (and presumably not all mirrors in the universe are magical). See below.

* [[Messy Hair]]

* [[Surveillance as the Plot Demands]]: She can see through any mirror in the universe.

 

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{{quote|'''Delirium''': "Not knowing everything is all that makes it okay, sometimes."}}

 

* [[Bald Women]]: She's never completely bald, but a couple times she has very short hair or she's bald on one side of her head.

* [[Break the Cutie]]: Delirium was originally Delight, until something caused her to change. Most likely when she realized that she's older than the universe, but she's forever the youngest of the Endless.

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: After being pulled over, she makes the cop believe that he is covered with invisible bugs. FOREVER. He ends up in an asylum, strapped down day and night.

* [[Vague Age]]: She looks like she could be anywhere from about ten to fourteen or fifteen, depending on the artist and the outfit. (Or maybe her physical age fluctuates along with her clothing and hairstyle. It's hard to be sure.)

 

 

== Dreams and Nightmares ==

Dream's companion, a raven who was once a man who died in his dreams, and was given the chance to become a servant of Dream. Matthew often questions Dream, pointing out the holes in his plans and keeping his perspective in check. Is the spirit of Matt Cable, a supporting character in [[Alan Moore]]'s ''[[Swamp Thing]]''.

* [[Audience Surrogate]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Transplant]]: From ''[[Swamp Thing]]''.

 

A tall thin bookish man who serves as Dream's librarian, maintaining all the books that have ever been dreamt of. He was once a mortal man, and after his death he became Dream's first raven before his promotion to librarian.

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: When the Dreaming starts becoming even more chaotic than usual, dangerous ''things'' that Morpheus imprisoned can get out. Lucien, however, is on hand to deal with them. And he does.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: Aside from being {{spoiler|a former raven}}, Lucien takes {{spoiler|Mervyn's death}} surprisingly hard, to the point of chastising Morpheus for allowing it to happen.

* [[Word of Gay]]: Zig-zagged. When discussing Dumbledore's outing, Gaiman mentioned that he strongly suspected Lucien was gay, but also thought he had a minor thing for Nuala. As it never mattered to the story, [[Shrug of God|not even he knows for sure.]]

 

Two brothers who both live in the Dreaming. Cain is a violent abusive man prone to murdering Abel, who is a meek shy man who often stutters. Abel always recovers after a few hours. And yes, they are ''that'' Cain and Abel. Cain is the keeper of the House of Mystery and Abel of the House of Secrets; they entertain dreamers who visit their homes with stories. Both originally appeared as hosts of DC Comics horror anthologies and figured in a ''[[Swamp Thing]]'' story that helped inspire the Dreaming.

* [[Big Brother Bully]]

* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Abel's immortality. It just allows him to be killed again... and again...

* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Their first appearance in the Sandman has Cain trying desperately to articulate that he really does love his brother, but [[I Am What I Am|he cannot defy his own nature.]]

 

A woman who lives in a cave in the Dreaming. Cain and Abel consider her their mother, though whether she is the Biblical Eve is unknown. She has a close friendship with ravens, including Matthew. Originally, she was the host of the DC horror comics, ''Secrets of Sinister House'' and ''Weird Mystery Tales''.

* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Mainly ravens.

* [[Mama Bear]]

* [[The Three Faces of Eve]]: She shifts back and forth between "maid", "mother", and "crone" forms.

 

A nightmare with tiny teeth-filled mouths for eyes.

* [[Anti-Hero]]: The second Corinthian.

* [[Eye Scream]]

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]

 

A place in Dream, said to be the land all travelers dream of someday finding. He usually takes the form of a human, resembling [[G. K. Chesterton]], and sometimes wanders the earth for his amusement.

* [[Antiquated Linguistics]]: Mildly, but still noticeable.

* [[Awesome Anachronistic Apparel]]: His suit wouldn't be out of place in the 19th century.

* [[Genius Loci]]

* [[Sharp-Dressed Man]]

 

A member of the faerie folk who was given to Dream by her brother, and assumes the role of a housekeeper in Dream's mansion.

* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: With Morpheus.

* [[Break the Cutie]]: She was sent by Oberon and Titania as a gift to Dream as part of a diplomatic mission to keep Hell closed ([[Long Story]]). No one expected this mission to be successful, and Nuala was allowed to believe she'd be returning to Faerie when it was done. Cluracan reluctantly informs her when he leaves that Titania will not allow the gift to be rejected win or lose, and so she would not be welcomed back to her home. When Dream accepts her into his employ, he strips her of her beautiful and dignified [[Glamour]], returning her to her gawky, awkward and mousey natural appearance. She spends a lot of time afterwards miserable. Dream doesn't even give her a position in his court - she begins acting as a housekeeper out of a need for ''something'' to do.

* [[Glamour]]: When she first appears, she's apparently a tall, beautiful blonde woman. Until Dream strips her of the glamour and she turns out to be very short, skinny and mousey haired.

 

A comical pumpkin-headed dream who performs odd jobs in the Dreaming, such as bus driver and janitor. Although a simple-minded slob, he helps keep Dream grounded.

* {{spoiler|[[Dying Moment of Awesome]]:}} "Eumenides ''this''!"

* [[Expressive Mask|Expressive Jack O'Lantern]]

 

 

== Denizens of Hell ==

* [[Breakout Character]]: Got his own comic book series, [[Lucifer (comics)|Lucifer]].

* [[Deal with the Devil]]: He has ''no idea'' where humans got this idea from, and considers it a feeble attempt to avoid responsibility for their actions. What would he do with a soul, even if he could "own" one, anyway?

* [[Seen It All]]: One of the main reasons he gives up Hell. He got bored.

* [[Time Abyss]]: Along with all other angels, fallen or not.

 

* [[Living Shadow]]: Perhaps. The art is a little unclear.

* [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family]]: Pretty much ''all'' teeth - sharp sets of them floating in an amorphous void.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: It's expressly stated in the series that even in Hell and in a weakened state, Morpheus is more than capable of dealing with any threat short of Lucifer himself. Azazel later picks a fight with a fully empowered Morpheus on his home turf, and gets [[Curb Stomp Battle|thoroughly and effortlessly crushed]] for his trouble.

 

 

* [[Break the Haughty]]: Remiel is not altogether happy about being ordered to maintain Hell.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]

 

 

== Other Supernaturals ==

* [[Ancient Greece]]

* [[And I Must Scream]]: Until Dream finally, ''finally'' saves her.

* [[Time Abyss]]

 

Prominent figure of Irish folklore, Adventurer, Raconteur and personal messenger of Queen Titiania herself. Brother of Nuala.

* [[The Alcoholic]]

* [[All Gays Are Promiscuous]]: But he ''is'' from a race that more or less devotes itself to eternal partying.

* [[The Hedonist]]

 

* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: With a shout-out to [[The Farmer and the Viper]] from Odin; it's in Loki's nature to lash out at those who help him, as much as it's in Cain's to attack his brother.

* [[Debt Detester]] / [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: His behavior in The Kindly Ones is due to owing a debt to Morpheus.

* [[Trickster Archetype]]: He is ''Loki''.

 

* [[The Ghost]]: Never manifests in person (uh, sort of, we're talking an omnipotent omnipresent omniscient deity here, just roll with it), but is obviously spoken of and performs offscreen actions that shake the foundations of the universe.

* [[God]]

 

* [[The Fair Folk]]: A ''very'' traditional example. He is not a pleasant creature.

* [[For the Evulz]] / [[It Amused Me]]: His motivation for everything.

* [[Trickster Archetype]]

 

* [[The Hecate Sisters]]

** [[Legacy Character]]: Played with. Every time exactly three female characters appear together, or three and a character who's rendered distinct from the other three, the three women each represent an aspect of The Three in some way. Over the course of the series, several characters come to represent one or more of them. {{spoiler|Lyta Hall, of course, comes to embody all three at once.}}

** To call the furies on someone, the victim must first have killed a member of his or her own family.

 

* [[The Fair Folk]]

* [[The High Queen]]

 

 

== Humans ==

* [[Creepy Child]]: The Cuckoo, {{spoiler|the child version of Barbie who has become the evil ruler of her dream land and suffers severely from [[Not Growing Up Sucks]].}}

* [[Magical Girl]]: In her dreams.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: And her (ex)-husband is called ''Ken''. Taking it further, we're told Ken left her for a girl called Sindy; this being the name of the bestselling ''British'' fashion doll.

 

* [[Babies Ever After]]

* [[Butch Lesbian]]: Hazel.

 

* [[Complete Immortality]]: He can die, if he chooses, and under no other circumstance. He's been offered the choice but refused it time after time, even when suffering horribly.

* [[Living Forever Is Awesome]]: No matter how bad things have gotten for him during the course of centuries, Hob has never accepted the offer to tell Dream to take back his immortality during their once-a-century meetings. Even when Dream, the closest thing he has to a permanent friend, dies and Death gently offers to break the deal, he refuses.

* [[Wandering Jew]]: At least thematically, though Hob isn't Jewish. His meetings with Dream have actually given rise to the legend that the Devil and the Wandering Jew meet in that tavern once a century.

 

* [[Children Are Innocent]]

* [[Parental Abandonment]]

 

* [[A God Am I]]: When he attempts to take over the dream-world.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: So very much.

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]

 

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Determined Widow]]

* [[Mama Bear]]: Takes this [[Up to Eleven]].

 

* [[Crazy Homeless Person]]: A subversion. Whatever craziness she's shown was a result of her phobia of dogs.

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Barbie only survived the destruction of the apartment building because Maisie shielded her body.}}

* [[Sassy Black Woman]]

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: She doesn't like dogs. When pressed into why, she replies "...I just don't."

 

* [[Nice Hat]]: Death likes it, at least.

 

* [[Ancient Greece]]

* [[Death Seeker]]

* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: {{spoiler|Wife killed at their wedding reception. His father fails utterly to be any help (though his aunt grants him immortality against her own better judgement). Ventures into the underworld to retrieve his wife's soul and succeeds, but then loses her forever moments before she would have lived again. Becomes so mired in grief that he lets himself be torn apart and eaten by the Bacchae. Even then, he doesn't die - he becomes a head without a body, drifting on the ocean. When he washes up on the shore, ''his own father'' tells him he's been an idiot, feels no sympathy at all, disowns him and walks off. It takes ''millennia'' for them to reconcile (during which time Orpheus remains an immobile [[Oracular Head]]), and only then does he finally die.}}

 

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]

* [[Big Brother Instinct|Big Sister Instinct]]: Towards Jed, of course.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: Again, due to her parentage.

 

* [[Canon Immigrant]]: From a short-lived DC title that supposed an 18-year-old would get elected President. Prez cameoed in an issue of Supergirl, which established him as a character proper in the DCU.

* [[The Messiah]]: A fairly silly version.

* [[The Sixties]]: He mimics a lot of the counterculture fashion and behaviors from the late 1960s, although the series itself was printed during [[The Seventies]].

 

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Or rather, did you just imprison the ''Dream King'' in your basement? (He did, and it was a terrible, ''terrible'' idea.)

* [[Expy]]: Of real-life mystic Aleister Crowley (who is mentioned in-universe as Burgess's rival).

* [[Visionary Villain]]: He wanted to imprison Death to ensure that no one would ever die. When he captures Dream instead (maybe his aim was off), Dream says that Burgess cannot comprehend how lucky he is that he didn't succeed.

 

* [[Ancient Greece]]

* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: She's really very matter-of-fact about cutting a guy's face off and pulling his tongue out with her teeth, before nailing the lot to the wall. He was a bad guy (and she'd already killed him) but...yeek.

* [[The Unfettered]]: Thessaly doesn't care one whit about the cost of ensuring her personal survival, and deals briskly and brutally with anyone or anything that poses a threat to her. She's not evil, but [[Word of God|Gaiman]] describes her actions as teaching everyone who knows her, in these exact words, the lesson "''Don't fuck with Thessaly''."

 

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: So very, very much.

* [[Fiery Redhead]]

* [[Why Couldn't You Be Different?]]: Needless to say, Wanda's parents are quite ashamed of her for her "sinful ways".

 

* [[Author Avatar]]

* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: The Endless might overhear, and "the price of getting what you want is getting what once you wanted."

* [[It Will Never Catch On]]: He's a contemporary of Hob Gadling, who didn't think much of his literary efforts at the time.

 

 

== Other Sandmen and Related Characters ==

 

First appeared in ''"Adventure Comics''" #40 (July, 1939), created by Gardner Fox and Bert Christman. One of the first superheroes of the 20th century, Wesley Dodds was plagued with prophetic dreams that impelled him to fight crime. He invented a sleeping-gas gun and "wirepoon" (a gun-mounted grappling hook) to help him in his cause and became a founding member of the [[Justice Society of America]]. Shortly before the refounding of the modern JSA, Wesley Dodds committed suicide to prevent the [[Evil Sorcerer]] [[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Mordru]] from extracting important information from him; his funeral set the stage for the JSA's rebirth.

 

Gaiman's ''Sandman'' revealed that as a result of Dream's imprisonment during the 20th century, some mortals were affected by the cosmic imbalance. Dodds held a piece of the Dreaming inside him, and this was the cause of his prophetic dreams. Dodds also had his own, 1930s-set Vertigo series ''[[Sandman Mystery Theatre]]''.

* [[Big Applesauce]]: Dodds originally operated out of "York City". This was later retconned into the actual New York City.

* [[Badass Normal]]

* [[My Greatest Failure]]: Turning his sidekick, Sandy, into a rock monster in the 1950s. (He got better.)

 

 

First appeared in ''"Sandman''" vol. 1 #1 (Winter, 1974), created by [[Jack Kirby]] and Joe Simon. Originally supposed to be the Sandman of legend, this bizarre character patrolled the "Dream Stream" to fight nightmares with the aid of two dreams named Brute and Glob, often helping out a young boy named Jed. After his short-lived series ended, it was [[Retcon|Retconned]] that he was actually a psychologist named Garrett Sanford whose mind was trapped in a "Dream Dimension" while his physical body was in a coma. An appearance in ''[[Infinity, Inc.]]'' revealed that Sanford had gone insane after his last appearance and committed suicide. Gaiman's ''Sandman'', finally, revealed that Brute and Glob were rogue nightmares from the Dreaming who were running amok in Morpheus's absence, the Dream Dimension was a pocket universe they created inside the mind of Jed Walker, and Sanford was just a plaything for them.

* [[Cerebus Retcon]]: A victim of it, over and over again.

* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: All in all, he got a very unceremonious death, considering he was created by the King of Comics.

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]

 

 

First appeared as Silver Scarab in ''"All-Star Squadron''" #25 (September, 1983). Became the Sandman in ''"Infinity, Inc.'" #49 (May, 1988). After Garrett Sanford's death, DC superhero Silver Scarab--the son of the [[Golden Age]] [[Hawkman]]--had his soul stuck in Sanford's body (long story) and his mind filling the same role under Brute and Glob. His wife, Lyta "the Fury" Hall, went to live with him in the Dream Dimension, and there they conceived Daniel Hall, {{spoiler|who would later replace Morpheus as Dream.}} After Morpheus escaped his captivity, he destroyed the Dream Dimension, causing Hector's spirit to depart the mortal plane.

 

Hector Hall was later reincarnated as the new [[Doctor Fate]] and joined the JSA, only to be killed again by [[The Spectre]]. His soul now resides in the Dreaming alongside his once-son, Dream/Daniel.

* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: Twice.

* [[Took a Level In Dumbass]]: Was completely oblivious to the fact that his wife had been pregnant for about two years, and when it was finally brought to his attention, he didn't really give much thought to it. Really, Hall's mentality had slightly devolved as his wife drifted away from reality. He went from a competent superhero to one who fought rather nonsensical battles against bizarrely weak villains.

 

 

First appeared in ''"Adventure Comics''" #69 (December, 1941), created by Mort Weisinger and Paul Norris. Assumed the Sandman mantle in ''"Justice Society of America'" vol. 3 #1 (February, 2007). The original "Sandy the Golden Boy", nephew of Wesley Dodds. Grew up into the first chairman of the modern incarnation of the [[Justice Society of America]], leading the team through many adventures. He gained super-powers and, after Wesley's death, inherited his prophetic dreams, but eventually got written out as the writer-switch between David Goyer & [[Geoff Johns]] went underway, disappearing into the Earth for a while, and losing his leadership position to Mr. Terrific. Eventually changed his name to the Sandman like his mentor.

* [[Badass Abnormal]]: Sandy started out a normal human, but gained his earth-manipulation powers as a result of getting turned into a rock-monster by a [[Freak Lab Accident]].

* [[Blessed with Suck]]: His power of having nightmares about crimes in the future means that he can't sleep several nights, and sees some truly horrific things.

* [[Put on a Bus]]: He disappeared into the Earth to save the world, and was gone for a couple arcs in ''JSA'', including the big one, Black Reign.

 

Wesley Dodds's [[Love Interest]]. Became a major character in ''[[Sandman Mystery Theatre]]''.

 

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