The Absurd Powers of John Constantine 

Let me know what you guys thought of the video down in the comments and yes there were things I had to exclude from this video for the sake of length. Some of the more cosmological elements to Constantine's made it into my DC Multiverse video instead so check that one out if you are curious what terms like "Creation" actually mean within the context of DC: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7b0PktXUqD4.html Go ahead and give me some ideas for other videos you'd like to see too.

Constantine is basically "the nerd that read the lore and now knows where to farm all the good stuff"

So basically Constantine’s power level is dependent on who is currently writing about him for DC at the time gotcha

My Constantine knowledge: *boosted by 100*

He's my 2nd favorite DC character After batman.

constantine is basically the luckiest uno reverse personified.

When we talk about comic characters we need to clarify wich writer version of the character is. The Jamie Delano version (original Hellblazer comics in Vertigo) has nothing in common with the DC New 52 version or others reboots. Put it all the habilités and powers together is not very accurate. This is true with Jhon and all comic characters. Different writer, different character

“And on the right there you can see him pointing and laughing at god” john is different

Batman and Constantine the strongest mortals ever

Wasnt John Constantine, John Wick? I heard he left the merc life changed his name and went hunting demons for breakfast

Reigen Arataka could probably give Constantine a run for his money

This is great!!

So pretty much the D.C. version of Harry Dresden

Superman goes for the happy ending? Hmmm he’s more human than I thought.

Basically, Constantine is the guy who keeps getting new credit cards to pay off the all the other credit cards he's had.

My favourite fact about Constantine is that he’s immortal because he sold his soul too many times and dying would cause a war over his soul.

Dr Strange: Man borrowing the power of gods. Dr Fate: A god borrowing a man. Constantine: Beats gods at poker by cheating then knocks them out during the fist fight.

"Hes physically a normal human" "Hes not the strongest magic user" Also "Heres all the times hes beaten Gods"

He's basically knows a guy that owes him something for every situation

The best summation of Constantine character is that, 'You only want him on your team because you dont want him on your enemy's side.'

Batman: Worlds Greatest Detective Constantine: Worlds Greatest Conman

John Constantine's very existence is just one big flex.

What I love about Constantine's story is that in the original Hellblazer it's hinted that John wasn't supposed to be born, his twin brother was supposed to be born but he was strangled in their mother's womb. John is an anomaly, in God's "plan".

"He's not the strongest magic user, nor the smartest, but heres 20 minutes worth of exmaples of him using magic that concepts themselves are affected by and understanding quantum fucking physics on a level that he can use it to travel through dimensions at will"

God: Creates humans Humans: Creates Constantine God: Are you kidding me

Etrigan video where the whole script rhymes, you wont

Heroes: How did you beat the villain? Constantine: The secret ingredient is crime.

Every time Constantine lit up a cigarette; a demon dies.

If hellboy was ever in the dc universe him and John would be best friends and would do nothing but smoke with each other

"He's broken the rules of hell, preventing him from going there when he dies" And in pretty sure Heaven is all like "nah we're good on him"

When people ask who beats who in the DCU, I answer: Batman beats everybody but Constantine. But they are both smart enough to avoid fighting eachother

Constantine is what you get when you invest in all of your points into luck and charisma

“He cursed some random guy with bowel problems, erectile dysfunction, and a broken TV” This guy can kill gods, asked satan for a lighter, has the respect of Batman, and he does this petty shit I think I found my new favorite

John Constantine: When a deal with the devil isn't risky enough

You know the DC universe is absurdly overpowered when God himself is considered a jobber.

So Constantine is pretty much the Batman on the magic side.

basically, *HE'S A LIVING UNO REVERSE CARD* edit: holy shiiiite how did this get so many likes?!

Constantine is basically: Call an ambulance Call an ambulance Pulls out a magic gun* BUT NOT FOR ME!!

Really digging your DC videos. Definitely the most comprehensive and informative I’ve seen

Batman: smartest man alive Flash: fastest man alive Constantine: The Only human Uno reverse card alive

Remember that time Constantine became John Wick

My favorite Constantine moments are when he telepathically showed that annoying magic club full of fanboys how each member would die which drove them all insane and the time he crushed up Santa Claus' bones then snorted them for a little extra magic juice. I loved the Vertigo run.😁😁😁

When Sir Christopher Lee goes to sleep, he checks under his coffin for John Constatine.

Allot of this stuff is from the Rebirth and New 52 story lines. They took Constantine and turned him into a faux Dr Strange. In the Vertigo Hellblazer comics, Constantine gets by with his wit, he barely uses magic. He makes deals with devil's and angels and eventually they go to cash in on the deals but Constantine constantly makes deals staying one step ahead of those trying to get him. For example, when he conjures a demon to fight another demon, the summoned demon hunts down Constantine. Constantine falls in love with Zed and Zed is set to be mated with angels. Constantine makes a deal with a demon, getting it's blood inside him. Constantine sleeps with Zed so the demon blood will be in her and then when the angels sleep with her they go on a rampage and kill the people who set Zed up to mate with them. Now Constantine owes this demon something and he eventually comes to collect but Constantine makes a deal with Swamp Thing to get the demon off his back. The thing about Constantine is he is always making deals and he knows one day demons and angels will seek to cash in. This is what makes his story attractive because every choice Constantine makes has good and bad repercussions, and you know with each choice he makes the actions will come back to haunt him. One last thing: you always see him standing outside of Hell or at the Gates of Heaven. This leads readers to believe that Constantine is finally answering for his actions but as you know, he always has a trick up his sleeve

You know you are powerful when even Lucifer is impressed by your power

Former Vertigo editor here, with a note: The "i" in Constantine is pronounced like the "i" in "wine," something that Constantine himself has pointed out on a number of occasions.

Remember. He’s only doing this so he can go to heaven, which heaven doesn’t even want him to be in.

Oh and this guy makes Dumbledor look like a kindergardener.

John is so deadly that even the devil calls him his devil. i.imgur.com/om2byHW.png

When I hear about Constantine's feats and generally casual attitude towards danger, I just imagine that scene from Star Trek (2009). Trigon, Darkseid, Phantom Stranger, etc... : Human, you may be misreading the situation. There's infinite of us, and only one of you. John: *Casually lighting his cigarette* So get some more guys and then it'll be an even fight.

Constantine basically the guy who played that video game so much he knows all the cheats

The only thing that John can't force everyone to do is to say his last name the right way.

i like constantine he's a really cool character but his stories get so absurd that I roll my eyes. I mean i know DC likes to overpower they're characters but damn.. lol

I think you should do How powerful is Zatana next I've seen many people say she's nothing

He feels like the Doctor Who or Rick Sanchez of the D.C. universe, only using magic instead of science.

John Constantine: The Immortal (Essentially a god) DC version of Dr. Jack Bright.

I’d shudder to imagine what would happen if Constantine, Rick and The Doctor managed to find one another.

My friends are all like "Why are you such a Constantine fangirl? Batman is better, he always wins." Yeah, sure. Ok. We'll go with that, let me know when batsy needs pulled out of hell.

Basically Constantine got clout on an Universal Scale

Everybody gangsta until Constantine shows up. *That's when you know shit just got REAL*

And he's a novice Magician? Imagine if he'd used half of his potential. Hed be God.

I love a good OP character as much as the next guy, but I honestly hate hearing some feats that literally should be impossible. Like trapping nigh omnipotent beings in traps/seals that The Presence cant break?!?! I mean cmon, comics. Youre better than this

Constantine is so powerful that the fourth wall matters not to him because John met his creator Alan Moore aside from this he met other creators in reality. One day, I was in Westminster in London-this was after we had introduced the character-and I was sitting in a sandwich bar. All of a sudden, up the stairs came John Constantine. He was wearing the trenchcoat, a short cut-he looked-no, he didn't even look exactly like Sting. He looked exactly like John Constantine. He looked at me, stared me straight in the eyes, smiled, nodded almost conspiratorially, and then just walked off around the corner to the other part of the snack bar. I sat there and thought, should I go around that corner and see if he is really there, or should I just eat my sandwich and leave? I opted for the latter; I thought it was the safest. I'm not making any claims to anything. I'm just saying that it happened. Strange little story. His second meeting with his creation was illustrated in 2001's Snakes and Ladders an adaptation by Eddie Campbell of one of Moore's performance art pieces: Years later, in another place, he steps out of the dark and speaks to me. He whispers: "I'll tell you the ultimate secret of magic. Any cunt could do it." They met a third time in fiction, when Moore was written into issue No. 120 of Hellblazer by then-author Paul Jenkins. Moore is seen sitting in silhouette at the back of a bar as John Constantine (who is on a pub crawl with the reader) raises a drink to him. Writers who had their run on the Hellblazer series have also admitted meeting the character in real life. Original Hellblazer writer Jamie Delano also claims to have encountered Constantine, during his run on the character, outside the British Museum.Peter Milligan saw Constantine at a party around 2009 and rushed after him, only to find he'd disappeared. Brian Azzarello once saw him in a Chicago bar but avoided him, saying that "the thing about John is, the last thing you'd want to be is his friend."

DC's version of Frankenstein is my all time favorite. They need to put him back in the Dark Justice League.

Constantine is the embodiment of "I know a guy"

Constantine, Lucifer, and Dream are my fav charachters from dc, but by far my boy John gets the lest rep, even though he can tussle with them any fucking day, I mean the guy's main ability is luck, which is beyond the gods, he is op as fuck and he does not get enough love..

Constantine is such an underrated character

Why wouldn't they keep the tv show while adapting the comics , there's loads of content to film .

"Go to Hell, John!" "Sorry. I can't go back there because of my trickery." "Wait. Whuuu.....?" "Besides, I don't really want to go back. Not my cup of tea." "But... wait... what?" "Bartender, cut this one off. To lit to even speak right."

Vertigo's Constantine was never over powered. His trick was making everyone believe he was. He only ripped Nergals spine out cause he knew his name (that has something to do with the demon lore in the book, which goes all the way back to the first time he summoned nergal and couldnt control him for that exact reason). He could always use magic but it was never opening pocket universes to dodge attacks. That was the problem a lot of the Hellblazer fans had with the new 52 version. They knew as soon as he went to DCs main imprint, he'd just become an asshole version of Doctor Strange.

John Constantine is the only character Batman cannot defeat and will always call on when things are far beyond his detective mind and way of thinking!!

Constantine is the batman of magic, he has some trick and plan to get out of any and every situation. From making a deal with the devil to calling in a favor from god

What about the time that he hid Earth from Darkseid?

He's the fusion between Dante and Doctor who.

Imagine if all that time Constantine was DC Lucifer just bored af so he nerfed himself to "play" with inferior beings as a way to entertain himself.

So his ability is basically D4C: Love Train

So, Constantine is borderline unstoppable...

In other words, he's breathtaking

DC tends to overpower their characters, and I think that actually takes away from Constantine’s charm a bit. I fell in love with the character because he relied mainly on his wits, intelligence, and charms throughout the Vertigo runs, and his magic was quite subtle in nature. Either way, thanks for the video! It’s really well put together and a great reminder I definitely need to start reading Justice League Dark.

Constantine is like Goku from DBZ with magical twist Base powers are decent All the Powerups are temporary Burn his soul or granted through artifacts and he needs to use them in order to take on more powerful foes. Has a time limit on them

So John has druid blood, had demon blood, and is this generation's Laughing Magician.

Ever since this came on my recommendations, I can't stop thinking about how John Constantine is so damn powerful, it's ridiculous. Why have I never got into the Hellblazer series?!?!

It's things like this that make me think that trying to power scale comic books is a mistake. There are too many authors with different interpretations of their strength. Like if some random guy on some random planet can quite literally kill god, then what about all the other planets with all the other wizards, etc etc. I mean seriously, there has to be a limit somewhere. Imagine for a moment what happens whenever Superman has kids. They inherit most if not all of his powers. This, plus the fact that clones are just so easy to make in comic books, means that in a century or so there will be at least a couple hundred Super people. At that point, Earth is the most powerful planet in existence. Superman alone regularly beats up gods, a hundred would be able to conquer the universe.

Why are people disliking? Also, congrats on 1k subs

Deus Ex Machina: The Character.

His magic sounds stronger then the modern doctor strange. Daaang .

Erectile Dysfunction is the coolest yet the saddest curse I've heard of.

Batman, has plot armor. Constantine, plot armor himself The more you know

I hate what the New 52 and the move from Vertigo did to Constantine. He's not supposed to be "powerful." Just super lucky, clever, and willing to use anyone to serve the greater good. He's a bastard. He doesn't join teams. He doesn't have epic battles.

When Dr. Manhattan showed up why didn’t Constantine go make light work of him!?!

Like the personification of Murphy's law against anyone who is against him

Everyone up in arms about "Constantyne" or "Constanteen" while I'm over here yelling "HECK-A-TAY" when he says "Huh-kate"

A video on Hal jorden would be interesting,the classic version

All these "Even God can't"s, God sounds like a wimp lol

I think my favorite Constantine interactions is with Batman and Lucifer honestly

I really liked the sympathetic magic in his coat. He loses it at one point and the coat keeps on trying to find its way back to him - all the while anyone who wears it basically gets some of his powers - but mostly gets screwed.

Just hit me: Constantine is like Odysseus, a master planner and deceiver, with martial skill

People think dr strange beats this guy 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

I'm only six minutes in, and I didn't know Ol' John was capable of pulling off this many 'power stunts'; this is approaching the point of "Mary Sue-ness" (the same as I feel about Marvel's 'Blue Marvel', who they have shown beating TWO Hyperions [read Marvel's Superman.... well, one of them], AND a Hulk [Alternate Earth, but still]). All that being said, I love how he is depicted on Legends of Tomorrow. While he deserves a show as dark as Preacher or Walking Dead, 'Dark and Gritty' has been run into the ground lately (primarily due to TWD, in my opinion), so its nice to see this lighthearted version of him, that is still true to the core of his character, even if a bit underpowered compared to his comic version ^_^.

Spawn killed God before took their throne in heaven and then Abandoned that power like a broke down car on the freeway