Abilities

• Magic: John is a highly skilled sorcerer, having been practicing magic since he was a teen. He quickly mastered all the magic that Europe had to offer and went to America to train under Nick Necro, a notable magician. He has claimed to be a magician of the fourth degree, however he has cast spells that exceed this level of magic.^[39] John is skilled in various forms of magic, most notably Black Magic, a dangerous and malevolent form of sorcery that is known to come at a high cost to its practitioner.
  • Astral Projection: John is able to create astral projections of himself.
  • Chronokinesis: John knows a blood magic spell that allows him to temporarily stop time.
  • Cosmic Awareness
  • Dimensional Travel: John is capable of creating portals to other dimensions and realities. He can also use spells to banish demons back to Hell.John can open portals to other realities in the multiverse, as well as into magical dimensions in the Sphere of the Gods. Through a complex spell, John can even travel into the Collective Unconscious and bring others with him.
    • Intangibility: John can temporarily displace items into a pocket dimension to avoid attacks. By doing this when attacked by a sword, John displaced the sword, allowing it to pass right through him unharmed.
  • Deflection: John can activate a spell called a "turnabout charm", which deflects any injury he suffers onto the person who inflicted it.
  • Divination: John can use various divination spells, such as using his cigarette to track magic energy.
  • Disintegration: John was able to use magic to incinerate a cultist.
  • Elemental Control: John can use magic to manipulate the elements for various purposes, such as:
    • Chlorokinesis: John can use magic to command plants to attack his enemies, such as causing sharp tree branches to extend and puncture a group of enemies.
    • Electrokinesis: John is able to use magic to manipulate electricity for various effects. One spell allows him to electrocute a person with his cigarette.
      • Electro-Blast: John is capable of using magic to project bolts of lightning from his hands.
    • Photokinesis: John was able to create a burst of blinding light, which was powerful enough to harm a group of vampires.
    • Pyrokinesis: John can use magic to manipulate fire for a variety of effects. He is able to engulf his hands in flames, as well as turn the small flame from his lighter into a flamethrower. He is also able to shape natural flames to his will to create intricate pyrokinetic constructs.
      • Thermal-Blast: John can project a powerful stream of flames from his eyes.
  • Eldritch Blast: John can project powerful blasts of magic energy from his hands as energy bolts, beams, and even highly destructive explosive blasts.
  • Energy Construct Creation: John can use magic to form solid energy constructs, such as shields or bridges.
  • Enhanced Senses: John is able to sense the presence of magic.He can also see supernatural beings that others cannot, such as ghosts.
  • Exorcism: John is able to forcibly remove possessing entities such as demonic spirits from the body they are possessing.
  • Illusion Casting: John is able to create illusions to fool people. He was able to trick Darkseid into thinking he was dead, and cast a universe wide illusion, convincing Darkseid that it was a dead dimension he had already consumed.
  • Infection: John can use a spell that allows him to poison the ice in a person's drink, killing them.
  • Invisibility: John is capable of turning himself invisible and cloaking items.
  • Necromancy: John is capable of using magic to summon and communicate with the dead.
  • Power Absorption: John knew a spell that allowed him to temporarily steal the powers of Shazam.
  • Sigil Magic: John can use magic sigils for various purposes, such as creating protection circles that shield him from harm once entered. He knows a sigil that is supposedly powerful enough to kill a god.
    • Force Field
  • Summoning: John is capable of summoning demons and other entities through various spells. Some of John's spells require him to invoke spirits and demons to fuel the spell. John even knows a spell that allows him to summon Swamp Thing at will.
  • Synchronicity Wave Traveling: John has an instinctual supernatural ability to be in the right place at exactly the right time. This has led John to uncanny luck, like winning incredible amounts of money from gambling, avoiding harm, and more times than not - to meet the right kind of ally to help prevent or stop an apocalyptic event from happening.
  • Telekinesis: John can use various "binding spells" to telekinetically freeze and restrain people. One spell allowed him to use a cigarette to bind a vampire to a wall, by flicking it on to him. He was also capable of telekinetically causing a gun to jam.
  • Teleportation: John is able to teleport himself, others and items, to various locations, and even across dimensions.
  • Telepathy: John mentioned that he has rewritten his landlord's brain to think that he'd had already paid rent.
    • Mind Control
  • Transformation: By utilizing a spell called the Blackmare Curse, Constantine can temporarily transform into a demon conjured from his own soul.
• Demon Blood (Formerly): Before it was ripped from his body by the Upside-Down Man, John's body contained demon blood, which is what allowed him to channel magic and cast spells without facing the cost of it, as well as withstand a level of magic that a human body cannot normally handle.
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• Deception: John Constantine is an excellent con artist and negotiator. These skills are often more useful than his magical ones. Constantine faces most of his challenges relying primarily on his cunning skills.
• Escapology
• Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic)
• Hypnosis
• Indomitable Will: John possesses the willpower to resist being possessed by Deadman. He was also not corrupted by Pandora's box.
• Intimidation
• Investigation: John is a highly skilled detective, specializing in occult investigations.
• Multilingualism: John speaks some amount of French. Though he claims the only thing that stuck from his French classes was "il, elle, nous sommes", this was probably a lie. He also knows a little of British Sign Language, which he learned when he met his son, Noah.
• Occultism: John possesses extensive knowledge of magic and the supernatural. He's stated to have read every Necronomicon and Book of Chaos written by the most ancient practitioners of dark magic.
• Prestidigitation
• Singing: Before Constantine became an experienced magician, he was the lead singer in the punk-grunge band Mucous Membrane.
• Surveillance: John is is a keen observer, capable of surveying and spying on people without them noticing.
• Throwing
• Weaponry: John doesn't usually wield weapons, however he has displayed skill with knives, as well as an axe, which he used to kill vampires.