{"id":11525,"date":"2025-11-14T18:58:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=11525"},"modified":"2025-11-14T18:58:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:58:33","slug":"superman-and-lex-luthor-will-team-up-to-fight-brainiac-in-man-of-tomorrow-report-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=11525","title":{"rendered":"Superman and Lex Luthor Will Team Up to Fight Brainiac in Man of Tomorrow, Report Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"


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As many fans had expected, Superman and Lex Luthor will reportedly form an uneasy alliance to defeat Braniac in James Gunn’s upcoming Man of Tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Speculation that classic Superman villain Brainiac would be the movie’s big bad has been rife among fans ever since Gunn teased a script image back in September showing an anatomical illustration of a brain. <\/p>\n

Now, The Wrap states that it has confirmed Brainiac is indeed Man of Tomorrow’s main focus, and the reason that David Corenswet’s Superman and Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor are forced to team up together.<\/p>\n

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Superman and Brainiac from Action Comics #868. Image credit: DC Comics.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Aside from Gunn’s prior tease, Brainiac’s appearance in the Superman sequel simply makes a lot of sense. The list of classic villains big enough to spark a Superman\/Lex alliance was never a long one, and the appearance of Brainiac will likely benefit from the character not having appeared in a big Superman movie before. <\/p>\n

Frequently depicted as a green-skinned cyborg, Brainiac could easily be seen as a threat to both Superman and Lex, as his alien hunger to dominate the universe is only outmatched by his galaxy-brained intellect.<\/p>\n

“It is a story about Lex Luthor and Superman having to work together, to a certain degree, against a much, much bigger threat,” Gunn teased previously. “And it’s more complicated than that. It’s as much a Lex movie as it is a Superman movie. I relate to the character of Lex Luthor, sadly.”<\/p>\n