History Series / CONSTANTINE

* CuttingTheKnot:Zed, Chas, and Anna need to get into the prison to help John. Zed poses as a prostitute and bribes her way in, Chas simply hits a guard and gets dragged in, and Anna Marie simply walked in because as a member of the Church she can enter to give those in need spiritual healing. [[spoiler:Considering John was possessed and killed a number of gang members, they were more than a bit inclined to believe it.]]

* CurseThatCures: John is forced to [[spoiler:allow Pazuzu to possess him]], knowing that it would heal his gunshot wound.

* AdaptationTitleChange: As with the 2005 film, the show is an adaptation of the Vertigo Comics series ''ComicBook/{{Hellbalzer}}''.

** "Danse Vaudou" has three women (a grandmother whose grandson ran away from home and died in a car accident; a model who lost control and disfigured another model in a blind rage, leading to her suicide; and a wife whose husband died while she was away) whose guilt is enough to drive them to consult Papa Midnite to try to talk to those they wronged. Unfortunately, it's also enough to raise those people from the dead and turn two of them into monsters who kill anyone who happens upon them and the third into a being that makes his wife sick instead of himself.

The series' pilot was accidentally leaked online. Among other changes, the official premiere had a revised ending - [[http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/constantine/31268/constantine-casting-shake-up the creators wrote out]] the original female lead, Liv Aberdine (played by [[Series/RobinHood Lucy]] [[Series/TrueBlood Griffiths]]), the daughter of an old friend of Constantine's, and replaced her with Zed.

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: o save the doctor who was possessed by a fragment of the Black Diamond, Manny takes him to Heaven stating his work is done and his fight was over. He vanished in a flash of light, leaving the remaining fragments behind.]]

* {{Bowdlerise}}: Interviews have confirmed Constantine will not smoke on-screen. The writers are doing their best [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar to work around the limitation]], like only showing cigarettes being stubbed out in the pilot, or having Chas dryly remark that John ought to be an expert in a divination spell that uses smoke. By the later episodes, he's shown clearly smoking but with his back to the camera, or shown directly with a lit cigarette in his mouth, [[ExactWords but not inhaling]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The way the series reconciles John's smoking as a character trait and the network standards that forbid smoking on-screen. The pilot, for example, shows John snuffing out a cigarette in an ashtray--which is already filled to the brim with them. The second episode has Constantine mention the difficulties of smoke-based divination with Chas cracking that he should be an expert, while in another scene Constantine is obviously smoking, but has his back to the camera. When he gets to his hotel room in the same episode, he takes out the pack and puts a cigarette in his mouth, only to be interrupted, so he puts it away.

* YourCheatingHeart: Part of the reason Anna Marie left was because she saw John going out looking for other women while she was with him.

[[HollywoodVoodoo Papa Midnite]], saying he "doesn't do zip-ties without a safe word".

* BiTheWay: At New York Comic Con, David Goyer said in an interview that "[John]'s terrible to the men and women he sleeps with," and "We never said he wasn't bisexual," while mentioning it took eight years of the comics for John's bisexuality to come to light. True to form, the third episode has him snarkily flirting with [[HollywoodVoodoo Papa Midnite]], saying he "doesn't do zip-ties without a safe word".

* ButNotTooBi: John Constantine. Despite the WordOfGod listed above, he's just seen vaguely flirting with Papa Midnite and is only ever shown hooking up with women.

* ProductPlacement: Since the show was broadcast by NBC, news broadcasts seen on TV are from NBC affiliates. Atlanta's WXIA was used in "A Feast of Friends" while New York's WNBC was used in "Quid Pro Quo".

''Constantine'' was one of three live-action DC Comics shows to premiere in 2014, along with Creator/TheCW's ''[[Series/TheFlash2014 The Flash]]'' and {{Creator/FOX}}'s ''Series/{{Gotham}}''. Though being on different networks originally made crossovers seem unlikely, Matt Ryan reprised his role as John Constantine on the [[Recap/ArrowS4E5Haunted fifth episode]] of Season 4 of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', retroactively placing this show in continuity with The Series/ArrowVerse. Rights complications however initially prevented Constantine from appearing again, but on January 8th, 2017 it was announced that [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/constantine-animated-series-at-cw-seed-961873 the show is coming back as an animated show on CW Seed]] called ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Constantine}} Constantine: City of Demons]]'' with Matt Ryan again voicing the character. Tropes for that show should go [[WesternAnimation/{{Constantine}} here]]. He was also PromotedToOpeningTitles for ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' - contingent on the series getting renewed after a (highly) acclaimed season 3. Overall, 2018 would see Constantine hold the distinction of becoming the first character to be the title protagonist of ''three'' shows. [[note]]This one, the animated spin-off, and as a member of the Legends.[[/note]]

* YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood: In "A Whole World Out There", Ritchie tells Jacob Shaw who trapped and tortured souls in a PocketDimension "All this time you spent here, you could've been building worlds. You could've been redefining life and how we live it."

* WoundedGazelleGambit: In "Blessed are the Damned," [[spoiler: the FallenAngel Imogen let Father Zachary take one of her feathers knowing it would ground her in the human world. Whether John helped her or the ghouls retrieved the feather didn't matter, either way she would have been able to stay in the human world.]] Even John admitted she fooled him.

* TruerToTheText: It has been stated the series will stick closer to the spirit of the comic than the 2005 movie starring Creator/KeanuReeves. For starters, Constantine is a blond British man in a trenchcoat instead of a brunet American man in a suit. He still does exorcisms, but tends to do so through many faiths (explicitly invoking both Judaism ''and'' Hinduism as well as Christianity in the pilot) and other forms of magic as well.

* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: In "A Feast of Friends", [[spoiler:Lester found a man who had binding tattoos on body showing a demon was sealed inside of him. To seal it away again Constantine used Lester's.]]

* ProtectiveCharm: A couple of these going around. For example, John had protections against demonic possession[[spoiler:, which he removed to allow Pazuzu to possess him.]]

** Other Demons in the show, have to possess bodies in order to do anything. The few demons that we see that are not in Human forms, are incredibly powerful and dangerous.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Like Angels in The Prophecy, Angels in Constantine have incredible superhuman abilities, especially strength and speed, and they are marked on their necks with their names in Angelic script(in The Prophecy, it's a scar and its visible on their neck. In Constantine, it's right behind their right or left ear, and its tattoos here, not scars). They can also be killed by having their hearts removed(Manny has killed Imogen by doing this) and they have a tendency to wear black, or at least dark colors. They also know the names of all living beings, as they are able to see their names imprinted upon their souls(this is also a reference to traditional mythology, regarding Angels)

* MyGreatestFailure: Constantine had this after [[spoiler:a case he was working on in England resulted in a young girl being torn apart in front of him.]] So much so that he's in an asylum.
** In specific, [[spoiler:he attempted to SummonBiggerFish in order to deal with a possessed girl, only to lose control of the demon he summoned, resulting in it tearing the girl body to pieces and dragging her soul to hell.]]
*** The same goes for all of his old friends who were there. [[spoiler:Gary was high when the ritual began and ran and hid under a bed while Astra was dragged into hell.]]
** [[spoiler:Papa Midnite ended up doing something to his little sister that led to her death.]]
** [[spoiler:Anna Marie feels that introducing Constantine to the world of the occult was her greatest failure given he took the path to hell.]]