Simon (Gurren Lagann) - Powers and Abilities

Powers and Abilities

By the end of the series, Simon becomes the most powerful Spiral warrior in the Gurren Lagann multiverse. One of his most important abilities for much of the series is that, when Simon is driven to give his best during combat, his spiral power increases exponentially in an instant, while increasing the power of his mecha and his allies at the same time, something that was initially inspired by Kamina. By the end of the second film, Simon's spiral power is implied to be infinite. He can also create matter out of nothing (defying the law of mass-energy conservation), as he occasionally uses his spiral energy (created from his will alone) to create new and exponentially larger versions of his Gurren Lagann mecha later in the series, by which point he creates weapons larger than most galaxies (or in the second Gurren Lagann film, weapons that are almost the size of a universe). Later in the series, it shows him having powers on a multi-dimensional scale that can distort the spacetime continuum, while the epilogue shows Simon having metaphysical powers and compares him to a 'God', implying that he may have acquired omnipotence.

Early in the series with the Lagann and Gurren Lagann mecha, he can use his drill in various ways, ranging from projectiles and missiles to shields, water screws and various melee applications. Some of these applications include the Lagann Impact which can combine with other machines by piercing them with its drills, the Giga Drill Break which forms a huge amount of spiral energy into an enormous drill or number of drills much bigger than the mecha itself (an ability he also learnt from Kamina), a durable energy shield which can deflect energy blasts even at short range, the ability to wield the sunglasses on the Gurren's chest as a melee weapon, a regenerative function which can restore accumulated damage, and the power to rip open a worm hole in space to travel great distances. Simon is the only character who uses the Giga Drill Break and lives, any other character in the series performs the move in self-sacrifice or near death. Later in the series, with the Arc-Gurren Lagann and Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann mecha, he has the ability to rip the fabric of space-time itself through sheer brute force, and sports an enormous array of missiles, beam weapons and shielding capabilities. The Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann can transverse to other dimensions and universes, has the manufacturing capabilities to create hundreds of Arc-Gurren Lagann sized mecha in a small period of time, is capable of both deflecting and destroying objects on a planetary scale with ease, and is equipped with thousands of cannons that appear from the threads of the mecha's drills, each capable of shooting a beam straight through the time-space continuum, used for hitting targets regardless of their locality and temporality in the multiverse, being able to hit targets in the past, present and future.

In the final episode, Simon combines his own spiral energy with that of his comrades to create the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, which is more than a hundred times larger than the Milky Way galaxy. The actual limit of the mecha's abilities is immeasurable, as it gains an infinite amount of power depending on the pilots' will to win; it fights the Anti-Spiral (a being depicted as omniscient and omnipresent on a multiversal scale) at forces powerful enough to create and destroy entire universes, being able to absorb the Anti-Spiral's Infinity Big Bang Storm (more powerful than the Big Bang). The battle was so intense that it was shown to rip holes through various dimensions, showing that the power of each was on a God-like scale, furthered by the fact that they can alter the fundamental laws of reality, such as altering probability and creating matter larger than most galaxies out of thin air. According to the creators, Tengen Toppa also has the ability to create an entire Super Spiral Space universe within itself, allowing recognition to become reality. The epilogue also shows that Simon alone has the metaphysical ability to extend anyone's life and revive everyone back from the dead, but he refuses to do so in order to avoid a possible 'Spiral Nemesis'. In the epilogue, Yoko explains to Gimmy that he should stop viewing Simon as a 'God', implying that Simon may be omnipotent.

More powers and abilities are shown in the film Gurren Lagann: Spiral Stone Chapter. It shows Simon escaping from and absorbing the Multiverse Labyrinth of "infinite possibilities" created by the Anti-Spiral; Simon combines it with his own spiral energy and that of his comrades to create the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. After absorbing the Infinity Big Bang Storm, he combines that energy with his own spiral energy (and that of his comrades) to create the Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, which purely consists of spiral energy in the form of a faceless entity resembling both Simon and Kamina, and it is more than a hundred times larger than its preceding form. Its powerful Super Tengen Toppa Giga Drill Breaker is almost the size of a universe; when it collided with a similar and equal attack from the Anti-Spiral, it caused the entire universe the fight was held in to collapse on itself as a side-effect caused by the ripples from their drills. Following the defeat of the Super Tengen Toppa at the hands of the Anti-Spiral, Simon's spiral power is further emphasized, showing him surpassing the power level that the Super Tengen Toppa was previously at using only the smallest and weakest form of the Gurren Lagann, and then matching that same power level without any mecha at all. After the Anti-Spiral shatters the Super Tengen Toppa's Giga Drill, the latter is forced to downgrade to the smallest form of the Gurren Lagann; despite the infinitesimally smaller mecha, Simon manages to summon enough spiral power to destroy the Anti-Spiral's Giga Drill. In the end, the Anti-Spiral is defeated by Simon alone, without any mecha; Simon engages the Anti-Spiral in a fist fight, and he uses some of his own blood to create a drill powerful enough to defeat the Anti-Spiral.