Justice League Dark: Constantine Is Supernatural Batman

Justice League Dark’s John Constantine is like a supernatural version of Batman

John Constantine battles the dark forces of the supernatural on regular basis, but he’s mostly a normal guy. He doesn’t have powers and only knows a little bit of magic, certainly not on the level of someone like Zatanna. So in Justice League Dark, much like Batman, he uses a lot of knowledge and gadgets to even the playing field. In fact, Justice League Dark director Jay Olivia says Constantine is basically a supernatural Batman:

"The way I see it also is that Constantine is kind of like the supernatural version of Batman, in the sense that Batman uses all these gadgets. Constantine, I feel, is not magical. He can’t create magic on his own, at least not to the level of Zatanna. Constantine is right in the middle. He’s not totally non-magical, but he has an affinity to magic, which means that he can use magical items as well as maybe he can do just limited, small tricks like create fire. But he can’t, like Zatanna, go full nuclear. He can’t create portals and all that kind of stuff. We don’t really see it too much in the movie, but I feel he uses the items that are in the House Of Mystery in the same way that James Bond uses the gadgets from Q Branch. Throughout the movie he uses quite a few different artifacts; these are all things that I believe were stored in there and he now uses them to protect him or to help him in his investigations."

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I think that’s a pretty apt comparison. Both Constantine and Batman are consistently fighting beings well above their weight class, but even the odds with their brains and gadgets/artifacts. Justice League Dark is out on Digital HD January 24th and on Blu-Ray and DVD February 7th.

h/t Empire