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Ardeem
Sep 16, 2010

There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.
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Caphi
Jan 6, 2012

INCREDIBLE
That was fast! Thanks.



Hey, it's Stinger and Coen meeting with Roddick! They're going to be at the U. N.'s summit on the extraterrestrial threat, presenting their findings on the Invaders. They do feel like they could have learned so much more with Saotome's help, but Roddick says Saotome has his own things to deal with and leaves.

But privately, Stinger and Coen are more interested in the beastmen, who've got a large force moving across Asia from the east. Coen calls them "purposeless creatures that rejected the Getter Rays." They're useful, perhaps, but not worth their (whose?) attention if they have no drive to evolve.

On the other hand, those that hunt the Beastmen are very interesting. Perhaps most interesting of all. And without Saotome, they'll have to intervene personally. "All in the name of Getter Rays, and the race to the apex of evolution," they cackle in unison.



Speaking of the Beastmen! Lordgenome is still grumbling about the meddling of "the one who knows the doom of the other world" (Zuul, Guame has to clarify). He has his minion snooping around the Dark Continent, and he's even joined with "he who dwells in those ruins." Lordgenome, it's just you and your general here - you don't need to be cryptic. We know who Dr. Hell is!

Guame wonders, is he trying to gather an army to fight Ba'al? Lordgenome suspects he simply wants the power hidden on this planet. Still, Lordgenome can handle him well enough himself; the real concern is the Ten Million Monkeys. The one who overcomes that limit will change the world, it's said. One man is already trying to lead the monkeys, but Lordgenome has already sent one of his four generals, Thymilf the Avalanche, to deal with him. He himself has much to prepare before the battle with those who would take the world's power...



Stinger and Coen weren't kidding - this is what happened when the beastmen rolled through China. That army is still running around here, and Elgan has asked us to put a stop to them. Elgan won't give us a rest, will he?

There's no rest for heroes. Ain't that right, chief?
Hell yeah! The Gurren Gang fights for all the people of the world, and nothing from flower to storm will stop us!
I guess we're supposed to be in the Gurren Gang now.
I'm sorry, Renton. Just bear with him until the mission's over.
Yo, you can't go over my head on that, Forehead!
Everyone here is in the Gurren Gang, and they're all my responsibility!
I'm putting my life on the line for you guys, so I hope you'll trust me with yours, yeah?
That doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
Yeah, no one asked you to be all leadery.
Hey, don't sweat the small stuff! Everybody follow me!
Okay!
Go go Gurren Gang!
!
You want to be in the Gurren Gang too?
At least kids and animals like Kamina.
Yeah. So which one are you?
What?

Yoko seems not to have realized that every girl in ZEUTH has figured her out from day one, and if she wants Kamina, she'll have to chase him, because he's never going to stop for her or anyone else. Elchi dreamily says that whoever does follow him, though, is going to find themselves in new and wonderful places before they know it, and it's definitely the voice of experience (Yoko sputters that Kamina isn't that... round). Gain, Exodus expert, agrees - those kinds of guys blaze trails behind them.



Meanwhile, Leeron is watching Renton and Eureka very closely - Eureka specifically. Renton yells at him (her?) to back away, and Leeron tells Eureka they can chat another time. Leeron seems to know who Eureka is, but Renton, in blissful ignorance, tells Eureka he won't let... it? bother her again.

Now Simon's staring at the couple, and it's Renton he's interested in - or rather (though Cynthia giggles that it would explain the "bro" thing), in his relationship with Eureka.

Oh, Simon, you're jealous of Renton now?
That's not what I meant!
Well, there are lots of girls here in GOONZ. You have your eyes on one?
Uh...
Hee hee... he always seems so childish, I didn't realize he was at that age.
Whee! This is fun! I'm rooting for you, Simon!
N-no! I mean, me... and girls...
Enough yapping! We're supposed to be scouting here!
Oh, let them have their fun. Love is only human.
Hey, bro, when are you getting a girlfriend?
Hunting beastmen, hunting love. I like it.
Hey, shut up! Black Family's gonna show all you Black Southern Cross and Black Knights!
Calm down, Kitan. If you keep yelling, we're gonna fail at scouting.
Reckon so, fellas. Misses.
You!

Yeah, him, and he's working for the beastmen now. Why's he got to keep butting heads with Jiron? "Aw, melonhead, don't flatter yerself. I just like choosin' the winning team."



And he hasn't come alone. Timp is here to duel his nemesis, but to Viral's great disappointment, he has not. Though he's not giving that honor to Timp - despite his assignment, Timp and Viral do not get along.



But no, Kamina is going to have to deal with Thymilf the Avalanche, a tremendous monster of a warrior and one of the Spiral King's four generals. He says we've earned the wrath of the Spiral King himself.

Heh. I don't care what your title is, open those giant ears and listen up!
If you try to grab the sun, you're gonna get burned!
You're talking to His Awesomeness Kamina, whose power is his pride! Memorize it!
So you're that Gurren-Lagann thing's pilot.
You got it! Gurren-Lagann is the fusion of my and Simon's souls!
Bro, leave me out of this...
Wanna do this? Bring on as many Four Generals as you've got, I'll take 'em all on!
K-Kamina? I think it's likely there are four of the Four Generals.
Not the point!

We've annoyed Thymilf slightly, but he just came to let us know that he's going to come for us tomorrow, with his army and his Dai-Gan-Zan (Great Mountain). If we have any affairs to settle, we have tonight to do it. He stomps away with sneering Viral and Timp in tow.



Simon is crapping his pants again, and Yoko advocates pulling out and planning our attack, but Kamina, of course, will have nothing to do with that bullshit. "We won't run! We won't hide! We won't turn back! That's the force of my and Simon's passion!" (It's clearly not.) We're gonna take on Thymilf tomorrow morning on the field of battle!



GOONZ is preparing to move out in a few hours; Zero and Sumeragi are doing their best to form a battle plan. Ideally, we can just focus on Thymilf, but all we know about the Dai-Gan-Zan is its name. Kitan has no patience for all of this worrying and is throwing a fit; Dayakka explains that they've been fighting the Ganmen for a long time. Kamina may look like an idiot, but he gave them real hope for the first time ever - he was the first to even think of jacking a Ganmen, and Gurren-Lagann has become a symbol of resistance against the Spiral King's oppression.

ZEUTH, who got here late to the party, hadn't thought of it that way, but it makes a lot of sense; Kamina is a moral leader, and where he points, others are inspired.



Simon is, as always, thinking of how totally awesome Kamina is. Yoko remembers thinking Simon was a load on Kamina, but she reminds Simon of what Kamina told her - that Simon's always there to pull him up when it looks darkest. Tomorrow, Kamina'll be counting on him, and so will she.

Yoko? I...
Hm?
N-never mind...
By the way, where is that idiot, anyway? I'm gonna check on him.


Yoko...
You're not gonna tell her?
R-ryoma! How long have you been there?
Don't hold anything back. You don't want to go out there with any regrets.
I-it's not like that. I'm not...
I-I'm gonna go find my bro!


Go get 'er, Simon.
Well, aren't you being nice.
Not really. We'll just need all he's got tomorrow.
Yeah, but you know, Yoko...
Nothing wrong with a little unrequited love.
Hmph. Means a lot coming from you.
...we are gonna win tomorrow.
Obviously.



Kamina?
Hey, what's up?
What are you doing here?
Lookin' at the moon.
Why?
It's a nice bright moon. Every time I look at it, I'm glad I came to the surface.
We gotta keep winning. We can't just stand still up here.
We're gonna keep fighting and fighting, gonna keep winning until they never come after us again.
For Simon... and Forehead, and Gimmy and Darry...
For all those kids to be able to live in peace, right?
Kamina...
What?
It's just, you're not a complete idiot.
Seriously, who do you think I am?
Kamina! The invincible, unbeatable Chief Badass of the Gurren Gang! That's how it goes.
Nope.
What?
I got a lot of guys now. Kitan, Dayakka, Jiron and Gainer, and way more...
This is beyond the Gurren Gang now.
We're gonna be the Great Gurren Gang!
But you're still the Great Gurren Gang's leader.
Watch my back for me, Yoko.
Huh?
I'll take on anybody that stands before me.
I need you to watch behind me... where we'll come back after, with Leeron and Forehead and Gimmy and Darry.
Kamina...
Yeah?



...
Yeah, your back needs watching.
Y-you...
You're gonna get that back times ten.
Wh...
When we get back, ten times that. Keep track.
Heh. You need to learn how to talk to a woman.
Sorry about that.
Just hold onto those ten times for me!
Yep!



drat it.



It's the next morning! We're going to need a lot of fast units. Kamina gives the order to charge straight at Thymilf!

Zero's letting Kamina take charge. Kamina is a very different kind of leader than himself, but maybe Kamina's magical ability to instill an army with the kind of courage to take on an unknown but mighty enemy headfirst is just what's needed here.

You think we got this, Kamina?
You think we don't? Who do you think I am?
The invincible, unbeatable Chief Badass of the Great Gurren Gang, right?
...
(Don't think about it... concentrate!)



Thymilf's army shows up, and it's a big one...



And we've got a sighting on the Dai-Gan-Zan, an enormous mobile Ganmen landship. Kamina wants it! Jacking the thing might be tricky, but Kamina's got Leeron working on a plan. All we have to do is immobilize that boat!



In four turns, wiping out the enemy first.



Before long, the scent of blood has drawn...



Space sharks Invaders! But the Invaders normally pay no attention to the beastmen, so what's different now? Thymilf warns Timp that the Invaders will ignore the beastmen, but they will go after him.

Yoko, again, urges Kamina to fall back, and Kamina urges her to shut up. It is true that we won't be able to pull out now without taking heavy fire. There's only one direction to go!

By the way, Leeron's figured out how to jack the Dai-Gan-Zan. You know how Gurren and Lagann combined? Well, that's because Lagann's Spiral Drive has the ability to override the controls of any other Ganmen. Gurren-Lagann is just a matter of having Lagann tap Gurren's machinery and take over its controls. From here it's pretty simple - we're going to fuse Lagann with the Dai-Gan-Zan. Simon isn't convinced he's up to the task, but Kamina and Yoko both urge him on.

The catch is that Lagann's fusion depends on Simon's will and focus. All he has to do is concentrate, and the rest of GOONZ will back him up. Sounds easy enough, right?



Anyway, Thymilf, Viral, and Timp don't move, but it's only turn 1.



The Invaders aren't much of a concern.



Let's start on the bosses.

We came to blows once! But today, we will settle our score!
Perfect! I'm gonna beat Kamina to you!
You shall do no such thing! I fight in the name of the Captain of the Eastern Army!
Then that's not enough! Kamina's sights are way over your head!
What?
That man's got a vision! He's too busy to play with the likes of you!








This ends now, Kamina!
Sorry, Captain Creature! I don't have time for you today!
So if you still wanna mess with me, I'll make it quick!
Gh... h-he's... much stronger now...
But I have climbed in the ranks as a human hunter... I will step up to the challenge!








Eh. Like he said, Viral's not the main problem here. We can mop him up at leisure.






The beastman army is completely destroyed by the end of the turn; Dai-Guard's crew learn Drive, Hayato learns Sense.



Viral and Timp focus on Kamina, so I don't think he can take a shot at Thymilf just yet, though we can certainly hope for him to survive so Simon can patch up the machine.

Simon! We're gonna sink that thing, and then you're up!
(Bro and Yoko... Bro and Yoko...)
You listening, Simon?
Oh, yeah! I... I can do it!
Good! This whole battle's riding on you, Simon!
(Focus... I gotta focus...)



Okay, wow.






Anyway, we're not dead yet.



And there are just a couple of Invaders, who'll just die on the next turn by themselves.




Gurren-Lagann quickly gets back to full.




So Simon takes out Viral and gets a Pigmole Steak.

Why... why can't I defeat you?
Retreat, Viral!
But...
You have more to do. We cannot afford to lose you.
Yes, sir. I will pray for your victory.
Stand by, Viral! Thymilf the Avalanche will return with news of victory!

Now for Timp.

Before you worked for SR, and now you're with the beastmen. What's the matter with you?
Hey, I'm just lookin' out for myself.
You're green at this, so take it from me. You gotta win life or it don't count.
Then I'm going to make sure yours never counts! Add this to your long list of failures!







So... how much did the beastmen get you for?
Why do you wanna know? You thinkin' of comin' over?
Gimme a number and I'll put in a good word with my boss Thymilf.
1,989,990 G.
Are you outta your mind? Have you got no shame?
Im sick a' you, you penny-pincher, and comin' from me, that's saying somethin'!





Eh, next turn.







We've really gotta get started on Thymilf.





Gurren-Lagann's running out of power, but we're this close.

You're with the beastmen now? How low will you sink?
I made the smart choice. Reckon that's something a meatheaded fella like you won't understand.
I'm fighting with the people I think are doing the right thing!
And I'll fight you, no matter where I am!








Jiron and Timp have an incredibly lovely duel.







Thymilf attacks Dai-Guard, for some reason.



It's the last turn now. Charge!







Timp is finally dead, dropping an ammo Cartridge and a lump of 10,000 G.

drat... my machine's outta control. Time to skedaddle!
(A pro never shows all their hand. 'sides, today was a pretty good showdown.)





And then Simon takes down Thymilf.



The Dai-Gan-Zan spins out of control, and Simon tries to take over it... but it doesn't seem to be working.

What's the matter, Simon? Get on it!
I know! I'm trying, but...!
I... I can't focus! Argh!
All units, fall back and defend the Dai-Gan-Zan!
Like hell! You guys deal with the furballs, and I'll go fix Simon!
You got it, Kamina! Get his head back on straight!
Yaaaaaaaargh!



B-bro?
Clench your teeth!



!
You awake now?
Yeah...
Whenever you're confused, I'll be there to smack you back to earth! Don't you ever worry! I'll always be with you!
Believe in yourself! Believe in my believing in you!
Okay!



Wow...
Great, Simon! That's beautiful!
I'm processing the data... just a little longer!
Woooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh!
See, I knew you could do it.




But then Thymilf in his Byako blasts his way out of the ship, throwing the Gurren! Kamina is injured by the force of the blow, and Thymilf follows up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L9C-m8PbX0

GOONZ tries to give Kamina cover fire, but that just tells Thymilf how important Kamina is to GOONZ - how badly he needs to be destroyed.

Bro? Bro!



You gotta answer me, Bro! Without you... I... I can't...
Simon! Clench your teeth!



Owwwww!
Bro! You're alive!
Simon! Seriously, who th' hell do you think I am!
Uh...
Yours is the drill that will break the heavens, the earth, and drill straight on into the future! Now's no time to freeze up!
We just won this thing! You're in charge of that monster! We got nothing to worry about!
Bro...
Right!
You're mine, Dai-Gan-Zan! Get out of here!



Simon easily dismisses the Dai-Gan-Zan, and now Thymilf is really mad. Kamina declares that it's time to take down that Byakou with Gurren-Lagann.

Let 'em laugh and call us idiots! Our passion keeps us in our neverending fight!
If there's a wall, we'll break it down! If there's no road, we'll carve one out!
The magma within us burns to the sky! The force of our combined valor, Gurren-Lagann!



Who am I?
Who are we?
Who the hell do you think we are?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJJTl0MnQS4

This is a video of that. It had a bunch of yelling and I thought it looked cool, is all.

Grr...
That's what we've been waiting for!
Woooo! Go kick his butt!



In one turn!



Analyze!






Surround!

You cannot leave here alive, Gurren-Lagann! You are too dangerous to let live!
Shut up! We live to go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb! Danger's gonna be the least of your worries!
When I'm with my bro, we're unstoppable! The drill in our hearts can pierce anything!
You're one of the Four Generals! Well, we're the unstoppable Great Gurren Gang!



:kamina: I don't give a crap if you're one of the Four Generals! This is a straight up duel!



:kamina: Final!



:kamina: Giga!



:kamina: Drill!



:kamina: BREAK!





In light of all that, a Land Module seems... insufficient.

All remaining beastmen and Invaders have retreated.
We... won...
This is Kamina's victory. He earned it.
All right! We beat one of the enemy's four bosses and got ourselves a ship! This went perfect!
You did it, Kamina! And Simon, too!
Good job, Kamina. You're a great chief.

[IMG]http://lpix.org/1370628/20130811101812.avi_snapshot_00.05_[2013.08.11_10.22.02].jpg[/IMG]

Bro?
Hey... Simon... don't you ever stop believing in yourself.
Not in your believing in me... and not me believing in you...
Believe in you... believing in yourself...
Kamina...
Kamina!
Kamina!
Kaminaaaaaaaaaaa!
Bro!
So long...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlNFAnFCW-g
Chapter 32: So Long, Little Buddy...

Caphi fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Aug 11, 2013

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Keeping the episode title until the end in that mission was great. Even if you recognize the episode there's still that brief moment of "this is SRW, maybe they'll let him survive somehow..." right until it hits.

Hellioning
Jun 27, 2008

ImpAtom posted:

Keeping the episode title until the end in that mission was great. Even if you recognize the episode there's still that brief moment of "this is SRW, maybe they'll let him survive somehow..." right until it hits.

Course, it's what the original anime did as well.

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Hellioning posted:

Course, it's what the original anime did as well.

Yeah, but it's a nice use of it here because even if you know G-L you still have that moment of wondering if maybe the plot'll twist itself around here because SRW.

Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!
Aw, man. Having watched Gurren Lagann I knew what was coming, but it's still sad as hell :(

Hellioning
Jun 27, 2008

ImpAtom posted:

Yeah, but it's a nice use of it here because even if you know G-L you still have that moment of wondering if maybe the plot'll twist itself around here because SRW.

This is their debut in a SRW game, though; debuting series generally have their plots go pretty similar unless it would result in them being unplayable (see: Ideon, Eva)

Brunom1
Sep 5, 2011

Ask me about being the best dad ever.
:qq: Good night, sweet prince...

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Hellioning posted:

This is their debut in a SRW game, though; debuting series generally have their plots go pretty similar unless it would result in them being unplayable (see: Ideon, Eva)

I've played the games. At least once you reach Z2.2, this isn't true even for the all the debuting series. :allears: You're right that it was unlikely but part of the fun of SRW is that you never know for sure.

Hellioning
Jun 27, 2008

ImpAtom posted:

I've played the game. At least once you reach Z2.2, this isn't true even for the debuting series. :allears:

Yeah, but lets face it; that ending was ASKING for a SRW rewrite.

Spiritus Nox
Sep 2, 2011

Brunom1 posted:

:qq: Good night, sweet prince...

May flights of huge badasses sing thee to thy rest.

veekie
Dec 25, 2007

Dice of Chaos

ImpAtom posted:

I've played the games. At least once you reach Z2.2, this isn't true even for the all the debuting series. :allears: You're right that it was unlikely but part of the fun of SRW is that you never know for sure.

There is always the Secret Unit hope.

Giovanni_Sinclair
Apr 25, 2009

It was on this day that his greatest enemy defeated, the true lord of darkness arose. His name? MARIO.

Brunom1 posted:

:qq: Good night, sweet prince...

I though since this was a SRW game you could still save him, guess I was wrong.

AradoBalanga
Jan 3, 2013

Small correction, Caphi. The Dai-Guard pilots learned Spirit/Yell, not Drive which is this: 気迫.

sunburnedcrow
Dec 17, 2012
The spirit of :kamina: will live on. So long, Bro.

Caphi
Jan 6, 2012

INCREDIBLE

AradoBalanga posted:

Small correction, Caphi. The Dai-Guard pilots learned Spirit/Yell, not Drive which is this: 気迫.

I always get their English names backwards.

Omnicrom
Aug 3, 2007
Snorlax Afficionado


I had a laugh at the combat lines against Timp, Gainer's on the nose insults and Crowe's unrepentant money-grubbing were great.

And as for Kamina, I gotta say that in some ways he was living on borrowed time. Kamina is one of a handful of series character who really HAVE to die for the purposes of the plot (callous as that is to say). Simon really can't get his later development unless Kamina is out of the way. Since Z2 is intending to cover all of Gurren Lagann across its games that means that unfortunately Kamina was going to have to die for the plot. Though to be fair following the very stupid character resurrection they do near one end of Z2.2 I guess I could see Kamina surviving, but no matter what there's no way Kamina could continue to pilot the Lagann from here on.

veekie
Dec 25, 2007

Dice of Chaos

Omnicrom posted:

I had a laugh at the combat lines against Timp, Gainer's on the nose insults and Crowe's unrepentant money-grubbing were great.

And as for Kamina, I gotta say that in some ways he was living on borrowed time. Kamina is one of a handful of series character who really HAVE to die for the purposes of the plot (callous as that is to say). Simon really can't get his later development unless Kamina is out of the way. Since Z2 is intending to cover all of Gurren Lagann across its games that means that unfortunately Kamina was going to have to die for the plot. Though to be fair following the very stupid character resurrection they do near one end of Z2.2 I guess I could see Kamina surviving, but no matter what there's no way Kamina could continue to pilot the Lagann from here on.

Agreed, his death is necessary, they might have a possibility of bringing him back once the game hits the TTGL grand finale though.


I wonder how the hell they can even manage that.

Wounded Land
Nov 27, 2007
Living in a greenhouse, growing crops that we can't eat...
Easy: He gets brought back from the previous universe by a Boson Jump! :v:

Ardeem
Sep 16, 2010

There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

Wounded Land posted:

Easy: He gets brought back from the previous universe by a Boson Jump! :v:

That'd be worth it just for Kamina getting Prince of Angst Akito hotblooded again.

veekie
Dec 25, 2007

Dice of Chaos

Wounded Land posted:

Easy: He gets brought back from the previous universe by a Boson Jump! :v:

You could use Spiral Energy to create a universe, Boson Jump in and pull out a Kamina.

thetruegentleman
Feb 5, 2011

You call that potato a Trump avatar?

THIS is a Trump Avatar!

veekie posted:

Agreed, his death is necessary, they might have a possibility of bringing him back once the game hits the TTGL grand finale though.


I wonder how the hell they can even manage that.

Bury him, then have the bad guys dig him back up and zap him back to life (looking at you, Dr. Hell) in order to study spiral power. After that, he would probably end up in the hands of some other evil dude who brainwashes him until Simon punches him in the face.

Honestly though, I'd rather give Simon the chance to escape Kamina's shadow, since he never really does in his own series as the result of the tonal shift.

Son Ryo
Jun 13, 2007
Excuse me, do you know where Saiyans hang out?

thetruegentleman posted:

Honestly though, I'd rather give Simon the chance to escape Kamina's shadow, since he never really does in his own series as the result of the tonal shift.

I'm glad that I'm not the only one to think this.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

Don't like it? well...

Good night sweet prince. :smith:

DonVincenzo
Nov 12, 2010

Super Monster
The Absolute Guardian of the Universe
Friend of All Children
Man I love the interaction between Ryoma and Simon :allears:

Shadowlyger
Nov 5, 2009

ElvUI super fan at your service!

Ask me any and all questions about UI customization via PM

veekie posted:

Agreed, his death is necessary, they might have a possibility of bringing him back once the game hits the TTGL grand finale though.


I wonder how the hell they can even manage that.

Didn't the movie pretty much already do that, though?

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Shadowlyger posted:

Didn't the movie pretty much already do that, though?

Nope. There's a new shape to the final robot but Kamina is dead the entire time.

Shadowlyger
Nov 5, 2009

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ImpAtom posted:

Nope. There's a new shape to the final robot but Kamina is dead the entire time.

Now remind yourself what that final robot is shaped like. :colbert:

veekie
Dec 25, 2007

Dice of Chaos

ImpAtom posted:

Nope. There's a new shape to the final robot but Kamina is dead the entire time.

Well, Lord Genome clenched his way back from being a head in a jar too.

KDavisJr
Jul 17, 2010

A real avatar never dies, even when it's replaced!

Omnicrom posted:

I had a laugh at the combat lines against Timp, Gainer's on the nose insults and Crowe's unrepentant money-grubbing were great.

And as for Kamina, I gotta say that in some ways he was living on borrowed time. Kamina is one of a handful of series character who really HAVE to die for the purposes of the plot (callous as that is to say). Simon really can't get his later development unless Kamina is out of the way. Since Z2 is intending to cover all of Gurren Lagann across its games that means that unfortunately Kamina was going to have to die for the plot. Though to be fair following the very stupid character resurrection they do near one end of Z2.2 I guess I could see Kamina surviving, but no matter what there's no way Kamina could continue to pilot the Lagann from here on.

They could have done the whole "bring back a usually dead character as a hidden unlockable" like they usually do. But yea, Kamina had to die here, like another character later on in the series. It's stages like these that tend to have special character portraits (Kamina's bloody face, Yoko's crying face), that I really like.

Ardeem posted:

That'd be worth it just for Kamina getting Prince of Angst Akito hotblooded again.

All they'd need is Gai, Sanger, Domon, Master Asia, and

veekie posted:

Well, Lord Genome clenched his way back from being a head in a jar too.

And how he went out again was even more badass than Kamina

SaitoBatch
Jun 16, 2009

thetruegentleman posted:

Bury him, then have the bad guys dig him back up and zap him back to life (looking at you, Dr. Hell) in order to study spiral power. After that, he would probably end up in the hands of some other evil dude who brainwashes him until Simon punches him in the face.

Honestly though, I'd rather give Simon the chance to escape Kamina's shadow, since he never really does in his own series as the result of the tonal shift.

So basically, do what they did to Master Asia in R? I like it.

Shadowlyger
Nov 5, 2009

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thetruegentleman posted:

Bury him, then have the bad guys dig him back up and zap him back to life (looking at you, Dr. Hell) in order to study spiral power. After that, he would probably end up in the hands of some other evil dude who brainwashes him until Simon punches him in the face.

Nah, Kamina's too much of a badass for brainwashing. I'd wager something more to the tune of Auron in KIngdom Hearts 2: some moron resurrects Kamina, Kamina immediately gives them a "WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM" followed by a fist to the face.

Brunom1
Sep 5, 2011

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Ardeem posted:

That'd be worth it just for Kamina getting Prince of Angst Akito hotblooded again.

In a parallel universe...

: FINAAAAAL...!

: GEKIGAAAAAAAAN...!

: BREEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK!!


Also, I ran into this on /m/:


Sadly, I couldn't find out the name of the creator.

As pointed out by Dahler Mendi, it was made by iCircus.

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Daler Mehndi
Apr 10, 2005

Tunak Tunak Tun!

Brunom1 posted:

Also, I ran into this on /m/:


Sadly, I couldn't find out the name of the creator.

I found it tagged Icircus on danbooru, and this appears to be his twitter feed.

https://twitter.com/iCircus

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Shadowlyger posted:

Now remind yourself what that final robot is shaped like. :colbert:

It has Simon's face and is wearing Simon's glasses so... Simon?

Shadowlyger
Nov 5, 2009

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ImpAtom posted:

It has Simon's face and is wearing Simon's glasses so... Simon?

Simon does not wear a giant red cape, good sir.

veekie
Dec 25, 2007

Dice of Chaos

Shadowlyger posted:

Nah, Kamina's too much of a badass for brainwashing. I'd wager something more to the tune of Auron in KIngdom Hearts 2: some moron resurrects Kamina, Kamina immediately gives them a "WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM" followed by a fist to the face.

He is hard to brainwash...but not too hard to fool. Kamina doesn't use his brain much, so a few good sensory hijacks might do it.

WrightOfWay
Jul 24, 2010


Shadowlyger posted:

Simon does not wear a giant red cape, good sir.

And Kamina doesn't wear star shaped glasses. The cape's color is the only element of the design that isn't based on Simon.

KDavisJr
Jul 17, 2010

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Brunom1 posted:

In a parallel universe...

: FINAAAAAL...!

: GEKIGAAAAAAAAN...!

: BREEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK!!

*Said parallel universe exploded soon after due to too much awesome*

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Caphi
Jan 6, 2012

INCREDIBLE
e: not splitting a single chapter across pages.

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