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Viewers of the second movie are familiar with the gigantic mecha Super Tengen
Toppa Gurren Lagann, the most powerful mecha that Team Dai-Gurren uses in the
whole franchise. It bears a strong resemblance to Kamina, except with Simon's
glasses and with no face. A number of sites note the resemblance, including
the [Gurren Lagann
Wiki](http://gurrenlagann.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Tengen_Toppa_Gurren_Lagann).

![Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RSkf6.png)

In some places it's claimed that Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is a
reincarnation of Kamina, but none of them are very official, so this may just
be fan speculation. Is there any evidence that Super Tengen Toppa Gurren
Lagann is actually a reincarnation of Kamina, or do they just resemble each
other?


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Is Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann actually Kamina?


I don't think there is any official source on this, but I would guess STTGL
was made with image of Kamina in mind. Kamina was spiritual leader of Dai
Gurren Dan and he was most influential person on all main characters,
including Simon, Yoko, Viral and other. As that, they all see him as
representation of power, freedom and determination. Fitting image for STTGL.

Also note, that at end of TTGL, it is said resurrection of dead people is (at
least) morally wrong. So resurrecting Kamina, albeit temporarily, would go
against believes of main characters.


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This is not canon, but conclusions drawn from canon and logic on infinites...

Some things that should be considered...

  1. The Dimensional Labyrinth opened up access to infinite parallel realities.
  2. Due to the infinite nature of the labyrinth is why the anti-spirals expected the team Dai-Gurren to be stuck there forever. (Infinite number of parallel relaities, an Aleph 0 infinite)
  3. They got out anyway.
  4. The only way to counteract an infinite is with another infinite. (Especially useful is a higher tier infinite, such as an Aleph 1 infinite overpowering an Aleph 0)
  5. Spiral power seems to provide a feedback loop. People with strong spiral power around others with strong spiral power seem to get even stronger spiral power.

In the Dimensional Labyrinth, they encountered what most fans believe to be a
ghost/image/memory/reincarnation of the "true" Kamina. However, it should be
noted that each of these infinite universes had its own Kamina.

A concept to take into account... Kamina only died in the primary universe.
His many variations were alive in the labyrinth. Each one of these by itself
was not the prime Kamina, but between them, they had the traits of the prime
Kamina.

This means, likely most had the desire to achieve the higher level than they
were and would never be satisfied in that regard, and to break through any
boundary. If one version of Kamina could reach a point to where he could break
through from one dimension to the next, things get interesting. The fact that
this manages to happen is evidenced from the way they're pulled by him back
into the prime world, and a very prime-like Kamina is appearing nearing less
primish Kaminas (Kaminai?).

Through this interaction, the core personality of the prime Kamina would re-
emmerge due to the Prime Kamina's traits being the most shared traits (likely
causing many Kaminas to gravitate towards the original ideal as they try to
reach their ultimate potential), and they would discover the nature of the
Labyrinth.

These prime-like Kaminas would, by their nature, increase his power by
reaching out to the other Kaminas. And any Kamina he could reach would likely
also learn this ability (through becoming stronger, learning technique,
whatever). And in infinite realities, there would be infinite Kaminas
attempting this. Upon knowing the anti-spirals created the Labryinth as a
prison for freedom fighters, he would desire nothing more than to break that
boundary, and seek them out.

Now, imagine... an infinite number of Kaminas, their spiral power feed-backing
from an infinite number of other Kaminas, with enough presence to effectively
search infinite realities and find every single original member of Dai-Gurren.
That's infinite Kaminas, each with infinite spiral power.

Aleph 1 infinite achieved.

Although team Dai-Gurren may be limited in number, the dimensional Kamina
would have no such limit, and be able to break them all out and give them
energy to spare.

So...

In a way, it would make sense, knowing the characters and the realities
invoked, and would explain the reality-shattering power team Dai-Gurren
achieved after being effectively decimated.

Although, I have to say, if my hypothesis is accurate, a side series about all
these Kaminas and their journeys could be pretty interesting.


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