Brainiac
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Brainiac may mean:
- Brainiac was one of several aliases of Educated Rapper, a hip-hop artist with the band UTFO.
- Brainiac (comics), a fictional supervillain in DC Comics, most often appearing as an opponent of Superman.
- Brainiac (band), an American indie rock band.
- Brainiac: Science Abuse, a television program showing in the UK on Sky One (repeated on Sky Two or Sky Three and G4 in the US, on Channel Ten in Australia and on Discovery Channel in Sweden), which was then spun off into the (similar) Brainiac: History Abuse which gave a more prominent role to Charlotte Hudson.
- The 1966 toy computer Brainiac, which was Edmund C. Berkeley's reduced-cost, lower-functional version of the 1966 Geniac. The Geniac and Brainiac were toys, billed as "computers" (but actually merely rotary-switch construction sets). The name was a reference to the -IAC ending in the names of many early computers, e.g. 1946 ENIAC ("Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer"), 1952 MANIAC, 1952 ILLIAC, and 1953 JOHNNIAC.
- A slang term, indicating a highly intelligent person. It can be used in a complimentary manner, or it can be used pejoratively when describing so-called "nerds".
- A 1962 horror film, also known as El Baron del Terror.
- A derogatory term: meaning Highly Unintelligent. Example: What kind of Brainiac would cut half the police force?