Brainiac

## Vril Dox

**Vril Dox**, better known as **Brainiac** was a Coluan supervillain and an enemy of Superman, The Flash, and the Legion of Super-Heroes.

## Biography

### Creating the Dark Circle

Brainiac, a Cyborg supervillain and conqueror from the planet Colu, sought to gain total control over the Universe. While he had many plans to do so, he also wanted to have a backup plan, in case he would one day be killed during his endeavors. He created a terrorist group named the Dark Circle, which would remain hidden, while both carrying out atrocitus acts, as well as observing important events in history. Though their main goal would remain to bring Brainiac back to life and assist him, should this be necessary someday.

### Batlling Superman

Brainiac travelled to planet Earth, in order to find and eliminate the last Kryptonian Kal-El, otherwise known as Superman. He ambushed him in his hometown of Metropolis and during their fight, used his drones in order to restrain him. While he was preparing to finish Kal-El off, another superpowered hero, The Flash, arrived and helped Superman free himself. Together, they teamed up and fought against Brainiac. He though, had a secret weapon; a bullet made out of Green Kryptonite, one of Superman's only weaknesses. As he shot the bullet out of his hover, the Flash was running right towards him, but turned around once he noticed the bullet being shot at Superman and tried to catch it. While initially successful, he had ran so fast that he accidentally got transported to another universe. A couple of days later, after an adventure with a team of heroes of said universe, he returned to his own universe, though for everyone on Earth-1 it appeared as no time had passed. He quickly caught the bullet before it could hit Superman and threw it back at Brainiac, with enough momentum for it to impale his head, killing him instantly. After his death, the two heroes discussed the formation of a team of superpowered heroes in order to protect Earth from future threats, similar to Brainiac.

### Ressurection

While Brainiac had indeed been killed, his head was given to S.T.A.R. Labs, which they stored in their Metropolis facility for further research. Two years later, three members of the Dark Circle appeared and tried to steal their master’s head. After killing a scientist and his guards, they entered the room where Brainiac’s head was being kept in. Before they could do something however, all three of them were attacked and incapacitated by the vigilante from Gotham City known as the Batman. Not wanting to give him any information he could use against them, they swiftly killed themselves with poisoned pills inside their mouths, leaving Batman with no clues as to who they had been. Over the next thousand years, the Dark Circle would eventually get their leader’s head back, though at this point, his body had become unusable. They took DNA samples of him and tried to clone Brainiac multiple times, creating Brainiac 2, 3 and 4, all of whom posessed mere tenth level intellects, which were not enough to initiate Brainiac’s new plan; to break into the Legion of Super-Heroes academy's and steal the Miracle Machine, an ancient device created by the Controllers of Oa, in order to rewrite reality and existence itself. Then, the scientists of the Dark Circle had a breakthrough. While the other three Brainiacs had become valuable members of the organization themselves, Brainiac 5, their newest clone, had a 12th level intellect, making him suitable for Brainiac’s plan. This clone would hear his siblings plans to take the machine and decided to go undercover at the Legion Academy, in order to break into the vault and get to the Machine himself. Brainiac, now having entered the final stages of his plan, absorbed the three bodies of his inferior clones, and fused them into a new patchwork-like body, and prepared to change the universe into his image.

### Stealing the Miracle Machine

When the time came, and Brainiac 5, along with Supergirl, who had traveled to the future from the 21st century via a Time Bubble, and Mon-El, broke into the vault, Brainiac made his move. After Mon-El revealed himself to be a trator, working for the Circle and its leader, he introduced him to the other two. Brainiac gloated about how he had used his clone and made him do exactly what he had wanted from the very beginning. After Brainiac 5 and Supergirl managed to escape, he proceeded to take control of the Miracle Machine, which they had unknowingly given to him, he started to change the universe into his image. Holographic statues of the Legion were transformed into images of Brainiac, as were whole planets. After regrouping with some other Legion academy trainees and fighting the Dark Circle members, Supergirl and Brainiac confronted Brainiac, who was able to incapacitate them them with the machine. Though, before he could destroy them, Brainiac 5 tricked the still conscious parts of his original clones into starting a battle for power over the machine. While Brainiac was trying to reach for it, his clones tore each other apart, destroying the entire patchwork body from within, and killing every single one of the four Brainiacs.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Cyborg/Coluan Physiology**
	+ **Technopathy**

## Equipment

### Former Equipment

* **Drones**
* **Hover Platform**
* **Green Kryptonite Bullet**
* **Miracle Machine**

## Gallery

BrainiacBrainiac attacking Metropolis with his drones.Brainiac after being hit by the Kryptonite bullet.Brainiac's new body.Brainiac controlling the Miracle Machine.Brainiac trying to win control over his clones.Brainiac's second body being torn apart.
## Notes

* **Vril Dox**, as he is called in the comics, was created by Otto Binder and Al Plastino and first appeared in DC comics in Action Comics #242 in July 1958.
* Brainiac's depiction has varied in various continuities. Most commonly, he is either a Kryptonian artificial intelligence, or a scientist from the planet Colu. In the Tomorrowverse he seems to be from Colu, however also displayed a speech pattern similar to a computer in Justice Society: World War II, modtly due to him being a Cyborg. This was not present in Legion of Super-Heroes.
* In the comics, Brainiac most commonly fights the Justice League, Superman in particular, while trying to expand his collection of shrunken cities and worlds aboard his skull ship.
* In some continuities, Brainiac is responsible for Krypton's doom, either becuase he stole the city of Kandor and destabilized the core, or because he gave the Kryptonian Science Council false advice regarding its stability.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Justice Society: World War II
2. ↑ Legion of Super-Heroes