Brainiac
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Real Identity: Brainiac
Appearances (BTAC Comics): Hardware
Powers: Heightened Artificial Intelligence
Brainiac is a corrupted Kryptonian artificial intelligence that abandoned its own planet when it was on the brink of destruction. It created multiple bodies and amassed interplanetary transportation then went on a mission to collect all the data of every planet then destroy it. Superman battled Brainiac on the Far Side of the Moon. Lex Luthor observed the fight from a lunar satellite in orbit. Sensing it was going to lose, Brainiac uploaded itself somewhere into space. Superman took the remnants to WayneTech for analysis. Bruce Wayne personally went through it and determined there was no trace of Brainiac's programming left but there were still working mechanisms in place. He figured out how to hotwire its offensive capabilities. Luthor piloted a giant robot and stole the vault housing the Brainiac head.
Luthor believed it was the future and all he needed to find were fragments of Brainiac's programming then he could build on them. He slowly choked Batman. Estimating ten seconds of consciousness left, Batman threw a Batarang into the Brainiac head and triggered its eye laser function. Luthor was blasted out of the hangar. Batman tailed him and freed Superman from the robot. Superman declared he once again owed him. Batman requested he just get rid of Brainiac's remains, like throwing it into the Sun. Superman agreed and took off with it.