![]() It was in Alan Moore's legendary 1980s run on the DC Comics series The Saga of the Swamp Thing that introduced John Constantine, a working-class demonologist from London with a nasty smoking habit. ![]() "If you've got Constantine, to not have Constantine and Swamp Thing together is a missed opportunity."Īs to why Constantine didn't meet his old pal from the comics, Guggenheim only said: "I'll just say that, for a variety of different reasons, I couldn't make that happen."įor those unfamiliar with the horror side of the DC Universe, Swamp Thing and Constantine are two DC characters who are as intertwined as Batman and Superman. "I did want Swamp Thing to be a big part of the crossover," Guggenheim said. One of Guggenheim's biggest revelations was his unfulfilled hope to have Constantine meet Swamp Thing in the special. In the March 25 episode of Fake Nerd Podcast, Arrowverse producer Marc Guggenheim joined the show's hosts, where he revealed some new tidbits about the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" special. If you know your comics, you know just how intertwined those characters are, and why it's such a bummer that they didn't meet on camera for the first time. In the Arrowverse crossover "Crisis on Infinite Earths," the epic superhero special that aired over episodes of Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, and Batwoman (and some of Black Lightning), the special nearly had the Legends of Tomorrow character John Constantine (played by Matt Ryan) meet the earthy boogeyman Swamp Thing (Derek Mears), from the ill-fated DC Universe series Swamp Thing. ![]() One of the biggest collisions of DC heroes almost happened on television - and we don't mean Batman and Superman.
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