Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann/Awesome

TTGL normally has at least one of these an episode, sometimes more. And if they ever don't, it just means they're taking a run up for the next episode. Better pack a lunch buddy, you'll be here for a while. The series might as well be called Crowning Moment of Awesome: The TV Show! This page also functions as a summary for the series.

Before even that Oh Crap, is the part before that one, where said general Cytomandra is wondering how one pathetic gunman could stand up to his entire fleet after Team Dai-Gurren's forces were split to deal with ground assaults. Simon just calmly charges up his Spiral Energy, creating mini-drill missiles, enough to destroy all the grunts in the air that were currently dispatched. The look on the birdman's face cracks straight into an unhinged grin, then he cackles in a total WTF-this-must-be-a-joke way. The fact that Simon was able to break his pompous attitude in such an awesome way just cements the fact that Simon is now secure with who he is and he wouldn't have it any other way. "Simon: QUIT YOUR STUPID YAMMERING! I'm not gonna lose! Nia, Yoko, Rossiu, Ron, Kittan, Dayakka- every member of Team Dai-Gurren believes in me! The me that my bro believed in... the me that I believe in... isn't ever gonna lose to the LIKES! OF! YOU!!!"
 * This is added at the top because it most likely takes all the awesome you'll read below and makes it even better.
 * The prologue. Despite the pure awesome of it sets the tone for the rest of the series.
 * Kamina's introduction in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Followed rapidly by him picking a fight with a giant robot, on foot, with only a katana.
 * Kamina's intro might not be so much a Crowning Moment of Awesome, but a "Hey, he's a pretty cool guy", though Yoko's introduction definitely counts.
 * This troper didn't realize how awesome Kamina was going to be until he started self-narrating.
 * This troper nearly died of Testosterone Poisoning watching that scene.
 * Word of God states that he would have won, if Yoko hadn't interfered. That's right. Kamina, an over-the-top hot-blooded badass with a katana, would've defeated a humongous mecha, though it could kill him with ease.
 * Lagann breaking through to the surface. The fact that the song that plays during the ascent is the same tune that plays during the below-mentioned Giga Drill Break should give you a clue.
 * Viral delivering two No Holds Barred Beatdowns against Kamina in the same episode, quickly topped by the first union of Gurren and Lagann, which involved stealing Viral's helmet.
 * WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK!!!!!!
 * HANDS OFF MY BELOVED LITTLE BROTHER PUUUUUUUUUUNCH!!!
 * Followed by yet another Crowning Moment of Awesome: Gurren throws Lagann, the two enemy ganmen dodge, Lagann drills through a cliff, turns around and bursts out again, without any loss of speed, and proceeds to blow up the other two ganmen IN ONE HIT!!!
 * This troper's personal favorite was I'VE GOT THE BEST WIFE IN THE UNIVERSE... SWIIING! Triples as a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming and a Crowning Moment of Funny to boot.
 * When Simon and Kamina snatched Thymilph's Dai-Ganzan, now the Dai-Gurren. Followed by Thymilph's epic-level pwnage at the receiving end of the series' first Giga Drill Break.
 * Anyone else love the "Damn Dirty Humans" being shouted by the gorilla-themed Beastman?
 * If anyone, whatsoever, says the words "Giga... Drill... BREAAAAK(AAAAHHHHH)!!!!!!!!!" in this series, Epic Win is going to ensue soon.
 * Unless.
 * Simon wrecking a bunch of Baron Ashura's Mecha Mooks with a MAP attack and Kamina demolishing Tauros D7 with a Giga Drill Breaker because they were inspired by Ranka singing What 'Bout My Star.
 * Then comes
 * When beggars die, there are no comets seen; / The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
 * . Now that's what you call a blaze of glory.
 * The manga implies that
 * So does the anime.
 * Reenacted in Super Robot Wars Z 2: Hakai-hen
 * The manga's scenes leading up to Kamina's final battle. Kamina and Yoko stands, looking out on the battlefield while talking, and Kamina spontaneously makes a vulcano erupt. After that, he just casually says that a battlefield for a great battle has to look awesome.
 * Anytime Simon and Kamina combine into Gurren Lagann is a Moment of Awesome in itself, but the sequence usually includes a bonus moment for Kamina: combining involves a massive drill bit breaking into Gurren's cockpit, inches from Kamina's head, and he never even flinches.
 * Simon . His rallying speech and Theme Music Power-Up is so effective, you can feel the Wangst demons that Neon Genesis Evangelion inflicted on the genre being exorcised even as he spoke.
 * The cherry on top for Simon's Crowning Moment of Awesome: When everyone else goes 'wtf/ohcrap' at Simon's reappearance, Leeron is smiling smugly the whole time, as if to say "It's about time."
 * This is accompanied by a Giga Drill Break that tops the previous one in pure awesome.
 * Closely matched by the movie's take on the scene.
 * Back to the anime version, this Crowning Moment of Awesome is preceded by a smaller, subtler CMOA: Team Dai-Gurren is imprisoned. They all vow to dig their way out of their cell through the surrounding bedrock walls with their bare hands (and heads, and teeth!). The problem? It's freaking bedrock, and they all fail to make any progress. While they're all complaining, slowly but surely, everyone turns around. They're caught off guard by Simon, who is silently and steadily carving out a hole in the bedrock wall with just his tiny core drill. Remember, this is the guy who everyone had all but given up on . Yoko realizes that Kamina wasn't kidding when he said how Simon was the one who always helped and even inspired him. For good measure, the Lagann meets Simon in the hole that he dug.
 * Reenacted in Super Robot Wars Z 2: Hakai-Hen
 * Guame gets one in that scene for somehow dodging the Giga Drill Breaker. While almost completely immobilized due to how his gunmen reads pilot input.
 * Nia running straight onto the Dai-Gurren's deck and ordering Adiane to cease her attack. Keep in mind that Nia is a young girl with no weapons and Adiane is piloting a mecha that could crush her in an instant.
 * Don't forget her variation on the Arc Words of the series: "Are you aware of who I am!?"
 * Leeron's plan for attacking the Dai-Gunten, an enemy Airborne Aircraft Carrier, with the Dai-Gurren, a battleship with feet, by running up a mountain, jumping what must have been a decent fraction of a mile into the air, and then trying to kick it. It missed. And turned it into a spinning back kick. Keep in mind, the Dai-Gurren just leapt to an altitude where the fall would almost certainly destroy it, just to attack another ship, and it can't fly. They just did a swallow kick with a robot the size of a freakin' battleship. A feat topped later by using a now flight-capable Dai-Gurren to simply stab the Dai-Gunten with its pointed bow, which also took out one of the Four Generals at the same time, which is also incredibly satisfying due to said General's Oh Crap of epic proportions. The Hell am I saying? Everything in this anime is of epic proportions!\\
 * Don't forget her variation on the Arc Words of the series: "Are you aware of who I am!?"
 * Leeron's plan for attacking the Dai-Gunten, an enemy Airborne Aircraft Carrier, with the Dai-Gurren, a battleship with feet, by running up a mountain, jumping what must have been a decent fraction of a mile into the air, and then trying to kick it. It missed. And turned it into a spinning back kick. Keep in mind, the Dai-Gurren just leapt to an altitude where the fall would almost certainly destroy it, just to attack another ship, and it can't fly. They just did a swallow kick with a robot the size of a freakin' battleship. A feat topped later by using a now flight-capable Dai-Gurren to simply stab the Dai-Gunten with its pointed bow, which also took out one of the Four Generals at the same time, which is also incredibly satisfying due to said General's Oh Crap of epic proportions. The Hell am I saying? Everything in this anime is of epic proportions!\\
 * The entire fight between Simon and Lordgenome can be considered a Lensman Arms Race in Badassery. Every time Simon uses Heroic Resolve to get the upper hand, Lordgenome promptly smack him down again only for Simon to get back up again, more determined than before. The whole thing culminates in, followed by.
 * Not to mention Lordgenome.
 * That's okay, because a little bit later he gets one-upped by Simon ... and it's awesome.
 * The speech leading up to that part is pretty damn awesome as well. After Lordgenome tells Simon he has no chance of winning, Simon delivers a Shut UP, Hannibal that pretty much sums up his character development up to this point in the series, all as the "get ready 'cause shit is about to get real" opening of the song "To Hell With Gattai!" plays.

"The Battle of Tepplin, Day 7
 * Every time we see Lordgenome in Lazengann, he has his arms crossed. He pilots his giant robot without using his hands.
 * Or Lordgenome
 * The most awesome part of this fight is when
 * And lets not forget what happened after the battle. Simon and Nia return victorious, with Sorairo Days playing in the background, the two of them look down at Team Dai-Gurren cheer for them, and then they look at the sunrise. And on the screen it says:

Tepplin Castle, the Spiral King's Capital: Fallen."

"Rossiu: Open your eyes, !"
 * You can't help shedding tears of joy at that moment.
 * And then it says STILL To be continued.
 * Rossiu gets one with just one sentence:

"Rossiu: It looks bad. . . but it'll take more than that to kill them. (Cue badass scene of the entire population of the Earth staring up defiantly into the final battle between the Dai Gurren-Dan and the Anti-Spirals as the opening theme plays)"
 * I prefer this one, spoken as TTGL is being pummeled by the force of a Big Bang (as in the primal explosion that created the universe) and he watches on from his balcony as the fate of the world hangs in the balance. ..

"Yoko: School's out. You failed."
 * Simon unleashes the Giga Drill Maximum.
 * Kittan, channelling the awesome power of Kamina, picks a fight with a Mugan, on foot, with only a shotgun. Not as awesome as Kamina, but really, who is?
 * Yoko destroying two Ganmen in a matter of seconds with nothing but her trusty BFG and a small hover vehicle.

"Simon/: JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM!?!
 * Simon and 's Big Damn Heroes moment is so awesome that the awesomeness of their presence, by itself, causes an entire army to explode.

Gurren Lagann: * unleashes a gargantuan wave of Spiral energy*

fleet: ** EXPLODE**"


 * Arc Gurren-Lagann Megaton Punching an enemy Mugan so hard it smashes a hole in the very fabric of space-time, into which the Mugan falls and promptly explodes. Captain Falcon, eat your heart out.
 * This Troper needs to reiterate: He hits the enemy so hard, that the enemy hits * nothing* and * breaks it.*
 * In The Movie,
 * Simon . Not quite the same as all the combat Crowning Moment of Awesome but this troper still punched the air when it happened.
 * Any time any music is playing,that's a good sign that a Crowning Moment of Awesome is on the way. ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH!!!
 * Simon teleports halfway through the world, rips the Gurren Lagann through a wall, ejects from his cockpit, slides across the ground for a good hundred feet, brings his hand back, and with a fantastic scream of
 * It's almost a CMoA for
 * In the second movie, this honor goes from Simon to Kinon, though it's not quite as awesome.
 * It was actually foreshadowed in the uncut version of episode 8: Yoko doing a Foe-Tossing Charge through the onsen-Ganmen just to punch Kamina in the face.
 * Jougen and Barinbou
 * Right now I wish I could remember the names of.
 * Those would be
 * In Lagann-Hen,
 * Related awesome. In the midst of all this heroism,
 * Boota.
 * Not to mention.
 * Bah! It's Boota's drill tail that makes him awesome!
 * It's a mecha the size of the moon being powered by a hamster.
 * No, what's really awesome is
 * Kittan
 * In the original Japanese raws, this moment lasted exactly one minute according to the on-screen clock (the scene starts at 8:52, then just as it fades to black and the next scene starts, the clock turns to 8:53). Thus, 8:52 is the hour in which ordinary men ascend to the status of GAR and step into the realm of legends.
 * Look up John 8:52 in the bible, now look at 8:53.

"Mark my words - this drill will open a hole in the universe, and that hole will be a path for those behind us! The dreams of those who've fallen...the hopes of those who'll follow...those two sets of dreams weave together in a double helix drilling a path towards tomorrow! And that's Tengen Toppa! That's Gurren Lagann!! My drill is the drill THAT CREATES THE HEAVENS!!!"
 * Just to clarify the awesomeness of this moment: The spaceship's nigh-omniscient bio computer calculated the odds of this succeeding as 0%. Not as in "ridicilous small chance larger than 0%" (say, 0.00001%), but as exactly zero percent. Afterwards, it said: "I see theoretical calculations mean nothing to you".
 * And let's not forget that at this point in the series, the troper who wrote the above example felt it was appropriate to refer to the as tiny.
 * Dayakka and Gabal start the fightback against the just as its about to grab the Earth with an I'VE GOT THE BEST WIFE IN THE UNINVERSE SWING!!!!
 * This doubles (triples?) as a Crowning Moment of Funny and Heartwarming, partially because his wife (and the entire earth) hears it.
 * Chouginga Gurren Lagann
 * Point-blank was always Attenborough's specialty. Who knew that he would get such scope for his talents?
 * This scene has Attenborough actually reach the point of enough dakka. Enough dakka is described as having a gun that can shoot every single point in space and every single point in time simultaneously. No shock that it is this show that does the impossible. Too bad they never reached too much dakka.
 * Attenborough's Crowning Moment Of Awesome come a bit later as he
 * Just... Chouginga Gurren Lagann. Holy shit, Chouginga Gurren-Lagann.  There's only one word to describe Chouginga Gurren-Laggan, and that word is FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!1!11!!11!
 * Chouginga/Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann does two things when it is actually being formed. First off, Transformers was found brutally murdered, forensic scientists claim the fatal wound was made with a massive drill. Second, just as Simon's  speech exorcised the Wangst demons of Evangelion from the Anime medium, the dub removed all stereotypes about bad dubbing. Both the writing of the dialog in English and Yuri Lowenthal's absolutely impeccable Hot Blooded and emotionally charged voice acting instantly made dubs acceptable forever. Though, given the Unpleasable Fanbase about dubbing...
 * Chouginga Gurren Lagann is actually almost invulnerable to any form of attack imaginable in normal curcumstances.
 * How as the fact that Chouginga Gurren Lagann was creating a GALAXY just by existing not been mentioned? (granted, it wasn't very important storywise, but yeah).
 * And in the Movie, Simon - AND the Chouginga - are CRYING BLOOD. So much badass, only blood tears can represent what's going on properly.
 * : What's wrong, ? Did you lose it?
 * Nia
 * The entire final battle set in space. Not posting what happens, it needs to be seen to be believed.
 * Two words: .
 * This Troper read the spoilers before watching the actual anime. Even knowing what's going to happen did not prepare me for the dosage of Crowning Moments Of Awesome that ensued. The anime is so awesome, it will nullify Spoilers as well.
 * Simon's speech:
 * Simon's speech:

"Simon: It's time to do 'that'!
 * Not only is it awesome in and of itself, but Simon's drill no longer simply pierces the heavens, it CREATES them. That one sentence alone proves that dubs aren't always worse than the original.
 * The construction of Arc Gurren Lagann and Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann.
 * And Chouginga Gurren Lagann, for that matter.
 * AND the emergence of.
 * The ONLY acceptable description of that moment is a comparison to an avenging angel.
 * In the construction of Chouginga Gurren Lagann,
 * From Parallel Works: Cathedral Terra Lazengann. Holy hell.
 * Hell, that whole Parallel Works (number 8, for the curious) has nothing short of 2 minute long Crowning Moment of Awesome. The pounding music is icing on the cake.
 * In this Live dubbing, Nobuyuki Hiyama (Viral) and Fukui Yukari (Nia) are re-doing the fight between Simon and Guame(note: Nobuyuki-san cannot do a kid's voice). It's pretty funny, right up until the part where Simon does the Giga Drill Break: Nobuyuki goes into full Guy Shishioh Hot Blooded mode, and the crowd just goes off.
 * Just shows that whenever a Giga Drill Breaker is concerned, hotblooded-ness will follow suit.
 * It was so awesome Yukari Fukui's eyes went wide open for that one whole second.
 * Since the original video was deleted, here is another, [[http://tsta88dx.multiply.com/video/item/383/TTGL_Alternate_Giga_Drill_Breaker_Virals_seiyuu?&show_interstitial=1&u=
 * Parallel Works Six: Double Giga Drill Break.
 * This troper's theory is that the second drill is just to make up for the lack of epic sunglasses.
 * Let's not forget
 * He.
 * To quote /m/: "Most men are lucky enough to get one manly death. ."
 * And then,.
 * Hell, the whole damned SOUNDTRACK is made of Crowning Music of Awesome! Even through the Narm.
 * The manga adaptation takes the anime and makes it even more awesome. For example, the Giga Drill Break is 11 pages long.
 * In The Movie : GIGA DRILL BREAAAK! DAI GURREN-DAN SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!!
 * For further explanation, see for yourself.
 * Also in The Movie, Simon, Lagann having failed him, climbs up Cytomander's Ganmen using only his core drill, his tunneling drill from back in Jiiha and his own brute strength. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming, since he's doing it to rescue Nia, who is refuses to stop believing in Simon despite being told that all her hope is completely worthless. Also, the whole thing is shown side-by-side with Yoko remembering Kamina's story illustrating how he secretly relied on Simon any time he was in a tight spot. Cue Manly Tears.
 * Once again from the movie: Adiane v. Yoko. On foot!
 * This troper has, alas, not seen Lagann-hen yet as she does not live in Japan. But she has heard about one particular scene from the final battle.
 * Not to mention that in the same film
 * This troper is thoroughly convinced that Even if on a smaller scale.
 * Or Simon
 * This far without mentioning the Dai-Gurren destroying Teppelin's hammer? Shameful.
 * Also, soon after that
 * The final battle is so fast-paced and HSQ-high that we don't have time to appreciate Yoko's epic sniping feat. Weird scale aside,
 * Because by the time this happens, we already know that Yoko never misses. . . she prepares.
 * By the climax episode,
 * Compared to it, our galaxy
 * It is topped in the movie version.
 * You know, I found the epilogue to be a Crowning Moment of Awesome. Despite the bittersweetness, everyone's future really suit's them. . Plus, Simon's little comment at the end, showing that he's willing to accept his fate for once, letting go to rest, and letting the next generation drill it's way through the heavens... Awesome in a bittersweet way. It suits the show.
 * Don't forget Yoko's most badass line of pure awesome "So, I leave for a while, and you have to go and become a real boring bitch." Said to
 * In the climax of the first movie, the Four General's battleships combine into Doten-Kaizan. Let's take stock; a walking battleship, a mobile fortress, a flying aircraft carrier, and a centipede-like submarine, all combining into a gigantic battleship that Viral says has "no blind spot from any direction". Team Gurren reply by channelling all their power into Simon and Rossiu's Giga Drill Breaker, which completely obliterates Doten-Kaizan in seconds.
 * The scene renacted in Super Robot Wars Z 2: Hakai-Hen.
 * This troper has finally seen the second movie albeit in RAW but due to the awesomeness of the scene, you could really tell what they're trying to say. MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD. From:
 * Details on this one. Up until this point, the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann was an invincible, unstoppable, humongous robot that could take down anything.  The Anti-Spiral King was PISSED.
 * And this was all achieved
 * Once the Asskicking Pose is finished, Simon elevates himself beyond Kamina's level by quoting the man himself from way back in Episode 3:
 * And this was all achieved
 * Once the Asskicking Pose is finished, Simon elevates himself beyond Kamina's level by quoting the man himself from way back in Episode 3:
 * Once the Asskicking Pose is finished, Simon elevates himself beyond Kamina's level by quoting the man himself from way back in Episode 3:
 * Once the Asskicking Pose is finished, Simon elevates himself beyond Kamina's level by quoting the man himself from way back in Episode 3:
 * Once the Asskicking Pose is finished, Simon elevates himself beyond Kamina's level by quoting the man himself from way back in Episode 3:
 * Once the Asskicking Pose is finished, Simon elevates himself beyond Kamina's level by quoting the man himself from way back in Episode 3:
 * Once the Asskicking Pose is finished, Simon elevates himself beyond Kamina's level by quoting the man himself from way back in Episode 3:
 * Once the Asskicking Pose is finished, Simon elevates himself beyond Kamina's level by quoting the man himself from way back in Episode 3:
 * Once the Asskicking Pose is finished, Simon elevates himself beyond Kamina's level by quoting the man himself from way back in Episode 3:
 * Once the Asskicking Pose is finished, Simon elevates himself beyond Kamina's level by quoting the man himself from way back in Episode 3:
 * Once the Asskicking Pose is finished, Simon elevates himself beyond Kamina's level by quoting the man himself from way back in Episode 3:
 * Once the Asskicking Pose is finished, Simon elevates himself beyond Kamina's level by quoting the man himself from way back in Episode 3:
 * Once the Asskicking Pose is finished, Simon elevates himself beyond Kamina's level by quoting the man himself from way back in Episode 3:
 * Once the Asskicking Pose is finished, Simon elevates himself beyond Kamina's level by quoting the man himself from way back in Episode 3:
 * Once the Asskicking Pose is finished, Simon elevates himself beyond Kamina's level by quoting the man himself from way back in Episode 3:
 * Once the Asskicking Pose is finished, Simon elevates himself beyond Kamina's level by quoting the man himself from way back in Episode 3:
 * Once the Asskicking Pose is finished, Simon elevates himself beyond Kamina's level by quoting the man himself from way back in Episode 3:

Entire Dai-Gurren-dan: "That"?

Simon: Isn't it obvious? GATTAI-DA!"

"Yoko: With thoughts of a man gone in my heart, I knowingly took on this impossible fight. A womans got her pride. With a maiden's prayers and rage, I'll blast you away along with your cheap trap, so prepare yourself!!!!
 * Of course, the ASK doesn't stand for this and effortlessly powers up the GZ in a second to match the  To reiterate, the Dai-Gurren-Dan went through all of that to get the STTGL and the Anti-Spiral had equivalent power accessible without going out of its way!
 * . Presumably it's for the same reason that Simon's drills are cone-shaped: it focuses all that power down to one tiny point.
 * One that may go unnoticed in the final battle with the  unless you look for it.
 * My friends, you have not lived till you have seen this movie. That is all.
 * That description doesn't even begin to describe its awesome, the epic fist fight between and Simon is THE most Awesome moment of TTGL. Watch and be in awe
 * Not to sound like the fist fight was not epic at all, it was, but I see your fist fight, and raise you the Giga Drill Break O War that destroyed the universe they were in. One cannot help but engage in Manly Screaming while watching them. Behold!
 * No mention of Lorgenome's hacking of  First
 * Lordgenome. He will beat up your mechs with his bare hands, stop your Big Bang-powered Wave Motion Gun, and hack your computer.
 * For a lot of people, that was more of a Crowning Moment of Funny.
 * You'll notice that most of the posts before this one were in chronological order. In fact, it's really more of a complete summary. If you read all of them, you now know the entire movie. That's right, the movie doesn't go any significant amount of time without a Crowning Moment of Awesome.
 * Gurren Lagann casts were introduced in an anime convention. There's Tetsuya Kakihara (Simon), Marina Inoue (Yoko), Yukari Fukui (Nia), Nobuyuki Hiyama (Viral), Mitsuki Saiga (Rossiu), Rina Sato (Kiyoh), Kana Ueda (Kinon), and Kana Asumi (Kiyal). Kisho Taniyama (Kittan) wasn't going to make an appearance due to some stuff. Anyways, MC announced that Kamina-sama himself wasn't going to appear today and the crowd goes boo. AND THEN HE APPEARS!!! The crowd goes off!
 * That pretty much cements how most of the fans appreciate Kamina more than the main guy himself, Simon...
 * It was love from the moment he challenged a giant mecha with nothing but a katana. Not even a SHIRT, just pants and tattoos. Up until that, he was just some hilarious guy wearing sunglasses underground.
 * Actually, that wasn't an anime convention in the video. It was a Gurren Lagann only event in which the (infamous) live dubbing took place.
 * Episode 21: "That's easy. We'll stop the moon." Said as though it's no big deal.
 * After Nia is dragged back to the Antispiral's home world in Lagann-Hen, Simon goes from being a cute guy to a man dripping with testosterone in less than a minute. Less than a minute. This must be the moment that forever transformed Simon into Garlock/Starlock.
 * It's brief, but Kyle Hebert managed to be in the same room as Katsuyuki Konishi during AX 2010. Both say Kamina's catchphrase in their respective language.
 * I can't believe that nobody has mentioned how Kittan (supposedly) got his Gunmen. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Funny, it can be seen here
 * Kiyoh's yoyo trick, starting at 4:08, has to be mentioned.
 * Parallel Works 15: Gunmen Symphonia Lagann gattais with . It must be seen to be believed.
 * While the manga adaptation is known for being a great read, there is one wholly original moment that must be mentioned. In the fight against Guame, Simon is fighting the Gember with Lagann alone, as the Gurren and the other Team Dai-Gurren Gunmen have been stolen. In comes Yoko, though, having jacked the Dayakkaiser, firing off shots to aid Simon. But Guame destroys the mech's barrel, so what does Yoko do? And this is why we should all read comics.
 * Not the Dayakkaiser. The Yoko W Tank.
 * The speech goes like this
 * I can't believe that nobody has mentioned how Kittan (supposedly) got his Gunmen. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Funny, it can be seen here
 * Kiyoh's yoyo trick, starting at 4:08, has to be mentioned.
 * Parallel Works 15: Gunmen Symphonia Lagann gattais with . It must be seen to be believed.
 * While the manga adaptation is known for being a great read, there is one wholly original moment that must be mentioned. In the fight against Guame, Simon is fighting the Gember with Lagann alone, as the Gurren and the other Team Dai-Gurren Gunmen have been stolen. In comes Yoko, though, having jacked the Dayakkaiser, firing off shots to aid Simon. But Guame destroys the mech's barrel, so what does Yoko do? And this is why we should all read comics.
 * Not the Dayakkaiser. The Yoko W Tank.
 * The speech goes like this

Yoko: Here we go Simon!!

Simon: O-okay!!"

"Kamina: "LET'S SEE YOU GRIT THOSE TEETH!"
 * The events leading up to Kamina's Giga Drill Breaker. In the manga, when Lagann uses Gurren Boomerang (throws Gurren's sunglasses), the shades align themselves to hit 5 Gunmen surrounding the Gurren and cut them all in half. In the anime, the shades hit 2 Gunmen jumping at Gurren from behind, followed by Gurren-Lagann creating 12 excessively long drills to stab 12 Gunmen jumping at it. causing them all to explode.
 * Of course, the dialogue leading up to this was pretty epic too.

Simon: "Bro ... You're alive."

Yoko: "Kamina!"

Kamina: "Simon! Just who the hell do you think you are? Isn't your drill the drill that will pierce the Heavens, the Earth and through to tomorrow? What's taking you so long? YOU'VE WON! THIS GIANT MUG IS YOURS! Don't be so insecure.

Simon: "Okay." Takes control of the Dai-Gunzan. "IT'S OKAY, EVERYONE! THE DAI-GUNZAZN IS OUR NOW! COME ABOARD!"

Thymilph: "You filthy naked apes. That Dai-Gunzan was a gift from the Spiral King himself. I'd rather destroy it than let it fall into your hands!"

Kittan: "You bastard!"

Kamina: "An old codger of a beast who doesn't know when to quit... Simon... Come here. Let's finish this in one go."

Simon: "Bro..."

Kamina: "Combine ... Our final move. FOR THE LAST TIME, LET'S FIGHT TOGETHER AS GURREN-LAGANN!"

Kamina: "Whether it's impossible or laughable, great men open up paths of battle!"

Simon: "If there's a wall, we smash it down. If there's no path, we'll make one with these hands!"

Kamina and Simon: "THE MAGMA OF OUR SOULS BURNS WITH A MIGHTY FLAME!"

Kamina: "KYOUDAI GATTAI! GURREN-LAGANN!" (Everlasting Combining; literally, Brotherly Combination)

Simon: "Me"

Kamina: "US!"

Kamina and Simon: "JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE ARE---?!""


 * While Dub-versions of anime generally tends to be less favored among fans, Yuri Lowenthal does have a rather epic way of pronouncing "Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann".
 * Perhaps one of the defining moments of awesome in TTGL was one particular scene in the formation of Arc Gurren Lagann, when it cuts to black... then snaps to Gurren Lagann slamming up into the cockpit with a stoic Badass Arm Fold. It's an incredibly powerful scene, and it still would be even if it weren't succintly demonstrating that this is a Humongous Mecha piloting a Humongous Mecha several times larger than itself
 * It's only the english dub, but when these four words are said chills will go down your spine
 * While it never gets played in the show, this particular version of the opening is even more awesome than the original. Yes, it sounds like hypocrizy, but this is done by Masaaki Endoh, so it's automatically Crowning Music of Awesome. Just listen to it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNFm7-Ugob E&feature=related