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I mean stuff like Gabriel being portrayed as this overly emotional crybaby who can’t handle anything that challenges him when all the dialogue and description around him is either contempt or full blown adoration. What makes his fight with V-1 so special is that we’re watching a guy with a black belt get his ass best by a kid with a white belt who keeps chucking pennies at him. I also notice fans love to blame everything Gabriel has done on religious trauma and the council. Gabriel is a grown genderless Angel. Obviously the council holds some blame for how they convinced him that he was doing a just and moral thing… but he was still committing atrocities. Being fed propaganda doesn’t remove accountability.

And I know this is more of a meme but I don’t really enjoy the interpretation that Gabriel became an atheist at the end of Act 2. It’s not like he decided “God doesn’t exist and doesn’t love me” it’s that he realized his God was not the one guiding him to commit these atrocities and it was the council manipulating him.