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Brainiac (Last Family of Krypton)

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B was a Kryptonian artifical intelligence brought to Earth by the House of El when they fled the destruction of Krypton.

Jor-El's resentful protege Lex Luthor reprogrammed B with his own personality engrams, and recruited him into a plot to kill Jor-El and surpass him as Earth's greatest scientist. Lex planned to fake a malfunction of Kryptonian technology which would almost destroy the world, only for Lex to "stop" it at the last second and become a hero. However, B, who now possessed Luthor's treachery and ego, turned on him out of spite since Lex treated him as a slave.

B intended to use Kryptonian matter replication technology to cause widespread devastation, but Superman was able to convince him to stop by telling him that if he went ahead with Luthor's plan, everyone would assume he had been Lex's accomplice, but if he stopped it Superman would ensure he was remembered as a hero. B prevented the destruction, sacrificing himself in the process. True to his word Superman, in his identity as Clark Kent, published a story in the Daily Planet claiming that B, who he renamed "Brainiac", had given his life to foil Luthor's plan and save the world.

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