John Constantine

*For the Earth-13 version, see John Constantine (Earth-13).*

"*Name's Constantine. John Constantine. Don't suppose that means anything to either of you. I'm very big in the realm of, let's say, international strangeness, so check me out.*"
―John Constantine to Elasti-Woman and Negative Man[src]
**John Constantine** is a chaos magician and occult detective from Liverpool, England. He is cynical and pragmatic, and is willing to make sacrifices and morally grey choices to ensure the safety of himself and the world, making him an anti-hero. He is also a friend of the Chief, and by extension, the Doom Patrol.

Constantine was contacted by A.R.G.U.S. director Amanda Waller to pursue and contain the rogue prisoner Enchantress, the mission led to him assembling other mystical individuals to comprise the "Justice League Dark".

## Biography

### Meeting Niles Caulder

Sometime in his career Constantine met and befriended the Chief. Together they faced the Cult of the Unwritten Book, managing to momentarily defeat them. And at some point, Constantine met Baphomet and Kipling fell in love with her.

### Botched exorcism

In 2010, Constantine was called in to exorcise a demon known as Nergal from the body of a young girl, Astra Logue. The exorcism failed and Astra was sent to Hell.

### The Decreator

Constantine discovers that the Cult of the Unwritten Book had returned and decided to ask the Chief for help. He meets the Doom Patrol and discovers that Niles disappeared and invoked Baphomet. they discover that they must look for Elliot and opens a portal for them to go rescue him. They succeed and Constantine puts a spell on Elliot to prevent the cult from reading it and offered to kill and then burn him.

He planned to kill Elliot but was stopped and decided to summon Baphomet to help them. After the Decreator's defeat, he was offered to help in defeating Mr. Nobody but refused.

### Meeting Dream

"*My gran used to tell me stories about you lot."
"I've known your family for centuries.*"
―John Constantine and Erica
In 2021, Constantine was summoned to perform an exorcism on a British princess, who was suspected to harbor a demon. It was revealed however that the demon was instead possessing her fiance, and was sent back to hell.

He was then confronted by Dream who was in search for his pouch. They then discover it was in possession of his ex-girlfriend.

## Powers and abilities

### Powers

* **Magic**: Constantine is a highly skilled sorcerer, having been practicing magic since he was a teen. He quickly mastered all the magic that Europe had to offer and went to America. John is skilled in various forms of magic, most notably Black Magic, a dangerous and malevolent sort of magic that is known to come at a high cost to its practitioner.
	+ **Magical awareness**:
	+ **Black magic**: He along with Zatanna was taught black magic, a form of magic known for having a high cost to it's practitioners.
	+ **Astral projection**: Constantine is able to create astral projections of himself.
	+ **Energy construct creation**: Constantine can use magic to form solid energy constructs, such as shields or bridges.
	+ **Energy projection**: Constantine is able to use magic to project multiple forms of energy.
		- **Eldritch blast**
		- **Electro-blast**: Constantine is capable of using magic to project bolts of electricity.
		- **Photokinesis**: Constantine was able to create a burst of blinding light, which was powerful enough to harm a group of vampires.
	+ **Chlorokinesis**: Constantine was even able to control Swamp Thing.
	+ **Chronokinesis**: Constantine knows a blood magic spell that allows him to temporarily stop time.
	+ **Cosmic awareness**:
	+ **Demon summoning**: Constantine is capable of summoning demonic entities through various spells.
	+ **Dimensional travel**: Constantine is capable of creating portals to other dimensions and realities. He can also use spells to banish demons back to Hell.
	+ **Divination**:
	+ **Enhanced senses**: Constantine is able to sense the presence of magic. He can also see supernatural beings that others cannot, such as ghosts.
	+ **Exorcism**: Constantine is able to forcibly remove possessing entities such as demonic spirits from the body they are possessing.
	+ **Illusion casting**: Constantine is able to create illusions to fool people. He was able to trick Darkseid into thinking he was dead, and cast a universe wide illusion, convincing Darkseid that it was a dead dimension he had already consumed.
	+ **Invisibility**: Constantine is capable of turning himself invisible and cloaking items.
		- **Cloaking spell:** Constantine used a cloaking spell to hide Elliot.
	+ **Disintegration**: Constantine was able to use magic to incinerate a cultist.
	+ **Mind control**: Constantine mentioned that he has rewritten his landlord's brain to think that he'd had already paid rent.
	+ **Necromancy**:
	+ **Power absorption**: Constantine knew a spell that allowed him to temporarily steal the powers of Shazam.
	+ **Pyrokinesis**: Constantine is capable of using magic to manipulate fire. He is able to engulf his hands in flames, as well as turn the small flame from his lighter into a flamethrower.
	+ **Sigil magic**: Constantine is able to project a powerful magic sigil that he claims is powerful enough to kill a god.
	+ **Spirit ward creation**: John knows how to create protection circles that once entered, he cant be harmed.
	+ **Telekinesis**: Constantine can use magic to telekinetically freeze and restrain people.
	+ **Teleportation**: Constantine is able to teleport himself, others and items, to various locations, and even across dimensions.

### Abilities

* **Expert combatant**: Outside of magic, John is well trained in hand-to-hand combat as means of self-defense against mundane enemies.
* **Master manipulator**: Even without magic, Constantine is very good at getting his allies and enemies to do as he wishes.
* **Deception**: John Constantine is an excellent con artist and negotiator. These skills are often more useful than his magical ones. Constantine faces most of his challenges relying primarily on his cunning skills.
* **Hypnosis**:
* **Investigation**: Constantine is a highly skilled occult detective.
* **Multilingualism**: Constantine speaks some amount of French.
* **Occultism**: Constantine possesses extensive knowledge of magic and the supernatural. He even knows the true purpose of Pandora's box, which no one else knows.
* **Prestidigitation**:
* **Intimidation**:
* **Indomitable will**: Constantine possesses the willpower to resist being possessed by Deadman and was not corrupted by Pandora's box.

## Equipment

* **Mystical artifacts**: Constantine has several mystical artifacts that he has obtained throughout his life, like a mystical cigarette. He uses them as a focal point for his spells.
* **Cross**: Constantine used a cross to perform exorcisms.

## Relationships

* Father
* Twin brother

Allies* Astra Logue
* Doom Patrol
	+ Niles Caulder/Chief
	+ Elasti-Woman
	+ Negative Man
	+ Robotman
	+ Crazy Jane
	+ Beast Boy
* Baphomet
* Dream
* Justice League Dark
	+ Zatanna
	+ Boston Brand/Deadman
	+ Jason Blood / Etrigan
	+ Swamp Thing
	+ Khalid Nassour/Doctor Fate
	+ Detective Chimp
* Abby Arcane
* Nimue Inwudu/Madame Xanadu
* Shazam Family
	+ Shazam
* A.R.G.U.S.
	+ Amanda Waller
* June Moone
* Justice Society of America
	+ Doctor Fate
* Justice League
* Titans
	+ Raven
* Insurgency
* Mr. Nobody
* Cult of the Unwritten Book
	+ Decreator
* Agilieth
* Monster Society of Evil
* Enchantress
* Darkseid's Elite
	+ Darkseid
	+ Parademons
* Trigon
* Upside-Down Man
	+ Otherkind
* Anti-Monitor

## Trivia

* in the comics, John Constantine was replaced by a character named Willoughby Kipling due to editorial issues in the Doom Patrol comics. In the DCEU however, he filled in the role that he was supposed to be in.

## External links

* John Constantine on DC Database
* John Constantine on Wikipedia