Welcome to all. Never introduced myself, and will skip it maybe for later. If I decide to take active part in the discussion. I've read this thread from page one and finished recently, but it took me many months. Simply to slowly digest it.
For now i just want to share an episode of Justice League. In this episode the League fights Brainiac and Darkseid, who both represent Medusa. Even her goals are presented, partly by the character of Brainiac, and partly by Darkseid.
I advise to watch it completely, and carefully. Not only what is said in this episode gives a lot of intel, corresponding to many things that have been mentioned in this thread. There's also a lot of symbolism used pointing out to the Moon being the Medusa's head/headquarter...
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1644569 What episode is that, i was planning to watch that video today, only to find out it just got removed.
I checked the wikis for brainiac and darkseid=darkside and here's what i took notice.
Braniac:
Brainiac was a bald, green-skinned humanoid who arrived on Earth and shrank various cities, including Metropolis, storing them in bottles with the intent of using them to restore Bryak, the planet he ruled.
(the storing in bottles reminded me the latest movie of pirates of caribbean where angelika's father was doing identical thing! also Bryak=Karyb+ena(one in greek)=Caribbean(pirates of caribbean=moon pirates!)
The restoring of his planet by stealing other planets' resources reminded me the transformers movies.
"Unlike his ancestor, Brainiac 5 used his "twelfth-level intellect" for the forces of good and joined the Legion alongside Supergirl, with whom he fell in love. His home planet was given variously as Yod or Colu.
In Superman #167 (February 1964), it was retconned that Brainiac was a machine created by the Computer Tyrants of Colu as a spy for them to invade other worlds, for which he was given a non-computer appearance.
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In Action Comics #544 (June 1983),
Brainiac had constructed a giant, artificial, computer-controlled planet and used it in his latest attempt to destroy Superman; unfortunately, his defeat at the hands of the Man of Steel left him trapped at the
center of the planet(this reminded me the cooler clip from dbz!), unable to escape. He was forced to make a nearby star explode in a nova in order to destroy the machine-world.(subliminal message that the moon/medusa is planning to blow up our sun, see also in draconian bible prophecy where jesus will cause all planets in this solar system to melt!)(see also FF7 sephiroth's ending move and also sephiroth was cut in half by jack just like freiza!)
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He also created a starship(moon) to house his new body which was actually an extension of himself(with him in the center just like cooler); the ship was shaped like his own skull(moon is called also the medusa head hahaha).
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Lex Luthor found Brainaic's s robotic head and was fused with it.(devoured by the hive mind, similar thing buu another name and form of medusa was doing in dbz)
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In the early 1990s, Brainiac returned in the "Panic in the Sky" storyline. He seized control of Warworld...
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link to en.wikipedia.org]
Here they show us the warworld to be a moon(our moon) and superman supergirl etc its puppet show.
"Seconds before the forces of entropy destroyed him forever, Doomsday was taken to safety by Vnok and returned to Colu. There, a terminally-wounded Brainiac transferred his consciousness into Doomsday's body, temporarily becoming the most powerful being in the universe; a genius psychic mind inside an unstoppable, indestructible titan.(titanium armored moon).
Also doomsday body looks like covered in ice where the name freiza would be more suiting hahaha.
Since i posted a link i got to keep this post short.
i think i found another medusa disguise
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link to en.wikipedia.org]
red hair of course
Oldest child of the Royal family of the planet Almerac, the fiery-tempered Maxima came to Earth in search of a suitable mate to sire her heir, leaving behind Ultraa, her betrothed. Maxima's first appearance in Metropolis was not actually her but a simulacrum of her brought to Earth by her servant Sazu, who took it upon herself to convince Superman to be her mate. The simulacrum was destroyed and Sazu imprisoned. The real Maxima then appeared to free Sazu and came face to face with Superman. She and Superman, she argued, were genetically compatible; she could "give him what no Earth woman could - children". She was infuriated when Superman rejected her offer, saying he had no desire to father despots.[2]
Maxima later found herself reluctantly working with Brainiac who had destroyed Almerac with the Warworld. She turned against him, and helped Earth's heroes defeat him, subsequently joining a reformed Justice League for her own reasons. When League helped her save Almerac from Starbreaker, the planet's ruling council exiled her. As a Leaguer, she helped in the fight against Doomsday, and when that version of the League disbanded, she became a member of Captain Atom's Extreme Justice team.[3] She considered Captain Atom as a potential mate, but he was not interested. During the period of her flirtation with Captain Atom, an angry jilted Ultraa attacked him. Maxima eventually stopped the brawl and sent Ultraa back to Almerac. She later had a brief fling with another teammate, Amazing-Man, which lasted until the team was dissolved.
She offered herself sexually to Superman again, hoping that her recent good deeds would offset her earlier ruthlessness.[4] Superman, now married to Lois Lane, was even less interested in her proposal than before. Angry and humiliated, she joined the Superman Revenge Squad. She swore that Superman had rejected, humbled and humiliated her for the last time, and threatened that the next time they meet, it would truly be war.[5]
However, in her next appearance, during the build up to the Our Worlds at War crossover, Maxima and the 'Chosen People of Almerac', as she phrased it, showed up in Earth's solar system where they met up with Superman and fellow JLA member, Green Lantern. Superman and Green Lantern were just beginning to investigate the disturbing disappearance of Pluto and the even more distressing engine ion trail associated with Warworld, when they stumbled across Maxima, her people, and the supervillain Massacre.
After a battle full of wounded pride, Maxima eventually conceded her position when Almerac's rendezvous showed up
using a Boom Tube. She explained that she was leading her people to safety from Imperiex, the force that conquered her world. Massacre had seemed to meet his death,[6] however, somehow Maxima came across him and described her association in these words: "Massacre serves only me now."[verification needed] To save her people, she allied herself with Darkseid's son, Grayven, who was taking them to regions unknown. This was also being undertaken without the knowledge of Darkseid. Maxima left Superman with the following words: "Mark my words, when Imperiex comes for your precious homeworld, you'll see alliances you've never dreamed of."[verification needed]
All that Maxima warned eventually came to fruition as she and a myriad of other characters (both heroes and villains) formed alliances with Earth and Apokolips in an effort to destroy Imperiex.[7]
Maxima ultimately met her demise in a heroic effort to put her ship between the destructive beams of Brainiac 13's Warworld which would have resulted in the destruction of the entire universe.[8] [9]
As a scion of the Blood Royale of Almerac, Maxima commands a vast array of immense psionic powers that come from selective breeding and years of gene therapy which she can utilize in a variety of ways. In her first face to face encounter with Superman[10] she displayed a high level of psionic powers, such as psychokinesis and seemingly hypnotic mind control. Maxima can use her psionic powers to give herself superhuman strength, enough to prove an effective opponent in hand-to-hand combat with Superman. She also has enhanced stamina, as well as some degree of superhuman speed.[10]
Through skillful application of her psionic powers Maxima has been shown to emit powerful optical beams that can stagger even Superman, and she can create nearly impervious force fields. In the first battle with Doomsday in Adventures of Superman #498, Maxima is the only one in that incarnation of the Justice League that was able to actually hurt and withstand blows from Doomsday, besides Superman.
In smallville
Maxima (Charlotte Sullivan) comes to Earth to seek a Kryptonian mate after her home planet of Almerac receives a signal that originated from a Kryptonian artifact. Not knowing who sent the signal, she begins kissing random strangers; her kiss causes heart rates to peak, killing human males, but Clark Kent's Kryptonian physiology registers only arousal. After a violent confrontation, she states that she can sense love between Clark and Lois Lane. However, Maxima believes that she and Clark are "soul mates" and refuses to give up, until Clark triggers her teleport bracelet to take her home.
Unlike her comics counterpart, she did not display telekinesis. She displayed superhuman strength, speed, invulnerability, mind control,
the aforementioned toxic kiss and empathic powers.
