* Okay, so the end is nigh, God has declared an apocalypce, and hordes of angels begin possessing random people to ensure TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. This begs the question - what were LegionsOfHell doing all that time? They couldn't be simply removed (since humans weren't, and that would be much easier), and they clearly had at least one reason to participate, either to support protagonists, or to attack them as well, through the same means of DemonicPossession, if anything. In a bit of TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot rage - why didn't they?
** The Sequel TV Show ''{{Series/Dominion}}'' sort of explains this, All accounts of demonic possession in this universe, were caused by Lower Angels, as unlike Higher Angels like Michael and Gabriel, Lower Angels have no body, demons don't exist, being that there is no actual mention of Hell at all, only Heaven, even Lucifer, who is mentioned in the show, is killed rather than cast down, if Hell does exist, none of the Angels seem to show much concern about them joining in, being that Higher Angels seem to be able to CurbStomp anything that isn't another Higher Angel.
* Why did none of the angels try to possess the people inside the restaurant? Michael [[HandWave handwaves]] this by saying that they can only posses people with weak hearts; however, for most of the movie one can hardly call Charlie "strong hearted", and Sandra, who spends the whole movie doing nothing useful and even [[spoiler: tries to kidnap the baby to give him to the angels in the end of the movie]], would certainly be an easy target to possession. One also have to wonder ''why'' they bother possessing people, instead of just going with their strong, metal-winged bodies like Michael and Gabriel.
** Michael and Gabriel are not simply angels, they are archangels. Maybe the ones possessing people are of a lesser rank.
** As to why they didn't possess Sandra, maybe there are only so many angels and they were all already possessing people.
** Since the possessed could not touch the child when it was born, possibly it's power-radius extended to the inside of the diner while it was still in the womb.
** {{Series/Dominion}} explains that there are at least 2 kinds of Angel, Lower and Higher, Gabriel and Micheal are of the Higher Angels, and they can become humanoid with metal wings if they chose, but apparently really hard to go back to their true forms, which while powerful can't interact with the mortal world, Lower Angels are basically spirits, they can't manifest humanoid bodies, they can only gain humanoid form by possession, and every recorded case of "demonic" possession was actually caused by Lower Angels coming and possessing someone for a little fun.
* Even if the angels couldn't possess anyone inside the diner, there were easily enough of them to storm the place and overwhelm the defenders anyway.
* The whole plot is fridge logic. The pregnant woman is carrying the child who's meant to be the second coming of Christ. God has decided he's had enough of mankind so he's sent his angels to kill the woman, prevent the second coming, and end the world. Except, Christ is God, so...
** Why would He want to come back down here if He's decided it's a CrapsackWorld, anyway?
** Christ is God? Says who? The film pretty well establishes that Christian mythology isn't exactly completely accurate, so it's not bound to support such assumptions.
** The vast majority of Christian theology professes that Christ is divine; He is the incarnation of the Second Person of the Trinity, God the Son. Also, iirc, the second coming was supposed to happen AfterTheEnd; The very well known hallelujah chorus meant to be the soundtrack for the second coming is actually part of a larger suite and that song comes up just as Jesus makes his return... to come in and clean up the mess left by the apocalypse.
*** Exactly. This movie more or less uses Judeo-Christian theology, even if it takes artistic license. Since Jesus is normally established as God, or at the very least, the Son of God, then the movie should have explained the exact nature of the child. It's a very glaring plothole.
*** To be fair, the official materials this troper has read describe the child as "a Messiah". The word "messiah" doesn't refer SPECIFICALLY to Christ (it simply means "savior" or "rescuer" and has been applied to several Old Testament figures as well as Christ himself), so this child doesn't have to be the Second Coming. Having come from a theological tradition that holds God and Jesus as two separate beings, the "the kid isn't Jesus" theory makes more sense to this troper than the idea that A) Jesus is defying God's will or B) that God would initiate the End of Times and then change his mind and decide to wipe out humanity.
*** It's still the filmmakers' job to explain who/what the child is regardless.
*** In the director's commentary to the film, Scott Stewert claimed that the child's nature was deliberately left vague for it to be up to the viewer's interpretation. Personally, this troper finds this decision to be to the film's detriment.
* Why is a frying pan to the head (with sufficient force to snap vertebrae) not enough to kill a possessing angel, but being shot is?
** That was merely Bob's assumption. Flying Pans to the head are still a rather unorthodox and rare form of fighting, so there isn't much ground for reference. Besides... people have survived more spectacular injuries and kept ticking.
** Maybe one needs to destroy the heart?
** The force was enough to snap an old lady's neck but probably not enough to snap a regular person's head. Judging from what the possessed can do, they probably have just a bit more endurance than a healthy adult.
* So, the Creator of the Universe, etc., etc. is going to kill off humanity by...what, now? What happened to God's usual methods of natural disasters and plagues? Why bother to send angels when a [[ColonyDrop well-aimed meteor]] will do the job efficiently? It's not even given the dignity of a {{plan}} on God's part to get humanity to let go of its IdiotBall and stop being such bastards.
** Possible justification: Humanity is quite a bit better these days at dealing with natural disasters and disease than in the old days. An army of body-snatchers is something we've never faced, and is also something that actively seeks to kill us.
** [[WatsonianVersusDoylist Because otherwise there would be no movie.]] Seriously though, that never really is explained. Perhaps he didn't wanna wreck the place, just exterminate the vermin in it for the sake of later ventures.
** As the sequel series had shown, God apparently never actually used many natural disasters to cleanse the Earth, remember the biblical flood? in the Legion/Dominion universe it wasn't a flood of water and the Ark wasn't a boat, the flood was ''Michael'' rampaging, and the Ark was a bunker, by the time of the series, The Angels have managed to wipe out at least most of the world, with only a few remaining holdouts who have things like AA guns and trained soldiers hanging on.
* Why did Michael cut his wings off? It couldn't be to free himself from Heaven's control; he was clearly capable of rebellion before he did that. Symbolic gesture? Maybe, but this Michael is portrayed as very pragmatic and so it wouldn't make sense for him to cripple himself needlessly (Gabriel even remarks on that).
** Probably in order to easier blend in and pass for human. Walking around in public with 2.5 meter wide, metal scale wings would draw way too much attention. The freak factor would most likely scare off Charlie as well, making it even harder for Michael to accomplish his mission.
** When he hacks off his wings, his collar falls off. When he first lands on Earth, he's beaten up and bloody; maybe he had to fight the collar's influence to get out of Heaven to begin with, and ditched it as soon as he could.
*** According to the script and to the director, that's exactly what happened. The collar is a tracking device that allows the angels to find one another. He had to get rid of his wings so that they could no longer find him or follow him to where Charlie was. There was going to be a line of dialogue about it, probably in the scene where Michael flashbacks to Heaven, but it got cut from the final version.
** Many stories use the plotpoint that if an angel cuts off his/her/it's wings it becomes human. In fact it's so common that half of the time nobody even bothers explain how or why it would work. Possibly a person more familiar with the source material could say if this has something to do with the various canons?
* If the attacks on the diner were meant to kill Charlie's baby, why did Evil Granny screw around like that? She could have torn Charlie (and thus the baby) apart before anyone else knew what was going on.
** The lesser angels couldn't touch the child because of it's immense power... perhaps even before it was unborn. But most likely it was merely suspension of disbelief for the sake of suspense.
** Also the possessing angels seemed to have a touch of sadism about them, "I just want to play with the baby" and so on.
* Why did they need all those guns in their car at the end? [[spoiler: God already called off his attack.]]
** [[spoiler: Could be that the already possessed were still about and unable to be recalled. Could also be that God had not called off the attack, merely called off Gabriel to give the kid a chance.]]
** When you're going around wearing tattoos in Enochian script claiming to be searching for Prophets [[spoiler: and in the company of the Reborn Savoir]] right after the [[ZombieApocalypse Angel Apocalypse]], I'm sure a little fire power is a good thing to have on hand just in case the townfolk have trouble believing you.