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KO NOKO!

The only good Koko is a Koko.

The Half-Founder Hath Spoken. Case closed.

Now back to Brainiac 5....

Sometimes I'm surprised that he is as sociable and as "normal" as he is. If you're a 12th level intellect and everyone else is a 6 (is that a logarithmic scale, by the way?), wouldn't it be like spending your day with 2 year-olds? Interesting, amusing, trying at times ... but at the end of the day, you ache for some adult conversation. Even the other Coluans are beneath him intelligence-wise, not to mention being a race of close-minded snobs from what I can gather. I think Querl must be lonely as can be, which is why, in the fanfic I never get around to writing, I give him a brother.

{ The Half-Founder Hath Spoken. Case closed. }

Yeah, and I'll time-stamp the folder and file it away. "Ko noko"? You stupid little bloody flea-ridden frontal-lobe-less git. (That goes for the less-hairy simian pulling your cyberstrings, too.)

I've had a BAD day wrestling with the smelly lemurs at Yahoo!. And I doubt you're one of the classy folk who volunteered to save the LegionPics files, and who are my prime concern right now.

Well, I have to go add to the thread for them now. So don't get in my way, shoulder leech. You'll regret it.

(Yes, I'm being rude. But it's only a monkey. It doesn't matter. {rueful smile})

But, other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

Well, don't hold too hard a place in your heart aginst those of us not helping. Here at home, in the backwoods of Maine, I am on a 33k (when I'm lucky) dial-up connection. For jobs like transferring files, I'm as useless as Ulu Vakk at a color-blind convention.



I am so glad you guys are taking action though!

YOU ROCK!!

I always presumed it was linear, if for no other reason than, if he was THAT far ahead of humans in general, there's no way people like Lyle could get anywhere near him.

[Yes, the AVERAGE human is a six, but I'd presume that people could be as low as a three or four, or as high as a eight or so. Given that, the occasional "Super-genius" (down, Wile E) nearing B5's level, if not actually REACHING it isn't entirely implausible. When it starts racing away as a logrithmic scale would, its hard to see how someone from a race of sixes could get anywhere near a twelve.]

He'll be jamming with Peter Gabriel next.

[Portfolio Boy]
{ Well, don't hold too hard a place in your heart against those of us not helping [with LegionPics]. }

Never would do that! I should have said that those folks who were helping were extra classy on this occasion. Believe me, everybody here has been a class act thus far! ... Well, everyone not an annoying simian {g}

{ Here at home, in the backwoods of Maine, I am on a 33k (when I'm lucky) dial-up connection. For jobs like transferring files, I'm as useless as Ulu Vakk at a color-blind convention. }

Most of us by far are still on dial-up, including me. Though it often runs faster in the middle of the night, if you have flexible hours! Still, you'd have done fine, but we did get quite a kick-arse crew already.

{[...] YOU ROCK!! }

Muchas gracias, amigo. Yahoo's error messages may at times have not allowed us to roll, but at least we could rock {g}

I have concluded that what Brainy really needs is a peck on the cheek!

There are several fields of intelligence. Querl could be almost on the same level of Lyle on inventive intelligence, but when it comes to calculate stuff and thinking about eighteen things in the same time, yes he's THAT far ahead humans. Also, isn't Lyle a genius only in biochemistry and physics ? Brainy is a genius in every possible scientific and technlogical field.

The Lex Luthor in Superman: Red Son (who looked even smarter than the pre-Crisis incarnation) was a level 9. Mind that the robotic Brainiac in that issue was a level 12.
And not surprisingly, I think Lori Morning was said to have a fifth-level intelligence once.
By the way, how far does this scale go ? Is it a 12-level scale, and Brainiacs are said to be 12 because there isn't an higher level ? Then what level is Metron ?
If the scale was likely made by Coluans, it could deal just with math intelligence.

Vril Dox II was written that way in L.E.G.I.O.N., and very effectively. Ice-cold most of the time, but prone to private fits of violent rage (and laughter). It made his usual abrasiveness more understandable, as a coping mechanism for preventing emotional breakdowns in public.

But I've always thought an interesting thing about the Brainiacs is that they do know how to behave socially. That 12th-level intelligence is just as good for predicting other people's reactions as for building warp drives; the Brainiacs who have gone in for manipulating others are extremely good at it. Preboot Brainy occasionally showed off his "mind-reading" skills--predicting the outcome of his own trial, for instance. But he doesn't seem to apply those skills to his everyday behavior.

Perhaps Brainy cripples his social skills by choice, so as not to follow in the footsteps of the original Brainiac and his mother. When you learn to predict the behavior of other sentients and manipulate it as easily as punching numbers into a calculator, it must be hard to avoid abusing that ability; hard to maintain your respect and consideration for others. Brainy may prefer to see his friends as bafflingly irrational, rather than as all-too-understandable automatons.

Koko?

The more I think about it, the sillier the notion of Brainy's "super-intelligence" as a genuine super-power seems to me. Almost certainly the "12th-level" intelligence thing is something invented by Coluans, and honestly, he's rarely been portrayed as much more gifted than any other scientifically trained 31st century.

This is one reason I've become increasingly fond of the internalized force field that he has been given during the postboot, as that seems to give him more of genuine power.

Brainiac needs ME! But it has to be Chris Batista's Brainy, with his floppy hair and stickin' out ears. So cute!

Interesting factoid: Chris' character model for Brainy was Eminem! I dont see the resemblence, but I love his
version of the character.

One of the post-boot Annuals said that Brainy can run twelve different tracks of thought simultaneously. Assuming this isn't a numerical coincidence, maybe that's what "12th-level" means: 12 different levels of parallel processing.

It would make sense then for humans to be 6th-level, since the pop-psych guys say we can only think of about 6 or 7 things at the same time.

As for higher levels--well, Grant Morrison had the antimatter universe's Brainiac "becoming an Nth-level intelligence," but I doubt he meant anything specific by it.

I gotta agree, best Brainy ever. Adorable little genius with that mad-scientist stare.