In the comics, Dream is, to put it mildly, a b****. He's arrogant, prideful, and oftentimes cruel. He's a compelling character, but not necessarily a likable one. Whereas, while the Dream of the Show does a lot of the same cold-hearted things, he sends Nader to Hell, he lies to Delirium, he was gonna kill Rose. Overall, he's not quite as heartless as the original. In both the show and the comic, Dream condemns his captor Alex Burgess to eternal sleep. In the show, Dream later reconsideres apologizing to Alex and freeing him. But in the comic, Burgess doesn't wake up until the moment Dream dies. Whether this is a final act of mercy, or just because Dream isn't around to keep him imprisoned anymore, is unclear. Nevertheless, it's Dream's successor who actually absolves Burgess, not Dream. In the show, when the kindly ones come to kill the Griffin, Dream saves her life with a loving embrace. In the comic, the Griffin dies alone, and Dream is coldly indifferent.
{# E23 (Nick, ruling section 1 answer 10): quoting a bill or a court opinion works
the way quoting a news article works. Select a passage above and the same panel
opens: the passage goes to the official you choose, with this document's own
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