
The Brotherhood of Evil worked together on a narcotic element which is then distributed to the addict population of New York City. Animal Man's group is saved by Frankenstein and his Patchwork Army. They capture Animal Man and the heroes that are with him. In an alternate future of this new timeline, Brain and Monsieur Mallah assist Gorilla Grodd in taking over the remains of Central City at the time when The Black had taken over most of the world. During a standoff with the Special Crimes Unit, Maggie Sawyer tried to talk them down and agreed to help them if they surrendered. Then they raided LexCorp where they received a cyber optic nerve so that Brain can see. After becoming distrustful of humans, Brain took Mallah into attacking humans that they blamed for their plight. When an explosion occurred in his lab, Ernst was badly burned and Mallah saved his life by preserving his brain. He treated Mallah like a friend and an assistant. In this continuity, Brain was originally a New England scientist named Ernst who experimented on a gorilla named Mallah to increase his intellect. In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. An altercation between Monsieur Mallah and Gorilla Grodd ends with Grodd beating Monsieur Mallah to death with Brain's chassis, also killing Brain in the process.

In the Salvation Run storyline, Brain and Monsieur Mallah appear amongst the villains that were sent to the planet Cygnus 4019. After a short while the Brain's new clone body begins to break down, so he has Mallah rip off his head and put his brain back into another jar. The Brotherhood begins raiding genetic research facilities to unlock the secrets of cloning and create a new body for the Brain, so he and Monsieur Mallah can resume their romance. The two later resurface (the Brain back to floating in a jar), with no explanation of how they survived the explosion. However, Robotman's body, having developed sentience and vowed never to be enslaved by a brain again, triggers a self-destruct mechanism and explodes as they kiss. When Mallah reveals he feels the same way, the two kiss.

In his new body, the Brain confesses to Mallah he is in love with him. 2) #34, by Richard Case.ĭuring Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol run, Mallah places the Brain in Robotman's new body (Robotman's brain had been removed from it due to its malfunctioning). Aquaman is thrown to the Brain, overpowers his control of the ring, and separates the Brain from his makeshift body. The Brain is defeated by the League and the Doom Patrol, the League using cybernetic implants created by Niles Caulder to compensate for their lost powers. The Brotherhood go against the newly formed Justice League, with the Brain using a genetic splicer to take the Flash's legs, Green Lantern's ring, Black Canary's vocal chords, and the Martian Manhunter's eyes. The Brain, Mallah, and their Brotherhood's criminal activities also pit them against the Teen Titans.
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Caulder, now known as the "Chief", through a series of other accidents that he manipulated, forms the Doom Patrol (Caulder's involvement in the events which transformed the Doom Patrol, and the Brain, was a retcon decades after the creation of the Doom Patrol and the Brain originally the incidents were genuine accidents). The Brain and Mallah form the Brotherhood of Evil in hopes of conquering the world and getting revenge on Caulder where it gains members like Madame Rouge, General Immortus, and Garguax. Mallah rescues the Brain, transferring him to a computer network that keeps him functioning. Only the brain survives, which Caulder plans on putting into a robotic body. His colleague Niles Caulder grows jealous of his work and arranges for the Brain to get caught in an explosion, which destroys his body. One of these is on a gorilla, who he names Monsieur Mallah and educates for almost a decade before making him his personal assistant. Fictional character biography Īs a scientist, the Brain performs experiments on animals to raise their intelligence. Often times, I wrote the same storylines for the comedy stuff that I wrote for the serious stuff. Drake later commented: "I used that same concept in a Jerry Lewis comic book, and in a Bob Hope comic I had a totem pole that talked to him. The Brain first appeared in Doom Patrol #86 (March 1964) and was created by Arnold Drake and Bruno Premiani. The Brain appears as the main antagonist in the third season of the HBO Max series Doom Patrol, voiced by Riley Shanahan. Commonly as a frequent enemy of the Doom Patrol and the Teen Titans, he is a French genius and criminal mastermind. The Brain is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Monsieur Mallah with the Brain, from the cover to Outsiders (vol.
