Dead Boy Detectives
WARNING : Spoilers ahead for Dead Boy investigator time of year 1 .
Summary
Considering their link in the comics , audiences have speculate ever since its announcement whether Netflix’sDead Boy Detectivesis part ofThe Sandmanuniverse and time of year 1 reveals the answer . Dead male child Detectivesfollows the afterlife adventures of Edwin Payne ( George Rexstrew ) , an jittery British teenager who died in 1916 , and Charles Rowland ( Jayden Revri ) , a seemingly happy - go - lucky bloke who was murdered in the 1980s . The best friends in decease have been dodging live to the hereafter for decades , instead stay on Earth to solve supernatural case and set other ghosts free .
Those more conversant with theDead Boy Detectivescomics know thatEdwin and Charles first appeared not in their own comic book series , but inThe Sandmancomics . bewilderingly , however , the first live - action loop of the couple , and their living medium best champion , Crystal , was inDoom Patrol . With them both being Netflix productions , it ’s fair to wonder ifDead Boy DetectivesandThe Sandmanwill pass over overany time soon , or even be in the same existence at all .
Dead Boy Detectives Is Part Of The Sandman Universe
It Was Confirmed Early In Episode 1
Luckily , audiences did n’t have farseeing to hold off to get out whetherDead Boy Detectivesis indeed connect toThe Sandman : it is . Kirby Howell - Baptiste appeared too soon in episode 1 , reprising her role as Death fromThe Sandman . Before that , even , the lagger evince a brief glimpse of her , confirming that she ’d look . Death is not the only case fromThe Sandmanwho appears ( more on that later ) , butshe is the most prominent one as she ties directly into the Dead Boy Detectives ' backstory .
Edwin and Charles have fundamentally fallen through the wisecrack of the afterlife . Thanks to Edwin ’s soul being take away to Hell on a technicality , after which he escaped , and Charles stubbornly insisting his soul appease with Edwin after his death , both boys have been dodging going to the afterlife . It’sunclear if decease is aware the two are not where they ’re think to be – that seems to be more the orbit of the afterlife ’s Lost & Found department and the Night Nurse . Still , the male child have to clear out every time they solve a sheath and help a ghost move on before Death comes to call for ; otherwise , she might notice them and bring them to the hereafter , as well .
When Dead Boy Detectives Takes Place In The Sandman Timeline
Their Present Isn’t As Interesting As Their Past
It ’s not clearly stated whenDead Boy Detectivesseason 1 train berth exactly , buta flake of mathematics provides the solvent . In episode 3 , Crystal mention that the Devlin family has been relive its trauma for the past 30 years since 1994 . That puts it in 2024 , set in the same twelvemonth of its release . The same is rightful ofThe Sandman , which is go under in 2022 , the same yr season 1 came out . Though the timelines of their events do n’t exactly overlap , then , they ’re both set in the innovative geological era , thus enable them to crossover more thoroughly at a late time .
Interestingly , though , the earliest events of bothDead Boy Detectivesseason 1 andThe Sandmanseason 1 take place in 1916.It ’s the year Edwin Payne was kidnapped by his classmates and sacrificed to summon a monster , his soulfulness being dredge to Hell . It ’s also the same class that Morpheus , the titular Sandman and King of Dreams , is trapped by an supernatural rite and held captive in a glass cage for over 100 years . It ’s entirely potential that later season will flash back to that twelvemonth and reveal that Morpheus and Edwin track path antecedently , probable without Edwin even know it .
Were Edwin & Charles In Sandman Season 1?
The Pair First Appeared In Dead Boy Detectives
ThoughSandmancharacters look inDead Boy Detectivesseason 1,the reversion can not be said forThe Sandmanseason 1.Edwin and Charles do n’t appear at all in the first season of the other Neil Gaiman Netflix show . It ’s not entirely well-defined why , but there are a few potential reasons for this . The first is that the humankind ofThe Sandmanis vast and complicated , and it was a saucy decision to put the focus entirely on Morpheus ( Tom Sturridge ) , the rest of The Endless , and the characters more directly tie to theSandmancomics for the level season 1 need to narrate .
However , the larger reason is thatthe road to gettingDead Boy Detectivesto the screen was a foresighted and wind one . Originally , theDead Boy Detectivesprotagonists appear in a few episodes of HBO Max’sDoom Patrolseries , with the episode do as something of a back entrance pilot for a plannedDead Boy Detectivesspinoff . At the meter , Edwin and Charles were play by actors Ty Tennant ( David Tennant ’s boy ) and Sebastian Croft , respectively , and Crystal Palace by Madalyn Horcher .
However , after Warner Bros. Discovery ’s merger and the subsequent monumental overhaul of DC ’s movie and TV plan , Doom Patrolwas cancel and theDead Boy Detectivesseries put on hold . In that time , the series was then moved to Netflix and Crystal , Charles , and Edwin recast to be slightly older . rather of tying in toDoom Patrol , it instead tied in toThe Sandman , which is a more fitting selection : after all , the Dead Boy detective were first inclose in the comics inSandman#25 during the " Season of the Mists " spark .
Which Sandman Characters Return In Dead Boy Detectives
Death Isn’t The Only One Of The Endless To Appear
Death is n’t the onlySandmancharacter to look inDead Boy Detectivesseason 1 . One of the other Endless , Despair ( Donna Preston ) appear in episode 7 , " The Case of the Very foresighted Stairway,“in a abbreviated scene when Edwin is trying ( again ) to turn tail Hell . After Edwin run into his old tormentor , Simon , and make peace with the past , he spies someone peering at them through a mirror . Jumping through , he finds himself in a blank way full of mirror and doorways , with desperation peering through all of them , jollify in the pain and misery of the various citizenry being tormented in Hell .
Like her babe demise , Despair is only in one scene , but she does n’t hold the same sway and influence over the entireness ofDead Boy Detectivesseason 1 like Death . or else , it dish out as a great frame-up for Edwin and Charles to get a line that Death is just one of seven of The Endless . WithThe Sandmanseason 2 confirmed- and , hopefully , Dead Boy Detectivesseason 2 also happening - it ’s likely that the characters will get across over more significantly in at least one of the display ' 2d seasons .
Based on the DC series , Dead Boy Detectives is a supernatural drollery - mystery series created for Netflix . Two young humans from different find one another in dying but decide to cut the afterlife and rest among the living with a new purpose - to solve various supernatural whodunit the way only two at rest detectives can .
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Based on the DC series, Dead Boy Detectives is a supernatural comedy-mystery series created for Netflix. Two young men from different find one another in death but decide to skip the afterlife and remain among the living with a new purpose - to solve various supernatural mysteries the way only two deceased detectives can.
