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===Hob Gadling===
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'''Robert "Hob" Gadling''' is a human granted immortality, who meets with [[Dream (comics)|Dream]] once every hundred years.

Hob was granted immortality in a pub named the White Horse in 1389 when he simply declared that he "had decided never to die"; whereupon Death agrees, at Dream's request, to forgo him. Hob thereupon takes to a variety of occupations over the centuries, including slaving, and periodically reinvents himself as a descendant of his previous persona.  Gradually, he acquires a conscience and by the 20th Century, he has become full of remorse at his past deeds. Dream converses with Gadling once per century, of Gadling's latest occupations. At their 20th Century meeting, Dream admits that the purpose of the exercise was simply for him to have a friend.

In ''[[The Sandman: The Wake|The Wake]]'', Death offers to end his six-hundred-year life. Gadling declines.

In the podcast, Hob Gadling is voiced by [[Matthew Horne]].

In the Netflix series, Hob is portrayed by [[Ferdinand Kingsley]].