"Dreams so small they could be contained in a cradle." That lines slaps as character establishment for a Big Bad.

She got Winter Soldiered. Imagine how high her (dead) body count is. At most, BILLIONS!

Brainiac completely DOMINATED this episode. We thought Zero Day was dark, but it doesn't get much darker than enslaving the minds of your defeated foes to fight eternally on your side, brainwashing your adopted daughter to commit planetary genocide, altering her memories so she never questions you, and exploiting that last part to abuse her because it's not like she'll remember it. Brainiac may be following his original programming by waging war for the Kryptonian Empire, but even beyond being what he was created to do it's clear he takes absolute delight in being such a monster. And you can tell that for all Clark's holding back on Earth, he was about to choose VIOLENCE with Brainiac. "Cruel is a word created by the weak" is an awesome line and sums up this incarnation of Brainiac perfectly.

Sweet Martha Kent, I give the Kent's a ton of credit for standing in front of their super powered child as he is about to hurl a baseball at them.

That reveal at the end made my jaw drop. Poor Kara. I'm very interested to see where her story goes, knowing she did what she did even if she was brainwashed by Brainiac, AND the complication this will bring is she returns to Earth with Clark & company. Lex Luthor and all of them already don't like Superman. To bring back someone who, in their minds (regardless if she was mind-controlled), is a mass murder will be a MAJOR issue.

the Green Lantern being a martial artist/monk felt like a nod to the animation studio behind this show, Studio Mir, also having done Avatar: The Legend of Korra - and honestly one of the coolest ways to have handled a Green Lantern cos it's so outside of the box compared to what we've seen in past and i love it

Regarding the mural, this version of Brainiac seems so concerned with the glory of the Kryptonian Empire that it is very likely he took a page out of the Ancient Assyrians' book and had his drones make the mural to let everyone know what happens when you resist the Empire.

LOVE this take on Brainiac's character, and love the brother/sister-like back and forth between Clark and Kara. And the Green Lantern, Thanagarian, and Parademon cameos!

This show be so cute then BOOM, Kara’s been brainwashed into committing multi-planetary genocide. This is the first episode where it’s felt like the show *needed* to air on Adult Swim.

This might have been the single strongest episode of the show thus far. I don't think that there was a single other episode that I was this invested.

This episode was fantastic seeing Clark and Kara bound was vary sweet and man that ending was rough seeing Kara breakdown after remembering what brainiac made her do

I loved this version of Brainiac! "Cruel is a word created by the weak." Superman will very likely be brainwashed. Although it would be interesting if Brainiac cloned him instead. When Kara meets Hawk Man and Hawk Girl, that will be a very awkward interaction. Really hope Green Lanterns show up to save Earth from Brainiac. Maybe we will see the origin of Hal Jordan, or another Green Lantern.

This is how you write Brainiac SCREENWRITERS!!

Damn this episode nearly made me cry. Poor Kara man gaslighted, manipulated, brainwashed just to be Brainiac’s tool to destroy and conquer planets.

Long story short, Brainiac is Krypton's version of Skynet

Nice to see Clark and Kara being family. Wow Kara really likes Jimmy! ❤

Dang i had a feeling but the way those raw emotions and weight of the new found Revelation portrayed so well i was left speechless

This latest episode was definitely great. Superman awakened, kidnapped again, only this time he's lost in space. As misguided as Kara is shown to be, deep down, she does want to bond with Clark. Despite not agreeing with each other, Clark and Kara are definitely bonding. I can't help but enjoy how Clark teases Kara when he realizes that she has a crush on his friend Jimmy. Of course, Kara gets him back by pretending that the helmet part of her suit is malfunctioning, only to reveal to Clark that super powered kryptonians can survive in the vacuum of space. It was nice seeing them play in space. Apparently, Clark is aware of the moments when he suddenly gets more powerful and how it's usually due to a moment when he needs to protect someone. Kara seems to show signs that such a phenomenon has never happened to her. When Clark and Kara arrive on Thanagar and see it destroyed, this is where we start to see the cracks in Brainiac's conditioning over Kara. Kara showed signs of not knowing what Brainiac had her do to the planets that are made a part of the new kryptonian empire. Brainiac, tired of waiting, sends his drones to get Kara and Superman back on course with his ship, which apparently is this show's version of Kandor. We are also made painfully aware that Kara has no knowledge of her biological father Zor-El. Her adopted father is Primus Brainiac, and he's quite the villain in this episode. Around Kara, Brainiac acts like a father, but he shows more of his true personality around Clark when it's just them. Brainiac revealed to Kal-El that he knew both of his biological parents Jor-El and Lara, using that knowledge to lure Clark in. It marks the first time Clark learned about his biological mother's name. Then to test what Superman is capable of, he has his drones take on the form of a Green Lantern, and Parademon, and a Thanagarian. After seeing Superman's great potential, Brainiac is convinced that he can use Superman's powers to restore the kryptonian empire, starting with the conquering of Earth. Naturally, Superman won't let Brainiac take over Earth or use him as his weapon, but Brainiac clearly is going to try to force Superman to his will. Despite Superman's best efforts, once Brainiac used a red sun energy field, it was easy for him to subdue our kryptonian hero. To make things worse, we start to see the full effects of Brainiac's conditioning over Kara. It's a combination of raising her, manipulating her, and even brainwashing her. However, her time with Jimmy and Clark have influenced Kara to learn the truth of what Brainiac had her do, which seemed to set her up on a path to redemption. A small glimmer of hope is shown when a ship reaches Kara carrying Lois, Jimmy, Malah and the brain. I can't wait to see explanation of how they got into space in the next episode.

I think the pixelation going on with the Thanagarian mural was Kara's mental programming keeping her from seeing it. She broke through, so it cleared up. I don't think it was a digital display. As for why it was there, perhaps the remaining few Thanagarians left it as a warning to those who find their dead world before fleeing the planet.

I think this brianiac is destroying these planets through Kara as a means of revenge. I am sure that when he introduced the green lantern, the parademon, and the thanagarian, he introduced them as original dissenters/enemies of the ORIGINAL Kryptonian empire. Thus, brainiac is probably trying to eliminate them before they become a threat to the new Kryptonian empire.

This episode was great man. The introduction to Brainiac is very good and Kara and Clark's banter is cute and sweet. Seeing a Green Lantern, Parademon and Hawkman and Hawkgirl planet is great world building. Hopefully they'll make more shows in this version of DC universe.

When he said, "Hawkman and Hawkgirl are out there"...umm...yeah, about that... Man...I felt so badly for Kara...Brainiac "Winter Soldiered" her and made her Shiva, the Destroyer of Worlds. My heart broke for her. Can you imagine realizing you've "unalived" billions...perhaps trillions...entire planets? Oh my. My man said how Effed Up this was...I hafta say, it is one of the most Effed Up Superman stories I've seen. Definitely as far as on a tv series animated or live action, but I can maybe think of only a few Superman comic book stories THIS Effed Up. Wow. I love this version of Braininac. What a grade A d!ck.

The worst thing is that one of the destroyed worlds was H'lven, the homeworld of Ch'p, the alien Green Lantern who looks like a squirrel.

Loved how they introduced Green Lanterns, Parademons and Thanagarians. If you recognise them, you get that big smile on your face, but if you don’t, it doesn’t take anything away from the scene. Perfect way to honour old fans and new fans alike!!

13:10 It is Superman's bioelectric Aura. it is what allows him to negate forces like gravity and inertia. It allows him to fly, grab people at super speed without killing them, hold objects at weak points without them falling apart under their own weight.

Brainiac is almost like AM from I have no mouth, and I must scream.

Hmmm. Who can we get to voice an eerie Braniac? I know! Let’s hire Michael Emerson. Great idea!

I know it's not her but Kara's VA sounds exactly like Ashley Johnson

This Clark in space just makes me think of Brad Boimler. I kept expecting Clark to scream like him.

I watched this episode then came here immediately because I had a lot of thoughts and knew Omn1 would too.

I think Kara fills exactly what I was missing from the girl twin in the one Star Wars: Visions episode

12:03 I thought so too at first, but no. That’s not a Parademon; it's a Gordanian. Not surprising since the Gordanians and Thanagarians are long time enemies.

I think in season 3 we will see Kara deal with the trauma and guilt of what Braniac made her do without her knowing it, and we might see the Green Lantern corps where they try to find and capture Kara to bring her to trial infront of the Guardians and here we might see Hal Jordan or John Stewart, I csn't wait for it but it is clear this season will end with Clark and Kara fighting and maybe deatroying Braniac.

Me encanta realmente los kriptonianos viltrumitas

i'm glad that they showed kryptonians don't need breathing gear in space. The sun sustains them they don't need to eat,.sleep or breathe.

The way Superman discharges his Ice Breath, it's almost Godzilla-like.

He's just a new variant of the old Brainiac; where he gets the knowledge; and either shrinks / destroys that planet

Man I was waiting all day for your reaction, hope you enjoyed it as much as l did😂😂😂😃

10:47 See I’m not completely fully knowledgeable of Superman stuff, so maybe this has been known forever, but his mom’s name was Lara and his cousin’s name is Kara. Lara and Kara. Just like Kal-El, Jor-El and Zor-El. Well I guess the El part is the family name.

This Episode just became a Horror Movie.

I love that they thought up a way for Kara and Clark to have a snowball fight.

3:00 it makes sense to me that they have powers, because Kara seems to have never actually been on Krypton. Almost the very next line she says is “I often wondered what our food tasted like”. If she had no idea what Kryptonian life was like, she would have to fill in gaps and assume everyone could just do what she can do.

"We will return to Earth... when we conquer it for the Empire!" Same energy as Omni-Man saying "They can be apart of something bigger... or die!"

Brainiac is already on earth with all the drone beeing use by waller they probably just waiting for prime brainiac to arrive and activate them 😮

Interesting to think about how a Green Lantern or a Hawk would react to a Kryptonian or two on Earth if they pop up in the future..

The best thing about this episode is that Kara isn't entirely wrong about the Kents. Yes, they had good intentions and nothing but love in their hearts. Yes, it was important for Clark to control his powers. But they also let him stay in his comfort zone too long and unintentionally taught him to accept a lie that he's just a normal man.

3:01 - might be taking some cues from the early comics where they were able to use their tech to compensate the lack of the yellow sun, either that or they trained to use their powers under a red sun which is something they can do as long as the recharge with yellow sunlight periodically.

“I am not a weapon” Good reference to The Iron Giant!

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How can they speak in the vacuum of space?

I don't usually watch reaction channels but you make it fun and we have similar in real time reaction to things. Subscribed. Good vibes for sure ☮️✌🏿

Brainiac gaslighting Kara on-screen is CRAZY

Like others have said, I think this is one of the darkest Superman stories ever put onscreen. But it still works and feels coherent to the rest of the show because it’s contextualized through the innocence and goodness of Clark’s POV. This version of Brainiac is downright bone chilling. I need next week, like…now

The mural was probably created by the last people alive so that the reason for their destruction would be available information.

Can't wait untill Batman shows up with tons of kryptonite and all the justification for it Actually a batman is the "enemy" of the episode type of thing would be cool

I'm guessing the next episode is going to be entirely about showing how Lois and Jimmy got to space.

I really like the way they introduced Kara to Clark. I wish it was done in a similar way like they have done in many other versions of Supergirl's origin story, such as Kara crash landing on Earth and raised by the Kent family. I'm guessing that the mural could have been a prophecy or fortelling of Kara's attack.

🌪️ I love how you get so overly excited and these episodes so that when it gets to the end and there’s a cliffhanger for the next episode, which I’m sure will explain what you just saw you automatically go how did this happen? I’m sure there’s a way around it. You just have to wait until next week.😂

“I will not crush him” you sure about that lol

This in my opinion is a pretty terrifying version of Brainiac.

It does now make yopu wonder when did Brainiac get a hold of Kara because we have her being put in the ship by Zor-El. Did Brainiac come across Kara's ship after it launched or did Brainiac find Zor-El before he could launch the ship? This will mess up Kara even more if it is the latter and Brainiac still has memories of it.

Braniac: "Jor-El was weak. I destroyed him."

I know Superman doesn’t kill, but after this episode I’d be fine if he made an exception for brainiac

I'm starting to see some parallel's between the Kryptonians of this Superman series with the Viltrumites of Invincible.

So...hmm...stick with me here. It appears that in THIS universe that Kryptonians had some sort of superpowers (we see them floating and flying in the memory of Krypton scenes.) I'm guessing that the Red Sun energy doesn't take away his powers as is normally the case, but it just reduces them to minimum power...perhaps? The "ultimate powerup" Superman gets could very well be from absorbing yellow sun energy for 20 years or so and all that yellow sun radiation boosted his powers to 11 on a 10 scale? I'm guessing they may explain it at some point (or maybe not) but either way it's kinda fun to see "Superman Blue" type powers as part of "regular" Superman.

Since Superman’s got the electric blue thing going on, it would be cool if Supergirl had electric red. It would emphasize how different they both are.

Well this is going to make recruiting a hawk or two into the league... difficult. Also, while it probably was an emulation of a parademon... it may have been an emulation of a Gordanian given some of the artistic liberties.

This may be a bit of a stretch but I have high hopes that Primus Brainiac is going to be like the Frieza of “My adventures with Superman” Think about it. He “adopted” Kara similar to how Frieza took in Vegeta. Brainiac could possibly have been the one who caused the fall of Krypton and lied about it to Kara. Like how Frieza blew up the Saiyan’s home world.

H'lven is where (Green Lantern) Ch'p was from.

Actually, there is a chance that in this universe the Krypton destruction was delivered by Brainiac as the first planet in his journey.

I think brainiac is alpha from Ben 10

Guilt maxing this ep with Kara. Clark is in deep shiz rn.

Keep up the reactions

I got a question for the for for everyone I saw all the episodes of art is just going towards the evil Superman from the movie dark bright what is his home is in this one his home is evil so my thing is that can we see him becoming an evil Superman😮

11:20 GREEN LANTERN!! 12:00 Parademon 12:33 Thanegarisn

I am bit dispointed by the fact that it is Brainiac : I was hoping for the Eradicator. But at least this take of Brainiac is new.

SPOILERS FOR WHAT SUPERMAN’S ENERGY POWERS ARE: I am pretty sure it’s an adaptation of the Superman Blue/Jon Kent powers. If this show goes for years and years, they could have this feed into Jon naturally getting energy powers. Unlike, y’know, the comics lol

11:28 How come a green lantern not break through this control doesn't green lantern ring holders have the strongest will? (I barely know about DC)

🌪️ kara brighburned the galaxy😮

Those simulation soldiers were from conquered planets, so did braniac conquer apokolips and get parademons?

I think the Lantern was kilowog

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🌪️ only am I the only one who’s getting like invincible vibes from how they are portraying krypton? What I’m getting here is that krypton pad superpowers and supposedly they were conquering other planets whether for good or bad. Obviously in invincible and hyper, violent and totalitarian, but nonetheless that’s the kind of vibe I’m getting here.

Could you do a reaction of season 1 of Paranormal hunter bois

Mind control, gaslighting, man i really hate this Brainiac. Excellent villan

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I don't think Brainiac is trying to bring back the Kryptonian Empire at all. He's just full of bias If he was interested in that he would just have made the populations of those worlds submit and start an occupation with his robots or something, not ordering Kara to genocide them. He just delights in making Kara do his dirty job, the same way he enjoyed torturing Clark I would think he actually hates Kryptonians. Would not be a surprise that he is resentful towards his creators that used him as a servant who knows for how long. In many continuities he's either responsible or an accessory to the Kryptonians fall. My guess is that he's following the same procedure the Brainiac fellows in other adaptations: invade a planet to take all their knowledge, take a few samples and specimens and in this case have Kara kill everyone. The idea of a New Kryptonian Empire was just another lie.

You think brainiac will brainwash Superman too

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The Kara Introduction is really wholesome especially that tour with Jimmy...But in the eyes of the incest The real ship is KaraXKal El.. I'm sorry Louise Lane but this cousin-ship is sailing. - Kneel before the New Krypton Empire 🤡

🌪️ OK now I definitely know they took inspiration from invincible. Superman and Kara can fly through space without worrying about breathing come on

She isn't brainwashed, it's just like how the virtumites aren't brainwashed it's the culture and beliefs

Why is Jimmy Olsen in black face on this show? Isn’t that viewed as racism these days?