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  Brainiac
The Brainiac era was suddenly over as friends, family, and fans mourned the loss of a great human being and the demise of their favorite band.
Brainiac rocked with a unique smart-ass chaos, creating post-new wave punk rock, the band's members like four live wires tentacling across the stage, shocking audiences with reckless abandon.
Brainiac released the EP Electro Shock For President in 1997, then began work on their never-to-be-completed fourth album.
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  Brainiac   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Brainiac is an evil space mastermind and fearsome super-foe with an arsenal of awesome nightmarish scientific weapons at his command, and is perhaps the most terrible evil-doer in all the universe, a creature of superhuman intelligence, great scientific ability, and utter ruthlessness who is said to know the universe as no mere man knows it.
Although Brainiac - with his green eyes and light-green skin - closely resembles the humanoid native inhabitants of the far-distant planet Colu, he is actually a sinister computer spy created by the computer tyrants which had seized control of that planet as the first step in a scheme of interplanetary conquest.
Brainiac is sometimes accompanied on his marauding journeys through space by his alien pet, Koko, a white extraterrestrial creature which closely resembles a small monkey except for the twin antennae protruding from its forehead.
theages.superman.ws /Encyclopaedia/brainiac.php   (1178 words)

  
 Superman Super Site - Brainiac
Brainiac is a fictional supervillain in DC Comics, most often appearing as an opponent of Superman.
Brainiac 13 claimed to be allying himself to Earth, but this proved to be part of a complex plan to regain control.
His chief aide was "Leniac", a green-skinned teenager with "control discs" on her forehead, suggesting the diodes of earlier Brainiacs (and identical to the forehead discs of the "upgraded" Brainiac 5.1, in the Legion, and the Animated Series version of the original Brainiac).
www.supermansupersite.com /brainiac.html   (2310 words)

  
 Brainiac (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brainiac is a fictional character, a DC Comics supervillain and frequent opponent of Superman.
Brainiac also knew that if word of Krypton's impending doom escaped, he would be forced to calculate a way to stop this, which he knew to be impossible and would only distract him from the more essential task of saving Krypton's records.
Brainiac was to appear in Superman III as Gus Gorman in disguise, explaining the supercomputer plot.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brainiac_(comics)   (3757 words)

  
 Brainiac 5 of the Legion of Super-Heroes
Brainiac 5 re-discovered the technical process behind original Brainiac's force-shield belt, which is capable of generating a virtually impervious field of protection.
Brainiac 5 was awarded membership for "noble courage in helping Supergirl, though it could have cost [him his] own life" when he gave her his force-shield belt to protect her from a kryptonite meteorite.
Brainiac 5 resortsed to insults in an attempt to trick a Chinese guard into slugging him in the stomach and activating his force-shield belt before the gong he was chained to sounded and shook him apart.
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 Brainiac 5 - Supermanica
Originally thought to be the descendant of the original Brainiac, Brainiac 5 is actually descended from Brainiac II (Vril Dox), who was adopted by Brainiac I to hide his origin.
Brainiac 5 (real name: Querl Dox) is a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in 30th Century Metropolis (Act No. 276/2, May 1961: "The Three Super Girl-Friends"; and others).
Both Supergirl and Brainiac 5 applied for Legion membership at the same thing but Supergirl was rejected as Red Kryptonite had turned her into a Superwoman and over the 21-year age limit for membership (Act No. 276/2, May 1961: "The Three Super Girl-Friends").
supermanica.info /wiki/index.php/Brainiac_5   (206 words)

  
 Monitor Duty: Alan Kistler's Profile On: BRAINIAC!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Brainiac agreed and Luthor enhanced him (and also implanted a tiny bomb to ensure the android didn’t turn on him) and then the two villains had the first of many dozens of team-ups over the decades.
Brainiac said he too was from Krypton and that he had made it his mission to go to planets all over the universe and collect their knowledge.
Brainiac himself had his body rendered inert by B-13’s attack and was forced to possess the body of Lena Luthor, Lex Luthor’s infant daughter.
www.monitorduty.com /mdarchives/2005/11/kistlers_profil_1.shtml   (8238 words)

  
 Brainiac 5 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brainiac 5's ingenuity led to the invention of, amongst other things, the Legion flight ring (perfecting an invention of Invisible Kid based on a metal discovered by Mon-El), the anti-lead serum that allowed Mon-El to leave the Phantom Zone and the force shield belt which became the signature device of the character.
Brainiac 5 joined Stargrave to battle the sorcerer Mordru, but the android's influence would haunt him long after that (it was claimed in Superboy #225 that Stargrave was actually the original Brainiac android, but the truth of this is uncertain).
Brainiac 5 was one of a number of Legionnaires who were trapped in the 20th century; he spent his efforts then trying to find a way back to his own time using 20th century equipment.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brainiac_5   (2017 words)

  
 Superman Homepage
Brainiac appeared again to battle Superman briefly (Superman: The Doomsday Wars mini-series 1999), and it was believed that he was destroyed in the encounter.
Brainiac 13 was finally trapped by Superman's use of Kryptonian technology, but not before B13 convinced Lex Luthor to sacrifice his daughter as an avenue of escape in return for the "keys" to the new Metropolis (Superman Y2K [4 part storyline]).
Brainiac later returned to aid Lex Luthor and a brainwashed Superboy in their assault on the Teen Titans and Outsiders through his "granddaughter" Brainiac 8, the secretly reprogrammed Outsider Indigo.
www.supermanhomepage.com /comics/who/who-intro.php?topic=brainiac   (1025 words)

  
 Brainiac - Message Board - ezboard.com
Brainiac attacked and, paritially in thanks to Superman's shock at discovering Doomsday alive, well and intelligent, defeated the Man of Steel.
Brainiac then took the small parcel Superman had been carrying and discovered a dying newborn earth child.
As Brainiac's machines began making modifications to the child, Vnok informed his master that the fail-safe plan was in place.
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 Brainiac
Once Brainiac was the sophisticated artificial intelligence system that guided and catalogued every phase of Krypton's existence.
Then, when Jor-El revealed that Krypton was doomed, Brainiac lied about the scientist's findings, playing for time until he could safely beam himself away from the ill-fated planet.
Over the years Brainiac has visited many worlds and has gradually taken on the form of a human-like android.
www.batman-superman.com /superman/cmp/brainiac.html   (136 words)

  
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BRAINIAC His true mission was kept secret from you to protect you, until you were ready to accept aliens into your world.
Brainiac seems to be confused by this, but goes along with it.
BRAINIAC Ladies and Gentlemen of the World Congress -- it is my conclusion that the marauders who seek to ravage your planet have sent an even deadlier threat than the Doomsday creature.
www.scifiscripts.com /scripts/supermanlives_kevin_smith.txt   (16322 words)

  
 Super-Villains | Brainiac   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Jor-El discovered that Brainiac has actually lied to the council and was planning to save himself, leaving the Kryptonians to their doom.
Brainiac's most recently attack was in 2072, when he teamed up with Darkseid to kill the Justice League and then help Darkseid kill the New Gods.
In return, Brainiac be helped by Darkseid in taking control of Jack Kent/Superman's body but the League was able to stop them.
www.angelfire.com /hero/ak_comics/Brainiac.html   (155 words)

  
 Brainiac - Supermanica
To hide his origin, Brainiac "adopted" a living son, Brainiac II (ancestor of Brainiac 5).
However, in February 1964 (S No. 167, Feb 1964: "The Team of Luthor and Brainiac"), while probing the universe with his time-space thought-scanner in the hope of locating an ally capable of helping him destroy Superman, Lex Luthor discovers that he has contacted a vastly powerful mind on a distant planet, years in the past.
That courageous youngster, whose real name was Vril Dox, was the ancestor of Brainiac 5, one of the members of the Legion of Super-Heroes (S No. 167, Feb 1964: "The Team of Luthor and Brainiac").
supermanica.info /wiki/index.php/Brainiac   (1219 words)

  
 A Murine Homologue of the Drosophila brainiac Gene Shows Homology to Glycosyltransferases and Is Required for ...
Isolation of a mouse homologue of the Drosophila brainiac gene.
Brainiac and fringe are similar pioneer proteins that impart specificity to notch signaling during Drosophila development.
The neurogenic locus brainiac cooperates with the Drosophila EGF receptor to establish the ovarian follicle and to determine its dorsal-ventral polarity.
mcb.asm.org /cgi/content/full/21/16/5688   (5347 words)

  
 Brainiac   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Brainiac often confronted Superman until, after a battle with the kriptonian, he was buried under debris in a dying star.
Brainiac managed to build a new body for itself and he became even more lethal and pityless.
Brainiac adopted coluan Vril Dox, who doubled his intelligence, turned against the computers in Colu and defeated them.
pc59te.dte.uma.es /cdb/series/dc/brainiacmalo.htm   (141 words)

  
 Brainiac
Sent to earth, Brainiac ran afoul of Superman time and again but was always defeated.
After their last battle, Brainiac's human-seeming body was trapped at the core of a planet and then destroyed, leaving him to drift formless until happening on a world of sentient machines where he built his new robotic body.
Brainiac is nicely sculpted and vac-metallized, with a see-through hex patterned brain-dome.
www.toyotter.com /sp/brainiac.html   (231 words)

  
 The Brainiac
For a final spectacular effect, the Brainiac’s noggin is equipped with a bladder system that allows it to be inflated and deflated, creating a rather goofy looking ‘pulsating’ effect.
We also note that the Brainiac is dressed in the remnants of the robes that Vitelius was wearing when burned at the stake.
Then he walks behind Maria, changes to The Brainiac, and attacks her, again as her father is forced to watch.
www.jabootu.com /brainiac.htm   (5989 words)

  
 Brainiac: Science Abuse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Due to the success of the original program, a sister program, Brainiac: History Abuse, presented by Charlotte Hudson, began on Sky One on 1 June 2004, and a live version, Brainiac's Test Tube Baby, was broadcast alongside the fourth series.The 4th series was shown in 2006.
It introduced Brainiac Darts, where Bobby George threw a perfect set, always finishing on the Double Top which triggered the explosion of a caravan, and a new "I Can Do Science Me" which is set around auditions.
The first three was a woman making a very odd "rumbling" noise with her tongue, a man with his hands together smoothly waving his fingers and another man moving his eyebrows in a "Lively" way.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brainiac:_Science_Abuse   (1652 words)

  
 Brainiac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brainiac (comics), (short for the Brain Inter Active Construct) a fictional supervillain in DC Comics, enemy of Superman.
Brainiac was one of several aliases of Educated Rapper, a hip hop artist with the band UTFO.
Brainiac: Science Abuse, a television program aired on Sky One (repeated on Sky Two or Sky Three) in the UK, G4 in the US, Channel Ten in Australia, and Discovery Channel in several European countries; it was spun off into the (similar) Brainiac: History Abuse, which gave a more prominent role to Charlotte Hudson.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brainiac   (226 words)

  
 Ken Jennings - Brainiac
Ken's first book is titled Brainiac, and lest you think the title immodest (or an infringement upon long-standing DC Comics trademarks), it also bears the unwieldy subtitle Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs.
Brainiac traces that journey, from the slightly soused trivia faithful of Boston's Irish pubs to the hotshots and hotheads of the academic quiz bowl circuit, from a weekend quiz marathon spent with the radio-trivia-mad residents of tiny Stevens Point, Wisconsin, to a backstage peek at Ken's six-month streak on America's top-rated quiz show.
Brainiac is available now from Random House (on their Villard Books imprint).
www.ken-jennings.com /brainiac.html   (508 words)

  
 WizKids - DC HeroClix
After years of battling Superman, the world-stealing conqueror Brainiac is dissolved in a super-nova.
Creating a new deadly robotic form, Brainiac resumes his plan of universal domination.
This emotionless Brainiac is wiped out in the event known as Crisis on Infinite Earths.
www.wizkidsgames.com /heroclix/dc/figuregallery.asp?unitid=8387   (114 words)

  
 Brainiac | Book Review | Entertainment Weekly
The bigger name here is Ken Jennings, with his unprecedented 74-game, $2.5 million winning streak in 2004, and his Brainiac hooks you with its charming self-deprecation.
Brainiac offers a mother lode of tips on strategy if you so much as daydream about trying out for the show (as does Trebekistan).
Both men come off as decent and generous.
www.ew.com /ew/article/0,,1532778,00.html   (375 words)

  
 SOUTHERN | brainiac > biography
In September of 1992, Brainiac hooks up with Chicago's Limited Potential Records, a short drive of 5 hours to the NW.
Brainiac are to this day still on a repayment schedule.
That autumn, Brainiac embark on a nationwide "dream bill" tour with The Jesus Lizard and Girls Against Boys.
www.southern.com /southern/band/BRAIC/biog.html   (956 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs: Books: Ken Jennings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Brainiac is a book about Ken's experiences as a contestant on Jeopardy.
Brainiac is also a book about the popularity and history of trivia.
Brainiac is a well researched, entertaining and informative book about the world of trivia.
www.amazon.com /Brainiac-Adventures-Curious-Competitive-Compulsive/dp/1400064457   (2546 words)

  
 Brainiac (2004) (V)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Trivia: The writers had originally planned to adhere to the original Brainiac premise, but found the demands of staging a 17th century Inquisition/Trial scene too overwhelming.
With a simpler setting in mind, Greg and Matthew J. Bayan spent two weeks revamping the script with a modern pretext.
While the original film has achieved cult status for its seriocomic attributes, this "modern remake" of Brainiac falls short to the point of being, let us say, brainless.
imdb.com /title/tt0473454/combined   (736 words)

  
 TrouserPress.com :: Brainiac
Internationale is a three-song EP of new material (none of it repeated on the subsequent LP) "decoded" by Kim Deal of the Breeders/Amps.
Delivering on the promise of Bonsai Superstar, Brainiac turns in another spastic gem with Hissing Prigs in Static Couture, a white-hot slab of new wave dada-punk.
On May 23, 1997, Tim Taylor died in a car crash and Brainiac came to an end.
www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=brainiac   (446 words)

  
 Brainiac | Touch and Go/Quarterstick Records
Brainiac began in 1992 as the basement experiments of Dayton, OH natives Tim Taylor (vocals, synth), and Juan Monasterio (bass), who first met playing cello in fifth grade.
Like their two previous full-lengths, this was also produced by Eli Janney, and saw the band use less Moog and more random electronic gadgets and noisemakers.
Jim O’Rourke produced 1997’s Electroshock for President EP, in which Brainiac continued their transition into a more electronic rock band.
www.tgrec.com /bands/band.php?id=37   (236 words)

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