Freeze later influenced how the character was depicted in the comics, elements of Superman: The Animated Series’ Brainiac would later find their way into his printed page counterpart. Similar to how Batman: The Animated Series’ Mr.
From there, he created an android body for himself and began traveling to other planets to steal their knowledge, then destroy them. While the comics Brainiac had already been tied to Krypton for years thanks to him shrinking the capital city of Kandor and bottling it up for his personal collection, Superman: The Animated Series took things a step further with the connectivity, as the Brainiac supercomputer publicly dismissed Jor-El’s claims that Krypton was dying, but secretly made plans to save himself. It’s great.’ That was pretty much an easy sell. Once Alan outlined the whole thing for me, I was like, ‘Ok, that totally works. He was like their robot slave, their robot AI, and yet he had sinister motives of his own and was aware that Jor-El was telling the truth, and that Krypton was gonna explode, and he was already making his own getaway plan. Also known as, Superman 64, it was met with an overwhelmingly negative reception for buggy controls, bad graphics, and terrible gameplay. Once I got used to the idea, it was like, ‘Well, why can’t he be from Krypton?’ And the idea that he was basically the Siri for the whole planet Krypton. In 1999, Superman: The New Superman Adventures was released on the Nintendo 64 by Titus Software, a now-defunct French-based studio. I’m one of those nerds that goes, ‘Oh, that’s not like the comics! That’s terrible!’ But it didn’t take much to talk me into it. That was Alan Burnett’s idea, and at first I was against it because I’m a purist. From the infamously terrible Superman 64 to the lackluster Superman Returns.
Superman has featured in plenty of popular games, like Injustice, but the hero has a checkered history in terms of his own games. As for why Superman: The Animated Series decided alter Brainiac so significantly, I learned from producer Bruce Timm during an interview for the show’s Blu-ray release that fellow co-creator Alan Burnett thought it up. Rocksteadys interest in Superman could have been molded into Suicide Squad, pitting him, or Bizarro Superman, as the villain. Freeze was received several years earlier.
Despite the differences with his comic book counterpart, this version of Brainiac scored a lot of positive reception, comparable to how Batman: The Animated Series’ take on Mr.