Leeron Littner

Short summary

Leeron Littner (リーロン・リットナー, Rīron Rittonā?), or simply "Ron", is the village mechanic of Littner, who is able to repair and scavenge the various Gunmen his group encounter. Leeron first helps Simon with repairs to Lagann. When Kamina, Yoko, and Simon go off to fight the Beastmen, Leeron offers to go to help with repairs. Along the way, he helps to give information about both Gurren and Lagann, as well as the Gunmen the team finds in its travels.

Personality

Leeron is fairly flamboyant and openly, stereotypically gay. This often played as comic relief in the series, with Leeron often taking his campness to ridiculous levels just for the sake of freaking people out. Despite this, Leeron is a very rational person and more than capable of being serious when he needs to be. Leeron is also one of the most loyal members of Team Dai-Gurren, being the only adult member of the team (other than Kamina) to never doubt Simon; while the majority of the team seemed completely shocked by Simon's recovery after Kamina's death, Leeron was simply smiling as though he knew Simon would make a comeback the entire time.

Occupation

Member of Team Dai-Gurren Scientist Technician Co leader Medic

Description

Leeron possesses an extraordinary aptitude for both technology and mechanics and is in charge of maintaining team Dai-Gurren's Gunmen. Much like Rossiu, Leeron seems to have a keen sense for trouble and is often prepared for the misfortunes that befall their team. Unlike the Spiral King, Leeron has total faith in Dai-Gurren team to claim victory in their battles. Leeron never joins the fight, except for the battle against the Anti-Spirals. They usually stand clear of the fighting while providing tactical support to the Gunmen pilots through their communications systems.

Powers and Abilities

Despite not specializing in combat or fighting ability, Leeron is lauded for his intelligence and creativity and is vaunted as the most intelligent human in the series by Lordgenome himself. His genius allows him to create and modify vast machinery into a variety of forms and explain the abstract phenomenon that occurs in the Gurren Lagann Universe. He's noted for being the one who educates the rest of the cast on peculiar happenings and has been responsible for the many scientific breakthroughs that have been yielded by Team Dai-Gurren. According to Leeron himself, the human race owes their intelligence and aptitude to their own Spiral Power considering with the span of seven years they went from being dysgraphic and illiterate to programming interstellar machines.

Race

Human/Spiral

Spiral

Spirals or Spiral Beings are entities that contain the energy of evolution or "Spiral Power". Spiral Power can be within life forms with helical DNA or even in galaxies in a spiral. Spiral Power amplifies a spiral person's potential infinitely and causes them to be blindly driven towards their goals. Spirals are identified by their complete drive to continuously fight and evolve regardless of the circumstances surrounding their evolution. Other races recognized and feared the limitless potential of Spiral Power and formed a group against them called the Anti-Spirals. The Anti-Spirals had fought a war with the Spirals and won. The Spirals were forced to flee back to their home-worlds - one of which was Earth. After the Anti-Spirals conquered the galaxy, they installed Spiral Life-form Annihilation Systems on any world where they detected a Spiral life-form signature. When the above ground life-form population exceeded a set limit, the device then activated and destroyed whatever Spiral life-form was present on the planet. In the case of Earth, the Annihilation System was Cathedral Terra, disguised as Earth's moon. When the Earth's human population reached the set limit (1 million), Cathedral Terra would start on a collision course straight into the Earth and destroy the human race, who were at the focal point and spearhead of this Spiral progression

Gunmen

or also known as Ganmen are the main type of mecha used in the anime series Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. The name itself means "face/facade"(顔面 ガンメン Face Surface), and can be broken down into "gun" and "man" — unsurprisingly, the mecha themselves are centered around faces and as such are very varied with few in the series being the same model. Gunmen sport a variety of weaponry: primitive models only use large clubs or bare hands, while advanced ones use solid or beam weaponry. Gunmen are powered by their human pilots' Spiral Power (fighting spirit), or by electricity when piloted by a Beastman. The code name "gunmen" was applied to the system originally known as "system that shares the mutually-expanded awareness through the joint-developed man-machine interface." The face area of gunmen is laid out like a series of cranial cortices, mimicking the brain functions. Information is directly shared with the pilot's brain, displayed from a central monitor via highly-specialized symbols. The pilot controls the Gunmen through the use of control sticks that directly send neural signals to the mecha itself. In this way, the pilot can receive advanced sensory information regarding the battlefield and control the Gunmen's movements as easily as they would control their own bodies. Gunmen were also designed for space combat, so no further modifications were necessary when Team Dai-Gurren was launched with their Gunmen into the Earth's satellite orbit to fight the Anti-Spirals.