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:** .
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## 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.**

## Gallery

### Profile-Images

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#### Screengarbs

The Massive-Digital Library containing The Collected Information on The Entire Culture, The Known History, The Living Inhabitants, and The Combined Technology of The Planet Krypton
##### Screengarbs By Quotes

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