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Badass Boast: Simon gives us a good one in Act XI.
Simon: Gimmy... I liberated humanity from an entire army of beast people in giant robots. I defeated the king of them, who's lived a thousand years, by poking him in the chest. I can create drills, larger than skyscrapers, through sheer force of will, and crucify other mecha on a giant pair of sunglasses. Do you really want to try to take anything from me?
Simon: Then I commend your bravery, and award you Gurren.
Butt Monkey: Viral. Lordgenome summarized it when Viral was beaten againnear the end of chapter 2.
Lordgenome: Note to self, make Viral think he can win more often, seeing him get bitchslapped around is fuuuuuuuuun.
Poor Kittan gets this as well, especially near the end, despite his efforts of creating plumbing, money, and other wondrous things that society needs he still gets ridiculed because Dayakka created Anime, which is way more important.
Buffy-Speak: If you listen really close to what to some of the low-level Beast Men say, it tends to fall underneath this trope. The most prime example is the Beast man in Episode 1, Act 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I Mq 4 n GJT Am I
Department of Redundancy Department: Simon's introduction in episode 1. "My name is Simon. I don't have a last name, so you can just call me 'Simon the Digger.' Why 'The Digger', you ask? Because it's my job. What job, you ask? My job is to dig. Dig what, you ask? *cheerfully* To dig...a tunnel!"
From Chapter 1, act 6: "Give back my battleship, you ape, or I'll sink it! I'll sink your battleship!" (also doubles as a Shout-Out)
Pragmatic Adaptation: This series manages to keep the comedy at a highpoint, but also manages to mix in the moments from the movies and keep in the epic moments from the anime.
Also, the whole reasoning behind Kamina assuming rights as Team Dai-Gurren's leader in Chapter 1, Act V is taken straight from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance.
"Give back my battleship, you ape, or I'll sink it! I'll sink your battleship!"
Lordgenome and the four generals are basically a giant shout-out to the Predacons
Then there's this gem from Ch. 3, Act XII:
Rossiu: Soldier, mind explaining what you're doing underground?
Shown Their Work: TheAzureCrow has done his homework about the series, you can see this in his User Comments, where he basically gives out the correct answer to most questions concerning the series.
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