Brother Eye




 * "Do you understand? They broke the promise. And if they couldn't be trusted, then by extension, none of us could. It didn't matter who was responsible for what had happened. What mattered was that it had happened to begin with. And I was damned if I was going to let it ever happen again."
 * --Batman

Official Name: Brother MK I Nicknames: Brother Eye; Brother I Model: MK Version: I

Origin
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Lead Designer: Bruce Wayne Additional Designers: Kord Omniversal; Wayne Enterprises Place of Creation: Kord Omniversal First Appearance: Countdown to Infinite Crisis #1

History
Previous Owners: Bruce Wayne; Maxwell Lord Current Owner: Checkmate

History: Several years ago, the villain known as Doctor Light broke into the satellite headquarters of the Justice League of America. The only person stationed on the satellite at the time was Sue Dibny – wife of Ralph Dibny, the Elongated Man. Doctor Light attacked and brutally violated her – an act that would soon yield disastrous consequences not only for himself, but for the League as well.

The Justice League returned and were shocked to discover Light's crime. Unwilling to let such an act to go unpunished, several members (including Elongated Man, Hawkman, Green Arrow and Zatanna) decided upon an unorthodox means of rehabilitation. While the others held Doctor Light down, Zatanna used her magic to permanently alter Light's personality. Instead of existing as a psychotic rapist, he would now act as a slow-witted, clumsy super-villain incapable of overcoming even the most meager of threats.

As Zatanna completed her spell, Batman entered the satellite and witnessed what had taken place. The conspirators knew that they had to keep this a secret from the senior members, so Zatanna wiped Batman's mind clean of the memory of the event.

Years passed, and Batman's memory slowly returned to him. He knew now that he could no longer trust the Justice League and embarked upon a plan of action to keep an eye on them. Using money through various Wayne Enterprises subsidiaries, Batman created Brother Eye – a semi-autonomous artificial intelligence surveillance system. Equipping it with an anti-detection stealth system, he launched the satellite into geosynchronous orbit. Through the use of Brother Eye, Batman collected a massive database of information concerning every known metahuman on Earth.

A few years ago, the international eco-terrorist known as Ra's al Ghul succeeded in hacking into Batman's database system. He used the information supplied in his files to ascertain the weaknesses of the JLA members and thereby exploit them. The League succeeded in foiling Ra's' efforts, but their trust in Batman was forever shattered. The standing roster of the JLA at that time were not members of the original Doctor Light conspiracy, and had no prior knowledge of what had taken place. Batman did not openly reveal his knowledge of the conspiracy to his teammates at that time.

Recently, Maxwell Lord, the Black King of the intelligence cabal known as Checkmate, learned of Brother Eye's existence and found a way to hack into it. He rerouted the satellite's systems, so that they would respond only to his commands. Max Lord's initiative was to systematically weed out all metahumans from the planet, by way of sleeper agents known as OMACs. Through the use of Brother Eye, Max was able to coordinate strategic attack patterns against super-heroes all across the globe.

Lords' reign came to an end, when Wonder Woman attacked him directly, snapping his neck. Following Lord's death, Brother Eye initiated an automatic program known as the King is Dead protocol, at which point it commanded all remaining OMACs to scour the globe annihilating every superhuman it could find. Brother Eye broadcast video footage of Wonder Woman killing Maxwell Lord across the planet, turning public opinion against her.

Characteristics
Dimensions: Dimensions unknown Weight: xxx lbs (xxx kg)

Powers

 * Brother Eye was capable of intrusive acts of espionage and worked in tandem with the OMAC cyborgs.

Trivia

 * The Big Brother motif, as exemplified by Brother Eye, is a reference to the famous novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.


 * At one point, Brother Eye commanded a compliment of over 1,100,000 OMAC agents.

Recommended Readings

 * Identity Crisis #1-7
 * Infinite Crisis #1-7
 * Omac Project #1-6
 * Wonder Woman (Volume 2) #219

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 * Maxwell Lord
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