Brainiac

Brainiac is a brilliant scientist of Coluan origin with a 12th Level Intellect, who was dedicated to achieving scientific greatness at all costs. Following the destruction of Colu, Brainiac's mind descended into a ruthless obsession with preserving and recreating his home world by any means necessary. This obsession led him to conquer and archive multiple worlds on his Skull Ship, accumulating their knowledge in his ultimate quest of recreating Colu on the planet Earth in every reality.

Following multiple failures in these attempts, Brainiac successfully invaded the city of Metropolis on Earth-1 and managed to capture and clone several members of the Justice League, to which Task Force X are deployed to engage and destroy.

Incident Reports

Before Kill the Justice League Incident

Vril Dox was a brilliant scientist, originating from a planet known as Colu, whose work often resulted in the creation of incredible technological wonders, including phasing technology, which enabled him to see into other realities and dimensions. However, he eventually discovered what appeared to be a forecast that would result in the complete destruction of Colu and, as a result, would begin to conduct experiments on living test subjects in an effort to ensure the survival of Coluans. Despite his claims that he simply longed to save his planet, Dox's peers deemed his experiments as unethical and reckless, which ultimately led to his discoveries being discredited.

Once the danger he had predicted threatened their planet, the people of Colu looked to Dox for answers, having a change of heart on his experiments now that their very existence was at stake. Following this, he would select and archive what he considered the best Colu had to offer and store it in a massive vessel he constructed for this very purpose, dubbed the Skull Ship. Having created the Terminauts as the crown jewel of his scientific experiments, Dox used himself as a proverbial guinea pig to fuse with them to gain further power and capabilities to lead his operations. However, the end result seemed to have altered his personality, gradually turning him into a far more ruthless and amoral version of his initial personality.

Following the destruction of Colu, Dox took on the new identity of "Brainiac" and developed an obsession with restoring his home world by taking over different worlds and physically turning them into a new Colu by means of terraforming them. Traveling the universe in his Skull Ship, and using his phasing technology, Brainiac eventually discovered the existence of not only other worlds outside of his native universe, but also the fate of multiple Colus, one in each reality, all of which fell to similar disasters as his own.

Even more disturbing to Brainiac, in these alternate realities, it would also seem that his other selves had also perished with their home worlds, leaving no one to revive the legacy of Coluans. Because of this discovery, Brainiac felt an obligation to expand his plan on restoring Colu in every reality by terraforming other planets and, through his own genius and cybernetic augmentations, he would find a way of transferring his mind and consciousness into 12 cloned bodies he created to ensure his invasion across these universes would succeed.

As he continued in his plans and operations, Brainiac initially chose uninhabited worlds to invade, acknowledging the moral and ethical dilemma of conquering inhabited planets, but was repeatedly stymied by failure due to the lack of natural resources. Ultimately, Brainiac felt that he had no choice but to invade inhabited worlds, starting with the least occupied, but after even these attempts ended in failure, he eventually chose Earth as the prime planet to invade due to its similarity in makeup to Colu.

Realizing that every Earth in each reality held a host of meta humans, with the most powerful convened in the city of Metropolis, Brainiac would largely launch his Earth invasions at these cities to attack directly at what he initially perceived to be the greatest threats to his plans. During his initial invasion of the first Earth, implied to be Earth-2, Brainiac would battle against the Justice League, and ultimately win, but the chaos and destruction of the battles would wipe out most of the planet.

Nonetheless, Brainiac captured the remaining survivors and imprisoned them within storage units for eventual enlistment into his forces and would begin to terraform the world. While it seemed that the process was initially successful, Brainiac would later record in his notes that the fight with the meta humans and resulting fallout left the planet too barren to serve as a suitable New Colu. He then decided to refine his plans and experiment further, hoping that his successive invasions on other Earths would yield better results.

Consequently, in his own world, he would arrive on Earth and begin his invasion of the planet in Metropolis, ironically during "Justice Day," a new holiday created to celebrate all that the Justice League had managed to achieve over the last few years. Once his ship was stationed directly above the city, Brainiac would initiate contact with the Justice League, inviting them to an open discussion aboard his ship. While most of the League was extremely cautious and skeptical of this invite, the League's leader, Superman, was optimistic that Brainiac was here on peaceful terms, given no warning shots or attacks were initiated.

This however played directly into Brainiac's hands, as he would use this optimism to his advantage once they were aboard his ship to imprison and subsequently clone all but two members of the Justice League. Flash would be able to use his speed force to get Wonder Woman and himself to safety, while Brainiac began work on the clones of Superman, Green Lantern, and Batman, while also attempting to exert full control of the originals now in his captivity, the clones seemingly being a contingency plan to be put into effect in the event that his attempts to brainwash the Justice League failed. As his previous battles with the League on other Earths cost him the resources of those planets, Brainiac believed that by avoiding conflict with them, and instead capturing the originals and controlling their clones as his greatest assets for the invasion, would yield much better and suitable results for New Colu.

While the original three, captured Justice League members were strong enough to fight against his corrupting influence, Brainiac refined the clones even further, augmenting the personality traits he felt were the most desirable, programing them to be absolutely loyal, and even transferred the memories of their former hosts into them, believing their team dynamic and knowledge of their enemies, allies, and planet to be critical assets. This would also ensure that the clones believe themselves to be the real, original League members, seemingly oblivious of their real nature. To further maintain this facade, Brainiac would also act as if the clones were, in fact, the originals, albeit brainwashed, disavowing all knowledge of the original league being captured.

After several days, Brainiac finally made his existence known to the residents of Metropolis by mentally communicating with them, beginning his invasion in full, starting with abducting over eight million citizens from every corner of the city via a mass energy transfer from his ship's tentacles. This energy transfer would leave behind sand-like, inorganic residue in place of where citizens were abducted, as well as several residual echoes of their final thoughts prior to and during Brainiac's arrival and the League's absence. Brainiac would then proceed to corrupt a large percentage of them to use as his invasion force, archiving the rest for data, and would begin to gradually phase in his new soldiers into Metropolis.

To discourage outside intervention as much as possible, Brainiac also captured and took control over several members of the U.S. armed forces, as well as scores of their tanks and helicopters, and assimilated them into his ranks, as their previous training and conditioning made them ideal members for his forces, especially as snipers. A portion of these corrupted forces then formed a blockade around Metropolis, ensuring that no one could get in or out of the city via the evacuation routes or conventional methods of travel.

With everything in place, Brainiac's corrupted army was then launched in full force on Metropolis with soldiers, tanks, drones, and patrols securing the city and searching for survivors, causing wide scale destruction and devastation, while the government would work to keep the invasion, contained to Metropolis for the time being, suppressed from the larger world. At the same time, Brainiac had finally perfected and deployed the Batman and Green Lantern clones to serve as his field commander and lieutenant respectively, and integrate, or wipe out, any resistance, with Superman remaining on the Skull Ship, only to be deployed as a contingency plan to be put into effect in the event that Brainiac’s plans come under threat.

With several members of the League captured and their clones under Brainiac's control, the U.S. military compromised, and the entire city of Metropolis locked down, the government would authorize A.R.G.U.S., under the command of Amanda Waller, to recruit and mobilize previously profiled inmates from the rebuilt Arkham Asylum to be conscripted into Task Force X, better known as the Suicide Squad. With few heroes remaining to rely on, Waller would deploy these four inmates to infiltrate Metropolis and begin their mission of killing the Justice League clones and destroying Brainiac.

Kill the Justice League Incident

Three weeks into his invasion, Brainiac spends most of his time on the Skull Ship working on his terraformers and turning captives of Metropolis into his Corrupted Forces using his terminauts. Due to Superman's clone, codenamed "Project K," requiring a considerable amount of corruption in order to ensure complete obedience, the Batman clone was put in charge of the forces, while the Green Lantern clone was tasked with shielding the Skull Ship via his ring's power, help search for survivors to be integrated, and watch over the battlefield for threats. The Superman clone acted as a last resort weapon to be used in times of desperation.

The Batman clone went throughout the city, slaughtering all resisters, while also searching for Wonder Woman and Flash for Brainiac to imprison and clone, eventually being successful in locating Flash and capturing him. Brainiac would subsequently clone Flash as he did Green Lantern, Batman, and Superman, before dispatching him to aid his fellow League clones, specifically targeting and killing Lex Luthor, who had been communicating with the Earth-2 Lex in preparation for Brainiac's invasion.

When the Suicide Squad appeared in Metropolis and began to decimate much of Brainiac's forces, wiping out his terminaut incubators, and rescuing as many abducted civilians as possible from his drone carriers, Brainiac would task his Justice League clones with eliminating them. However, the Squad proved to be extremely combat competent and, using anti-speed force technology, would be successful in killing the Flash clone. Frustrated by this victory, Brainiac would send Green Lantern to neutralize the Squad while he phased the Flash clone back to his ship to refine his experiments further.

The Squad would escape Lantern via Brainiac's phasing and would end up on Earth-2, where they rescued Lex-2 and returned after seeing the horror that would become their world should Brainiac succeed. With the deceased Flash clone in his possession, Brainiac would augment his invasion armies even further with his abilities, via DNA experiments, to hinder A.R.G.U.S's progress, but even this proved futile. As his forces began to dwindle, Brainiac began phasing in his corrupted forces from Earth-2, having previously held the remaining survivors within storage units for enlistment, to replenish his losses.

When the Squad next killed the Green Lantern clone, disabling the shield around the Skull Ship in the process, Amanda Waller launched a nuke directly at the ship to destroy Brainiac. However, the Superman clone had finally been perfected (complete with invulnerability to green kryptonite) and sent by Brainiac prevent the nuke from reaching the ship. After flying the nuke a safe distance away from the Skull Ship and Metropolis, the Superman clone went on a murderous and destructive rampage throughout the city to kill Wonder Woman. Taking countless lives in the process and destroying much of the city, the clone was eventually successful in killing Diana right outside the Hall of Justice, much to the dismay of the Squad.

Resolved more than ever to stop the remaining clones and Brainiac, the Squad worked with Lex-2 to kill both the Batman and Superman clones. Intrigued that the Squad were able to take down his entire League, Brainiac finally made an appearance to the Squad by phasing them to his ship, where he outlined his plans to recreate Colu on every Earth in every reality and use them, the "margin of error," to perfect his forces and experiment. Before he could do so however, Lex-2 phased them back to his lab and informed them of Brainiac's 12 other iterations, before working with Waller to prepare for an all scale assault on the first one back on Earth-2.

Meanwhile, Brainiac became a much more active presence to the Squad now that his Justice League clones were out of commission. He began to deploy new soldiers augmented with Batman's DNA and launched several terraformers throughout the city to begin the process of creating New Colu on Earth. He routinely attempted to proposition the Squad to join with him and he would unlock their full potential, giving them full access to everything they ever wanted. This did nothing to sway the Squad as they saw the prospect of traveling to different worlds and dimensions, killing Brainiac over and over again, and obtaining rare technology and gear to be a far more rewarding prospect.

Around the same time, Brainiac learned that Lois Lane had been spreading positive messages about the Suicide Squad. In response, Brainiac used his psionic powers to communicate with Lois as she was broadcasting to Metropolis, threatening all survivors to remain neutral towards the Suicide Squad’s involvement. He reaffirmed that he would conquer the world and the Suicide Squad would either be killed or integrated by his will (at that point, he was undecided), grimly warning that anyone offering the Squad so much as a kind word, including Lois, would suffer a similar fate. In response, Lois confidently pointed out to Brainiac that he was nearly out of war machines and declared that neither the Suicide Squad nor Metropolis would be intimidated by him any further. Amused by Lois’ nerve, Brainiac admitted that the Earths in which he killed her doppelgangers, who had been operating as Superwoman in those realities, were his favorites, before sinisterly giving a warning to those tuning into the broadcast: “I’ll see all of you soon, Metropolis. Glory to New Colu.”

Earth-2: Death of Copy 1

After destroying Brainiac's terraformers and war machines on their own earth, the Suicide Squad would travel back to Earth-2 to kill their first Brainiac. After the Squad tears through his forces and confronts Brainiac at the world's data vault, he decides to use Flash's powers of speed to match his rapid thoughts and engages the Squad in battle for the first time.

The Squad defeats and captures Brainiac, taking him back to Earth-1, where the Data Spike, an invention of Lex-2's creation to locate the other Brainiacs throughout the multiverse, is stabbed into his skull by Waller to siphon the Skull Ship data. The siphoning process causes an agonizing and slow death for Brainiac, whose body disintegrates shortly after, while immense damage is inflicted on the ship, now slightly out of phase with Earth-1. The Data Spike is then upgraded to work in any dimension as the Squad prepare to take down the remaining Brainiacs.

Earth-3: Death of Copies 2 and 3

Brainiac begins phasing the Joker World into Earth-1 along with Infused Enemies with Green Lantern Corps powers. Within this elseworld, Joker was the sole survivor of the invasion after a failed suicide bombing at the Hall of Justice killed his Squad to prevent them from falling under Brainiac's control. Intrigued by Joker, Brainiac captured him and began to experiment with his DNA, which had the unforeseen effect of corrupting the terraforming process and reformed the world into a Joker elseworld.

With the unintended corruption of his terraforming efforts on this world, Brainiac became increasingly anxious that his plan and goal of restoring Colu was failing at every attempt. Even Joker could sense this anxiety, equating Brainiac's failures to that of a comedian "bombing" on stage, even as he continuously made adjustments to his operations.

When the League confronted this second interaction, Brainiac copied Green Lantern while shielding his troops; thankfully the squad had poison weapons to counter and destroyed this second Brainiac. Joker ends up rescued and joins the squad after the death of the first iteration in charge of this world.

Meanwhile, on Earth-1, Brainiac began to create and deploy Corrupted Watchtowers to phase in and out of dimensions, searching for ripe, new worlds to conquer. The Squad would completely destroy these towers, thus hindering Brainiac from locating additional worlds, and return to the Joker elseworld to take down another iteration. In the next fight, the third Brainiac copied Superman but his powers were inferior to a true Kryptonian, and was destroyed. With these two copies destroyed, the damage to the Skull Ship continued to grow.

Earth-4: Death of Copies 4 and 5

Brainiac began phasing the Freeze World next, allowing Mrs. Freeze to strike up an alliance with Waller. Within the final days of this world's invasion, Mrs. Freeze used her cryogenic tech and weaponry to destroy Brainiac's main terraformer, ruining his plans and operations, but also causing the planet to turn into a frozen wasteland. Realizing that Mrs. Freeze was yet another anomaly in his experiment, Brainiac began to search for her as well as her terminally-ill wife, Nora, who was in cryogenic stasis.

The Squad arrived in this world, destroyed Brainiac's search forces, and helped Mrs. Freeze escort her wife safely to their Earth's Hall of Justice. The Squad also learned that the original League members were still alive and held captive on Brainiac's Skull Ship for continued experiments when A.R.G.U.S. isolated Flash's unique speed force signature aboard the ship.

The fourth Brainiac copied both Flash and Superman to combine their powers to increase lethality, but it proves ineffectual and he is destroyed while the Flash was rescued and put into stasis for recovery in the Hall of Justice. Tired of fighting the squad himself, the fifth Brainiac sent his goons to fight while using Green Lantern powers once more; despite this, he and and his minions are destroyed.

Earth-5: Death of Copies 6 and 7

Brainiac begins phasing the Fear World fragments of Gotham City in next. Unlike the previous worlds, Brainiac had no interest in this world, as it was already left largely barren from Scarecrow's fear toxin attack, and left it to fall apart on its own after wiping out the minor resistance left making a final stand in Gotham, resulting in a real world landscape that looked like a Scarecrow Nightmare. Deadshot's daughter, Lawless, would communicate with her father and the Squad to let them know that she had already infiltrated this elseworld and the Skull Ship to rescue Green Lantern.

The Squad arrived and put an end to Brainiac's war machines, allowing Lawless a window of time to free Green Lantern, who was rescued from the Skull Ship and put into stasis for recovery like his comrade, the Flash, back at the Hall of Justice. The Squad then returned to the elseworld to confront the sixth Brainiac, who copied Green Lantern and Superman, having picked up speed in swapping out between powers; making the Anti-JL Tech harder to use on him. This sixth iteration would also be defeated and destroyed, Lawless would be saved to join the Squad and, together, they would destroy the seventh iteration of Brainiac as well.

Death of Copies 8 and 9

While the Suicide Squad had been pursuing Brainiac across Elseworlds, Deathstroke had secretly been deployed by Amanda Waller to carry out a similar mission to the Suicide Squad. He had killed two Brainiacs throughout the multiverse prior to being pinpointed by Waller. With this, Brainiac only had four iterations left, leaving even the original Brainiac to admit in his audio logs that his experiment's success seems to be a pipe dream now and that he lost sight of his true goals in light of studying the anomalies and margins of error.

Earth-6: Death of Copy 10

Brainiac had begun an invasion on an Elseworld that was reminiscent of Medieval times, and had been phasing portions of this world into Metropolis. As this invasion had only just begun, this allowed the Suicide Squad, to try to catch up to Brainiac. As they were about to battle the tenth copy of Brainiac, he was run through the back by Deathstroke’s sword.

Remaining Copies and Final Defeat

As the Squad decimated the final pockets of Brainiac's army, his sources of replenishment were now drying up due to his operations in every elseworld disrupted. As a result, in his final fight against the Suicide Squad on Earth-6, Brainiac would have no choice but to use his three remaining bodies, one after another. This time however, the Squad would be aided by the Flash and Green Lantern, who dealt with Brainiac's remaining forces while the Squad concentrated on the final three iterations. Despite Brainiac using all the powers he previously copied from the League, the Suicide Squad were successful in killing two of the remaining iterations and defeating and badly injuring the final Brainiac.

Panicking now that his final form of existence was in danger, Brainiac phased himself to his ship in an effort to escape, but before he could, the Squad phased into the ship after him, just as Superman escaped from his containment. Outnumbered, injured, and before he could react, Brainiac was finally defeated once and for all with a punch to the face by a still living Batman, having also recently escaped his imprisonment, and voices his approval that the Suicide Squad managed to follow his plan, while also revealing the Justice League they had killed were clones the entire time.

Following Brainiac's final defeat, the four remaining members of the League would get to work fixing the damage done by their clones by first freeing all the people Brainiac abducted and then restoring peace to as many worlds throughout the multiverse as possible via taking command of the Skull Ship and use it to travel to worlds in need. It is implied that a majority of the captive citizens of Metropolis were finally freed from the Skull Ship and returned safely, while the damages done to city itself would be repaired, with a new statue of Wonder Woman constructed to honor her heroic deeds and sacrifice. Meanwhile, the original Brainiac would be restrained and left to the mercy of Amanda Waller after all the Squad members, including the support members, had managed to deactivate their nano bombs and escaped to aid the Justice League on their new mission in the elseworlds.

Ultimately, largely thanks to the Suicide Squad, Brainiac's multi-versal invasion had finally been stopped in its entirety. The Squad would steal the gravely damaged Skull Ship and travel the multiverse for some "R&R" while Brainiac himself remained a prisoner of Waller, who had injected him with a nano bomb in the event he tries to escape. Waller, having lost access to all her Suicide Squad members, the Justice League, and the Skull Ship and its technology, sent Brainiac to Belle Reve Penitentiary.

Personality

Brainiac has a god complex and, as such, his arrogance and egotism is so massive that he sees the whole multiverse as his personal playground for experimentation. He cares not for how many life-forms he would integrate or kill in his pursuit of knowledge and has conquered or annihilated countless different worlds from numerous universes, all for the sake of his twisted curiosity.

His massive power and intelligence caused him to become largely unexcited and bored when everything went directly according to his calculations, as he truly sought to experience extraneous variables to broaden the scope of his knowledge and data, albeit not at the expense of his experiment's success of creating New Colu. When meeting Task Force X, he realized that they represented the "margin or error" for his experiment and was intrigued by the data he could glean to refine his operations even further.

Despite his sadistic and merciless nature towards Earth citizens, Brainiac has shown immense care and loyalty, bordering on ruthless obsession, towards his original home planet of Colu and his people, with all his plans and actions aimed at creating a new world that Coluans could inhabit once again. Additionally, it is revealed via Brainiac's audio files that he initially had no intention of terraforming inhabited planets, openly acknowledging the ethical and moral dilemma it presented, and his first attempts were aimed at deserted worlds. This implies that, at least initially, Brainiac wanted to avoid causing causalities on other planets and that the suffering he caused was not because he particularly enjoyed it, but rather because he saw it as a necessity to ensure the survival of his people.

However, after constant failures on these uninhabited planets, Brainiac eventually set his sights on Earth, a world almost perfect in composition for New Colu. After repeated failures on multiple Earths, Brainiac appears to have become more and more desperate for his experiment to succeed, growing more ruthless in his actions. Due to his massive intellect, Brainiac also had a considerable ego (with Deadshot describing him as a cocky egomaniac), believing that his achievements as a scientist excused his actions, and that Earthlings and even his Coluan peers were beneath him. However, following the destruction of most of his bodies and forces, Brainiac admits that he lost sight of his true goals, allowing A.R.G.U.S and the Squad to foil his operations, showing that even he could feel humility when the situation became dire enough.

In the end, while Brainiac was an extremist and unethical scientist, the destruction of his world and people drove him insane, wanting to do whatever was necessary to preserve their legacy, but gradually losing sight of his goals after repeated setbacks and failures and resorting to more and more desperate and amoral acts to preserve the success of his experiment. Even after careful planning and responsive strategy, Brainiac was left with nothing, with his remaining body now a captive of Belle Reve Penitentiary.

Abilities

• Cloning: Brainiac can use his scientific expertise to clone any individual he chooses, as inferred when he cloned the Justice League members he had captured. Any clones created by him were under his control, with seemingly no way to change this.
• Tentacle Manifestation: Brainiac's cybernetic prosthetics come equipped with multiple tendril-like weapons. As seen from the game over sequences, he primarily uses them to subdue and restrain victims chosen for integration.
• Superhuman Intelligence: Brainiac is notorious for being one of the smartest minds in the DC Universe.
• Mind Transference: Brainiac is shown having the power to transfer his mind to twelve different versions of himself across the multiverse, allowing him to cheat death if he dies in one of these bodies.
• Power Mimicry: Brainiac is able to use his Terminauts to alter his body to assume the form of and use the powers of other superbeings and mimic alien technology such as the Lantern Rings, displaying this in his battles against the Suicide Squad by turning into versions of and using the powers of the Flash, Green Lantern and Superman. He eventually develops enough mastery to swap between two different forms at increasing speeds, to counter the Suicide Squad when they use the Anti-JL Tech. However, he is a pale imitation of the original users, needing to compensate with his crystals and Corrupted Forces, and due to physically becoming near identical to the original users of the powers he's using, Brainiac also inherits their weaknesses to the Anti-JL Tech.
• Mind Control: Using his Terminauts, Brainiac can control the minds of others. If successful, the process is irreversible, and it seems that murder is the only way to free the brainwashed victims of their state. However, it does not seem to work on strong-willed individuals such as the Justice League.
• Mental Projection: Brainiac can communicate with organic life forms over long distances, as seen when he interrupted one of Lois Lane’s broadcasts to issue a grim warning to Metropolis to remain neutral in the Suicide Squad’s bid to save the city from Brainiac’s will.
• Levitation: Brainiac can levitate in the air, as seen in the cutscenes preceding the numerous boss fights with his bodies, though it is unclear how he has this ability.

Equipment

• Skull Ship: Brainiac's ship is a highly technologically advanced spacecraft which looms over Metropolis after his invasion.

Game Over Lines

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• "Here lies Harleen Quinzel, a failure and constant disappointment." (Harley Quinn)
• "So much wasted potential, Nanaue." (King Shark)
• "From nothing back to nothing, Harkness." (Captain Boomerang)
• "Well now, this must be very embarrassing for you, Lawton." (Deadshot)

Codex

From the Files of Lex Luthor

Behold the greatest threat your world - and countless others - have ever known. The Coluan scientist calling himself Brainiac possesses an unimaginable intellect, yet one focused on a pathological, unrelenting goal. His desire: his rebuilding of his lost homeworld of Colu, seemingly across the entire multiverse. Really, my own so-called “obsession” with the Kryptonian is barely a tic in comparison.

Precious little is known of the motives behind Brainiac’s behavior. He seldom leaves his interdimensional vessel to oversee his invasions, and we have learned that his consciousness is actually distributed across multiple bodies - perhaps even with their own personalities. But doubtless, all share a belief in the superiority of their great, lost Colu.

I recognize the work of a great scientist when I see it, and his mastery of advanced technology is apparent. The dimensional phasing, which I was able to reverse-engineer… the power to warp the minds of the Justice League, which I was not. Even the Skull Ship itself - perhaps a touch melodramatic, but inarguably a vessel perfectly suited to its purpose.

In particular, my research of Coluan data suggests the Terminauts are a bit more Brainiac’s own creation. What could have driven him to such extremes? I have many questions. But having survived the fate of my Earth, I am content to see him destroyed before I know the answers.

From the Files of Lex Luthor (Green Lantern form)

The very source of the Green Lantern Corps’ power is nebulous enough without considering just how Brainiac has learned to tap into it. Ah, but I should approach this logically, step by step and from the beginning.

From the information I’ve been able to obtain, the power source is a semi-stable Oan cell of emotional energy that is accessed by interdimensional portals in some way. The emotional energy harnessed is, of course, willpower -— as has been stated by Corps members myriad times. Perhaps this is why it seems trivial for Brainiac to duplicate and wield. Any being of lesser will would have given up this idealistic mission to restore their home planet and civilization. And yet he perseveres!

The greater question is, of course, how Brainiac can create a facsimile of that Oan well of power without the access key that is a Power Ring. Whatever method Brainiac uses must be found, studied, and possibly implemented against him. For the cause, of course.

From the Files of Lex Luthor (Superman form)

This at least follows logically. In the Kryptonian, Brainiac came up with a force he was able to overcome through subterfuge and he is now integrating his acquisition. That said integration seems to be overly literal and semi-biological is besides the point - it’s sound business practice. Kudos where it’s due.

But where the integration, or corruption, process forces a sense of unity through conformity in his rank and file troops, these corrupted Justice League forms look much like themselves. Clearly, they need to be recognizable. But Brainiac himself taking on the appearance of the League seems completely out of character. Almost a defeat made manifest.

I believe the true reason behind this “artistic direction” is intimidation. Defeating the corrupted Superman was a challenge even with my assistance; Brainiac even more so. The two together is daunting in a way few have words for.

From the Files of Lex Luthor (Flash form)

When considering the combat prowess of the League, very few think of The Flash as a high priority. His questionable gift for playing the comic relief and moral center masks his not inconsiderable capabilities. "The Fastest Man Alive" is not a moniker handed out lightly.

Speed is core to how we experience the universe and its various forces. It dictates weather. Some believe it even governs time. All that power behind a smile and a quip... Yes, Brainiac saw the potential to put such talents to devastating use. Thankfully even he was not able to achieve a fuller mastery or I don't doubt Task Force X would have been routed.

Of course I wonder if I could replicate Brainiac's genetic integrations myself, perhaps with some study of Harkness as to the effects of the Speed Force when harnessed illicitly. It may take a few test subjects and time, but I have the utmost confidence in myself. It's what Lady Boomerang would have wanted.

Quotes

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Trivia

• In the comics, previous to Superman #167, Brainiac was an organic being from the planet Bryak.
• In the comics, Brainiac has several descendents, with the most famous being in the 30th and 31st centuries named Querl Dox; aka Brainiac 5, who worked with the Legion of Super Heroes to atone for his great-great-grandfather's misdeeds. Brainiac 5's ingenuity with technology led to the invention of, amongst other things, the Legion's flight rings and the force field belt which became his signature device in combat. He has also managed to designed various methods of time travel to enable the team to travel to the 20th and 21st centuries.
• Brainiac constantly propositions the Suicide Squad after they complete missions; attempting to sow distrust against Lex-2.
  • Upon seeing the Earth-2 Luthor just before his first physical death, Brainiac is shown reacting negatively to him, possibly giving a reason for the attempts at making the team distrust Luthor, however this isn't mentioned or expanded upon again.
• Brainiac being able to transfer his mind to twelve different versions of himself in the multiverse is possibly a reference to how, in some continuities in the comics, Brainiac is a robotic being who is able to transfer his programming into another robotic body in the event his current one is destroyed.
• Unlike most depictions of Brainiac, his voice consists of multiple voices rolled into one, with a south-eastern British accent, in spite of the fact that he was originally from Colu. In real life his accent is due to his voice actor, Jason Issacs, being from the United Kingdom.
• With his invasion in Earth-1 alone, Brainiac has caused the most civilian deaths out of any villain in the Arkhamverse thus far in the series.
• In every Earth, Brainiac's terraforming operations are unsuccessful due to one or several factors. On Earth-2, his battles with the League destroyed much of the planets resources, the Joker elseworld's terraforming process was corrupted by Brainiac's experiments on Joker's DNA, Freeze's elseworld was left as a frozen wasteland from her attack on his main terraformer, the fear elseworld was already largely destroyed and deprived of resources from Scarecrow's attack, and both the medieval elseworld and Earth-1's operations were stopped by the Squad before they went any further. This cemented Brainiac's experiment to create New Colu as a complete and utter failure in every reality.
  • Joker implies in his interrogation that Brainiac himself is aware that his operations are consistently failing and causing him to panic.
• During his audio logs, Brainiac's voice occasionally shifts from sounding calm and organic to echoed and robotic, specifically when deciding to take more extreme measures. This may be a result of the terminaut subtly influencing his mind and actions, causing him to become more and more desperate to succeed.
• At one point he says “No sense in crying over spilt nano-fluids.”, which a spin on the common saying “There is no sense in crying over spilled milk.”.
• In the sense that Brainiac is using it, “lost in the sauce” is an idiom meaning “to be completely engrossed or overwhelmed by something, often to the point of being confused or disoriented”, in reference to Brainiac losing sight of his true goal.
• It is hinted several times within the post-game seasons that Brainiac was being hunted by another iteration of himself and, in addition to looking to recreate Colu, was also hiding from this threat. Toyman implies that this iteration was actually from the future (possibly a reference to Brainiac 5), looking to destroy his past self in an attempt to avert the destruction of Colu.
  • This further implies that Brainiac may have unintentionally caused the disaster that destroyed his home world, with his terraforming operations on other planets acting as an attempt to correct his mistake and further explaining why he was so obsessed with creating a New Colu.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
Characters
Heroes
Batman/Bruce Wayne - Flash - Green Lantern - Superman - Wonder Woman
Villains
Brainiac - Captain Boomerang - Deadshot - Gizmo - Harley Quinn - Ivy - Joker (Elseworlds) - King Shark - Lex Luthor - Penguin - Riddler - Toyman - Zalika
Other Characters
Aaron Cash - Amanda Waller - Jack Ryder - Lois Lane - Rick Flag
Locations
Arkham Asylum - Batcave (Metropolis) - Gotham City - Hall of Justice - LexCorp - Metropolis - The Batman Experience - Wayne Manor
Terms
Batarang - Batsuit - Riddler Trophy