Some of the courses that will be in the game in the future may have been found in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe placeholder music files, know the DLC 3 datamine reddit leak tracks
It looks like many “prefetch” files were added to the game, which are music tracks from old Mario Kart games. These were found by YouTube user record reader and sent to YouTube by BL.
These ‘prefetch’ files include the opening few seconds of a music piece. Their purpose is to provide a simple way to start music while the entire song downloads in the background.
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While the full audio tracks that match with the prefetch files must appear to be there in the latest announcement, the prefetch files have offered enough of each song to help Mario Kart fans work out which circuits they link to.
What Courses Were Included In Mario Kart 8 Wave 2?
The Booster Course Pass for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe got eight new tracks on Thursday, August 4. They were made up of:
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Mario Circuit 3 (SNES).
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Desert (N64)
Waluigi’s Pinball (DS)
Tour of Sydney Sprint
Snowland (GBA)
Mushroom Gorge (Wii)
Sky-High Sundae (New original course)
Although the initial wave was strong, the second one seems to be even stronger.
What Are The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC Future Track?
Based on the prefetch files, it looks like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will get the following tracks as DLC in the future:
London Loop (Mario Kart Tour)
Peach Gardens (DS)
Boo Lake/Broken Pier (GBA)
3DS Rock Rock Mountain
Byways in Berlin (Mario Kart Tour)
Waluigi Stadium/Wario Colosseum (Game Cube)
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Rainbow Road (3DS).
Amsterdam Drift (Mario Kart Tour)
Singapore Speedway (Mario Kart Tour).
Laps in Los Angeles (Mario Kart Tour)
Sunset Wilds (GBA)
Bangkok Rush (Mario Kart Tour)
(Mario Kart Tour) Vancouver Velocity
Maple Treeway (Wii)
The release date is not confirmed yet.
But a previous data mine found the retro prefixes for prospective circuits (SNES, GBA, 3DS, etc.), and predicated on these, the most probable result is that the first eight tracks listed in the previous section will be in Wave 3, since the prefixes match.
Yesterday, the second batch of tracks came out. They include GBA Snow Land, Wii Mushroom Gorge, DS Waluigi Pinball, and more.
What Is The Cost Of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Pass?
The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass costs $24.99 or £24.99 and gives you access to 48 DLC tracks over six waves.
Some of the courses are new versions of tracks from older games in the series, like Super Mario Kart, Mario Kart 64, Mario Kart Double Dash, Mario Kart Wii, and even handheld games like the Mario Kart Tour mobile game.
When a player signs up for the Expansion Pack for Nintendo Switch Online, they also get access to the DLC.
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Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson’s age difference caused them to split earlier this week, sources exclusively tell Page Six.
“Pete is 28 and Kim is 41 — they are just in very different places at the moment,” the insider says.
“Pete is totally spontaneous and impulsive and wants her to fly to New York, or wherever he is on a moment’s notice,” the source adds. “But Kim has four kids and it isn’t that easy. She needs to focus on the kids.”
The source also tells us that Kardashian — who runs multiple businesses and stars on a reality show — was “totally exhausted by this relationship and other things going on in her life.”
The “Kardashians” star has recently had a tumultuous relationship with ex Kanye West, which caused strife while she was dating the Saturday Night Live alum.
The insider explained: “When Kim is with someone else, Kanye can cause problems with the kids. He tries to divide and conquer. I can’t help it.
“Kim is a really dedicated mother, and her kids will always come first. Ella she wants and needs harmony at her home and in her life.”
Kardashian and Davidson — who have been spending time apart lately as he has been in Australia filming a new movie — met when she hosted Saturday Night Live in October 2021, and started officially dating the following month.
“When we kissed, I was just like ‘Mmm!’ It was a stage kiss, but it was still a little zing,” the SKIMS founder later said of kissing the comedian in a sketch on the late-night show.
However, Kardashian — who filed for divorce from West, 45, in February 2021 — wasn’t sure if the spark was anything special.
“I was like, ‘Wow, I really haven’t kissed anyone else in 10 years, so maybe I’m just like being stupid and it’s nothing, it’s just a stage kiss’,” she added.
Kardashian and West tied the knot in May 2014 and share four children: North, 9, Saint, 6, Chicago, 4, and Psalm, 3.
Davidson — who was previously engaged to Ariana Grande — recently opened up about his “dream” to become a dad one day.
“(I’m) definitely a family guy. My favorite thing ever, which I’ve yet to achieve, is I want to have a kid,” he said last month.
This article was originally published by Page Six and reproduced with permission
Some Australians will be able to access free abortions while others in rural communities are battling a “postcode lottery” to access the critical health service.
Affordability greatly improves access to the service, but there are still significant barriers for those living in rural and remote parts of the country.
Some women are having to travel hundreds of kilometers to reach clinics, with just 10 per cent of Australian GPs registered to provide medical abortions.
Protesters rally during an abortion rights demonstration in the Brooklyn borough of New York on May 14. (AP)
Abortion rights were thrust into the forefront of conversation when the United States’ Supreme Court overturned the country’s landmark 1973 Roe v Wade decision this year.
Australians have the legal right to have an abortion but there are many different factors that can contribute to how accessible the medical procedure is.
With different rules on abortion in each state and territory, reproductive health advocacy groups say there is still some confusion about things such as how much an abortion costs, when and where you can get access to abortion services, and what types of abortion services are available in Australia.
Children by Choice chief executive Daile Kelleher said while there was general access to services across the nation, for many regional women it was a matter of postcode lottery.
“We know though with whatever legislation there is in Australia, that we have seen there has been general access to termination of pregnancy over the past couple of years,” she said.
“However, legislation doesn’t equal access.”
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Abortion access is particularly difficult in regional and rural areas, Kelleher said.
“The most difficult thing, is that the information isn’t available for a lot of places and it’s not something you look up until you actually need it,” she said.
Consider a woman living in a remote Queensland town as an example.
That woman may have to travel “hundreds of kilometers” to access a facility which is outside their community and away from their support network.
This can be further complicated by factors like getting time off work or organizing childcare.
And in some cases navigating a violent or controlling relationship, she said.
“Any barriers to accessing healthcare outside their communities are felt more by those people who are already experiencing vulnerabilities and disadvantages,” Kelleher said.
Children by Choice chief executive Daile Kelleher (Michelle Grace Hunder)
Stigma continues to create “roadblocks and barriers” for people accessing abortions, particularly in regional and remote areas, Kelleher said.
“Some GPs you walk into and ask about abortion, or for information on access, you can get looks,” she said.
“We hear that people have been told abortion wasn’t legal and they can’t access it.
“That has huge impacts for people’s ability and confidence in asking another GP.”
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Clinics closing in parts of Australia
Late last year, family planning organization Marie Stopes announced the closure of clinics in Southport, Townsville and Rockhampton in Queensland, and Newcastle in New South Wales.
In a statement, the organization cited financial difficulties were behind the difficult decision.
“This is not a decision we have made lightly. We have exhausted all possible options and extended our tenure for as long as we could.
“Costs continue to rise and as such our regional clinics have been functioning below the capacity required to sustain their fixed financial outgoings for some time.”
The closure of the regional abortion clinics will now make it harder for women to access the vital service, so what needs to be done?
Thousands of furious supporters of abortion rights protested across Melbourne earlier this year. (Photograph by Chris Hopkins)
How do we improve access to abortions?
Chair of general practice at Monash University Professor Danielle Mazza said there were a number of issues that needed to be fixed to improve accessibility as there’s a shortage of providers in the country.
She said the system needed to be easy to navigate for women, Mazza said.
“At the moment, if you are a 16-year-old girl living in a rural town in Australia, how are you going to know where to go to get an abortion if you need one?”
“You might approach a rural GP but in these areas it might be really hard to get an appointment.
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“There can be a two week wait for some practices.
“The GP you might encounter may be an objector or may not be knowledgeable about abortion and may not know where to direct you or help you.”
More support and training was needed for all GPs and pharmacists across Australia, Mazza said.
“GPs are the main providers of this service for medical abortions and (visiting a GP) is a convenient approach for many women,” she said.
Currently not all pharmacies stock the medication needed for a medical abortion, Mazza said.
“More support is needed to pharmacists and GPs to provide the service and we run an online community practice to support healthcare professionals to provide medical abortions and we are looking to government to continue that funding.”
Mazza said public hospitals and health services should embed reproductive healthcare into their basic services.
“Each region needs to take accountability for the delivery of this essential healthcare practice,” she said.
US Senate Democrats on Saturday were set to push ahead on a bill that would address key elements of President Joe Biden’s agenda, tackling climate change, lowering the cost of energy and senior citizens’ drugs and forcing the wealthy to pay more taxes.
A Senate rulemaker determined that the lion’s share of the $430bn bill could be passed with only a simple majority, bypassing a filibuster rule requiring 60 votes in the 100-seat chamber to advance most legislation and enabling Democrats to pass it over Republican objections, majority leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement.
Democrats hope that the legislation will give a boost to their candidates in the 8 November midterm elections in which Biden’s party is in an uphill battle to retain its narrow control of the Senate and House of Representatives.
“Democrats have received extremely good news,” Schumer said in the statement. “Medicare will finally be allowed to negotiate drug prices…This is a major victory for the American people.”
Medicare is the government health insurance program for people age 65 and older.
There are three main parts to the bill: a 15% minimum tax on corporations, tougher IRS enforcement and a new excise tax on stock buybacks. The legislation has $430 billion in new spending along with raising more than $740 billion in new revenues.
Besides billions of dollars to encourage the production and purchase of more electric vehicles and foster clean energy, the bill would set $4 billion in new federal drought relief funds. The latter is a move that could help the re-election campaigns of Democratic Senators Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada and Mark Kelly in Arizona.
Republicans have promised to do everything they can to stall or block the bill, with Senator Lindsey Graham on Friday calling the legislation “this jihad they’re on to tax and spend.”
Democrats aim to push the bill through the Senate using an arcane and complicated “reconciliation” procedure allowing passage without any Republican support in the chamber divided 50-50 between the parties, with the Democrats in control because Kamala Harris, the vice-president, can cast a tie-breaking vote.
One provision cut from the bill would have forced drug companies to refund money to both government and private health plans if drug prices rise more quickly than inflation. The Senate arbitrator, known as the parliamentarian, ruled that measure could not apply to private industry.
Saturday will kick off an arduous process that could extend into early next week, with senators offering amendment after amendment in a time-consuming “vote-a-rama.”
Senators on the left such as Bernie Sanders are likely to try to expand the scope of the bill to include new programs such as federal subsidies for childcare or home healthcare for the elderly. Republicans have signaled that they will offer plenty of amendments touching on another issue: immigrants coming across the US border with Mexico.
One Australian man crashed his Ferrari 458 Italia Coupe while on a Sunday drive. Speeding down the Princes Highway in St. Peters, the Ferrari supercar exceeded the 24 mph speed limit by an incredible amount. Thankfully, this was not a fatal Ferrari crash, but it still caused a lot of damage to the supercar.
The red Ferrari 458 Italia Coupe crashed into a power pole
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In the video from 7News Australia, you can see the red Ferrari slam into a light pole at a high rate of speed. The 458 bounced off the light pole and spun around before coming to a stop. The passenger can be heard complaining about his legs hurting, and the driver suffered a head injury.
The entire front wheel, tire, and suspension appear to be missing from the driver’s side. A side airbag inflated and deflated after the impact and now is just blowing in the breeze. Fire rescue and paramedics had to free the pair from the totaled Ferrari sports car.
A paramedic on the scene said that every airbag in the Ferrari 458 went off during the impact. With a top speed of more than 200 mph and 562 hp, it’s no wonder the airbags went off. Crashing a supercar or sports car is never a positive experience, especially if it is avoidable.
The Ferrari 458 Italia’s price and specs make this crash even more painful
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The regular Ferrari 458 Italia will run buyers between $277,400 and $350,680. According to Drive Australia, the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) sold 257 Ferarri sports cars in 2019. In 2018, Ferrari only sold 241 units in the whole year. While the Ferrari 458 Italia isn’t a cheap car to start with, it was likely one of very few in Australia.
For comparison’s sake, Lamborghini reported selling 147 vehicles in 2019. That was up 9.7% over 2018 when it moved 134 units. Porsche has also been ramping up sales in the area, trying to compete with Ferrari and Lamborghini. With 4,161 Porsche sales, it’s clear Australia has a supercar problem on its hands. Before the pandemic, luxury automotive sales were having a record year.
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The 458 Italia goes by a few names, such as 458 Speciale and 458 Spyder. Ferrari produced this vehicle from 2009 until 2015 in Maranello, Italy. The supercar brand made around 15,000 of the Italy, specifically. Eventually, it was replaced by the Ferrari 488.
Thankfully, this Ferrari 458 Italia Coupe crash was limited to a single vehicle and a light pole or two. There were no further updates from 7News, so hopefully, the passenger and the driver made it out without further injury. If you take your special Ferrari 458 Italia out for a drive, abide by speed limits.
A British OnlyFans star says she has the most heavily tattooed vagina in the world, with an artist needing five separate sessions to needle her labia.
Over the years, Becky Holt, 34, has spent more than $42,000 on a tattoo “bodysuit” with artworks adorning her entire frame, from her face to her feet, The NY Post reports.
The blonde made sure not to neglect her pubic region, and recently sought to have the sensitive area inked — despite an intense amount of agony it caused.
“I was in an incredible amount of pain,” Holt told Ark Media of the fifth and final ink session that she underwent on July 5.
“It’s quite embarrassing having a tattoo artist between your legs but it needed to be finished as I want my body suit to be fully complete,” the mom-of-one added.
Almost a month on, Holt’s vagina is still “swollen” and she isn’t able to have sex with her partner, Ben.
“We won’t be able to be intimate until it’s finished healing which will be difficult for both of us as we have a very active sex life,” Holt divulged. “Foreplay for him only currently!”
Despite the sex drought, Holt’s beau has managed to find some humor in the situation.
“When I showed him how swollen it was he joked and showed me a picture of a ‘Monsters In.’ character saying my fanny looked like them,” the tattoo lover revealed.
Holt didn’t divulge what design she chose to have permanently plastered onto her labia, but shared photos of her trip to the tattoo parlor.
The blonde was seen wincing in pain as she sat on a chair with her legs spread while the artist needled away.
Holt believes she’s one of the only women in the world to have her vaginal folds inked, and says admirers have praised her for enduring the painful process.
“People can’t believe how brave I am for having my labia tattooed,” she bragged. “I’m not sure how many people in the world have this tattoo but I imagine I’m one of very few.”
This story originally appeared on The NY Post and was reproduced with permission.
Catlin did have some skin in the game. He worked on Liberal member Nick Russian’s bid to become Melbourne’s lord mayor (Russian polled a solid fourth), and helped deal with a story that briefly threatened to destabilize that campaign, when Russian’s wife Rozalia was spotted shopping at Tiffany’s during one of Melbourne’s endless lockdowns of 2020.
Most of his experience, however, has been with high-end corporate clients. After leaving the media – he was a television journalist with Seven – he worked in public relations and marketing, spending almost five years as Myer’s PR and events general manager before moving to Swisse Wellness in 2011, for almost four years.
In 2014, he registered the name for his own PR company, Catchy Media Marketing and Management, although its website has since expired.
It was this company that stood to gain from Catlin’s approach to billionaire Liberal donor Jonathan Munz, when Catlin sought more than $100,000 in payments, in addition to his taxpayer-funded salary. Munz said that when he received the email “he rejected it out of hand”. Catlin resigned on Tuesday after The Age revealed the sorry affair.
Few Liberals will go on the record to share their thoughts about Catlin. One senior figure unleashed a barrage of unprintable descriptions of Catlin when contacted, while another shot him as a “name-dropper” who won favor with Guy, with his promises to bring in big donations from corporate supporters.
“A lot of people who knew him quite well have reached out to me saying, ‘we knew this would happen’,” that person said.
“It was only a matter of time before he came unstuck.”
Publicly, senior Liberals are keeping schtum (with the notable exception of former leader Michael O’Brien, who pointedly posted on Twitter, on the day of Catlin’s resignation: “Sick of dodgy politics? So am I.”
But privately, they are reeling. Some predict Guy will lose the leadership, while grimly acknowledging where this turmoil would lead less than four months before the state election.
“I think on the surface, they’re all talking it up as if it’s a storm in a tea cup, but I think deep down, they’re pretty well aware of the severity of it all,” one said of the leadership.
And of Matthew Guy: “I just don’t know how he can survive it, to be honest.”
Mitch Catlin and, inset, Opposition Leader Matthew Guy.Credit:The Age
Talk to people about Catlin, and one episode is mentioned again and again. Not, perhaps, for the reasons Catin might prefer.
Three years ago, Nine star Karl Stefanovic – then facing relentless social media pressure in the wake of his divorce and new relationship – was the subject of a speculative column in the Herald Sun (by the same faithful scribe) describing his apparent signing of a deal to have Catlin kickstart his “reputation reinvention.”
Catlin, readers were told, would help Stefanovic’s “on the road to redemption” to remake his “brand”. Trouble was, it seemed the Herald Sun knew more about this arrangement than anyone else.
“Mitch is a man of enormous confidence and self-promotion”, a well-placed source with knowledge of the episode told this masthead. “He and Karl had a conversation in a marquee at the Melbourne Cup. That’s all it was.” The arrangement, such as it was, was not to last. Catlin declined to tell the Sydney Morning Herald whether he had “leaked” the story himself.
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One person who worked with him before he joined Guy’s office, however, said Catlin was a “bloody good publicist”. They pointed to him bringing US comedian Ellen DeGeneres out to promote “G’day USA” in 2013, and Nicole Kidman for an appearance in the Swisse marquee on Derby Day at Flemington in 2012.
The latter was, that source said: “total genius, to be honest… It was all anybody was talking about.”
But to be genius in PR – knowing which journalists to court, whom to take to lunch, and which celebrities to bring out to Australia to promote your brand – is not the same as being clever in politics.
“He is a rat-cunning, savvy lifestyle product publicist,” one person who knew him well observes.
“So to make this launch to politics, apart from the disdain he had for [Daniel] Andrews, I did think it was a weird move, and the first thing I did think was, ‘gee they must be playing him a shitload of money’ because I thought, you know, why would you?
“I did find it a little bit strange.”
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A 22-month-old twin boy was killed when the driver of a cement truck lost control and fell from an overpass onto a vehicle traveling below, police in Texas said.
The crash happened Friday afternoon on the Houston Parkway in east Harris County.
“It appears a cement truck traveling on the main lanes lost control, went over the overpass and landed on top of a vehicle with four occupants,” Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez tweeted.
A sheriff’s office spokesperson said the driver of the car, 54, was able to escape along with a 22-year-old woman and one of the twin boys. The other child was pronounced dead at the scene.
Raymond Romo, who witnesses the accident, told NBC affiliate KPRC of Houston that he saw the truck swerve to avoid another car before crashing through the overpass. He said the truck was dangling from the overpass as the cars below attempted to move out of the way.
Romo, who works nearby, said the truck then fell forward and landed on a Ford Expedition.
“We saw it when we were in the middle of the parking lot land on the vehicle,” he told the news station. “Instantly, me and my friend Joe, we went into action.”
Romo said he pulled the driver’s daughter out of the car and then tried to remove the 22-month-old twins seated in the back. He was able to grab one car seat but could not grab the other, he told KPRC.
The three occupants of the car were taken to the hospital with minor injuries, the spokesperson said. The driver of the truck, a 36-year-old woman, suffered minor injuries but refused care.
Minyvonne Burke is a senior breaking news reporter for NBC News.
Award-winning dystopian document thriller game Papers, Please is now available on smartphones nine years after its initial release. You can download the game on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store for $4.99 starting today.
Papers, Please takes place in the fictional communist state of Arstotzka, where you play as a border control agent who is faced with numerous moral dilemmas. The game challenges players to confront their own perceived bias while touching on real-world issues surrounding immigration.
“Your job as immigration inspector is to control the flow of people entering the Arstotzkan side of Grestin from Kolechia,” the game’s description reads. “Among the throngs of immigrants and visitors looking for work are hidden smugglers, spies, and terrorists. Using only the documents provided by travelers and the Ministry of Admission’s primitive inspect, search, and fingerprint systems you must decide who can enter Arstotzka and who will be turned away or arrested.”
Papers, Please was created by indie game developer Lucas Pope and published through his production company 3909 LLC. The game was released in August 2013 for Microsoft Windows and OS X, for Linux in February 2014, for iOS on iPad in December 2014 and the PlayStation Vita in December 2017.
The game was received positively on its release and is seen as a demonstration of video games as an art form. Papers, Please has received BAFTA game awards for the Strategy and Simulation categories, and most recently won the Peabody Award for Digital Storytelling.
Pope tweeted that the smartphone version of the game includes an updated user interface and minor tweaks designed to make the game playable on mobile. If you already own the iPad app, you’ll access to the iPhone app for free, he says.
John Constantine has been knocking around the fictional realm for a while. The occult detective has jumped from DC comic to DC comic, to various adaptations on both television and movies.
There’s some real love out there for Constantine.
This latest iteration of the character sees them flip from John to Johanna Constantine in a gender-swap move by Neil Gaiman in the adaptation of his The Sandman.
Yet a trip to 1782 in episode six of The Sandman blurs the lines between this seemingly straightforward transformation.
Back then we find a Lady Johanna Constantine (John’s counterpart) attempting to coerce the King of Dreams into giving her immortality. Prior to this flashback there was also present-day Johanna Constantine giving Dream hell as he attempts to elicit her help from her.
Both Constantines are played by Doctor Who‘s Jenna Coleman, leading some to wonder if the present-day Johanna is the descendant of Lady Constantine. This would make her a like-for-like counterpart to John’s descendant of her, who already exists within the Constantine universe.
The other theory rumbling around is that she could be the original Lady Constantine, who has somehow managed to achieve immortality.
This isn’t a stretch as John/Johanna Constantine is known for being well versed in the arts of magic.
If confusion be your middle name then it’s about time we clear things up once and for all.
Who is Johanna Constantine in The Sandman?
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If you believed Johanna Constantine had stumbled on the elixir of life then you’re barking up the wrong tree. While it’s a plausible assumption, Coleman has confirmed it to be incorrect.
During an interview with DigitalSpy she said: “No.” Point blank – simple. She elaborated further, saying, “I think this is where Neil and Allan [Heinberg] came up with the idea, because obviously we have Lady Joanna Constantine, who had played this series as well. So it’s the idea being: why don’t we have the direct ancestor? Hence Johanna Constantine.”
When explaining his decision for the character shake-up, Gaiman told slashfilm:
“When we looked at what we were going to do in this whole series, we knew that we were going to have Lady Johanna Constantine meeting Dream in a pub.
“If we’re going to do that and we want a really classy actress to portray her, then we’re going to have to give that actress more to do than just meet him once in a pub.
“Given that there really weren’t many women in the beginning, the idea that we could find one person and have them do both, just seemed nice and straightforward.”
Who is John Constantine?
And how does he compare to Johanna?
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It’s a loaded question considering the many iterations that exist of this character.
There’s Keanu Reeves’ 2005 take in the movie Constantine. A brooding, cynical man with terminal lung cancer and who believed himself damned for attempting suicide.
This light and cheery version is followed by Matt Ryan’s demon hunter and master of the occult in the 2014 television series of the same name.
However if we were to hark back to the original source material John is tall and blonde-haired with a rock’n’roll edge. His look of him was based on Sting, as a way of getting the musician into DC comics (starting with ‘Swamp Thing’ issue 25).
It wasn’t long before the foul-mouthed, chain-smoking occult detective found his feet in his own comic ‘Hellblazer.’ He was an anti-social, bisexual anti-hero who had a knack for magic, rituals, curses and exorcism. Remind you of anyone?
It seems a Constantine by any other name would really still smell as sweet. Despite the gender change John and Johanna share more core similarities than some may assume – detachment and lack of commitment are key defining character traits of both.
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In The Sandman, this is first hinted at through Johanna’s relationship history with ex-girlfriend Rachel (Eleanor Fanyinka). The emotionally stunted Johanna ghosted Rachel by leaving the home they unofficially shared and never coming back. A brave excuse. “Because [love] never ends well.”
She does pad this out by implying that she fears for the safety of her loved ones owing to her extremely dangerous vocation and claims it was safer for Rachel if she left.
As Coleman explained to DigitalSpy: “A lot of people who know are familiar with Constantine. We see her very much going about her day-to-day business, and now she’s at the point where she’s kind of at the top of her business.
She’s trading life. She’s the exorcist to the Royal Family. She’s doing well for herself.
“But the further and further and further she progresses, the more contact that she has in her occult detective life, the more it’s costing her, and the more people that she’s losing, and the more wounded and tortured and lonely, I think, she gets because everyone she comes close to, she’s losing.”
She added: “The more vulnerability that she has, the more she has to lock herself up, and armor herself away.
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“I think that’s where the cynicism and disenchantment, but also wryness and humor – using humor all the time to mask pain. I think that’s where the meeting of Constantine and Dream (Tom Sturridge) is so beautiful, because Dream sees straight through to her dreams, where she doesn’t open the door to anybody.”
Gaiman admits that Coleman’s take on the character is the best he’s seen to date.
“I think Jenna is the best Constantine on screen so far, and weirdly somehow the truest, because she both has the humor and the attractiveness and that sleazy, doomed quality.
“You know that if you fall in love with her, you are dead and demon-fodder and you also know that you can’t help falling in love with her.”
This is a call back to the fact that both have experienced doomed relationships leading to the death of their respective loved ones.
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When it comes to Johanna’s history we don’t really know much beyond the fact that Morpheus has had many dealings with the Constantine family in the past.
John’s lineage, however, is more notably established and tracks back to something called the Laughing Magician bloodline. His ancestors of him were renowned for trickery, which even allowed them to fool God and the Devil themselves.
It’s not clear whether or not this will trickle down into the televised character just yet. As mentioned, we’ve barely scratched the surface with Johanna…
The Sandman is now available to stream on Netflix.
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