The season 5 premiere of Harley Quinn was great! Harley and Poison Ivy started the season with the normal randomness that made them great and continued with all the jokes and action that made the show popular. There are also appearances from random DC Comics characters like Lena Luthor, Bruce Wayne, and Superman. As cool as it was to see them and how they’ll affect the rest of the season, the appearance at the end of the episode should concern viewers.
WARNING! SPOILERS FOR THE SEASON PREMIERE OF HARLEY QUINN AHEAD!
If you regularly read DC Comics, you probably noticed the design on the drones helping during the grand opening of the Metropolis Superman Museum. If you didn’t, the three dots in a triangular form are the same ones Brainiac puts on most of his tech (after all, branding is important even if you’re a megalomaniac).
The assumption was confirmed at the end of the episode when someone scans Metropolis (and Harley and Ivy) and rates them on a perfection meter. After receiving a disappointing 86%, Brainiac reveals himself and says, “What. A. Mess.” The trailers and the end of Kite Man: Hell Yeah all but confirmed that Brainiac was on his way, but it's doubtful anyone expected to see him in the Harley Quinn season 5 premiere.
What does Brainiac's appearance mean
Brainiac showing up is sort of like the coming of Galactus because they are terrifying and mean the destruction of the planet. They also both show up in ridiculous-looking ships and use what they take for nourishment. However, Brainiac steals things from planets to nourish his mind by acquiring knowledge. And like a spoiled kid, he’s the only one that can have it. So he seels it away like a more intelligent Taneleer Tivan.
Brainiac will only take the best. That's going to leave a lot of things left and killed in search of flawlessness because everything about that universe is a mess. Batman is incompetent, Gotham City is overrun by giant rats, and Joker is in a stable relationship (the latter is the most unrealistic). To hit the point home, it’ll be up to Harley Quinn to save the day.
Harley will probably have her mind scanned and it’ll drive Brainiac crazy or give his ship a virus. Maybe she psychoanalyzes him and makes him change his ways. People forget that she has a doctorate in psychiatry and she's great at it. Yes, the idea of that is silly. But, in a world where Darkseid buys things from a version of Petco, anything is possible.
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