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* UnnecessarilyCruelRejection: After Dodds ingests a faceful of his own sleeping gas, he has nightmares in which he's forced to confront everyone he's ever hurt. Among his past victims was a young woman he met at university who asked him out on a date. Instead, he mocked her in front of his peers in order seem more impressive.
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* EvilCripple: [[spoiler:The theft of the journals was orchestrated by Colonel Breckenridge, who lost an arm under unrevealed circumstances.]]
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* SmokescreenCrime: The fire at Wesley's estate was a cover for the theft of his journals.
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In the 1940's, Wesley Dodds tries to use the considerable fortune left to him by his father to fight crime in the guise of the Sandman, using a specially-designed sleeping gas to put criminals to sleep. However, before he developed that gas, he accidentally invented a number of more harmful gases, and after a fire damages his home, he discovers that a new villain, the Fog, has stolen his compounds and is using them for evil.
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In the 1940's, 1940s, Wesley Dodds tries to use the considerable fortune left to him by his father to fight crime in the guise of the Sandman, using a specially-designed specially designed sleeping gas to put criminals to sleep. However, before he developed that gas, he accidentally invented a number of more harmful gases, and after a fire damages his home, he discovers that a new villain, the Fog, has stolen his compounds and is using them for evil.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Wesley's father Edward came back from World War I with a bad case of what we now call Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a consequence of seeing his fellow soldiers die gruesome deaths from exposure to mustard gas. Edward vented his fears onto young Wesley, who tried to conquer his own fear of gases by studying them to find a gas that could incapacitate people without harming or killing them.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Wesley's father Edward came back from World War I with a bad case of what we now call Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a consequence of seeing his fellow soldiers die gruesome deaths from exposure to mustard gas. Edward vented his fears onto young Wesley, who tried to conquer his own fear of gases by studying them to find a gas that could incapacitate people without harming or killing them.them.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Wesley's father Edward came back from World War I with a bad case of what we now call Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a consequence of seeing his fellow soldiers die gruesome deaths from exposure to mustard gas. Edward vented his fears onto young Wesley, who tired tried to conquer his own fear of gases by studying them to find a gas that could incapacitate people without harming or killing them.
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''Wesley Dodds: The Sandman'' is a five-issue miniseries by Robert Venditti and Riley Rossmo, published by Creator/DCComics as part of their ''ComicBook/DawnOfDC'' initiative.
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''Wesley Dodds: The Sandman'' is a five-issue six-issue miniseries by Robert Venditti and Riley Rossmo, published by Creator/DCComics as part of their ''ComicBook/DawnOfDC'' initiative.
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''Wesley Dodds: The Sandman'' is a five-issue miniseries by Robert Venditti and Riley Rossmo, published by Creator/DCComics as part of their ''ComicBook/DawnOfDC'' initiative.
In the 1940's, Wesley Dodds tries to use the considerable fortune left to him by his father to fight crime in the guise of the Sandman, using a specially-designed sleeping gas to put criminals to sleep. However, before he developed that gas, he accidentally invented a number of more harmful gases, and after a fire damages his home, he discovers that a new villain, the Fog, has stolen his compounds and is using them for evil.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: In the first issue, Dodds tries to sell his sleeping gas to the United States Army, figuring that they'd pay good money for a weapon that would cause fewer casualties on all sides. The Colonel flatly turns him down, pointing out that the logistics of detaining and transporting an entire battlefield's worth of enemy soldiers would be beyond what the army is willing to expend, and that it's so much easier to just kill the enemy.
* GenerationalTrauma: Wesley Dodds' famous nightmares and obsession with the combat applications of various gases began when his father came home from World War I. Edward Dodds had fought in the war and developed severe PTSD after seeing his fellow soldiers die from exposure from mustard gas, and his stories about witnessing these horrors gave young Wesley nightmares, which he tried to conquer by learning everything he could about gases so that he'd know exactly what they do to the human body.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Wesley's father Edward came back from World War I with a bad case of what we now call Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a consequence of seeing his fellow soldiers die gruesome deaths from exposure to mustard gas. Edward vented his fears onto young Wesley, who tired to conquer his own fear of gases by studying them to find a gas that could incapacitate people without harming or killing them.
In the 1940's, Wesley Dodds tries to use the considerable fortune left to him by his father to fight crime in the guise of the Sandman, using a specially-designed sleeping gas to put criminals to sleep. However, before he developed that gas, he accidentally invented a number of more harmful gases, and after a fire damages his home, he discovers that a new villain, the Fog, has stolen his compounds and is using them for evil.
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!!This series contains examples of:
* AwesomeButImpractical: In the first issue, Dodds tries to sell his sleeping gas to the United States Army, figuring that they'd pay good money for a weapon that would cause fewer casualties on all sides. The Colonel flatly turns him down, pointing out that the logistics of detaining and transporting an entire battlefield's worth of enemy soldiers would be beyond what the army is willing to expend, and that it's so much easier to just kill the enemy.
* GenerationalTrauma: Wesley Dodds' famous nightmares and obsession with the combat applications of various gases began when his father came home from World War I. Edward Dodds had fought in the war and developed severe PTSD after seeing his fellow soldiers die from exposure from mustard gas, and his stories about witnessing these horrors gave young Wesley nightmares, which he tried to conquer by learning everything he could about gases so that he'd know exactly what they do to the human body.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Wesley's father Edward came back from World War I with a bad case of what we now call Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a consequence of seeing his fellow soldiers die gruesome deaths from exposure to mustard gas. Edward vented his fears onto young Wesley, who tired to conquer his own fear of gases by studying them to find a gas that could incapacitate people without harming or killing them.
