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45-727: Daniel , Dan , or Danny Hall may refer to: Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Daniel Hall (comics) , a fictional character in the Sandman comics Daniel Hall (poet) (born 1952), American poet Dan Hall (musician) (born 1978), Australian musician Danny Hall (drummer) (born 1981), British drummer Politics [ edit ] Daniel Hall (West Virginia politician) (born 1974), American state Senator and former Delegate in West Virginia Daniel Hall (Wisconsin politician) (1819–?), member and Speaker of

90-402: A Japanese man to a Buddhist monk and as a fox to a fox spirit . He customarily wears a billowing black cape, sometimes with a flame motif. In battle he wears a helmet made from the skull and backbone of a defeated enemy. This "helm", which resembles a World War II -era gas mask , is also his sigil in the galleries of the other Endless, as well as appearing in the dreams (and at least once on

135-463: A longer phrase or sentence – such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or The Adventures of Tom Sawyer . The title character is commonly – but not necessarily – the protagonist of the story. Narrative works routinely do not have a title character and there is some ambiguity in what qualifies as one. Examples in various media include Figaro in the opera The Marriage of Figaro , Giselle in

180-399: A new Sandman. Keep the name. But the rest is up to you'". Gaiman crafted the new character from an initial image of "a man, young, pale and naked, imprisoned in a tiny cell, waiting until his captors passed away ... deathly thin, with long dark hair, and strange eyes". Gaiman patterned the character's black attire on a print of a Japanese kimono as well as his own wardrobe. Dream

225-452: A series of the same name (chief author Alisa Kwitney ). Title character The title character in a narrative work is one who is named or referred to in the title of the work. In a performed work such as a play or film, the performer who plays the title character is said to have the title role of the piece. The title of the work might consist solely of the title character's name – such as Michael Collins or Othello – or be

270-435: A strong sense of honor. He repeatedly risks his life to make amends for a past wrong, despite not needing to do so (though, this was only after Death pointed out how horribly he had behaved) and continues on his search with Delirium despite his aversion to doing so, feeling it was unjust their human guide died without knowing anything of their quest. Dream lives in a castle at the heart of his realm called "The Dreaming" . Both

315-538: A style of dress appropriate to their region and era. In the Dreaming, he is often seen wearing a grey T-shirt and dark pants. He appears to be light-skinned when interacting with similar characters, but the people of Tales in the Sand' s primordial African city see him as dark. He appears as a huge black cat when speaking to the lonely Siamese cat -pilgrim of Dream of a Thousand Cats and as a cat-headed god when addressing

360-425: A treatment for a new series. Gaiman mentioned his treatment in passing to DC editor Karen Berger . When months later Berger offered Gaiman a comic title to work on, he was unsure his Sandman pitch would be accepted. Weeks later, Berger asked Gaiman if he was interested in doing a Sandman series. Gaiman recalled: "I said, 'Um ... yes. Yes, definitely. What's the catch?' Berger said: 'There's only one. We'd like

405-548: Is a gentler and more merciful lord than Morpheus. Daniel was named in accordance with Neil Gaiman 's decision to give the Endless names or titles beginning with the letter 'D', and after the Biblical prophet who interpreted dreams. Whereas Morpheus almost always wears black, Daniel robes himself in white. Morpheus' garments also tended to be styled with a flame motif, while Daniel's are often adorned with floral patterns. Daniel

450-557: Is detailed and exacting in their fulfillment (as noted in Season of Mists , where he is described thus: "Of all the Endless, save perhaps Destiny , he is most conscious of his responsibilities, the most meticulous in their execution"). Conversely, he also uses his responsibilities as an excuse to avoid change and other things he does not want to do. He shares a close, reciprocal bond of dependence and trust with his elder sister, Death . He consistently strives for understanding of himself and of

495-468: Is the ruler of the Dreaming where people go when they dream. Daniel's father Hector Hall was a ghost revived by the two nightmares Brute and Glob, in Morpheus's absence. Whereafter Hippolyta "Lyta" Hall and Hector's ghost lived in the dreams of a child named Jed Walker for two years. Upon Dream's return to the Dreaming, he destroyed the barrier that the two had created around the child's mind from

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540-767: Is unable to convince Fiddler's Green to return to the Dreaming but otherwise recreates the entire land, including its populace, as it was before. Daniel has appeared from time to time in other Vertigo series. He was often identified, and infrequently appeared, in The Dreaming by Caitlin Kiernan . He appeared in Lucifer : in Nirvana, helping Lucifer track an enemy, and in The Sandman Presents: The Furies , in which he met his mortal mother for

585-451: The Wizard of Oz is the title character, but is a minor supporting character. In the musical Bye Bye Birdie , Conrad Birdie is the title character, while Albert Peterson is the protagonist. In the video game The Legend of Zelda , the title character Princess Zelda is the damsel in distress and Link is her knight in shining armor . The title character need not be the subject of

630-553: The ballet of the same name , the Doctor in the TV series Doctor Who , Dr. Gregory House of the TV series House , Harry Potter in the series of novels and films , and Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet in the play Romeo and Juliet . There is no formal, prescriptive definition of a title character or title role , but there are general standards accepted by tradition. The title character need not be literally named in

675-469: The 1938 novel Rebecca , or Jason Bourne in the 2012 film The Bourne Legacy . Status as the title character has been attributed to named objects, such as the bus in the film and musical Priscilla, Queen of the Desert , or the imaginary 6-foot rabbit Harvey in the play and film of the same name . The general noun phrase "title character" can be replaced with a descriptive noun or phrase which

720-694: The Daniel Dream and retrieved the Saeculum (both events happening in The Sandman Overture). Thus, the change was maybe never an option, but an imperative. Dream is noted in Season of Mists as "accumulating names to himself as others make friends, but he permits himself few friends". He is given more names in The Sandman than any of the other Endless, beyond the many translations of Dream . Despite his narcissism and pride, Dream has

765-638: The Dreaming after their deaths. Dream Girl tells Doctor Destiny that she foresaw his death, being tortured in his sleep by "the owner of the dreamstone". Daniel appears in Dark Nights: Metal a crossover written by Scott Snyder , with Neil Gaiman's blessing. Dream of the Endless usually appears as a tall, thin man with bone-white skin, black hair, and two stars in place of eyes. Most often they are silver, blue, or white, but when he becomes angered, they have been shown to turn red. Dream's appearance ranges widely: people generally perceive him in

810-462: The Dreaming and that he populated it for want of company. Other than Dream himself, the most important inhabitant of the Dreaming is Lucien, the first of Dream's ravens and now the Librarian of the Dreaming. Dream gives Lucien authority over the Dreaming on several occasions. The character originally appeared in the 1970s DC comic Tales of Ghost Castle , which lasted for only three issues (and

855-534: The Dreaming, the Dream King, Dream-Sneak, the Cat of Dreams, Murphy, Kai'ckul and Lord L'Zoril, who is the anthropomorphic personification of dreams . Although he is ultimately a heroic character, Dream is sometimes slow to understand humor, occasionally insensitive, often self-obsessed, and very slow to forgive a slight. He has a long history of failed amours, and is both shown and implied to have reacted harshly to

900-525: The Egyptian feline goddess Bast . Martian Manhunter sees Dream in the shape of a flaming Martian skull and identifies him as Lord L'Zoril; but Mister Miracle , looking at him simultaneously, sees him as a man. In Season of Mists , he appears in the same form to all the Gods (Bast comments: "I much prefer you in cat form, Dream old friend"). In The Dream Hunters , set in ancient Japan , Dream appears as

945-520: The England national field hockey team Danny Hall (footballer) (born 1983), English football defender See also [ edit ] Daniel Hall, a building on the campus of Clemson University , South Carolina, U.S. Daniel Hallé (1614–1675), French painter [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

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990-532: The Kindly Ones (by leaving his realm, when summoned by a fairy). This would imply Dream accepted change enough to knowingly and willingly allow himself to be killed and reborn as another aspect of himself - a different one. One might argue, however, that this whole "die and be replaced by the Daniel version of himself" plot was just Dream playing his own role, as he already knew some of it would happen, when he met

1035-729: The Wisconsin State Assembly Dan Hall (politician) (born 1952), American politician and former member of the Minnesota State Senate Science and technology [ edit ] Alfred Daniel Hall (1864–1942), sometimes known as Sir Daniel Hall, British agriculturalist Sports [ edit ] Dan Hall (soccer) (born 1999), Fijian soccer defender Danny Hall (baseball) (born 1954), American college baseball coach Danny Hall (cricketer) (born 1944), English cricketer Danny Hall (field hockey) (born 1974), member of

1080-480: The book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , Robinson Crusoe in the book of the same name or Jean-Luc Picard in the TV series Star Trek: Picard ; but can be a non-fictional dramatization, such as Annie Oakley in the musical Annie Get Your Gun , Erin Brockovich in the film of the same name , or Thomas More in the play A Man for All Seasons . Although it is common for the title character to be

1125-403: The castle and the rest of his realm are mutable and change often, often at his will, although his resistance to change (and difficulty changing) is a theme throughout the series. Dream maintains both the castle and the realm, as with all aspects of his appearance, in a half-accommodating, half-terrifying state, simultaneously acknowledging both the courtesy due to others and the attention due him as

1170-472: The cover of Sandman #1 on Peter Murphy . Dream's speech is usually portrayed as white text in black, wavy-edged speech bubbles bordered in white. The text is capitalized normally ( sentence case ), in stark contrast to other characters' speech, generally in block caps text. Throughout the series, Dream is referred to by various aliases, including Morpheus, Oneiros , the Shaper, the Shaper of Form, Lord of

1215-519: The end of the Brief Lives story arc, Desire says of Dream: "He's stuffy, stupid, and thinks he knows everything, and there's just something about him that gets on my nerves". There is a long-standing enmity between Dream and Desire, stemming from Desire's possible involvement in the failure of one of Dream's amours (seen in Endless Nights ). It is implied that before his imprisonment he

1260-523: The films Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster or Smokey and the Bandit . In the novel and TV series Shogun , the feudal lord Toranaga is the title character, but the protagonist is John Blackthorne . In the 2003 revival of August Wilson 's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom , Whoopi Goldberg had the title role of Ma Rainey, but the lead was Charles S. Dutton as Levee. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ,

1305-660: The first time since The Wake . Within the main DC Universe , Daniel has made guest appearances in JLA #22–23, in which he helped save the Earth from Starro and in which he repaid the 'debt' his predecessor had owed the Justice League. He also assured Kyle Rayner that he had surpassed Hal Jordan and will continue to do so. Daniel next appeared in a handful of issues of JSA in which he, among other things, transferred

1350-639: The hands of the Furies, Daniel Hall becomes the new Dream. Tom Sturridge is the principal actor portraying Dream in the television series The Sandman on Netflix ; Ernest Kingsley Jr. portrays him in the form of Kai'ckul, as perceived by his one-time lover Nada. Dream is the protagonist and title character of the comic book The Sandman . The comic book grew out of a proposal by Neil Gaiman to revive DC's 1974–1976 series The Sandman , written by Joe Simon and Michael Fleisher and illustrated by Jack Kirby and Ernie Chua . Gaiman soon began constructing

1395-466: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Hall&oldid=1259704445 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Daniel Hall (comics) After the events of The Sandman: The Kindly Ones that led to Dream's death at

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1440-434: The narrators from older DC horror comics, including Cain and Abel , and Fiddler's Green , who emulates G. K. Chesterton in human form. Dream recruits or creates (or re-creates) servants to perform roles he could easily carry out himself, including the reorganization of the castle and the guarding of its entrance. Although this is not stated in the series, Gaiman has said that he "always assumed" Dream had once been alone in

1485-483: The new Dream is an amalgam of a child and the Endless whom he represents. His speech is largely unchanged, but it is drawn with black font on a white background (as opposed to the direct contrasting style of the former self). He is still identified by the honorific "Dream of the Endless", but refuses the name of 'Morpheus'. He is inexperienced in government of the Dreaming and relies on Matthew for advice. As Dream, Daniel

1530-479: The other Endless, but is ultimately defeated by his inability to accept change: in The Wake , when asked (by Matthew, the raven), "Why did it happen? Why did he let it happen?", Lucien remarks: "Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change". However, Death suspects Dream allowed himself to become vulnerable to

1575-490: The prophetic dreams from Wesley Dodds to Sandy Hawkins . In another appearance, he prevents the time-traveling villain Per Degaton from tormenting his parents. Still later in the series, Daniel, in the form of a magic mirror, tells Hector Hall (reincarnated as Doctor Fate) and Lyta about Sand , who is trapped in a dream world created, again, by Brute and Glob. Daniel brought the spirits of his mortal parents to live in

1620-713: The protagonist, it is not unusual for the principal antagonist or a key secondary character to be named in the title instead. Examples of titular antagonists include Sauron in the book and film series The Lord of the Rings , Count Dracula in Bram Stoker 's Dracula , or Francisco Scaramanga and Julius No in the James Bond novels and films The Man with the Golden Gun and Dr. No ,. The protagonist and antagonist can arguably both be title characters, as in

1665-467: The real Dreaming; imprisoned the two nightmares; released Hector's ghost; and restored Lyta to the waking world. Upon leaving Lyta, Dream revealed that he would someday claim their unborn son because her unborn son had spent much of his gestation in the Dreaming. Before Dream faced Lucifer , he paid another visit to the two and named the child Daniel. In one of the issues in Fables and Reflections , Daniel

1710-503: The realm's master, and indeed the pleasantness and terror of dreams themselves. On top of his castle are the Gate Keepers consisting of a wyvern , a griffin , and a hippogriff who intercept any dreamers that want to enter Dream's castle. Dream is the only one of the Endless known to populate his realm with speaking characters: a multitude of dreams and nightmares he has created, as well as entities from other realms. These include

1755-432: The staircase wall) of Wesley Dodds . His face and physique are based on an amalgamation of Neil Gaiman in his twenties, The Cure 's frontman Robert Smith , and ballet dancer Farukh Ruzimatov . Dream's face and appearance are also based on Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy . In fact, Gaiman explained that Murphy was the original model for Dream. Gaiman also stated that Sandman artist Dave McKean based Dream's face in

1800-564: The title in a strict grammatical sense: Uncle Tom is considered the title character of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Lee Marvin is often described as playing the title character in the film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance , as his character (Liberty Valance) is named in the title, even though the grammatical subject of the title is the person who shot him. The concept of title character may be interpreted to include unseen characters , such as Godot in Waiting for Godot , Rebecca de Winter in

1845-672: The title, but may be referred to by some other identifying word or phrase, such as Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit , Simba in The Lion King , Aang in Avatar: The Last Airbender , Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland or more vaguely, as in the play An Ideal Husband , which ostensibly refers to the character Sir Robert Chiltern. A title character is typically fictional, such as Alice in

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1890-429: The women therein. Both his mother, Night, and his siblings have commented that Dream has always wanted and always failed at finding a partner. As Mervyn Pumpkinhead remarks: "He's gotta be the tragic figure standing out in the rain, mournin' the loss of his beloved. So down comes the rain, right on cue. In the meantime everybody gets dreams full of existential angst and wakes up feeling like hell. And we all get wet". Near

1935-513: Was apparently killed off in Secrets of Haunted House #44). Lucien and Cain have a similar appearance as both were originally created by the same artist. Other notable inhabitants include: The Dreaming is at any moment also full of all creatures dreaming at that moment, although these seldom appear in the comics panel. Several comics in DC's Vertigo line have been set in the Dreaming, most notably

1980-436: Was crueler and more blind to his flaws, and much of The Sandman is focused on his desire to atone for his past behavior (e.g., helping past lovers Calliope and Nada). Dream reacts strongly to perceived insult; he banishes Nada to Hell for rejecting him and expresses outrage when Hob Gadling suggests that he seeks companionship. Dream is constantly aware of his responsibilities, both to other people and to his territory, and

2025-712: Was regaled with stories by Cain , Abel , and Eve while Matthew the Raven watched. In the Kindly Ones saga, Lyta incorrectly believed that Daniel had been 'abducted' by Dream, and took her grievances to the Furies , with whom she destroyed much of the Dreaming. Unknown to her, Daniel was abducted by Loki and Robin Goodfellow , and retrieved by the Corinthian and Matthew. At Morpheus' citadel, Morpheus transfers his role to Daniel and allows Death to take him. Daniel as

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