So what is Brainiac

[Slimple]

Okay, someone please help a n00b.

Through all the various incarnation of Brainiac, he's impossible to pin down because everytime there's a revamp in the comics, Brainiac is always changed...The pre and post crisies versions were enough on their own...but then you get shows like STAS and Smallville that make their own continuity.

He's been an alien scientist, a circus Mentalist, an alien computer program, a robot, and now an alien posing as a college professor. Is there one thing that says, true and blue, what Brainiac is and always will be?

[CaptainSarcasm]

Originally Posted by Slimple

Okay, someone please help a n00b.

Through all the various incarnation of Brainiac, he's impossible to pin down because everytime there's a revamp in the comics, Brainiac is always changed...The pre and post crisies versions were enough on their own...but then you get shows like STAS and Smallville that make their own continuity.

He's been an alien scientist, a circus Mentalist, an alien computer program, a robot, and now an alien posing as a college professor. Is there one thing that says, true and blue, what Brainiac is and always will be?

a master thinker

[Hyperion]

Originally Posted by Slimple

Okay, someone please help a n00b.

Through all the various incarnation of Brainiac, he's impossible to pin down because everytime there's a revamp in the comics, Brainiac is always changed...The pre and post crisies versions were enough on their own...but then you get shows like STAS and Smallville that make their own continuity.

He's been an alien scientist, a circus Mentalist, an alien computer program, a robot, and now an alien posing as a college professor. Is there one thing that says, true and blue, what Brainiac is and always will be?

Well... isn't he allways, in the end of a given transformation... an AI?

[The Shield]

A ruthless extraterrestrial villain - in reality an ingenious humanoid computer created by the sinister computer tyrants of a far-distant planet - who has been an implacable foe of Superman since July, 1958. Brainiac is an evil space mastermind and fearsome super-foe with an arsenal of awesome nightmarish scientific weapons at his command, and is perhaps the most terrible evil-doer in all the universe, a creature of superhuman intelligence, great scientific ability, and utter ruthlessness who is said to know the universe as no mere man knows it. It was Brainiac who, sometime prior to the death of the planet Krypton, literally stole the Kryptonian city of Kandor, reducing it to microscopic size with a diabolical shrinking ray and preserving it aboard his spacecraft inside a large glass bottle until it was finally recovered by Superman and placed for safe keeping inside his Forstress of Solitude. Although Brainiac - with his green eyes and light-green skin - closely resembles the humanoid native inhabitants of the far-distant planet Colu, he is actually a sinister computer spy created by the computer tyrants which had seized control of that planet as the first step in a scheme of interplanetary conquest. With Colu's computer masters having long since been overthrown and destroyed in a great revolution that toppled them from their pinnacle of planetary power, Brainiac now remains as the last of the mighty computer minds who has striven to keep his computer identity a secret, who is devoid of human emotions, and whose single greatest weakness may be his lack of insight into human psychology.

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[Dankalel]

I've had an idea for a superman story in the back of my mind for sometime now. It would state that Jor-el created brainiac to be a super computer that would unite the heavenly krypton that he built. He also created the phantom zone and sent zod away. And as a final act of revenge a man loyal to zod enters a virus into the system which corrupts brainiac. Brainiac then withholds the evidence that krypton is about to explode from the council members but Jorel is too smart and figures it out and saves his son. Much like the stas version of brainiac, but when brainiac barely gets off the planet himself he becomes damaged, so he attacks an extraterrestrial ship and inhabits one of their bodies (much like lex on JLU right now), becoming the classic villian we know and love.Theres more too my story than that but anyway, i like the way that it would be all tied up.

[Dankalel]

My only problem with finishing the story is that I need a good grasp on post crisis eradicator in order to explain post birthright eradicator, so is it possible that someone could explain the guy to me so i could usehim for my story's benefit?