With the release of the first trailer for Constantine, it’s much easier to get excited about the show — and with a list of Easter eggs as long as your arm, it’s easier to picture that, maybe, this show will have an opportunity to mine some other supernatural DC characters for inspiration.Unfortunately, one of the key characters in Constantine’s publishing history — Swamp Thing — is more likely than not off-limits. Why? Well, because this show isn’t on The CW. Part of the reason they can get away with so much on shows like Smallville and Arrow is that Warners has to give up almost nothing in terms of character rights to use people in a show that’s produced by WBTV and aired on a Warner Bros. co-owned network.Heading to NBC (or FOX, where they’ll air Gotham, for that matter) means the contracts are more likely than not a bit more restrictive and there will probably be some pretty specific language involved.So why do we think that means it’s unlikely we’ll see Alec Holland? Simple: he’s had his own financially successful TV series and movies before, and the odds of him just being a “throw-in” with John Constantine are very slim.That said, it’s not out of the question that DC will have given the show a little bit of leash and that we could see some supernatural types pop up. So, trying to ignore the realities of corporate TV production and rights disputes and blah, blah, blah, here are five DC characters or properties we’d like to see pop up in Constantine. And if you think they won’t, don’t tell us: deep down, we already know, and it makes us sad.
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