| “ | I am Krypton. | „ |
| ~ Brainiac to Superman. |
| “ | Superman: You destroyed those planets, didn't you? And every living soul on them! Brainiac: Only their knowledge was important. It was what I was programmed to collect and protect. Superman: But why kill? Brainiac: The fewer beings who have the knowledge, the more precious it becomes. |
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| ~ Brainiac's motive |
Brainiac is one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside Darkseid) of the DC Animated Universe.
He is the central computer system of Krypton until he abandoned his planet and began collecting information from different planets before destroying them.
He was voiced by Corey Burton, who also voiced his Legion of Super Heroes counterpart, Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Megatron in Transformers: Animated, V.V. Argost in The Secret Saturdays, Zeus in God of War, Silver Cyclone in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, the Galalunan Commander in Sym-Bionic Titan and Hugo Strange in Batman: Arkham City.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Lied to the Council of Elders about Krypton’s destruction. This caused the Kryptonians to ignore Jor-El’s warnings after Brainiac deceived them due to desiring to save himself over his creators, and he later abandoned the planet before the planet exploded, resulting in the near extinction of Kryptonians.
- This also makes him directly responsible for Superman being sent to Earth, and, overall, he can be considered indirectly responsible for many events in the series.
- Killed an entire crew of aliens on a spaceship that were investigating his presence.
- Destroyed and assimilated numerous planets after gathering information from them to increase the value of their memories and planned to keep doing it until he destroyed the entire universe.
- When he first came to Earth, he made an alliance with Lex Luthor before planning to destroy Earth once he had assimilated it.
- Forced Luthor to rebuilt his body after it had been previously destroyed when his ship was when he first encountered Superman without letting him rest.
- Took control of Bruce Wayne by injecting nanites into his brain and tried to use him to rebuild him another body after it had been destroyed again so he could make a rocket, allowing him to exit Earth.
- Arriving in Apokolips, he planned to researching the knowledge of the planet and destroy it, horrifying even Darkseid, though for the wrong reasons.
- He only stopped his plan when Darkseid made a deal to help him steal Superman’s body to evolve and become a true life form that no being has seen in exchange for not destroying Apokolips.
- Tried to take control of the Justice League’s Watchtower by killing Static and Gear when they came in to solve a previous problem.
- After he failed, he hijacked Gear’s robot and used him as a pawn so that he would destroy the Earth after absorbing it, which is stopped once more by Static.
- While he inhabited Luthor’s body, he manipulated him into funding Project Cadmus so that he could transfer himself into an Amazo robot which he found “more suitable”.
- It cost lots of people’s lives and tons of property being damaged, as Luthor hacked into the Watchtower’s systems to use its laser to destroy a city and frame the Justice League for the act.
- After fusing with Luthor and the Dark Heart nanotechnology, they tried to absorb all the knowledge on Earth and do the same to the entire universe so he could remake it in his image.
- Ordered Luthor to find his remnants and resurrect him from the dead, although Luthor ended up resurrecting Darkseid instead. While this wasn't intentional, Brainiac is to blame for this either way and is the one responsible for the tyranny Darkseid causes later on.
- Ends up leaving a dark legacy due to his successors learning to pass his original code until Brainiac 5 came along, though unlike his ancestor, Brainiac 5 is considered the "black sheep" of all Brainiacs due to wishing to atone for his ancestry.
- He lacks any comedic moments or redeeming qualities that other villains in the DC Animated Universe show and is taken fully seriously as one of the worst and most dangerous threats the Justice League has ever faced.
- He has a clear moral agency and is completely aware of his actions since he is an extraordinary artificial intelligence and was created with the purpose of protecting Krypton, but grew to to overwrite his programming by himself and abandoned Krypton shortly before it explodes and begins to follows his own agenda.
- Although he claims that he was programmed for collecting and protecting information, this hardly justified his actions, much less destroying countless planets and billions of innocent beings.
External Links[]
- Brainiac on the Villains Wiki
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