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oh yk,, just some guy from this little game i kinda like or whatever. nothing special.

JUST KIDDING AHAHHAHAAAA GABRIEL MY BELOVED.

Gabriel is the main antagonist (and the narrative main protagonist) of ULTRAKILL and an archangel who carries out the will of the Council with a ruthless efficiency that brings him both fear and respect. He is known as the Will of God and is among the most powerful of all the angels. After striking down King Minos and gaining the title Judge of Hell, as well as killing King Sisyphus and ending his insurrection, he sought to drive the Machines out from hell. When he was beaten by V1 the first time in Gluttony, the Council believed him to be squandering his power, and cut him off from the light of The Father. They told him that he would be dead within 24 hours if he did not prove his devotion by finding and killing V1. After he was defeated by the machine a second time in Heresy, he went up to Heaven and killed all the members of the Council, realizing the atrocities he had committed on their behalf in the name of an absentee God. He wears silver armor with golden parts throughout and a golden cross is painted upon his helmet. He also has blue wings of light, and a spiky halo made of the same material. Under his armor, he wears dark blue cloth, and some silver cloth attached to his belt. He also bears two swords sheathed on his left, the scabbards bearing the phrases "Splendor is Justice" and "Justice is Splendor". His mask also has 6 small ornamental indents near the bottom. Long before the game takes place, he killed Minos, claiming it was justice, as the king reformed the Lust layer of Hell into a figurative utopia, which stopped sinners' punishments. Minos had refused to fight, believing in civil discussion but was promptly smote by Gabriel. The heavenly Council then rewarded him with the title "Judge of Hell". Also before the events of the game, during the Sisyphean Insurrection, he was able to recognize the powerful charisma of Sisyphus and his army's reliance on his leadership, even though he himself did not realize why at the time, and commanded the armies of heaven to focus their energies at Sisyphus. He was then able to behead Sisyphus himself, breaking the morale of the Sisyphean army completely and making mopping up the insurrection a mere formality. Due to his accomplishments and his charisma, he was revered and treated as an idol by the people of Heaven. Within Act 1, we end up meeting Gabriel and learn his motives for hunting down V1. The machines started invading hell, he sought to drive them out. Just after his defeat to V1, he proclaims that he will return and promptly leaves. In the epilogue of Act 1, we learn that this one loss he faced to a machine was enough to have his loyalty questioned, and he is unable to properly explain himself to the heavenly Council. They declared him a heretic. They give him 24 hours to kill V1 and unmake his mistakes, telling him that, should he fail, the Father's light will be stripped from him, and with it his life will too. Act 2 shows Gabriel's quest to regain the holy light, but as usual is defeated by V1. However, something in Gabriel changed after this loss and he came to the conclusion that the loss was meant to happen and had started to realize the faults in the holy council and weakly commended V1 for the reality check. In the epilogue of act 2, Gabriel ends up going to the moon, which is presumably the first layer of heaven, in order to think more about his epiphany. He ends up deducing that the slaughtering he'd engaged in was meant to maintain control and was meaningless to god, that God is no longer present, and that the Council is still trying to act in its name. He decides that he couldn't possibly convince the masses of heaven about this with words, and chooses to do something much more attention-grabbing. He goes to Heaven and kills the Council, before showing one of their severed heads off to the angels in heaven, who are, by this point, gathered around the Council's auditorium. He acknowledges that he will also die because the light has been severed from his body, but he ends up deciding to spend his last few hours in Hell. This is where Act 2 ends. Gabriel can be met in-game on two occasions (so far). Once guarding the entrance to Greed in [ 3-2: IN THE FLESH ] and later again attempting to enact his vengeance on the player in [ 6-2: AESTHETICS OF HATE ]. Outside of that, Gabriel's image can also be spotted all over hell through various paintings and murals, and he was first mentioned in level [ 1-4: CLAIR DE LUNE ] by the resident of the manor, who claimed to be a friend of Gabriel's, awaiting to enter heaven by his penance. In [ 4-3: A SHOT IN THE DARK ], there is a picture of Gabriel with the word "TRAITOR" written in blood aswell as his face crossed out. In the level [ 5-2: WAVES OF THE STARLESS SEA ], you can find a passage written by a Ferryman describing how Gabriel saved him from falling into the River Styx, and the rhetoric he told the Ferryman afterwards to console him. In [ 3-2: IN THE FLESH ], he tells V1 to turn back and not go any deeper into hell, in an attempt to protect the lower layers from the machines. V1, of course, refuses, and so he fights V1 to keep him out instead. He initially speaks very eloquently to V1, although in a holier-than-thou tone that shows he is arrogant and disgusted with the Machine. Once they enter battle, he starts speaking much more angrily to V1, though still in that holier-than-thou tone. In [ 6-2: AESTHETICS OF HATE ], he gives V1 a VERY angry monologue about how machines have completely destroyed the upper layers of hell, and how he is going to kill V1. In this level, he speaks much more unhinged and informally to V1. In the second phase of the battle, however, he starts speaking a lot more about how he is enjoying the fight. Gabriel is a character from Abrahamic religions, where he is often depicted as an Archangel or the messenger from god to the prophet(s).
Also, Gabriel is sometimes depicted as a warrior of god in Abrahamic religions, making it make sense as to why he would be the one sent down to kill King Minos and King Sisyphus.
Gabriel's red and gold color palette when enraged was originally his main design, but was changed to white and gold because it looked too similar to Iron Man. [1]
Gabriel’s source file is “The weird one with daddy issues idk”.
Many of Gabriel's lines, such as "You make even the DEVIL CRY!", "BEHOLD! The power of an Angel!", "You need more power!", and "Foolishness machine. foolishness..." taunts are clear references to Devil May Cry, a video game series that heavily inspired ULTRAKILL. In addition, his appearance, voice, manner of speaking, and attacks seem reminiscent of Credo from Devil May Cry 4.
There are several unused voice lines in which 3-2 Gabriel taunts the player by saying "Is your software running slow? I may have just the update that will do the trick! Have you tried Jesus?" as well as "Ashes to ashes... Rust to rust...". These voice lines, particularly the software joke, were too long to fit when Gabriel taunts the player.
According to Hakita, many of Gabriel's taunts were improvised by Gianni during recording.
Gabriel has many variations of his voice lines in the game files, mostly just the same voice lines in different tones.
Gabriel is one of four characters to say the word "Fuck", the other three being the Owl, Mirage, and the author of the terminal entries found in Prime Sanctums.
The colors of Gabriel's wings and halo appear to reflect his emotional state.A comparison of Gabriel's wing/halo colorsFull blue appears to be his default state, occurring during Phase 1 of 3-2, the 3-2 cutscene, and while he plays the organ in 6-2. Full gold coincides with his Rage state in Phase 2 of 3-2 and Phase 1 of 6-2. Blue and gold occur in Phase 2 of 6-2 and the 6-2 cutscene, and their texture in the game files is labeled T_WingsEcstasy.png.
It's possible that Gabriel's weakness to nails is a reference to Christ's death from being nailed to the cross.
In the first scene of Act II's epilogue, the location of Gabriel's pondering is on the Moon, as in Dante's Paradiso (the third and final part of The Divine Comedy) it is the first circle of Heaven, and a ruined, dried up Earth is present in the background. This was confirmed in the Act II Developer Commentary Stream.
Gabriel is one of a handful of enemies programmed to dodge getting crushed by a Malicious Face's falling corpse. However, getting this interaction to happen is nearly impossible without using jump pads and toggling on Blind Enemies.
Although he dodges getting crushed, you are still granted the [+MAURICED] style bonus.
V1, Mirage, Minos and Gabriel are the only three characters (as of writing) to have body pillows that can be officially bought from New Blood.
On 8/16/2022, Gabriel hijacked Gianni Matragrano's Twitch channel and trapped him in the Dean Winchester Angel Cheeseburger dimension to play the new update. We still do not know why he wants money. As such all following statements are likely not canonical. But hey, you never know.
During the stream it was confirmed that even the power of an angel cannot overcome the DMCA. The implications of this are highly disturbing.
Gabriel confirmed that Angels are fueled by Monster Energy Zero Ultra.
For archival purposes, the full VOD can be found here on Gianni's secondary YouTube channel.*Prior to the release of Wrath and Heresy for Act II, Gabriel wore twin katanas on his right hip before they were replaced by his signature swords "Justice" and "Splendor".
The sword with the blue blade is Justice, while its counterpart with the gold blade is Splendor.Hakita UKDS Justice Splendor
3-2 Gabriel's summoned shortsword appears to reuse the mesh of his old katanas.
In the epilogue of Act I, Gabriel in the cutscene's artwork still visibly wears the old katanas.
6-2 Gabriel has an explosive attack which sometimes gets thrown into walls because of the irregular shape of the arena, if the player waits a very long time after dying he can eventually kill himself with his explosions, showing that Gabriel raged so hard he literally blew himself up. This does not count as a victory as you cannot reach the exit while dead.*If you spawn Gabriel and use noclip to get inside a wall, he will begin rapidly teleporting around you.
If Gabriel, Judge of Hell is spawned in a room with a shorter ceiling, instead of executing his spear plunge attack, he will lunge in your direction with his spear.
Gabriel's swords, Justice & Splendor, are most likely a reference to the DMC series, in which Dante wields two guns named Ebony & Ivory. Likewise, Gabriel's spiral swords attack on Violent difficulty greatly resembles Vergil's Summoned Swords in its defensive formation, as well as in its exclusivity to the game's highest difficulty settings.
Gabriel is 1,85cm tall in the game files
Gabriel is seen from the window with Dusk Dude wearing a Santa dress carrying presents on the official New Blood Interactive Christmas greeting of 2023.
Gabriel's character has much in common with the philosophical idea of absurdism put forward by Søren Kierkegaard
Gabriel is shown in the corner of the official New Blood Interactive 10th Anniversary art in a white dress on what looks to be a date with V1.