YMMV / The Sandman Universe

• Base-Breaking Character: People are split on how wildly different the 2019 run of Lucifer is to the original comic's run. While the original Mike Carrey series portrayed Lucifer as an amoral being who only ever came after you if you were a direct threat to him or his assets and never had to suffer any lasting consequences for it, in 2019 The Sandman Universe run he is portrayed closer to a more conventionally evil Devil who is more likely to torment humans for his own gain and suffer a Pyrrhic Victory from the fallout it causes. While fans think that this change missed the point of what made Lucifer Morningstar so intriguing, others find the idea of Lucifer's behavior being portrayed as self-destructive and actually having to consider his actions makes him intriguing in a whole new way. Really it depends on who you'd want Lucifer to be: an Übermensch who's Above Good and Evil, or a Byronic Hero who is just as much a villain to himself as he is to the rest of the Universe.
• Character Rerailment: The 2019 The Sandman Universe design for Lucifer is done in a David Bowie-esq beautifully androgynous design that Neil Gaiman originally intended compared to the more conventionally handsome portrayal in the Mike Carrey series (and its Holly Black continuation).
• Hilarious in Hindsight: One of the main characters of The Dreaming: Waking Hours is a nightmare who hates frightening dreamers and would rather spread joy and beauty, only for Dream to hunt the nightmare down and eventually allow the nightmare to live their life on their own terms. The 2022 Netflix adaptation of the original comic book would later adapt "The Doll's House" with this same plot, replacing Brute and Glob with the well-intentioned Gault, Dream remaking her as a benign dream like she wanted. What's even more ironic is that Daniel would send Brute and Glob to retrieve the escaped Ruin.
• The Woobie: Ruin from The Dreaming: Waking Hours. He's a Troubled, but Cute nightmare who was create to instill fear in dreamers, thinking that he's evil for spreading fear and eventually escapes because he fell in love with his first dreamer. His creator dismissed him as a failure the moment he was created, the angel Jophiel hates his guts, he has come to believe that he ruins everything he touches (having come to this conclusion because of his terrible luck) and the only reason why he won't ask Daniel to help him fix his mess is because he's certain that he would uncreate him the second he knew where he was.