Brainiac's exact abilities vary drastically throughout his various incarnations. This virus was intended to dramatically boost his abilities. Last edited: Nov 9, 2020. Mon-El plants the many bottled cities that Brainiac has captured over the years on various planets across the galaxy. Brainiac 2. To unlock Brainiac, one must simply play the story mode through to completion. With his ship, his vast knowledge, and his powerful technology, Brainiac has captured thousands of cities and has assimilated and destroyed just as many civilizations, making him the worst mass murderer in the history of the Milky Way[81] and one of the most feared beings in the known universe. Among many voice acting roles, he has voiced the Scarecrow in The New Batman Adventures, the Question in Justice League Unlimited, the Rat King in the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, the Leader in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Brainiac in Injustice 2 and that really creepy janitor guy, Gyrus Krinkle in Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go. He will be providing the voice of Brainiac in Injustice 2. Initially, he had the weakness of being disabled by his mysophobia and sensory overload when dumped into Earth's atmosphere,[73] though he does not seem to have this defect in his later battles on Earth, such as when he defeated Superboy,[77] suggesting that he had fixed it, or that he is only overloaded in particularly dirty environments. In the future, people fear Coluans because of my ancestor. [59], Brainiac later arrived on Earth again and battled the Justice League, who proved no match for him and his ship, until Superman arrived. Meanwhile, Vril Dox leads a revolt against the Computer Tyrants, eventually destroying them and freeing Colu. When the events of Convergence nearly end in an irreversible destruction of the Multiverse, the time traveller Waverider, formerly the pre-Flashpoint Booster Gold, frees Brainiac, who reveals he is sick from his mutations and only wishes to return to normal, to being Brainiac of Colu. In the Post-Crisis DC Universe, Brainiac's history was completely rewritten. [44] The robots create havoc throughout Metropolis, but Superman soon realizes that they are really after him. He could also possess organic beings in certain circumstances, as he did to Luthor during Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?. Created on Feb 13 2010 The New Adventures of Superman (1966) However, Brainiac is defeated when the League deliberately walks away so that the Syndicate can return in time to stop him. [74] Even a concentrated and sustained burst of heat vision directly to Brainiac's eyes did not seriously debilitate him, though it inflicted noticeable damage. Realizing Yod-Colu was next in the Multitude's path, Dox tried to find a way to save his planet, even performing experiments on his son. What then occurs is an all-out battle for Colu between all three present-day Brainiacs. He first appears working with Luthor in 1978 to undermine Superman, eventually shrinking and bottling the city of Stalingrad. Brainiac, in The New 52, seems to have kept most of the powers and equipment of his Post-Crisis incarnation (including his shrinking ray, force fields, and robot army), with notable additions. Zod enters the scene and engages Brainiac in combat while Supergirl, Superboy, and the Legion recover the bottled cities on Brainiac's ship, including Kandor. 06-12-2019, 08:54 PM #19. ngroove. Brainiac sends Metallo to attack Superman, but due to Superman reasoning with him over his feelings for Lois Lane, he breaks free of Brainiac's control and joins Superman in his attack. As Brainiac wakes up, his computer announces "Attempt #242 in progress", a reference to Brainiac's first appearance in Action Comics #242, and to the many encounters between Brainiac and Superman. Jeffrey Combs (born September 9, 1954) is an American film and voice actor.A horror movie icon, Combs is well known as Herbert West in the Re-Animator trilogy, along with countless other horror films. The character's name is a portmanteau of the words brain and maniac. Now deprived of his ship and technology, and seemingly depowered by his ship's destruction, Brainiac finds himself faced by an entire city of angry, solar-powered Kryptonians. Thus, the robot that defeated Starro, the Green Lantern Corps, and the Yellow Lantern Corps before subsequently being dispatched by Larfleeze was, in fact, one of his drones. Inspired by Supergirl's story, Superman attempts to find Brainiac and stop him. At some indeterminate point in time, Brainiac fled into the 30th century. He hopes to team up with the evil living program again, only to become an unwilling host body for Brainiac instead. The Metal Men's responsometers were able to protect them from his programming, and allowed them to help defeat Metallo. Vril Dox happily turns his "father" over to his people for his crimes. Larfleeze accuses the robot of playing him; when it responds that it simply did what he programmed it to do, Larfleeze destroys it in a rage. [9][10][11][12]20th century Colu is a rim world found on the approach to the Magellanic Clouds. His abilities were dependent on the body he was inhabiting at the time, which could vary from as weak as a normal human to far stronger than Superman. Superman: Unlimited is a American animated television series based on the DC Comics character of the same name. Referred to at first as 'The Collector of Worlds', Brainiac is first seen as the mysterious informant that supplies Lex Luthor information of Superman and his alien nature. Its operation was to sabotage a Waynetech research facility accomplished by infecting Metallo with a computer virus and controlling him from orbit. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeffrey Combs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. However, the virus instead allowed his upgraded future self, Brainiac 13 (or "B-13"), to travel from the 64th century to the present day and take control of Brainiac 2.5's body. Larfleeze is impressed that the machine was able to capture the Green Lanterns and Starro, and even more impressed with the machine's shrinking technology, and plans to hijack its technology to put together his own collection. Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? Fine's personality seemingly emerges and shuts down the Brainiac persona. Just like Krypton."). [47] The Colony of the Collector of Worlds told Superman that its AI technology went by different names, beginning on Yod-Colu as C.O.M.P.U.T.O. This version of Brainiac resembles a much larger and more muscular version of the original, Pre-Crisis Brainiac, and has motives similar to the Superman: The Animated Series incarnation of the character in that he travels the universe and steals the knowledge of various alien cultures, abducting and shrinking cities from each planet as samples, and then destroys the planet so that the value of the destroyed civilization's knowledge is increased. INJUSTICE 2 Announces Jeffrey Combs as Brainiac. Since he was essentially a living computer program that could be housed in different forms if "killed," Brainiac was sometimes referred to on comic book covers as "the villain who won't die!". The two join forces, but Brainiac later removes the device and blocks out Luthor's memory of his inner workings and the fact that he is a machine. This story becomes the first of many Brainiac/Luthor team-ups. However, he did not come to destroy the Earth, but to deliver a warning: that there is a cosmic-level threat in the universe coming to Earth, one that the heroes of Earth are woefully ill-prepared for. [48], After this defeat, Brainiac retreated to deeper parts of the cosmos, and eventually came across the planet Tolerance, the setting of a bounty hunting glimmernet game show called The Hunted. Brainiac successfully steals Metropolis, and prepares to fire a missile that will destroy the Sun and the Earth itself. Contact Info: Now that I'm done, I'm going back where I belong - the 31st century. Kelex then reactivated the Red Tornado to help Superman break Brainiac 13 down into his respective nanobots and trap him in the suit. John Corben (the soon-to-be supervillain Metallo) is suddenly possessed by the artificial intelligence. So I elected to come back in time and fix that. [28], During a later skirmish with Superman, Fine's body is irreparably damaged, leaving Brainiac with only a short time to live. The Legion of Super-Heroes will grill me for "borrowing" a time bubble. The final body utilized by the Pre-Crisis Brainiac (resembling a robotic skeleton) was technopathic, had superstrength and durability, could discharge energy blasts capable of hurting Superman, and knew of how to "spin" the psychokinetic energies he generated into a web-like net which could hold Superman at bay. [46], Notably, the ship Clark was placed into as a child was described as having "Brainiac AI", leaving the identity of the Collector of Worlds in doubt. [39] Brainiac ignores the query, neither confirming or denying his responsibility, though he does heavily imply it ("In fifty-seven minutes, my solar aggressor will reach your sun. Luthor himself is yanked down deep into the recesses of the Fortress by Brainiac to be converted surgically into a Superman robot. Combs will be playing Brainiac, an extraterrestrial android and longtime foe of Superman. After his defeat, Superman has Brainiac reprogrammed in order to serve him and the Earth, and help run Superman's Global Soviet Union, a task he takes to for the next four decades. The soullessness and piousness of Brainiac are perfect allowing Combs to steal the show whenever he appears. Take a visual walk through his career and see 27 images of the characters he's voiced and listen to 12 clips that showcase his performances.. Luthor frees Brainiac from imprisonment and increases his intellect to a twelfth-level one. [71], It was later revealed that this version of Brainiac (like the previous ones) was merely a mentally-controlled probe of the real Brainiac, who was a living Coluan that had genetically and cybernetically enhanced himself. While Superman frees the cities of Metropolis and Kandor, the villain launches a missile to the Kent farm in an act of spite. Jeffrey Combs is a voice actor known for voicing Question, Ratchet, and Scarecrow / Jonathan Crane. In the following issue, Supergirl reveals to Superman that Brainiac shrunk the Kryptonian city of Kandor and placed it in a bottle, and that all previous incarnations of Brainiac that Superman has encountered were just probes, clones, and nanite-controlled bodies. But then, Vril Dox is snatched away to safety, it seems, by a being who appears to be the true Brainiac: an immensely powerful entity from outside the universe itself. He also asks the alien what he did to Krypton's sun. However, he is finally defeated when Luthor (having escaped surgery through undisclosed means) hacks and shuts off Brainiac from the inside. In the same issue, the letter column contained a "special announcement" explaining that the change in the characterization of Brainiac was "in deference" to the "Brainiac Computer Kit", a toy computer created by Edmund Berkeley (and based on the Geniac) that predated the creation of the comic book character.[14][15]. [1] He is usually depicted as an extraterrestrial android or cyborg who serves as one of Superman's greatest enemies and a frequent adversary of the Justice League. Are you a god? Combs is no stranger to voice acting work, and has appeared in other DC … Sadistic Choice: Offers this ultimatum to Batman in Chapter 8: surrender Kara or he will destroy Planet Earth. Superman uses this distraction to defeat Brainiac. 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