My favourite Brainiac is always going to be the DCAU version where he was formerly the Kryptonian central computer that did a runner when the planet was going to explode and didn't tell anyone. Smallville kind of did something similar when James Marsters/Spike from Buffy played the character so it wasn't too bad, but I can never get behind the other versions that are some random data collector or something else. Tying him to much to Superman makes him a far more intimate threat rather than "Generic world destroyed of the week #3781".
As does Doomsday at times. In some versions he's a CADMUS altered clone of Superman, in another he's an Apokolips altered clone of Superman, while in others he's something else entirely and still just as near unkillable that becomes immune to whatever defeated/killed him last time.
Brainiac is a great villain but they are too incompetent to make him look good in the movies. They would fuck him up like they fucked up Doomsday.
My favourite Brainiac is always going to be the DCAU version where he was formerly the Kryptonian central computer that did a runner when the planet was going to explode and didn't tell anyone. Smallville kind of did something similar when James Marsters/Spike from Buffy played the character so it wasn't too bad, but I can never get behind the other versions that are some random data collector or something else. Tying him to much to Superman makes him a far more intimate threat rather than "Generic world destroyed of the week #3781".
As does Doomsday at times. In some versions he's a CADMUS altered clone of Superman, in another he's an Apokolips altered clone of Superman, while in others he's something else entirely and still just as near unkillable that becomes immune to whatever defeated/killed him last time.
Doomsday in the Snyder movies was horrible. But have you seen the series with Tyler Hoechin? (Probably spelled that wrong). That version is good.