Sandman Season 2: Hell's Abdication arc, When the weight of the world is too much...

I honestly was so surprised that in the fourth episode of the first season Sandman calls the Devil Lucifer Morningstar, because while yes, Samael, Lucifer and Morningstar are all names used to describe the first amongst the Fallen, to call the Devil Lucifer Morningstar is something only one show has done before, and that is the Fox show Lucifer.

Until very recently I didn't even know that Lucifer Morningstar was a D.C. Character, which might as well because the Fox and then Netflix adaptation of this Neil Gaiman Character while sharing character traits and a name with the Show character, the story is as far away from the comics story as can be...

But he is definitely a D.C. character and so is the Sandman...

Wait what?

Ah yes my dear sweet summer child, you see John Burgess was actually Doctor Destiny, and he was imprisoned in the Arkham Asylum by the Justice league when he held the Dream Stone from Dream of the Endless.

And so... it is kind of strange but simultaneously rewarding to see what technically actually lead to Lucifer opening Lux, he... I mean she... just got this Idea from Dream...

Now if you have seen the show on Netflix or Fox, you know well enough that Lucifer is basically a contrarian of epic proportions who will basically call you a dipshit even if you give him exactly and everything he has ever wanted.

Being a Rebel is his Identity, no matter what he must Rebel, because everything including himself is a creation of the one person he hates, his Father the Presence... or as you know him: God.

In fact it appears that the Netflix version of him is actually toned down, in the comics he is just straight up like...

Yeah even when he gets the way to do and know everything he ever wanted he calls God a dickhead.

And tells him what he is offering is a form of annihilation.

Now... I relate to the man.

But the thing is, so do a lot of people, when you have a life filled with abuse and negative experiences, it feels like no matter what you do or think or don't do, it is all meaningless since the whole world belongs to whatever hurt you, and you yourself are so affected by whatever hurt you that no matter what you do or don't do, the Trauma follows you.

You feel like there is no escape and so you must rebel, you must rebel against all of it, even your own rebellion...

I think there is a name for it: A Rebel without a cause.

And that fits Lucifer perfectly.

Imagine how devastating it is for someone like Him to realize that the very thing that he thought would finally giving him freedom actually played right into the hands of the one he was rebelling against.

Sandman's version of the Morningstar played by Gwendoline Christie, is almost a page to screen perfect adaptation of the Comic book Lucifer.

People may argue about Gender, but I would argue that her being a woman is is more accurate, I mean for one, Angels are Genderless, and as a Rebel, Luci is much more likely to identify with the gender on whom the most restrictions are placed, secondly, Morningstar was modeled after David Bowie, someone who is known for his genderfluidity.

Morningstar comes into the Narrative because just like in the comics, as the Monarch of Hell and the one standing in between Morpheus and his Helm, and she ends the first Season Vowing to get revenge for the Humiliation she suffered at the hands of Dream of the Endless.

So when Season 2 begins with the fateful Meeting at Destiny's home and he is triggered first by Desire and then by Death to return to queen Nada to free her from hell, we all are anticipating, just like we did in the comics, that something is going to go down.

But then Nothing ever does, because Lucifer is a contrarian, her one defining quality is that she defies expectations, but he always gets what she wants.

And what better way to get the Revenge she so desires, than to do it in a way that Morpheus cannot bear to say no to.

That is why she says: "Surely you agree that this is far too important to entrust to anyone else"

"Maybe it will Destroy you."

The Sandman is about the Stories we tell each other, and how they inspire us and in turn how they are inspired from us.

This interaction is basically Lucifer looking directly at Morpheus and asking him, I am don carrying the Burden of the world, it isn't working for me, it is not what I want, things will run just fine without me to shepherd them, no matter how important I was.

I refuse to let my past mistake or success become my cage

When will you make the same choice?

Or will you die for it?