Tengen Toppa Gunmen

The Tengen Toppa Gunmen appear only in the movie The Lights in the Sky are Stars and the manga retelling, arriving in the closing battle once the Granzeboma tears Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann to pieces. Each stands large enough to rival a galaxy, and their designs echo the older Gunmen their pilots once favored, reshaped into far grander forms.

Unlike the ordinary Gunmen scattered across the series, these titans hold nothing mechanical inside them beyond the cockpits their crews sit in. Their bulk is spun entirely from Spiral Energy, along with the thoughts, souls, hopes, regrets, and remembered pasts and futures of the people driving them. Team Dai-Gurren calls them into being by fusing the many Lagann units recovered from the Galactic Spiral Abyss with their own Space Gunmen, which yields war machines on an impossible scale.

Every unit emerges in sequence after the giant flagship falls, and in the end the whole set merges together to raise Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann for the decisive blow. The designer You Yoshinari also drafted extra concepts that never reached the screen, including a galaxy-sized take on Kamina's original Gunmen, each sketch bearing two faces, one on the head and one on the chest.

Simon pilots Tengen Toppa Lagann while Nia Teppelin fields Tengen Toppa Solvernia, and Viral commands Tengen Toppa Enki Durga. Yoko Littner drives Tengen Toppa Yoko W Tank, the brothers Jorgun and Balinbow Bakusa share Tengen Toppa Twinboekun, and Kid Coeega takes Tengen Toppa Kidknuckle. Iraak Coeega handles Tengen Toppa Einsaurus, Zorthy Kanai the Tengen Toppa Sawzorthn, and Makken Jokin the Tengen Toppa Mo-Shogun. Gimmy and Darry Adai crew Tengen Toppa Grapearl, while Dayakka Littner, Leeron Littner, and the rest of the support staff run Tengen Toppa Dai-Gurren. In the manga alone, Kiyal Bachika's machine becomes Tengen Toppa King Kittan in tribute to her fallen brother.