In the sequel to this movie, City of Angels, not only does the crow supply the main character, Ash, with power, but the power is shown to be tangible when the main antagonist, Judah, captures and ritualistically kills the crow and drinks his blood. After imbibing the crow's blood, Judah gains the power wielded by Ash (and Draven) while our hero is left mortal and vulnerable. After a long fight where Judah spouts off some very cheesy taunts, Ash gets lucky enough to impale Judah to a pipe, and then the spirits of those the crow brought back to earth rush down and take him to Hell. And the good guys wins.
Admittedly, these are several entries in The Crow comic book series, and the only one I have read was the original. But like I said, the crow served as a spiritual guide for Eric Draven and he could not be killed because he was already dead; he was brought back to bring justice to those who had raped and killed his love. In the films, the crow leads the two avengers to their targets, showing a spiritual type connection, or at least the crow is smart enough to know when to fly away from people that would kill him and steal his power (in the book, he spoke to Draven.)
The other thing about this ending that bugged me was that the character of Judah throughout the movie was a calm and collected cult leader/crime lord. As soon as he obtains the crow’s power, his personality (performance) suddenly goes from coolness to all out street thug, complete with extremely cheesy banter, which I find a violation of an otherwise interesting character. I understand that he becomes power hungry, but departure from his intelligence and collectiveness was too poorly scripted and/or thought out. Thus, we are given another example of how a movie can be ruined by its ending, which sucks because Iggy Pop was awesome in this movie.
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