#John & The Newcastle Crew

[vertigoartgore]

1988's Hellblazer Vol.1 #9 cover by cover artist Dave McKean. Source Source

[rollforjackass]

i am rewatching feast of friends and i am not fuckin okay about it i tell you that!!!!!!

[momachan]

"The dawn train lurches me toward London rolling a sick, millestone headache around the bowl of my skull. My heart twitches like a dying best, crawled into the rank burrow of my chest to breathe its last. I'm cold, chilled to the marrow. I daren't even shut my eyes for fear of sleep and dreams. I feel like an old soldier, attending one by one, the funerals of war comrades. Ritchie was the last of the Newcastle team. Benjamin got it first-- from the Invunche, and me. Then Gary Lester-- from Mnemoth, and me. Now Ritchie's incinerated by the Tongues of Fire-- and me. Christ, it's been ten years-- will I never stop paying for that debacle?

John Constantine, Hellblazer Vol. 1: Original Sins.

[talentforlying]

also, writing up those profiles made me realize just how hard the john constantine self-loathing machine goes brr. exactly one of the people who were actually there at newcastle really, truly blamed you for what happened, my guy, the rest is just the mental illness talking.

[debtsunpaid]

creepy magic murder cop: i see you, boy. the vanishin' fuckin' hiker, i do declare. you think we din't notice you, tryin'a get picked up back in florida? ( constantine, back in dead in america #1: head west, stay off the interstate, and ... don't stop for anyone, okay? ) creepy magic murder cop: he ain't here to save you, shitheel! he ain't here for nothin' but hisself! your time's over, shadow! you and alla your fuckin' parasites!

shivering and shaking like a wet purse chihuahua convincing myself that this is the ghost of frank north coming home to roost. riding out from cali to help his buddy once again.

[the-witchhunter]

DP x DC: Let’s talk about the ghost of Gary Lester

You know, if the ghosts are still following around John Constantine, Danny Fenton would fucking hate the guy

Danny Phantom is a kids show, the morality of it is a lot simpler than the very dingy grey that Hellblazer is painted with. Sure Danny has moments where he has to learn to not use his powers for selfish gains, but let’s talk about the ghost of Gary Lester aka Gaz

Spoilers for issues 1 and 2 of Hellblazer, that’s right we’re going back to the beginning.

A little background on Gaz: childhood friend of John’s, dropped out of art school and started Mucus Membrane with John and becoming part of the “Newcastle crew” before the events at the Casanova club which he was present for. Sometime during the 80’s he became a heroin addict before the events of 88 that resulted in his death

Now what killed Gaz? Short answer is John. Longer answer is Gary accidentally unleashed an “African hunger spirit” on New York by deciding to ship a glass bottle with the thing trapped in it to John’s apartment in New York, resulting in it getting smashed in transport unleashing a threat of mass possession on one of the largest population centers in the world, a spirit that would consume its many many hosts resulting in the potential death of MILLIONS

John, putting the needs of the many ahead of the needs of the few, enlisted the help of Papa Midnight to trap the spirit in Gaz.

The sprit devoured Gaz from the inside, a process that lasted hours and hours of screaming before Gaz was devoured and the spirit devoured itself

Meanwhile John stayed by the entire time, there for every painful moment until the end. He did that, and he did that to his friend. There was a hell of a good reason for it, but he still did that to his friend

Yet John stayed the entire time

Gaz then joined the ghosts the followed John, becoming a reoccurring symbol for the price John’s friends pay

People around John get hurt, and it’s often his fault

And I think that’s what the truly interesting thing about Danny vs John. They both try to do good but others tend to pay the price for John. Meanwhile Danny would sacrifice himself long before sacrificing his friends. Danny hasn’t had to deal with quite the same moral choices John has, and I don’t think canon Danny is really at a place where he could understand what it’s like to make those choices

An older more mature Danny might, a very traumatized Danny might or might not, but base Danny would be unable to understand sacrificing his friend at all. Did it save millions of people? yes, but Danny is not the person that has had to make that difficult choice

And so literally learning this from the ghost that embodies John making that very choice would not endear John to Danny

[lovevalley45]

#fictober24 - day three

"I know you better."

fandom: dc's legends of tomorrow

wc: 574

Zari knew she shouldn’t have listened. Eavesdropping had never done her well before. 

She had just been trying to change out her wet clothes. Being soaked in wine was uncomfortable, and after that whole Cursed Crew, she just wanted to forget the whole thing ever happened. 

But the walls in Newcastle Manor weren’t the most soundproof. John certainly hadn’t thought to fix that for her. As she rummaged for something decent to hear, she heard talking. It was a very familiar voice - hers, by some strange extension. 

“It’s weird that I even have to say this, but I’m not jealous of- the other me,” the other Zari was saying in the other room. 

Her ear was to the wall before she knew it. She’d never been able to resist caring what other people thought of her, no matter how much she tried not to. The other her was sometimes a mystery wrapped in a question mark wrapped in flannel.  

“I never thought you’d be jealous,” Nate replied. “I know you better than that.” 

Zari’s heart sank a little more. She knew they’d both said - and nearly done - some things under that stupid reality show curse that they’d regret. 

“Somehow, I can wrap my head around you sleeping with Gary more than nearly sleeping with another version of me,” the other her said. 

Nate laughed. “What, is Gary my hall pass?” 

“I don’t think Gideon would be very happy with that.”

“Yeah, no, probably not.” 

Zari rolled her eyes. She should have walked away then. 

But she stayed. 

“I know we didn’t talk about it, but before you got your memories of me back…” The other Zari trailed off for a moment. “Did you two ever sleep together?”

The sigh Nate let out was so heavy that she heard it clearly through the buffer of the wall. "No. But I mean… when I first met her, I didn't remember you, really. I just felt drawn to her."

"Because you thought she was me." 

"Kinda? I mean, I guess I wasn't totally wrong." There was a beat, before he continued. "And I don't feel that way anymore. There's only one Zari for me. You." 

Zari pulled away, not wanting to hear any more. Or, what was likely, if it devolved into a makeout session. 

She didn't know why that hurt. That wasn't new information. There had never been a real competition - once the other her came back into existence, any feelings Nate could have developed for her were gone. 

She had never, would never, try to get between the two of them. Even when the curse had tried to push her into sleeping with Nate, it felt… wrong. Morally. 

Zari didn't want to think of herself as only desirable to Nate when dressed as another her. Hell, she didn't even know why she wanted to think of herself as desirable to Nate. Maybe she just wanted to feel desirable to someone. 

She sat on the bed. How sad was that? 

It wasn't like John had left her utterly devastated, unable to love again. Eddie had certainly made an impression on her during their brief flirtation. But Nate was different. 

He'd seen her beyond the other Zari. Or at least, she thought he had. 

Maybe that was one thing she had above her. The other Zari didn't stoop so low as to be jealous of herself. 

There were some things that were better off not being overheard. 

[laughing-hellblazer]

⛥TIMELINE⛧

trigger warnings: suicide, violence, csa, death, child abuse, dark themes

the 50's

1953: John is born in a complicated birth that kills his mother and twin brother. His father, Thomas, refuses him for the first two weeks of his life, which are spent sickly in the hospital. A single nurse is put in charge of his care, and holds him to her chest to listen to her heartbeat. Because of this, John survives his infantile illness. The duty of taking care of the baby John is left to his older sister, Cheryl, who is only 8 years old.

the 60's

1961: John's father is sent to prison for seven months for stealing women's underwear, during which time John and his sister, Cheryl, are sent to live with their Aunt Dolly and Uncle Harry in Northampton, UK. John is accosted by three teenage boys who deeply burn his chest with cigarettes for being a Scouser.

1967: John casts his first spell, locking his childhood innocence away in a toy house, which he later buries in a time capsule at his school. John is later expelled from school, and his father blames this on his obsession with the occult, turning far more abusive. John curses his father by binding his soul to that of a roadkill cat corpse, but later halts the spell by storing the cat in formaldehyde. This doesn't break the spell, and leaves Thomas Constantine frail, but just as abusive.

1968: John runs away from home and gets to just outside of London. He stays with a woman named Estella, who teaches him how to use tarot cards and divination magic. He is later caught by police at a satanic party and sent home to his furious father in Liverpool.

1969: John runs away to London again, this time successfully arriving in the city proper. On his way he rides along with a serial killer ex-priest who attempts to assault and mutilate him. He meets Chas Chandler, who is a prisoner of his mother, Queenie, and her familiar, Slag. John murders Slag the Monkey, thus killing Queenie and freeing Chas. Chas owes him a debt that John never stops cashing in.

the 70's

1974: John attempts suicide at age 21, overdosing on sleeping pills with alcohol. During attempt he has visions of a purgatorial demon named Araethos, who tries to lay claim to his soul while he's dying. He is found and rescued by roommate and childhood friend Gaz Lester, who stays with him at the hospital. Gaz calls Cheryl, who comes to London for a night to visit him, even though the two are estranged. The two talk for a while and rekindle their relationship, with Cheryl and Gaz both encouraging John to take better care of himself.

1977: John and his friends Richie, Beano, and Gaz form new wave punk band Mucous Membrane. Chas becomes a roadie for the band, traveling with them across the UK as a struggling opening act. In their travels John meets Brendan Finn, a music manager who quickly becomes a close friend. The two part on good terms before their gig at the Casanova Club in Newcastle.

1978: After sensing dark magic at the Casanova gig, John investigates to find a girl, Astra, being used as part of dark rituals at the hands of the club's owner, her father. With a group of band members, roadies, and fellow magic users, John forms the Newcastle Crew, a group with the mission to put an end to the dark magic being cast over the Casanova Club. As they discover, Astra has been possessed by a demon se summoned, Norfulthing. Their mission fails when John attempts to summon a demon, but fails to bind it, and Astra is killed. John has a mental breakdown and is sent to Ravenscar Secure Facility for two years.

1979: John is tortured by the guards and doctors at Ravenscar for his assumed crime of killing a child, and he accepts all the pain as punishment for failing Astra. He is subjected to conscious E.C.T. and physical abuse every day until his release in 1980.

the 80's

1980: John wanders the North Yorkshire countryside and is taken in by traveling Brendan Finn, who then takes him across the country in a soul searching journey. John develops feelings for Brendan, but doesn't express them. The two return to England, where John meets Brendan's girlfriend, Kit Ryan.

1982: John meets and courts Emma, an American artist, the two become a steady couple, with Emma knowing about and accepting John's magic. She becomes the first girl John ever introduced to his family.

1983: John and Brendan steal the Ace of Winchesters, a demon-slaying gun, from Voodoo priest Papa Midnite for collector Jerry O'Flynn. Jerry and Brendan get into a fight, and John has to separate them. John, Brendan, and Kit have one last drink together before John sets out for London again. Once in London, John befriends a man named Seth before finding out he's abusing his girlfriend, Annette, who John then offers a place to stay and sleeps with. Annette uses his occult book collection to make a deal with the Third of the Fallen to kill Seth, then ends her own life from horror.

1984: Beano contacts John, desperate to have his house rid of ghosts. Taking Chas with him, John investigates, and he finds the ghosts of a little girl and the man who murdered her. John let's the girl's ghost go free, and she ascends to heaven, but the murderer's soul begins to fall to hell, and he drags John with him. John is able to escape from hell through a deal that he's never shared the details of, and shows up just in time to be at his own funeral. A succubus and angel turn to John for help when expecting a baby. John is able to hide Ellie, the succubus, but not Tali the angel, or the baby being born. Tali is killed by fellow angels, and the angels then take the baby.

1985: Able to sense the balance of the planet changing, and something dark approaching, John gets in contact with the Elemental Swamp Thing and enlists his help to defeat the Brujera. Over the next two years, several members of the Newcastle Crew are killed by the encroaching Darkness, including Emma.

1987: Eventually, John gathers a group of magic users including Zatara and his daughter Zatanna to form a magic circle. In this circle, two will die, including Zatara protecting his daughter. After returning from the circle, John finds his old friend and bandmate, Gaz Lester, in need of help after releasing the demon Mnemoth in New York. Turning to Papa Midnite for help , John manages to contain Mnemoth, but not without paying the price of Gaz's life. John begins to see ghosts of the Newcastle Crew haunting him, as well as his old lover, Emma.

1988: John meets Zed. The Resurrection Crusade and the Damnation Army both rise up as new gangs in London, and John finds himself entangled with the gangs through his niece being kidnapped. After rescuing her from the Damnation army, Zed goes missing. After jumping out of a moving train and nearly dying, John is approached by Nergal in the hospital with a deal to end a prophecy which would mean slavery under Heaven. Nergal gives John some of his own blood to regenerate him to perfect health. John finds Zed, now part of the Resurrection Crusade, and has sex with her. John is then possessed by Swamp Thing in order to conceive a child with his wife, Abby, who then becomes the host of the Sprout. This neutralizes the prophecy, assuring neither Hell nor Heaven have claim to Earth just yet. After finding out that Nergal is the same demon who kille dAstra in 1978, John uses his connections with the disembodied technomancer, RIchie, to destroy Nergal at the gates of Heaven. Richie then takes the body of Nergal and becomes a demonic entity who is trapped in hell.

1989: At the request of the Aspect of Dream, Morpheus, John tracks down the Bag of Sand, running into his old girlfriend after she's become addicted to the dreamstuff in the sachet. Morpheus repays John by temporarily relieving him of nightmares for the return of his item. While on the run from the police after a spurious article about him is published, he meets Marj and her daughter Mercury, a pair of Travellers who he befriends and lives with for a time. Mercury, a psychic, is drawn to a secret facility that is later found to be one of the locations for a covert operation known as the Fear Machine. This turns out to be part of a masonic plot to bring forth the God of All Gods, Jallakuntilliokan. Turning to Zed, who has become a Pagan Sex Witch, Marj, John, and Mercury are able to summon forth the feminine counteraspect to Jallakuntilliokan, and all of reality is saved by their union. John is unable to remember most of this in hie waking life, but still has vivid nightmares about it in the Dreaming.

the 90's

1990: John has a run in with a serial killer known as the Family Man, unknowingly giving him the names and addresses of his next victims. When he becomes haunted by the ghosts of those the Family Man killed, he begins to track the man down. The Family Man, in retaliation, kills John’s father, Thomas. John hunts the Family Man down and shoots him with a gun Chas got for him t put an end to his killings. At his father’s funeral, John notices Gemma is seeing the ghost of Thomas Constantine, and realizes it’s tied to the curse he cast when he was 14. John and Gemma burn the cat corpse, releasing his father into the afterlife. Accompanied by the other members of the Trenchcoat Brigade, John introduces a young mage, Timothy Hunter, to the occult. Timothy finds the time capsule John buried as a child, and John urges him to rebury it and keep the innocence locked away. Timothy reluctantly agrees.

1991: John finds out, after a horrific night of literally coughing up a lung, that he has terminal lung cancer. While touring a cancer ward he meets and befriends a patient named Matt, who is also dying of terminal lung cancer. He visits Brendan Finn in hopes that the older warlock can cure his lung cancer, only to find out that Brendan, himself, is dying from liver failure. To protect Brendan’s soul from the First of the Fallen, John tricks him into drinking holy water and breaks a bottle of sacramental wine over his head. The First of the Fallen lays claim on his soul by insult, damning him to hell. In a bid to keep himself alive and out of hell, he tries to make deals through Ellie and through the Archangel Gabriel, both of which fall through. As a final attempt, after saying his goodbyes to his loved ones, John makes deals with the Second and Third of the fallen, deadlocking his soul between the three Lords of Hell. The First of the Fallen cures his lung cancer in the most excruciating way possible, then remakes his entire body from scratch, without once killing or allowing Constantine to go unconscious. John is then made ageless to prevent him from dying and setting off a war in hell. He also meets Kit Ryan for the first time in 8 years. Matt dies from his cancer right in front of John.

1992: The First of the Fallen attempts to use Ellie against John, but she instead turns to him for protection. John carves a sigil into her soul that severs and hides her from hell. Kit and John begin to go steady with the promise that John’s magic work will not enter their relationship. Gemma attempts magic and Cheryl tells John to deal with it. He finds the boy who introduced her to it and gives him a fright, while Kit talks to Gemma about the seriousness of casting magic. In the end, Gemma decides not to pursue the same profession as her uncle, and stays away from magic. The King of the Vampires offers John immortality, but John turns him down and insults him. John and Chas go to visit Chas' uncle, only to find him dead from a heart attack. At the funeral, they discover body snatchers stealing his body, and in tracking him down, find a private militia operation testing ammunition on corpses. John releases the souls of the bodies, who then kill the director of the project.

1993: After crossing a noble-tied Neo-Nazi group, John is kidnapped and Kit is attacked. John’s friend, Dez, is murdered in front of him. John, seeking protection from the Lords of Hell, causes Gabriel’s fall and claims his heart. Due to trouble having come to Kit from their relationship, she severs ties with John and leaves him for Belfast. John spirals, having felt love for the first time with Kit, and enters into a six-month depressive episode filled with alcoholism and homelessness. During this time, he meets a young man named Davy, who is a male prostitute and homeless as well. The King of the Vampires finds them asleep together for warmth, and kills Davy. John gives in, and is fed upon by the vampire, who rejects his demon blood. As the blood dissolves his jaw, John drags him into the sunlight, killing him.

1994: After New Years Day, John has a contact encounter with the ghost of a WWII fighter pilot which inspires John to get his life back together and move on. John goes to New York for a holiday, and is poisoned by Papa Midnite and forced onto a Witchwalk through a pocket of Hell while his body is vulnerable on Earth. He’s able to escape with the help of Midnite’s sister, and the threat of her revenge forces Midnite to jump off the Empire State Building.

1995: Chas seeks John’s help with his daughter, Geraldine, who has gone into a coma since giving birth to her daughter, Trish. John finds that her soul has been severed from her body and taken to Los Angeles. Chas joins John on a trip to LA, where they confront Beroul, her captor. Beroul is keeping Geraldine’s soul inside of his own body, and demands that John hunt down a list of demons that are interfering with his business. John uses the ancient god Mictlantecuhtli to eliminate the other demons, but Beroul and Mictlantecuhtli instead make a deal behind his back. John later makes another deal with Mictlantecuhtli, who can stitch souls back together with their bodies. Restoring Geraldine back with her body, John then plays chicken with Geraldine’s soul using an ancient spell. Mictlantecuhtli relinquishes Geraldine’s body and soul in response, and John and Chas safely see her back to London.

1996: John is tricked by Ellie into opening and reading from the Fuhajd’haersk, or in human tongues, The Book of Mirrors. John is then trapped inside the pages of the book, each of which contain a gateway to another reality. For the next eighteen years, John is trapped inside of the book and the infinite realms and realities contained within its pages. Cheryl, after John's assumed death, takes in John’s belongings, storing them in her attic. These items include the Book of Mirrors, which is packed away.

the 00's

2008: During his travels through realities, John ends up in a magical realm where witches and wizards are commonplace. Here he meets a witch named Elias Blackburn, who turns out to be quite the dashing rogue. The two begin a torrid relationship and work together on a heist of the Academy library. They plan to steal a book containing a spell that could release John from the Book of Mirrors, but instead John is abandoned by Elias and captured by the city guard. Imprisoned, he slips through realities again, leaving behind nothing but the amulet Elias gave him.

2014: While emptying her mother Cheryl’s attic, Gemma’s children Sally (7), Topaz (5), and Cher (3) get into some of John’s things, including the Book of Mirrors. Through trying to read the book, they are sucked into the stories along with John, disappearing from their grandmother’s living room. John finds them and guides them through the dangers of multiple realities, protecting them from several dangers ranging from a fantasy novel’s dragons to a horror novel’s killer. Eventually, Gemma opens the book to a page they’re all on, and reading aloud from the book opens the gateway John needs to escape with all three kids in tow. Gemma is shocked to see the uncle who went missing back in 1996, and relieved that her children are safe and sound thanks to him. They try to burn the book, but flame has no effect. They wrap the book up and seal it away behind some bricks of the foundation. John stays with Gemma for a short time while adjusting to the missing years of his life, but eventually he moves back to London in search of Chas, who is now dying of lung cancer due to second-hand exposure.

[punkmacabre-arc]

yadda yadda john's a scrungy lil guy yadda yadda yadda dude looks like he gets beaten up every day etc etc but !! constantine ( at least in my version ) he may look like the ordinary working class brit but, since his beginnings of dabbling with the occult, there's always been something a bit uncanny looking about him . . .

when they say, eyes are a window to the soul they mean it with john. steel, argentate hues that probably went two shades lighter the night he failed to bring astra louge back from hell + sealed both hers, his + the rest of the newcastle crew's eternal damnation. pale + haunted with grief, greying from anger held since he was a kid-- constantly seeing ghosts ( or perhaps just the mind playing cruel tricks ), a trickster's glint whenever a terrible plan comes to mind, a warning sign of the inevitable: john constantine has figured a way out.

and the scars ??? there's a cacophony of stories behind them. no matter how tender his hands hard, there's a roughness to the touch. palms eternally lacerated from blood rituals, fingertips calloused from guitar strings snapping. cigarette burns littered around the body ( some from accidentally falling asleep with one in hand, others - particularly on the arms - from his father + his cruelty. ) some around the ribs from the abuse during the so-called ""treatment"" at ravenscar. besides the many others, the most prominent is the one under his right eye + just above the cheek - a lasting reminder left by nergal.

and even more important, the tattoos because there's many, many, tattoos - which is only really known by those who's seen constantine with rolled sleeves / shirtless. started with stick + pokes done by his bassist in mucous membrane. but, after ravenscar + throughout the years, john certainly felt the need to tattoo protection sigils. the seal of solomon covers his entire back, scriptures of different languages over his arm, cheryl's + gemma's - his sister + niece - initials on back of his nape in small cursive. but also, in between the sigils are more sentimental ones - some little shitty drawing of venus, liverpool fc's logo on his right bicep along with y.n.w.a underneath ( you'll never walk alone - the team's anthem ), an ouroboros around his left elbow, even some traditional 'sailor' tattoos such as a snake on his forearm, a nautical star on his rib + a skull with a candle melting over the head.

[venus-of-the-hrdsell]

conjob for the YA game?

If we go for the slasher genre with Constantine? Something similar to the Scream concept, since John is already final girl material.

If we wanted to use the Newcastle crew WITHOUT recreating the Newcastle incident because it's traumatising and I wouldn't want to involve Astra in there, I bring you this concept. A whole crew of punk teenagers locked inside a cabin, all of them are diehard fans of the occult and have the possession of one book. What could go wrong?

[milfzatannaz]

I read the Family Man arc last week and I have been thinking. When John kills Gary Lester he doesn't hesitate. He wallows after doing it but we don't see internal monologues on "killing is wrong". With Family Man however, he hesitates. He is ready to do what it takes in his first kill but not ready in the second. I think this is a continuity error or mischracterization, what do you think?

Hmmm I don’t consider it a mischaracterization; I think John already sort of resolved himself to the fact that Gary was doomed some way or another by virtue of being in the Newcastle crew. It doesn’t justify his actions, and he clearly really struggled with what he did, but in his eyes it wasn’t murder. John isn’t a fan of direct bloodshed; the dirty work is usually done for him rather than by him, a stark contrast from him shooting the family man.

[sportsbuff]

January Transfer Window 2023 - Update

Premier League 2022-2023

January transfer window update for all you sports buffs.

AFC Bournemouth

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James Hill (Hearts) 

Arsenal

Out

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In

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Out

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Leo Bonatini (released)

Joe Young (Telford)

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John: it’s not like I’m bisexual. 

Natalie: ... 

John: I mean, hey, y’know, I can appreciate a good looking guy as well as the next person, but that doesn’t mean anything. And yeah, maybe I used to make out with him in high school, but that’s just what friends do, right? It’s not like I’m in love with Gaz or anything. I mean, sure, I have some loving feelings for him, of course I do, he’s my best friend. You know? And yeah, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about him since he kissed me, but that doesn’t mean I’m bisexual. Sure I have.. I have sexual feelings for him but.. oh! Oh my god, I’m bi! Why didn’t you ever tell me? 

Natalie: We thought you knew! It’s so obvious! 

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Gaz character sketch

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tag drop for FRANK NORTH from hellblazer, former member of the newcastle crew, current road warrior, and all-around chill guy who sometimes pokes around with the occult! his song is 'big bad john' by jimmy dean.

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Martin Crieff is Autistic

Character: Martin Crieff

Canon: Cabin Pressure (radio series)

Actor: Benedict Cumberbatch

Why we think they’re autistic: Cabin Pressure is a hilarious British radio comedy featuring four main characters and set almost entirely within an airplane. Martin Crieff is the rather young and inexperienced captain of the plane. Martin has always been obsessed with airplanes from the time he was a young child, and there is plenty of evidence that this is and always has been his special interest. In one episode he states that he’s wanted to be an airline captain since he was six, and when asked what he wanted to be before that, he says he wanted to be an aeroplane. In an early episode, he replies to a joke at his expense by the first officer Douglas by explaining how while Douglas was reading other things, Martin was busy “rereading Principles of Climatology for Pilots and underlining bits in red.” Later in the series we discover that Martin has a second job as a delivery man, because the way he got to be Captain over the much better qualified First Officer was by agreeing not to take a salary. His one and only goal and real joy in life is airplanes - flying them, reading about them, visiting museums about them. Martin frequently takes this very literally and believes in following rules to the letter. In the episode titled “Fitton,” the crew are going through different procedures and as part of his written procedure for an emergency he includes, “Captain dons cap,” which inspires jokes from the others he doesn’t understand. It becomes clear as the series goes on that Martin doesn’t have a lot of friends outside of the rest of the crew of the airplane, and it appears to have always been this way. Autistic people frequently find it hard to make or keep friends, or just simply don’t feel a need to have friends, preferring to be alone. He is also very awkward much of the time when interacting with anyone outside of the other three main characters. In one episode the crew is preparing to fly a very famous actress as their only passenger, and Martin is clearly quite nervous to meet her and rehearses exactly how he should address her when he meets her. This exchange from “Newcastle” perfectly shows Martin’s awkwardness in social situations and new people, and his total and complete obsession with airplanes and being a pilot:

Martin: So... Linda... you're a pilot.

Linda: Yes?

Martin: Yes, obviously, sorry. That wasn't a question, that - that was just a preliminary statement before the actual question I was gonna ask... which is... How long have you been a pilot?

Linda: Twelve years.

Martin: Twelve years, right, twelve years, well... that is not a long time or a short time... And... do you like it?

Linda: What?!

Martin: Being a pilot?

Linda: Yes, I do. Do you?

Martin: Yes, I do. I like it. Like you. I mean I like it like you do, not I like it like I like you, I don't like you. I mean I don't not like you, I just... I don - I don't like you as much as I like being a pilot.

Linda: Don't you?

Martin: Well, not yet. I - I mean I'm sure, if I got to know you, I'd like you more than being - well, probably not more than, because I LOVE being a pilot and I don't suppose I'd love you... well I suppose I might. No - I mean... I'm just gonna go and have a wander down the cabin now.

Why It Matters: All autistic representation matters. Martin Crieff shows an example of someone with a lifelong special interest who worked hard to achieve his goal related to that interest. It shows someone who is ultimately successful at what they do, and is eventually able to form relationships with others when he is ready and chooses to.

Challenging Tropes: Not much to say on this one. Martin is the stereotypical media autistic - white, male, cisgender with a relatively stereotypical special interest.

Bonus: John Finnemore, the writer and creator of Cabin Pressure, who also played the character of Arthur, has been asked about whether Martin Crieff is autistic, and his response was that he didn’t deliberately write him that way but believes he is on the spectrum.

“That's an interesting point. Yes, I think he may well be on the spectrum somewhere, though as Miss Pear suggests, probably nearer the Asperger Syndrome end than full-on autism. But I did not set out to create a character with the condition, so let's say it's present, but undiagnosed. (It has only just occurred to me that AS sometimes impairs motor skills and co-ordination, so it's possible that the very thing that gave him such a drive to become a pilot was also what stood in his way...)”

Also, Benedict Cumberbatch has played several other characters (Sherlock, Alan Turing, Stephen Hawking) who are or were likely autistic, and there is some speculation that Cumberbatch himself might be undiagnosed autistic.

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