John Constantine

**John Constantine** (born **May 10, 1982**), alias **El Diablo** among the gangsters of Mexico City, is an exorcist, demonologist and hedge warlock, self-styled as "master of the dark arts". Raised by an abusive father who blamed him for the death of his mother in childbirth, John grew up highly cynical and cunning, and developed an interest in the dark arts. In his teenage years, he was introduced into the occult world by Anne Marie, learned various spells and became an exorcist with the hopes of one day using his powers to resurrect his mother. John became a figure of respect among the dabblers of magic.

## Biography

### Early Life

John Constantine was born on May 10th,1982 in Liverpool, England. John's mother died giving birth to him. John's abusive father blamed her death on him and gave him the nickname "killer." After every night in the pub, John's father would hit him in the head, saying the phrase "That's for what you did to your mother, Killer." He was also prone to putting cigarette's out on John's arms. After his brother moved out, John was so upset about being left alone with his father that he considered suicide.

### Later Life

By 15, he was living in London and getting involved in the magic scene, with help from his friend Anne Marie . Delving deeper down the path of occultism, John would read everything he could about the magic. He taught himself spells, rituals and curses, and was able to conjure the dead, though not his mother.

### Rising Darkness

After defeating the demon Lamashtu, John found out that the cause of all the supernatural events that have been happening were because of "The Rising Darkness". The rising darkness was a plan by the Brujería, to merge Hell and Earth together. The Brujería found a way to break the boundary that kept Earth and Hell separate.

    This would allow demonic creatures to roam freely across the land. Among Brujeria's creatures that John encountered were Lamashtu, Invunche and Nahash. To combat them, John used the Icon of Pazuzu to strike a deal with the First of the Fallen, welcoming Pazuzu to possess him in exchange for regeneration and power.

Afterwards, John had to remove the demon from his body while trying to escape from a prison in Mexico City, where he ended up for Pazuzu's murder of the members of Santa Muerte gang while possessing John. In the prison John met with Stanley Gibson, an employee of the British consulate, along with the local fence Julio, whose actions led to another release of Pazuzu and the murder of more Santa Muerte gangsters, leaving the other prisoners to consider John the one in charge, giving him the alias "El Diablo".

## Appearances

### *Constantine*

**Season One**

* "Non Est Asylum"
* "The Darkness Beneath"
* "The Devil's Vinyl"
* "A Feast of Friends"
* "Danse Vaudou"
* "The Rage of Caliban"
* "Blessed Are the Damned"
* "The Saint of Last Resort"
* "The Saint of Last Resort: Part 2"
* "Quid Pro Quo"
* "A Whole World Out There"
* "Angeles and Ministers of Grace"
* "Waiting for the Man"
* "Final Girl"  (unproduced)

### *Arrow*

#### *Season Four*

* "Haunted"
* "Lost Souls"  (mentioned)
* "Unchained"  (mentioned)
* "Taken"  (mentioned)
* "Genesis"  (mentioned)

### *DC's Legends of Tomorrow*

#### *Season Three*

* "Beebo the God of War"
* "Daddy Darhkest"

### *Season Four*

* "The Virgin Gary"
* "Witch Hunt"
* "Dancing Queen"
* "Wet Hot American Bummer"
* "Tagumo Attacks!!!"

## Personality

Having witnessed the horrors of the world, John is very cynical and seemingly unconcerned with the value of human life, often deflecting his real feelings with sarcastic jokes even towards the possibility of his own death. Due to the number of people who have died around him John prefers to work alone and anyone he does work with, he avoids attachment so he won't be as hurt if they get killed. He is also known for having a very dry sense of humor.

Despite his apart bleak view of the world and cynicism, John is a very honorable man as he is always there for the few friends he has.

However, John is also arrogant and overconfident in his bluffing, to the point of having questionable morals, such as when he threatened the life of an innocent child (Jupiter, John's own child) to get Lamashtu (one of Eve's sisters) to reveal why she was working for the La Brujeria, which forced Anne Marie to shoot him and leave John to be eaten by an Invunche.

He also admitted that due to rarely encountering evil Humans, he was troubled by the La Brujeria as they were quite possibly the worst of humanity, which worried him. John is also noted for being brutally honest with people, even angels, and never being shy of his opinion of the women he encounters.

John tends to be a pessimistic realist as when Christopher thanked him he simply told Christopher he owed him only for Christopher to rebuttal that instead of that, they should always have each other's back when need be, not as business acquaintances, but his son.

John has developed PTS (post traumatic stress) as he dislikes being locked up, even if it is for his own protection. Despite this, he shows no remorse for his actions in regards to others in the same aspect, such as with Christopher, knowing the feeling of being secluded for an extended period of time.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Magic**: John is an extremely powerful master of the dark arts and a skilled exorcist. Since his teenage years, John has accumulated vast knowledge of magic, and the occult.
	+ **Exorcism**: John can exorcise spirits that are demonic or ghostly in origin from their hosts by chanting incantations.
	+ **Necromancy** - John mentioned that he mastered necromancy during his teenage years.
	+ **Summoning** - John can summon various entities, and even control them.
	+ **Magic Circles** - John uses magic circles that can be used as boundaries or traps for certain creatures.
	+ **Magical Protection** - John has shown that he is resistant to many supernatural attacks, seen where he was unaffected by chronokinesis. He also used a magical circle to protect him and Jupiter from a powerful demon.

## Trivia

* Just like his comic book counterpart John is a heavy smoker, even if in the beginning of the show this was not clearly displayed.
* Many tricks and spells that he uses cost him days of life. He called it a "reverse mortgage".
* Constantine genuinely tries to avoid people he owes a debt to, as he tends to have earned at least a punch to the face for the last time he met said people.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/mguggenheim/status/1013879100916752385
2. ↑ Keto Shimizu (@ketomizu) - Twitter
3. ↑ Keto Shimizu (@ketomizu) - Twitter
4. ↑ Keto Shimizu (@ketomizu) - Twitter
5. ↑ *Keto Shimizu (@ketomizu)* - Twitter

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## See also

*The **John Constantine** article uses material from the "John Constantine" article from the Arrowverse wiki at FANDOM and is licensed under the Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.*