In the movie *Constantine*, during the climax in the mental hospital, Gabriel is shown wearing many hospital bracelets.

[![Constantine and Gabriel](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hg9CV.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hg9CV.jpg)

**What, if anything, do these bracelets signify?**

Neither [the official novelisation](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Constantine-John-Shirley/dp/0743497554) nor [the original script](https://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Constantine.html) mention Gabriel's costume.

The question has been asked over on the Movies & TV Stack: ["Gabriel's Wristbands in Constantine"](https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/2310/9382). Alas, most answers it has received are speculation without source‡. However, they *do* establish that the bracelets read "Awakening", "Sorrow", "Rage", "Passion", "Love", "Joy", and "Melancholy".

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‡ I've since added a copy of the answer I've accepted here, over there.