Desire (DC Comics)
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | The Sandman #1 (October 1989) |
| Created by |
Neil Gaiman Mike Dringenberg |
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| Team affiliations | The Endless |
| Notable aliases | Sister-Brother, Epithumia |
| Abilities | aspect of desire and fulfillment |
Desire is a fictional character from the DC comic book series The Sandman (1988–1996). The character, one of the Endless, first appeared in The Sandman vol. 2, #1 (November 1989), and was created by Neil Gaiman and Mike Dringenberg.
Desire is first featured in the second issue of The Doll's House (the second trade paperback collecting The Sandman series). Gaiman claims to have drawn inspiration for Desire from "the sexy, androgynous" prints created by Patrick Nagel in the 1980s, and Annie Lennox circa 1987 while she was a member of Eurythmics. Dringenberg recalls differences he and Gaiman had in their view of Desire's visual appearance. While Gaiman saw Desire as being somewhere between David Bowie and Annie Lennox, Dringenberg saw them more in terms of Duran Duran (what he describes as "sort of two-dimensional and slightly vapid"). Dringenberg also cites his then girlfriend as being a visual inspiration for Desire; rendering the character in her likeness but with very short hair. Dringenberg points out the primary difference between their vision for Desire being that Gaiman's idea for the character was essentially sexless and unsatisfying. Dringenberg, on the other hand, saw it as being omni-sexual and perennially tempting. According to Dringenberg, his vision calls for a Desire with breasts and a bulge between its legs, and Gaiman's calls for nothing. Gaiman agrees with Dringenberg's view by explaining that Desire had to be made both male and female, because the character represents everything someone might desire. He adds that Desire being both male and female (or neither male nor female) provides symmetry to the Endless family: three males (Destiny, Dream, and Destruction), three females (Death, Despair, and Delirium), and Desire.
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