Brainiac 5

Spark hates everybody because her love life is being aired out in the open.

Nobody's paying any attention to Brainiac 5, which is very curious.

But then they have a great scene in the cafeteria where it's just funny because you have the whole situation with Spark and then you have...

Leviathan just shoving food in his face while Vi is kind of sitting there talking to him.

No, no, no, no, no. That's brainiac five.

Yeah, I guess between the two of them, they're fighting for that title.

But yeah, Brainiac 5 is normally the...

That's true.

I did get the...

I did get the Mark Spears Brainiac 5 cover, which is a little creepy.

It's a

little creepy.

Uh, Steve, if you can go to the next graphic, um, and there it is.

So you see the, the Legion sign symbol, uh, They're in blood, presumably R.J. Brand's blood.

And there are two people they're investigating, and they turn out to be Brainiac 5 and also Tenzel Kem, who historically was Matter Eater Lad.

As we see here, there's a gender swap.

And we covered that in Episode 827.

October 1st, 1996, in the reboot timeline, Brainiac 5 goes searching for Brainiac, but the Legionnaires are taken captive instead.

And Vril Dox and L-E-G-I-O-N help out this last four days.

Meanwhile, Dead Man helps out Joe and Tinia, who become visible to everyone.

October 2nd, 1996, the aforementioned Green Lantern, Volume 3, Issue 81, which included a variant cover.

Hal Jordan's post-Final Night memorial service, which again was covered in Episode 827.

Also on October 2nd, 1996, in Showcase 96, number 11, Brainiac 5 goes searching for Brainiac, but the Legionnaires are taken captive instead, and Vrildoks and LEGION help out, and that was covered in episode 829.

25 years ago, October 3rd, 2001, Wonder Woman Volume 2, number 174, in the wake of our world's at war, the evil sorceress Circe transforms the male heroes of the JLA, JSA, Titans, and Young Justice into fantastic creatures.

And then just a few days later, the Legion must save a spoiled rich boy, Leland McCauley IV, who takes a much larger role in the five-year-later timeline, from the inhabitants of a robot planet and from the overseer who controls them.

Meanwhile, Brainiac 5 must help Shrinking Violet overcome her phobia about using her shrinking powers.

And that was Superboy 214 in episode 279.

965 years from now in 2991, in the five-year-later timeline, Fire Lad finally joins the Legion.

He was just a puppet.

Who was in charge? Oh, yeah.

Brainiac 5.

Brainiac 5 put all that together.

Well, there's two things I think.

So, so first of all, the interesting choice was made to kind of pair her up at the very least romantically with Bit Brainiac 5 because that 287 is when he gets introduced and when she officially joins the Legion.

So that's, It's an interesting take on the Superman-Brainiac conflict there to have a descendant of that Brainiac have this kind of romantic on and off again romance with Supergirl, with Superman's cousin.

The other I think is interesting is that you have in the main continuity, and this might be why they didn't use her that much.

really like the dynamic I get where there is a certain perspective of it where it's like, okay, Brainiac fought Superman but dated Supergirl because she's a girl.

But at the same time, I love exactly what you said.

I would even compare it to maybe Dragon Ball Z. like Bulma and Vegeta right like he was the bad guy now he now he's part of the team and he's still himself and he's dating the girl you know what I mean so but no I love the dynamic I've never been on the Legion so I've never talked about my general thoughts about the Legion with you guys I love Brainiac 5 as a character and so this really appealed to me as this and I think also not to sidetrack too much but the Supergirl CW show the way they used Brainiac was so good and so compelling, and they weren't in a relationship, obviously.

Yes,

Uh, he says, when you mentioned brainiac five, calling out star boys, having immense powers, I found myself wondering if this is a duplicate boy scenario, as in when someone is incredibly overpowered, maybe it's better that they're more dependable than ambitious.

I wouldn't want Brainiac 5 to have these powers and think, it sure would be helpful for this experiment if I changed the gravitational constants of the universe for an hour or so.

The suggested Xanthu contingent of Legionnaires would also be very cool.

A planet from the edge of the galaxy having so many members on the team could allow for reasons to explore beyond the edge of the galaxy.

I think that's good.

Okay.

I'm going to interrupt the emails for a second because I've got something on the Brainiac 5 episode.

Oh, yes, that's right.

One thing on the Legion news side of things.

Michael mentions that we forgot to mention last week that Brainiac 5 makes an appearance in the Elseworlds Supergirl Survive number four.

And this one is visually based off the new volume nine version.

Well, it looks a bit similar.

I did thumb through it when I read that.

I'm not reading the series, but I did want to just see if it was an actual Legion connection.

But it really just seems to be a guy named Brainiac 5 who was exiled from the future.

Right.

People refer to it as Archer Legion, which we're going to get into with Legion loss a bit.

They also have Brainiac 5 or Brainiac 5.5 of one.

One of five.

Sorry.

Legion tends to have pairs and small groupings within the massive group, and this is not one of them by any means.

So we've got Saturn Girl and Live Wire.

We've got Brainiac 5.1. monstrous umbra aka shadow lass yeah i can't

i can't say umbra there's no way