This article is about the DC Comics villain. For the other DC Comics characters, see Brainiac 2, Brainiac 5, and Brainiac 8. For other things called "brainiac", see Brainiac (disambiguation).
| Brainiac | |
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| Brainiac in Superman: Secret Files and Origins 2009
(October 2009). Art by Francis Manapul. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Action Comics #242 (July 1958) |
| Created by | Otto Binder Al Plastino |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Vril Dox |
| Species | Coluan |
| Place of origin | Colu |
| Team affiliations |
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| Partnerships | Lex Luthor |
| Notable aliases | Dr. Milton Moses Fine, Pulsar Stargrave, the Terror of Kandor, the Collector of Worlds |
| Abilities |
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Brainiac is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, usually as an adversary of Superman, his second deadliest archenemy after Lex Luthor, and a frequent enemy of the Justice League.
Brainiac is typically depicted as an extraterrestrial cyborg or android. He is one of Superman's primary enemies, and is responsible for shrinking and stealing Kandor, the capital city of Superman's home planet Krypton. In some continuities, he is also responsible for Krypton's destruction. Due to multiple revisions of DC's continuity, several variations of Brainiac have appeared. Most incarnations of Brainiac depict him as a green-skinned being in humanoidform. He is bald, with a set of linked electrode-like objects (sometimes glowing) protruding from his skull.
His name is a portmanteau of the words brain and maniac.[1] In 2009, Brainiac was ranked as IGN's 17th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.[2]
