gabriel's probably the most toned down one of the folks here and he's still pretty fuckin' good

Gabriel is aces

They all just look so FUCKING cool

okay that's actually the first time I've seen gabriel in the actual game graphics

and that FUCKS

YEAH HIS MODEL IS JUST EXTREMELY GOOD

I love the crisp high resolution graphics with deliberately row-res textures

does he have two swords named Splendor Is Justice and Justice Is Splendor

god I didn't notice the other one is reversed

they're just Splendor and Justice yeah

That fucks severely

also they're color flips of each other

YEP

artists love an armored angel

honestly, this wasn't a bad look either

Dogma was a pretty stupid movie but like those wings they went ALL OUT on

he's also a motherfucker on higher difficulties in his rematch because he can throw the swords at you and if you parry them away from you, but not like, at him? he will just teleport the swords back into his hands and try to get you again

here's a design that feels at least adjacent to this

dogma's wings are unmatched

they put so much goddamn sauce into those

I think Tyrael's sauce is twofold

1: He doesn't have WINGS he has masses of prehensile tentacles made out of light and that's SUCH a fucking cool idea

2: He doesn't have a FACE

diablo angel designs are perfect expressions of the cold, unfeeling glory of heaven

There's just darkness under that hood

angels are the enemies of demons but they are not allies to humanity

I mean tyrael is, but, in general

Tyrael had to become human to be a true ally of humanity

no wait he turned back into an angel at the end

the main angel from Diablo 4 is so compelling

a fallen angel who's just going further and further in the name of

I've heard good things

"maybe THIS will get me back into heaven"

but heaven isn't letting him back in. heaven isn't even watching.

that's so terrible

10/10

Lilith's pre-execution line of

You belong in hell.

oh horrible. i love that

I linked Vigilant Gaze because White Chain didn't achieve peak character design until she ditched the armor

white chain is one of the only angels who isn't armored

Though actually

In this current arc she is actually wearing her old armor

just

reworked to fit on her new body

It's got that distinctive ring helmet

I love how many of these are like...mecha-adjacent

tweak a few things to be more mechanical and bam, you got yourself an angel mech

YEAH

Never been fond of Digimon's artstyle but that isn't terrible

Especially like the weirdass scarves

i don't overwatch in the slightest but i always thought mercy's design was p sick bc of a vibe that's similar to this. the mechanized angel look.

Say whatever you want about Blizzard

And there's a LOT you can say about Blizzard

Their art team has always knocked it out of the park

yeah. as soon as I saw the OP I immediately thought of Tyrael, that's how good their art team nailed it

they managed to hit that sweet spot of "looks human enough to be comfortable" and "looks eldritch enough to be Not Human"

The fact there isn't art of Dame Aylin doing the "In the name of the moon, I'll punish you!" pose is a crime.

another digimon

did Gabriel steal this guy's helmet