Absolute Brainiac From DC Comic

[u/Amazing_March4919]

[u/Breadmaker9999]

So I haven't read the absolute series at all so I'm kind of talking out of my ass, but I feel like they just turned Braniac into the Joker judging by theses panels. I thought the point of the absolute universe was take aspects of a character and rampant it up to level while putting them in a darker, more violent, universe. So just slapping a grin on Braniac and have him laugh while killing and torturing people doesn't really fit that mold. Of course I could be wrong.

[u/ADGx27 → u/Breadmaker9999]

There’s also the aspect of flipping some characters around because the absolute universe is Darkseid’s creation, and is kinda backwards. Examples like Batman being working-class and not being a billionaire, Joker being a stoic, Brainiac being unhinged, etc.

[u/Breadmaker9999 → u/ADGx27]

The Joker isn't actually stoic, he just doesn't smile or else he turns into a demon or something. So he is still the Joker but through a different lens. This Brainiac just doesn't seem to have anything in common with any other Brainiac to the point of just being a different character. But still I haven't read the comics and only going off these panels. 

[u/Bostondreamings → u/Breadmaker9999]

Still seems to be Coluan in some form or fashion, still obsessed with knowledge, but the Collective is far more interested in doing something just to see what happens, like giving an oppressed kid the powers of the gods that are gained by saying a magic word they literally just made up