The Sandman (TV Series)

A Hope in Hell (2022)

Patton Oswalt: Matthew the Raven

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• Lucifer Morningstar : I am... a dire wolf. Prey-stalking, lethal prowler.

  Dream : I am a hunter. Horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing.

  Lucifer Morningstar : I am a serpent. Horse-biting, poison-toothed.

  Dream : I am a bird of prey. Snake-devouring, talons ripping.

  Lucifer Morningstar : I am a butcher bacterium. Warm-life destroying.

  Dream : I am a world. Space-floating, life-nurturing.

  Lucifer Morningstar : I am a nova. All-exploding, planet-cremating.

  Dream : I am a universe. All things encompassing, all life embracing.

  Lucifer Morningstar : I am Anti-Life. The Beast of Judgement. The dark at the end of everything. What will you be then, Dream Lord?

  Dream : [collapses]  I... I... I...

  Matthew the Raven : Boss? Hey, boss!

  Lucifer Morningstar : Still with us, Dream?

  Matthew the Raven : He is. And it's his move, Your Majesty.

  Lucifer Morningstar : There are no more moves. What can survive the Anti-Life?

  Matthew the Raven : Hey, boss. Listen to me. You know what can survive the Anti-Life? You. Dreams don't fucking die. Not if you believe in them. And I believe Dream of the Endless would never leave his raven here, alone, in Hell with Lucifer.

  Dream : I... am... Hope.

  [stands up] 

  Lucifer Morningstar : Hope.

  Dream : Well, Lightbringer? It's your move. What is it that kills hope?

  Lucifer Morningstar : Choronzon, give him his helm.

• Dream : It has many names: Avernus, Tartarus, Hades, the infernal region you call Hell.

  Matthew the Raven : So, Hell does exist?

  Dream : It does. For some.

  Matthew the Raven : Does that mean it doesn't exist if you don't believe in it?

  Dream : Did you believe in it, when you were a man?

  Matthew the Raven : Yeah. I just didn't expect Hell to be cold.

• Matthew the Raven : So, you two know each other?

  Dream : We've known each other for a very long time. When we first met, Lucifer was the angel Samael.

  Matthew the Raven : I forgot the Devil used to be an angel.

  Dream : Not just any angel. The most beautiful, wisest, and most powerful of all angels. Saving only the Creator, Lucifer is, perhaps, the most powerful being there is.

  Matthew the Raven : More powerful than you?

  Dream : By far.