Code Name: Constantine

Real Name: John Constantine

Age: 54 I believe

Appearance: Constantine has Blond Hair, is about 6"1', not sure on Weight, and always wears Trenchcoat with a Suit undernath. Almost always has a Cigarette in his mouth.

Abilities: Is an Adept Mage. He prefers however to manipulate people into doing the work for him instae of using Magic. He is also skilled in various other Supernatural things (Exorcisms esc.)

Weaknesses: Constantine is Human and is susceptible to all human-hurting things (Guns,Knives,Tank running him over esc.)

History: (I'm too lazy to type all his info so i'll just Cut and Paste. Which i'll probably do again for Slade. Sorry)
In Constantine's early appearances in Swamp Thing, his past was a mystery; his life as a child and young adult was not developed until Jamie Delano's Hellblazer stories. There, we found out that he was born in Liverpool, England, on May 10, 1953. His mother, Mary Anne died giving birth to John and his stillborn twin brother because an earlier abortion — forced on her by John's father, Thomas — had weakened her womb. Because he was unable to accept responsibility for his wife's death, Thomas blamed John and the pair grew up with a deep dislike for one another. Whilst in the womb, John strangled his twin brother with his own umbilical cord; in an alternate reality glimpsed in Hellblazer #40, the twin survived to become the well-loved and well-adjusted magician that John never was. He and his older sister Cheryl lived briefly with their aunt and uncle in Northampton to escape from their father's alcoholism and imprisonment (for stealing a female neighbour's underwear), then moved back to Liverpool. In the 1960s, a teenage John ran away from home, but not before a botched curse on his father caused him to become withered and frail. John eventually made his permanent home in London in 1969, rooming with Francis "Chas" Chandler, a young man who went on to become John's closest — and longest surviving — friend.


During the 1970s, John became involved in occult circles in London, and visited San Francisco, where he met, and subsequently began a relationship with Zatanna the magician. He also became enamored of punk rock; after seeing the Sex Pistols at the Roxy Club in London in 1977, John cut his long hair and formed his own band, Mucous Membrane, whose members included Chandler (as a roadie), a drummer named Beano and fellow Liverpudlian Gary Lester.

John's first venture into occult "heroism", was a disaster. On tour with Mucous Membrane at the Casa Nova Club in Newcastle, he found the aftermath of a magical orgy gone horribly wrong: an abused child, Astra, had conjured a hideous monster that took revenge on the adults who were tormenting her, and the monster refused to leave.


John Constantine.With typical recklessness, John convinced some members of the band, along with several occultist friends, to try destroying the creature by summoning a demon of their own. Unfortunately, this demon was not under their control and after it had destroyed the child's monster, it tormented Constantine's friends and took the child to Hell. John suffered a nervous breakdown after this incident, and was committed to a mental institution. He was severely abused by the staff during the time he spent there, as they believed that he was the one who had molested and murdered Astra. The guilt of causing this hung over him for many years until, in his mid-forties, he managed to free her and the souls of every other child trapped in Hell. As for the rest of the 'Newcastle Crew', the incident left the group both physically and psychologically scarred.

Years later, John was able to persuade the same group to help with his investigation of the Brujería cult, but the cult murdered most of them, including John's lover, Emma. These people, and others who have died due to John's carelessness, have continued to appear to him as silent, reproachful ghosts. Chas is the only human friend who has survived a long-term association with John.

In his late thirties, John contracted terminal lung cancer. During this time, he came to the aid of a dying friend who had sold his soul to the First of the Fallen, the most powerful lord of Hell. When the First came to collect the soul, John tricked him into drinking holy water, which rendered him helpless and prevented him from collecting the friend's soul at the appointed time.

For this, the First promised to make John suffer unprecedented torment in Hell when he died. Slowly dying from cancer, John hatched a plan to save himself from eternal torment. He secretly sold his soul to the other two lords of Hell. When they discovered Constantine's actions they realized that they could not allow him to die, or else they would be forced to go to all-out war over his soul. Due to a recent civil war in Hell, the three couldn't dare wage war as the only winner of a war in Hell would be "the Lord of the Hosts" (i.e God) and his angels. However, they were also far too stubborn and proud to enter anything resembling an alliance. As a result, they were forced to cure John of his cancer.


Other information: He smokes. Alot. lol