Not all of The Sandman’s characters were dreamed up by Neil Gaiman.
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Netflix’s The Sandman adapts the Vertigo comic series of the same name. Many of its characters are drawn from fiction and mythology, but plenty also have a surprising history in DC comics.
Played by Tom Sturridge, Dream (also called Morpheus and the Sandman) is the embodiment of dreaming. The melancholic goth king gets a little less grumpy over the course of the series.