Characters / Constantine (2005)

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Played by: Keanu Reeves

Dubbed by: Jean-Pierre Michaël (European French)

The Protagonist and an accomplished exorcist. He learns that he has a fatal case of lung cancer and is finally going to Hell. Eventually, he meets and agrees to help Detective Angela Dodson.

• Adaptational Attractiveness: While comic John certainly has a rough charm and no problem attracting partners (he was originally based on Sting), he is nowhere near as pretty as Keanu Reeves.
• Adaptational Badass: He's just as much of a badass in the original comics, but here, he is a noticeably better fighter than the poor one that the John Constantine of the Hellblazer comics is established to be.
• Adaptational Nationality: He's changed from British to American.
• Adaptational Sexuality: Downplayed; there are no hints to his comic counterpart's canonical bisexuality in the film, though several villains seem to enjoy feeling him up quite a bit, but there aren't necessarily any hints that he isn't bi either.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Here played by the dark-haired Keanu Reeves, but a blond in the comics.
• Anti-Hero: He is rude, unhelpful to most people, asks his friends to put themselves in dangerous situations (and gets three of them killed because of this) and only performs exorcisms and sends half breed demons back to Hell because he wants to buy his way into Heaven. Still, his heart isn't without some amount of gold
• Armor-Piercing Question: Gives one to Angela. "What did she do, Angela?"
• Back from the Dead: His suicide resulted in a clinical death he was revived from in his backstory. At the end of the movie, he is resurrected by Lucifer when on the verge of ascending to Heaven.
• Badass Abnormal: Though, honestly, John's powers as an exorcist is not high.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Unlike his comic book counterpart, he wears a pretty sharp black suit, and he's a capable ass-kicker of the supernatural.
• Batman Gambit: What he does to Balthazar to get him to talk.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: A Nay-Theist exorcist.
• Cain and Abel: It's implied by Gabriel that he killed his own twin in the womb.
• Canon Immigrant: The comics would include an off-hand comment about him being a distant cousin of the British Constantine.
• Catchphrase: "Constantine. John Constantine, asshole." Said two or three times throughout.
• Cheating Damnation: Constantine is damned to Hell for a suicide attempt when he was younger, and is driven to avoid that fate because he's keenly aware of what awaits him down there. In the climax, he deliberately slits his own wrists to get Satan to collect his soul, thereby bringing forth the one person capable of stopping Mammon from taking a host. In return, he asks Satan to release Isabel because she also committed suicide for a greater purpose. When he agrees, that act of self-sacrifice buys Constantine a ticket into Heaven, and the best Satan can do is bring him back to life in the hopes that he'll re-earn damnation.
• Cursed with Awesome: He is not too pround of his "gift". He even refers it to a "curse" to Gabriel.
• Deadpan Snarker: One thing he shares with his comic book counterpart is his incredibly dry wit, though this version is more sour about it.
• Demon Slaying: He hunts down demonic half-breeds and sends them back to Hell.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?:invoked Fulfills the trope almost to the letter, with the exception that he flips off the Devil himself when he escapes Hell and begins to ascend to Heaven, so casually that it doubles as both a Moment of Awesome and a Funny Moment. It may or may not have backfired, depending on how John felt about getting brought back. The novelization of the film reveals that it was actually God controlling John's hand to flip Lucifer off.^note  Though either way flipping the Devil off is the most in character thing Constantine can do.
• Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: He manages to get a favor from Lucifer, who expects him to cash it in by saving him from his imminent death. Instead, John tells Lucifer to save Isabel and leave himself to die, which Lucifer accepts, not knowing that this act redeems John in God's eyes and qualifies him for Heaven, thus denying the Devil of both souls. As a last-ditch attempt to prevent John from winning completely, the Devil resurrects him in the hope that he will sin again, allowing John to not only save his and Isabelle's soul but also get another chance at life. In other words, John manages to obtain three separate things from only one favor, and the Devil was implicitly interested only in giving him an extension instead of outright curing his cancer to boot (and it's suggested he wasn't even trying to scam anyone at this point anyway, as he required a truly selfless good deed to get into Heaven).
• Driven to Suicide: He killed himself when he couldn't take the things he saw with his Psychic Powers anymore. Since suicide is worthy of damnation, his soul went to Hell; he came back, his mission now to do enough good to have his suicide forgiven by Heaven so he isn't trapped in Hell forever when he dies for real. He kills himself again to summon Lucifer to stop the Evil Plan of the Big Bad Duumvirate. Don't worry, though, he makes it out alive, with the bonus of having finally earned that absolution he's been looking for.
• Dull Surprise: In part because of Keanu's typical delivery, he isn't all too frazzled by anything he encounters, though that could also be explained as him having Seen It All.
• Enemy Mine: He is so desperate for help in the end that he calls on Lucifer to come by committing suicide, knowing the Fallen One will come to claim him personally. John takes this moment to inform him of the villain's plan, which Satan's pride cannot let pass as it isn't his plan.
• Go into the Light: Subverted. Satan pulls him out of the light and cures his lung cancer so he'll have a chance to royally screw up again.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: He has barely a scene where he doesn't smoke a cigarette, only to find out during the movie that he has lung cancer. After Constantine willingly sacrifices himself to save the world (allowing him to enter Heaven), Satan ends up curing his cancer to keep him alive so he can claim him later. At the end of the movie, he's seen popping gum in his mouth.
• Heaven Seeker: He goes around sending half-demons back to Hell in the hope that this will gain him entry into Heaven after he dies. It's not that John Constantine likes the idea of Heaven that much — he just wants to avoid going to Hell, since he knows firsthand (due to having commited suicide in his youth) how horrible it is.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Subverted. He dies by suicide, drawing Satan to Earth, gets him to save the world, and only wants Isabel's soul freed from Hell. By this act of self-sacrifice, his previous suicide is wiped away and John, still dead, is on his way to Heaven. That is until Satan heals John of his cut wrists and cancer.
  "You're a cop. Imagine being sentenced to a prison where half the inmates were put there by you."
• How the Mighty Have Fallen:
  Constantine: Before you were a "bartender"...you were one witch doctor against, what...thirty Ashgar? And I...
  Papa Midnite: You were...Constantine. The John Constantine. Once.
• Immune to Drugs: Semi-averted. He has developed lung cancer from smoking, but Satan cures him.
• Impossibly Cool Weapon: The crucifix flamethrower-shotgun.
• Incurable Cough of Death: The recurring reminder of his upcoming death with Death; he is diagnosed early in the movie with terminal lung cancer from smoking. It turns out to not be the cancer that actually kills him but a second suicide. Even then, Lucifer rips out John's cancer to ensure he lives long enough to damn himself, completely curing him.
• In-Series Nickname: 'Johnny-boy', courtesy of Balthazar
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold:Often aloof and impolite, sometimes bordering on cruel. There's a reason Lucifer thinks he belongs in Hell. That being said, when the chips are down, he still goes out of his way to save people. He was even willing to commit suicide just to summon Lucifer in order to stop Gabriel and Mammon, even though he knew he'd be fast-tracking his way to eternal torment in the process.
• Maybe Ever After: John develops feelings for Angela and they share a few Almost Kisses, but nothing concrete comes of it by the time the credits roll. The only thing keeping this out of Did Not Get the Girl territory is Angela's offer to see him around and John's agreeing to it.
• My Death Is Just the Beginning: Kills himself to get the Devil to come up from Hell to collect his soul in order to stop Gabriel from releasing Mammon.
• Nay-Theist: John's opinion of God is not high. To be fair, God may have started the whole argument.
• Power Tattoo: Has a two-part tattoo called 'The Red King' on both forearms that can force half-demons and angels to reveal themselves.
• Psychic Children: Used to be one during his childhood and was severely tormented by it, remarking to Angela that he saw things "humans should not see". He was forced to undergo psychiatric treatment by his parents and later, thinking he was crazy, he committed suicide to escape his visions, resulting in his damnation. A deleted scene also shows he was committed to a religious school and exorcised by a priest who thought he was possessed.
• Psychic Powers: He can see the half-breed angels and demons.
• Redemption Earns Life: Slightly subverted; by giving up his soul to save the world and freeing an innocent soul from Hell, he is redeemed of his past sins and allowed to go to Heaven. His life is restored nevertheless, but only because Satan cures his lung cancer so that Constantine will have another chance to 'prove' that he belongs in Hell.
• Rerouted from Heaven: Inverted and then played straight. As he killed himself (then revived by the paramedics) in his youth, he is bound for Hell no matter what he did because many of his good deeds are done to try and save himself from the consequence of his attempted suicide not because it is the right thing to do. But when he sacrifices his life and soul to stop the Big Bad, Satan offers him a reward. Instead of healing his mortal wounds, John requests the release of one soul in Hell. Satan obliges, not immediately recognizing the selfless virtue in his action. This action redeems John in the eyes of the Lord and Satan quickly finds John is being rerouted from Hell to Heaven. Not having this, Satan spitefully resurrects John, painfully curing his lung cancer and healing his injuries in the process, in the hopes that he'll screw up and get himself damned again.
• Smoking Is Cool: Averted Trope. His frequent smoking is framed negatively by both the movie and the other characters, especially as he already has lung cancer from it and smoking isn't going to make it kill him any slower.
• Spanner in the Works: What John is, ultimately, to both Heaven and Hell.
• Survival Through Self-Sacrifice: He has been destined for Hell ever since a failed suicide in his youth, but at the end of the film, he attempts to commit suicide again, knowing that the Devil will come to earth to personally claim his soul, screwing up the Big Bad's plan when he arrives. This, plus John negotiating with the Devil to have another soul released from Hell, is judged selfless and heroic enough for his soul to enter Heaven... until the Devil, furious at losing his right to John's soul, brings John back to life and cures his cancer, hoping that he will screw up at some point and get condemned to Hell again.
• To Hell and Back: Can travel between Hell and Earth with the use of holy water.
• The Trickster: Preserved from the comics.

Played by: Rachel Weisz

• Agent Scully: Is as first skeptical about the supernatural in general, and even suppresses her own talent. But after her time with Constantine she comes around.
• Always Identical Twins: With her sister Isabel.
• Angsty Surviving Twin: Angela feels guilty that she wasn't there for Isabel and didn't support her. This guilt helps drive her to find out what Isabel had been going through when she died.
• Audience Surrogate: Her role in the story. Played With somewhat when John drops an infodump on her about the Spear of Destiny. As she's Catholic, she's a bit annoyed that she's being lectured about the Crucifixion.
• Catapult Nightmare: She wakes up in panic, after a nightmare of her sister killing herself. Unfortunately, it is more than just a mere nightmare.
• Demonic Possession: She becomes possessed by Mammon as part of his scheme to make it onto Earth. After an exorcism by John and Chas fails to get the job done, Lucifer, of all people, steps in to tear his son out of Angela and fling him back into Hell.
• Fair Cop: Her attractiveness doesn't go unnoticed by John, either. He has to take a moment to think if he should say "yes" or "no" when she asks if she needs to take the rest of her clothes off to get in the bathtub. (It Makes Sense In Context.)
• Faux Action Girl: At the start of the movie, she is introduced as a tough-as-nails cop but her role in events from then on mostly involves being protected or rescued by Constantine.
• Maybe Ever After: John develops feelings for Angela and they share a few Almost Kisses, but nothing concrete comes of it by the time the credits roll. The only thing keeping this out of Did Not Get the Girl territory is Angela's offer to see him around and John's agreeing to it.
• The Mirror Shows Your True Self: A variation. When she is possessed by Mammon in the climax, she appears as a thrashing, animalistic beast in the reflection on the tiled hospital floor.
• Obliviously Superpowered: Unconsciously suppressed her abilities in childhood after seeing Isabel being committed to a mental hospital after her own powers were dismissed as schizophrenia. In the present, Angela is still unconsciously psychic, but despite owing quite a few inexplicable successes at work to this power, she refuses to acknowledge it. However, after gradually learning that Isabel wasn't insane after all and that the supernatural is real, Angela asks Constantine to reawaken her powers.
• Psychic Children: Like Constantine and Isabela, she displayed these psychic abilities when she was a child. Unlike them, she lied about hers to avoid the same fate of the formers and ended up losing her ability.
• Psychic Powers: Awakens her powers with Constantine's help. She is said to be quite a powerful one, at that, which turns out not to be a good thing, as that's exactly what Mammon needs to enact his plan.
• Red Is Heroic: A red-haired cop and the female lead of the movie.
• Twins Are Special: Her and Isabela were born with strong psychic powers, strong enough for both to be considered good vessels for Lucifer's son Mammon to inhabit.

Played by: Rachel Weisz

• Always Identical Twins: With Angela.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: She looks very good for someone who jumped off a 20-foot building and crashed through a glass roof into a swimming pool. Aside from being dead, of course.
• Claimed by the Supernatural: When Constantine meets her soul in Hell, she has a mark on her wrist that looks like a cross inside a circle. When Father Hennessy touches her dead body, the mark appears on her wrist. Constantine later discovers that the mark is the symbol of the Big Bad Mammon and that Mammon was trying to possess her in order to carry out his evil plan.
• Demonic Possession: To make her commit suicide.
• Driven to Suicide: Her suicide, caused by Mammon, is what starts the film's plot.
• Heroic Sacrifice: It's implied her suicide was this. The Powers That Be didn't see it as this and damned her.
• The Ophelia: She even commits suicide in a swimming pool.
• Psychic Children: She displayed their psychic abilities as children. Because of this, she was interned at Ravenscar by her parents and committed suicide.
• Psychic Powers: Unlike Angela she never repressed hers, and told their parents what she could see. Which resulted in her being sent to a mental ward.
• Room Full of Crazy: Her room at the hospital. While it seems clean cut, the large windows are covered in various scrawlings that are visible with a bit of fog/condensation.
• Twins Are Special: Her and Angela were born with strong psychic powers, strong enough for both to be considered good vessels for Lucifer's son Mammon to inhabit.

Played by: Tilda Swinton

• Adaptational Badass: Is powerful enough that Contantine has to make a deal with Lucifer to stop him.
• Adaptational Villainy: Gabriel in Hellblazer was still a Holier than Thou Jerkass snob, but wasn't trying to unleash Hell on Earth.
• Angelic Transformation: In the climax, he is de-winged as punishment for plotting to unleash Mammon upon the world, leaving a pair of bloody stumps. Constantine introduces him to pain with a punch to the mouth.
• Archangel Gabriel: Not stated, but going off of the name and Archangel Lucifer's recognition of them..
• Big Bad Duumvirate: With Mammon. Gabriel is helping to bring him into the world and create hell on Earth.
• Broken Angel: His final punishment for the actions in the movie was to have Satan strip his wings and leave him mortal.
• Broken Pedestal: Lucifer laments that Gabriel had been "the best of all of us," though he may have also just been messing with Gabriel.
• Devil in Plain Sight: A rather ironic example, especially during the movie's climax, where he plans to literally bring up hell on Earth with the help of Mammon, which is in stark contrast to the already Fallen Angel Lucifer (whose literal dark side is even shown on him).
• Driven to Suicide: Is horrified enough by the results at the end of the movie that he pressed John to kill him and end his life. This has less to do with guilt or genuine remorse and more to do with attempting to stain the soul of a newly resurrected and redeemed Constantine.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He cannot fathom the possibility Constantine would die to summon Satan to save the day nor that their Father would revoke his ability to smite Satan in His Name despite just trying to bring about the end of the world.
• The Gadfly: His parting words after Constantine punches a newly-mortal Gabriel on the mouth:
  Gabriel: You could've shot me, John! You chose a higher path! Look how well you're doing!
• Holier than Thou: Condescends John at every opportunity.
• Homage: He resembles a famous painting of Archangel Michael. As seen here.◊
• Insane Troll Logic: His logic for destroying mankind in order to save it is that the apocalypse will force them to be better people.
• Invisibility: How he sneaked up to kill Chas.
• Ironic Hell: Stripped of wings, power, and God's support, Gabriel is left a human, those same creatures he'd held in contempt.
• Knight Templar: Bringing immense suffering to mankind is a-okay in his book as long as he thinks that it will benefit humanity's character in the long run.
• Light Is Not Good: Wears white, is frequently bathed in light, and tries to bring Hell to Earth.
• Malevolent Angel: Gabriel started out as something of a guide to Constantine, if a bit condescending, but is in truth a maddened Knight Templar who has come to believe that humanity is unworthy of God's love. Wishing to test their faith, Gabriel works with the demon Mammon, to release him upon the Earth who would then bring pain and horror to humanity, in order to purify them and make them worthy of God's love. Naturally, once Constantine learns of Gabriel's plan, he declares the angel insane.
• Misery Builds Character: What motivated him to bring Hell to Earth. He believes that humanity's best qualities are only on display when they are suffering.
• Motive Rant: He gives one about how mankind is unworthy of God's love and how he want to bring the Apocalypse to challenge their condition.
• Oh, Crap!: Gets a wide-eyed look of horror when he realizes Lucifer has come to stop their plan, and is again left stunned by the realization that God will not allow him to smite Lucifer, who is for the moment doing the Lord's work.
• Otherworldly and Sexually Ambiguous: Since Gabriel never wears very revealing clothes, it is unclear what their gender actually is. The novelization describes them as a male.
  • Inevitably given gender in localisations into gender-specific languages. In the Russian dub Gabriel is referred as female, while in the spanish dubs (both spaniard and latin-american) Gabriel is referred as a male.
• Our Angels Are Different: John refers to them as "half-breed." While Gabriel doesn't contradict him, it is possibly implied that this is not true and that he had been created as a full angel long ago, as Lucifer's dialogue implies that they knew each other from before.
• So Proud of You: He's genuinely pleased when Constantine punches him in the mouth rather than shoot him, as it shows that Constantine can be a better person.
• Super-Breath: Gabriel is a fan of this, blowing away the disintegrating remains of Balthazar and later sending John flying into the next room.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: When shown as a half-breed angel.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: He plans to release Mammon to bring pain and horror to humanity, in order to purify it and make it worthy of God's love.
  Gabriel: So...I'll bring you pain. I'll bring you horror. So that you may rise above it. So that those of you who survive this reign of hell on Earth will be worthy of God's love.
  John: Gabriel. You're insane.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He loves God and want to make humans worthy of God's love... so he decided to unleash Hell on Earth because he believes that it is only during true suffering that humanity's noblest qualities come through.
• What Is This Feeling?: After Satan turns him mortal, and Constantine punches him in the face, it visibly takes several seconds for him to process the sensation. And when he does, he's not a fan.
• Winged Humanoid: Like all half-angels, Gabriel has a set of feathered wings. Until the end when they get burned off by Lucifer.
• You're Insane!: Constantine's reaction to his Motive Rant.

Played by: Gavin Rossdale

• Badass Boast: "Fire? I was born from this!"
• Big "NO!": Alas, poor him when he is vaporized by Gabriel.
• Coin Walk Flexing: In his first and quite a few of his later scenes, Balthazar ends up walking an old coin across his fingers. It's because of this tic that Angela finds out, for sure, that he killed a friend of Constantine's.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: Constantine interrogates and gets him to talk by reading him his last rites, threatening him with the punishment of being forgiven for his sins and being sent to Heaven instead of Hell when he dies. Balthazar protests that John doesn't have the power to do this, he's not a priest, but John keeps going and it finally scares him enough to spill the beans. Afterward John informs him that you have to ask for absolution for it to count, and he was probably right on the priest point anyway.
• Demon Lords and Archdevils: Is a half-breed demon.
• The Dragon: Fancies himself to be this to Mammon.
• Dying Vocal Change: His voice ends up reduced to an echoing, ethereal-sounding whisper after getting his face shot off by Constantine.
• Idiot Ball: He doesn't realize that you can't be forgiven of your sins unwillingly. Then again, he's implied to have been born in Hell and they probably don't teach theology down there.
• Noodle Incident: He and Constantine know each other from before and Constantine obviously has a grudge against him, but it's neither hinted nor explained how or why. The novelization adds dialogue to their first meeting that reveals Balthazar had manipulated a girl Constantine cared deeply about into overdosing on drugs.
• No-Sell: He laughs off a blast of Dragon's Breath, pointing out he was born from fire. A vial of holy water melts half of his human face-off, exposing the demon underneath, but doesn't seem particularly painful either. Holy knuckle dusters however work juuuust fine.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: His eyes appear red when he's shown to be a half-breed.
• Reduced to Dust: After Constantine blasts him with Dragonsbreath and reduced him to pieces, Gabriel reduces him to dust and blows him away, resulting in an Empty Piles of Clothing.
• Suicidal Overconfidence: He's so sure he's won their fight he doesn't even try to stop John getting out his brass knuckles... until he sees they have crossed carved into them and are blessed weapons. A glorious and predictable beatdown ensues.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Has this done to him by Gabriel.

• Ambition Is Evil: He plots to turn the mortal plane into his own personal kingdom.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: Plots alongside Gabriel to unleash himself on Earth.
• Demon Lords and Archdevils: Mammon is a Prince of Hell and Balthazar's boss.
• Enemy Rising Behind: He rises behind Constantine when he possesses Angela.
• Fetus Terrible: What an adorable little cosmic horror Angela is bearing.
• Generic Doomsday Villain: Mammon serves as one half of the movie's Big Bad Duumvirate, but his personality is very underdeveloped compared to other villains like Balthazar, Lucifer and Gabriel. All he wants is take over the world... And that is about the extent of his character.
• Hell on Earth: His end goal is to cross over to Earth and turn it into his own personal kingdom.
• Humanoid Abomination: Even more so than his father, who at least could pass for a human being.
• Mammon: Self-explanatory.

Played by: Peter Stormare

• Actually Pretty Funny: Satan is quite amused by the classical terms that Gabriel hurls at him.
  "I do miss the old names."
• All There in the Manual: The novelization not only reveals that his full name is "Lucifer Rofocale", but that he is also The First of the Fallen, distinguishing him from the more notable Lucifer Morningstar.
• Arch-Enemy: God by default, with Constantine as a strong second.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: He ends up saving the day when he stops Gabriel from summoning Mammon to Earth. It's downplayed in that what he does isn't so much villainous as the fact that no one else could do it.
• Character Tic: He sniffles frequently. It is much creepier than it sounds; think less "sick with a cold" and more "starving animal that smells fresh meat".
• Composite Character: Although he's called Lucifer, the character incorporates many elements from The First of the Fallen aka Satan from the Hellblazer comics, whom Hellblazer and The Sandman (1989) have established as being two separate characters. Like the First, he is very eager to possess Constantine's soul to torture for having conned him multiple times, whereas Lucifer doesn't care about accumulating souls, and like the First in the Dangerous Habits arc, he resurrects John and heal his cancer.
• Cruel Mercy: Cures John's cancer because he's determined Constantine prove his soul belongs in Hell, and he's not going to allow God to take him instead.
• Debt Detester: Implied to to be this. He dislikes it so much, he didn't even think that John asking for the life of another to be saved could be a genuine Heroic Sacrifice.
• Demon Lords and Archdevils: Is the ruler of Hell and capable of releasing souls to Heaven.
• Didn't See That Coming: He did not expect to see John by him cutting his wrists again. He quickly realizes something is off with the situation. Nor did he foresee Constantine getting into Heaven for the act of self-sacrifice. Though to be fair, even Constantine didn't see that one coming.
• Enemy Mine: He teams up with God to dispose of Gabriel. When Gabriel attempts to smite Lucifer in God's Name, the angel finds his punch halted. Lucifer recognizes this as God withdrawing the Grace of God within Gabriel and uses his powers to force Gabriel to go through transubstantiation and be mortal.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Played with. He doesn't comprehend in the moment that when John asks for another soul to be freed as a reward, it would count as a Heroic Sacrifice. However, he is quick to realize the implications when John is prevented from being taken by His power and the gates of Heaven begin to draw John in.
• Evil Is Hammy: Satan clearly enjoys dicking around with Constantine and Gabriel both when he shows up. He's played by Peter Stormare, what did you expect?
• Evil Is Petty: It's stated by Word of God that this Lucifer is more like Fagin than Milton's Lucifer, an impossibly old being who enjoys leading (to him) children astray. Demonstrates this with how he chooses to handle John's "redemption." The pointlessly dickish way he (eventually) lights John's last cigarette is just the cherry on top. invoked
• Faux Affably Evil: While sleazy and gross, this version of Lucifer conducts himself with a fair amount of civilty. Furthermore his conversation with John comes off as two friends catching up, talking about family and stocks and making puns. But John is clearly terrified the whole time and Lucifer makes no secret of his intention of torturing him for the rest of eternity. Clearly, Lu's only acting so friendly because he's in a good mood. We get a quick glimpse of how he is when he's not in a good mood when John clues him in to his traitorous son's scheme happening not one room away; A snarling Lucifer briefly makes as if to pull John's face off with his teeth before going to verify his claim.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Is this to Mammon, Gabriel and really every demon Constantine has faced in his career.
• I Have Many Names: He is called both "Lucifer" and "Satan". John calls him "Lou" just to mess with him. Gabriel has a few more choice names for him, when they meet.
  Gabriel: Son of Perdition. Little Horn. [Satan giggles] Most Unclean.
  Satan: I do miss the old names.
• Humanoid Abomination: Lucifer is not human and never has been, so he behaves in a very different way from other characters, such as when he strolls through a glass door without breaking stride nor even blinking, not even for the shards of glass frozen in the air due to his presence. His appearance, while for the most part "normal", is all wrong in the details; he lacks eyebrows, his eyes are the kind of bloodshot that comes from days without sleep (on top of his eyes in general and pupils in particular looking very unsettling regardless of light conditions), he has somewhat faint Tainted Veins in a large area of his face (most noticeably his temples), he has large tribal tattoos that peek out from the cuffs of his all-white outfit, and most telling of all his bare feet, which we see before the rest of him, drip with scalding hot pitch that never seems to rub off or cool down.
• Loophole Abuse: Since only the dead can go to Heaven or Hell, and he can't take a soul he doesn't "own", Lucifer resurrects John right after his death to stop him from going up there, thereby forcing him to live on Earth once more so that he may sin again and ruin his redemption.
• No Accounting for Taste: Says as much of his son, given the company he keeps.
• Noodle Incident: According to Lucifer, Constantine has pulled off multiple cons on him but we don't learn of their nature or how he was affected by them.
• No-Sell: Being, well, Lucifer, he pulls this off twice after he shows up to claim John's soul. John's being 'between worlds' has temporarily brought time almost to a standstill; Gabriel, in the other room, is moving in super-slow motion, but Lucifer meanders in at his normal pace and pulls Angela/Mammon out of the way, at which point time instantly returns back to normal. And in the reflected water that shows Mammon, he's struggling with all his might to escape his father's grasp. Lucifer doesn't so much as move a muscle. When Gabriel attempts to smite him, the angel's hand freezes an inch away from his face, though given Lucifer's quick glance upward, that might not have been him.
  Looks like Somebody doesn't have your back anymore.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You:
  • When Mammon is close to being released and unleashing hell on earth, Lucifer steps in to quickly put an end to it. The world is his, in time, and he has no plan to share, not even with his own son.
  • Lucifer's "rescue" of John. John's made quite the reputation for himself, to the point that he's the one soul on Earth that Lucifer would collect in person. So when it looks like John's about to be admitted into Heaven after sacrificing his life to bargain for Isabel's soul, Lucifer rips out his lung cancer, extending his life just so he can have another chance to screw up and damn his soul once again.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: He sends his son back to Hell and burns off Gabriel's wings, rendering him human, the both of them having worked together to bring about the Apocalypse.
• Physical God: Has this quality more than anyone but Gabriel. Even his own son, The Antichrist is nothing to him.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • Doesn't want the world destroyed because he believes it will be his eventually, and in the meantime it's a regular source of fresh souls he benefits from.
  • He chooses to bring Constantine back to life and cure his cancer as he knows that giving Constantine a second shot at life also means giving him a second shot at damning himself, allowing Lucifer another opportunity to get his soul.
• Pride: What saves the world. Namely the pride he has is so great even when his son and his allies are inches away from unleashing his son onto Earth and making it a hellhole, Satan cannot abide this as the world is his to damn and destroy. He effortlessly sends his son back to Hell and defeats Gabriel.
• Reality Warper: Is implied to be this with his ability to stop time, sending his son to Hell and transfering Isabelle's soul to Heaven.
• Satan: He is, by Gabriel's words, the "Son of Perdition", the "Little Horn", among others. He exemplifies his title of unclean by the tar that oozes at his feet, tainting the land he steps on.
• Sinister Whistling: After finally securing the rights to John Constantine's soul, he begins cheerily whistling as he drags him off to hell. Thankfully, God stops him at the last minute.
• Sore Loser: He is so outraged that he's being denied Constantine's soul, that he actually brings him back to life and cures his cancer, all in the hope Constantine will manage to damn himself again.
• Summon Bigger Fish: As Lucifer, he's the only one allowed to conquer the world one day. John knows this and slits his own wrist to summon him to the mortal plane, thereby cluing him in on his son's impending usurpation. Though as it turns out when he makes to collect John's soul, there is at least one fish bigger...
• Tattoo as Character Type: Possibly played with. He has a likely full-body tattoo, since the parts shown are on his neck, wrists and feet but, it's unknown if it gives him any special abilities or such.
• This Cannot Be!: He is freaked out that John's sacrifice is actually enough for God to write off his suicide and deem him worthy of entering Heaven. So freaked out, he decides to resurrect John so he has a second chance to screw up.
• Villain in a White Suit: Wears a stylish white suit when he appears; it serves only to accentuate the steaming black filth dripping from his bare feet.
• Winged Humanoid: Averted. Even though Lucifer likely had wings as an angel, he doesn't have them anymore.
• Worthy Opponent: Exploited by John, who knows that Lucifer considers him such a worthy adversary that he will personally go to Earth to collect him, thus finding out and foiling the main villains' plan in the process.

Played by: Shia LaBeouf

• Adaptational Attractiveness: In the comic and the Tv series Chas is not bad looking but he's a grizzled, older man. Here he is Shia LaBeouf at his most fresh faced and cute.
• All Up to You: He briefly takes a surprisingly heroic action, only to then be killed while he is monologing.
• The Driver: He drives a cab and tranports Constantine.
• He's Dead, Jim: He is slammed up against the ceiling and down to the floor a few times, leaving him severely injured. He talks with John Constantine for a few seconds, then stops and lies with his eyes open. John turns away and leaves him for dead without even checking his pulse.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: Subverted. He is mortally wounded while saying the following, but he survives long enough to give John meaningful last words.
  Chas: This is Kramer. Chas Kramer, assho...
• Sidekick: Like Hennessy and Beeman, Chas is the sidekick.
• The Stinger: He dies but is resurrected as an angel, with Constantine merely looking somewhat amuzed at this development.
• Taunting the Unconscious: He tries to enter Papa Midnite's club, but is denied entry by the bouncer because he isn't psychic and can't tell that a hidden card depicts "a rat in a dress". Later in the movie, Constantine knocks out the bouncer. Chaz takes advantage of the opportunity to taunt the unconscious bouncer by saying "Who's a rat in a dress now, huh, bitch?"
• This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: He is happy to see the bouncer who kept him out get knocked down.
  "Who's the rat in the dress now, huh, bitch?"

Played by: Pruitt Taylor Vince

• The Alcoholic: He drinks constantly to keep the voices of the deads talking to him at bay. It is implied he went to AA before, but stopped to do so because he couldn't sleep because of the voices. Balthazar gladly takes advantage of this to murder him by forcing him to drink alcohol to death.
  Constantine: Going to a lot of meetings, I see.
  Father Henessey: It keeps the voices out, so I can sleep. I have to sleep, John.
• Death by Irony: Hennessy, who drank to dull his psychic powers, dies from drinking himself to death in less than a minute.
• Meaningful Name: Hennessy for the priest who drinks and for the foreshadow the way he dies.
• Protective Charm: He has one but removes it , so he can use his abilities during the investigation. Later, when it is given to Angela, she inadvertently removed it.
• Psychic-Assisted Suicide: After reading Isabel's corpse, Hennessey goes for his flask only for it to not pour. He then rushes to the nearest liquor and starts desperately grabbing bottles off the shelf, but none would pour for him when he tried to drink them, even though they clearly contained liquid. After about a minute of this with Balthazar watching on, he collapses and dies. When reviewing the scene afterwards, it's found that he died of acute alcohol poisoning—the bottles were pouring, but due to Balthazar's illusion, he could not perceive this and drank himself to death. But not before giving John one last message, tipping him off to the plot to bing Mammon to earth.
• Psychometry: He can run his hands over printed newspaper stories and psychically detect which ones are significant. Constantine asks him to do this to get the information he needs. Later on, he tries to read the body of Angela Dodson's dead sister Isabel.
• I See Dead People: Could "listen to the ether" and get psychic impressions and speak with the dead. He had to drink to suppress some of the voices of the dead constantly talking to him.
• Sidekick: He is one of the three sidekicks of Constantine.

Played by: Djimon Hounsou

• Adaptational Heroism: To the point of almost being In Name Only. The Papa Midnite of the comics was a magician who used his abilities to become the head of a criminal empire for himself, enjoying the pain and suffering of his victims, and tormented Constantine for an entire arc to settle a petty grudge, though Depending on the Writer he wasn't beyond forming an Enemy Mine with him. This version of Papa Midnite is a mage who used his powers to fight the forces of Hell before opening a club for neutral meetings between angels and demons, and eventually breaks off his neutrality to help Constantine at the end of the movie.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: He subverts the cigarillo trope by being a good/neutral witch doctor turned bartender.
• Mind Over Matter: Displayed when Papa Midnite flings John into a wall with a simple hand gesture.
• Retired Badass: Papa Midnite, a mage so powerful that he took on 30 demons by himself. Doesn't need special tools as he has actual magical powers. And powerful enough to create his own embassy of neutrality where hybrids mix and behave under his watch.
• Team Switzerland: Has built his club long lines of strict neutrality, favoring neither Heaven or Hell. And he means it. Unfortunately, it takes multiple deaths and the looming apocalypse for John to remind him that his neutrality won't mean anything when everyone else is busy fighting a war that won't stop at his front door.
• Witch Doctor: This version is a former witch doctor but he still has the gifts.

Played by: Max Baker

• Death by Irony: Beeman, a guy who collected insects, is killed by them coming out of his body
• Meaningful Name: His name is Beeman, and he mentions to John that he likes bugs.
• Sidekick: He is one of the three sidekicks of Constantine and the first one to die.
• Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: He manages to acquire certain rare objects for Constantine...for a price.
  Beeman: Yeah, easy there, hero. That's Dragon's Breath.
  John Constantine: I thought you couldn't get it anymore.
  Beeman: Yeah, well, I, uh, I know a guy who knows a guy.