While still forced to wear chains, Luthor was assigned the job of accessing the knowledge stored within the captured Brainiac, who had recently been defeated by Superman ( as seen during the " Brainiac " storyline ).

Luthor successfully accessed Brainiac ’ s brain and after Metallo and Reactron were taken to Kandor as prisoners of the Kryptonians who had now settled on Earth he used Brainiac to reactivate the Coluan ’ s ship that was also being held in Kandor.

After his success with Brainiac, Luthor was given the seemingly dead body of Doomsday, who had been defeated by the Kryptonians, to study as it had “ potential ”.

Brainiac revealed that Loisbot was an unwilling pawn in his bid to hijack Luthor's quest.

Luthor's daughter Lena was the avatar of The Tech, the remnant cyberware of Metropolis after Brainiac 13's advancing the city to a futuristic state was undone.

The British popular-science programme Brainiac: Science Abuse demonstrated dilatancy dramatically by filling a swimming pool with this mixture and having presenter Jon Tickle walk across it ; this was called " walking on custard.

In 2006, another Sinclair C5 was fitted with a hybrid rocket engine for an episode of Sky TV's Brainiac science show.

One Daxamite, Mon-El, was poisoned by lead and preserved in the Phantom Zone until a cure was found by Brainiac 5 in the 30th century, whereafter Mon-El became a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.

In a 2001 – 2002 storyline, an artificial version of the pre-Crisis Krypton was created in the Phantom Zone by Brainiac-13, a descendant of the original Brainiac who had traveled back in time to the present.

The city of Kandor had a lunar city named after the planet bound city and when the lunar colony was destroyed, Brainiac kidnapped the real Kandor.

Brainiac was the planet's depended-on A. I.

This would leave Brainiac itself with no time to escape, so it told the elders that Jor-El was mistaken and that the quakes were the result of a polar shift and secretly downloaded itself and all of Krypton's culture and knowledge information onto a satellite and jettisoned it out of Krypton's orbit, while Kryptonian civilization ( save for Jor-El and his family ) remained unaware of the planet's peril until it was too late to evacuate.

The Messenger was kept in the city of Kandor, until the city was shrunk and stolen by Brainiac, causing the planet's destruction.

She is later found to be a human girl who was altered by Brainiac on a genetic level to appear Kryptonian ; she dies thwarting a plot involving Brainiac 13.

The threat that the Legion was warned about destroying the Earth turns out to be caused by Brainiac, who seeks to destroy Earth during the chaos.

Another noteworthy change was to Superman's origins and that the evil computer Brainiac is not only from Krypton, but is portrayed as responsible for preventing the knowledge of Krypton's imminent destruction from reaching its people so as to save himself rather than be committed in the presumably futile task of saving the population of the planet.

Corey Burton's voice performance as Brainiac was done in the same cold, low-affect style as HAL 9000 in the Space Odyssey films, and was also modeled after the ' Control Voice ' heard during the opening narration of The Outer Limits.

Brainiac ( sometimes stylized as 3RA1N1AC ) was an American synthpunk band formed in 1992, and disbanded after the sudden death of lead singer Tim Taylor in 1997.

* In the Justice League Unlimited episode, " Divided We Fall ", Brainiac / Lex Luthor creates robotic copies of the League's villainous counterparts, the Justice Lords ; since the Flash died before the Lords were formed, instead Brainiac / Luthor creates a duplicate wearing the red-on-yellow costume of the Reverse-Flash.

Schmersal was originally in the band Brainiac and formed Enon ( named after the village in Ohio, which is close to Schmersal's hometown of Dayton ) with Lee and Calhoon following the death of Brainiac's singer Timmy Taylor and their subsequent disbandment.

There was also an indie rock movement in Dayton in the early 90's with bands such as Guided by Voices, The Breeders, and Brainiac.

The episode aired on January 15, 2009 and featured the three Legionnaires, starting with a brief battle with the Persuader ( portrayed by Fraser Aitcheson ), and remaining through the episode to assist Clark in his fight against Brainiac.

* Brainiac was the main antagonist and boss in the 1992 Sunsoft game Superman.

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In Crisis on Infinite Earths, Alexei Luthor is killed by Brainiac, and is subsequently erased from history with the rest of the DC multiverse.

During the 12-issue limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths, Luthor allies himself with fellow Superman foe Brainiac to recruit an army of supervillains spanning the DC multiverse, intending to take advantage of the confusion caused by the Crisis.

However, once it becomes clear that it is as much in their interests to save the multiverse as anyone else's, Luthor and Brainiac reluctantly ally their faction with Superman and the other heroes.

The two are later shown to have entered into an alliance, with Brainiac promising Luthor the Earth when he is done with it.

Luthor escapes with Brainiac, leaving Superboy, Lori, and Krypto horrified at his cruelty.

Because Luthor now sees Superboy as a failed experiment of using the " wrong alien DNA ," he and Brainiac create another binary clone with their own genetics for another plan against the entire House of El.

As part of his participation in Project 7734, Luthor sends a robot double of himself with Brainiac on a mission to attack New Krypton.

While searching for the energy of the Black Lantern simultaneously dispatching various Doomsday ' clones ' created from the original to distract Earth's heroes by sending them after the other members of the Superman family with the aid of a robotic duplicate of Lois Lane created to give him an honest opinion on his actions, Luthor encountered Brainiac in space while attempting to alter the last of the Black Lantern energy, acting upon an unspoken theory of his.

Luthor creates another binary clone with Brainiac using their genetics, which implies that it would becomes a threat to Superboy.

Brainiac knew that if the Kryptonian elders learned of it, Brainiac would be tasked with formulating an evacuation plan.

After Superman manages to rescue the Kryptonian bottled city of Kandor from Brainiac, Kara is reunited with her parents.

As continued in Justice League Unlimited, she and Superman grow very close, almost like siblings, but she departs when she falls in love with Brainiac 5 of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the distant future, feeling that she had never really fitted in on Earth in the present.

The ranks of the Legion, only hinted at in those first two stories, were filled with new heroes, such as Chameleon Boy, Invisible Kid, Colossal Boy, Star Boy, Brainiac 5, Triplicate Girl, Shrinking Violet, Sun Boy, Bouncing Boy, Phantom Girl, and Ultra Boy.

The Legion ( featuring more of its membership ), along with the Fatal Five, later appeared in a 2006 episode of Justice League Unlimited entitled " Far From Home " with Googy Gress as Bouncing Boy and Matt Czuchry as Brainiac 5.

To keep him alive, Superboy cast Mon-El, with his permission, into the Phantom Zone where he resided until the 30th century where Brainiac 5 of the Legion of Super-Heroes develops a cure which allowed him to leave safely.

* Tim Taylor ( 1969 – 1997 ), guitarist / keyboardist / vocalist for band Brainiac

However, when the player faces Brainiac in the game's final level, Brainiac simply stands in place unless the player attempts to use heat vision on him.

The group features revolving guests including Richard Fortus ( Guns N ' Roses, The Psychedelic Furs ), producer / bass player Geoff Sanoff ( Edsel ), Julia Kent, Michael Hampton ( The Faith S. O. A., One Last Wish, Manifesto ), John Schmersal ( Brainiac, Enon, Caribou ), Simon Lenski ( DAAU ), Chris Smets and Libor Palucha.