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John Constantine

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Chas Chandler

Francis "Chas" Chandler

Species: Human (Enhanced via magic)

Affiliations: The Newcastle Crew, Team Constantine

Played by: Charles Halford

First Appearance: "Non Est Asylum" (Constantine 1x1)

Appearances: Constantine

John's driver and oldest friend. The oldest probably because he's unable to die - John says he has certain "survival skills", whatever that means.

Adaptational Badass: Chas has an active role in Constantine's good deeds and is fairly competent at helping out even besides his immortality. In the source material, he is more often then not simply roped into the insane things that go on around Constantine, often only to the extent of being press-ganged into being John's driver, and is ill-equipped to handle the supernatural. His wife Rene also gets an upgrade, going from extremely abrasive, controlling and rarely sympathetic to being generally unsupportive but understandably so, considering how things look from her perspective.
Adaptational Nationality: British in the comics, American here.
Alliterative Name: Always addressed as Chas Chandler.
Alternate Self: Has one on Earth-666 who is a Russian mob boss.
The Big Guy: With some traces of The Lancer. Chas tends to do the legwork that doesn't require John's expertise and knowledge of spells, and he stands 6'6 (1.98 m) tall.
Celebrity Paradox: The Law & Order franchise was acknowledged to exist in the Arrowverse. His actor played a Small Role, Big Impact antagonist on Law & Order: SVU.
Good Thing You Can Heal: He can regenerate from any wound (that we've seen), so he tends to get a lot of wounds that would be mortal for anyone else.
A Million Is a Statistic: Averted. Chas actually made the effort to learn the names and lives of the 47 people who died in the accident that caused his immortality, seeing them as people to respect rather than his reserves. He even keeps their pictures in an album.
Out of Continues: How his immortality works.
Never My Fault: In a moment of anger in "Quid Pro Quo" he blames John for the strained relationship of his marriage, even though Chas could've left John's adventures anytime he wanted.
Number Two: Probably because any other candidate for that position is long-dead.
Papa Wolf: Loves his little daughter, Geraldine, very much. On the rare occasion Chas loses his cool, he is most furious when she is threatened. Sadly, battling the legions of Hell with Constantine doesn't leave him much time to spend with her.
Required Secondary Powers: His Healing Factor seems to be a result of this, considering there's no other rational reason that having Resurrective Immortality would also allow him to heal rapidly from non-fatal wounds.
Resurrective Immortality: He survives being impaled with a live electric wire in the pilot, and when Liv asks How Is That Even Possible?, John just chalks it up to his "survival skills" and doesn't bother to explain any further. It is referenced again in "Danse Vaudou," where he is stabbed to death by a ghost, but after a few minutes, his wounds rapidly heal and he wakes up, not so much as dazed by the ordeal. It is later revealed that John once drunkenly cast a spell on Chas that was supposed to be a legend, so when he was in an accident he absorbed the souls of 47 people and for every time he dies he loses one of them. Once he runs out, he dies for good.
The Stoic: The only time he visibly expresses emotions about anything is when he's physically injured. Or when Pazuzu mocked him about losing his father and daughter.
The Quiet One: Not very chatty, he seems to prefer to let John do the talking.
Two First Names: Per the DC Comics norm.
Undying Loyalty: He sticks by John through thick and thin, even after the Newcastle incident. This is in direct contrast to all of other John's friends who more or less disowned him after it.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Like Zed, Chas's absence is also yet to be acknowledged in Legends of Tomorrow.; however, season 5 reveals that he's in John's will, so it can be inferred that he's still alive at the very least.

Zed Martin

Mary "Zed" Martin

Species: Enhanced human

Played by: Angélica Celaya

First Appearance: "Non Est Asylum" (Constantine 1x1)

Appearances: Constantine

A psychic and a recent addition to John's team of monster slayers. Zed has been traveling the country, drifting from place to place and struggling to understand her newfound psychic powers.

Action Survivor: Can handle herself, especially when the people who work for her father come to kidnap her, but not overtly known for her brawn.
Ambiguously Evil: In her introductory episode, Constantine muses (in his closing monologue) what her real motives are, and the show has yet to clarify them.
Big Damn Heroes: In episode 103. She beats up a homeless man who was about to stab a prone Constantine.
The Empath: Zed can pick up visions and strong emotions via contact with other substances and people.
The Heart: She has a kinder approach to most situations than Constantine.
Messianic Archetype: For the Resurrection Crusade, the cult led by her father.
Psychic Powers: She has premonitions, for a start. Constantine comments that's only the tip of her psychic iceberg. These premonitions frequently manifest through her paintings and drawings.
Race Lift: An English white woman in the comics, Zed here is played by Mexican actress Angelica Celaya.
Spicy Latina: Occasionally she can be hot headed and belligerent, though in all fairness John is often the cause of this attitude.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Averted. As Liv's replacement, Zed couldn't be any more different; whereas Liv was cautious and often took the passive role in the dynamic between her and John, Zed isn't all that fazed with the world of magic and definitely doesn't take any of John's crap.
The Runaway: Ran away from home when she was a teenager, and judging from the fact she says she was locked away in a room and abused, it's not hard to see why.
Two First Names: Per the DC Comics norm.
The Watson: She often is the victim of John's exposition about the supernatural.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Legends of Tomorrow picks up many of the loose story threads that were left dangling following Constantine's cancellation, yet Zed is nowhere to be seen or even acknowledged.

The Newcastle Crew

In General

"Back then, we all thought John was the duck's nuts. I mean some of the crew were interested in the occult, but most of us just wanted to be around him. So when he started talking about this trip to Newcastle, we all jumped at the chance. Road trip, some black magic with the John Constantine. Who could say no? But then there was this girl. She was a daughter of one of John's friends. She was possessed. Nobody knew what to do, how to save her."

— Gary Lester

A group of sorcerers and demon hunters who followed John Constantine, until a routine exorcism went horribly wrong and they all went their separate ways.

Breaking the Fellowship: After Astra was damned to Hell, they disbanded. Some trying to atone others trying to runaway from their guilt — the one thing they have in common is with the exception of Chas (and Gary) none of them ever want to see Constantine again.
The Ghost: John mentions Judith to Anne-Marie Flynn but, unlike the other members, she never appeared. She was set to appear in the cancelled episode "Final Girl"
It's All My Fault: Zigg-zagged. They all rightfully blame Constantine for what happened to Astra, but on a subconscious level they also blame themselves as well.
We Used to Be Friends: With the exception of Chas (and Gary), all them disowned Constantine after what happened to Astra.

John Constantine

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Chas Chandler

see his entry under Team Constantine

Ritchie Simpson

Species: Empowered human

Affiliations: The Newcastle Crew

Played by: Jeremy Davies

First Appearance: "Non Est Asylum" (Constantine 1x1)

Appearances: Constantine

Ritchie Simpson is a professor of metaphysics at a local Atlanta university and a former acquaintance of Constantine in Newcastle.

Alternate Self: Has one on Earth-666 who is a paparazzi photographer.
The Atoner: Averted. Unlike everyone else at Newcastle, Ritchie's life is largely spent running away from the problems of his past and attempting to forget everything that happened. It's ironic he's trying to do this since he's living in the same city as Constantine.
Apathetic Teacher: Downplayed. Ritchie spends his classes barely interacting with his students and playing recordings of past lectures instead of actually teaching them, but he has protégées like Adam and he’s nice to them outside of his lectures. He seems to be growing out of this after three students under his protection are murdered after being trapped in another dimension controlled by a twisted serial killer, and he decides to take the classes again.]
Celebrity Paradox:
- Lost was mentioned on the very first episode of Arrow. His actor plays a Recurring Character there in its last three seasons.
- Twister was mentioned in the Season 3 premiere of The Flash. His actor was part of the film.
Cowardly Lion: He dreads Constantine’s very presence, afraid of being caught up again in the constantly deadly world of magic that follows in his wake. He however is willing to travel into a dimension controlled by the sadistic serial killer Jacob Shaw to save a student in his class.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Constantine back in the day before Newcastle. Constantine considered Ritchie his true partner in crime because he was the only one that didn’t worship Constantine like a god.
Hollywood Hacking: He shuts down Atlanta's power grid to weaken Furcifer.
I Choose to Stay: Subverted. When he learns how to control the dimension Jacob Shaw created, he strongly considers leaving the material world behind, believing that he could be happy and become like a god there. Then Constantine talks him out of it, turning this into an Anti-Escapism Aesop.
Nice Guy: He’s considerate with everyone he meets (Constantine, notwithstanding), including Liv and the students at his university.
Properly Paranoid: He freaks out when he sees Constantine enter his office, and he's right to seeing as a trail of death and destruction is virtually a guarantee when you hang around with someone like John Constantine.
Reality Warper: Learns how to control the imagined dimension created by Jacob Shaw, becoming near-omnipotent. He entertains the thought of staying there but Constantine convinces that this was another way of just running away from his past.
Southern-Fried Genius: A professor of metaphysics and computer hacker with a strong Southern drawl.
Snark-to-Snark Combat: As a friend of Constantine, it’s obvious that he would inevitably become a Deadpan Snarker. Like Anne-Marie Flynn he’s one of the few that can keep up with John in a verbal spat.
Two First Names: Per the DC Comics norm.

Gary Lester

Gary "Gaz" Lester

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Species: Empowered human

Affiliations: The Newcastle Crew

Played by: Jonjo O'Neill

First Appearance: "A Feast of Friends" (Constantine 1x4)

Appearances: Constantine

A struggling heroin addict and an old friend of John from his Newcastle days.

Adaptational Heroism: Gary Lester is made more sympathetic than his comic counterpart, who was much more concerned with getting high than helping John stop Mnemoth, and less accepting of having Mnemoth bound inside of him.
The Atoner: Like most of the Newcastle crew, his work in the present day is an attempt to make up for what happened to Astra.
Addled Addict: Mostly party drugs back before Newcastle but graduated to full blown heroin junkie.
The Chew Toy: The universe seems to absolutely despise Gary Lester. First, he's left psychologically scarred by the events of Newcastle. Then, he traps a hunger demon in a bottle but lets it get loose. He gets caught in a zero gravity trap, gets beaten up by thugs, and the list goes on and on. This of course, leads to its logical conclusion of death by hunger demon.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Eaten alive by a hunger demon from the inside out, all while strapped to a bed and screaming in agony.
Dead Person Conversation: He briefly appeared by possessing a corpse to tell John he has a bounty on his head.
Heroic Sacrifice: Gave his life to be Mnemoth's final host by taking in the demon and letting it consume him (and in the process have it unwittingly destroy itself).
I Just Want to Be Badass: It's clear he idolizes John Constantine and wants to be a powerful sorcerer like him. His attempt to help the guy who was Mnemoth's prison was his way of doing what John would do.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Tried to trap the demon Mnemoth when it was already permanently trapped in a human host that was already dying and taking the demon with it. Gary inadvertently let the demon loose on the world and caused numerous deaths in the process.
Present Absence: Invoked, when his reflection shows up in one of the Mill House’s mirrors after his death in “A Whole World Out There”. John decides to toast to his memory.
Two First Names: Per the DC Comics norm.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Though he has good intentions, a majority of Gary's actions have led to things becoming much worse. His plan to help the poor soul that was possessed by Mnemoth? Led to it possessing and killing more people. Get high while holding a seance and run away when it goes wrong? A girl dies, is damned to Hell and all his friends are left psychologically broken for years to come.

Anne-Marie Flynn

Sister Anne-Marie Flynn

Species: Empowered human

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Affiliations: The Newcastle Crew

Played by: Claire van der Boom

First Appearance: "The Saint of Last Resorts Part 1" (Constantine 1x8)

Appearances: Constantine

A nun at a Mexican convent, Anne-Marie was one of John's old friends from his Newcastle days. She also happened to be one of the members of the séance that damned Astra Logue to Hell, for which was the catalyst that led her to join the nunnery to repent for her sins.

Adaptational Attractiveness: The Anne-Marie in the comics is rather old, wrinkly and frumpy. None of those adjectives would (or should) be used to describe Claire van der Boom◊.
Age Lift: As noted above, she's younger than her comics counterpart.
Anti-Hero: Incredibly cynical and stand-offish for a nun, and also willing to sacrifice Constantine to an ancient demon in order to save an innocent child’s life.
The Atoner: Like any member of the Newcastle crew, she’s spending her life trying to make up for the death/damnation of Astra.
The Cynic: Being a friend of Constantine seems to do this to you.
Deadpan Snarker: Again, being Constantine’s friend is inevitably bound to make you as sarcastic as him.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Seriously, what is it about Constantine that causes him to produce these types of people? Anne-Marie is definitely not the nicest person (though of course, you don't deal with someone like Constantine with nice words) but she values people's lives and is willing to do anything to protect the people under her care.
My Greatest Failure: For her, it's the fact she was one of the people who taught John magic in the first place. In fact she introduced him to it, which is why she hates him so much.
Ms. Fanservice: Along with her Naughty Nun status, she performed a spell to distract a few prison guards by summoning a naked apparition of herself.
Nun Too Holy: She’s not rebellious or anything, only naughty in the sense of her association to Constantine, Former Teen Rebel status and cynical outlook on the world.
Tsundere: Her tsun-tsun side is usually reserved for Constantine, but around others like Chas or the women who come to give birth at the convent she’s sweet and understanding.

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Team Constantine

Francis "Chas" Chandler

Species: Human (Enhanced via magic)

Affiliations: The Newcastle Crew, Team Constantine

Played by: Charles Halford

First Appearance: "Non Est Asylum" (Constantine 1x1)

Appearances: Constantine

Mary "Zed" Martin

Species: Enhanced human

Played by: Angélica Celaya

First Appearance: "Non Est Asylum" (Constantine 1x1)

Appearances: Constantine

The Newcastle Crew

Ritchie Simpson

Species: Empowered human

Affiliations: The Newcastle Crew

Played by: Jeremy Davies

First Appearance: "Non Est Asylum" (Constantine 1x1)

Appearances: Constantine

Gary "Gaz" Lester

Species: Empowered human

Affiliations: The Newcastle Crew

Played by: Jonjo O'Neill

First Appearance: "A Feast of Friends" (Constantine 1x4)

Appearances: Constantine

Sister Anne-Marie Flynn

Species: Empowered human

Affiliations: The Newcastle Crew

Played by: Claire van der Boom

First Appearance: "The Saint of Last Resorts Part 1" (Constantine 1x8)

Appearances: Constantine

Natalie Logue

Species: Human (Spirit)

Played by: Alice Hunter

First Appearance: "A Head of Her Time" (Legends of Tomorrow 5x4)

Appearances: Legends of Tomorrow

Human Sorcerers

Papa Midnite

Species: Human (Empowered via magic)

Played by: Michael James Shaw

First Appearance: "The Devil's Vinyl" (Constantine 1x3)

Appearances: Constantine

Felix Faust

Species: Human (Empowered via magic)

Played by: Mark Margolis

First Appearance: "Quid Pro Quo" (Constantine 1x10)

Appearances: Constantine

Jacob Shaw

Species: Empowered human

Played by: William Mapother

First Appearance: "A Whole World Out There" (Constantine 1x11)

Appearances: Constantine

"The Man"

Species: Empowered Human

Played by: J.D. Evermore

First Appearance: "Waiting for the Man" (Constantine 1x13)

Appearances: Constantine

Non-human Magic Users

Esrin Fortuna

Species: Human (Empowered via magic)

Played by: Gabriella Wright

First Appearance: "Genesis" (Arrow 4x20)

Appearances: Arrow

Enchantress

Species: Shapeshifter

Played By: Samantha Liana Cole, Stephanie George (as handmaiden), Marion Eisman (as Mrs. Hughes)

First Appearance: "The Great British Fake Off" (Legends of Tomorrow 5x9)

Appearances: Legends of Tomorrow

Magically Altered Individuals

Liv Aberdine

Species: Empowered human

Played by: Lucy Griffiths

First Appearance: "Non Est Asylum" (Constantine 1x1)

Appearances: Constantine

Zambezi Totem Bearers

Spirit Totem

Air Totem

Water Totem