John Constantine

(Art by Mirandakat)

> Ordinary people, operate within a certain set of parameters, right? Rules. Limits. Then there are blokes like me, yeah? We cheat.
>
> **John Constantine**

**John Constantine** is a working-class magician, occult detective and a golden-tongued con man. It is revealed that John is, in reality, the vessel of Archangel Gabriel, ironically his rival.

## Overview

Although John very much enjoys his privacy, he is very well known among those who are tasked with hunting and defeating supernatural forces, especially the Hellsing Organization, the Devil May Cry agency, and the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. His reputation even goes beyond that to where many supernatural and mythological beings like demons, angels, gods, or Eldritch entities are also aware of him making him rather infamous and on par with someone like Dante and Hellboy, he is even good friends and friendly rivals with Carl Black and Castiel.

Constantine is also referred to as "The Constant One" because of his whole family tree being somewhat connected to the occult. Many of his ancestors are sorcerers from different eras of history and have taken part in many known historical events.

## Appearance

John Constantine is a very handsome and attractive one, with blond hair and green eyes. He is desired and coveted by many women and even angels and demons due to his appearance. His attire is usually a white dress shirt with a red tie and blue pants, with his most notable outfit being his overcoat.

## Personality

John is well-known for his scathing wit, endless cynicism, ruthless cunning and constant chain smoking. A roguish counterculture anti-hero, Constantine is also a strident humanist driven by a heartfelt desire to defend mankind from the forces of evil.

Constantine is also shown to be someone with a wide and international circle of contacts and allies and is adept at making friends. At the same time, his close friends inevitably suffer or are outright killed simply by being in his life; this has left a severe mark on him.

Although a compassionate humanist who struggles to overcome the influence of both Heaven and Hell over humanity, and despite his occasional forays into heroism, Constantine is a foul-mouthed, disillusioned, British cynic who pursues a life of sorcery and danger. His motivation has been attributed to an adrenaline addiction that only the strange and mysterious can sate. He also seems to be something of a "Weirdness Magnet", a term which many individuals have used, even ones like Dante himself who is a renowned devil hunter in both the mortal and demon world.

## Powers and Abilities

Constantine also has a reputation as being one of the most powerful sorcerers in the world. Despite this, Constantine rarely uses magic, instead choosing to use his wits to trick his opponents.

### Powers

* **Magic:** While referring to himself as merely an "*occasional dabbler*" after his failed exorcism, John is a master of the occult, mystic, and dark arts and a skilled exorcist. A talented magician, John is capable of casting a wide variety of spells for the purposes of attack, defense, surveillance, or transportation. Since his teenage years, John has accumulated vast knowledge and skill of magic, mysticism, and the supernatural. He is well-versed in various forms of sorcery, including dark magic. John knows words and phrases of multiple ancient languages, such as Latin, which he will usually chant while performing certain rituals or incantations. Many incantations give him the ability to affect physical forces, such as the inner workings of mechanisms, and the movements of others, allowing him to move objects and control their motion and momentum with the proper incantation. However, despite being a master magician in his own right, John finds the idea of facing Damien Darhk suicide; implying that Damien is far more powerful than the former. Additionally, his magical powers seem inferior to those of other magic-users, such as Felix Faust and Zatanna.
	+ **Spell Casting:** Constantine can hurl fireballs, levitate, exorcise spiritual entities, undo illusions, restrain others, view events happening far away, even compel others to do his bidding. He occasionally supplements his own abilities with magical artifacts. Many of his spells involve fire.
		- **Clairvoyance:** Constantine can perceive spirits invisible to the human eye.
		- **Immunity to Forced Insanity:** When facing off with Lucifer, Constantine remained unaffected by his magic, which drove even Green Lantern, Superman and Wonder Woman mad with visions of demons.
		- **Magical Protection:** John has shown that he is resistant too many supernatural attacks, seen where he was unaffected by Manny's chronokinesis. He also used a magical circle to protect him and Liv from a powerful demon and conjured a spell to protect himself from a coblynau.
		- **Resistance to Possession:** When allowing Deadman to possess him in a Trojan Horse play to kill Destiny, Constantine was able to retain control of his body.
	+ **Dark Magic:** John is known to be highly skilled in the Dark Arts, having studied black magic lore while still young. His knowledge of the Dark Arts is often used to dispel dark magic spells, with him even knowing on how to call upon God's magic power to dispel even the First of the Fallen's dark magic spells, as he did to banish an acetate containing the Devil's voice to Hell.
		- **Banishment:** John is capable of banishing demonic and supernatural creatures to Hell through the use of various spells, as well as by opening portals to Hell.
		- **Fear Manipulation:** With help from Neron, Constantine is now able to use fear to power his dark magic to the point he can open a portal to Hell that people can now come back from; previously, he'd only been able to open portals that could send people to hell, but not get through from the other side.
		- **Necromancy:** John mentioned that he mastered necromancy during his teenage years. With the help of Papa Midnite, he was able to allow the spirits of the dead to move on to the afterlife. John is also capable of restoring a person's lost soul back into their body. He was able to restore Sara Lance's soul and mentioned he had restored a person's soul once before. He also performed a ritual to temporarily reanimate and speak with the dead at the Chicago morgue using the Hand of Glory artifact.
		- **Summoning:** John can summon various entities, and even control them. He has summoned demons to fight other demons for him, and once summoned a demon into his body to protect himself from a Invunche.
	+ **Exorcism:** John can exorcise spirits that are demonic or ghostly in origin from their hosts by chanting incantations. In doing so, he sends them back to hell by casting numerous spells and holding traps against them. Exorcism is one of John's most prominent abilities.
	+ **Light Magic:** Although the full extent of his expertise is unknown, John is capable of using light magic and seems to be quite knowledgeable on how to use it, as he was able to give Oliver a magical tattoo to allow him to channel light magic to fight Darhk. He was proficient enough in light magic to be capable of subduing a demon as powerful as Neron when he was off-guard with ease.
		- **Love Manipulation:** With help from the legends and all the other people John has learned to use love to power his light magic. As such, using the love the Legends had for Nate Heywood, he was able to generate enough magic to bring him back.
	+ **Astral Projection:** John is able to separate his soul from his body to travel through different dimensions.
	+ **Binding:** John is able to use his magic to bind people in magic.
	+ **Cloaking Spell:** John recognized and dispelled this magic at Felix Faust's hideout.
	+ **Duplicity Spell:** John used this spell to cover the location of Jasper Winters' millhouse.
	+ **Glamour:** John is able to use his magic to glamour his appearance to make him look like other people.
	+ **Interdimensional travel:** John, along with Ritchie Simpson, knew the Egyptian dream temple technique that would allow them to travel to the reality of Jacob Shaw. John also performed a ritual that transported himself, Oliver Queen, and Laurel Lance to the spirit world, to rescue the trapped soul of Sara Lance. He later used this technique to help Ava Sharpe and Gary Green to locate Sara Lance across time and space, and gaze into the spirit world of Mallus. He can also open a portal to Hell.
	+ **Life-force transference:** John was able to use a spell that allowed him to transfer a portion of his life-force energy into a child who had been drained of his own.
	+ **Magic circles:** John uses magic circles that can be used for rituals, as boundaries, or traps for certain creatures, such as when he used a magic circle to trap the powerful demon, Furcifer, so he could banish it back to hell.
	+ **Protection Spells:** John taught Chas Chandler the protective Eye of Horus Egyptian symbol technique to protect the apartment belonging to Liv Aberdine John also used a Brittonic spell to give Chas Chandler the ability to resurrect himself from the dead, but only a certain number of times. John also mentioned that he could hide Liv Aberdine from demons with a special spell.
	+ **Pyromancy:** One of John's offensive abilities where he creates fires or hellfires from his lighter. John possesses some power over fire, as shown when he was able to create a small ball of fire from his hand, as well as when ignited his hands with a lighter, and suffered no harmful effects from his hands being engulfed in flames. John was also capable of firing blasts of fire.
	+ **Revealing Spells:** John used a number of revealing spells and dispels.
	+ **Sleep Spell:** John used this spell to put Zed Martin to sleep.
	+ **Telekinesis:** John once telekinetically closed and locked a door. He also used this power on a manifestation of a League of Assassins member, freezing its motion and suspending it helplessly in mid-air before killing it with a sword.
	+ **True Sight:** A gift John was born with that allows him to perceive the true visage of supernatural creatures beneath their human guise.

### Abilities

* **Occult Knowledge:** Though he utilizes various tools and weapons in his fight against demons, John has acquired extensive knowledge of the supernatural occultism, allowing him to perform various rituals, spells, and magic. John is master of the dark arts and well versed in demonology. He has been studying the dark arts since his teenage years.
	+ **Mystical Knowledge:** John possesses advanced knowledge of the nature and workings of supernatural forces and artifacts.
* **Alchemy:** John is proficient in creating potent enchanted potions that allow for magical effects to happen. He was able to create a potion that was able to temporarily transform Sara Lance and Ava Sharpe into children.
* **Skilled Detective:** John is a capable detective, specializing in paranormal investigation.
* **Expert con artist:** John has a well-known reputation of being a con man.
* **Expert escape artist:** John has shown that he can effortlessly break free from handcuffs when being interrogated by Jim Corrigan.
* **Entomology:** John was able to immediately recognize Khapra beetles implying he knows insects and could tell them apart very well.
* **Extra-sensory awareness:** John had an uneasy feeling when he first arrived in Star City, which Oliver immediately claimed it was because of Damien Darhk.
* **Leadership:** Despite his claims otherwise, John is a gifted leader and strategist.
* **Master Manipulator:** Even without magic, John is very good at getting his allies and enemies to do as he wishes. For enemies, he prefers to tick them off, so they make mistakes, leaving him able to make cold-headed choices. When conversing with allies, he tends to play on their consciences by reminding them of what's at stake, in order to get their help.
* **Multilingualism:** Aside from English, his mother tongue, John can perform spells in Italian, Assyrian, and Hebrew so it can be presumed he knows the languages fluently. It may also be presumed he knows Arabic and Sanskrit, due to being able to read text written in these languages.
* **Skilled combatant:** John possesses some proficiency in fighting, occasionally resorting to physical fighting when he can't use a spell. He was able to knock out two opponents, both strong miners, and he later landed a hit on Papa Midnite after a failed summoning. He later fended off ghouls while Zed Martin reclaimed Imogen's angel feather from Zachary, improvising a nearby piece of plywood as a striking weapon, which continued until he defended Zachary from the residual Ghouls breaking into a church, however, he was caught off-guard and was only saved from the restoration of Imogen's wings. He also managed to stab Lamashtu with his switchblade while she was attempting to drown him in a fountain in Mexico City and later fought off an Invunche even after Anne Marie Flynn put him in a weakened state by shooting him, long enough to let Pazuzu possess him to properly fight off the Invunche. In a Mexican prison, he fought off the leading brother of Santa Muerte, despite the latter wielding a knife. When Manny placed a bounty on John's head, he fought off a "voodoo zombie" controlled by Papa Midnite, but he was no match and had to be saved by a gun-toting Jim Corrigan. He later retaliated against Midnite when he snuck up behind him and knocked him down with a series of punches and knocked him out with two hits from the stock of the Ace of Winchester. Years before, he warned Oliver Queen himself that he has "a hell of a right hook".
	+ **Skilled swordsman:** During a spiritual adventure to save Sara Lance's soul, John demonstrated a degree of swordsmanship, able to hold his own against a manifestation of a League of Assassins member. However, he was quickly pressured enough that he had to resort to magic to defeat his opponent. He was also able to fight against his ancestor, Konstentyn, and ended the fight in a few moments before slicing his handoff.

## History

Fascinated by the occult from a young age, John threw himself into learning magic to escape his unhappy family life. Around this time John began following occult circles around London, and eventually became the magic using, demon tricking con artist he is today.

## Quotes

> The Creator's essence pervades the night's air, and even for a jaded git like me.
>
> **John Constantine.**

> I like your outfit. Good to see that there are still people with good taste.
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> **Constantine seeing Castiel's overcoat.**

> My talent's for lying. For sticking the knife in when people least expect it. Then walk away with a smile and a wave before they even realize they're bleeding.
>
> **John Constantine**

> God is just a kid with an ant farm, lady, he is not planning anything
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> **John Constantine**

## Trivia

* John Constantine is bisexual; throughout his life he has been involved with women and sometimes men.