| NOTE: This page is only about Brainiac's Pre and Post-Crisis incarnations, as his New 52 incarnation was not voted to be Pure Evil, and thus only the Pre-52 version of Brainiac's info should be put here. |
| “ | They call you Superman. Why would they call you that—when you are not a "man" at all? And "super"? There is nothing super about you. Not like me. | „ |
| ~ Brainiac expressing his god complex to Superman. |
| “ | I will be everything there has ever been, Kryptonian. I will be evolved into perfection. My spinal station can process and sort the knowledge of over seven octodecillion beings. My Coluan brain, seventy times that. Knowledge is power. | „ |
| ~ Brainiac exclaiming his mental capacities to Superman. |
Vril Dox, better known as Brainiac, is an alien android who appears as one of the main antagonists of the DC Universe. He is regularly portrayed as one of Superman's arch-nemeses (a trait he shares with Lex Luthor, Darkseid, and General Zod) as well as Supergirl due to his actions on the planet Krypton, and he has gone on to become one of the most dangerous and formidable villains in all of DC Comics since his debut.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- Overall, Brainiac is an inhuman foe both literally and figuratively with zero care for anyone or anything and easily one of Superman's most dangerous foes who's rarely, if ever played for laughs. Just like how Superman calls Lex Luthor everything bad about humanity, Supergirl calls Brainiac everything bad about aliens, and rightfully so.
- Despite being an alien robot, he clearly has moral agency. While he was designed to collect worlds for his masters, not only does he have a 12th-level (originally 10th-level before Lex Luthor enhanced it) intellect that far surpasses that of any human, Brainiac simply keeps said collection all to himself and goes against the objective his masters gave him, meaning he's acting out of his free will and knows full-well that what he's doing is wrong but just doesn't care. He also has a lust for knowledge as well as a raging god complex, even outright calling himself more super than Superman. Brainiac 13 in particular tries to torture Superman to death out of sheer sadism and spite, claiming to have run simulations of his death 1,098,288,546 times.
- He has shrunk, bottled, collected, and enslaved countless people on one city per planet to enhance his power and intellect, keeping them aboard his ship where they are unable to die. He then destroys said planets afterwards by firing a missile into the heart of the sun, causing a supernova and thus killing the remaining population. Judging from just this one panel, his kill count must be remarkably high. He even destroyed Krypton.
- In his debut, he destroys the George Washington Bridge with giant tweezers.
- He slaughters at least a quarter-population of Systus 2 in his quest to kill Superman.
- In Crisis on Infinite Earths, he tries to conquer the five remaining Earths after Supergirl and the Flash's deaths, threatening to destroy all worlds if they don't surrender. He also kills Earth-2's Alexei Luthor (although he deserved it), mainly for being redundant.
- He bodyjacks Lex Luthor (his best and only friend in the supervillain community) and then leads an assault on the Fortress of Solitude, leading to the deaths of Luthor, Lana Lang, Jimmy Olsen, and Krypto the Superdog.
Trivia[]
- Only Brainiac's Pre and Post-Crisis incarnations are Pure Evil, because in the New 52, he's a genuinely tragic extremist trying to bring back his beloved family and homeworld.
External Link[]
- Brainiac on the Villains Wiki.
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