Koko was quickly dropped from Brainiac's stories but a version of the monkey has made sporadic appearances as the villain's pet in the series Justice and the 2008 storyline "Brainiac" in Action Comics. It was also revealed that his mother, Brainiac 4, had abandoned him at birth, having no emotional attachment whatsoever to her newborn child. With the aid of the rebuilt Kelex, Superman tricked Luthor into connecting a Kryptonian battlesuit to one of Brainiac 13's power conduits. Brainiac's ship then travels to Earth and prepares to abduct the city of Metropolis. Brainiac 13 had his body disintegrated and the remnants of his mind scattered across sixty trillion light years, finally killing the chronologically last known version of Brainiac. Brainy as well as everyone in the multiverse except for the seven Paragons, was killed in an antimatter wave by the Anti-Monitor on December 10, 2019,[9] only to be restored a month later, after the Paragons and the Spectre created a new universe. During the Anti-Monitor Crisis, Brainy discovered an unknown force was approaching from outside the solar system; it would hit Argo on the edge first before bouncing back briefly, reaching Earth in 14 hours. However, he did not come to destroy the Earth, but to deliver a warning: that there is a cosmic-level threat in the universe coming to Earth, one that the heroes of Earth are woefully ill-prepared for. However, Brainiac is defeated when the League deliberately walks away so that the Syndicate can return in time to stop him. However, Lex refused and Querl stared to begin to doubt Lex. Afterwards, Winn confronted Brainy about his behavior, and Querl told him the truth, visibly nervous that he was doing the wrong thing and saying that he was afraid he was becoming the bad guy. He is a biological creature that has altered his body to acquire more knowledge to become "better". He was revealed as the mastermind behind the Legion's plot to return to the 21st century to retrieve someone connected to the Flash. Kid Flash then allows himself to be recaptured by Brainiac and put into stasis. A Quantum tower burst from the ground to push back the antimatter wave. However, Brainy was in agony not only from having Nia in his life, but the fear of losing himself to the darkness within him. [50], This version of Brainiac, a composite of Brainiac from around the Multiverse, is revealed to be the pre-Flashpoint era Brainiac who, having found his way into the Source Wall and into the Multiverse, was thrown back in the timestream and mutated by the effects of "crisis" events such as Crisis on Infinite Earths, Zero Hour, and 52, creating a godlike being. Her image of a shirtless Brainiac 5 and Supergirl in a very intimate setting is almost scandalous. The story ends with Zod rallying his people as he declares war on the planet Earth. [6] He was originally notable only for having shrunk the bottle city of Kandor with his shrinking ray and for using a force field. [5], After winning the Worldkillers, Mon-El and Imra returned to the 31st century, except for Brainy, who preferred to stay and become a member of D.E.O..[6], Later, Brainy assists the D.E.O. [81] Brainiac also appears in Superman: Red Son,[82] JLA: Shogun of Steel,[83] and the novel The Last Days of Krypton by author Kevin J. In Wolfman and Kane's story "Rebirth", published in Action Comics #544, Brainiac attempts to free himself by causing the nearby star to go nova and utilize its energy. The Coluan appears still-humanoid, and explains his reasoning for stealing minds from throughout the universe: he has concluded that if he can 'unite' the minds of a certain critical number of people, he will be able to change reality itself.