Brainiac didn’t keep in his robotic type for lengthy, quickly returning to variations of his inexperienced and purple look. However the robotic type could also be essential to Man of Tomorrow, for a number of totally different causes.
Gunn has described Man of Tomorrow as not only a sequel to Superman, but in addition a Lex Luthor story, by which Nicholas Hoult performs co-lead as Superman should workforce up along with his archenemy to struggle Brainiac. Within the influential 1986 Alan Moore and Curt Swan story No matter Occurred to the Man of Tomorrow?, Brainiac possesses Lex Luthor to mix his mind with that of Superman’s biggest enemy. How does he do that? By utilizing his robotic type and attaching his hexagons to Luthor’s head.
Lately, set images from Man of Tomorrow have proven Hoult as Lex carrying his warsuit, a inexperienced and purple mech outfit. That go well with comes straight from the comics, first showing in 1983’s Motion Comics #544, the identical challenge that launched Brainiac’s skeletal type.
Attention-grabbing as these connections are, they nonetheless depart a query. Why would Kara be in a Brainiac ship? For a doable reply, we have to look previous the comics, to the cartoons. Superman: The Animated Collection supplied a compelling revision to the origins of each Superman and Brainiac. Right here, Brainiac was first an AI used on Krypton, who turned towards his masters and lied concerning the dire state of the planet. Brainiac ultimately took humanoid type to struggle towards Superman. Years later, Smallville repeated the plot, casting James Marsters because the human type that Brainiac takes after arriving on Earth from Krypton.
Superman has already established that the Kryptonians of the brand new DCU aren’t as benevolent as their comedian e-book counterparts. Supergirl will most likely give us a barely extra likable take, provided that Kara grew up in Argo Metropolis, a portion of Krypton that survived the planet’s explosion, and we’ll spend extra time together with her mother and father, Zor-El (David Krumholtz) and Alura In-Ze (Emily Beecham). However that doesn’t exempt them from birthing Brainiac, even unintentionally.
In the event that they did, Superman’s joyful reunion in Supergirl could become a nightmare in Man of Tomorrow.
