STAY TO AFTER CREDITS

the_devils_daughter_7: "cos its not like a second movie will come out and explain it to us! "

Gabriel was planned as the first part of a trilogy. There may indeed be another movie to explore what happens next.

Well, I watched an awful copy with decent picture but really bad translation into Russian (my mother tongue) over German audio (crazy, yes), and it had only black three seconds aftercredits with music but no picture, unfortuantely. But even with that poor translation I believe THAT was explained before the credits actually: where he says he cannot let this happen, that he has to experience this (hurt, darkness, being fallen is not named but implied), and later he'll be reborn as another archangel, then he says goodbye to (GOD?) and let himself literally but also meaningfully enough (too slowly) FALL from the roof. So I got the meaning he'd wanted to become a fallen himself, although it makes the final bit rather disappointing for me, and I didn't completely get the meaning of this event (well, the sunrise does add a bit of optimism, but how then if he became fallen indeed?). I thought I need to watch the original to tell if I really got what creators wanted to say because translation was real bad (I can sense this as translator). Well, that bit that there was a trilogy planned may be explains why I was left with the feeling of unfinished thought other than bad translation.

His character change was so drastic because at first he was going to die with Michael (Samael). But Michael healed him before he died. Thus, Gabriel still having to live with all that he had learned and experienced but that he had killed his closest Arch brother.

And i was wondering about Ramiel too. But if they make another one... then we might see him in it too.

sometimes scenes like the 'red eye Gabe' after the credits are shown at the cinema, then either removed completely for dvd release or kept as part of the 'deleted scenes' special features...for whatever reasons.

I saw the scene the cinema, but even here in Australia, our dvd release lacks the eyes at the end as well. The dvd only came out here yesterday, watched it last night, I haven't checked the deleted scenes, but it maybe in that part of the disc.