User blog comment:Toon Ganondorf/The Best and Worst of Robot Wars Names/@comment-9751413-20180407085608/@comment-6023653-20180407122607

Think you'll find Gabriel fits its name way better than you might think. Biblically, angels were not little children in white nighties- the Nativity model- they were powerful beings, servants of God. There's a reason why pretty much every time an angel appears to someone in the Bible their first words are 'Do not be afraid.' And at least some of them carried swords- the one guarding the entrance to the Garden of Eden had a flaming sword (Genesis 3:24). So, a massive robot in white with a colossal sword? Yeah, that fits.

If anything, Cherub fits its name worse, biblically at least. Biblically they were terrifying and powerful heavenly beings with four faces and four wings (Ezekiel 1, and then throughout Ezekiel); it's only in popular culture that cherubim became fat babies with wings.