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Brainiac is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino, and debuted in Action Comics #242 (July 10, 1958). He has since endured as one of Superman and the Justice League's greatest enemies.
Brainiac is a powerful alien artificial intelligence that challenges Superman's intellect and morality. Learn about his origin, powers, first appearance, and nemesis in this official DC character profile.
- Pre-Crisis Brainiac
- Post-Crisis Brainiac
- New 52
- In Other Media
Last Survivor of Colu
Superman's first encounter with Brainiac came when the evil alien was approaching Earth with his flying saucer, intending to shrink human cities and preserve them in bottles. This early version of Brainiac was the ruler of planet Bryak, and the last survivor of his race. His people had all (or mostly) been killed off by disease, and Brainiac meant to replenish his world by stealing cities from other planets, keeping them in small bottles until he could return them to normal size on Bryak. Bra...
Artificial Intelligence
When Brainiac next appeared, a new origin was revealed for him. He was not, in fact, an alien ruler or even a living being; but was an android with a level-12 intelligence, created by the robot slave-masters who had taken over the planet Colu. These robots programmed Brainiac to be smarter even than they were, but built him to look like the people. In time, he would leave Colu.
Milton Fine
The first version of Brainiac to appear in the post-crisis comics was a Coluan man by the name of Dril Vox. He was a criminal, and as a punishment for his crimes his body was destroyed but his consciousness allowed to live. He found his way to Earth, where he inhabited the body of a circus performer by the name of Milton Fine. In this body, he was able to amplify Fine's brain so that he could control the minds of others. He continued this way until he was finally confronted by Superman.
In the New 52 continuity, Brainiac was a scientist from Yod-Colu known as Vril Dox regarded as its foremost mind thanks to his contribution to force field generation and miniturization technology. His invention C.O.M.P.T.U, an advance computer system that ran the world's technology allowed him to discover the Fifth Dimension and alterted him to the...
DC Animated Universe
This Brainiac was a more computerized version of the character. His new origin was told in the first episode of Superman: The Animated Series. He began as a gigantic, Kryptoniancomputer, built by the Kryptonians to assist in their daily lives and in their scientific measurements. However, when Jor-El discovered that Kryptonwas going to be destroyed and attempted to inform the council and organize an escape plan, Brainiac betrayed his people by lying; he told them that Jor-El's calculations we...
Brainiac makes a cameo appearance during the famous speech of John F. Kennedy.
Smallville
In the fifth season of Smallville, Brainiac is introduced as a recurring villain, played by James Marsters. He takes the name of Milton Fine, posing as a professor at Central Kansas A&M University. Brainiac is mostly referred to by his assumed name, although Jor-El refers to him in the fifth season finale "Vessel" as the "Brain InterActive Construct", and Raya is the first person to call him "Brainiac" in Season 6's "Fallout." In the seventh season episode "Lara", Lara mentions that Jor-El cr...
Learn about Brainiac, a recurring villain in the DC comics universe who can shrink cities and collect knowledge. Discover his origins, appearances, abilities and major story arcs from Silver Age to New 52.
Superman 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, later becoming one of Superman's greatest enemies. While Jor-El was working one day...
Created by writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino, Brainiac debuted in July 1958 as a green-skinned alien with advanced technology who attacked an Earth spaceship and possessed a private collection of shrunken, stolen cities, including the Kryptonian city of Kandor, which Superman stole back and took back to his Fortress of Solitude.
Brainiac was the planetary supercomputer of Krypton until it left shortly before the planet's destruction and traveled the galaxy in pursuit of knowledge. He destroyed the sources of the knowledge to increase its value and sought to apply this to the entire universe to complete what it perceived...
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