The Sandman
Spoilers forThe Sandmanahead .
The peculiar helm ofThe Sandman’sMorpheus may look a bit odd , but there ’s a very good reason why it has the chassis it does . A coup d’oeil at the time before Dream ’s capture highlights a tragical irony behind his iconic headgear . Neil Gaiman ’s opusThe Sandmanis a account that mostly centers around Dream aka Morpheus . He is one of seven being known as the Endless , who service as cosmic manifestation of nonobjective construct such as Desire or Despair . Dream rule over the Dreaming , a realm where everyone call when they are sleeping . The epic storylineofThe Sandmanbeginswhen Morpheus is accidentally becharm by Roderick Burgess who was seek to kidnap Dream ’s sister , Death . Upon his capture , Dream is robbed of several point that serve as symbols of his power : the Dreamstone , Dream ’s gumption pouch , and the most visually outstanding of his solicitation , his curiously designed helm .
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Though the helm does serve to preface Lucifer toThe Sandman’scast , the history and origin of the helm remains unexplored throughout the series . However , the Lord of the Dreaming finally let out how acquired his ceremonial headwear inThe Sandman : Overture # 3by Neil Gaiman and J.H. Williams III.TheSandmanuniverse isin peril and Morpheus is venturing throughout the cosmos to try and end it . On the room , he get together an orphaned alien girl nominate Hope , who conjoin Dream on his journey . As they bivouac for the night , Dream tell Hope a story of the time two gods came to the Dreaming and essay to overcharge Morpheus of his kingdom . Though they in brief succeed , Dream and his fan Alianora are able to fight back and shoot down the deity . Dream uses their osseous tissue to make the Gates of Horn and Ivory , as well as fashion his infamous helm .
EventhoughThe Sandman’sDreamwent through the ringer with the invading gods , he was able to come out on the other side with a brawny monitor of the experience . However , it seems that Dream was destined to repeat chronicle in a extremely wry style . Despite his helm serve a symbol to always stay argus-eyed , Morpheus would find himself imprison once more , this time to a much more crushing degree .
Morpheus is the first to take on that when he run out at keeping the Dreaming safe , he was unprepared and as punishment , his kingdom was stolen from him . Being in such a place is unfitfor the Dreaming ’s Sandman , and when Dream got gratuitous , he kept his helm closing curtain to prompt himself that just because he was powerful , did n’t mean he could n’t be felled by an underhand enemy . Even though Morpheus kept a recurrent reminder of his notable failure , he still oversee to wind up the prisoner of Burgess . And unlike his first imprisonment , his absence for nearly a century caused some of the bad problem the Dreaming has ever faced .
TheSandmanmay have oversee to make a visually telling helm , but he go bad at using it as the prophylactic token it was intended to be .
