History Series / TheSandman2022

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: Rose Walker and Lyta Hall know each other and are good friends before first appearing in this series, whereas their comic book counterparts met much later and were not friends.

* RaceLift: Rose, Jed, Unity, Rosemary, Lucien, and Hector are all white in the comic and black in the show. Death, who is also black in the show, is ''literally'' white in the comics, so technically casting any non-albino actress would have been a race lift since people with albinism can be from any ethnic group so comics!Death actually had no specific ethnic identity.

** This version of Lucifer is played by Gwendoline Christie (although Neil Gaiman does point out that in the comics, Lucifer doesn't ''have'' a gender despite being addressed with he/him pronouns, nor does anyone refer to Lucifer with gendered terminology in the show).

* RaceLift: Rose, Jed, Unity, Rosemary, Lucien, and Hector are all white in the comic and black in the show. Death, who is also black in the show, is ''literally'' white in the comics, so technically casting any non-albino actress would have been a race lift.

''The Sandman'' is a 2022 {{live action|adaptation}} television adaptation of [[ComicBook/TheSandman1989 the 1989-1996 comic book series of the same name]], developed by author Creator/NeilGaiman, David S. Goyer, and Allan Heinberg for Creator/{{Netflix}}. The first season fully adapts the first two volumes of the comic (''Preludes and Nocturnes'' and ''The Doll's House''), with a partial adaptation of the third volume (''Dream Country'') and a tease of the fourth volume (''Season of Mists''). A second season is confirmed to adapt stories from multiple volumes.

* LighterAndSofter: Some of the worse scenes from the comics are toned down in levels of gore.

** Dee also gets this, due to his backstory changes. He's now a little pathetic but still dangerous, whereas in the comic he was repeatedly a cosmic-level threat even before his appearance in Sandman.

* YouDontLookLikeYou: Nearly all the characters, with the primary exceptions being Dream and Desire, though Dream lacks his milk-white skin and star-like eyes, and Desire has blonde instead of black hair. Other complete aversions include the Corinthian, Gilbert, and Lucifer, at least as Lucifer is first presented in the comics.

* AdaptationDeviation: Surprisingly not as overt as in most; the story elements are largely kept intact, though all references to DC's larger universe are removed. No superheroes appear, John Constantine is now Johanna Constantine (and her namesake is played by the same actress), Arkham Asylum is a generic sanitarium, John Dee never had a career as a supervillain, there are exactly zero references to Wesley Dodds (the '40s hero subconsciously inspired by Morpheus to fight crime under the name "Sandman"), and Hell isn't ruled by Lucifer, Beelzebub, and Azazel together, but strictly by Lucifer. Brute and Glob are combined into a new nightmare, Gault, while Squatterbloat and Etrigan are combined into a more Etrigan-like Squatterbloat. The show also significantly expands the Corinthian's role, tying together the first season by making him TheHeavy.

* AdaptationalMundanity: Zig-Zagged. While the {{fantasy}} elements are still there (the existence of angels and demons, gods, the occult, and the Endless), this world is noticeably absent of {{superhero}}es. The Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica and their extended rogues gallery are all [[ShowWithinAShow fictional characters in-universe]], and any characters who are too woven into the plot to cut but originated as superhero-related properties, like Doctor Destiny, John Constantine and the Halls, are altered in kind.

* AdaptationDeviation: Surprisingly not as overt as in most; the story elements are largely kept intact, though all references to DC's larger universe are removed. No superheroes appear, John Constantine is now Johanna Constantine (and her namesake is played by the same actress), Arkham Asylum is a generic sanitarium, John Dee never had a career as a supervillain, there are exactly zero references to Wesley Dodds, and Hell isn't ruled by Lucifer, Beelzebub, and Azazel together, but strictly by Lucifer. Brute and Glob are combined into a new nightmare, Gault, while Squatterbloat and Etrigan are combined into a more Etrigan-like Squatterbloat. The show also significantly expands the Corinthian's role, tying together the first season by making him TheHeavy.

* CelebrityParadox: Jed Walker is shown to own several superhero toys, including a ComicBook/{{Batman}} figurine, and is occasionally seen watching ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock''--presumably meaning that Creator/DCComics exists in the world of the show, but ''didn't'' publish the ''[[ComicBook/TheSandman1989 Sandman]]'' comics. There's also the fact that John Dee looks suspiciously like [[Creator/DavidThewlis that actor]] who played Ares in ''Film/WonderWoman2017'', Merv Pumpkinhead sounds like [[Creator/MarkHamill the most famous voice actor]] for [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] (among other characters, including [[Franchise/TheFlash the Trickster]]), and [[Creator/KirbyHowellBaptiste Death]] sounds like Ares's fellow ''Wonder Woman'' villain, [[WesternAnimation/CatwomanHunted the Cheetah]].

* AdaptationDeviation: Surprisingly not as overt as in most; the story elements are largely kept intact, though all references to DC's larger universe are removed. No superheroes appear, John Constantine is now Johanna Constantine (in the present and the past), Arkham Asylum is a generic sanitarium, John Dee never had a career as a supervillain, there are exactly zero references to Wesley Dodds, and Hell isn't ruled by Lucifer, Beelzebub, and Azazel together, but strictly by Lucifer. Brute and Glob are combined into a new nightmare, Gault, while Squatterbloat and Etrigan are combined into a more Etrigan-like Squatterbloat. The show also significantly expands the Corinthian's role, tying together the first season by making him TheHeavy.

** Jed Walker has no toys while still in the care of Barnaby and Clarice, one of the many signs that his foster parents are mistreating him. As such, Jed's only entertainment and hope are found in the dreams given to him by [[DarkIsNotEvil Galt]].

** Matthew meets Morpheus much earlier than in the original story and accompanies him on his journey to regain his tools. In the comic, he first appears in the "Doll's House" arc, when he's assigned to keep watch on Rose Walker.

* DimensionLord: Dream has this relationship to his DreamLand realm, and it's implied the other Endless have their realms as well.

* MythologyGag: In her dream, the younger Zelda says that she and Chantel are gothic heroines, "secret brides of the faceless slaves of the nameless night of the castle of dread desire." This is a reference to Neil Gaiman's short story "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire," which is an AffectionateParody of GothicHorror.

* MythologyGag: Zelda says that she and Chantel are gothic heroines, "secret brides of the faceless slaves of the nameless night of the castle of dread desire." This is a reference to Neil Gaiman's short story "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire," which is an AffectionateParody of GothicHorror.

** "The Sound of Her Wings" and "Men of Good Fortune" are combined into the sixth episode.

* CelebrityParadox: Jed Walker is shown to own several superhero toys, including a ComicBook/{{Batman}} figurine, and is occasionally seen watching ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock''--presumably meaning that Creator/DCComics exists in the world of the show, but ''didn't'' publish the ''[[ComicBook/TheSandman1989 Sandman]]'' comics. There's also the fact that John Dee looks suspiciously like [[Creator/DavidThewlis that actor]] who played Ares in ''Film/WonderWoman2017'', Merv Pumpkinhead sounds like [[Creator/MarkHamill the most famous voice actor]] for [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] (among other characters, including [[Franchise/TheFlash the Trickster]]), and [[Creator/Kirby Howell Baptiste Death]] sounds like Ares's fellow ''Wonder Woman'' villain, [[WesternAnimation/CatwomanHunted the Cheetah]].

* CelebrityParadox: Jed Walker is shown to own several superhero toys, including a ComicBook/{{Batman}} figurine, and is occasionally seen watching ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock''--presumably meaning that Creator/DCComics exists in the world of the show, but ''didn't'' publish the ''[[ComicBook/TheSandman1989 Sandman]]'' comics. There's also the fact that John Dee looks suspiciously like [[Creator/DavidThewlis that actor]] who played Ares in ''Film/WonderWoman2017'' and Merv Pumpkinhead sounds like [[Creator/MarkHamill the most famous voice actor]] for [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]].