History Of Brainiac

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Today on Variant, we give you the History of Brainiac before his live action debut on Krypton tonight!
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#Brainiac #DC

[@FRISHR]

Smartest guy in the universe, gets hurt by germs. What a nerd.

[@PACKERMAN2077]

@Razh 80 are you talking about the movie or the video game _Superman: the Man of Steel_

[@kevoa4941]

FRISHR lmao

[@JimmyTurner]

Made me laugh

[@johnthewittydapper8134]

I wish Brainiac was a woman

[@NeocrimsonX]

Someone so smart I would think he'd make a special suit to protect him outside of his ship

[@iuel42]

I know comics just don't make sense sometimes, but it really annoys me that a being with the intellect of Brainiac can't create a body immune to bacteria.

[@davidgn40]

He did, that's what the multiple other incarnations were. Plus his main body probably never left the ship before then so he had no need to protect his original body from bacteria.

[@goofybutserious4807]

Even how Superman flies makes more sense than this lol

[@InfiniteUniverse88]

Presumably, most of the planets he conquers are so weak, it wasn't worth the effort to engineer an immune system for first contact. After defeat, he would likely be more prepared. However, sending an android should avoid the microbe problem. There would be some advantage to sending an organic life form for first contact. Alternatively, losing a battle is intentional. Losing a battle yields more knowledge than winning. Knowledge is the source of Brainiac's power. Therefore, losing is intentional. There could be something similar to the Spore drive in Star Trek Discovery. In this case, it's knowledge of microbes and other information that creates exobytes.

[@XX-sp3tt]

The DUACU had it that Brainiac simply suffers a blue-screen of death when trying to process that much utterly chaotic LIFE all at once!

[@sonaligharat8258]

It can be a way of saying, every being, be it superpowerful does have some weakness

[@racekitty]

I've always liked brainiac's origin in the Superman animated series as a supercomputer from Krypton who went rogue and lied about it's coming destruction leading Kal-El to be sent away I always thought that connection was brilliant.

[@Tribrid-zv3nq]

I prefer him being from Colu. It makes him an indepedent, fresh, original character

[@matthiascerebri3315]

And Smallville

[@gabe7665]

I always thought they named him after the expression, it’s so cool to see the impact he had outside of comics.

[@alphatrusbensiii8381]

I loved Brainiac in Injustice that was a true badass

[@hiddensinix2767]

@@leila-leadernambinga-leade6059 ???

[@hiddensinix2767]

@@leila-leadernambinga-leade6059 ?????

[@Spring_312]

Leila Nambinga Are you okay? Are you having a stroke?

[@Spring_312]

Leila Nambinga Uh.......

[@Spring_312]

Leila Nambinga I’m just gonna leave

[@FirstNameLastName1162AD]

His weakness sounds less ridiculous when you remember Green lantern’s weakness is literally just a color

[@matthiascerebri3315]

But with emotions and force fields

[@superman31172]

My favorite version of Brainiac is from the superman animated series of the 90's and early 2000's

[@dano157]

Yes !!! When Lex infuses himself to him

[@pastorjerrykliner3162]

Yes. Voiced by Alan Rachins (from "LA Law" and "Dharma and Greg")

[@kiingversai]

YESS!! Brainiac was delivered perfectly in those!! It’s a shame lots of people forgot about those shows

[@abhirup_the90skid]

Wasn't braniac a kryptonia super computer responsible for the destruction of krypton as shown in the superman animated series?

[@Davidofthelost]

Same. I love the connection between them with Brainiac being from Krypton and betraying everyone to allow their destruction.

[@SKMCTV]

Imagine if the DCEU was run competently with all these great characters

[@kytim89]

If only.

[@sub-zero5433]

yeah that’d be nice

[@devilslayer8675]

@@kytim89 Your 3 years late

[@jimmilton4543]

Fire Snyder bring the dudes who did the animated shows

[@Alejandro-fr9jc]

@@devilslayer8675 so are you

[@chiefskingdom_24]

Brianiac: you can't defeat me Superman: *a c h o o* Braniac: *SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-*

[@aadivivekpadhi7248]

Underrated comment!

[@cameronjackson6229]

So technically...swamp thing could easily beat braniac?

[@CN-dl6fb]

@@alpachino468 Who said they were ?

[@DUNDOM5]

and Shrek

[@blackestguy1374]

@@alpachino468 Who said they were?

[@einnorlmitra7072]

I mean... Swamp Thing controls the green.

[@billybadass3056]

@Cameron that was EXACTLY what i was thinking lol..

[@huntercool2232]

“Brainiac’s weakness is Germs and Disease!” Me: “Then he’s in trouble if he gets *Covid 19!”* 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@the1andowenly497]

🤣😂😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣lmao u so funny

[@huntercool2232]

The 1 And Owenly, LOL Ty! 😂🤣

[@wowjustwow3283]

@@leila-leadernambinga-leade6059 brainiac is that you

[@MrRed424]

Brainic is one of my favorite supervillains of all time because he wants and consumes all this information and will do anything to get it but he doesn't wanna produce anything with it.

[@thandiwemwanza992]

VariantComics, I love how you do these histories! So thorough and clear. Thank you 🙏🏽

[@jaybook1281]

History of Mongul History of Parasite History of Zod History of Morbius History of Molecule Man History of Blue Devil History of Clayface History of Deacon Blackfire History of The Legion of Superheroes History of Young Avengers History of Baron Mordo

[@theherst]

yeah

[@armannangia6613]

Cannot forget galactus

[@denisfilipovic8106]

That One Guy at 7/11 it General Zod lol

[@davidbrown265]

Been waiting for a mongul vid

[@devildiablo8765]

That One Guy at 7/11 yeah

[@danielhissi585]

For years I have been waiting for this....

[@modernmexican274]

It’s funny how I requested history of Brainiac 3 years ago and it’s barely being made. I’m soooooo excited

[@Connordaboss45]

History of the blue lanterns would be rad

[@wearevenom2579]

Connorr Thomas He already did that....

[@themostbritishpersonalive868]

@@wearevenom2579 then it's rad

[@jockstorious6308]

We Are Venom No they didn’t

[@AdarshKumar-nj7rp]

I can't believe DCEU has never touched even the surface of amazing storylines and characters.

[@crapshot]

Blame the executives

[@restymervinponio4026]

I can't believe the Salkinds did not use Brainiac in Superman 3, and use a computer as Superman's villain. What a waste.

[@Puffdaddy248]

Hack snyder and his small vision

[@TheHeston83]

Brainiac is awesome he is my favorite DC Villain hoping he appears MOS2 as well love superman as well

[@renatocosta8315]

Waited a long time for this video to pop out, now who actually wants a history of Lex Luthor episode

[@jahiemyoung754]

Renato Costa I want to see a history of Sonic The Hedgehog episode.

[@RandomRiot]

I want a History of Arm Fall Off Boy episode.

[@davideduardogonzalezbermud3864]

Renato Costa I want a history of Lex Luthor video!

[@ronaldob8504]

Renato Costa that would be awsome

[@dakotatrue12]

I want to see a history of hey Arnold episode

[@philipgrassa4056]

This is a great episode, I was unaware that Larfleeze has made such a recent appearance. You guys should do an origin of Larfleeze, such an underrated character.

[@widster9639]

*WHO IS SMARTER? BRAINIAC (10 LEVEL INTELLECT) OR DEVOE (LIMITLESS THOUGHT AND KNOWS THE OUTCOME OF EVERYTHING)*

[@alphatrusbensiii8381]

Widster I would go with Devoe. If you know the outcome of everything you know information before it is knowledge

[@volkitolkitorino]

Brainiac without a single doubt.

[@seanbrown7083]

I would go with brainiac like alien technology??? Cmon now

[@mukuld7777]

Batman

[@coreythomas3633]

Brainiac

[@dsl8123]

I love this channel. The way the MCU and DCU are popping around the world nowadays, it's nice to know more about an American pop culture element, especially for people who didn't grow around these types of comic book stories like me.

[@zeroChannelJJ]

Your channel quality improved alot over the past year!!! Keep it up!

[@williamvouk2911]

Top 10 vehicles in comics!

[@Nayops23]

Yes!, I've been waiting for this vid

[@larrychasejr.5185]

Just watched Superman: Unbound. Pretty good.

[@user-dp7tf4bg5r]

Larry chase jr. Yeah. I dont know why so many ppl dislike the movie.

[@ScarecrOmega]

It's ok but the graphic novel is AMAZING

[@user-dp7tf4bg5r]

@Razh 80 Yeah, i loved him there

[@joshyoung9515]

History of trigon

[@davideduardogonzalezbermud3864]

Lil Latke History of Darkseid and High-Father!

[@jeffcupp7201]

@@davideduardogonzalezbermud3864 everybody has done darkdeid/highfather. variant needs to be diff/better so please no darkseide/highfathet

[@novapanther2058]

All brainiac would have to do to solve his weakness is make a suit that protects him from bacteria and with his intellect it would be a walk in the park

[@krane15]

Umm, that would be his ship.

[@spudferdpowers7080]

History of Blue Beetle! Please!

[@tr1plethreat032]

Spudferd Powers Jaime Reyes or Ted Kord?

[@darkstardarin]

Tr1ple Threat03 Yes

[@stonalisa3729]

Both of them

[@theponydalek7923]

@@tr1plethreat032 or Dan Garrett

[@thomas-stilinski8149]

From what I've seen its not happening

[@partydean17]

Waited a long time for this. Awesome video and recommendations now I want history of the question lol

[@ElMalito187]

Corey Burton voiced Brainiac from Superman TAS. He's the definitive voice of Brainiac. Corey Burton also voiced Zeus for God of War 2 and God of War 3.

[@zhin8294]

Man, that upcomming storyline sounds INSANE! Absolutely can't wait to see my favorite Heros and Villains team up to fight a freaking COSMIC threat!

[@charlesgorman4919]

Brainiac is not only my favorite Superman villain, he's also my favorite DC comics villain and my favorite comic book villain in general.

[@Hellismary]

Wow I was just thinking about a Brainiac history of video 👏🏽💥 Dope !

[@thomaslee7140]

I see that you used Brainiac from Superman Unbound in the thumbnail. I loved that version

[@greyworld6242]

So brainiac can be retconned no matter what? Damn that’s cool! Has their ever been a form that can be organically fused with kryptonite?

[@greyworld6242]

Keelan Barron yeah you’re right

[@raichu8400]

Grey World he'd be awesome

[@greyworld6242]

Raichu yeah especially if he could fashion them into weapons and cut Superman’s head off!

[@raichu8400]

Grey World he'd be one of the most OP characters of all time

[@greyworld6242]

Raichu or manipulate doomsday and turn him into some form of a kryptonite mutant monstrosity.

[@cuentavieja563]

Definitely my favorite form is that of "robot skeleton", after seeing it in Red Son, seeing it so fragile but at the same time so powerful and cold, I loved it...

[@karlsingh9076]

Love the way Arris does these videos. Also, do an analysis of World War Hulk when Amadeus Cho takes the mantle. Trust me, it was savage!

[@DjTomcat14]

Always enjoy watching your videos 👏

[@LamborghiniDiabloSVPursuit]

So Braniac's weakness is germs.....and he doesn't think to wear a sealed suit with a closed-circuit breathing system when venturing outside. I am surprised nobody has defeated this guy by sneezing at his general direction.

[@jtafoya88]

Krypton was great. I like Seg-el and Brainiac and his skull ship looked awsome. Can't wait for episode 2.

[@catvideojogos]

Great video man , I am a fan of your show !

[@onestepdown54]

I had an idea watching this episode for a new type of show! Either a ranking or listing of actors who have played/voiced various characters! Both live action and animated!

[@akaj2013]

Good to know. Since Cheetah is gonna be the villain in WW2, are you working on a History episode for her?

[@jbarnard2000]

Plz do a history of quake, poison ivy or the hellfire club

[@melaniepodlesny4453]

My grandpa is the creator of Brainiac ( Al Plastino ) and its really cool to see videos like this on the internet.

[@PetarNNenkovski]

Very cool video, thank you !

[@NightYoshi]

History of The Riddler please.

[@davideduardogonzalezbermud3864]

Night Yoshi And penguin, Two-Face, and Scarecrow!!!!

[@themagician1762]

You guys... Watch gotham

[@domoniquedixon2590]

watch mojo has one

[@dadagan8815]

One petty point the first computer wasn't ENIAC it was Colossus, created by Alan Turing & Tommy Flowers

[@mr.g6311]

Thanks you reminded me to record it

[@danialasadolahi]

Hi Arris, Thank you for the great video. Could you please also make a History of Imperiex one? Thanks!

[@XansStuff]

That "No Heros" story line sounds quite similar to th primary story arc in the DC Universe Online.

[@liloiax22]

The word "brainiac" came from the comics?!? That's awesome lol n I guess u do learn something new everyday ...The very word brainiac coming from the comics tho... that's fuckin' insane lol I would've never guessed that in a million years!!!

[@ChadBenjamin]

The term "Bizarro World" also came from Superman comics.

[@TJ52359]

as noted with the Citation of 'ENIAC' it is possible that 'word' brainiac circulated by word of mouth before being put to paper (in a form that would last) by the comics

[@robhenry7896]

Brainiac having a son isn't a new 52 change. Vril Dox, the son of Brainiac already existed in the 80s

[@Toto-95]

Brainiac's origin will always be the one of the animated cartoon in my heart

[@4sight719]

DC has always had the better villains.

[@rorybranos]

Debatable

[@jesusolguin5896]

@@rorybranos was thinking the same thing

[@fuckel98]

Um....Doctor Doom, Dormammu, Mag-fuckin-neto, Romulus, just for a warm up.

[@4sight719]

Galan Liones Doom is the only great marvel villain imo. The rest are too cheesy and one dimensional. In the comics Thanos made the infinity gauntlet to please Death..... lame. Doom is the only one that has levels to his behavior, thoughts, and character.

[@4sight719]

Mister BK Doom is the only good marvel villain imo.

[@robbieaccuser3703]

Well Arris can we get a review of the show when it comes out love how you break every thing down in to details ☺️

[@diver-wi9th]

awesome video as always

[@TevyaSmolka]

I love that Superman reborn retcon all of the new 52 storylines out the window

[@elboogie2324]

The Superman/Brainiac story was adapted into an animated movie: Superman: Unbound

[@chimeraking5286]

Histoy of Anti-Monitor

[@SteveyLuke]

Brainiac is by far my favorite Superman villain! Can't wait to see him in Krypton!

[@mrbrian826]

That Brainiac saying's origins is so cool! Never knew the word came from the comics.

[@armaanraj136]

History of history Do it now!!!!!

[@r.j.koblinski7055]

Off topic but can someone tell me if there is a good issue before crisis on infinite earths and in the silver age comics for Flash, Im trying to get into flash for the first time

[@akashicshaka]

My favourite Villain since I first got introduced to superman back when I was 6.

[@kevinmaguire1686]

Great vid!

[@savage5128]

Looking good. Can't wait to see it on Syfy tonight.

[@savage5128]

BLAQ JOKER yes. On Syfy

[@dennisthemenace855]

Doit toit what time ?

[@savage5128]

Storm Trooper time now over

[@futureflash6331]

Do a history of Kang the Conquerer or the Spectre

[@assassin0726]

The static shock brainiac is awesome too !!!

[@fanofstuff1607]

Not only did I like this, it helped me with my hw, so thanks

[@theworldsgreatestdetective8127]

History of Spectre.

[@ordenanza8354]

I really hope he does that episode I saw jayvynkris requesting that video since the livestream

[@theworldsgreatestdetective8127]

VariantComics Holy crap you replied!!!

[@ordenanza8354]

Thanks Arris #bestcomicyoutuber

[@mexicanbatman8157]

@@theworldsgreatestdetective8127 im also the world's greatest detective and Martial artist

[@Chrisbleach25]

History of X-Men. History of adam Warlock. History of x-force. History of mantis. History of gamora. History of spider gwen.

[@dinosoid2000]

Always been partial to the Kryptonian super computer Brainiac. Makes him a much more personal foe for Superman.

[@DVAFP]

I’m glad there are no spoilers in this video.

[@charlesbennettshaffer3505]

History of Beast boy and Etrigan the Demon

[@brycefarmer3902]

You mentioned the Brainiac has a 12th level intellect. I have this question on my mind now, how is the level of intelligence in the DC Universe measured specifically?

[@skyetunes8722]

that seems like a really good classic comic story arc from the og origin

[@bhavikn.k8843]

The trailer of Krypton is sick!!!!

[@lazarus5609]

Yeah only 2 seasons wtf..

[@eventyraren]

This is a bit late, but I just realised that you never did a history of Ego when gaurdiens 2 came out. If you did then I cant find it. Do you think you can do an history stort of Ego soon?

[@s3ndnud3s]

Next time make a video about the History of amazo 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙇🙇🙇

[@DividedByPerception]

You've missed the Convergence series! One of the best ones with Brainiac

[@tylersmith9465]

Great job 👏 😌😊 👍

[@mr.sand7899]

Is Brainiac and Brainiac 5 related in any way?

[@domoniquedixon2590]

Brainic is Brainic 5 very distance relative.

[@ChrisAK360]

I think Brainiac 5 has said Brainiac is his ancestor

[@maymay5600]

i like the fact that krypton and dceu are connected, along with the supergirl series

[@enixez]

Brainiac was my favorite superman villain growing up in the 90's

[@paultsakanikas3925]

Great video

[@myself2noone]

"A 12th level intellect." Or as Skippy might put it a dumb dumb.

[@isaacmissi5920]

Yes! But skippy the meh might compare

[@davideduardogonzalezbermud3864]

Top 10 Underrated Spider-Man Villains Top 10 Members of The Justice League Top 10 Members of The Avengers History of Green Goblin and Dr. Octopus Alternate versions of Thor and Hulk Dormammu vs Trigon

[@Chimerathedragon]

I always enjoyed seeing Brainiac as the Kryptonian AI who just ran everything then went Rogue and saved himself besides the Kryptonian race

[@DRM-io5ls]

I enjoyed this one

[@blkpanther11]

History of Alfred Pennyworth Please

[@blacksparrow15]

Did Superman not know Ray Palmer back then? Seems like he could have helped him restore that city.

[@benb3316]

I think the Animated Series version was the best. Braniac being Krypton's super-world computer but then going against Jor-El because not enough time remained to save the Kryptonians and himself. He was a machine and just as you'd throw out a coffee maker that stopped working, he was working to survive. However he had all the memories and information and history of Krypton so reasoned he could absorb that and perhaps recreate it somewhere else. In travelling space he went more extreme and absorbed worlds to then destroy them, only information existed for him. The origins just as the deco rocketpunk design were a modern tribute back to the old 30s - 50s "Gernsback" era of scifi.

[@denniscleary7580]

Brainiac is amazing and I can’t wait to see him in the new series krypton

[@larrysmith2485]

Swamp thing would destroy him.

[@ScarecrOmega]

"Watch Superman: Brainiac Attacks, it's amazing" If you are talking about the 2006 movie, it is GARBAGE. Watch anything from Superman: The Animated Series, stay away from that film.

[@CN-dl6fb]

Scarecrow7 Superman: Unbound is better.

[@deadaccount8054]

Oooooh you were you triggered by this guy's opinion? Why wouldn't you go cry in a corner?

[@bqw2094]

Superman unbound is miles better than superman braniac attacks .

[@nicestguy1]

really nice

[@EthanAathy008]

Bro intro works awesome