Brainchild (comics)
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Brainchild is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe
Marvel Universe
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Publication history

Brainchild first appeared in Uncanny X-Men
Uncanny X-Men
Uncanny X-Men, first published as The X-Men, is the flagship Marvel Comics comic book series for the X-Men franchise. It is the mainstream continuity featuring the adventures of the eponymous group of mutant superheroes...

vol. 1 #62-63 (November-December 1969), and was created by Roy Thomas
Roy Thomas
Roy William Thomas, Jr. is an American comic book writer and editor, and Stan Lee's first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. He is possibly best known for introducing the pulp magazine hero Conan the Barbarian to American comics, with a series that added to the storyline of Robert E...

 and Neal Adams
Neal Adams
Neal Adams is an American comic book and commercial artist known for helping to create some of the definitive modern imagery of the DC Comics characters Superman, Batman, and Green Arrow; as the co-founder of the graphic design studio Continuity Associates; and as a creators-rights advocate who...

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The character subsequently appears in Avengers #105 (November 1972), Marvel Fanfare #1-4 (March-September 1982), Uncanny X-Men Annual #12 (1988), Uncanny X-Men #249-250 (September-October 1989), #274-275 (March-April 1991), Wolverine #69-71 (May-July 1993), X-Treme X-Men: Savage Land #1-4 (November 2001-February 2002), X-Men Unlimited #6 (September 1994), New Avengers #1-2 (January-February 2005), #4-5 (April-May 2005), Uncanny X-Men #457-459 (May-July 2005), Sentinel Squad O*N*E #3-4 (May-June 2006), Cable & Deadpool #49 (March 2008), and Marvel Comics Presents #6-7 (April-May 2008).

Brainchild appeared as part of the "Savage Land Mutates" entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe
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Fictional character biography

Brainchild was once a Swamp Man of the Savage Land
Savage Land
The Savage Land is a hidden prehistoric land within the fictional Marvel Comics Universe. It is a tropical preserve hidden in Antarctica. It was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in X-Men #10...

, a tropical preserve hidden in Antarctica. He became one of the Savage Land Mutates
Savage Land Mutates
The Savage Land Mutates are a fictional Marvel Comics supervillain group based in the Savage Land, a hidden Antarctic environment of dinosaurs and primitive people in the Marvel Universe.-Fictional team biography:...

, changed by Magneto
Magneto (comics)
Magneto is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is the central villain of the X-Men comic, as well as the TV show and the films. The character first appears in X-Men #1 , and was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby...

 to give him unusually high intelligence, although he at least formerly only had the emotional level of a child. Brainchild was one of Magneto's first Savage Land Mutates, and has been involved in all the Mutates' subsequent activities. He is central to the selling of the Savage Land's resources to a corrupt faction within S.H.I.E.L.D.
S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Powers and abilities

Brainchild’s superhuman intelligence and computer-like mind enable him to make scientific and mathematical calculations with the speed and accuracy of a highly advanced computer.

Other versions

  • Barbarus and Brainchild are eaten by the zombified Ka-Zar and Zabu
    Zabu
    Zabu is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe, a superhero who is connected primarily to the Savage Land, and the X-Men, and most recently the Avengers . He first appeared in X-Men #10 . He is the last known living Smilodon and is a companion and ally of Ka-Zar.-Fictional character...

     in Marvel Zombies Vs. The Army of Darkness.

  • Brainchild appears in a two-part What If?
    What If (comics)
    What If, sometimes rendered as What If...?, is the title of several comic book series published by Marvel Comics, exploring "the road not traveled" by its various characters...

    story: #46 (February 1993) - 'What If... Cable Had Destroyed The X-Men?' and #47 (March 1993) - 'What If... Magneto Took Over The USA?'

In other media

Brainchild appears in the X-Men: The Animated Series
X-Men (TV series)
X-Men, also known as X-Men: The Animated Series, is an American animated television series which debuted on October 31, 1992, in the United States on the Fox Network as part of its Fox Kids Saturday morning lineup...

episode "Reunion" parts I and II along with Vertigo
Vertigo
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, Sauron
Sauron
Sauron is the primary antagonist and titular character of the epic fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.In the same work, he is revealed to be the same character as "the Necromancer" from Tolkien's earlier novel The Hobbit...

, Amphibius
Amphibius (comics)
Amphibius is a fictional character, a mutate, owned by Marvel Comics who exists in that company's Marvel Universe.-Publication history:Amphibius's first appearance was in Uncanny X-Men vol...

 now describing to follow a new master, it is in fact Mister Sinister
Mister Sinister
Mister Sinister is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #221 and was created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Marc Silvestri....

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