History Characters / TheSandman1989Humans

* TraumaCongaLine: Pretty much her entire life toward the end of ''ComicBook/InfinityInc'' and throughout ''Sandman''. She finds true love with Hector Hall, [[spoiler:who, thanks to a curse on his parents, doesn't have a soul and eventually becomes evil. But she's pregnant with his child, which reawakens his inner goodness...and leads to his death. But he's not ''really'' dead, he's the new Sandman, and she can live with him in the Dream Dome forever! Oh, except that was actually a trick by Brute and Glob, who brainwash her into a state of perpetual languor, but at least it's peaceful and she's with Hector, right? Not for very long...]] at least until ComicBook/{{JSA}} finally reunited Lyta with Hector who had become the new Doctor Fate.

* TraumaCongaLine: Pretty much her entire life toward the end of ''ComicBook/InfinityInc'' and throughout ''Sandman''. She finds true love with Hector Hall, [[spoiler:who, thanks to a curse on his parents, doesn't have a soul and eventually becomes evil. But she's pregnant with his child, which reawakens his inner goodness...and leads to his death. But he's not ''really'' dead, he's the new Sandman, and she can live with him in the Dream Dome forever! Oh, except that was actually a trick by Brute and Glob, who brainwash her into a state of perpetual languor, but at least it's peaceful and she's with Hector, right? Not for very long...]] at least until ComicBook/JSA finally reunited Lyta with Hector who had become the new Doctor Fate.

* TraumaCongaLine: Pretty much her entire life toward the end of ''ComicBook/InfinityInc'' and throughout ''Sandman''. She finds true love with Hector Hall, [[spoiler:who, thanks to a curse on his parents, doesn't have a soul and eventually becomes evil. But she's pregnant with his child, which reawakens his inner goodness...and leads to his death. But he's not ''really'' dead, he's the new Sandman, and she can live with him in the Dream Dome forever! Oh, except that was actually a trick by Brute and Glob, who brainwash her into a state of perpetual languor, but at least it's peaceful and she's with Hector, right? Not for very long...]]

[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.]]

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Joshua Norton, 1819-1880: Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

A former superhero and wife of Hector Hall, "the Sandman of the Dream Dimension."

* ActionGirl: When she was a superhero.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Even in her superhero days, when she was much nicer and more outgoing, her temper was a thing to be feared.

* IgnoredEpiphany: In her last step before meeting the Furies, Lyta sits in front of a mirror and argues with several different versions of herself: her as a young girl, as a superhero, and lastly, her as she appears at that moment. (Homeless, filthy, and half mad.) Several of these mirror selves argue with her choices, and what she has done/is doing with her life, especially her choice to sic the Furies on Dream. The last one essentially says, "[[LineInTheSand There's still time to stop this]]. You can get up, go home, put your life back together and move on." Lyta refuses to do so and [[RageAgainstTheReflection shatters the mirror]], which finally allows her to reach the Furies.
* InASingleBound: This was one of her powers as a superhero.

* SuperSpeed: One of her powers as a superhero.

* TraumaCongaLine: Pretty much her entire life toward the end of ''Infinity Inc.'' and throughout ''Sandman''. She finds true love with Hector Hall, [[spoiler:who, thanks to a curse on his parents, doesn't have a soul and eventually becomes evil. But she's pregnant with his child, which reawakens his inner goodness...and leads to his death. But he's not ''really'' dead, he's the new Sandman, and she can live with him in the Dream Dome forever! Oh, except that was actually a trick by Brute and Glob, who brainwash her into a state of perpetual languor, but at least it's peaceful and she's with Hector, right? Not for very long...]]

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* DetectEvil: On one occasion Lyta received a vision of how the person she was talking to had given a MercyKill to her ailing father with his pills at his behest. The Furies spoke through her of how the woman would be scourged and know nothing but suffering and misery and death and nothing could shelter her from retribution, etc. ''Awkward''. Fornunately, Lyta manages to both patch things up with the lady ''and'' keep the triune deities of hellish vengeance from destroying her.

* EvilCounterpart: Basically? At one point during ''The Sandman Presents: The Furies'', [[spoiler:the main villain Cronus creates monsters from Lyta's blood which she can't kill without invoking the wrath of the Furies upon herself, planning to have the Furies destroy themselves so he can have a crack at becoming the god of vengeance. Basically twisted clones she can't kill]].

* ImmortalityPromiscuity: As it's much more likely for him to outlive his partners than for the opposite to happen, he's naturally a bit of a womanizer. The majority of his appearances since his debut in "Men of Good Fortune" show him either with his current partner or with the woman who would eventually become his partner [[spoiler:such as Margaret, better known as Jim]]. He also admits to having slept around quite a bit in the time between the 14th and 16th centuries.

* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: She was a grandson who was possibly transgender or otherwise genderqueer (she refers to him as male, but mentions he loved dresses) and, somewhat unexpectedly, explains to Wanda that both his mom and herself adored him and encouraged him to express himself. Unfortunately, when he reached adulthood he ran away, and was found beaten to death, his killer never identified. WordOfGod is that he may well have been one of [[SerialKiller the Connoisseur's]] eight victims.

* OedipusComplex: Hinted at. When he enters Dream's realm to do battle, he dreams that he's Caesar in ancient Rome and tells three oracles that he dreamed about raping his mother.

* EvilCounterpart: Basically? At one point during ''The Sandman Presents: The Furies'', [[spoiler:the main villain Cronus creates monsters from Lyta's blood which she can't kill without invoking the wrath of the Furies upon herself, planning to have the Furies destroy themselves so he can have a crack at becoming the god of vengeance]].

--> '''Hob:''' (referring to his recently-born son) My first son born in over 200 years on this Earth. [[ReallyGetsAround Well, that I have known of, anyway.]]\\

* HeroicBSOD: After the events of ''Sandman'' Lyta spends three years drifting through life, picking up random one-nights stands and very occasionally losing her shit and assaulting people. The events of ''The Sandman Presents: The Furies'' help start her on the road to recovery.

** [[spoiler: In ''The Sandman Presents: The Furies'', she's described as an "imago" (in this context describing someone easily manipulated by otherworldly entities) whom the Furies wear as a mask in the mortal world. At one point they manifest themselves from her body and at the climax Lyta willingly works in concert with the Furies inside her, becoming one herself in body, to punish Cronus. Since she never did this before and never did it again, it might be something she can only do when in Greece and/or when she's performing the function of the Furies (she was doing both at the time).

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Late in her career (after learning quite a bit about herself in her Vertigo adventures), Lyta starts describing herself as not human but a Fury, something she hadn't done before. There's also the matter of her unidentified father...