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Warning : contains spoilers forAmazing Spider - Man#900
Marvel’sSpider - Manjust faced an upgraded version of one of his most obscure villains that looks a lot like one ofSuperman ’s legendary foes , Brainiac . The Living Brain is , as the name suggests , a living , recall auto that has a green - tinted robotic dead body , a taste for " collecting " people , a spaceship , and an compulsion for the titular superhero .
The Living Brain made its entry in one of theearliest Webhead tale , Amazing Spider - Man#8 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko . Created by Dr. Petty as a science experiment , it went on a violent disorder and was shut down by Spider - Man . A few years after , Dr. Petty ’s son , Steve , reconstruct the thinking machine , give it a machinelike body who went on to have a animation of his own as a fellow member of the Sinister Six first , and then as Peter Parker ’s supporter at Horizon Labs and at Parker Industries . Now , Marvel has have the character a retconned backstory and a new look that makes him ( or it ) eerily like to DC Comics ' Brainiac .
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InAmazing Spider - Man#900 by Zeb Wells , Ed McGuinness , Marcio Menyz , Dijjo Lima , and Erick Arciniega , the Ultra Living Brain kidnaps Spider - Man and his closest friends after re - resolve an oldSuper Adaptoid robot with the powers of the Sinister Six . This reading of the scoundrel divulge that , after being create by Steve Petty , he absorb every available data stream on Earth , including the brains of his Jehovah and other multitude . lack a purpose , the Ultra Living Brain ground one in the robotic body of his precursor , an fixation for find out the answer to the head of " Who is Spider - Man ? "
The Ultra Living Brain await on the nose like some quondam version of Brainiac , a denudate humanoid automobile with green cutis . However , the similarity do not check there . Superman ’s famous scoundrel is also an ultra - intelligent fauna , the nuclear fusion of Coluan scientist Vril Dox and the superintendent - computer he created , just like the Ultra Living Brain absorbed his own Lord , Dr. Petty . Brainiac is famous forkidnapping entire cities to put them in his " collection " on his spaceship , which includes the Kryptonian city of Kandor . The Ultra Living Brain follows a standardised modus operandi , albeit on a much smaller scale : he nobble Spider - Man ’s speculative scoundrel and his in force friends , and keeps them captive on his spaceship , to " amass " data from them . at last , just like the Ultra Living Brain is obsessed with Spider - Man , Brainiac germinate an obsession with Superman when he learns there was one surviving Kryptonian who is not part of his collecting .
While Spider - Man is considered by many to be Marvel ’s Superman , his veranda of baddie is very different from the Man of Steel ’s . Peter Parker ’s opposition are usually much more grounded , and include crime Godhead and street toughie , whileSuperman mostly deals with planetary or cosmic threat . However , the new Ultra Living Brain and Brainiac partake many similarities . Be it a coincidence or an homage from Marvel ’s creators to an iconic DC lineament , Spider - Manjust get under one’s skin his own translation of one ofSuperman ’s greatest villains .
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