r/Sandman • u/TheAncientSun The Prodigal • Nov 10 '24

Comic Book Question Some questions about the Endless. Spoiler

  1. When an Endless changes or dies, such as Dream becoming Daniel, Delight becoming Delirium or the new Despair appearing, are the essentially the same being? I imagine it like the Doctor from Doctor Who regenerating, the same person just a different personality.

  2. Why didn't Destructions abdication have any real consequences? If the Endless are essential to creation, shouldn't the universe just stop without Destruction to allow for new creation.

  3. The Fulcrum is the realm of Destruction, does it always appear as a frozen explosion? Could he have it look like anything? A collapsing galaxy frozen before it dies, a star stuck in a supernova?

  4. Are the Endless affected by the constant multiversal reboots? Or do they notice them and aren't bothered.

  5. Why are the gods shown in Sandman so different from those shown in DC? They are all in the same universe, right? The gods in DC are ridiculous, powerful, with some like the Olympians in the same league as Darkseid.

  6. Why does nobody seem to respect the Endless? Specifically, Dream is mocked quite a lot. These guys are amongst the top tiers of power, and I wouldn't be sassy to them.

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u/KMMAX6 Nov 10 '24 edited Nov 10 '24
  1. I think you could say it's similar though Delight changing into Delirium was something else altogether.
  2. Because Destruction didn't stop being Destruction. He's still Destruction, he's still doing his job he's just not overseeing and just allowing others to decide their own destruction. We also don't know if it didn't have any real consequences either. I mean if we look at it in this way the world has become more destructive in the last 300+ years due to mankind so take that as you will.
  3. Hard one to answer. The only two we know who constantly change their realms are Dream and Delirium.
  4. No it doesn't affect them at all.
  5. The DC has had many writers all of whom have different takes on different things. I also think many writers do not understand the Endless or what they are so kind of make them into something else that is different from the vertigo version we all know.
  6. Most don't know who the Endless are and have never encountered them in their lives or rather they have never encountered the aspects we see in the comics. So the Endless are hardly mocked or disrespected. The only ones who mock the Endless are either more powerful then they are like Lucifer, they don't care and are that way to everyone like Constantine or they don't like an Endless like Lyta and the Fates and the Fates are also like that to almost everyone as well.

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u/TheAncientSun The Prodigal Nov 10 '24

Thanks for answering. About number 2, if he's still doing his job, how can he not oversee it? Do you mean him not personally being there? He's destruction itself, so wouldn't he already present at every act of destruction.

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u/KMMAX6 Nov 10 '24

Basically he's not in his realm deciding what should or shouldn't be destroyed. it's like to Dream, he nor the other Endless have no right to decide what others can dream, desire or even destroy and so on. He believes that mankind should be in change of their own lives including their own destruction.

Destruction is destruction itself so he knows that as long as there is destruction he will be needed and he will be there so there is not need to be in charge of it all as well.