User blog:KillRoy231/Gabriel - Dead or alive?

So, by now we all know in Season 5 Gabriel gets stabbed by Lucifer with an angel-killing sword. Aware of all of his brother's tricks, this killed him.

Then he turns up in a Season 9 episode trying to convince Castiel to join forces with Metatron or something like that, and they raise ambiguity as to whether it is really him.

What supports the idea that he is alive is that by now Metatron has the powers of God, who we know has the power to resurrect angels as he has done with Castiel twice, so Metatron is certainly capable of bringing our favorite archangel back. Furthermore, Richard Speight Jr. said Gabriel is still alive.

But, Mark Sheppard also said Crowley died at the end of Season 10, and that was proven false. Is the word of a character's actor always Word Of God when it comes to their fate? It's on this that I think Odin might still be alive in Thor even though Anthony Hopkins said he was dead, and Queen Chrysalis of another show was said by a completely different character's voice actor to have survived her fall over a mountain, based on the comics, and I will forever think she is dead.

Now, when I heard Richard Speight Jr. was directing an episode, I thought for sure the Trickster had to be in it. But he wasn't. We haven't seen him at all since his "resurrection" except for one scene which may have just been an illusion by Metatron. I don't think we'll see him at all in Season 11.

So, I'm thinking that maybe Gabriel really is dead, because Supernatural has never been forgiving to our fan-favorite characters aside from Castiel and Crowley, and to an extent, Bobby, who has continued to appear after his death (though not that often).

Is Gabriel really dead?

Yes

No