History Film / TheProphecy

* [[NotUsingTheZWord Not Using the G Word]]: Gabriel never actually says "God" when speaking of his estranged boss in conversation.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Humans not being able to go to {{Heaven}} (because of the war going on among the angels) after they die could count. Not to mention Gabriel makes it clear that his henchmen are just "dying slower." Despite their mobility, they're probably still suffering from whatever was killing them in the first place.

The first film, ''The Prophecy'' (released in 1995), tells the story of the ArchangelGabriel (Creator/ChristopherWalken), who's angry that {{God}} loves humans (or "[[FantasticRacism talking monkeys]]," as Gabriel likes to call them) more than angels. Gabriel comes to Earth in search of the evil soul of Colonel Hawthorne, a deceased UsefulNotes/KoreanWar veteran, in order to gain an advantage in a war being fought in {{Heaven}}. Another angel, Simon (Eric Stoltz), intercepts Hawthorne's soul and hides it in the body of a young Native American girl named Mary (Moriah Shining Dove Snyder). Now it's up to Thomas Daggett (Elias Koteas), a police detective who once aspired to be a priest but lost his faith in God years ago, and Catherine (Virginia Madsen), Mary's schoolteacher, to protect Mary before Gabriel gets to her. Creator/ViggoMortensen co-stars as [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]].

* BlindIdiotTranslation: The movies treat "nephilim" as a singular. In reality, it is the plural form of Hebrew ''naphil'' (a fallen one/giant).

* HyperactiveMetabolism: In order to fuel their immense strength and regenerative powers, angels and Nephilim both have to consume massive amounts of sugars, carbohydrates and proteins. This is very prevalent in ''The Ascent''. After coming back from the dead, Danyael ends up scarfing down a bag of a dozen mixed donuts. Zophael, the angel pursuing Danyael, notes that "Spontaneous tissue regeneration tends to do that." He and Gabriel both show an inclination for donuts with sprinkles on them.

** In various apocryphal texts that deal with the Nephilim, it is stated that they have massive appetites. Nephilim, like Hiwa and Hiya, were said to have consumed huge amounts of meat and other sacrificial foods given to them because their mighty feats of strength and all the people they killed was taxing. It got to the point that the twin Nephilim eventually turned to cannibalism, eating humans, other Nephilim and even angels to fuel their bodies.

* AnimalMotifs: Birds are used to symbolize the angels. For example, Gabriel perches on a bench and looks ''exactly'' like a bird in silhouette. Lucifer explodes into crows when departing early in the second film. Pyriel actually lunches at Danyael like a bird of prey. Gabriel [[spoiler:explodes into doves when departing at the end of the third film]].

The first film, ''The Prophecy'' (released in 1995), tells the story of the ArchangelGabriel (Creator/ChristopherWalken), who's angry that {{God}} loves humans (or "[[FantasticRacism talking monkeys]]," as Gabriel likes to call them) more than angels. Gabriel comes to Earth in search of the evil soul of Colonel Hawthorne, a deceased UsefulNotes/KoreanWar veteran, in order to gain an advantage in a war being fought in {{Heaven}}. Another angel, Simon (Eric Stoltz), intercepts Hawthorne's soul and hides it in the body of a young Native American girl named Mary (Moriah Shining Dove Snyder). Now it's up to Thomas Daggett (Elias Koteas), a police detective who once aspired to be a priest but lost his faith in God years ago, and Catherine (Creator/VirginiaMadsen), Mary's schoolteacher, to protect Mary before Gabriel gets to her. Creator/ViggoMortensen co-stars as [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]].

** It took being shot multiple times, hit with an explosion, being thrown headfirst through a truck, pummeled repeatedly with a tire iron by an angry cop, being struck and knocked off by a truck crashing through a building, pummeled again repeatedly and then shot a couple more times before Gabriel was staggered and injured enough for Lucifer to finish him off.
** Simon literally had to shove Uziel off of him and then slam him into a wall before smashing his neck onto a windowsill covered in broken glass before [[EyeScream gouging his eye sockets]] and throwing him back down five stories, before letting a speeding car smashing him into a wall, and crush his spine and pop his heart out of his chest.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: And how! No robe-wearing harpists here; even Simon, the nicest angel in the series, thinks nothing of [[SoulJar sticking a genocidal madman's soul into a little girl]].
-->'''Thomas:''' Did you ever notice how in the Bible, whenever God needed to punish someone, or make an example, or whenever God needed a killing, he sent an angel? Did you ever wonder what a creature like that must be like? A whole existence spent praising your God, but always with one wing dipped in blood. Would you ever really want to see an angel?
** Aside from being {{Winged Humanoid}}s, angels have SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, MadeOfIron, HealingFactor, SuperSenses and HyperactiveMetabolism. The bodies that they manifest on Earth lack eyes much less any optical nerves, their blood composition is that of an aborted fetus, and their bones lack any indicators of growth. They're also hermaphrodites as well. (To quote Aziraphale from ''GoodOmens'', angels are otherwise sexless unless they really make the effort, which would mean that Danyael Sr., Danyael Rosales' father, had to make some effort to be of one sex, in order to impregnate Valerie. FUN!)
** In order to destroy an angel, you have to remove his heart. (It's possible that decapitation could work, or massive tissue damage up to and including vaporizing the body, but we never see those methods used.) They also have an uncanny sense of balance, letting them perch anywhere without discomfort much less any issues with falling, and their fingernails are black and sharp, much like bird claws. They also have a penchant for wearing [[BadassLongcoat longcoats and dusters]], which are used to conceal their wings, which are visible in their shadows whenever they leap from high places to low places.

* BodyHorror: Aside from the BlackEyesOfEvil, we get to see up-close at Simon's chest when Uziel attempts to claw out his heart. And then there's the part where Uziel gets mangled by a speeding car. And then we have Simon getting burnt alive by Gabriel. Oh, and there's the heart removal scenes. And the scarred angel fighting against Rafayel getting his chest sliced opened. It goes on and on.

* AllergicToEvil: When Lucifer grabs Thomas, Thomas freezes in place, then quickly begins gasping and reacting like he's going to vomit. Then again, it ''is'' [[JustifiedTrope the Devil touching him...]]
* AnimalMotifs: Birds in the first film. For example, Gabriel perches on a bench and looks ''exactly'' like a bird in silhouette. Lucifer explodes into crows when departing early in the second film. Gabriel [[spoiler:explodes into doves when departing at the end of the third film]].
* AnswersToTheNameOfGod: When Catherine sees Lucifer, she says "Oh my God," to which he responds "God? God is love. '''I don't love you.'''"
** BlatantLies: Of course, he later claims to Thomas that he loves him more than {{Jesus}}.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Thomas asks Gabriel why he just doesn't ask God about His actions. This is the one time Gabriel isn't [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] or hostile.
-->'''Gabriel:''' Because He ''doesn't talk to me anymore''.

* BadassBoast:
-->'''Gabriel''': (''to Catherine'') I'm an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls. And from now 'til kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence...is never understanding ''why''.
** Also:
--->'''Gabriel:''' In Heaven, we believe in love.
--->'''Catherine:''' What do ''you'' love, Gabriel?
--->'''Gabriel:''' Cracking your skull.
** And:
--->'''Lucifer:''' Hello, Catherine. We must talk.
--->'''Catherine:''' I can't do this.
--->'''Lucifer:''' I can lay you out and fill your mouth with your mother's feces...or we can talk.

* BeardOfEvil: Lucifer has a mightily impressive one.

* BetterTheDevilYouKnow: Literally played straight in the first film, as former novice priest Thomas chooses to help the actual Devil instead of Gabriel. It's made more bearable for him since he knows Gabriel is trying to take over Heaven and Lucifer is just trying to keep things [[StatusQuoIsGod pretty much the same]].

* BlackEyesOfEvil: All angels have this. To be more precise, the vessels they inhabit have no eyes at all. No optical pores and nerves. Nada. In fact, the eyes we do see are manifested by the angels. Whenever an angel is slain, they close their eyes and reopen them to show that they're empty black sockets.

* CarFu: Uziel and Gabriel are on the receiving ends in the first film.

* CreepyCrows: As he leaves the Navajo lodge, Lucifer explodes into a murder of crows.

* CrisisOfFaith: The running theme of the first film. Not only with Thomas, but all of the rebelling angels. Simon tells Gabriel, "Sometimes you have to just do what you're ''told''."
-->'''Thomas:''' ''(last lines)'' And in the end, I think it must be about faith, and if faith is a choice, then it can be lost--for a man, an angel, or the Devil himself. And if faith means never completely understanding God's plan, then maybe understanding just a part of it--our part--is what it is to have a soul. And maybe in the end, that's what being human is, after all.

* DealWithTheDevil: Lucifer makes one with Catherine, although it's a slight inversion as there are literally ''no'' strings attached; he just doesn't want Gabriel to succeed.
-->'''Lucifer:''' You see, I'm not here to help you or the little bitch because I love you or because I care for you, but because two {{Hell}}s is one Hell too many, and I can't have that. What I'm offering you is a chance not only to save Mary, but to finally open Heaven to your kind. What do you say?
** Lucifer may have been ''lying'', however, since Rachel says that she saw a light while she was dying.
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:Simon]] in the first film.

* DrivenToSuicide: Jerry. Unfortunately, Gabriel postponed it.
* DynamicEntry: Uziel LEAPS up ''five'' stories into Simon's apartment, through the window, to fight him. Simon, using his [[SuperSenses super sense of smell]], picks up on Uziel and leaps at the window to meet him.

* EvilSoundsDeep: Inverted with Lucifer. Creator/ViggoMortensen speaks in a slightly higher pitch than normal and it's very creepy.
* EyeScream: Simon sticks his sharpened thumbnails into Uziel's empty eye sockets before throwing him five stories down into an alleyway, where he is crushed into a wall by a speeding car.
* FamousLastWords: The cheerful comment from one of Gabriel's unwillingly-revived henchmen, to the guy who has just re-killed him: "Thanks, pal, you're a sport!"

* GoshDangItToHeck: Gabriel in the first film, of all people. "Watch the profanity!"

* HeelFaithTurn: [[spoiler:Thomas Daggett]]

* INeverToldYouMyName: When questioned how he knew Thomas's name, Gabriel dismissively tells him "You look like a Thomas."
** He does the same thing to a waitress, who looks down to see if she has a name tag. She doesn't.
* ImAHumanitarian:
** [[spoiler:Colonel Hawthorne]].
** In a manner of speaking, Lucifer. Angels may not be human, but Lucifer has no problem eating a chunk out of Gabriel's heart after he forcefully and slowly extracts it from his body. He really seems to enjoy himself after taking a bite and smearing blood all over his mouth.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: In the first ''Prophecy'', we get a glimpse of the fields of Heaven, littered with the bodies of still-living angels impaled on giant spikes and other implements of wars, like spears and banners.

* InsultBackfire: Combined with CallBack in Thomas and Lucifer's final face-off:
-->'''Thomas:''' I have my soul, and I have my faith. What do you have...angel?
-->'''Lucifer:''' ...Leave the light on, Thomas.

* MagicalNativeAmerican: Touched on in the first film. Subverted in that they're no more and no less magical than the Christian mythology in the film.
* MythologyGag: An ''actual'' mythological gag involving Gabriel's trumpet in the first film.

* NightmareFuelColoringBook: Mary makes some...interesting drawings while Colonel Hawthorne's inside her.

* OneWingedAngel: Implied in the first film.

* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: The amount of blood shed in the fight between Uziel and Simon is ridiculous. Even Thomas' fellow police officer Barrows makes note of this.
-->'''Thomas''': Anything interesting inside?
-->'''Barrows''': Well, there are what an experienced detective, like yourself, could possibly construe as signs of a struggle. (''opens the door into Simon's apartment, revealing the wall, floor, and broken furniture caked in blood and gore'')
* PragmaticVillainy: Lucifer is far more calculating here than in his usual ForTheEvulz depictions. He's only doing it to make sure the balance of (evil) power doesn't shift elsewhere, and is completely honest about that. That's not to say he won't try to get a few more souls into Hell, like Catherine's.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis:
-->'''Catherine:''' '''YOU! CAN'T! HAVE HER!'''
** And:
-->'''Gabriel''': I will NOT! ALLOW! ANY! Talking monkey...to take my place!

* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: The soul of Colonel Hawthorne, a racist, genocidal, insane UsefulNotes/KoreanWar veteran who tortured and massacred Chinese troops, is hidden inside cute little Mary.
* ShellShockedVeteran: There's definitely something off about Colonel Hawthorne.

* SympathyForTheHero: Lucifer briefly commiserates with Thomas about how hard it is to keep one's faith.
* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: Lucifer taunts Thomas about having been this for him.
-->'''Lucifer:''' Little Tommy Daggett. How I loved listening to your sweet prayers. And then you'd jump in your bed, so afraid I was under there. ''[[NightmareFuel And I was!]]''
* TookALevelInBadass: As it turns out, putting the soul of a genocidal, cannibalistic colonel inside a little girl makes for an adorable marksman unafraid to face down an angel with a .38 Special.

* WeakenedByTheLight: [[spoiler:Colonel Hawthorne's soul, once removed from Mary, is destroyed by divine light.]]

Followed by ''Film/TheProphecyII'' (1998) and ''Film/TheProphecy3TheAscent''. There were two additional sequels, ''The Prophecy: Uprising'' and ''The Prophecy: Forsaken'', that were both released in 2005.

In the direct-to-video sequel ''The Prophecy II'' (1998), Gabriel is returned to Earth, after being taken down to {{Hell}} by Lucifer in the first film. This time around, he tries to prevent the birth of a {{Nephilim}} (the offspring of a human woman and an angel) who is prophesied to finally bring the War in Heaven to an end. The Nephilim in question has just been conceived by the angel Danyael (Russel Wong) and hospital nurse Valerie Rosales (Jennifer Beals). Gabriel enlists the aid of a teenage girl named Izzy (Creator/BrittanyMurphy), whom he resurrects after she commits suicide. Everything comes to a head in the dilapidated Garden of Eden when Gabriel kills Danyael in battle, only to be defeated by Valerie and [[HumanityEnsues turned human]] by the ArchangelMichael (Eric Roberts).

The third film (and the last one to star Creator/ChristopherWalken), ''The Prophecy III: The Ascent'' (2000), is set about twenty years after the second. Danyael Rosales (Dave Buzzotta), the Nephilim conceived by Danyael and Valerie in the second film, is preaching to a crowd about how God doesn't exist when he is shot dead by a blind attendee (played by Creator/BradDourif), only to later [[BackFromTheDead come back to life]]. Danyael then learns of his true heritage and his destiny to end the War in Heaven, and sets out to stop [[BigBad Pyriel]] (Scott Cleverdon), the Angel of Genocide. He is aided in his mission by a reformed Gabriel (now acting as TheObiWan) while being hunted by [[TheDragon Zophael]] (Vincent Spano), an angel who takes Danyael's girlfriend Maggie (Karyn Ann Butler) captive and deceives her into thinking that Danyael [[CameBackWrong came back wrong]].

There were two additional sequels, ''The Prophecy: Uprising'' and ''The Prophecy: Forsaken'', that were both released in 2005.

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:Gabriel at the end of ''The Ascent'' earns his redemptions and becomes an angel once again, returning to Heaven.]]
* BackFromTheDead: Danyael

* BigDamnHeroes: In the second film, Danyael crashes into Valerie's bedroom in time to save her from Gabriel.

* BladeOnAStick: Zophael's staff weapon.

* CallBack: [[spoiler:Mary (the little Indian girl from the first film) shows up in ''The Ascent'' to give Danyael a stone that helps him defeat Pyriel once and for all.]]

** [[spoiler:Also how Gabriel saves Danyael from Zophael at one point in ''The Ascent'']].

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Zophael's fighting staff.]]

* TheChosenOne: Danyael in ''The Ascent''.
* CoolOldGuy: [[spoiler:Gabriel]] in ''The Ascent''.

* TheDragon: Zophael in ''The Ascent''.

** Danyael and Rafayel both do the same thing in ''The Prophecy II'', smelling out other angels who have arrived and leap into battle to fight their enemies.

** In the third film, Pyriel attempts to do the same thing to Danyael when they're fighting for the fate of the world. Of course, he's doing it at the same time he's trying to crush Danyael's head.

* GodIsDead: A bystander yells this in ''The Ascent'', prompting Gabriel to shove him.

* HalfHumanHybrid: Danyael Rosales in ''The Ascent''.

* {{Herald}}: Gabriel in ''The Ascent''.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Zophael]] in ''The Ascent''.

* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:Colonel Hawthorne]].

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Danyael Rosales. He has the misfortune of having to manually remove Zophael's blade weapon, by pulling it through his chest from the front.
** Zophael himself was pinned to a wall like a captured fly to a pinboard, during the fight between him and Danyael inside of the street church the latter once ran. It was an unexpected moment in the fight when Danyael hurled him dozens of feet off the ground and nailed him in the shoulder with a metal pipe.
** Danyael Sr., Danyael Rosales' father, was impaled onto a bedpost during his fight with Gabriel before breaking off the bedpost and removing it from his body.
** Later on in ''The Prophecy II'', we see Gabriel get impaled on a metal post in Eden. This allowed for [[ArchangelMichael Michael]] to render him mortal.
** In the first ''Prophecy'', we get a glimpse of the fields of Heaven, littered with the bodies of still-living angels impaled on giant spikes and other implements of wars, like spears and banners.
* InJoke: There are multiple religious in-jokes with varying levels of subtlety. When Simon is told that the girl he's about to hid Hawthorne's soul inside is named "Mary," he whispers "Of course." Then you have slightly less-obvious ones like Thomas, the priest who lost his faith being named after the Apostle who didn't believe Jesus had come back to life, or how in Literature/TheBible, Gabriel had the power to make people fall down in shock with his mere presence and also helped the prophet ''Daniel'' with his apocalyptic visions.

* InterspeciesRomance: Valerie/Danyael (human/angel) in ''The Prophecy II'', Danyael Rosales/Maggie (Nephilim/human) in ''The Ascent''.

* MagicalNativeAmerican: Touched on in the first film.
** Subverted in that they're no more and no less magical than the Christian mythology in the film.
* ManInWhite: Pyriel
* {{Mordor}}: What Eden has become. A massive sprawling industrial complex with towering, monolithic smokestacks burning away into the night sky and massive fuel reserves, where Michael and his retinue of angel loyalists dwell.
-->'''Valerie Rosales''': (''upon arriving in Eden and catching a mind-blowing vista of Eden'') THIS is Eden?
-->'''Danyael''': What Man has made of it.

* NotSoDifferent: The ArchangelMichael points out to Gabriel in the second film that he (Gabriel) and Lucifer have a lot in common.

* TheObiWan: Gabriel in ''The Ascent''.
* OmnicidalManiac: Pyriel in ''The Ascent'' is the self-appointed Angel of Genocide who plans "to help the Monkeys perish and sow the earth with better seed."
-->''"Genocide--it happens now and then."''

* PragmaticVillainy: Lucifer is far more calculating here than in his usual ForTheEvulz depictions. He's only doing it to make sure the balance of (evil) power doesn't shift elsewhere, and is completely honest about that.
** That's not to say he won't try to get a few more souls into Hell, like Catherine's.

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Thomas]] in the second movie. Blink and you'll miss his presence entirely.

* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: Danyael in ''The Ascent''.

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:Gabriel at the end of ''The Ascent''.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: Gabriel goes from [[FantasticRacism hating humans]] to liking and helping them.

* OmnicidalManiac: Pyriel in ''The Ascent''.

%%* RageAgainstTheHeavens

The first film, ''The Prophecy'' (released in 1995), tells the story of the ArchangelGabriel (ChristopherWalken), who's angry that {{God}} loves humans (or "[[FantasticRacism talking monkeys]]," as Gabriel likes to call them) more than angels. Gabriel comes to Earth in search of the evil soul of Colonel Hawthorne, a deceased UsefulNotes/KoreanWar veteran, in order to gain an advantage in a war being fought in {{Heaven}}. Another angel, Simon (Eric Stoltz), intercepts Hawthorne's soul and hides it in the body of a young Native American girl named Mary (Moriah Shining Dove Snyder). Now it's up to Thomas Daggett (Elias Koteas), a police detective who once aspired to be a priest but lost his faith in God years ago, and Catherine (Virginia Madsen), Mary's schoolteacher, to protect Mary before Gabriel gets to her. Creator/ViggoMortensen co-stars as [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]].

The third film (and the last one to star ChristopherWalken), ''The Prophecy III: The Ascent'' (2000), is set about twenty years after the second. Danyael Rosales (Dave Buzzotta), the Nephilim conceived by Danyael and Valerie in the second film, is preaching to a crowd about how God doesn't exist when he is shot dead by a blind attendee (played by [[Film/ChildsPlay Brad Dourif]]), only to later [[BackFromTheDead come back to life]]. Danyael then learns of his true heritage and his destiny to end the War in Heaven, and sets out to stop [[BigBad Pyriel]] (Scott Cleverdon), the Angel of Genocide. He is aided in his mission by a reformed Gabriel (now acting as TheObiWan) while being hunted by [[TheDragon Zophael]] (Vincent Spano), an angel who takes Danyael's girlfriend Maggie (Karyn Ann Butler) captive and deceives her into thinking that Danyael [[CameBackWrong came back wrong]].

* AnswersToTheNameOfGod: When Catherine sees Lucifer, she says "Oh my God," to which he responds "God? God is love. '''I don't love you'''."

** Also Gabriel's male human lackey Jerry from the first film, who has all the films [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Crowning Moments Of Funny]]. For instance, when Gabriel asks him, "If you were a soul, where would ''you'' hide?," he says, "The hell away from you?"

* TheDeterminator: Gabriel in the first and second movies, Zophael in ''The Ascent''.
* DistressedDamsel: Mary in the first film, Valerie in the second, Maggie in ''The Ascent''.

* FamousLastWords: The cheerful comment from one of Gabriel's unwillingly-revived henchmen, to the guy who has just re-killed him: "Thanks pal, you're a sport!"
* FantasticRacism: "[[LargeHam I will NOT]]. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis ALLOW. ANY. TALKING MONKEY!]] To take my place!"
* AFateWorseThanDeath: Humans not being able to go to {{Heaven}} (because of the war going on among the angels) after they die could count. Not to mention Gabriel makes it clear that his henchmen are just "dying slower." Despite their mobility, they're probably still suffering from whatever was killing them in the first place.

* GoshDarnItToHeck: Gabriel in the first film, of all people. "Watch the profanity!"

* [[NotUsingTheZWord Not Using The G Word]]: Gabriel never actually says "God" when speaking of his estranged boss in conversation.

%%* WorldHalfEmpty

-->'''Thomas Daggett'''

''The Prophecy'' is a series of ReligiousHorror films released in TheNineties. The series was created and the first film written and directed by Gregory Widen(who also created ''{{Highlander}}'')

''The Prophecy'' is a series of ReligiousHorror films released in TheNineties.

* GoshDarnItToHeck: Gabriel in the first film, of all people. "Watch the profanity!"[[note]] GeniusBonus, however, in that Gabriel is concerned with ''real'' profanity, as in "profane."[[/note]]

** Bit of a GeniusBonus: In various apocryphal texts that deal with the Nephilim, it is stated that they have massive appetites. Nephilim, like Hiwa and Hiya, were said to have consumed huge amounts of meat and other sacrificial foods given to them because their mighty feats of strength and all the people they killed was taxing. It got to the point that the twin Nephilim eventually turned to cannibalism, eating humans, other Nephilim and even angels to fuel their bodies.

-->'''Rafayel''': *after Gabriel has snapped his spine in half* Why couldn't you stay in the basement, Gabriel?

-->'''Rafayel''': How many worlds have to burn before you're satisified?

'''''The Prophecy''''' is a series of ReligiousHorror films released in TheNineties.

!This series contains examples of:

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Lucifer doesn't really want to help Thomas and Catherine; he just '''really''' wants Gabriel to fail. He's also not too pleased about Gabriel trying to be something he isn't.
-->'''Gabriel:''' This war is ''mine''.
-->'''Lucifer:''' Your war is arrogance. That makes it evil. That's ''mine''.
** In the second movie:

In the direct-to-video sequel ''The Prophecy II'' (1998), Gabriel is returned to Earth, after being taken down to {{Hell}} by Lucifer in the first film. This time around, he tries to prevent the birth of a {{Nephilim}} (the offspring of a human woman and an angel) who is prophesied to finally bring the War in Heaven to an end. The Nephilim in question has just been conceived by the angel Danyael (Russel Wong) and hospital nurse Valerie Rosales (Jennifer Beals). Gabriel enlists the aid of a teenage girl named Izzy (BrittanyMurphy), whom he resurrects after she commits suicide. Everything comes to a head in the dilapidated Garden of Eden when Gabriel kills Danyael in battle, only to be defeated by Valerie and [[HumanityEnsues turned human]] by the ArchangelMichael (Eric Roberts).