Many future fans of comic books were introduced to Brainiac through Superman: The Animated Series. Instead of an alien from Colu, this Brainiac was a computer program from Krypton that ...

The CW series just didn’t have the budget to do a Brainiac akin to his comic book counterpart properly. The Smallville Brainiac was an amalgamation of previous comic book and animated versions.

Brainiac 5 has an interesting history as a character. To begin with, he’s a member of comics’ most complicated team, so he’s basically had several completely different versions stemming from ...