pretty much everything is a rip off of everything.

A fistful of dollars which has become the archetypal western is also just a rip off of yojimbo im addition to the magnificent seven being a rip off the seven samurai which was also directed by kurosawa the same guy who made the movie star wars ripped off.

hmmm this reminds me of something i just cant quite remember

Mainly as you said with brute and glob but also how hector hall and lyta hall are seamlessly interwoven into the story and how central lyta halls character becomes.

Another is Wesley dodds and his story (the original 40’s sandman) was integrated as well. It was explained that since Dream was trapped, that the universe tried to find someone to fulfill his role so Wesley Dodds began having dreams subconsciously telling him to do Dreams job. Basically it explains why he existed as the sandman in the 40s within the dc universe.

Characters from the House of Mystery comics actually comprise more of the main characters than you would expect. Lucien, Cain and abel, and even Matthew, Dream’s raven is a character from Swamp Thing who died and is reincarnated as a raven.

Theres alot more but those are the major callbacks off the top of my head. Gaiman really liked putting lesser known dc characters in his story and pressented them in such an original and unique manner that alot of the time you dont even realize they are callbacks.

what i really like about Gaiman’s Sandman is how it retroactively folds in all previous sandman lore into his story and makes it actually relevant.

yah please do no one wants your little shits around.

i thought fuckface lost his eye after it got fucked out of his eye socket.

lmfao oh no so scary and loud.