Respect John Constantine (DC Animated Movie Universe)
Zatanna: "You're such a pessimist."
Constantine: "Wrong. I expect the worst, so I prepare for the worst, and when the worst happens, I'm ready."
John Constantine is a warlock and occult specialist from Liverpool, England who travels the world investigating supernatural occurrences in his magical abode the House of Mystery. Despite his troubled past and callous nature, he eventually joined the Justice League after thwarting a magical threat. He also has a romantic relationship with fellow magician Zatanna.
###Sources
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- Justice League Dark (2017) = JLD
- Constantine: City of Demons (2018) = CCoD
- Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020) = JLDAW
###Physical Attributes
Speed
- Ducks under an axe swipe from behind.
- Moves in front of Felix Faust before Zatanna can hurl a giant sword at him.
- Dodges a parademon's slam.
- Teleports in time to dodge Wonder Woman's lunge.
Durability
###Equipment & Belongings
House of Mystery
The House of Mystery is Constantine's sentient, teleporting magic house.
- Constantine can summon the house at will.
- Can withstand being near a sentient tornado.
- Created a humanoid avatar named Black Orchid in order to experience humanity.
- Can empathically read those inside of her.
- Exists in what appears to be outer space.
- Magically tends to Ritchie's condition.
- Protects Constantine's belongings by keeping them out-of-phase with reality.
- Must do whatever her master orders her to do to, which ends up being exploited by his enemy.
- Rebuilds herself after being destroyed.
- Crashes the house into one of Darkseid's Reapers while her avatar form continues the fight.
- Her avatar possesses both flight and the physical ability to go toe-to-toe with parademons.
- Despite her loyalty to Constantine, she eventually kicked him out.
Artifacts & Tools
Constantine often uses a number of magical items to assist in his spells.
- Loaned to him by Ritchie, the Keshanti Key allows him to access different planes of existence, such as a man's memories, that would otherwise take lengthy chanting to achieve.
- Uses a dagger that shoots icy projectiles from the Demons Three's treasure chest (which he later kept for himself).
- Uses a crystal to survive a lethal attack by encasing himself in it.
- Uses a special needle in locator spells that can involve a compass or globe.
- Traps a bunch of demons in a building using holy water.
- Uses salt to form a protective circle.
- Uses a magic seal to banish a spirit and reduce a parademon to ash.
- Owns the last Accursed Dagger of Astova, which he planned to use to kill Raven to keep Trigon from taking over but instead used it to separate them.
###Powers & Abilities
Offense
- Banishes away a trio of soul collectors.
- Kills insects with a finger snap.
- Lobs fireballs at Felix Faust and uses one to counter a lightning blast from him.
- Annihilates his inner demons so he can reabsorb them into himself.
- Destroys the weakened Aztec God Mictlantecuhtli.
- Defeats Nergal using the Candever Curse, which draws the love of Trish's parents to explode him from inside as he kept their daughter's essence inside his own body. However, as a price she and her mother no longer retain memories of her father.
- Blows off a parademon's head with a flaming card Gambit-style.
- Fires lasers from his hands.
Barriers
- Secures Zatanna in a forcefield.
- Carries Justice League Dark in a forcefield.
- Creates a wall of fire.
- Holds off enemy fire from two sides.
- Creates a forcefield made of fire to block a number of deadly icicles.
- Blocks a chunk of falling rubble.
- Shields his body at the last moment to withstand Wonder Woman's attack.
Transportation
- Creates a platform made of fire.
- Can open portals that cross worlds and bring others with him.
- Uses teleportation in combat to dodge his attackers and get them from behind.
- Teleports away and leaves a stone column in his wake so his opponent bumps into it.
- [Limitation] It takes him significantly longer to conjure up portals without his usual kit.
Alteration
- Opens a hole on a window and closes it up again.
- Disperses his cigarette smoke into plants, causing them to rapidly grow then die.
- When a demon tries to trick him by changing the numbers on some playing cards, he sees through this and changes them back.
- Makes Deadman visible to Batman.
- Extracts a magical ring from a man's memories.
- Removes Destiny from Ritchie's body.
- Creates an entrance into Mictlantecuhtli's lair.
- Freezes a ninja solid.
- Makes Justice League Dark invisible.
- Frees Cyborg of Darkseid's programming, which also releases everyone else put under his control except for Batman.
- Alongside Raven, releases Trigon and grants him physical form.
Summoning
- Summoned the demon Nergal to defeat his mentor and rescue Astra Logue, but did not take the precaution to control him.
- Summons Swamp Thing to fight Destiny.
- Summons the Nightmare Nurse.
- Summons Nergal's demon allies.
- Unleashes hell on LA.
- Sics his own inner demons on Nergal.
Holographic Projection
- Shows multiple events happening across the world.
- Brings out a set of pages from a book.
- Creates a animate projection of Mictlantecuhtli from an image on his smart phone.
- Sends some sort of astral projection of himself to Swamp Thing.
Telekinesis
- Floats the Demons Three's treasure chest into the House of Mystery.
- Wraps Wonder Woman in the Lasso of Truth and uses it to break her free from Darkseid's control.
- Wields the last Accursed Dagger to remove the crystal from Raven's head which he summons to his hand.
Conjuration
- Conjures a liquor bottle and glasses.
- Restrains Jason Blood in a gag and chains and makes them disappear at will.
- Can summon different magical artifacts at will.
Mind Control
- Forces Jason Blood to bring forth Etrigan.
- Keeps a Nurse from dobbing on them and giving them access to a restricted ward.
- Puts the Flash to sleep and accesses his mind at the same time.
Scanning
- Performs an aura scan on Chas' daughter to discover what's wrong with her.
- Looks into the Flash's mind.
Senses
- Can perceive entities that are normally invisible to non-magical beings such as Deadman, shrouds and his own inner demons.
- Can locate demons by the psychic residue they leave behind.
###Other
- Tricks Destiny into letting Deadman possess him by using his own body as a Trojan Horse to penetrate his forcefield.
- In addition to Zatanna, Constantine has had relations with a demon, a city and King Shark.
Posted Nov 24, 2020, 12:30 PM UTC
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