Brainiac

Powers & Abilities

• Cybernetic Enhancement
  • Enhanced Intellect: Brainiac is generally believed to be the most intelligent being in the DC Universe, possessing a twelfth-level intellect that surpasses even Lex Luthor. He is capable of storing and processing trillions of minds worth of information in his data banks and Coluan brain and possesses superhuman calculation abilities, enhanced memory, and advanced understanding of mechanical engineering, bio-engineering, physics and other theoretical and applied sciences. He has been shown as being capable of feats such as shrinking entire planets, creating impenetrable force fields, absorbing information from other beings, transferring his consciousness, time travel, and even creating an army of ten thousand similarly powered probes who are each able to rival and even kill Kryptonians. His vast intellect and cyborg body also makes him immune to mind control.
  • Technology Manipulation: Brainiac is able to bend technology to his whim, making it perform certain actions to his command.
  • Telepathy: Brainiac is capable of sharing his thoughts with people.
  • Energy Projection: He once blasted Superman with red sun radiation.
  • Matter Manipulate
  • Telepathic Link: Brainiac has a psychic link to his skull ship and his Probes, being able to make them perform actions with a single thought.
  • Superhuman Strength: Brainiac is strong enough to go toe-to-toe with the Man of Steel.
  • Superhuman Durability: Brainiac is able to take full power punches from Superman and remain undamaged.
  • Superhuman Speed: Brainiac is fast enough to catch a punch thrown by Superman.
  • Self-Sustenance: As a machine, Brainiac does not require food, water, sleep or oxygen to survive.
  • Immortality: Brainiac's mechanical body means that he is immune to aging. His exact age has never been specified but he was alive long before Krypton's destruction, making him several thousand years old at the least.
  • Regeneration: Brainiac is able to heal from most injuries with little issue and has been shown to be able to restore himself to his original state if even a single line of his code exists.
  • Telekinesis
  • Possession: Brainiac has been shown to use his mental and telepathic powers to take possession of the bodies of other beings, even being able to take over Doomsday.
  • Replication: Brainiac has been shown as able to create multiple versions of himself.
  • Astral Projection: Brainiac can project his conscious soul if his body were ever to be destroyed. Can enter the astral plane of existence if he wants to possess someone. And is able to project himself on the astral plane in someones mind.
  • Cosmic Awareness: Brainiac can detect people mentally across vast distances whether it be planets, solar systems, or universes. Was able to locate Superman a galaxy away despite being unconscious. And elevated Lois Lanes intellect to the 12th level from light years away.
  • Parallel Existence: Brainiac is able to exist in every parallel universe or parallel timeline. Has absolute existence in every parallel universe the user may have copies of themselves. All nodes are one of many vessels of Vril Dox imbued with his consciousness across the universe. Capable of cloning himself into probes and transferring his essence into them.
  • Power Bestowal: Brainiac can give his powers to others by means of physical contact or upgrading them via technology. Can bestow upon normal people the abilities of a 12th level intellect. Augments his drones/probes  to have strength to kill Kryptonians. Created several powerful psions out of citizens from Metropolis via virus, such as Richard Hayden/Psycho Pirate whose mind became powerful enough to use the 'Medusa Mask' and H.I.V.E. Queen. And turned Lois Lanes into a 12th level intellect despite being light years away.
  • Reality Warping: Brainiac can affect reality locally if hes nearing enough minds. Created a Superman subconsciously, and uses that Superman to use telekinetic strength enough to fight with Superman.

• Genius Level Intellect: Due to a mutagenetic anomaly in his biology, Vril Dox the first possessed the rare capacity for above super genius acumen. He was initially considered a 12th level intellect by the standard Coluan mental evaluation. Due to considerable biomechanical augmentation, his intellect is now far in afield's to the collective 8th level Intellect of the whole of Colu.
  • Computer Operation
  • Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic): Able to fight Superman on equal levels
  • Science
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Mechanical Aptitude
• Intimidation: Due to his immense power and utter ruthlessness, Brainiac is feared throughout the universe, with other beings such as General Zod and Mongul being unwilling to face him or risk being in his way. Kara remarks that children growing up on Krypton were raised to be frightened of Brainiac in a similar way to how children on earth are taught about monsters like the boogeyman.

Equipment

• Probes: These robots are Brainiac's private army, they are the ones who carry out Brainiac's every actions on the worlds he takes.
• Skull Ship: Brainiac travels the universe in a giant skull ship that he is in complete control of.
• B13 Technology

Alternate Forms

Brainiac One Million

Brainiac acquired technologies capable to stabilize Hypertime by Perpetua. This allowed him to bottle hundreds of alternative futures and upgrade into Brainiac One Million. Later, as his power and intellect was growing by the millisecond, he acquired infinite futures from Hypertime and threatened to assimilate and destroy them. He had an adapted attack for every heroes like the Kryptonite Lightforms from the 25th century or the God Killer Snares from the 59th and the killer drones created by one of Batman's descendent a century after his time.

Feats

Strength

• Strong enough to contend with beings as powerful as Superman, Green Lantern, & the New Gods.
• Consistently able to match Supermans' strength.
  • Superman can contend with the likes of Avatar Darkseid.
• Able to bust planets and stars via his Mothership.
• While weakened and captured, still overpowers Lex Luthor.
• Claims no one in the universe could stop him with a shard of his former power.
• Overpowers Superboy and Krypto the Superdog.
• Physically overpowers General Zod.
• Strangles and disarms Green Lantern Jediah Caul.
• Fights evenly with Telos while weakened.
• Superman compares his gripping strength to that of Doomsdays.
• Can break someones skull with one hand.
• Grips Supermans hand so hard, it starts to draw blood.
• Overpowers his constraints and smashes Brainiac 5 into a wall.

• Brainiac razed a whole city then terraformed the planet

Speed

• Fast enough to keep up with the likes of Superman, Justice League, and other Brainaics.
• Can react to and tag Superman.
  • Superman at his peak can go 3.15 sextillion times the speed of light by reacting to reality-blitzing missiles.
• Catches Supermans' punch with ease.
• Reacts to and attacks Flash telepathically before he could reach him.
  • Wally West is fast enough to outrun the Big Bang explosion.
  • He also clear the entire population Chongin North Korea from a nuclear blast at over 13 trillion times the speed of light.
• Phases his body in time to react to Supermans' attack.

Durability

• Can tank attacks from beings as powerful as Superman, Black Adam, etc.
• Survived being dipped inside a black hole made of psionic energy.
• Claims that Supermans' punches were nothing to him.
• Shrugs off punches from Superboy.
• No-sells a kick to the face from Superman.
• Supermans' heat vision doesn't even hurt him.
• Casually takes a dropkick from a distance, causing a massive crater.
• A shot from a rifle does absolutely nothing to him.

• Brainiac channeled enough temporal energy to reset the Multiverse

Skills

• Became a renowned brilliant Coluan scientist and began traveling through space to collect knowledge.
• One of Supermans' most dangerous and smartest enemies.
  • Regularly gives Superman a run for his money.
• Kidnapped the entire city of Kandor from Krypton.
• Took over LexCorp.
• Briefly was taken over by Brainiac 13.
• Converted Metropolis into a futuristic replica of himself.
• Helped Brainiac 2.5 and the other heroes fight off the Imperiex Attack.
• Teamed up with Indigo (Brainiac 8) to kill Donna Troy.
• Used a copy of himself to invade a Waynetech robotics facility.
• Fought Superman and Batman with Metallo and the Metal Men.
• Defeated Superman with ease.
• Captured Supergirl.
• Killed Jonathan Kent.
• Teamed up with Lex Luthor to attack New Krypton.
• Shrunk the city of Yod-Colu.
• Merged with C.O.M.P.U.T.O. to make an army of spaceships.
• Captured Zor-El, wiped his memory, and turned him into a Cyborg Superman.
• Took control of Doomsday and released him from the Phantom Zone.
• Defeated the Titans, Teen Titans, Task Force X, and the Justice League.
• Aided the Legion in capturing Perpetua, the supposed creator of the Multiverse.
• Surpassed the Source Wall right around Flashpoint.
• Expanded his consciousness through the timeline, making each iteration of Brainiac into a cosmic Multiversal deity.
• Acted as the driving force between Futures End and Convergence.
• Ultimately used his power to circumvent the first Crisis and stop the collapse of the Pre-Crisis Multiverse.

Weaknesses

• Sensory Overload: Brainiac has been defeated in the past by Superman forcing him onto Earth's atmosphere where he was overwhelmed by the sights and sounds of human society that his abilities enabled him to experience and the germs and microbes that he is not used to and was repulsed by.
• Technological Reliability: Brainiac has sometimes been portrayed as being linked mentally to his ship and separating him from it without warning can disable him and separating him from it for prolonged periods drains him of much of his strength and causes his body to deteriorate.
• Obsession: Brainiac possesses an absolute need for control and power in any situation and is often shown becoming extremely volatile and distressed in situations where he isn't, often resulting in him making mistakes that end up seriously damaging his plans.
• Apathy: Brainiac possesses no empathy or compassion for any other sentient being and almost exclusively works alone in his schemes, aided only by machines and people whose wills he has reprogrammed to serve him. He is completely unable to understand love, friendship or any other positive emotion and so makes no effort to form bonds with others. On the rare occasions where he cooperates with others beings who aren't under his mind control, he rules them through fear and will almost certainly betray them at a later date without any hesitancy or remorse. This always backfires in two ways as Superman always has a group of friends willing to fight by his side against him, and powerful people he has callously betrayed, such as Lex Luthor, have worked against him in revenge.