The Bizarre and Confusing History of Brainiac | Weird Comics

[@Invidente7]

My favorite braniac is the SaTas version, linking him to krypton's demise made him a VERY personal enemy for superman.

[@sarafontanini7051]

plus his origin was much simpler and his voice was pretty cool

[@mayotango1317]

A bit borring.

[@OfLanceTheLonginus]

@@mayotango1317 you have no taste

[@mayotango1317]

@@OfLanceTheLonginus MCU fanboy

[@OfLanceTheLonginus]

@@mayotango1317 I think you're getting your terminology wrong DCAU is the one with the Braniac from JLU and JL. MCU is Marvel which is the exact opposite. You may now call me petty names while making yourself look bad.

[@FadeIn2Obscurity]

Amzing how Brainiac remained popular even tho his backstory made less sense with each issue

[@alexlemonds2838]

Can see why Bruce Timm streamlined things by just making him an evil Kryptonian AI.

[@Dhampir101980]

Alex Lemonds and that’s still his best origin to date. Even Brainiac ever appears in a movie, that’s the path they should take for sure.

[@alexlemonds2838]

@@Dhampir101980 Plus I like his connection to Jor-El, their adversarial relationship, how he almost had Supes father executed before he had a chance to ready the rocket.

[@Dhampir101980]

@Ronald Nygma that’s your opinion

[@Dawn_Of_Justice]

Brainiac: You cannot comprehend my comic history. Hawkman: Hold my mace.

[@Xehanort10]

Hawkman's had too many reincarnations to count.

[@Trifixion22]

I'd love to see Rogues do a video on that.

[@treyblack3751]

Donna Troy: Aw, that's cute.

[@DARTH_COMiX]

spawn: punk

[@johnpenguinthe3rd13]

Ghost Rider: HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!

[@TheCow-j1l]

Why did he became such a popular character? He is psychic green guy that kinda looks like an mad scientist. This is what most people think when you say "comic book villain"

[@nameynamename3758]

He got lucky.

[@zoltanperei4789]

Talking about mad scientist at 0:27 he and Luthor look the same. Pink and green.

[@sarafontanini7051]

there's a reason the DCAU simplified things so that Brainiac was merely a robot tied to Krypton's destruction because its more understandable than an alien supergenius turned robot turned terminator with a fake family turned alien again due to retcons and turned robot again via MIND POOOOOWERRRRS

[@tayojones9460]

Oh no I've gone crossed eyed

[@liamblatchford8178]

Dude please come back. The comic book society seriously misses and needs this channel.

[@johnsinth8261]

Mr. Rouges the Lsd trip was absolutely ESSENTIAL!!!

[@venomw6823]

Braniac’s evil plan, make your head explode with his history.

[@alexandrefrauches132]

5:17 Braniaic a infiltrator android ... now the STAS episode "New Kids in Town (in which Braniaic 1 use a time portal to travel back in time and tries to kill Clark Kent before he becomes superman) is starting to make sense.

[@TheVetoSkreeemer]

I liked the robotic Brainiac from the pre Crisis era. They didnt do much with him before being discarded. Great and really funny video, my favorite parts were when you repeated a long piece of dialogue and of course the ending. Very creative

[@Dhampir101980]

“ but, no, this is Brainiac, Bitch!” It was worth watching the video just to hear you “ lose it” over Brainy many origins. Now, go and have yourself a strong drink( I’m sure you need one after reading all this madness) and keep up the great work.

[@sarafontanini7051]

what makes it funnier is I think this is one of the few times, if not the only time, Rogues actually yells

[@Dawn_Of_Justice]

Its not that hard to understand really. Brainiac was Vril Dox, one of the smartest colueans of his time. He became obsessed with Knowledge and left his world to study life. He eventually becomes so obsessed he bonds with technology turning mad. He forgets who he is and creates Avatars of himself while he collects knowledge on his mother ship. His Avatars mad like him invade civilizations just to steal their world for Brainiacs collection. He takes over Krypton's tech and destroys their world. Faces Superman multiple times. The end.

[@jacktoma21]

Never knew Brainiacs comic history was so complicated as I mostly have known him from the DC animated universe and Injustice 2

[@Lakefront_Khan]

I want "YOU FOOL" and "THIS IS BRAINIAC BITCH" as a ringtones. Oh and RoBrainiac is Brainiac.

[@patrickwebb7311]

RIP Mr. Rogues. This' one of your funniest videos ever. Good job.

[@kylemoylan5339]

So... will there be a part two? Or am I now just talking to a headless body?

[@Ayham4002]

you're talking to a headless body

[@dannybuckle3763]

Here's how you do Brainiac; have him be a knowledge-obsessed rogue Kryptonian AI who took over a vessel shortly after the death of Krypton, morphed it into his skull-ship and spent 20-25 years collecting cities, live specimens and information for research purposes (and at one point constructing an artificial world named Culo to study how a society builds up) before learning about Clark and deciding to capture and study him too. Milton Fine is either an alias that he uses on Earth or the name of a Metahuman who serves as his Herald. This sh*t doesn't need to be complicated, but DC just can't help themselves.

[@WalkInBloodySteps]

“This is brainiac bitch” is now my now favourite quote of mr rogues

[@LowellLucasJr.]

At least Brianiac 5 turned out well. Heard he's even got a hot Kryptonian girlfriend!

[@Solitaire001]

They also altered Brainiac 5 for no good reason. Originally he was the descendent of a child the android Brainiac adopted to maintain a human disguise. When they made Brainiac organic they made it where the organic Brainiac was Brainiac 5's great-great grandfather. So far, so good, not too complicated, and they explained that Coluans are very long lived so you had only five generations over 1,000 years. Then they messed up it by establishing that "Brainiac" was a title given to the most intelligent Coluan. In the miniseries "Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds" they introduced Brainiac 6 who has no relationship to the original Brainiac.

[@nooctip]

I actually have a few issues of the human Braniac. Second not first version. Like I could afford those. I didn't understand why he wasn't an android. Anyway...Joker. "I prefer my origin to be multiple choice." Braniac. "Hold my green beer."

[@cantumason4o]

I think the animated series did the best origin and powers. I did like the robot version that was in the Super Powers series and it made a cool toy.

[@C102y]

I like this new approach to your videos, Rogues! Like how you're getting much more expressive both in your voice over and your editing. And the humor is very much my kind of thing. Keep it up!

[@flintlockwood25]

I love how you hear Rogues' sanity slowly crumble and then at the end he just gives up and blows up

[@bones4918]

The way the frustration builds in this video is comic gold, great video!

[@JoJoDude1997]

You never understood kal El I’m beyond continuity!!

[@Applepoisoneer]

This has the best ending it could possibly have! Great job!

[@Rakhamon]

I'm not sure if it's been mentioned, but the reason Brainiac became an android was a legal dispute. There was a toy company who manufactured a somewhat popular "home computer" called Brainiac who had a trademark on this name in the US, and it was around before the comics characters first appearance. When they discovered Brainiac was now a recurring villain in the Superman comics they contacted DC. After some back and forth it was decided that DC would be allowed to continue calling the character Brainiac as long as he was turned into a "living computer" and the first issue to feature this also advertised the Brainiac toy. It's like the 1960s version of when a character in Marvel is changed to be like in the MCU movies, more or less. Or if you want to go way back, the same reason Alfred was changed from a portly, clean-shaved guy into the thin, mustachoid design we know.

[@quietdignityandgrace]

I've been binge watching you over the past few weeks. Awesome each and every one. Dig the new intro. You've really come into your own.

[@deshawnedwards6412]

Gosh, I can feel your pain all throughout the whole video.

[@devinweathers7520]

At 11:31 the viewer and mr. Rogues just witnessing this origin

[@rorylumley4727]

I do think brainiac as a fellow last surivior of an alien race trying to recreate his planet is a good idea. It is a simple and sympathic villian that makes him a dark reflection of superman.

[@TheLouisisawesome]

Mr Rogues research into Brainiac's origin was finally what set him over the edge. This was his origin story.

[@mr.rogues4145]

And then I became the Joker.

[@dcmarvelcomicfans9458]

@@mr.rogues4145 hahahahahahahahahah!

[@damiantirado9616]

@@mr.rogues4145 you have to do untapped potential for brainiac

[@alexandrefrauches132]

"Nothing too weird happen in the following years" It's silver age, Mr Rogues, weird thing happening is like dawn and nightfall.

[@apieceofbitsandpieces342]

I agree with your opinion on Brainiac’s base concept being better than some of his stories. I think one of the reasons why he’s so popular is mainly due to Superman TAS and how it showed him being this hall-9000 like character. Good video, a suggestion for the next weird comics should be one of the weird crossovers marvel did in the 70’s with tv shows (Example: The Avengers Meet David Letterman.)

[@masterofallthelakesintown2472]

Brainiac: my origin is beyond your undersanding

[@Imasuky]

I am surprised you had any sanity to start with since you had this idea

[@mr.rogues4145]

Maybe I didn't...

[@anderurteaga3707]

I didn't know that much about the character outside of the basics, and I always thought that Brainiac 5 was a descendant in the same way Ultron would constantly renovate himself to create a better version.

[@bryanzarazua7221]

Nice intro and sick ear rape 😂😭. His history remind me of amazo history just a bit. I think my favorite version of brainic is when he capture universe in a glass and seeking for knowledge and just chilling in space as he conquering it.

[@SeriousRereader]

This might be my favorite video from you ever

[@mr.rogues4145]

Thanks!

[@redjirachi1]

Brainiac: I have a 12th level intellect, ask me anything Me: Make sense of your timeline Brainiac: What do you take me for, a 13th level intellect?

[@enocescalona]

god, the Milton Moses Fine "arc" for Brainiac was really convoluted, makes me laugh that instead of just streamlining him, they just made him more complicated. then, it is revealed on the THE modern Brainiac story (called...Brainiac) that the alien that got teleported was just another probe and the "real" Brainiac was just out there in space shrinking cities and destroying suns. jesus christ, man, i love the green dude, but good lord, DC had the chance to just streamline everything, but nope. i think they actually *wanted* to keep Moses Fine as the main Brainiac reboot but changed plans. if you ever do a part two, Mr. Rogues, i would love to see it!

[@benjaminfeld6388]

You are brave man for undertaking this daunting task. I salute you.

[@alexandrefrauches132]

Personally, the best version of Braniac is the one from the DCAU (Superman animated series and Justice League Unlimited), especially due to the connection he has with Superman, that fact that he was a creation of Kripton, representing almost the legacy of Superman's homeworld, making the battle much more personal.

[@michaelbateman7614]

Looking forward to part 2!

[@mr.rogues4145]

Dear lord, no.....

[@TheBatspecter]

But Rogues, you forgot in Action Comics #-2000007 where it's revealed that Brainiac was actually a brain baby created by entities known as the Celestial Plungers that walked through Heaven and Hell but was then killed by Jonah Hex's grandfather Timmy and then his ghost traveled through the universe and learned all about how stars are formed and possessed a star to wander the solar system and witnessed the creation of time and then possessed a dinosaur and flew into space and colonized his own planet in which he started to look like a human that had green skin and invented technology and the supercomputers but because of a fatal accident in which he dropped the soap of time that caused him to get amnesia so the supercomputers took over his entire race and then turned him into a robot designed to store information about the universe before he was sent to Earth and accidentally took a cosmic dump on Krypton during a bathroom break which caused it to be destroyed and then he was trained by purple monks in which he gained a lot of knowledge and he was given a purple suit based off of the monks design and then found ancient alien technology that he used to create his ship and then he became Brainiac because he had dreams of the letters B R A I N I A and C in which involved him having a 61 page long conversation with the Celestial Plungers about how hosts of brain babies need to have emotional attatchments and need to find soul mates and then he meets a g

[@dcmarvelcomicfans9458]

Read that made me want to blow my own head off that makes no sense in this convoluted as hell

[@gbshaver]

riiight i remember reading that. that was a great issue ;)

[@rockytopbritt]

Red Son had a really great Brainiac.

[@Babbleplay]

Plot twist; the original, 'organic' Brainiac from the first appearance, was a robot all along. He was a robot duplicate of the alien leader, who actually died of the plague, along with the rest. The revelation of his mechanical nature twists him to full evil.

[@TheCeeverse]

Rogues, I'm gonna be real with you, this might be my favorite video you've ever done.

[@raven3067]

Braniacs character is so confusing that I might need to put myself in Arkham Asylum before I lose it and go insane. 🥴

[@redjirachi1]

Brainiac's newest scheme to defeat Superman; destroy his mind by making him try to understand his backstory!

[@RadinV1]

I like how Geoff johns retconned him. He is also great in the dc animated universe.

[@therealsupersam6800]

Awesome. I love Brainiac!

[@jakeproven256]

I think I know why Brainiac looks different on the cover of action comics #242 than he dose in the actual story. The cover of action comics #242 was drawn by Curt Swan and Stan Kaye but the actual story was drawn by Al Plastino. Artists on the same title can tend to make characters look different.

[@RadinV1]

I think his robot design looks dope!

[@Excellsion]

11:14 I like angry Mr. Rouges

[@toonbat]

By far, the best job of streamlining a villain that Bruce Timm and company ever did was Brainiac. Yeah, I miss the shrunken cities, but man, were his story and motivations improved!

[@clownsanity]

This is by far your best video. The humor is 👌

[@ChadBenjamin]

And he didn't even get into the early 2000s where we had Brainiac 2.5, Brainiac 13 and Indigo. And the nanoswarm Brainiac who appeared before Infinite Crisis in issue 35 of Superman/Batman.

[@Xehanort10]

From what I've seen there's 2 different versions of Brainiac. Sometimes he's an alien called Vril Dox from the planet Colu who either likes adding different parts of planets to his collection or he wants all the multiverse's knowledge so he can become its most intelligent being. In other versions he's a Kryptonian computer that became self aware.

[@bwanabeast3169]

We didn’t even get to cover Convergence... with telos and that super brainiac that watches over the multiverse.

[@jonathonriddle9922]

The Milton Fine version of Brainiac was easilly my least favorite re-imagining of the mid 80's Superman reboot.

[@maxwellnash2375]

Peesonally, I really enjoyed Legion. Vril Dox is by far my favourite Braniac. I enjoy how he is similar to brainiac in how he is a very cold and calculating, but takes up more of an antihero role.

[@srstriker6420]

And it’s a shame that he has not been in a movie yet

[@adrianothemerciless]

There is also the New 52 version that Brainiac looks like a caterpillar. Not like I am trying to drive you insane or anything,

[@ronimusprime7797]

@Mr. Rogues: I'm sorry but this is one of the most funniest videos that you've ever made, dude, lol! Great Job!

[@michaeldiaz9999]

Poor Brainiac. He just wants some pants, a decent pair of pants!

[@cuevagrafica]

You have to love the 90s brainiac, that blond mustache and all

[@mediabaron2416]

How is it that Ultron, the other big android super villain, has managed to go through over 22 bodies, one of which was a possessed Tony Stark who was transformed into a woman, is nowhere near as inconsistent or as confusing as Brainiac?

[@matryxgeounlymyted56quarde9]

Because in The Prime 616 Marvel Comics Universe, Ultron doesn't nor didn't have to go through constant reboots and retcons that makes everyone else and/or everything else that concerns and involves The DC Comics Universe and/or Multiverse that much more and also overall convoluted, messy, and complicated.

[@marcmello1]

Great video! Best wishes from Brazil

[@axeltamez8067]

Great vid! I'd love to see one on Jamed Gordon Jr.!

[@Ayham4002]

people who understood everything in this video: *im 4 parallel universes ahead of you*

[@randomericthings7506]

“And you don’t even know what game we’re playing” - Prometheus/Adrian Chase (Arrow Season 5)

[@luca21321]

Just to inform people, my grandpa is Al Plastino. One problem with DC comics when doing designs is that different people would draw the title covers and the inside covers. Thats most likely the reason why some of the designs of Brainiac was inconsistent. My grandpa would always complain about DC doing this but it was out of his control.

[@andrewalderman9489]

He's a Brainiac, Brainiac ...and there's more.....now he's truly a villian to the core !

[@jacktoma21]

Honestly I like the stas version of his backstory of being a rouge AI that was given ties to Krypton and Superman’s backstory. It give the two a more interesting dynamic and history.

[@omegaman2846]

Braniac: “Darkseid, it’s me, Braniac.” Darkseid: “That’s not canon”

[@mrhypnagogia]

(Pauses) im gonna enjoy thiss! (Presses play).

[@PopCultureguy]

Hello Mr. Rogues interesting video is this a preview of the actual complete history video of brainiac because I was excited of you doing a complete history on of Superman's most popular but deadliest foes and the complete history be in the vein of the Two Faces, Riddler, Penguin, and Scarecrow video.

[@mr.rogues4145]

I would die if I did that.

[@paularoyer1681]

Wow I never knew how confusing brainiac's history was.

[@mr.rogues4145]

You have been lucky.

[@Babbleplay]

Brainiac's backstory is convoluted? Well.. yeah, it is, but take a look at Solomon Grundy, some time; for a lumbering brute, he's had so many reimaginings, it is hard to keep track.

[@marveldcextinctionwrestler7773]

Easily Mr. Rogues’s best video, any video where rogues go insane is automatically one of the best videos in his channel, some of my Amalgams would make rogues go insane as well

[@xanderlowe1543]

I gotta admit, the "Injustice 2" story blew me away. I did NOT believe Brainiac would be able to carry the weight of Big Bad, but he sold everything. Jeffrey Combs also voiced him with such diabolical, haunting evil.

[@DannyPhantomBeast]

CAN'T WAIT FOR PART 2!

[@deshawnedwards6412]

11:17: *This is Braniac, BITCH!* Jesus men! Sure you weren't embodied Dr. Wickman instead of Mr. Rouge during this?

[@matteomastrodomenico1231]

Oh, so that's why in other media they can never decide if he's an alien or a machine.

[@Power3DHD]

Geoff Johns's version is the best. I was wondering if you can do some videos about iron man comics, or Ol' shell-head's comic villains?

[@aidanhever3369]

My god, I had a headache too ! If you ask me, I recommend you to watch the first part of The Last Son of Krypton from Superman: TAS. At least his origin and motivation has A LOT of sense.

[@aidanhever3369]

@Ronald Nygma Why ?

[@rorylumley4727]

Braniac and kang are characters i like. Meaning there comic backstories are overly complacated but are pretty good in cartoons.

[@venomw6823]

Is there gonna be a part two?

[@Reddotzebra]

So in his post blowing-up-star robot form, Braniac is drawn with iridescent transparent metal scales covering his head and shoulders that look like they're made of a transparent material, but when we see what's left of him being discovered by Lex Luthor in THAT elseworld comic, his entire skull is just made of articulated metal plates? (Which looks much better.)

[@JDdr86]

I haven't laughed this much with ANYTHING ELSE IN MY LIFE! 🤣

[@tayojones9460]

I wish they just stuck to the planet collecter origin. Trying to repopulate his home world with cities from different planets makes him pretty sympathetic as well as menacing. Why couldn't they just stick to that backstory?

[@chetmathern2415]

1 it wasn't his original back story, so nothing to stick to! Let alone most storylines he was a city collector, not a planet collector....

[@naimthebyrdman5068]

Twin Son of Krypton👌.

[@Santi-ei3qf]

Please make a second part

[@srstriker6420]

Yeah because I remember watching TAS I thought he was a space robot not some organic alien.

[@toonbat]

And you didn't even mention Koko.

[@cjhudson393]

Goddamm I'm confused

[@GreenPhoenix91]

And people say kingdom hearts is needlessly complex.

[@benjaminconnor6640]

I was just watching scanners a few minutes ago. Good times. Sorry Brainiac ,you're best hope is to simply become some Lovecraftian intelligence that binds it's self to unfortunate hosts every now and again and pray it all just works it's self out in the end

[@tributestosfiction]

And people say Hawkman is confusing

[@dcmarvelcomicfans9458]

People sit down at Roy's Origins is confusing which is why they prefer to pick one instead of sticking with all this garbage

[@felixleidig8307]

Please do more such history of videos i would like to learn more about certain characters

[@billymccrary2246]

Would you ever imagine if Marvel did the same thing with one of their greatest enemies, like either Ultron, Loki or Thanos? Also, would yo do the Top 5 Brainiac Designs?

[@mayotango1317]

They did with the Guardians of the Galaxy.