In the first incarnation of Brainiac, he was an green skinned android whose brain patterns were borrowed from a dying scientist of that world to mimic humanity. His creators, the Computer Tyrants and Colu-One, had been overthrown which led to Brainiac's exile from his homeworld world.
Brainiac then sought to collect vast information throughout the cosmos, and shrunk prominent cities originating from various worlds throughout the galaxies for which he stored each one of these within bottles aboard his space craft. He eventually came into conflict with Superman over his diabolic attempt at shrinking and capturing Krypton-One's Metropolis. During this initial conflict, Superman discovered that the Kryptonian city of Kandor had been preserved in a shrunken state, and the hero kept it within his Fortress of Solitude to protect it from its former android captor. After attempted to steal cities from Earth-One including its Metropolis, Brainiac came into conflict with Superman who became his greatest foe.
Over the years, Brainiac would team up with other villains such as Lex Luthor and even become a member of the Anti-Justice League battling Superman's Justice League on multiple occasions. He would expand his mental might beyond his twelfth level intelligence, gaining abilities such as his force fields and brain blasts, and expand his enmity towards other members of Superman's Family including Supergirl. Employing various android bodies over the years, he was successful at his ability to adapt to new situations using his genius and ingenuity.
The android's own diabolical doppelgänger was the human mastermind known as the Ultra-Humanite. Gifted with incredible intellect, Ultra had a series of conflicts with the Superman of Earth-Two which ultimately led to his own death when exposed to his purple plague ray. However, Ultra would transplant his mind into various bodies throughout the decades, and perpetually pester Superman and his heroic allies such as the All-Star Squadron and Justice Society of America.
In the mid-1980s, Brainiac had been consumed by a star going nova yet causing him to undergo a startling transformation, turning into ambient energy that assimilated a cybernetic collective of a distant world. Converted into an entity of organic metal and a cold calculating logic unmatched by any past or future versions of himself, this new Brainiac threatened not only his arch-foe Kal-El but the entire universe. A similar threat was made manifest on the parallel planet known as Earth-Two in the Commander, who had discovered that world and it's dimension thanks to the unintentional contact made to him by scientist Martin Challenger who he would use as his pawn and gateway into this new realm.
Brainiac then sought to collect vast information throughout the cosmos, and shrunk prominent cities originating from various worlds throughout the galaxies for which he stored each one of these within bottles aboard his space craft. He eventually came into conflict with Superman over his diabolic attempt at shrinking and capturing Krypton-One's Metropolis. During this initial conflict, Superman discovered that the Kryptonian city of Kandor had been preserved in a shrunken state, and the hero kept it within his Fortress of Solitude to protect it from its former android captor. After attempted to steal cities from Earth-One including its Metropolis, Brainiac came into conflict with Superman who became his greatest foe.
Over the years, Brainiac would team up with other villains such as Lex Luthor and even become a member of the Anti-Justice League battling Superman's Justice League on multiple occasions. He would expand his mental might beyond his twelfth level intelligence, gaining abilities such as his force fields and brain blasts, and expand his enmity towards other members of Superman's Family including Supergirl. Employing various android bodies over the years, he was successful at his ability to adapt to new situations using his genius and ingenuity.
The android's own diabolical doppelgänger was the human mastermind known as the Ultra-Humanite. Gifted with incredible intellect, Ultra had a series of conflicts with the Superman of Earth-Two which ultimately led to his own death when exposed to his purple plague ray. However, Ultra would transplant his mind into various bodies throughout the decades, and perpetually pester Superman and his heroic allies such as the All-Star Squadron and Justice Society of America.In the mid-1980s, Brainiac had been consumed by a star going nova yet causing him to undergo a startling transformation, turning into ambient energy that assimilated a cybernetic collective of a distant world. Converted into an entity of organic metal and a cold calculating logic unmatched by any past or future versions of himself, this new Brainiac threatened not only his arch-foe Kal-El but the entire universe. A similar threat was made manifest on the parallel planet known as Earth-Two in the Commander, who had discovered that world and it's dimension thanks to the unintentional contact made to him by scientist Martin Challenger who he would use as his pawn and gateway into this new realm.
Wishing to make his new home in the Earth-Two universe, the Commander had like his counterpart faced the Man of Steel in battle. While on Earth-One, Superman was joined by the Justice League and Teen Titans in averting an invasion, here it fell upon the native Justice Society with the visiting Justice League and the Champion family assisting them. In both instances, Brainiac and Commander found a worthy implacable enemy in the Last Son of Krypton, who led the fight to topple these intergalactic egomaniacs from their insatiable thirst for conquest. In Brainiac's case, it was through Superman's actions on the sun that caused power spikes in the robotic rogue's cerebral cortex, which cause him to lose his memory and plotting capabilities.
Seeking refuge in hyperspace, the villain to humanity would next appear in the void in between universes, having created a floating replica of Metropolis complete with a horde of Supermen robots that lured the Legion and the original Kryptonian Crusader into a trap. A trap they managed to circumvent, causing Brainiac to once more escape only to return during the Crisis on Infinite Earths to lead a villain war against five Earths.
In the case of the Commander, it took the combined cognitive capabilities of the Champion children and their aunt coordinated by Doctor Fate to create a dimensional rift, one into which Superman and his JSA and JLA allies could thrust the tyrant. Seeking to return him to his own universe, the Commander forced himself to remain in Earth-Two's plane of existence, at the cost of his own essence dissolving into all of that universe's reality, while the League and Society (like the Legion and Superman above) were thrust through dimensions into the void between universes albeit briefly. Interestingly, just as around this time that Mekanique left Earth-Two for Earth-One alongside Commander Steel, before disappearing to post-Crisis Earth.
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