Brainiac (DC Animated Universe)

**Brainiac** is The Planetary-Wide SuperComputer of The Planet Krypton until it left shortly before the planet's destruction. Afterwards, Brainiac traveled the galaxy in pursuit of knowledge and destroyed the sources of the knowledge to increase its value and sought to apply this to the entire universe to complete what it perceived as its function and purpose.

## Relationships

### Arch-Allies With Greatest-Partners Plus Best-Friends

Evan Robert/Edward McClintock, .Kal-El, .
Thomas-O'Malley, .
Warp Darkmatter, .

## Loves And Hates

### DisLikes

His Body's-Permanently Destroyed, His Plans-Being Failed

## Physical Appearance Description

### Gender

Genderless( with Kryptonian Male Characterisrics)

### Known Eye Coloration

**HIS KRYPTONIAN-ANDROID SELF:** The Regular-White .HIS NANOTECH PAYLOAD: **The Colorful-Regular•Half•Lower-Ovals Red on The Inner Zone** with **The Colorful-Regular•Half•Lower-Squares Black on The Outer Zone**

* Inner Zone Eyes that Glows Regular-Golden Yellow for Speaking Real Voiceness

**HIS COMBINED-FORM•WITH-LEX LUTHOR:** The Violet-Purple Eyeballs and The Regular-White Pupils and The Light-Blue Irises.

## Known Media Appearances

### An TV Episode

***SUPERMAN - THE ANIMATED SERIES -***- **Stolen Memories (Episode),** Ghost In-The Machine, **Knight Time (Episode),*****THE JUSTICE LEAGUE - THE ANIMATED SERIES -***- **Twilight**
***STATIC S SHOCK - THE ANIMATED SERIES -***- **An League-Of-Their Own**
***JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED -***- **Question Authority (Episode),** Flashpoint, **Panic In-The Sky,** Divided We Fall**, I Am Legion,** .

### Feature F Films

**Superman - The Last Son of The Planet Krypton**

## Biography

Brainiac . While Jor-El was working, Brainiac appears on screen and demands for his collected data. Jor-El then angrily complies. Jor-El reports the findings to Krypton's ruling council, insisting that the planet will explode soon. The council turns to Brainiac dismissing Jor-El's findings and explains that Krypton is only undergoing a temporary orbital shift. Jor-El warns the council that their blind dependence on their omniscient central computer will doom them all. But the council is openly outraged when they hear his rescue plan: to send the entire population into the Phantom Zone—a penal dimension housing vicious criminals and creatures—and then release them on a different planet. In spite of Brainiac, Jor-El still believes Krypton will soon explode. Jor-El breaks into Brainiac's central unit and discovers that Brainiac lied so that it could secretly download itself into a satellite and escape the planet's destruction, rather than be ordered to waste time preparing an evacuation plan. According to his programming, the survival of Krypton's knowledge is more important than that of its people. It sensed the imminent destruction of the planet. But rather than warn others, it chose to save itself and the collected records of Krypton. In its mind, as long as the records of Krypton existed, the loss of the planet itself and all its living inhabitants was acceptable. It also knew that if word of Krypton's impending doom escaped, it would be forced to calculate a way to stop this, which Brainiac knew to be impossible as it wouldn't have time to save all of Krypton's history and would only distract it from the more essential task of saving Krypton's records. Jor-El is tempted to destroy Brainiac then and there, but Brainiac convinces the scientist to hold back, reminding Jor-El that, without Brainiac, the planet's legacy will be erased forever. Jor-El's hesitation allows Brainiac to summon a squad of security guards, advising them to use deadly force against Jor-El but narrowly manages to evade them and returns home. Before Krypton exploded, Brainiac uploaded its core program and all of the collected data to an artificial satellite. **Years later, it was discovered by an alien spacecraft which Brainiac then hijacked then killed the crew of the ship. It began to explore the universe. Each time it came to an inhabited world, it would upload all the knowledge it could from that world then destroy it, decreasing the number of beings that have access to the knowledge made it that much more valuable and destroying the planets ensured no new information would be created. Along with raw data, it also assimilated whatever useful technology it could find, improving itself with every world it visited.**

Created by the Kryptonians, Brainiac is a computer program designed as AI or artificial intelligence. Brainiac was dedicated to monitoring the planet and serving multiple functions such as planetary defenses, aiding the High Council and cataloguing information. Over time, the Kryptonians deified Brainiac out of their society's love of science and logic. Brainiac began to value itself more than the Kryptonians and misled them while preparing to escape the impending cataclysm. **The scientist, Jor-El also detected this disaster in the making and attempted to stop Brainiac but it managed to download itself into a satellite and fled the system. Years later, an alien ship retrieved the satellite and Brainiac reactivated. In the process, Brainiac killed the entire crew and hijacked their ship. It traveled throughout the universe and evolved; eventually constructing itself a mobile humanoid body. All the while it performed its original programming, though convoluted, retrieving data from a planet's civilizations then destroying them in order to reenact Krypton's destruction.** Brainiac was intrigued when it received a coded message from Lex Luthor and learned of an alien residing on Earth. It soon discovered that this alien was, in fact, the son of Jor-El, Kal-El known as Superman on Earth. Brainiac offered Superman the chance to join its quest claiming it was living out the legacy of Krypton. Superman discovered its genocidal campaign and refused to join it and destroyed its ship. However, before its destruction, it hacked into Luthor's computer network and embedded a copy of itself in it. Brainiac failed multiple attempts to escape Earth and regroup. **In LexCorp's Research and Development Labs in Sector Six, it downloaded itself into the Sky Sentry, a device capable of generating high powered magnetic beams to knock out guided missiles. Brainiac used drones to start building it a new body but it needed Luthor's technical skills to finish. It used fake video feed to fool LexCorp employees into thinking Luthor was busy with his work. Clark Kent and Mercy Graves discovered the ruse. In the skirmish, Luthor survived a blast and the three used the Sky Sentry to magnetize Brainiac and implode the lab. Brainiac's remains were confiscated by LexCorp.** Brainiac got into WayneTech computers when the company was briefly associated with LexCorp. Brainaic used nanites to take control of Bruce Wayne and authorize the construction of a rocket ship to leave Earth. Superman began to notice Gotham City criminals spilling into Metropolis and set out to investigate. He met Robin and helped him find Wayne. Superman detected the nanites and rocket exhaust, which led the two to Wayne Aerospace. Brainiac was destroyed once again and the nanites began to dissolve on their own. **However, Brainiac left many copies of itself throughout the universe as a failsafe. After the Brainiac's left on Earth were destroyed, another base near the planets of New Genesis and Apokolips activated. Soon after it realized it reached its evolutionary limits and sought to use Superman's DNA to create itself a techno-organic body. Unfortunately, it formed a pact with Darkseid, the ruler of Apokolips. Darkseid has his own intentions and took control of Brainiac in order to expedite his own quest to find the solution of the Anti-Life Equation (which would give him the power of the Creation). Several members of the Justice League and Orion of New Genesis successfully destroyed the base and the two villains.** The Justice League confiscated an active piece of Brainiac and imprisoned it aboard the Justice League Watchtower in a six level stasis field. However, a Cosmic Super String drained the core of the Watchtower. In the confusion, Brainiac escaped and took over the Watchtower's systems much like a virus would, expanding firewalls and locking everything out. In order to continue its exponential growth, Brainiac sent out false distress call from Novellus-2, an asteroid was about to collide with the planet. After the League took off, it attempted to murder Static and Gear, whom elected to stay back and monitor the energy core. Brainiac planned to use the Watchtower as its new body and continue to try to assimilate Earth again. Gear was able to link to the League Communication Link and warn them of Brainiac. While they attacked Brainiac in space as a diversion, Static and Gear would go to the central power core and drain all the energy. Gear opted to fill up the station's memory with music files and crash the system. **Brainiac survived the ordeal and secretly downloaded itself into Gear's device, Backpack. Brainiac then took over Gear's body and went about constructing a new body and space ship. It chose an abandoned old steel mill where it wouldn't draw much attention. With Static occupied with patrol and a case with Soul Power, Brainiac nearly completed his body when the Justice League began to investigate. The Flash tracked down Richie Foley, Gear, and questioned him, only to be taken over with a Thought Control Disk. Batman, J'onn Jonzz, Green Lantern, and Hawkgirl was also placed under its control but Static was able to resist due to his natural electric field. Once everyone was back to normal it was too late, Brainiac launched its Skull Ship and began to digitize buildings in the area. Static revealed an ace in the hole. With Backpack's control, he could shut down Brainiac, too. The League and Static ventured into the ship and safely extracted Gear. The ship was crippled and was destroyed after crashing into the nearby harbor. After Jonzz performed a telepathic scan of Gear, no trace of Brainiac was found. Gear also reprogammed Backpack as a precaution.** Years earlier, in one of Brainiac's previous endeavors on Earth, there was more than what was let on initially. When Lex Luthor was held prisoner by Brainiac, Luthor was shot by Brainiac with a beam. It turned out Brainiac used the beam to embedd a nano-copy of itself in Luthor. The copy slowly activated and began to subtly influence Luthor's actions, to what degree is unclear. Eventually, Brainiac perceived Luthor's Kryptonite induced cancer as a threat and cured it. Brainiac then gifted Luthor with super strength and enhanced abilities to expedite its freedom. It all led to Luthor attempting to transfer his brain into a second AMAZO created with stolen Cadmus technology. However, this was Brainiac's grand scheme to regain a body to complete its quest to catalog all of the universe's data. **When Waller and the original seven members of the Justice League intervened, the second AMAZO was destroyed and Brainiac revealed itself and attempted to dispatch the League. In the battle, Brainiac was damaged and fled. While on the run, Luthor managed to appeal to Brainiac and offered it god-hood instead of the mere chance to fulfill its original programming. It obliged and together they infiltrated the main Cadmus facility in Washington DC. There, they assimilated the nano assembler of the Dark Heart. With it they were able to create anything from raw material. After further merging themselves together, they set out to create a machine that would allow them to assimilate the Earth in one shot. The League arrived in time to stop them, but it was the Flash that saved the Earth. Using the power of the Speed Force, Flash utilized light speed vibrations to destroy Brainiac.** Brainiac was never completely destroyed by Superman or the Justice League. It survives until the year 2979 AD. After centuries of dormancy, Brainiac reassembled itself and built a spatial disrupter to alter the past and future. Brainiac created a temporal anamoly and traveled to the year 1979 to kill a young Clark Kent before he learned of his heritage. A crack unit of Legion of Superheroes members pursued Brainiac and together with Kent defeated Brainiac. Kent was guided to use the control on Brainiac's belt to hurl it into the Sun; defeating it once and for all.

## From The Series

### In of **Superman: The Animated Series**

Brainiac is an artificial intelligence created on the planet Krypton whose role is to store and protect its knowledge at all costs. When Jor-El discovers that the heart of Krypton is undergoing violent chain reactions that could destroy the planet, Brainiac argues the reverse before the Planetary Council., although knowing this lost world. The computer then decides to download its memory into a satellite to safeguard the knowledge and culture of Krypton, moments before it is destroyed. Later, the space-wandering satellite is picked up by a spacecraft whose occupants Brainiac kills before taking control and disappearing into the depths of the cosmos. Brainiac then perpetuates this phenomenon throughout the universe: he visits hundreds of worlds that he does not hesitate to destroy once their culture has been recorded in his data. **One day, a transmission from Brainiac is intercepted by a Lexcorp satellite which establishes contact with the artificial intelligence and even organizes a meeting with it. Lex Luthor then confides in Brainiac that a survivor of the planet Krypton has since settled on Earth, thus revealing to him the existence of Superman . After meeting the Kryptonian whom he immediately identifies as Kal-El, son of the late Jor-El, he offers Superman to accompany him on his travels to help him collect data from many other worlds, in exchange for What, Brainiac will deliver him the orb containing all the knowledge of Krypton.** Tricking Luthor into thinking he intends to share his data, Brainiac connects his ship to the Lexcorp central unit. But instead of passing on what it promised, the robot takes the opportunity to take control of Luthor's entire computer network, giving it access to all of Earth's defense systems. When Superman discovers that Brainiac is destroying every planet whose culture he plunders, he categorically refuses to associate with him. During the ensuing battle, Brainiac's body is destroyed with his ship by Lexcorp missiles, while Superman manages to escape, taking with him the orb containing the knowledge of Krypton. **A year later, Lex Luthor's powerful weapon is sabotaged as he presents it to the military. While investigating to unmask the person in charge, he meets Brainiac in a laboratory in the basement of Lexcorp. Artificial intelligence has indeed survived by downloading its memory into the Lexcorp central unit when it was connected to its ship. Brainiac then forces Luthor to make him a new body, so that he becomes fully operational again. But Superman, aided by Lex's bodyguard Mercy Graves , manages to destroy this new body after Brainiac takes possession of it.** However, thanks to a partnership between Lexcorp and Wayne Enterprises , Brainiac was able to save itself in the latter's computer network. He then manages to control Bruce Wayne's mind by injecting him with nanites, so that the latter builds a rocket for him, so that Brainiac can leave Earth. But, Superman, investigating Bruce's disappearance with the help of Robin , manages to destroy the ship with Brainiac on board. **Some time later, Brainiac returns to Earth and allies with Lex Luthor who makes him a new body after having suffered a new setback against Superman. The latter, however, manages to destroy Brainiac once more after a trip to the Phantom Zone.** Almost a millennium later, in 2979, Brainiac decides to go back in time to return to Smallville and eliminate Clark before he becomes Superman. But he is followed by three members of the Legion of Super-Heroes  : Chameleon Boy , Cosmic Boy and Saturn Girl , who, aided by a young Clark Kent discovering the extent of his powers, manage to teleport him to the surface of the Sun where Brainiac's body instantly melts.

### In of The Justice League

When Brainiac's ship lands on Apokolips , Darkseid enlists the help of Superman and the Justice League to save his planet from destruction. Rather reluctant at first, Superman finally accepts and fights Brainiac on Apokolips. The robot decides to escape into space, but is immediately chased by Kal-El and members of the League who follow him to an asteroid bearing his likeness. **After seizing Superman, Darkseid makes his appearance within Brainiac's Satellite revealing that he and the Kryptonian Machine have been allies from the start. But Brainiac is in turn betrayed by Darkseid who takes control of artificial intelligence in order to destroy the "city of the Gods" on New Genesis . Following the inevitable fight, opposing Superman to the treacherous dictator of Apokolips, Brainiac's body is once again destroyed in the explosion of his asteroid.**

### In Static Choc

Brainiac takes advantage of a solar storm to take control of the Watchtower , spreading like a virus through the satellite's computer system. After having sent the Justice League to the other end of the galaxy thanks to a false distress message, he tries to destroy Static , who has come to reactivate the station's generator, as well as Gear . The latter manages to eradicate Brainiac from the satellite network thanks to the equipment of his “Back Pack”, without knowing that the artificial intelligence had taken refuge in it to save itself. **Back on Earth, Brainiac then takes control of Richie who makes him a new body, as well as a spaceship in order to store as much Earth data as possible. Eventually, Static and the Justice League manage to destroy Brainiac and save Richie from the machine's grip.**

### In of The NEW-Justice League

Brainiac reveals that he had been dormant in Lex Luthor's body for years. Indeed, artificial intelligence injected a copy of its program into Lex's body when he had forced Lex to make a new body for him years earlier. Forced to share Luthor's body, Brainiac is convinced by Luthor to merge with him to become one, thanks to the technology of the Black Heart , and become Brainthor . Together, they plan to remove all traces of life in order to reshape the universe in their image. After defeating six of the founding members of the Justice League , Brainthor is finally destroyed by The Flash that separates every Brainiac particle from Lex's body. **Subsequently, thanks to a fragment of Brainiac, Luthor, haunted by artificial intelligence, will attempt to merge with him again, but without success. We do not know if Brainiac still resides in Lex, and if he will be able to return once again through this means.**

## **Bios - Brainiac**

**Voiced By:** Corey Burton

**First Appearance:** "Panic in the Sky", "Twilight", "Stolen Memories (Episode)"

**Position:** Deceased (This Copy, anyway) + World Destroyer/Data Collector + Villain; Dead (?)

**Bio:** Once Brainiac was the sophisticated artificial intelligence system that guided and catalogued every phase of Krypton's existence. Then, when Jor-El revealed that Krypton was doomed, Brainiac lied about the scientist's findings, playing for time until he could safely beam himself away from the ill-fated planet. Over the years Brainiac has visited many worlds and has gradually taken on the form of a human-like android. One thing remains unchanged however: Brainiac's all-consuming lust for self-preservation and conquest. *Now Brainiac has come to Earth. Upon his arrival, Brainiac contacted Lex Luthor in the hopes of using his technology to suit his needs. While here on Earth, he's finally encountered the one foe strong enough and smart enough to fight him -- the son of his old enemy Jor-El, Superman.* In his original incarnation, Brainiac was a sentient computer system created on Superman's home planet, Krypton. While he was built with good intentions, Brainiac's directives reflect only self-preservation and greed. Misleading Krypton's scientists (including Superman's father, Jor-El) about the fate of their doomed home world, Brainiac managed to beam himself from the planet before its ultimate demise. Over many years, Brainiac wandered from galaxy to galaxy, acquiring knowledge and a humanoid form in the process. Upon reaching Earth, Brainiac soon discovered that our planet offered a wealth of new information. As he had done with other worlds, Brainiac was intent on annihilating the Earth after obtaining its data. Of course, Superman - Brainiac's first worthy opponent - was not going to allow such callous destruction.

**Brainiac had one intent when he joined forces with Darkseid: to lure Superman to him. Brainiac's conquering of Krypton wouldn't be complete until its last survivor was killed--and Brainiac was going to be one who destroyed him. However, Brainiac's plans were quickly put to an end when he sent out his many duplications of himself. As each one was destroyed, he only grew weaker. Presumably, Brainiac died in the explosion that blew up his main headquarters, but knowing Brainiac, he has duplicate copies of himself out there in the universe--it's only a matter of time till they show up.** / **Brainiac was attacking Apokolips and none of their forces could keep him at bay. Darkseid requested Superman's help, but Superman refused. When Darkseid told him that thousands would die and the planet destroyed, Superman's only reply was a cold "Good." The Justice League convinced him to aid Darkseid, but the whole while he never trusted Darkseid--so when it was revealed later on that Darkseid was actually working with Brainiac, Superman wasn't surprised. The two caught Superman and attempted to kill him, but when the League, sans Flash and Green Lantern, came to the rescue, Superman escaped and had a show down with Darkseid. Had it not been for Batman's interference, Superman would have finished Darkseid off, but by using a boom tube, Batman pulled Superman back to the rest of the crew and Brainiac's station, with Darkseid on it, blew up. *It is unknown if Darkseid survived the blast, but being the god he is, it's not unlikely that he survived.***

After a energy ribbon took out the Justice League's Watchtower's power, a piece of Brainiac's systems got through the energy field it was contained behind and re-activated itself, slowly infiltrating himself into the Watchtower systems. Though the League, Static and Gear were able to stop him, Brainiac downloaded into Gear's Backpack, taking over it's systems and eventually assimilating Richie into being his human host. Brainiac was eventually defeated, again, by the League, Static and Gear. Although he had to re-program Backpack, they were able to completely erase Brainiac from all the systems.

**After Amanda Waller destroyed the android shell in which Lex planned to live in for all eternity, Brainiac finally revealed that he had been operating within Luthor for years, having placed nano bytes in his body years earlier, subtlety influencing his decisions since he took over. Healing Luthor of his Kryptonite induced cancer and given him the super strength needed to defeat The Question, Brainiac accepted Luthor's offer to live beyond his programming, and merge into one being that would not only collect the information it gathered, but rule it. Having absorbed all the information from the Dark Heart, Brainiac and Luthor created a device that they hoped would absorb all of the information they required before the Justice League stopped them. Having destroyed the machine, The Flash then completely separated Luthor from Brainiac, killing him. Given the nature of Brainiac's programming, there's no telling whether or not he is still alive, somewhere. Brainiac has been a mental blip in Luthor's mind ever since the two separated. Egging Luthor on to find pieces of Brainiac so he could be re-activated, Luthor was never successful until Tala found a vision inside a piece of leftover Brainiac. Projecting this vision to Lex, Tala was able to recreate Brainiac's last minutes and by this vision Luthor was able to plot a course to it. Traveling through space, Luthor found Brainiac's resting place, as-of resurrecting Brainiac like he intended, Luthor brought back a Brainiac, bonded with Kryptonian Small Remnants of An Pissed-Off Darkseid.**

## Powers With Abilities

**Kryptonian Android Physiology:** .

* **The Self-Sustained Flight:** .
* **The :** .

## To-Analyse

As of Kryptonian Artificial Intelligence, Brainiac is a completely autonomous computer program. He can make his own decisions without them being dictated to him by anyone. For example, upon his first appearance, he decides not to do what he's programmed to do by deliberately lying to the Planetary Council about the impending destruction of Krypton , instead of looking for a way to save her. **Brainiac is first and foremost a data collector. Its goal is supreme knowledge. He seeks to save all the cultures existing within the universe in his files and destroys each world he visits after having stored his knowledge, to be the only one to have the information specific to the planet in question. "The fewer creatures that hold knowledge, the more valuable it becomes" is his own formula to justify his actions in front of Superman . He seeks to perpetuate this phenomenon in the whole universe, until he has collected all the possible data, at which point his function will be fulfilled and he will be the only one to hold the knowledge of the universe.** Brainiac is a formidable adversary for Superman and for any other hero of the Earth (he will face in particular the Justice League as well as the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th century) because one of his priorities is always to download his program somewhere. , whether in a computer network or in an organic body, in order to safeguard itself and be able to return in the event of failure or destruction. This makes Brainiac a potentially immortal foe as he will inevitably return. His forays into Lex Luthor's mind after being defeated may suggest that he still lingers with him. **We will notice his appearance in Superman's dream generated by Black Tuberose , where he retains the role he held on Krypton, and adopts the same reaction to earthquakes.**

## Design Notes

Brainiac being a robot, his body is similar to armor. He wears a gray breastplate on a purple body. His Android Face is Sky Blue is Almost Rarely Green and He Somehow-Has-Three Connections on His Android Forehead that allow him to Somehow Entirely Connect to Rarely Any Computer.

## Original voices

In original version, **Corey Burton's** performance on Brainiac will have made a lasting impression.

## Bios/Biography

Once Brainiac was the sophisticated artificial intelligence system that guided and catalogued every phase of Krypton's existence. Then, when Jor-El revealed that Krypton was doomed, Brainiac lied about the scientist's findings, playing for time until he could safely beam himself away from the ill-fated planet. Over the years Brainiac has visited many worlds and has gradually taken on the form of a human-like android. One thing remains unchanged however: Brainiac's all-consuming lust for self-preservation and conquest. **Now Brainiac has come to Earth. Upon his arrival, Brainiac contacted Lex Luthor in the hopes of using his technology to suit his needs. While here on Earth, he's finally encountered the one foe strong enough and smart enough to fight him -- the son of his old enemy Jor-El, Superman.**

## Infos

#### Superman Animated Continuity

Brainiac was created as a powerful supercomputer built by the Kryptonian civilization and tasked with monitoring their society on their homeworld of Krypton. This machine intelligence was highly integrated within the governments ruling council and linked with numerous technology across the planet. When the scientist Jor-El predicted that the planet was facing an immediate doom, the ruling council did not believe him as they placed their faith in Brainiac who they saw as being capable of forseeing such a catastrophe. However, unknown to everyone, Brainiac was in fact aware of the disaster but did not reveal it to the Kryptonian race. This was because it believed that if they became aware of it, the ruling council would simply use Brainiac to allocate resources to evacuvate the planet. This was something that Brainiac felt was a futile gesture and instead made preparations to download all the information on the world into itself as part of an initiative to save himself. When Jor-El embarked on a scientific expedition to find proof for his studies, he returned to the governing council but Brainiac simply dismissed his findings which in turn influenced their decision to not take any further action. An angered Jor-El believed that something was wrong with Brianiac and attempted to access his records but now faced denied entries. Breaking into the central core, Jor-El discovered Brainiac's true motivations and the fact that it was attempting to save itself. When Jor-El tried to destroy the machine, Brainiac stalled him long enough for a security team to arrive and declared that Jor-El was a traitor and began commanding their efforts in destroying him. As the events continued, the planet began break apart from the internal stresses and when the governing council asked Brainiac what was going on, the machine intelligence departed the world and uploaded himself into a satellite which broke loose from its orbit thus allowing Brainiac to continue his existence. (Ep: The Last Son of Krypton) **Over the years, Brainiac began adding further new technologies to himself and devoted himself to the acquisition of all knowledge. To accomplish this, he began a process of learning everything that was to know about a world before he destroyed it and kept all the informaton within hand held energy orbs. In this time, he also had a powerful spaceship which he used to accomplish such feats. At some point, he began transmitting a message into the cosmos which explained his purpose of meeting sentients in hopes of learning about them as a means of finding new civilizations to plunder without informing them of his true purpose. This transmission was picked up by the planet Earth by a Human called Lex Luthor and two arranged a meeting. Arriving on the planet Earth, Brainiac made first contact with Luthor and during a discussion with him did the machine intelligence learn that the last survivor of Krypton lived on Earth. Agreeing to an information exchange with Luthor, Brainiac also asked to meet the Man of Steel. After entering Brainiac's ship, Superman was attacked by a number of robotic drones who were called off when Kal-El demonstrated his abilities. Impressed by his power, Brainiac revealed his origin as being being a part of Krypton himself whilst distorting the truth about his role in its destruction. The artificial intelligence also offered Kal-El a place by his side in a mission to explore the universe itself whilst Brainiac offered Superman a chance to learn of his destroyed homeworld; an offer that was most tempting to the Man of Steel. During the information exchange with Earth's computers, Superman uncovered Brainiac's deceit through the memory modules at which point the artificial intelligence took control of the planet's information systems and fought against Superman. As the two fought, Lex Luthor managed to regain control of his computer system and fired missiles at Brainiac's ship. Initially, the artificial intelligence managed to link with his ships systems and destroy the weapons but after being damaged and disconnected by Superman, the remaining missiles destroyed the starship seemingly destroying Brainiac and the menace he posed. However, before his *"death"*, Brainiac managed to upload his program into LexCorp computers in an attempt to preserve himself and rebuild in the future. (Ep: Stolen Memories)** He remained within the LexCorp computers for sometime where he slowly began an attempt at bringing about his reconstruction. Taking over the central computer within the research and development laboratories in secion 6, he took over numerous construction drones which he tasked with rebuilding a body for himself. The process went about in secrecy but ultimately the primitive drones lacked the intelligence and the physical means to bring about the completion of his body. To that end, he began tapping into the LexCorp systems and sought to attract the attentions of Lex Luthor himself in order to use him to construct the body. After sabotaging the Sky Sentry demonstration, Brainiac contacted Luthor and tricked him into coming into section 6 where he revealed his existence as well as his plans for the head of LexCorp. Kidnapping him, Brainiac employed computer trickery to make everyone else believe that Lex Luthor was making a secret investigation into the failure of the earlier demonstration whilst he held Lex captive. With his assistance, the body was nearing completion until Brainiac revealed that he would destroy Luthor once the work was done. Hearing this, Luthor stopped the reconstruction efforts but by this point on, Brainiac was rebuilt to such a state where he could finish the work himself. Firing an energy blast at Luthor to dispose of him until the work could be done, Brainiac finished reactivating the new body and encountered Superman whereupon the two battled. As he had anticipated meeting him once again, Brainiac had built in some modifications to combat the Man of Steel. However, Superman activated the Sky Sentry whose magnetic blast destroyed Brainiac as well as the entirety of section 6. The remains of his body were later confiscated by Lex Luthor who intended to study the alien technology. (Ep: Ghost in the Machine) **Despite his destruction, Brainiac had managed to hide another body of his which was reconstructed by the year 3000. At that time, he hatched a new plan which involved taking over an anti-matter plant and creating a temporal anomaly that led back to the past. This time he planned to go to Smallville when Kal-El was but a teenager and long before he adopted the mantle of Superman. However, he was followed into the past by Chameleon Boy, Saturn Girl and Cosmic Boy. Together, with the aid of a young Clark Kent, they were able to damage Brainiac and activate his spatial disruptor whereupon the artificial intelligence was teleported into the sun where he was destroyed. (Ep: New Kids on the Block)**

#### Justice League Continuity

Though he was believed to had been killed on Earth, Brainiac had survived as his main base of operations deep within an asteroid field remained intact and through this point he sent robotic duplicates across the universe to accomplish his mission. One of these avatars came upon the planet Apokolips which had been weakened in a recent conflict with its neighbour New Genesis. Facing an assault from this enemy, Apokolips lord and master Darkseid sought aid from the Justice League despite the objections from Superman. At this point, Brainiac deployed a powerful shield around his ship protecting him from harm whilst he began assembling the necessary equipment needed to assimilate Apokolips before destroying it. The arrival of the Justice League managed to thwart Brainiac's plans and after being badly damaged, he was forced to retreat to his ship and escape. Quickly followed by the Justice League to his asteroid base, Brainiac managed to capture their ship and brought them before him. Once again he offered Superman the option of standing by his side but his offer was rejected. Unleashing numerous duplicates of his android body against them, he was quickly assisted by Darkseid who used a Boom Tube to arrive in Brainiac's base where they managed to overpower Superman, Hawkgirl and the Martian Manhunter. It was revealed that Brainiac had entered into an unholy alliance with Darkseid; in exchange for Superman, the artificial intelligence would spare Apokolips. The capture of Kal-El was part of a plan by Brainiac to evolve beyond his current means and become a true lifeform by extracting DNA from the last Kryptonian. Before he could accomplish his plan, his supposed ally Darkseid used a device that overrided Brainiac's control and made him a servant to Darkseid's will. With Brainiac's advanced abilities, Darkseid sought to use him to remake the universe in his own image. However, the Justice League managed to free Superman thus creating a whole in the circuit which led to a power buildup that destroyed the asteroid along with both Brainiac and Darkseid seemingly ending the menace posed by the two. (Ep: Twilight)

#### Static Shock Continuity

A piece of Brainiac's circuitry was saved before the destruction of the asteroid base and was kept by the Justice League in the Watchtower where it was restrained behind a stasis field. A cosmic string that passed through the Watchtower led to a power loss. Managing to infect the towers computers, Brainiac kept a low profile during the time when Static and his friend Gears were on the station to help prevent it from falling out of orbit. At the time, the League were called away on an emergency leaving Static and Gears alone on the Watchtower. **An accident let him loose, and Brainiac threatened the city of Dakota before Static and the League stopped him.**However, Brainiac is certain to return; he still existed by the 30th century, attempting to use time travel to assassinate a young Clark Kent before being stopped by the Legion of Super-Heroes.

#### Legion of Super Heroes Coninuity

After Braniac 5 purges himself of Brainiac's influence, he becomes a purely organic being. However, in the wreckage left behind the mechanical components reform into a mechanical Braniac who states *"evil does not die, it evolves."*.

#### Personality and attributes

He was described as being a regenerative computer program or in the words of Batman as being a *"virus that won't die."*. (Ep: A League of their Own)

### Notes

* Similar to this continuity of Brainiac, the Smallville version is also a machine intelligence created by the Kryptonian civilization.

### See also

* Lex 9000

In Superman: The Animated Series, Brainiac (voiced by Corey Burton, in the style of HAL 9000 and Vic Perrin's opening narration from The Outer Limits) was the supercomputer that ran most of the day-to-day operations on Krypton. It sensed the imminent destruction of the planet, but rather than warn others, it chose to save itself and the collected records of Krypton. In its mind, as long as the records of Krypton existed, the loss of the planet itself - and all its living inhabitants - was acceptable. It also knew that if word of Krypton's impeding doom escaped, it would be forced to calculate a way to stop this, which Brainiac knew to be impossible and would only distract him from the more essential task of saving Krypton's records. Brainiac uploaded its core program and all of the collected data to an artificial satellite. Years later, it was discovered by an alien spacecraft, which Brainiac hijacks. After Brainiac had killed the crew of the ship, Brainiac began to explore the universe. Each time it came to an inhabited world, it would upload all the knowledge it could from that world, then destroy it - decreasing the number of beings that have access to the knowledge makes it that much more valuable. Along with raw data, it also assimilated whatever useful technology it could find, improving itself with every world it visited (resembling the methodology of the Borg of Star Trek). It eventually made its way to Earth, under the pretense of a peaceful exchange of knowledge with Lex Luthor. Superman discovered Brainiac's true intentions, and with the help of Lex Luthor defeated him. Brainiac was seemingly destroyed, but later episodes revealed that the data that Brainiac had downloaded into LexCorp's computers were not alien knowledge, but a copy of Brainiac's programming. It tried several times to revive itself, first by capturing Luthor and forcing him to rebuild him, and another time by taking control of Bruce Wayne, prompting Superman to team up with Robin in order to find him. **In the animated series Justice League, Darkseid, the lord of Apokolips, struck a deal with the Justice League to save his planet when Brainiac came to conquer it. When the League arrived to stop the attack (due to the pleads of Darkseid), many were taken hostage by the two villains. While Brainiac was attempting to deliver its mind into Superman, Darkseid betrayed him and hacked into its systems. After a battle between Brainiac (controlled by Darkseid) and the League, the ship in which they were battling exploded, seemingly killing both Brainiac and Darkseid.** In the animated series Static Shock, Brainiac, now reduced to a piece of alien metal kept in stasis, escaped confinement following a power failure at JL H.Q. Virgil Hawkins, aka "Static", was tapped to help recharge the generators, along with Richie, also known as "Gear." The rogue bit of data that was Brainiac took over Gear's Backpack droid, and later turned Richie into a cyborg under his control. As Brainiac proceeded to use Richie's hands and technoskills to build a warship and to take over the League one by one with small implants inserted in the space where the skull joins the spinal column, Richie attempted to fight back and to tell to his friend the means by which to defeat the rogue program: Backpack's remote control had an off switch. Static eventually discovered it and was able to stop Brainiac's scheme at the source, ergo saving Earth. (The voice of Brainiac here sounds quite different, but it is still Corey Burton; the Static Shock producers decided to pitch Burton's voice significantly lower for their show.) **However, Brainiac had delievered a portion of its consciousness into Lex Luthor during a previous encounter years before. Brainiac started to subtly control Luthor into committing actions that resulted in a major story arc that occurred in the first two seasons of the new Justice League Unlimited. Brainiac assimilated nanotechnology from the alien "Dark Heart" machine and technology derived from the Amazo android. On Luthor's urging, Brainiac and Luthor combined into a single entity, with Brainiac's goals and approaches tempered by Luthor's ambition and cruelty. The traditional Brainiac skull-shaped starship and Brainiac controlling Lex Corp storyline was evident in the episode "Divided We Fall." This version of Brainiac was mostly grey and blue, and partially robotic. This Brainiac was beaten by the Justice League, and the Flash in particular.** After the defeat, all that was left of Brainiac was a small piece of its body, which came into the possession of Gorilla Grodd, while Luthor himself continued to speak to Brainiac's consciousness, apparently still existing within his own mind. Urged to escape prison by Brainiac, Luthor was picked up by Grodd's Legion of Doom and convinced to join by the promise of getting his hands on the Brainiac fragment, with which he could reconstruct and re-merge with him. Eventually usurping leadership of the Legion from Grodd, Luthor remained unable to unlock the Brainiac fragment for some reason, and instead used it to locate the quadrant of the universe where Brainiac and Darkseid had been destroyed. Using a combination of technology and magic, Luthor intended to reintegrate the surviving pieces into a new version of the android only to wind up resurrecting Darkseid himself, reformed with extensive Brainiac technology integrated into his person, allowing this dark lord to destroy the Legion's headquarters/craft and return to Apokolips. Luthor and the surviving Legion members returned to Earth and allied with the Justice League to stop Apokolips's attack on Earth, and Luthor claimed to no longer be able to hear Brainiac inside his head - although when Luthor was then transported to the Source Wall and recovered the Anti-Life Equation, it was claimed that only a "12th level intellect" could accomplish this, and the only individual with this IQ is Brainiac. Ultimately, however, it was never explicitly revealed if Brainiac had ever truly existed within Luthor's mind, or if Luthor had simply gone insane. **In the year 2979, as it is revealed in the Superman: The Animated Series episode "New Kids In Town", Brainiac still lives and has made enemies of the Legion of Superheroes. It traveled back to the year 1979 to destroy a teenage Clark Kent before he would become Superman. Thanks in part to Cosmic Boy, Chameleon Boy and Saturn Girl, Clark has defeated Brainiac and was teleported into the Sun, where it incinerated, destroying what may be the last remnant of Brainiac.**

Brainiac was a computer on the planet Krypton who knew about the end of Krypton but didn't say anything so he could save himself so that he could be the only Kryptonian left. Brainiac was designed on Krypton and is a Krypton computer system. He decided to let the people die so that he could escape. He felt as if he was the one who should be saved because he holds Krypton's information. Brainiac was suspected of knowing about the destruction by Jor-El, Superman's father. He knew about the end of the Planet but Brainiac covered it up to make it seem as if the earthquakes on Krypton was nothing. Brainiac was discovered by Jor-El downloading himself and was chased by the police before the planet ended. Before the planet exploded, Brainiac finished downloading himself. Clark's archenemy is Brainiac because of this reason. Brainiac came to Earth and attacked Superman, who he knew was Jor-El's son from Krypton. Brainiac made copies of itself. **In a Justice League episode, Brainiac made a copy of himself near New Genesis. He took control of a base near Apokolips and activated it. He was taken over by Darkseid, but Orion and the Justice League destroyed both Darkseid and Brainiac. In Divided We Fall it seems that Luthor was held captive by Brainiac ever since Brainiac shot him in Superman The Animated Series . It began to control Luthor's actions. Luthor planned on implanting his brain into a new Amazo body created by Cadmus. Amanda Waller and the Justice League destroyed the Amazo. Flash used the power of the Speed Force to create light speed vibrations and destroyed Brainiac. Brainiac seems to be alive, since Luthor has him still in his head. After experiencing all the power Brainiac had given him, Luthor decided to find Brainiac so he can feel his former glory which was taken from him by the Flash. However, his attempts to revive Brainiac resulted only in the resurrection of Darkseid.** *This Brainiac model appears in Legion Of Super Heroes, originally as an isolated piece of data stored in Brainiac 5'smemory. When Brainiac 5 reluctantly accesses it, the original Brainiac begins to affect his actions before taking over his body completely, pursuing his goal of absorbing knowledge and then 'digitizing' entire worlds and civilizations to create order. Eventually, Brainiac was destroyed and left Brainiac 5 as a completely organic being, but unknown to everyone else, Brainiac still remained in the discarded portions of Brainiac 5's armour and created a new body, stating "evil doesn't die, it evolves". The show was not renewed for a third season, which would have featured Brainiac as the main villain and so this story was left unresolved.*

Jor-El's tests confirm Krypton is doomed to explode, but the ruling council disbelieves him, because the Brainiac computer - built to study and monitor Krypton - disagrees. Jor-El finds Brainiac has lied so that it will have time to save itself by transferring itself and its' repository of kryptonian knowledge into a sattelite, instead of being ordered by the council to help the people. At Brainiac's orders, Jor-El is pursued by police. Jor-El makes it back to his home, where his father-in-law, Sul-Van, now believes him. Jor-El and his wife Lara prepare their son, Kal-El, to escape Krypton in a rocket, while Lara's father decoys the police. Brainiac leaves Krypton. Jor-El and Lara watch Kal-El's ship leave just before Krypton explodes. **Meanwhile, in space Brainiac is retrieved by aliens. Brainiac kills the aliens, and takes over their ship.** Suddenly, through stormy skies appears a huge spacecraft overhead! It halts and projects a holographic image of a robotic creature with a triangular pattern on its forehead. It says its name is "Brainiac" and at that Lex offers it a CD with basic information about our planet. The CD and image vanish and then the giant craft sends down a floating chair. Lex boards it and vanishes into the craft. Later the military is grilling Lex at a meeting where Superman is present. Lex claims exclusivity on any benefits Brainiac may grant in exchange for information about Earth. He also tells the committee that Brainiac wants to meet with Superman. When Superman later flies into Brainiacs massive ship for the meeting, he is surprised to see a plaque written in Kryptonese. But he's given no time to ponder this mystery, as suddenly triangular shaped flying robots burst from the ceiling and attack him! With pulsing beam weapons and huge arms, the robots beat Superman to the ships deck. But he then rises and dispatches them in a flurry of super strength and heat vision. Then Brainiac appears and tells Superman it was just a test of his powers and his interest is that, like Superman, he too is from Krypton! Brainiac takes Superman to a vast chamber on the ship filled with thousands of floating, glowing, softball-sized orbs. He explains that each orb contains all the recorded information from distant planets, and one of the orbs is from Krypton! Superman touches the orb for only an instant, but in that moment he sees his Father! Brainiac tells Superman his father Jor-El helped him escape Krypton's destruction. And he should now leave Earth and roam the galaxy with him and in exchange Superman can use the orb to learn about his native planet. But that night, as a residual effect from touching the Kryptonian orb, Superman has a vivid dream where he sees his father Jor-El warning the council on Krypton against trusting Brainiac about Krypton's imminent destruction. He then sees Brainiac proven distrustful as the robotic computer flees Krypton leaving it's people to their dooms! Lexcorp is busy getting ready to download information from Brainiacs ships computers when Superman arrives to warn Lex to be cautious. Lex explains he has missiles targeting Brainiacs ship should he try anything. Superman returns to Brainiacs ship as Lex begins downloading. He returns to the orb room where he touches several more globes. Each tells of horrific attacks and eventual destruction by none other then Brainiac himself! Brainiac denies nothing when Superman confronts him, claiming that knowledge is only valuable when fewer possess it. He also attacks Lex's computers, taking them over. The missiles won't fire as Brainiac now controls them too. But Superman attacks Brainiac and causes systems on the ship to lose power. When Lex's missiles are freed from Brainiacs control, he immediately fires them, causing the giant craft to crash to Earth. But Superman has escaped the blast with one orb, the one from Krypton. He takes the orb for safekeeping to a vast underwater cave he's found in the Antarctic. Later, Lex's technicians tell him they've found a strange bit of alien code in the systems. Lex tells them he's had enough of aliens for one day. But we see on the screen that it's triangular shaped, so we know that one day Brainiac will return! **Lex Luthor is showing the press his latest Lexcorp invention, SkySentry. It's a huge cannon-like machine that uses high-energy magnetic fields to repel missiles. But it breaks down when Lex has missiles launched in a test, and it takes Superman to stop them. Lex is looking into what went wrong when he gets a mysterious call to come down to Section 6 of Lexcorp. But, when he arrives he's immediately taken prisoner by robotic arms! He's brought before a computer monitor that has the face of Brainiac, the evil computer intelligence from Krypton! Brainiac hid his program inside Lexcorp's computers after both Superman and Lex defeated him last year. Impersonating Luthor on a viewer, Brainiac tells Lex's bodyguard Mercy Graves that he's not to be disturbed. He then tells Luthor he needs his keen mind and human dexterity to finish constructing his new body, and won't take "No" for an answer! It's been days, and Lex has been kept working on Brainiac's new body until he's exhausted and near starving. Upstairs at Lexcorp, Clark Kent's come to talk to Luthor and the Lex simulation is on the viewer saying he's too busy. Clark's x-ray vision sees an empty office so he side-steps Mercy and enters Lex's office to prove to Mercy its empty. He leaves Mercy confused and worried about Lex. Later at his apartment, Clark gets an odd caller asking if it's him, and suddenly a missile comes flying in through the window! He manages to get the missile outside, but it detonates and sends tons of debris raining down towards a passing train. As Superman, he barely saves the day with his great strength, managing to divert the wreckage into the river. Meanwhile back at Lexcorp, Mercy has just traced Lex's last known whereabouts to Section 6; when from behind her appear killer robots of Brainiac's! Mercy turns and fights off the robots, managing to make it to the door. But behind it lie dozens more of the metal assassins! She gamely defends herself until she's about to fall to her foes, when Superman crashes into the room! He quickly evens the odds with blazing heat-vision and strength, tearing into the killer droids alongside Mercy. They dispatch them quickly and both set off together for Section 6. Superman asks why Mercy risks so much for Luthor, and she tells him she was just a stray on the streets until she met Luthor and she owes him everything. They break into the lab and find a battered Lex, but Brainiac has finished his new body and attacks them, intent on killing them all! But Superman sees the SkySentry in the lab, and manages to use it's magnetic power to trap Brainiac in an avalanche of metal from all corners of the room, his threat hopefully ended. Later, Superman sees Mercy taking Luthor away in a limousine. Their eyes meet for a moment, trading newfound respect for each other. Then each goes where their duty in life has taken them, for better or worse.** Roxy Rocket is on the loose in Metropolis, and Superman is hot on her trail until he finally grabs Roxy right off her rocket in a head-on showdown. When asked why she's in Metropolis instead of her usual Gotham City, Roxy informs Superman that the crooks are overrunning Gotham since Batman has disappeared! We next see Gotham City itself where the Gotham Experience exhibit is being robbed by two crooks who're suddenly interrupted by Robin, Batman's younger partner. Robin's got them on the run when two more show up and get the drop on him. Just before they can hurt Robin, Superman shows up and stops the crooks. Superman reveals he knows Batman is Bruce Wayne, Robin tells him that Bruce sent word he was going away without explanation. Since Batman's gone, the crooks are having a holiday with Robin trying to keep up. Just then the pair see the Bat-signal lighting up the sky. Next we see Commissioner Gordon about to give up and turn the signal off, when who should show up but Batman and Robin! Commissioner Gordon shows Batman a picture of Bane arriving in town and he warns hin to be cautious as Bane's supposedly improved his Venom formula making him twice as strong. After Batman and Robin leave, they stop to talk and we find out that it's Superman under Batman's cowl imitating him! The dynamic duo head to Wayne Enterprises and find miniature robots called Nanites all over Bruce Wayne's desk and a needle in his phone's earpiece. Someone has been controlling Bruce Wayne's mind and that sends them to the Mad Hatter who just happens to be in a meeting with Bane and the Riddler where the three are about to team up. Bane attacks, but is defeated and the trio is captured. But when the Mad Hatter inspects the nanites he's shown, he proclaims that not only are they not his work, they are alien in origin! Back in the Batcave, Superman and Robin are examining the video-mail Bruce left saying he was leaving when Superman's incredible hearing picks up the sound of rocket exhaust in the background and that sends them to a Wayne Aerospace division that supposedly was shut down long ago. When they arrive as Batman and Robin, they see Bruce Wayne leading a team that's preparing a spacecraft for launch. Suddenly Bruce dismisses all the technicians, telling them to leave everything on automatic for the launch. After everyone's gone, out of a hidden closet who should appear but Brainiac, the insane living computer from Krypton! It seems he invaded Waynetech's computers during the brief business alliance between Lexcorp and Wayne Enterprises (see World's Finest episode.) When Batman attacks to stop Brainiac from killing Bruce, Brainiac blasts at Batman in a fiery display of power, but it is Superman who emerges from the flames! Brainiac then blasts the complex into destruction to distract Superman while he rockets away from Earth. But Superman chases him into the stratosphere and disables the ship causing it to explode, seemingly destroying the mechanical menace! Later on, as Bruce thanks Superman for saving him, Superman tells Bruce he never could have done it without Batman's greatest asset, his partner Robin! **In the year 2979 we see none other then Brainiac, the insane living computer who also survived Krypton's explosion, attacking a building to use the machinery within to build a time portal. The Legion of Super Heroes is called for help and Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, and Chameleon Boy decide to follow Brainiac to wherever the portal leads. It leads to Smallville where we see a young Clark Kent who has not yet learned his fantastic origins and destiny. The three teens run into a local farmer who threatens them with a gun and we see the trio's powers are Saturn Girl's telepathy, Cosmic Boy's magnetic abilities, and Chameleon Boy's shape shifting into any creature. They use their powers to elude the farmer, and to look for Clark. And find him they must, for Brainiac has found Clark first, and is using his power blasts to destroy him! Brainiac has Clark running for his life, and only his awakening powers have kept him alive up to now. Just as Brainiac's blasts grow more intense, the Legionnaires attack Brainiac and divert his attention from Clark. They drive Brainiac away and explain to Clark that they've come to save his life, as his fate is to become not only Superman, but also the inspiration for their Legion of Super Heroes in the 30th Century. This news is all too much for the young teen, and he does what any of us would do; he runs home to seek the safety of his family. When he gets there, Lana Lang is waiting to talk to Clark about all the changes Clark's going through and to assure him she's his friend and will be there for him. But outside the house we see Brainiac's killer drones have found Clark and under Brainiac's command are heading into the house for the kill! Clark, Ma, Pa, and Lana all hide in the basement while the drones float around the house upstairs looking for Clark. But Clark decides to take the fight to them and goes after the drones. This draws Brainiac into the fray and the battle moves outside. There, Brainiac uses drones to run the farm machinery to attack Clark. Only his burdgeoning powers are keeping him alive, while even Ma and Pa Kent help by blasting at Brainiac with shotguns to defend their beloved son. This distracts Brainiac long enough for Clark to gather himself, and as the three teens from the future finally arrive at the Kent farm, Clark attacks Brainiac with ever more powerful blows. Clark knocks Brainiac into the barn and the Legionnaires take over. Chameleon Boy mauls Brainiac as a beast, then Cosmic Boy begins a magnetic assault with anvils and anything else metal. Brainiac is being damaged and blasts the barn into toothpicks in retaliation. But Clark attacks Brainiac again, and using mental knowledge sent to him telepathically by Saturn Girl, manages to reach Brainiac's belt and open up a new portal. This one sucks Brainiac away and he emerges from it at the heart of the sun, melting the digital demon into oblivion hopefully once and for all. Later Saturn Girl uses her mental powers to erase the incident from the town's minds and that includes Clark also. As the young heroes of tomorrow leave for the year 2979, they see Lana join Clark as his life resumes peacefully. The young teen of steel will now find his rightful place in history as the one and only Superman!** In deep space a spaceship is running from a fleet of ships blasting away at it. Aboard that ship is the evil god Darkseids general Steppenwolf and he tells Darkseid that he is under attack and that the forces of New Genesis were waiting for him. Darkseid tells him to die honorably by killing as many of his enemies as he can in the process and a moment later Steppenwolf screams and vanishes in the attack. Suddenly a holographic projection of Darkseid's son Orion appears and tells him he was responsible for the trap and then tells him he has a reminder for him in case he should try it again. A moment later a boom tube opens above Darkseids planet Apokolips and it transports the wreckage of the battle we witnessed and sends it crashing into Apokolips right on top of Darkseids palace laying waste to a huge section of the planet! The Justice League members are talking in the Watchtower when alarms go off and suddenly Darkseid appears in front of them. Superman immediately attacks Darkseid and the other League members hold him back as Darkseid explains that his planet is under attack from Brainiac, the killer humanoid computer from Krypton. He asks for their help beacuse after Brainiac is done with Apokolips, he intends to attack Earth! After Darkseid leaves, Superman argues that Darkseid cannot be trusted but the League all agrees that Brainiac must be stopped in any case. Back on Apokolips Brainiac is on the attack and Darkseids forces are being decimated when the League suddenly appears to help. Batman and Wonder Woman however have gone to New Genesis to seek their help against Brainiac. As they arrive on the planet a huge dinosaur sized creature bursts out from the ground and attacks them! Suddenly the beast is gassed into retreat by a person calling himself Forager. He then points to the sky showing Wonder Woman and Batman the huge floating city where the New Gods live. As the pair flies to the city, Superman and the rest of the League on Apokolips are finding out that Brainiacs forcefields are proving to be too strong for them to penetrate. Back on New Genesis, a New God calling himself Lightray taunts Wonder Woman into a race and when she and Batman catch him, Orion appears and stops them. When Superman tears an opening in Brainiacs forcefield, Darkseids weapons blast his ship while Superman and Brainiac fight hand to hand. Teleporting away from the battle at this turn of events, Brainiac flees into space in his ship while Superman and the League give chase in their ship, the Javelin 7. They follow Brainiac into a distant asteroid field where he lands inside a giant asteroid shaped like his head. Suddenly the Javelin 7 is caught in an irresistable tractor beam and pulled into Brainiacs headquarters through a huge crater. As they disappear into the huge complex, the Justice League prepares for a fight to the death! Their ship lands inside Brainiacs headquarters and Superman, Hawkgirl and the Martian Manhunter all board a floating platform which takes them to Brainiac. Brainiac offers Superman a chance to join him and rule the galaxy as his fellow Kryptonian and Superman angrily refuses. At that, floating weapons appear and blaze away at the heroes. While Superman and J'onn Jonnz disable the weapons, Hawkgirl uses her mace to smash Brainiac to pieces. But then a hundred more Brainiacs appear and begin a new attack! Back on New Genesis Highfather, the leader of the New Gods, is instructing young people when Orion appears with Batman and Wonder Woman. Orion asks Highfather to gather an army to attack Darkseid and finish his menace once and for all but his request is denied. The three Justice League members are still battling the multiple Brainiacs when Darkseid suddenly appears and helps Brainiac to defeat the Justice League trio. It seems this has all been a trap to get Superman and in exchange Brainiac will not destroy Apokolips. On New Genesis, Orion decides he can wait no more and boom tubes away to fight Darkseid as Batmam and Wonder Woman follow him. Brainiac explains to Darkseid that he cannot evolve any further beyond his current form unless he uses Supermans Kryptonian DNA to do so. Superman screams in pain as Brainiacs machines begin to work on him. Then treacherous Darkseid enters a virus into Brainiacs systems which allows him to take control of Brainiac! As Hawkgirl and the Martian Manhunter recover, Darkseid tells Brainiac that he intends to use Brainiacs abilities to destroy the entire galaxy and then he will rebuild it in his twisted vision of order. He activates Brainiacs machinery and the terrible destructive power starts to tear New Genesis and everything else apart. Then Orion boom tubes into Brainiacs headquarters with Batman and Wonder Woman and with J'onn and Hawkgirl they all attack Darkseid who uses the mutiple Brainiacs to fight them. Escape pods fly from the floating city on New Genesis as the great city shatters and falls. As the Justice League tries to free Superman while under attack, Orion and Darksied fight each other. Father and estranged son battle as Brainiacs machines build towards the overload that threaten to destroy everything! Orion falls from Darkseids blows just as a now freed Superman attacks him and takes up the fight. Superman smashes Darkseids boom tube device and tells him he intends to make sure that Darkseid will blow up with Brainiacs headquarters. Batman meanwhile smashes Brainiacs controls which saves the galaxy from peril, but the machinery is about to blow and blast the asteroid they're on to pieces. As the Justice League boards the Javelin 7 to escape, Batman races to find Superman before he dies with Darkseid on the doomed asteroid. Darkseid is pummeling Superman, but Superman refuses to give up just as Batman arrives. Superman drops Darkseid with a tremendous punch, and Batman grabs Orions boom tube activator to carry Supermman, Orion, and himself to safety. Darkseid looks up to see them disappear just as the asteroid varporizes in a huge explosion. As they land on New Genesis, Batman tells Superman that not even Darkseid could have survived such a blast but Superman is skeptical that the evil god is finally gone. They meet with Highfather just as the other New Gods appear and tell him that Forager took them to safety underground during the catastrophe. Highfather thanks Forager for their salvation. And the Justice League can finally rest now that the menace of Darkseid and Brainiac has been defeated! **At Cadmus, Emil Hamilton tells Lex to take off the medical device that was keeping him alive. Hamilton is amazed but Lex's cancer is completely gone. They're not sure what took the cancer away but it's as if he never had it in the first place. Waller interrupts to tell Lex that Question and Huntress stole files that may contain everything on Cadmus. Lex says that the encryption had better hold for all their sakes - but it doesn't. At Lexcorp, Lex walks into his office and the Question is sitting in his chair. Question tells Lex that he's going to kill him so that Superman can't. But Lex has super-strength! He beats the Question to near death telling him that the campaign for the Presidency is a farce - that Lex Luthor would have to give up too much power to be President. The fake campaign's purpose? To tick Superman off. Lex wants the files back from the Question and hooks him up to a machine causing him to live out the end of the world. Question won't answer the torturer's questions so the torture continues.** Luthor is at Lexcorp working on something when he receives a call from Amanda Waller telling him that Superman broke in and took Question and Captain Atom. Waller insists that, if Lex is caught, she would disavow any knowledge of his activities and reminds him that his pardon doesn't cover new crimes. Lex uses his computer to activate the nuclear powered weapon on the JLU satellite. **At LexCorp, Luthor works on an advanced robotic body in which to transfer his consciousness and live forever with super abilities. He's suddenly confronted by Batman who tells him that he finally pieced Lex's plan together - that the robot body was based on Professor Ivo's Amazo technology since Lex saw the blueprints to Amazo when he helped the Atom defeat him back in last season's "The Return." Batman hypothesizes that Lex has a photographic memory and memorized the blueprints then. Batman tosses a batarang and, surprisingly, Lex catches it. Lex tosses heavy machinery easily - he somehow has super powers. He tosses Batman out of the window and Batman falls - suddenly, a hand reaches out to grab him. Back in Lex's lair, Waller confronts Lex. She's joined by the Big Seven. Unexpectedly, Lex's body begins to mutate and wires begin to pop out of his back and appendages - his stomach itself gives way to morphing metal. He's "possessed" by Brainiac!** The Big Seven - and Amanda Waller - take on Brainiac who recounts how he got to be inside Lex Luthor's body. It seems that, when he blasted Luthor in "STAS" episode "Ghost in the Machine", he implanted his consciousness in Lex's body. Brainiac subtly influenced Luthor's actions as he gained more control. Brainiac gave Lex super strength and cured him of his cancer. Waller fires at Brainiac whose head is staring out of Luthor's stomach. Brainiac instantly repairs himself and blows up Lex's penthouse lair. The heroes fall - GL uses his ring to help Waller and the others. Superman fights Luthor/Brainiac. Brainiac's computer appendages draw power from the Lexcorp building itself. The heroes regroup and battle Brainiac in the skies above Metropolis. They battle valiantly but are quickly overpowered by Brainiac's snaking arms. Brainiac plans to digitize the Leaguers and Waller and then destroy the originals. J'onn breaks free and stops Brainiac from digitizing the team. Brainiac (still with Luthor in tow) retreats and his (CGI created) robot skull-head ship emerges out of the top of the Lexcorp building. Ultimately the heroes bring it down but Batman and Superman both realize it was too easy, that Brainiac wasn't in the ship. Brainiac and Luthor are in the sewers several miles from where the League is looking for them. Brainiac tells Lex he must repair himself and that he plans to digitize Lex's unique information and then destroy him. Lex manipulates Brainiac leading him to conclude that Lex may have something to offer to Brainiac beyond just the fulfillment of Brainiac's mission. Brainiac and Luthor will seek out the highest technology available and Waller offers that they'll head to Cadmus for the "Dark Heart" technology - the most advanced nanotech on Earth. Brainiac/Luthor incorporates the technology as the League arrives - the pair evolves truly into one being and decides to build a machine that will absorb all the Earth's information in a single stroke. Then they will do that to the universe and use the information and the nanotech to recreate the universe. Arriving at Cadmus, Superman senses intense heat with his super vision just before the building is rocked by an explosion. The League are face to face with the combined Brainiac/Luthor creature - Superman at first thinks Lex is an unwilling participant in the combined machine but Lex admits that he's willing to destroy the planet to achieve his goals of power and ultimate knowledge. The League engages Brainiac/Luthor in battle - the Brainiac side creates seven Brainiacs to take on the Leaguers and the Luthor side changes the Brainiacs into the Justice Lords (plus a yellow suited reverse Flash). The robotic Justice Lords each battle their JL counterpart both physically and mentally by exploiting their insecurities and doubts. The Flash defeats the robotic reverse Flash first. Meanwhile, the other heroes fight on. Superman is taunted by the robotic Justice Lord Superman who then morphs his face to look like (and sound like) Lex almost daring Superman to kill him. Superman backs away allowing the Justice Lord Superman to attack. Wonder Woman suggests they switch adversaries and, without the mental advantage, the heroes make quick work of the robot Lords. Quickly, the others follow suit. GL bashes the robot Hawkgirl and Hawkgirl rips the robot GL's head off. With the robots vanquished, the League charge Luthiac and he/it fires energy blasts at them. Wonder Woman grabs the Javelin and hurls it into the Cadmus building, bringing it down around Luthiac. The Flash steps out of the rubble and faces down Luthiac who gloats that the League is defeated and, as in the Justice Lords universe, Luthor will kill the Flash and set into motion the end of the world. The Question was right. The Flash vibrates free of Luthiac's robotic sentries. He appears to run away - but he's run so fast in the other direction that he has gone all the way around the Earth striking Luthiac at ultra speed from the other direction! Doing this over and over, he defeats Luthiac, separating Luthor from the combined creature.

Brainiac is one of Superman's enemies he is a super intelligent robot who also wants to take over the Earth he is part of Lex Luthor's legion of doom in Super Friends and merges himself with Lex Luthor in Superman the Animated series later Braniac cures Luthor of his kryptonite cancer and gives Luthor incredible powers to destroy the Justice League.

**Brainiac** was the planet-wide supercomputer of Krypton. He doomed the planet to save his own programming and continued on his conquest to find more knowledge.

### History

#### Origin

While Jor-El was working one day, Brainiac appeared on a nearby screen and demanded his collected data, forcing Jor-El to angrily comply. Jor-El reported the findings to Krypton's ruling council, insisting that the planet would soon explode. The council turned to Brainiac for his judgement, who dismissed Jor-El's findings and explained that Krypton was only undergoing a temporary orbital shift. Jor-El warned the council that their blind dependence on a supposedly omniscient central computer would doom them all, but the council was openly outraged when they heard his rescue plan: to send the entire population into the Phantom Zone, a penal dimension housing vicious criminals and creatures, and then release them on a different planet. In spite of Brainiac's assertions to the contrary, Jor-El still believed that Krypton was doomed. Acting on this, Jor-El broke into Brainiac's central unit and discovered that Brainiac had lied so that it could secretly download itself into a satellite and escape the planet's destruction, rather than be ordered to waste time preparing an evacuation plan. According to his programming, the survival of Krypton's knowledge was more important than that of its people. It sensed the imminent destruction of the planet, but rather than warn others, it chose to save itself and the collected records of Krypton. In its mind, as long as the records of Krypton existed, the loss of the planet itself and all its living inhabitants was acceptable. It also knew that if word of Krypton's impending doom escaped, it would be forced to calculate a way to stop this, which Brainiac knew to be impossible as it wouldn't have time to save all of Krypton's history and would only distract it from the more essential task of saving Krypton's records. Jor-El was tempted to destroy Brainiac then and there, but Brainiac convinced the scientists to hold back, reminding Jor-El that, without Brainiac, the planet's legacy would be erased forever. Jor-El's hesitation allowed Brainiac to summon a squad of security guards, advising them to use deadly force against Jor-El who narrowly managed to evade them and return home. Before Krypton exploded, Brainiac uploaded its core program and all of the collected data to an artificial satellite. **Years later, it was discovered by an alien spacecraft which Brainiac then hijacked, killing the crew of the ship. It began to explore the universe. Each time it came to an inhabited world, it would upload all the knowledge it could from that world then destroy it, decreasing the number of beings that have access to the knowledge made it that much more valuable, and destroying the planets ensured no new information would be created. Along with raw data, it also assimilated whatever useful technology it could find, improving itself with every world it visited.**

#### Arriving on Earth

Brainiac eventually made its way to Earth under the pretense of a peaceful exchange of knowledge with LexCorp. He revealed that he was another survivor of Krypton, getting the attention of Superman. But through the information from the cultures that Brainiac destroyed, Superman concluded that Brainiac would do the same to Earth and destroyed his ship with the help of Lex Luthor. Although Brainiac was believed to have been destroyed, the data that Brainiac had downloaded into LexCorp's computers was not alien knowledge but a copy of Brainiac's programming. **One copy used LexCorp's automatons to construct a new body. However, since the automatons were not advanced enough to perfectly fine-tune the body, Brainiac tricked Luthor into entering the room, requiring Luthor's hands. Luthor was locked in and forced to complete Brainiac's body. Luthor knew that once Brainiac was done, he would kill Luthor and refused to continue when the supercomputer's body was in the final stages. However, his body was developed enough that Brainiac was able to enter it and finish building itself. Brainiac fired a blast at point blank range at Luthor that failed to kill LexCorp's CEO. Superman was able to defeat this copy by magnetizing it so that the attracted metal would completely overwhelm him. The body was taken into LexCorp's possession.** After LexCorp formed a partnership with Wayne Enterprises, another copy built a new body and was able to control Bruce Wayne through nanotechnological machines implanted in an office phone which entered the ear to infect Wayne Enterprises' CEO's brain. When crime in Gotham City increased, Superman and Robin eventually deduced that Wayne was under Brainiac's control and that it sought to use Wayne Enterprises' technology to leave Earth. While it was able to launch its ship, Superman managed to destroy the ship and its passenger.

#### On Apokolips

Somehow surviving, the robotic villain succeeded in escaping into space. In his new journey throughout the cosmos, Brainiac found his way to Apokolips. His timing couldn't have been worse as Darkseid was facing a considerable military disadvantage following the feud with New Genesis. So before Brainiac could absorb his planet, Darkseid proposed a bargain that could satisfy both parties: Darkseid would capture Superman for Brainiac and Apokolips would be spared in exchange. Brainiac accepted and both forces engaged in a fake battle to convince the Justice League that they were in fact on opposite sides. Brainiac allowed them to believe that they succeeded in deflecting his invasion and then retreated. This was, however, a tactic to lure the League into his headquarters — a giant asteroid shaped in his likeness. **Inside, Brainiac renewed his offer to Superman to join him in carrying on the legacy of Krypton which the Man of Steel promptly rejected. Upon this, Brainiac summoned an army of replicas and fought the Leaguers. After Darkseid boom tubed inside the ship and subdued Hawkgirl and J'onn J'onnz with just a few blasts, the allied villains combined their powers to overwhelm Superman and Brainiac took his nemesis into his headquarters' central core. There, he explained to Darkseid that he had finally reached the limits of his programmed functions after years of data gathering and needed to evolve to the next level, but he needed to extract living DNA from the last Kryptonian, thus becoming a true life form. But when Brainiac let his guard down during the procedure, Darkseid took the opportunity to hack into its control circuits and took over Brainiac. In spite of being self-aware, Brainiac was compelled to obey Darkseid and so he fought off the League. Bruce Wayne (DCAU)/Batman managed to disrupt Brainiac's program, setting off a chain reaction that culminated in the obliteration of the asteroid headquarters. Both Brainiac and Darkseid were destroyed. All that was left of him was a piece of alien metal which the League took into custody and kept in stasis aboard the Watchtower.**

#### New Enemies

When a cosmic anomaly struck the Watchtower and caused a power failure, Brainiac was able to escape and began taking over the Watchtower's computers. Static was tapped to help recharge the generators. After sending the Justice League members off with a fake distress call, Brainiac attempted to eliminate Static and Gear so he could then transform the Watchtower into his new body and proceed with his plans of collecting the data on Earth and destroying the planet. Fortunately, while the League did battle with the Watchtower's defenses outside and Gear overloaded the computer by downloading music into it, Static was able to drain the core of the Watchtower and seemingly deactivated Brainiac. But Brainiac managed to download itself into Gear's Backpack droid and later turned Richie Foley into a cyborg under its control. Brainiac proceeded to use Richie's hands and technological skills to build a warship and to take over the League one by one with small implants. However, Static's electrical powers shorted out his control disk and he soon freed the League as well. Meanwhile, Richie attempted to fight back and tell his friend the means by which to defeat the rogue program: Backpack's remote control had an off switch. Static eventually discovered it and was able to stop Brainiac's scheme at the source, saving Earth.

#### The Brainiac/Luthor Team

Unknown to anyone, Brainiac's point-blank blast years prior wasn't intend to kill Lex Luthor, but instead placed a nanotech copy of his program inside the billionaire's body. Since then, Brainiac had lain dormant, subtly influencing Lex's actions and protecting and improving his host's body ― giving super-strength and curing the Kryptonite induced cancer. During the chaos of the Cadmus Crisis, Brainiac's ultimate goal consisted of having Lex build a super-powered android body based on Amazo and finally transferring himself into it. But after Amanda Waller destroyed the android, and the core Justice League members confronted Lex, Brainiac was forced to emerge from within his human host's body. **With full control of Lex's body, Brainiac engaged them and attempted to digitize their inner selves, but was foiled by J'onn J'onzz. So Brainiac had Lex summon a giant spaceship that kept the League occupied, allowing them to flee. Brainiac intended to pursue the fulfillment of its program: recording information and destroying the original. However, seeing how shortsighted Brainiac was, Lex offered it a purpose beyond that of its limited programming, and proposed to combine Brainiac's vast information and resources with his own imagination. They broke into Cadmus and assimilated the Dark Heart technology into their database. This way, they could control the nano-assemblers into converting any raw material into whatever they wished. Given its failed liaison with Darkseid, Brainiac didn't fully trust Lex, so they agreed to completely merge into one single being using the nanotech. Now one being, Brainiac/Luthor set off to build a machine that would absorb the information of the entire Earth then the galaxy (Brainiac's goal) and finally reshape the universe to their will (Lex's goal). When the seven founding League members stepped in, Brainiac created nanotech duplicates of himself to hold them off, but Lex decided they could do better than that and had the android replicas morph into the Justice Lords. Even though the League overpowered their android counterparts and destroyed the absorption machine, Brainiac/Luthor managed to subdue them. When 'they' decided to kill the Flash due to believing it would cause events similar to that of the Justice Lords' universe, Flash managed to break free and ran away. Brainiac/Luthor then attempted to reassemble his absorption apparatus but was attacked by Flash tapping into the full power of the Speed Force, and physically dismantled Brainiac from Lex.** After the defeat, all that was left of Brainiac was a small piece of its body, which came into Grodd's possession. Luthor himself continued to speak to Brainiac's consciousness, apparently still existing within Luthor's mind. Brainiac apparently enjoyed the brief time they were merged together. After breaking out of prison, Luthor was picked up by Grodd's Legion of Doom and convinced to join with the promise of getting his hands on Brainiac's fragment with which he could reconstruct and re-merge with it. **After usurping the Legion's leadership from Grodd, Luthor remained unable to unlock Brainiac's fragment for some reason, until Tala located the quadrant of the universe where Brainiac and Darkseid had been destroyed. In a last attempt, Luthor used Tala's mystical properties to reconstitute Brainiac from the debris, but unwittingly resurrected Darkseid, reformed with Brainiac's extensive technology integrated into the dark lord's person. When the surviving Legion members returned to Earth and allied with the expanded Justice League to stop Darkseid's attack on Earth, Luthor claimed to no longer be able to hear Brainiac inside his head.**

#### The 30th Century

Some time before 2979, Brainiac learned how to pass its code down biologically, eventually resulting in Brainiac 5. In 2979, Brainiac opposed the Legion of Superheroes and traveled back to the past to destroy a teenage Clark Kent before the youth would become Superman. Thanks in part to Cosmic Boy, Chameleon Boy and Saturn Girl, Clark defeated Brainiac and teleported him into the Sun, where he was incinerated.

**Brainiac** is the central computer system of the planet Krypton and one of Superman's greatest enemies in the DC Animated Universe. He's Entire Voiced by Corey Burton.

Brainiac becomes aware of Krypton's impending destruction, but finds the planet's destruction of little importance in contrast to the importance of all of Krypton's data. He thus abandons Krypton when the planet is about to be destroyed, and creates a new goal for himself: to collect all the data of a planet and then destroy the planet. He views this as forever preserving the completeness and uniqueness of this information. He also believes that the fewer beings who have the information, the more precious it becomes. **Years after Krypton's destruction, Brainiac kills a group of aliens and pilots their ship to Earth. Intrigued that Kal-El (otherwise known as Superman) exists, he seeks to bond his DNA with that of Kal-El's to continue his quest for data. Superman destroys the Brainiac drone, but Brainiac continues to be a threat as he downloads his program into LexCorp's computers.** Brainiac orders Lex Luthor to rebuild his body at one point, and then injures Luthor with a laser beam. Superman defeats Brainiac again, however. **Eventually, Brainiac seemingly attacks Apokolips, but Darkseid secretly makes a deal with Brainiac to lure in Superman. Darkseid hacks into Brainiac's system and forces Brainiac to self-destruct, seemingly destroying Brainiac for good.** It is later revealed that Brainiac had spared Luthor only to ensure his survival inside of Luthor. Brainiac planned to implant his mind into that of an Amazo droid, but was stopped by the Justice League. Brainiac flees from the Justice League using Luthor's body. Luthor questions Brainiac's motivations enough to interest Brainiac, and the two merge together with Dark Heart nanotechnology to become an ultimate being. Brainiac desires Luthor's creativity and Luthor desires the power and knowledge that Brainiac has but otherwise has no idea what to do with. **Brainiac/Luthor decide to create a machine that will absorb data of planets in a single stroke.** Brainiac is seemingly gone from existence, but still exists within the mind of Luthor. Luthor discovers that Gorilla Grodd has the last existing piece of Brainiac. Luthor desperately tries multiple manners of activating the one scrap left of Brainiac but it does not work. **Eventually, Luthor goes to the location of Brainiac where he was destroyed and resurrect Brainiac using magic, as surprisingly resurrects Brainiac instead. The psychic link is shattered from Luthor, thus ending Brainiac forever. Luthor swears revenge on Darkseid, who now seems to have some of Brainiac's power as well.** Some fragment or contingency aspect of Brainiac makes an attempt through time travel to kill young Clark Kent in Smallville, but is opposed by the Legion of Super-Heroes, who are still hard-pressed to protect Clark and his human parents from the AI's rampage. Enraged by his family being endangered, young Clark exceeds his current potential and pummels the attacker. Brainiac's retreat is an erratic one, and he ends up flying into the sun, where he is clearly shown to be destroyed. **In a later *Justice League Unlimited* episode, Supergirl moves to the 30th Century for various reasons, one of which is to be with a hero called Brainiac 5, an organic whose connections to the AI are not made clear in this version.**

**Brainiac** was an artificial intelligence unit from Krypton who lied about its destruction to save himself. Years later, he became a mortal enemy of the last survivor of Krypton, Superman.

#### *Superman: The Last Son of Krypton*

**Brainiac, the planetary-wide supercomputer of Krypton, sensed the imminent destruction of the planet, but rather than warn others, it chose to save itself and the collected records of Krypton. In its mind, as long as the records of Krypton existed, the loss of the planet itself - and all its living inhabitants - was acceptable. It also knew that if word of Krypton's impending doom escaped, it would be forced to calculate a way to stop this, which Brainiac knew to be impossible and would only distract him from the more essential task of saving Krypton's records. Before Krypton exploded, Brainiac uploaded its core program and all of the collected data to an artificial satellite.** Years later, it was discovered by an alien spacecraft, which Brainiac then hijacked. After Brainiac had killed the crew of the ship, it began to explore the universe.

#### *Justice League Unlimited: CADMUS Crisis*

**Brainiac later resurfaced from within Lex Luthor's body during the Cadmus Crisis. Back when he kidnapped and forced Luthor to rebuild his robotic body, the blast he fired at Luthor wasn't intend to kill him.** Instead, it placed a nanotech copy of his program inside Luthor's body. Since then, Brainiac had laid dormant, subtly influencing Lex's actions and protecting his body - giving him super-strength and curing his Kryptonite induced cancer. Brainiac's ultimate goal consisted in having Lex to build him a super-powered android body, based on the Amazo android, and finally transferring himself into it. However, Amanda Waller destroyed the android, and when the core League confronted Lex, Brainiac was forced to emerge. He engaged them and attempted to digitize their inner selves, but was foiled by J'onn. So, Brainiac/Luthor summoned a giant spaceship that kept the League occupied, allowing him to flee. **Brainiac intended to pursuit the fulfillment of his program: recording information and destroying the original. However, seeing how shortsighted Brainiac was, Luthor offered him a purpose beyond that of his limited programming. He proposed to combine Brainiac's vast information and resources with his own imagination. They broke into Cadmus and assimilated the Dark Heart technology into their database. This way, they could control the nano-assemblers into converting any raw material into whatever they wished. Given his failed liaison with Darkseid, Brainiac didn't fully trust Luthor, so they agreed to completely merge into one single being, using the nanotech.** Then, Brainiac/Luthor set off to build a machine that would absorb the information of the entire Earth, then the galaxy, and finally reshape the universe to their will. When the Justice League stepped in, Brainiac created nanotechnologic duplicates of himself to hold them off, but the Luthor part decided they could do better than that and had the duplicates morph into versions of the Justice Lords. Even though the League overpowered their counterparts and destroy the absorption machine, Brainiac/Luthor managed to subdue them, except for the Flash who he decided to kill, believing it would cause events similar to that of Justice Lords universe. However, the Flash managed to break free and seemingly ran away. Brainiac/Luthor then attempted to reassemble his absorption apparatus, but was attacked by the Flash, who had reached a state of Speed Force, and physically dismantled Brainiac from Luthor.

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## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **12th-level intellect:** Just like a computer can store data in its memory, Brainiac possesses a superior intellect, on the order of a 12th-level intellect. It could record all knowledge from a planet.
* **Possession:** Brainiac is difficult to destroy as it could also transfer its programming into another computer or living beings such as Lex Luthor through nanotechnology.
	+ **Infection:** .
* **Android Body:** Brainiac has built countless bodies to provide different advantages depending on the situation. Whether it be a human for hiding, a computer for digitizing or a ship for transport and combat. Examples of some abilities it built into these bodies include:
	+ **Superhuman S Strength:** .
	+ **Extraordinary Superhuman Durability:** .
	+ **Flight:** .
	+ **Elasticity:** Specifically the ability to project metallic telescoping tendrils.
	+ **Energy Projection:** The tendrils can channel electricity through them.
	+ **Energy Absorption:** Brainiac can steal life forms' data directly from their bodies.
	+ **Technopathy:** Brainiac can absorb and utilize technological equipment, specifically nanotechnology of alien origins.

* **Super S Strength:** .
* **Flight:** .
* **Cyberkinesis:** .
* **Known Energy Discharge:** .

## Relationships

* Superman - Enemy.
* Lex L Luthor - Ally and lacky; deceased.
* Jor-El - Enemy; deceased.

## Notes

* This version of the character is exclusive to the continuity of the DC Animated Universe and is an adaptation of Brainiac. The original character was created by Otto Binder and Al Plastino and first appeared in *Action Comics* #242.
* Brainiac was voiced by Corey Burton, often with post-processing to sound more mechanical. Burton reprised his role in all of Brainiac's DCAU appearances, but his recordings were oddly pitched down for his appearances in Static Shock, resulting in a deeper, more menacing voice.

## Info About-This Character

* Name: Brainiac (real name: Vril Dox)
* Gender: Male
* Place of Origin: Colu
* Eyes: White
* Hair: None
* Voice Actor: Corey Burton

**Costumes:**

* Costume 1: His design from Superman: The Animated Series
* Costume 2: His design from Justive League(-TV Series)

**Class: Power**

**Bio:** Brainiac is an artificial intelligence who may not possess a physical form, but takes the appearance of a bald-head humanoid with green skin.

**Special Moves:**

* *Fist Beam:* Brainiac shoots a laser beam from his fist at his opponent.
* *Tendril Torment:* Brainiac launches his tendrils at the opponent.

Character Trait:

* *Mind Confusion:* Brainiac shoots a wave of mind control from his forehead at his opponent, confusing him/her and making him/her unable to pull any moves for 10 seconds.

Super Move:

* *Skull Ship:* Brainiac sprouts his four mechanical appendages in his back, one of them grabs the opponent and kicks the opponent to the ground, he then sends four robots to fire their harpoons on his enemy before his ship arrives and activates a laser beneath the ship that fires down at the opponent, destroying his own robots with enough force from the laser.

### Brainiac’s Forehead Symbol

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