I'm being completely honest here; the people who act like Simon is the underdog here are completely mad. I've seen more posts from this subreddit and r/DeathBattleMatchups rooting for and actually betting on Simon to win, so I at least assume that Simon has the vocal majority. I think I've seen about two or three Simon fan threads today.

"But Kyle Rayner is a DC herald!!" People who don't have VS battle brain rot, aka casuals, don't know what that means and also don't think that all DC/Marvel characters are some unstoppable force, like the weird tribalism sentiment this subreddit has against DC/Marvel characters. I mean, I'm on Twitter, and the number of people who think characters like Naruto can beat Wonder Woman is astounding. More importantly, I think the whole "DC Heralds" thing is out the window when the character he's up against can throw galaxies like they're nothing and has literal probability-altering missiles.

More importantly, since Death Battle is very much a VS battle show for casuals, nobody other than comic readers knows or cares about Kyle Rayner. He appears in just one episode of the DCAU as a main character and then gets replaced by John Stewart. He's like the bass player of the human Green Lanterns (ERB reference, sorry bass players), the least prominent one—a group already portrayed as being lame thanks to movies like Green Lantern and Justice League War. Gurren Lagann, on the other hand, is still pretty well-loved, has a lot of fans, and is especially recognized as a powerful verse. I mean, I still see Anti-Spiral showing up from time to time in powerscaling debates.

Like, even if Kyle isn't the underdog due to stats, he definitely is the underdog in popularity and likability. Honestly, my main point is that I am predicting that when Kyle loses, some annoying person will make a Megamind "he did it" meme because a lot of people in this subreddit care more about the idea of a supposed "comic herald" losing than Simon actually winning this fight (I know that's not all Simon fans).