Simon the Digger VS White Lantern

Simon the Digger VS White Lantern is an upcoming episode of Death Battle, featuring Simon the Digger and Gurren Lagann from the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann series and Kyle Rayner from DC Comics in a battle between cosmic heroes with indomitable will.
==Interlude==
Ringmaster shouts...
The screen then statics into playing the Death Battle intro.
Boomstick: He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win... a Death Battle.
==Simon the Digger==
==Kyle Rayner==
==Prelude==
Wiz: Alright, the combatants are set. We've run the data through all possibilities.
Boomstick: IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLEEE!!!
==Death Battle==
==Results==
Wiz: The winner is...
==Comparison==
==Original Track==
===Composition===
The track for this fight is "???" by ???.
===Title===
The title references...
===Cover Art===
The cover art depicts...
==Trivia==
===Production===
*The core connections between Simon the Digger and Kyle Rayner are that they were initially both ordinary, young men living on Earth, down on their luck and leading rather boring and mundane lives until one day, they came into possession of an empowering and mysterious alien object (the Core Drill and a Green Lantern Ring, respectively) that is powered by their willpower in the form of green energy (Spiral Power and Green Lantern Will, respectively), leading them to become cosmic heroes. In addition:
**Both act as successors who surpassed previous heroes who also channeled these energies (Kamina and Hal Jordan, respectively), having their acknowledgment and blessing to take their spots (Kamina believed in Simon having the will to carry out his dreams, with the rest of Team Dai-Gurren eventually seeing Simon as their leader, while Hal, as Parallax, gave the Green Lantern Ring back to Kyle and told him that he should be Green Lantern, a sentiment shared by the Justice League).
**Both would later learn that there used to be many who wielded these energies (the Spiral Beings and the Green Lantern Corps, respectively), but they were wiped out by one of their own members (Lordgenome and Hal Jordan, respectively) who were corrupted by multiversal entities that represented the antithesis of their energies (the Anti-Spiral locked away their own Spiral Power and destroyed most of the Spiral Beings, while Parallax is the embodiment of fear, the enemy of the Green Lantern Corps).
**Even though both are human, their indomitable willpower allowed them to reach even further heights and attain stronger cosmic forms (Simon evolved his mech into Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and later Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, while Kyle mastered the entire Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum to become a White Lantern), protecting the entire multiverse from harm.
**Both had romantic relationships with the daughter of an enemy (Nia Teppelin and Soranik Natu, respectively).
**Funnily enough, Gurren happens to be a .
*This episode was confirmed during the Save Death Battle Kickstarter, having been the $450,000 stretch goal reward alongside another unrevealed episode.
**It was previously an option for Season 10's Champion's Poll, where, as part of Death Battle's paid YouTube membership, members were able to vote for two matchups to become episodes, with one being animated in 2D and one animated in 3D. This episode was an option for the 2D poll, but it lost to Bill Cipher VS Discord.
***This makes it the third matchup that lost a fan poll to be made into an episode, after Among Us VS Fall Guys and Kratos VS Asura, and with the next two being Hulk VS Godzilla and Gru VS Megamind.
****This is the third losing Champion's Poll matchup to do so, after Among Us VS Fall Guys and Kratos VS Asura.
***Interestingly, as the match on the 2D poll was first suggested as Kyle Rayner VS Simon the Digger, the billing from its initial placement on the poll to its official announcement is swapped, with Simon going from second billing to first billing, likely for future SEO reasons, as Kyle is less well known compared to Simon.
===Other=== 
*This is the 13th DC VS non-Marvel-themed episode, after Goku VS Superman 1, Goku VS Superman 2, Joker VS Sweet Tooth, Raven VS Twilight Sparkle, Ben 10 VS Green Lantern, Black Canary VS Sindel, She-Ra VS Wonder Woman, Flash VS Sonic, Goku Black VS Reverse-Flash, Harley Quinn VS Jinx, SpongeBob VS Aquaman, and Goku VS Superman (2023).
*This is the 17th Anime/Manga VS Comic Book-themed episode, after Goku VS Superman 1, Goku VS Superman 2, Android 18 VS Captain Marvel, Carnage VS Lucy, Optimus Prime VS Gundam, Genos VS War Machine, Venom VS Crona, Hulk VS Broly, Goku Black VS Reverse-Flash, Saitama VS Popeye, Thor VS Vegeta, Magneto VS Tetsuo, Trunks VS Silver, Frieza VS Megatron, Goku VS Superman (2023), and Omni-Man VS Bardock.
*Prior to this episode, Brandon Yates made a track for the matchup called "Will of the Drill" as part of his "What If?" commission tracks.
**This makes it the 14th episode that received its own commission track before its release, after Blake VS Mikasa, Goku Black VS Reverse-Flash, Jason Voorhees VS Michael Myers, Guts VS Dimitri, Bill Cipher VS Discord, Frieza VS Megatron, Gojo VS Makima, Galactus VS Unicron, Joker VS Giorno, Bowser VS Eggman, Kratos VS Asura, Master Chief VS Doom Slayer, and Ash VS Yugi, and with the next one being Ruby VS Maka.
***This is the 12th one to be done by Brandon Yates, after Blake VS Mikasa, Goku Black VS Reverse-Flash, Jason Voorhees VS Michael Myers, Guts VS Dimitri, Bill Cipher VS Discord, Frieza VS Megatron, Galactus VS Unicron, Joker VS Giorno, Bowser VS Eggman, Kratos VS Asura, Master Chief VS Doom Slayer, and Ash VS Yugi, and with the next one being Ruby VS Maka.
***A vocal version was released a few months later, making this the first episode with a commission track that received vocals before the matchup became an actual episode, with the next one being Ruby VS Maka.
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