List of Gurren Lagann characters
dub) (English) Personal Gunmen The series' protagonist, Simon (シモン, Shimon) (pronounced SEE-mohn) is a boy who initially suffered from low self-esteem due to being an orphan, with his parents having died in a cave-in, and a fear of earthquakes.
This results in the government sending him to jail to ease the people, later breaking free with help from Viral to take back Cathedral Terra as he leads Team Dai-Gurren to save Nia and destroy Antispiral.
Managing to marry Nia before she fades away, Simon gives Lagann's key to Gimmy as he leaves his friends to wander the planet as a nameless vagrant, stating that "there are others more fit to travel down the tunnels I dug".
dub) (English) Personal Gunmen: Viral (ヴィラル, Viraru) (pronounced "Veer-ral") is a member of the Human Eradication Army, who regards Kamina as a strong rival after losing his Enki's helmet to the newly created Gurren Lagann.
Becoming a reformed villain of sorts, Viral pilots Gurren during the battle against the Anti-Spirals and seemingly gains his own Spiral Energy from being exposed to Simon's, seen in his Core Drill in the series and Tengen Toppa Enkidurga in the movie.
He is the apprentice of Father Magin, the High Priest who governs Adai and performs its ritualistic method of dealing with overpopulation by having people draw sticks, with the winners sent up to the surface to die, with Rossiu's mother being among those chosen.
Rossiu and his subordinates prepared a contingency plan by having people take shelter in the underground villages, which the government assumed to be safe, with a select few to board the excavated Arc-Gurren.
Rossiu takes the duty of watching out for Kamina City, while Simon and the rest of Team Dai-Gurren depart from Earth to the Anti-Spirals' homeworld with help from Kinon and Guinble.
However, the original King Kittan, wielding one of the drills that broke off from the Gurren-Lagann when it attempted to transform Super Galaxy Dai-Gurren into humanoid form, flies towards the Machine's core.
After Viral allows him to enter Gurren's cockpit, he releases a massive surge of Spiral Energy to aid Simon in opwering up Super Galaxy Dai-Gurren.
After the war, Leeron becomes the Chief of the Science Bureau of Kamina City, with his team succeeding in launching a rocket to the Moon to investigate it and confirm the veracity of Lordgenome's prophecy.
Lordgenome originally engineered the Beastmen as soldiers against the Anti-Spirals, as the substitution of animal genes distorted the shape of human spiral DNA and rendered them invisible to detection.
Furthermore, their bodies deteriorate at an accelerated rate and their cell lines weaken over time, forcing Lordgenome to deep freeze unborn specimens in a constant state of regeneration.
Lordgenome divided his forces into the four branches of the "Human Eradication Army", each led by one of his four Supreme Generals, responsible for monitoring a distinct cardinal direction of the planet's surface.
He is a skilled tactician and warrior, and is Viral's initial superior officer and commander of the Human Eradication Army Eastern Branch, which he monitors from the deck of the land battleship, the Dai-Gunzan.
Though she initially refuses his aid due to blaming him for Thymilph's death, she recruits Viral after he saves her from the Dai-Gurren crushing her following her attempt to execute Nia after learning Lordgenome abandoned her.
Following Adiane's death, Cytomander personally goes after Team Dai-Gurren in Dai-Gunten, but is forced to retreat after Gurren Lagann hijacks one of his fighters to give itself wings and greatly damages his battleship.
His appearance resembles that of a crocodile and armadillo; the parallel works reveal he was originally an animal-like figure who, like Boota, was Lordgenome's companion, and that he has lived as long as the Spiral King.
Guame explains his relationship to the King as being ancient; he later refers to Cytomander as a "pup of two-hundred-years age", implying he is significantly older than him and that, to him, two hundred years is not a long time.
After successfully capturing the Dai-Gurren's crew, Guame has Nia brought to him and reveals to her the truth if why she was abandoned while offering to spare her if she becomes leader of the "Beauty Village" where the Spiral King gets his consorts from.
dub) (English) Personal Gunmen: Lordgenome (ロージェノム, Rōjenomu) is the main antagonist of the first story arc, who is known as the "Spiral King" and commands his armies from Teppelin, a gigantic funnel-shaped fortress which is actually a massive hibernating Gunman.
[3] He eventually regains his prior self-awareness and personality and helps in the fight against the Anti-Spirals, regenerating and sacrificing himself during the final battle to ensure Team Dai-Gurren's victory.
Simon stops the collision by activating the moon, revealing the gigantic battleship Cathedral Terra, and Nia, having recovered part of her former self, states that mankind's survival of the Extermination has fated it to face Antispiral.
Antispiral refuses to accept that his race was wrong to restrict Spiral Power, but as he is dying, he asks Simon if Earth will now assume the responsibility of protecting the universe.
In the epilogue, Rossiu is shown to wear a large one on his back which is shaped similar to Simon's glasses; it could be an indication of his rank or the government's official logo.
It is later revealed that Kinon's decision to follow Rossiu, despite betraying Simon and ordering his execution, was a result of her feelings for him and her witnessing his struggles, with him having not done it for personal gain, but because circumstances forced him to.
She and Makken have great faith in Simon and his capacity as a decision maker; their loyalty to him urges them to resist Rossiu by rebuilding the scrapped Gunmen of Team Dai-Gurren, refitting them with spiral weaponry capable of damaging Mugann.
[7][8] Leite also refits Gurren Lagann's power pack to allow it to reach escape velocity, but opts out of the Battle of Earth to stay with her children on the surface.
She eventually ends up as one of the fourteen pilots of Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann, battling Grand Zamboa to avenge Makken's death at the hands of Anti-Spiral Kantai and for the freedom of the entire galaxy.
He and Kinon often accompany Rossiu, and stay with him on Earth to watch over the city while the rest of Team Dai-Gurren headed into space for the final battle against the Anti-Spirals.
