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Post by SporkBot on Apr 26, 2018 20:59:42 GMT -5
I re-watched Superman Unbound, loosely based on that story of Brainiac attacking Earth and Pa Kent dying while Supes was dealing with him. We all know this robo-dude's deal: Go to a planet, assimilate all its data, maybe take a piece for posterity, then blow the planet to smithereens. He often utilizes duplicates of himself. And I think his motives might change from iteration to iteration; I recall his TAS version claimed knowledge was more precious the fewer people who had access to it, and the motivation in Unbound was to simply "know everything."
So, this got me thinking...has anyone tried suggesting to Brainiac to send out a bunch of drones to just watch planets as they develop? Not to say this should be the character's progression, but it feels like one of those "logical" concepts that I don't know if anyone has every tried. If it hasn't been done, I'm sure he could retort that the it'd be a "waste of resources", but...well, some possible-story ideas floated in my head as to how it could play out.
Besides, this section could use another thread.
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Post by machsabre on Apr 26, 2018 21:09:03 GMT -5
Well, technically speaking... All those Brainiac duplicates ARE those drones meant to do just that. Just that when a planet gets to a certain point it feels is not worth the effort to save... Boom.
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Post by darkseraph on Apr 26, 2018 21:59:52 GMT -5
I always saw Braniac as running something like a Wildlife preserve. His Drones watch worlds and when they start to reach a point where the likelihood of planetary extinction would happen, he swoops in, takes takes a sample to preserve it and destroys the rest.
So all those city's and planets in bottles are like exhibits in his own personal zoo.
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Post by SporkBot on Apr 27, 2018 9:49:18 GMT -5
I just got to thinking, this guy wants to know EVERYTHING...but by unnaturally destroying planets, he'll never really know, for sure, how they're development goes. Taking Kandor from Krypton was one thing, that planet was doomed anyway, but when he plain interferes, he's just being an impatient jackass. Seems to be a hint of hypocrisy at work that I was curious if anyone had noticed or if a writer had actually tried before.
Just my line of thinking here, one of those "how would someone out-think, out-logic" a computer type thing.
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