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[DC/The Sandman] Why didn’t the Endless intervene during the Crisis?

If the Anti-Monitor was trying to destroy the whole multiverse, wouldn’t that also destroy the Endless? There would be nobody left to Dream, Desire, Die, etc so they would all all basically fade away, so why did none of them step in to help the multiverse? (I know Dream was still imprisoned by then, this is talking about everyone else)

Also, related question- are the Endless affected by the constant reboots of the DC universe? I know Dream at least is still around as of Dark Nights: Death Metal, and Death appears from time to time, but do they change at all with all the cosmic reboots?
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They did. Just not in the same way a god would.

The Endless are in a strange place in terms of the cosmic hierarchy. They're certainly extremely powerful...but not in the sense most superbeings are powerful. They're not the sort to do kryptonian-style shrugging off bullets and shooting lasers. They don't get into *fights* in the conventional sense. Their power and nature is more summed up in this quote:

>"She is death."  
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>"You mean a goddess of death? Or a personification of death?"  
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>"No. She *is* death."

The heroes' desire to stop the antimonitor, their dreams of victory, the despair inspiring them to prevent future  horrors, the delirium that they could fight a being greater then gods and the death of the Anti-monitor- that's how the Endless intervene. Without them, no-one would bother to fight.

They were there. They're always everywhere, so ubiquitous most forget their presence. That's why they're called Endless.