How Gabriel survived depends on which character you mean, but generally involves unique powers (angelic immortality/abilities in Supernatural, advanced tech/resurrection in The 100), inherent skills (Viking/monster-hunting in Van Helsing), or luck/adaptation (faith/guilt-driven survival in The Walking Dead), showcasing different forms of resilience, power, or hidden resources.
Since the start of the apocalypse, Gabriel had barricaded himself in his parish, St. Sarah's Episcopal Church. He had been hiding within the church walls from the undead and surviving off of canned goods from the parish food pantry.
The party was short-lived, as Loki, in an act of revenge for the death of Odin at Lucifer's hands, had his three sons bind Gabriel and sell him off to the Prince of Hell Asmodeus, where Gabriel would endure seven years of torture and his grace being routinely extracted to feed and strengthen the power-hungry prince.
The Winchester brothers and Bobby quickly leave so no one sees them with Gabriel's corpse. After they're gone, Gabriel's corpse fades away. It is shown that what Dean stabbed was actually a duplicate and that the real Gabriel was very much alive.
After burying the remains, a guilt-ridden Gabriel managed to survive nearly 18 months with the help of the collected canned goods, but became haunted by his cowardly actions.
They both used the disguise of walker remains to escape the horde surrounding Sanctuary. Gabriel was locked in a room with no way to clean off the walker guts, leading to an infection that eventually took half of his vision. Lav Benji no; I said it's inert until a bite or death. And a bite does cause death.
In the post-credits scene of the show's final episode, titled “The Last Light,” the virus is revealed to have originated from a biomedical facility in France with the Primrose and Violet research teams. The post-credits scene opens inside the long-abandoned lab, where one of the lab's former researchers returns.
1 Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) - The Last Death
However, the saddest and most painful death to take place in Supernatural is in the very last episode, when Dean dies for the final time. After spending years fighting side by side with his brother, the pair finally put the world to rights.
Gabriel and Raphael are in an entirely different league than even Seraph Castiel. It took millions of souls from purgatory for Castiel to beat Raphael. Gabriel stopped a regular Castiel not even Seraph Cas. In Raphael's varying showing he absolutely beat Cas down at every step until Cas gained the souls from purgatory.
Finally understanding this and hoping that his name will one day be remembered as one of those who restored Heaven instead of as the one that let the Serpent into the Garden of Eden, Gadreel orders Castiel and Hannah away and then kills himself with a piece of rock from the dungeon floor, causing an explosion that ...
When he went into hiding, he traded away some of his grace. In his weakened state, the sons of Loki were able to ward and kidnap him and sell him to Asmodeus. Asmodeus spent a decade siphoning Gabriel's grace from him. That's why he was so weak.
Dean Winchester dies a whopping 111 times in Supernatural, with the majority of those coming in one episode. Dean's deaths are often sacrifices to save Sam, loved ones, or humanity, highlighting his willingness to give up his life.
Asmodeus is one of four Princes of Hell along with his siblings Azazel, Ramiel and Dagon. He was created by Lucifer himself, making him one of the oldest demons that ever existed. According to Lucifer, Asmodeus is his weakest creation. Gabriel's story also called Asmodeus the weakest of the Princes of Hell.
In his mind, he believes that Rick and the others are savages and will do this same to him and maybe the other Alexandrians. He isn't trying to undermine Rick and the others or anything, he genuinely believes they are dangerous. It's interesting that we saw three cowards this episode and three distinct reactions.
Gabriel's Sword. Gabriel's Sword is a long empyrean blade that the Archangel Gabriel keeps on his person at all times and serves as his personal weapon of choice.
Gabriel finally reveals the truth about what he has been hiding: when the world fell, his parishioners showed up at the church, banging on doors and windows, trying to claw their way in. Rather than let them in, he left them outside to die. He has been living with the guilt and shame ever since.
The power apparently is determined by the order of birth so going by that, Gabriel is in fact the weakest of them.
Lilith is said to be "older and more powerful than Yellow Eyes (Azazel)" and thus holds higher status than Azazel, on which Kripke commented, "You don't get much higher than her until you start digging into Lucifer territory." Knight provided more information on the character's importance in Hell and in the story, ...
By lore, Raphael is stronger. I'm pretty sure they mentioned that the archangels' age are also ranked by their power. Raphael was definitely more “warrior-like”, so he was most likely a better fighter, but Gabriel actually knew how to use his powers among the archangels.
John leaves Dean a note with the coordinates 35 and 111, presumably meaning 35 degrees north latitude, 111 degrees west longitude. Sam reads a map and says the place is in Colorado. In fact these coordinates are in Arizona, very close to Meteor Crater; the nearest town is Winslow.
While fan opinions vary, Season 7 (Leviathans) and Season 12 (British Men of Letters/Mary's return) are frequently cited as the worst or weakest Supernatural seasons due to their disjointed plots, uninteresting villains, and disruptive changes to the established lore, with Season 8 also having a lower Rotten Tomatoes score. Season 7's Leviathans struggled to maintain tension, while Season 12's storyline undoing Mary's death felt like a regression for many fans, disrupting the core story, according to The Mary Sue and Collider.
The leading causes of death for unintentional injury include: unintentional poisoning (e.g., drug overdoses), unintentional motor vehicle (m.v.) traffic, unintentional drowning, and unintentional falls.
In the original show and in its five spinoff series, there has never been a character that is immune to the zombie virus. That fact alone makes Laurent special, and also makes The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon special. Furthermore, Laurent's immunity changes the course of The Walking Dead's overarching story.
When writing his comic series, Robert Kirkman deliberately chose not to reveal the Twd zombie origins, and throughout the entire story, he never comes close to deciphering the truth. AMC's The Walking Dead also consistently shied away from revealing too much about the zombie virus.