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Brainiac 5 (Querl Dox) is a superhero appearing in comics published by DC Comics. He is from the planet Colu and is a long-standing member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th and 31st centuries. [1] Brainiac 5 has been substantially adapted into other media, primarily in association with the Legion.
Nura is a skilled scientist, specializing in biology; when Brainiac 5 quits the Legion after being acquitted of murdering the Infinite Man, team leader Polar Boy asks her to consider becoming the Legion's chief scientist. She is highly charismatic, capable of convincing men and women to do what she wants, and guided the Legion as leader through ...
Vril Dox is the heir of Brainiac, one of Superman's greatest foes, and an ancestor of Querl Dox / Brainiac 5 of the Legion of Super-Heroes. The character first appeared in Superman #167 (February 1964), by Edmond Hamilton, Cary Bates, and Curt Swan, in a story entitled "The Deadly Duo! - The Team of Luthor and Brainiac!".
The first Brainiac/Kandor comic book story in Action Comics #242 (July 1958) was based on a story arc in the Superman comic strip from April through August 1958. In the comic strip story, Superman's foe was named Romado, who traveled the cosmos with a white alien monkey named Koko, shrinking major cities and keeping them in glass jars.
Brainiac 5 himself ventures to the Justice League's original headquarters and uses their crystal ball to summon the Legions of two parallel universes, Universe-247 (the home reality of the 1994 Legion) and Universe-Prime (the home reality of the 2004 Legion), and recruit them to fight against the Legion of Super-Villains.
After the Source Wall was shattered, [2] four entities known as the Omega Titans began invading Colu, forcing Brainiac to summon the Justice League for help. But as Amanda Waller and the new Task Force XI destroyed him, his great-great-grandson Brainiac 5 informs the League that Brainiac was using them to make sure the Omega Titans would destroy Earth, so there can be no interference for him.
Upon leaving the Zone, Mon-El once again suffers the effects of lead poisoning, but is cured with an antidote created by Brainiac 5. In Doomsday Clock , Shadow Lass is among the Legion of Super-Heroes members who appear in the present after Doctor Manhattan undoes his alternations to the timeline, restoring the Legion and the Justice Society of ...
Star Boy, Saturn Girl and Brainiac 5 try to keep them back but fail. Just as the villains activate the sphere, Star Boy leaps at them and is taken along. Arriving in the 21st century, Star Boy triggers a trap Brainiac 5 programmed, trapping the villains inside a stasis field. Star Boy comes down in Gotham City while the sphere ends up in ...