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* AmbiguousSituation: We're given several hints that the Elemite is Mister E, from ''ComicBook/BooksOfMagic'': They both are blind men (who can nevertheless see) dressed in white, and it'd make sense for Erik to have gone even madder and have a grudge against Death and suicidal ideations after Death gave him AFateWorseThanDeath at the end of ''ComicBook/BooksOfMagic'', but it'd contradict the ''ComicBook/MisterE'' mini series. One could theorise the Elemite is Mister E's fate inside the Sandman Universe, while ''ComicBook/MisterE'' is Erik's fate in the ''Books of Magic'' universe, but at that point it's just speculation.
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-->[[DisappearedDad Last time I saw him]] he told me this joke: "What's the difference between a lawyer and a herring? (...) One's wet and slimy and it stinks - and the other's one's a herring!"
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-->[[DisappearedDad Last time I saw him]] he told me this joke: "What's the difference between a lawyer and a herring? (...) [[EvilLawyerJoke One's wet and slimy and it stinks stinks]] - and the other's one's a herring!"
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* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: A young woman, in order to drive home the point that "ennui" is no reason to commit suicide, tells the story of a "friend" who was repeatedly molested by her father and his buddies the mayor and chief of police, so there was no one in her small town she could turn to. She attempted suicide by slicing up her arms, but survived and was glad that she did. When asked what happened to her in the end, she says "I expect she came out to the big city" (the miniseries takes place in New York). Furthermore, she's wearing long gloves...hint, hint.
* BaitAndSwitchComparison. Counts also as SelfDeprecatingHumour
* BaitAndSwitchComparison. Counts also as SelfDeprecatingHumour
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* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: A young woman, in order to drive home the point that "ennui" is no reason to commit suicide, tells the story of a "friend" who was repeatedly molested by her father and his buddies the mayor and chief of police, so there was no one in her small town she could turn to. She attempted suicide by slicing up her arms, but survived and was glad that she did. When asked what happened to her in the end, she says "I expect she came out to the big city" (the miniseries takes place in New York). Furthermore, she's wearing long gloves...hint, hint.
hint. Not that Sexton gets the message at the time.
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* CoinsForTheDead: Death spends her day as a mortal in the 1990s. At the end of the day, the mortal version of Death dies, and a sorcerer who had been trying to capture her, (and, it's implied, end his own immortal life) places a pair of coins over her eyes in respect.
* ConspicuousGloves: A woman Sexton speaks with in the club, wears long conceiling gloves and tells him about [[IHaveThisFriend a friend of hers]] who tried to commit suicide by slitting her veins.
* ConspicuousGloves: A woman Sexton speaks with in the club, wears long conceiling gloves and tells him about [[IHaveThisFriend a friend of hers]] who tried to commit suicide by slitting her veins.
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* CoinsForTheDead: Death spends her day as a mortal in the 1990s. At the end of the day, the mortal version of Death dies, and a sorcerer who had been trying to capture her, her (and, it's implied, end his own immortal life) places a pair of coins over her eyes in respect.
respect. This is foreshadowed by her getting nearly everything for free all day- she pays for the final item, a pair of sunglasses, and is left with two pennies in her pocket.
* ConspicuousGloves: A woman Sexton speaks with in the club, wears longconceiling concealing gloves and tells him about [[IHaveThisFriend a friend of hers]] who tried to commit suicide by slitting her veins.
* ConspicuousGloves: A woman Sexton speaks with in the club, wears long
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* EyesOutOfSight: The Eremite eyes are always hidden under deep shadowy brows.
* FakeMemories: When Death spends a day as a mortal, the universe apprently builts her a full background and people around "Didi" -like Mrs Robbins- remember knowing her "all her life" even if she popped up into existence a few hours ago.
* FakeMemories: When Death spends a day as a mortal, the universe apprently builts her a full background and people around "Didi" -like Mrs Robbins- remember knowing her "all her life" even if she popped up into existence a few hours ago.
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* EyesOutOfSight: The Eremite Eremite's eyes are always hidden under deep shadowy brows.
* FakeMemories: When Death spends a day as a mortal, the universeapprently builts apparently builds her a full background and people around "Didi" -like Mrs Robbins- remember knowing her "all her life" even if she popped up into existence a few hours ago.
* FakeMemories: When Death spends a day as a mortal, the universe
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* MadOracle: Mad Hettie masters Haruspex and ReadingTeaLeaves. Albeit the "Mad" part is not a consequence of the "Oracle" part.
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* MadOracle: Mad Hettie masters Haruspex can read both tea leaves and ReadingTeaLeaves.entrails. Albeit the "Mad" part is not a consequence of the "Oracle" part.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Is the golden necklace really [[SoulJar Mad hettie's heart]] and the source of her immortality, or just an ordinary bauble that she ''thinks'' to be it in her delusion?
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Is the golden necklace really [[SoulJar Mad hettie's Hettie's heart]] and the source of her immortality, or just an ordinary bauble that she ''thinks'' to be it in her delusion?
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''Death: The High Cost of Living'' is a three-issue comic that ran from March to May 1993. It is a SpinOff of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', written by the comic's author Creator/NeilGaiman with art by Chris Bachalo and Mark Buckingham. It was noticeably the first Creator/DCComica series published under the Creator/VertigoComics imprint.
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''Death: The High Cost of Living'' is a three-issue comic that ran from March to May 1993. It is a SpinOff of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', written by the comic's author Creator/NeilGaiman with art by Chris Bachalo and Mark Buckingham. It was noticeably the first Creator/DCComica Creator/DCComics series published under the Creator/VertigoComics imprint.
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''Death: The High Cost of Living'' is a three-issue comic that ran from March to May 1993. It is a SpinOff of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', written by the comic's author Creator/NeilGaiman with art by Chris Bachalo and Mark Buckingham. It is the first series published under the Creator/VertigoComics imprint.
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''Death: The High Cost of Living'' is a three-issue comic that ran from March to May 1993. It is a SpinOff of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', written by the comic's author Creator/NeilGaiman with art by Chris Bachalo and Mark Buckingham. It is was noticeably the first Creator/DCComica series published under the Creator/VertigoComics imprint.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Is the golden necklace really [[SoulJar Mad hettie's heart]] and the source of her immortality, or just an ordinary bauble that she ''thinks'' to be it in her delusion?
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* MagicalHomelessPerson: Mad Hettie is immortal, a witch (even if she denies the word) and a MadOracle.
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* SympatheticMagic: Mad Hettie breaks a stick to break a leg from one of her aggressors.
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* MadOracle: Mad Hettie masters Haruspex and ReadingTeaLeaves. Albeit the "Mad" part is not a consequence of the "Oracle" part.
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* ConspicuousGloves: A woman Sexton speaks with in the club, wears long conceiling gloves and tells him about [[IHaveThisFriend a friend of hers]] who tried to commit suicide by slitting her veins.
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-->''Five minutes ago I was standing(...) with a really pretty sharp broken bottle pressed into the side of my face. The bottle was held by another crazy person, only this one smelled like a storm-drain.''
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-->''Five minutes ago I was standing(...standing (...) with a really pretty sharp broken bottle pressed into the side of my face. The bottle was held by another crazy person, only this one smelled like a storm-drain.''''
* DeathTakesAHoliday: Literally. The trope is discussed but averted, since people keep on dying anyway. Even Didi, who gets collected by "herself" in the end.
* DeathTakesAHoliday: Literally. The trope is discussed but averted, since people keep on dying anyway. Even Didi, who gets collected by "herself" in the end.
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* BaitAndSwitchComparison. Counts also as SelfDeprecatingHumour
-->Last time I saw me he told me this joke: "What's the difference between a lawyer and a herring? (...) One's wet and slimy and it stinks - and the other's one's a herring!"
* BritsLoveTea: Mad Hettie complaining that American can't make a proper tea.
-->Last time I saw me he told me this joke: "What's the difference between a lawyer and a herring? (...) One's wet and slimy and it stinks - and the other's one's a herring!"
* BritsLoveTea: Mad Hettie complaining that American can't make a proper tea.
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* CrazyHomelessPeople: Mad Hettie, as the name implies, with some hints of ViolentGlaswegian.
-->''Five minutes ago I was standing(...) with a really pretty sharp broken bottle pressed into the side of my face. The bottle was held by another crazy person, only this one smelled like a storm-drain.''
* EyesOutOfSight: The Eremite eyes are always hidden under deep shadowy brows.
* FakeMemories: When Death spends a day as a mortal, the universe apprently builts her a full background and people around "Didi" -like Mrs Robbins- remember knowing her "all her life" even if she popped up into existence a few hours ago.
-->''Five minutes ago I was standing(...) with a really pretty sharp broken bottle pressed into the side of my face. The bottle was held by another crazy person, only this one smelled like a storm-drain.''
* EyesOutOfSight: The Eremite eyes are always hidden under deep shadowy brows.
* FakeMemories: When Death spends a day as a mortal, the universe apprently builts her a full background and people around "Didi" -like Mrs Robbins- remember knowing her "all her life" even if she popped up into existence a few hours ago.
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''Death: The High Cost of Living'' is a three-issue comic that ran from March to May 1993. It is a SpinOff of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', written by the comic's author Creator/NeilGaiman with art by Chris Bachalo and Mark Buckingham.
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''Death: The High Cost of Living'' is a three-issue comic that ran from March to May 1993. It is a SpinOff of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', written by the comic's author Creator/NeilGaiman with art by Chris Bachalo and Mark Buckingham.
Buckingham. It is the first series published under the Creator/VertigoComics imprint.
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''ComicBook/DeathTheTimeOfYourLife'', published in 1996, is a sequel that focuses on Death, Hazel and Foxglove.
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* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: A young woman, in order to drive home the point that "ennui" is no reason to commit suicide, tells the story of a "friend" who was repeatedly molested by her father and his buddies the mayor and chief of police, so there was no one in her small town she could turn to. She attempted suicide by slicing up her arms, but survived and was glad that she did. When asked what happened to her in the end, she says "I expect she came out to the big city" (the miniseries takes place in New York). Furthermore, she's wearing long gloves...hint, hint.
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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: InUniverse. Didi liked ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' because it [[AdaptationAlternateEnding had a happy ending]] unlike the fairy tale it was based on, and says that one of her brothers (likely Dream, as the patron of stories) is a purist about adaptations.
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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: InUniverse. Didi liked ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' because it [[AdaptationAlternateEnding [[AdaptationalAlternateEnding had a happy ending]] unlike the fairy tale it was based on, and says that one of her brothers (likely Dream, as the patron of stories) is a purist about adaptations.adaptations and dislikes changes.
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* GodDelusion: Sexton thinks that Didi only thinks she's the personification of Death because she's mentally unwell after the death of her family. The readers know better.
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* NapoleonDelusion: Sexton thinks that Didi only thinks she's the personification of Death because she's mentally unwell after the death of her family. The readers know better.
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->''"I like happy endings."''
-->-- '''Didi'''
''Death: The High Cost of Living'' is a three-issue comic that ran from March to May 1993. It is a SpinOff of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', written by the comic's author Creator/NeilGaiman with art by Chris Bachalo and Mark Buckingham.
The comic stars Dream of the Endless's older sister Death, who, like she does every century, takes one day off and spends a day as a mortal. "Didi" befriends a disaffected and suicidal teenager named Sexton Furnival and spends the day with him, getting into misadventures like the homeless woman Mad Hettie demanding her heart, or an immortal sorcerer who chases after her.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Sexton complains that his classmate Theo is the type of asshole to cruelly kill kittens, but all the girls think he's "sex in blue jeans".
* CallingParentsByTheirName: Disaffected teen Sexton calls his parents Sylvia and Steve.
* CoinsForTheDead: Death spends her day as a mortal in the 1990s. At the end of the day, the mortal version of Death dies, and a sorcerer who had been trying to capture her, (and, it's implied, end his own immortal life) places a pair of coins over her eyes in respect.
* ContinuityNod: The songs Foxglove performs. The first one is called "Donna's Dream" and is about Judy, the girl killed by John Dee in ''Preludes and Nocturnes'', the first arc of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989''. In ''A Game of You'', a later arc, Foxglove (formerly Donna) is revealed to have been her ex-girlfriend, and has a nightmare about her. The next song, "Tracks", is about Wanda, Foxglove's neighbor who died in ''A Game of You''.
* GodDelusion: Sexton thinks that Didi only thinks she's the personification of Death because she's mentally unwell after the death of her family. The readers know better.
* TheGrimReaper: Discussed. Sexton doesn't believe Didi is the personification of Death, because to him Death is a bone-faced cloaked guy with a scythe who [[Film/TheSeventhSeal plays chess with Scandinavians]].
* HappilyFailedSuicide: A woman at the bar tells Sexton about a friend of hers who was raped repeatedly by older men in her life. She tried to kill herself, but was somehow glad when she still woke up at the hospital. Her point is that there's never a good reason to kill yourself, but Sexton's ennui is a particularly insufficient reason.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Didi is a spirited, friendly, charming young woman who inspires the suicidal and ennui-filled Sexton to better appreciate his life.
* PickedLast: Sexton says he was always picked last for sports in school, even after the kid with the leg brace, because that guy could at least throw.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: InUniverse. Didi liked ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' because it [[AdaptationAlternateEnding had a happy ending]] unlike the fairy tale it was based on, and says that one of her brothers (likely Dream, as the patron of stories) is a purist about adaptations.
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->''"I like happy endings."''
-->-- '''Didi'''
''Death: The High Cost of Living'' is a three-issue comic that ran from March to May 1993. It is a SpinOff of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', written by the comic's author Creator/NeilGaiman with art by Chris Bachalo and Mark Buckingham.
The comic stars Dream of the Endless's older sister Death, who, like she does every century, takes one day off and spends a day as a mortal. "Didi" befriends a disaffected and suicidal teenager named Sexton Furnival and spends the day with him, getting into misadventures like the homeless woman Mad Hettie demanding her heart, or an immortal sorcerer who chases after her.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Sexton complains that his classmate Theo is the type of asshole to cruelly kill kittens, but all the girls think he's "sex in blue jeans".
* CallingParentsByTheirName: Disaffected teen Sexton calls his parents Sylvia and Steve.
* CoinsForTheDead: Death spends her day as a mortal in the 1990s. At the end of the day, the mortal version of Death dies, and a sorcerer who had been trying to capture her, (and, it's implied, end his own immortal life) places a pair of coins over her eyes in respect.
* ContinuityNod: The songs Foxglove performs. The first one is called "Donna's Dream" and is about Judy, the girl killed by John Dee in ''Preludes and Nocturnes'', the first arc of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989''. In ''A Game of You'', a later arc, Foxglove (formerly Donna) is revealed to have been her ex-girlfriend, and has a nightmare about her. The next song, "Tracks", is about Wanda, Foxglove's neighbor who died in ''A Game of You''.
* GodDelusion: Sexton thinks that Didi only thinks she's the personification of Death because she's mentally unwell after the death of her family. The readers know better.
* TheGrimReaper: Discussed. Sexton doesn't believe Didi is the personification of Death, because to him Death is a bone-faced cloaked guy with a scythe who [[Film/TheSeventhSeal plays chess with Scandinavians]].
* HappilyFailedSuicide: A woman at the bar tells Sexton about a friend of hers who was raped repeatedly by older men in her life. She tried to kill herself, but was somehow glad when she still woke up at the hospital. Her point is that there's never a good reason to kill yourself, but Sexton's ennui is a particularly insufficient reason.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Didi is a spirited, friendly, charming young woman who inspires the suicidal and ennui-filled Sexton to better appreciate his life.
* PickedLast: Sexton says he was always picked last for sports in school, even after the kid with the leg brace, because that guy could at least throw.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: InUniverse. Didi liked ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' because it [[AdaptationAlternateEnding had a happy ending]] unlike the fairy tale it was based on, and says that one of her brothers (likely Dream, as the patron of stories) is a purist about adaptations.
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