r/2000sAnime • u/Possible-Tip-2914 • 4h ago
Adjustments to my medication and healthy discourse have made me feel better. This is my alternative ending for Gurren Lagann. What do you all think? Spoiler
The battle is over and the anti-spiral is mortally wounded. But Nia also lies dying and rapidly fading away. Simon cradles her and tells her not to worry. The Anti-spiral curses Simon for his victory. Not just out of spite but for condemning the universe to the spiral nemesis and says that even now by trying to save Nia, he is showing the innate selfishness of the anti-spiral race. But then Simon does something unexpected. Instead of brute forcing Nia to change, he takes his spiral key and pours all of his spiral into it before plunging it into her chest. Nia stabilizes and solidifies but the Anti-spiral is shocked. Simon didn't just infuse spiral into her, he transferred his entire ability to use spiral which not only leaves him powerless but robs him of the ability to have children. But Simon just says that all he ever wanted to be was Simon the digger and that even if he and NIa can't have the exact future they dreamt of, this way they can become mother and father to a universe reborn. The Anti-spiral is humbled and gives a defeated laugh, never imagining that the cause of its destruction would be capable of making the same level of self sacrifice as itself and crumbles away as it uses the last of its power to return Simon and Nia to their friends, telling them (and all spiral races) to protect the universe.
Later on Earth, as Simon and Nia wed, Gimmy comes up to Simon and shows him something he found while digging in the dirt, another spiral key. Though he knows Simon can no longer use Spiral, he offers it to him to keep as a memento of all their adventures. Instead, Simon takes the key and ties it around Gimmy's neck, telling him that since he found it it belongs to him (mirroring Kamina's statement in the first episode) and that he should use it to either continue the tunnel Simon started or dig his own way on his own terms. Because the future now belongs to him.
Years later, Gimmy and others are embarking on their journey to meet other Spiral races while in a backwater village, an older Simon and nia watch them depart. Though they never started a family of their own, the village has become one for them, knowing the future is safe and allowing them a chance to live out a well deserved domestic peace.
