Vril Dox II (Prime Earth)

The son of Vril and Lysl Dox of Yod-Colu, Vril Dox II was experimented upon as a child by his genius namesake in an attempt to prepare their species for an invasion from the Fifth Dimension. Though the elder Vril Dox was exiled from Yod-Colu for this act, he was able to shrink and preserve a section of the planet—a section that contained his wife and son—before the attack he predicted came to pass, destroying Yod-Colu.^[1]

Dox encountered the heroes of Earth,^[2] including Batman,^[3] and was later imprisoned in the restored planet Colu's Ultra Penitence Prison for his father's crimes until freed by Batman and the Justice League's Team Entropy, who sought his aid in executing a plan conceived by the now-deceased elder Dox—known as Brainiac—to save Colu from the world-eating Omega Titans. He correctly predicted that the planet was doomed without his father's intervention,^[4] and, blaming the League for the death of Colu, fled to Earth to fulfill Brainiac's secondary goal: drawing the Titans there to ensure its destruction. On Earth, he used his father's technology to hasten the growth of the "trees" drawing the Titans to the world. At the Tree of Mystery, he dispatched the hero Supergirl, but was waylaid by the Green Lantern Corps while confronting Brainiac's killer, Amanda Waller, at the Tree of Entropy. The heroes of Earth ultimately saved their world by redirecting the Titans to feed on one of their own, while Dox escaped to continue his campaign against them.^[2]

He was among the representatives of many worlds gathered on Thanagar for the formation^[5] and first meeting of the United Planets, an intergalactic system of government,^[6] and also became a member of L.E.G.I.O.N.,^[7] a stellar police force.^[8] When the multiverse came under threat of destruction from its dark counterpart, Dox signaled the omniverse beyond in an attempt to escape. His probes drew the attention of the Chronicler, a cosmic functionary who bypassed Dox's drone defenses to confront him and record the knowledge he possessed of his reality. Dox's attempts to bargain for his survival fell on deaf ears, and he was horrified to learn of the fates of trillions of other, dead multiverses before the Chronicler left in search of more information.^[9]

House of Brainiac

When his father returned once more, Dox abandoned both L.E.G.I.O.N. and the United Planets to go into hiding on the crime-ridden planet Rimbor. He was found, however, by Brainiac's Czarnian forces, and delivered to his father, who imprisoned him within a "bottled" Coluan city, along with several other members of their family.^[7] Dox and his relatives rescued fellow captives Supergirl and Lex Luthor from Brainiac's forces,^[10] and confronted their patriarch, only to have their bodies hijacked by his consciousness.^[11] They were freed when Luthor erased Brainiac's intelligence, and fled his hiveship as it collapsed, though not before recovering his diverse collection of bottled cities. Using his father's technology, Dox and his family enlarged the cities to create a new, gestalt planet: Colu 2.0.^[12]

Powers and Abilities

Abilities

Genius Level Intellect: Brainiac 2.0 is a 10th Level Intellect.

Paraphernalia

Transportation

Personal Teleportation Device: Vril Dox's teleporter allows him to instantaneously travel both short distances^[4] and between planets.^[2]

Weapons

Anti-Kryptonian Weaponry: Vril Dox possesses weaponry effective against nigh-invulnerable Kryptonians.^[2]

Notes

Brainiac 2 was created by Edmond Hamilton, Cary Bates, and Curt Swan, first appearing in Superman #167. However, in the Prime Earth continuity, Brainiac 2 first appeared as part of the New 52 DC Universe in Superman (Volume 3) #23.2: Brainiac by Tony Bedard and Pascal Alixe.

Vril Dox II (Prime Earth)

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