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5. John Constantine

(Hellblazer, Vertigo)

It's a deep shame that we still don't have a good, faithful onscreen adaptation of John Constantine.

The magic trickster and sarcastic smoker-turned-demon fighter was an amazing character with some great stories told about him. Especially that Garth Ennis/Steve Dillon run. If you haven't read Dangerous Habits, change that, right flippin' now.

John first popped up in the pages of Swamp-Thing as an Occult Investigator before he was spun off into his own comic: Hellblazer. Hellblazer was one of those comics with vast swaths of all-time writers and artists taking turns making great comics. Again, that freaking Ennis run. Holy hell.

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If you need to be sold on Constantine, he once fought a demon known as Abraxas the Blade Demon, who acted as Jack the Ripper and had possessed a member of the Royal Family (Royal Blood, for those of you hunting down the arc). Constantine tricked devils and fought monsters for a living, and he used a crap-ton of magic to survive it all.