I can't believe I have to say this, but this video is two years old and The Sandman has been out for multiple decades. It's unreasonable to get upset that this video has "spoilers" because you only just now started to care because there's a Netflix show.

Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium the WILL OF D

Yeah, Sandman likes to “sleep around”

Having characters be so powerful, yet relateable is a very hard thing to do

My most favorite moment of The Sandman is when asked what power do dreams have in Hell, was Morpheus’s simple response, what power would Hell have if its denizens could not dream of heaven? I’m not saying there was an audible bitch slap, but everyone heard it. Never doubt the power of a dream.

I actually like that DC needs Gaiman's permission to use these characters. I feel like they would be overused and over explained otherwise. These are very abstract characters and the more use = more explanation = probably less interesting. I may be wrong, maybe it would turn out great if they were used frequently, but I am not getting my hope's up that most writers will match Gaiman's talent.

Delirium *does* also represent an opposing clarity. In a conversation with Destiny, she says that she knows things even he doesn't. It implies that while Destiny knows everything that has been and will ever be, Delirium knows everything else, the things that are outside existence.

DC's Death is a very interesting character and personaly I find her far superior than Marvel's Lady Death. Just recently watched DC showshowcase: Death and in the end I was crying

10:41 "despair defines hope" Despair took part in the destruction of krypton, which ultimately lead to the existence of the ultimate symbol of hope in dc universe, the last son of krypton Superman

I love the sense of irony Gaiman has. He gave Death an Ankh as a symbol. The Key of life is quite literally in Death's hands.

An interesting detail, from Gaiman himself, is that each Endless simultaneously represents their opposite. They're each a yin and yang. This is easiest to see in Destiny: he represents fate, cause and effect, and the inescapable linearity of time. However, he also represents choice. While everyone has a destiny, they are also free to choose their path. Dream represents both pure creativity and unbound feelings, but also logic, reason, and order. You can't have one side without the other to contrast it against. This is why Dream is very strict in following rules, can be cold and extremely rational, and constructs elaborate plans to manipulate events. Death also represents life. She came to be happy and love life when she herself realized this while living as a mortal. Without birth there can be no death. Destruction is also creation. This is why his realm, The Crucible, has an explosion at the center of it - matter in the process of being broken apart and flying off to become part of something new. Delirium is simultaneously insight. Of all the Endless, she is the most intuitive and sees the patterns in reality others are blind to. Desire, very ironically considering their arrogant and greedy nature, must also stand for the absence of self. Desire has always been the most self-blind, and in denial about the nature of the Endless themselves. Desire is too busy wanting things to see that desires always pass, and the self is an illusion. (This is, thematically, why Desire is never satisfied.) Despair is, very simply, also hope. Without hope there can be nothing to suffer from and despair over. Despair will always focus a person on finding a way out of despair and move them towards hope.

The Endless' domains: Destiny-A massive, maze-like garden with large, decaying statues, monuments, and structures. Dream-A fantastic castle embodying every fantasy and fiction ever dreamt of, while also embodying the pompous ego of its lord. Desire-A tower complex molded in their image. Despair-A hazy void of mirrors depicting people at their lowest. Delirium-A dimension of colorful chaos and abstraction. Destruction-Not a domain per se, but an island all to himself to practice whatever he wants, but can also pack up everything like his belongings or his house into a bindle and go wherever he wishes. Death-A mundane, suburban house with pet fish, a framed Sears family photo of the Endless, and furniture topped with stuffed animals.

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I think Delirium might be a representation of knowledge and the human experience. She starts as Delight. Delight of learning new things, new experiences etc. but becomes from the stress of forbidden knowledge and being pulled in so many directions. Basically the embodiment of that one Lovecraft quote.

I love how Neil Gaiman was able to create such a fantastic and deeply complex universe out of some characters that DC Comics had practically discarded at some point. Now The Sandman will have his long awaited screen debut. I do hope the Netflix series does it justice.

Yes, they are omnipresent and endless, but they have some hard limits. For instance, Dream was very clear about Lucifer Morningstar being far more powerful then him. At one point Lucifer was close to "death" but when Death (the endless herself) showed up, he just stated, that he was beyond her, and she simply agreed. Edit.; She showed up because of who he was, and she just wanted to talk to one of the two beings, that build the cosmos. Even though Lucifer was in his own parallel cosmos at the time.

From her first appearance at the end of Sandman Vol 1, I was captivated by Death's character.

The audiobook is SO good. Dream's voice is absolutely perfect, thanks James McAvoy.

These Endless are there potential are endless and limitless as they are mysterious.

At this point I've only read the first two volumes of the Sandman series and Sandman: Overture.

I've fallen in love with Death and how they represent her. Makes me wanna embrace death easily But seriously the personification to these concepts are so damn good it made me read everything related to it and I'm glad I did

it's probably for the best that they aren't used very often, characters like these are best when they can stay mysterious

If only Marvels “abstracts” could be written even a fraction of this well.

That quote that comes up about Death’s part at the end of the Universe comes up a lot and I see it interpreted several different ways. One is she will leave this reality when this is all over. The other is that she will effectively die herself. I’ve even heard that she will be the last thing in existence...forever. I don’t know which I find the most satisfying.

I'm in love with this portrayal of Death. She's just like what that artist described her as, something's missing yet astonishingly beautiful.

Here’s a little quote from Persona 3 that shad a bit of light “Beyond the beaten path lies the absolute end. It matter not who you are... Death awaits you.”

Isnt it technically your destiny to change your destiny

There is a lot of youtuber being sponsored by audible and sandman, this is the only video that convinced me to check it out... Keep up the good job👍

Death's aesthetic was inspired by a real person named Cinnamon Hadley, who passed away within the last 2 years. My dad was a good friend of hers and I only met her occasionally but she had that Goth Queen look every time. RIP Cinn

I always struggled to think of the endless as "Powerfull"... To me it always seemed like they were more than powerfull, more like the definition of existence itself. You kan kill Dream, but that will not kill the dreaming, Death can put a pause on her duty, but that does not change the fact, that life exists and so on. These Characters are a testament to Neil Gaimans Genius, that, in a time when many Authors in the DC/Marvel realms wrote frankly relatively boring "more badass, more powerfull" Characters, he actually came up with something so rich and thoughtfull.

Honestly delight becoming delirium makes a lot of sense to me and I would bet it happened almost immediately or she was never really delight in the first place but rather was always an embodiment of both. If you're the living manifestation of joy and happiness, even wonder could fall under the category of delight, and you experience and understand them at all moments through your entire existence then you have no choice but to become delirious. Particularly as they are supposed to be the concepts as understood and perceived by humans and mortals.

"The most powerful family in DC Comics" *Stubbornly crosses arms* Nuh uh, the Bat-family could beat them with prep.

Yet another amazing thing that I love about the whole dynamic of these Endless is even though Destiny is the oldest and Delirium is the youngest, she apparently knows more than him while he doesn't even know how she transformed from Delight to Delirium

Destruction said I don't have to do anything beings will do it themselves, destruction will occur in the universe by itself. What a cool way to use your power without even using it

I can't wait until DC writes a story about how Batman defeats all of them....

Big Sandman here from waaaaaaay back. Thanks for this video, rekindling my love for the Endless siblings! Good job condensing the huge arcs and concepts into bite-sized info. Hope to see more of your videos!

Delrium defines Consiouness/Perception. To exist to just be~ is to be Delight, the simple ability to appreciates ones surroundings like a cat enjoying the sun. however Consciouness pushed to its limits is to perceieve things that are not there, from inspiration to madness. Its best to think of Delirium as perception, hence why she can know things that Destiny does not she's on a higher plane of awareness to even the other endless, she is sight and sensation, she is imagination seeing allowing for people to see into dreams realm.

Yeah, that rule with his permision I believe was created as a direct concequence of a writer of captain atom using her and others agents of death in the DC universe as simply aspects of death, with her and her happy go lucky approach representing the kind side it has, which was very disrespecting of the original idea behind the character and also is a demostration of one of the most annoying trends that writers tend to follow (now more freely than ever) nowadays which is retconning everything until it fits in their story. Seeing someone doing something like that constantly with these character would be very sad, since it would basically reduce a couple of good and complex character to a convoluted mess that caused the first reboot of DC in the first place.

"They do it to themselves, I'm not needed here." -Destruction

6:19 Fun Fact: In the 90s sci-fi series Babylon 5, there is a race called the "Gaim" who wear helmets based on Dream's and are named for Neil Gaiman.

I didn't want this video to end! Cosmic Entities are so fascinating!

What I love about the sandman comics isn't even in the books themselves but rather my own existence. The day I was born my great grandfather died. He also just so happened to be a big fan of comics and the gift he was going to give me was his collection of sandman comics including the final issue that he ordered ahead of time that was released the same day I was born and he died. I like to think that it was destiny for me to know of the sandman.

This video really helped me with understanding these characters

I think the Endless' vagueness is intentional. We as humans aren't meant to or probably not even capable of understanding the inner workings of the Endless. All of existence has been here long before we were born and it will continue long after we are gone.

I've been listening to the first book today. This is not an "audiobook" ... this is an audio play. Fantastic casting, great music, and amazing descriptive imagery. It's amazing.

I am a fan of Gaiman for years so when I heard he wrote a DC comic I immediately read it and the Sandman was my introduction to comics in general. I'm a manga reader but I never really considered reading comics for years. After reading the sandman, I immediately went on to read other comics mainly those concerning the Batfamily and I'm just loving it (most of them anyway)

I finished watching DC Showcase Death and comic drake plops a video from the imaginary axis into my sub box. This is a good day

gj dude great narrating and even tho they are really complicated you managed to expain it very well you deserve a subscribe

I always wondered the potential, backstory and learn more about the endless, I got my answer.

“Dream is one of the most powerful entities in existence” * remembers Speedrunner vs 3 Hunters Finale: Rematch * Yep, sounds right

Death is my favorite character. Just check "DC Showcase Death" find a link not on UKposts that shows the entire 25 mins. It's so worth it.

Ayyy, just finished watching The Sandman and this vid is great! I honestly look forward to the upcoming seasons when they explore the other Endless. I really wanna watch Death's backstory unfold.

I’ve always heard great things about sandman and this video has a increased my interest even more, thanks Drake. I’m even more excited about the Netflix adaptation now knowing Sandman is basically well guarded by the creator.

I like The Endless. Also as far as I can tell, they’re like 40k’s Chaos Gods on a multiversal level.

I grew up reading the Sandman comics and I love the Netflix series, this video put out 2 years ago explains so much. Thank you ☺️

Don't forget. Delirium knows some things even Destiny does not.

I actually started crying a little when you talked about death and later on dream remaking the universe, ... I guess I kind of found a beauty in it...

I've recently just started reading the series and I'm so glad I did. There is some incredible lore and mythology established by Neil Gaiman in Sandman

Love you, love the channel, always well researched!

The sandman is a very interesting series. I read the first in a graphic novel university course and I've been working through the series since. currently on book 7. Good video.

"Batman can defeat them with prep time vs can they beat Goku though" your choice

I read the first two volumes of Sandman a few years ago: good stuff.

best UKposts recommendation so far, after watching the sandman, I was eager to know more about the endless

Thank you Drake I always appreciate your videos

When the Netflix show drops what kind of video will you make? I would really love one with the Horror hosts and their evolution.

It's a fools errand to kill an Endless as they will simply comeback. It's is far better to try and seal an Endless or force them to quit. There's also a theory that since Destruction left his post, the Multiverse compensated for it by allowing Crises to happen.

love this piece

Cool. I'm reading Sandman at the moment. I was inspired to read the series after reading a trade collecting the two Death mini-series.

The concept of delight or blissful joy results in our delusions or well delirium. It's like losing yourself in the pleasure of happiness. Too much ambition mixed with the concepts of desires and avoidance of despair. We lean into delusional blissful joy. I love the concepts themselves because of how each of them is correlated to one another.

The series beautifully explained the story of Death❤️

Thank you for getting me interested in Sandman. It is now my favorite story.

Love this! Thank you

I have some Sandman comics, and I have "Death" by Neil Gaiman. They're pretty great.

I love Death so much, onw of my first cosplays ever ♡

Thank you for explaining ❤️💪🏾

this was tight thanks for the heads up

Who else is here after watching The Sandman (Netflix)?

If there is any graphic novel that needs to be read, it's this one.

Nice video more especially now that I'm currently watching the Netflix adaptation of the Sandman I'm enjoying it. It's brings something fresh and new and all the characters are so interesting and so relatable.

Desire (from the comics) looks like one of the portraits you'd see when getting a haircut at a salon.

Death also has a DC showcase

Here before the series!

I always wondered about them and their origins and purpose. This video definitely helped thanks definitely subscribing :))

The way I found out about the Sandman was kind of backwards, I was looking up info on Marvel's Death aka Lady Death when I asked myself if DC had one. I looked her up and was very intrigued by the description of her personality, so I ended up ordering Absolute Death off of Amazon. I fell in love with Mr Gaiman's way of telling stories, then proceed to order the five Absolute Sandman books in order as i read and finished them.

what about death’s floppy hat collection!? it’s very important 😌

"The Sandman" is one of my all time favorite comics. Especially it is good for reading several times. Because you always discover little things that you have missed before. At this point I can only recommend a spin-off that is at least as good. - Lucifer I'd love to see a video on Lucifer.

YES he finally did a video on The Endless, plz do more Sandman videos

Best Audiobook ever!

So morpheus is going to die and will be replaced by lyta's baby??

This is one of the reasons I love DC so so much

I guess you could say that Delirium is delightfully delirious

The Audible version is AMAZING I haven't read the comic- I hope they do the whole series on audible.

Oh Hell yes. I've been into Sandman since it was first published. Gaiman's story was....just brilliant. I love graphic novels but, Sandman is the standout for me. I've re read the entire arc every two years or so since 1989. And writing that I can't believe how long the story has been that important and significant to me. Thanks for this video.

Im back here after the netflix trailer!

3:34 He is the sword of omens 🤣. He has sight beyond sight

Great video, thank you!

Why is Death so cute though.

When Death stop doing her job no one died... When Destruction quit ,humans still continue to destroy...hmmmmmmmm🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐

3:35 Does this mean Destiny has sight beyond sight? Yes that was a thundercats reference.

Love how your using the manga version too