Querl Dox (Post-Zero Hour)

Querl Dox
Post-Zero Hour‎
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Real Name	Querl Dox
Other Aliases	Brainy
Relatives	Brainiac 1 (Vril Dox) (Ancestor) · Brainiac 2 (Vril Dox II) (Ancestor) · Brainiac 3 (Lyrl Dox) (Ancestor) · Brainiac 4 (mother) · Unnamed (father) · Brainiac 6 (descendant) · Brainiac 7 (descendant) · Brainiac 8 (Indigo) (descendant) · Brainiac 9 (descendant) · Brainiac 10 (descendant) · Brainiac 11 (descendant) · Brainiac 12 (descendant) · Brainiac 13 (descendant) · Brainiac 417 (descendant)
Affiliation	Legion of Super-Heroes
Base Of Operations	Legion Headquarters
Status
Alignment	Good
Identity	Public Identity
Race	Coluan
Citizenship	United Planets Citizen
Marital Status	Single
Occupation	Legionnaire
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Height	5' 7"
Weight	125 lbs (57 kg)
Eyes	Green
Hair	Blond
Skin	Green
Origin
Universe	Post-Zero Hour
Creators	Tom McCraw · Mark Waid · Jeffrey Moy
First Appearance	Legionnaires #0 (October, 1994)

History

Querl Dox, or Brainiac 5, was a Coluan member of the Legion of Super-Heroes with a supremely advanced intellect. Although his ancestor Brainiac was a super-villain, Querl strove to atone for the misdeeds of his lineage.

His mother was Brainiac 4 one of his home planets most famous scientist. She abandoned her son on the day of his birth to continue her research as she considered him a distraction. Brainiac 5 was advanced even for Coluan standards as he speaking by the time he was an infant and a scientist by a toddler. Brainiac 5's research was against Coluan law so he was sent to do research for R.J. Brande. Brainiac 5 destroyed various laboratories in his time, Brande one of the richest men in Galaxy could only tolerate so much so sent him to work at the Time Institute on Talus. Brainiac 5 was drafted by his people to join the Legion. He ignored it and continued with his work.

Eventually, they found him and he was forced to join. He saved the Earth from the Xenophobic White Triangle, then healed Triad, cured Andromeda's lead poisoning a weakness of all Daxamites. One of the most important inventions was the anti-gravity metal used to construct the Legion Flight Rings.

He developed a crush on Andromeda, but she was killed. He made some new discoveries at that and used them to travel back in time to save the hero, Valor. He was arrested by the United Planets, however, because time travel was illegal.

He was pardoned when R.J. Brande became President of the United Planets and one of his first acts was to legalize time travel.

Brainiac 5 and a group of Legionnaires were exiled to the 20th Century by the Emerald Eye of Ekron. With his technological sources limited it took Brainiac 5 many months to get them home.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

• Coluan Physiology
  • Enhanced Intellect

Abilities

• Indomitable Will
• Tactical Analysis
  

Paraphernalia

Equipment

• Force Field Belt

Transportation

• Legion Flight Ring

Trivia

• Brainiac 5 is famous for blowing up an extraordinary number of labs in the course of his experiments. His fellow Legionnaires have come to believe that rather than being a series of accidents, this is simply his standard methodology.
• In secret, Brainiac 5 regularly mildly sabotages the Legion's video gaming equipment, to make gameplay just off enough to infuriate people.
• Brainiac 5 is also known as Brainiac 5.1.
• In addition to having a crush on Andromeda, Brainiac 5 had a secret stash of lustful holo-collection featuring Andromeda herself, Dreamer, Spark and another fellow legionary whose alias begins with "In-" (obviously Invisible Kid), and probably others. Before that, in a moment of rare emotional outburst, Brainy kisses Lyle's cheek as he finds him again, and right after he feels embarrassed.
  

Recommended Reading

• Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 4)
• Legionnaires (Volume 1)
• The Legion (Volume 1)

Related

• 180 Appearances of Querl Dox (Post-Zero Hour)
• 16 Images featuring Querl Dox (Post-Zero Hour)
• 9 Quotations by or about Querl Dox (Post-Zero Hour)
• Character Gallery: Querl Dox (Post-Zero Hour)

Footnotes

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