Fridge / Superman: Brainiac

Fridge Brilliance

• At one point, Superman calls Brainiac "alien". Not Brainiac or "Coluan". Alien. Right like Lex Luthor calls the Man of Steel “alien”. If you think about it, Brainiac is just like what Lex tells himself Superman is: a super-powerful alien who regards humans like lowly life-forms.
• There's no explanation given in the comic proper as to exactly how Brainiac's lived as long as he has (a few centuries, he mentions) without even getting out of his cocoon-shell-thing, and how he was able to defeat Superman in their first face-to-face encounter. However, Brainiac reveals that his bio-ship is in a mutually symbiotic relationship with himself; the ship is him, and he is the ship. Thus, it's likely that the bio-ship was able to amp up Brainiac for his confrontation with Supes after it detected him escaping from the lab, because after a few centuries of bottling cities and destroying worlds, the ship knows what's next, as does Brainiac.

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