What's the difference between Brainiac and Brainiac 5?
What's the difference between Brainiac, Superman's enemy and Brainiac 5, the hero from Legion of Superheroes? Are they related? Is there a connection between them?
Why is Brainiac 5 good while Brainiac is evil?|||Brainiac, depending on your timeline, is an android with a fully functioning sentient AI - and even has emotions. In later centuries, he adopted a Coulan(?) child and raised him as a son.
In this timeline, Braniac 5 is fully organic, but simply has an IQ measured in the exceptionally high hundreds.
In other timelines, both are artificial lifeforms, with B 5 simply being the "5th generation" of the line
In other timelines, one or both are cyborgs.
Then you have the VERY non-canon timeline in the current TV show.
In any case...in almost every timeline from DC, there is a link between Brianiac and Braniac 5, even if it is only that they came from the same world.
As for the Good/Evil bit...again, that depends on the timeline you're talking about. In most of them, Brainiac was not Evil, he was simply AMORAL. In others, he was not Evil, but simply very rigid in his interpretations of his programming, and in others, he was downright evil.
The "current" bend on the topic has Brainiac interperating something from his programming literally - he mist "preserve" cultures, so he bottles a city, destroys the planet, and then tosses any "strays" he may find later into the same "bottle" (this is how Kal El met his Uncle - Kara's father - in a recent comic). Admittedly it was the only one in several months I'd read from that series so I'm probably missing a great deal.
As for Brainiac 5, his being Good as opposed to Evil comes more from remorse to outright guilt, to overwhelming shame (again, timeline dependant), and in at least one case, from programming!
Good Luck!|||Brainiac 5 is version 5.0
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