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History Professor at Central Kansas A & M. Milton Fine may appear on the surface to be just a mild mannered professor. An idealistic teacher that searches for the truth through learning.

But under the surface, exists the alter ego of the uber-villain Brainiac. Possessed of a vast, superior knowledge limited only by his hubris and emotions. Brainiac comes to earth armed with a secret about Clark Kent's biological family and the truth about Krypton's demise. If his plans come to florishen, Brainiac's presence in Smallville could have a devastating effect on Clark and Lex's already deteriorating friendship.

Below is more detailed info on Brianiac from Wikipedia.)

In the fifth season of Smallville, Brainiac is a semi-regular character, played by James Marsters. He appeared in episodes 501 ("Arrival"), 504 ("Aqua"), 505 ("Thirst"), 507 ("Splinter"), 508 ("Solitude"), 516 ("Hypnotic"), 521 ("Oracle"), and 522 ("Vessel"). In all of these episodes, the character is only referred to as Milton Fine. The name Brainiac is not used on screen, although Jor-El (in the episode "Vessel") does refer to Fine as a "Brain InterActive Construct," or BrainIAC. Also the name Brainiac was widely utilized in press releases, news, and interviews.

In "Arrival", the character is seen taking form from a liquid metal that oozed from the black spaceship that arrived in the previous season's finale. In the episode "Aqua" (which focuses on Clark meeting Aquaman), Brainiac appears as Professor Milton Fine. He hires Clark Kent as his research assistant, stating that he intends to write a book about Lex's misdeeds. The episode "Splinter" focuses on Silver Kryptonite, which was artificially created from Brainiac's liquid metal body. In the episode, Fine tells Clark that he is another Kryptonian, and that Clark should not put much trust into his lesser human friends and family. In "Solitude", it is revealed that "Fine" is in fact an artificial intelligence, created by Kryptonians, that desires to free General Zod. At the episode's climax, Fine/Brainiac is impaled on a crystal in the Fortress of Solitude, and then disappears; at the same time, so does the spaceship from which he came. In the episode "Hypnotic", Brainiac returns to enlist the help of his former adversary, Lex Luthor, in his attempt to release Zod from the Phantom Zone, using Lex's fascination with the alien ship he lost against him.

On a humorous note, while posing as a professor, Brainiac poses the often repeated question and answer to the class "Where is the most powerful computer in the universe?" followed by several taps on his own temple, making the subtle joke that his Artificial Intelligence is more powerful than their natural intelligence.

Smallville's interpretation of Brainiac as an artificial intelligence from Krypton is similar to the one used in Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League.

The comic version of the character is published by: DC Comics
First appearance in the comics: Action Comics #242 (July 1958)
Character created by: Otto Binder

Smallville stats:

Name/Human Alias: Professor Milton Fine
Human Height: 5'11"
Human Weight: 175 pounds
Human Hair: Brown
Human Eyes: Blue
*Note: Can change his appearence at will, but prefers to look like the American actor/singer James Marsters for some reason.*

Notable powers and Brainiac description: an artificial superhuman intelligence created as a Supercomputer on the planet Krypton. He has stored within it, all knowledge and history of that destroyed world. Thus has all the scientific knowledge of Krypton, and a lack of human conscience. He is said to know the universe as no mere man knows it. He appears to have the same powers of Superman, including the ability to fly, super-speed, heat vision, ect, without the weakness of being effected by the different types of Kryptonite. He can morph into a black metalic substance, and turn his hand and fingers into deadly sharp metal weapons. When he turns into a metalic substance, he can merge with his black spaceship. He can also change his appearence and voice to pretend to be anyone, such as Jonathan Kent. He can also apparently create and modify Kryptonite, altering its color and effects on Clark Kent. And even have the meteor rock effect humans in different ways, such as making Clark's human mother Martha Kent sick, then healing her. He is devoid of human emotions, and his single greatest weakness may be his lack of insight into human psychology.

Affiliations: Lex Luthor, and Zod

Comic and animated stats:

Real name: Vril Dox

Appearence: Standard pre-Crisis version of the character was as green-skinned robot with skull-diodes, as seen the Super Friends cartoon in the 1980's. Later texts portray him as having a network of electronic devices atop his head which are described as the electric terminals of his sensory nerves.

Status: Active

EQUIPMENT: Spaceship (Flight, Force Field, Energy Blast, Radar Sense, Sealed Systems, Super Hearing, Super Vision, Super Ventriloquism, Teleportation, Warp]

Notable powers: Genius; Scholar (all known fields of science). His vast, superior intelligence is limited only by the technology it currently inhabits. Knowledge of the universe is unparalleled, yet its hubris and emotions restrict its potential.

Affiliations: Lex Luthor, Warworld, Maxima, Matrix

Notable aliases: Brainiac, Milton Fine (a male human he downloaded himself into), Lena Luthor (Brainiac downloaded himself into Lex Luthor's infant daughter, knowing he could manipulate and control Luthor via his child), Mia/Supergirl Cir-el (Brainiac's consciousness transformed Mia into Superman and Lois Lane's daughter, using DNA from the two for a genetic graft, knowing that Superman would never hurt his own child), Brainiac 13, and various other cloned or computerized versions of him exist, but are too many to name.
*Note: A villian named Pulsar Stargrave pretended to be the original Brainiac and claimed to be the father of Brainiac 5, but was neither.*

Notable relatives: Vril Dox II (cloned "son"), Brainiac 4 (descendant, & mother of Brainiac 5), Brainiac 5 (30th century descendant), Brainiac 8 aka Indigo (descendant).

(Disclaimer: this is a fictional livejournal about the DC Comics/Superman/Smallville character Brainiac. Tollin/Robbins Productions, Millar/Gough Ink and Warner Bros. Television Production Inc. et al. own the character. SUPERMAN was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster. I'm just playing with this character in an online RPG for fun, no infringement is intended.)

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