He's got the face of an angel.
Like the first film, the sequel itself is filled with even more horrors courtesy of Gabriel and the fever pitch of the Angel War.WARNING: Spoilers are unmarked.
- Gabriel crawling his way out of Hell in the beginning of the film with Lucifer's permission, simply because him being in Hell was too much for his taste and that Hell couldn't afford two Devils. The ground melts and splits, the sound of the screaming of damned souls is heard, and Gabriel crawls out in full body burns.
- Gabriel
burning Thomas alive with a gesture. It really shows he could have killed Thomas whenever he wanted in the previous film and was literally just playing with him. Here, he's a No-Nonsense Nemesis who kills at the slightest offense and appears out of nowhere with a thought. - The true forms of angels, outside of the Winged Humanoid forms that we see, are awful to behold. We don't get to see Danyael's true form when he reveals himself to Valerie, but we get the feeling from her reaction that it's not something humans would want to see. Judging from the Zealot's reaction when he sees Pyriel's form, it's not only horrific and maddening but, for some, it causes spiritual ecstasy.
- The love scene between Danyael and Valerie is equal parts Fanservice and Fan Disservice. It shows how horrific it would be for a normal human to make love to an Angelic Abomination disguised as a human, and Valerie herself displays equal parts bliss and absolute horror as Danyael reveals his true form to her when they make love, even blocking out the memory out of shock after the fact.
- Gabriel resurrecting Izzy, a girl who just committed suicide, and using her as his minion. When Izzy asks about his plan and begs to be allowed to die, he basically explains how he's turned kings to cripples and rivers into blood and he can do whatever he wants with no explanation. All this while burning the flesh of her hand. He also lets her know later before letting her die that, for committing suicide, she's in for A Fate Worse Than Death in Hell and, since he's been there, the implications are Nothing Is Scarier.
- Angel corpses are as disgusting in this film as in the previous, with even more scenes of angels getting their hearts ripped out.
- The complete fear that Valerie faces as Gabriel chases after her to rip out her unborn child from her womb, killing her in the process, after already having killed her grandmother. Nothing can stop him, and he is dead-set on killing her after some torture.
- Gabriel playfully taunting Valerie in the church about how mothers of the Nephilim of the past were so terrified of the birth of their offspring that they would tear themselves open just to get rid of them. Their births in fact caused the Biblical Flood. He even adds an Ominous Pipe Organ to scare her.
- Eden looks like an industrial hellhole, with industrial furnaces and smokestacks filling the skies with miasma. The Tree of Life and Knowledge itself looks withered and rather sad.
- Valerie acknowledging the utter Paranoia Fuel that will be raising a child that will be forever hunted by Heaven's angels and killed any moment she turns her back. The fact the "good" angels will do nothing to stop it only adds to the horror, as demonstrated by Michael. Religious Horror at its worst.Valerie: [to Michael] I'm keeping him. I'm raising him. And maybe one day,he'll get on the school bus, and he won't come back. And maybe one day, he'll dive into a lake, and he won't come up. I'll take my chances.
- Gabriel at the end of the film ominously rambling as a homeless beggar about the coming apocalypse as the sky lights up with an angry face showing the War In Heaven is getting much worse.Gabriel: Phone's gonna ring... It's gonna be you-know-who. Everything's gonna be made right. Phone's gonna ring.
