Neil Gaiman's Sandman

Still a favorite with Design 1 students who have to use black Con-tack paper all semester

Neil Gaiman's Sandman, notice - the next sentence really hurts our collective soul to say but it must be said, Neil Gaiman's Sandman is probably the greatest thing ever put to print by a batshit crazy insane Scientology weirdo that believes in Xenu.
Before we go anywhere, it should be noted that this article refers to the Neil Gaiman, Vertigo, character of Morpheus and not the DC character "Sandman" who runs around in a gas mask and slips roofies into Wimmins drinks.
Neil Gaiman's Sandman follows the titular character of The Sandman or more formerly, Morpheus: The God of Dream or Dream Of The Endless and his 6 siblings Destiny, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair and Delirium/Delight who are know as the Endless or rather anthrpomorphic personifications of the ideas that create and define the universe and Humanity
Unlike most mythologies or Religions that have an antithesis like G-D and Satan, Jesus and The Anti-Christ or Dharma and Chaos - the Endless play both sides of the same coin and represent the opposite or rather have dual roles concerning how they are named.
For instance, Death also represents life and the circle of Life and Death is represented in that she wears an Egyptian Ankh.

	“	You get what everyone gets. You get a lifetime.	„
	—Death

Plot

So much cuter than a guy with a scythe and would still be an influence for emos into the next millennium

As it has been already noted, the story follows the titular character of The Sandman or Morpheus and is the personification of Dreams in the same way that a Greek God like Aries is the personification of war or Aphrodite, Love.
When the series opens Morpheus is captured in an Occult ritual that was meant to, rather, capture his sister Death because so long as Death is unable to move around, no one can die because she can not perform her function.
After 70 years, Morpheus escapes simply through patience amd waiting for the spell circle and everything around him to decay and fall apart, because being eternal he can simply outlast such human inventions. Upon his return to his kingdom of dream he sets out to rebuild it as it has fallen into disrepair and nightmares and dreams like The Corinthian have gone rogue and have started using their "DREAM" roles and abilities to influence people wrongly.
Once it is discovered that he has had a child with Hippolyta, (pronounced Hip-paul-lee-tuh), Morpheus' character starts to take on the role of something more akin to a Tragic Greek Hero like Odysseus who is being punished for his arrogance/hubris and for pretty much pissing off Peseidon when he blinded Poseidon's Cyclops son Polyphemus or more closer to Orestes who is ordered by the god Apollo to kill his Mother and in punishment for his violation of the oldest of laws is hunted down by the Erinyes (Also known as the Furies but most of you will confuse them with Furries.

Characters

The Endless

Name	Description	Picture
Destiny	Also known by his Greek name Potmos. Eldest of the Endless and much like other Sandman characters like Lucian, Cain and Able - an early version of him can be found in the 70s horror comic Weird Mystery Tales. Destiny is often portrayed much like the Grim Reaper is in Wetern myth in that he is tall, and his face is always being obscured by the cowl of his dark robe. He knows all and sees all and from reading the book titled The Cosmic Log that is chained to his right wrist, he has the history of the all things past, present and future. Much like someone who knows the outcome of all games and gambles, he is always portrayed as detached and Talks very little. He is the least understood of all The Endless because he is rarely depicted in the comic and is characterised more as an idea only with a human form and lacking any and all Human emotion. He is best described as the Three Fates in Greek Mythology Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos in that he is above and beyond the gods and can not be influenced by them. Not even Yahweh or Xenu has the power to change what has already been written in his book.	Fans of mine cut themselves You will jerkoff at exactly 11:17 tonight and will only last for 13 seconds. So it is written, so it shall be
Death	Also known by the name DiDi, in human form, and names like The Grim Reaper when playing the role of Death but she is best known as The Cute Little Death Girl by fans. The second eldest of the Endless and the one that has the closest relationship to Dream or Rather Morpheus and this is dramatized when she actually Bitch Slaps Dream for not visiting her and letting her know he was safe when he had returned. Their closeness might have something to do with that dreams are seen as a way into death following the old belief that there is a thin wall between dream and death and, "If you die in your dreams, you die for real." Much like the Universe, humans and everything with life, Death is destined to meet everyone twice, first at their birth when she infuses a body with life and the second, obvious time is at their death when she collects the soul and takes it to its final reward. As an Endless she was born seconds before the first life appeared in the universe, as explained earlier, because half her job includes giving life or being their to witness the birth. She is almost always portrayed as an overly cute, competent but air-headish Goth syle girl between the ages of 18 and 25. Out of all the Endless she is portrayed as being the most human in that her presence brings about no suspicion and that her speech bubbles are the same as humans. She also has the most sympathy for The Human Condition because every 100 years, as told in Death:The High Cost Of Living which was tentavively borrowed from the movie Death Takes A Holiday and was later re-made by Scientologists into Michael, Death is given one day to live as a human and at the end of the day she dies, dramatized as being when she spends the last of her money, much in the same way as in Michael The Arch-Angel Michael dies when he gives up his life for another. By performing such human things like just being a cute but weird girl, eating food and having some emo Cutter dude that wants to kill himself, named Sexton, right up until he falls in love with her and they make the uglies she gets to understand humanity in its true form as a player rather than an observer. As it is made clear in story, the reason for this is so that Death can ironically have a love for life and understand the anger and bitter pungence that comes with Mortality's end.	If G-D made Goth girls look like this they would actually be desirable Article needs boobs The Cute Little Death Girl Just way too cute for the bringer of one's demise As expected, freaks like Olaya Valle on DeviantArt like to lolify death and have her fuck her brother
Dream	Neil Gaiman's Mary Sue whose looks are a mix of his and Robert Smith From the Cure, you get the hair now. He is also known as Morpheus, Kai'ckul, Oneiros and at times The Sandman. He is the third eldest of the 7 Endless and came to be when just as Life started to Dream about what it could become. Has a very good relationship with his sister Death and has a "I want to kill the bitch", relationship with his Sister/Brother Desire because he/she was responsible for the break-up of Dream and his lover. Dream is closest in personality to his brother Desire in that he is very focused, committed to his responsabilities and seeing them completed. His seriousness gives him trouble in catching people's Sarcasm. Created with the Heroic Model in mind, Dream is very flawed. He often appears cold, insensitive, self-obsessed, has trouble maintaining relationships with love interests and at times is unable to forgive offenses, going so far as banishing a love interest, Nada, to Hell for refusing his advances. Morpheus brings about his own destruction when he grants his son's, Orpheus, wish for him to kill him. Being immortal, Orpheus survived as a severed head after the crazed worshippers of Dionysus tore his body apart.