Brother Eye
Brother Eye is an artificial intelligence that features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Pre-Crisis
Brother Eye was the product of Professor Myron Forest who was a scientist that worked for the Global Peace Agency. His goal was to head a top-secret operation designated Project: O.M.A.C. Its goal was using Forest's scientific expertise to transform a normal military officer known as Buddy Blank into a One Man Army Corps (O.M.A.C.). To get aid for O.M.A.C., Professor Forest designed a computer system known as Brother Eye that was housed in an orbiting satellite. This computer was remotely interfaced with O.M.A.C.'s body that granted him with superhuman capabilities. This was achieved by Brother Eye downloading the necessary information directly into O.M.A.C.'s brain and provided him with a wide array of shielding effects on his form that depended on the situation. This ranged from making O.M.A.C. invulnerable to gunfire and extreme temperatures or even forming a protective cocoon around Buddy Blank's body. In addition, it had the power to alter O.M.A.C.'s density which allowed him to operate effectively within environments that had unstable gravity.
On one occasion, O.M.A.C. faced against his nemesis Doctor Skuba who managed to reverse engineer Professor Forest's work thus transforming Buddy Blank back to normal. In the aftermath, Brother Eye worked to reverse this condition but at great cost to itself. Doctor Skuba would later repolarise Brother Eye's computer systems and rendered extensive damage to the satellite. Eventually, Brother Eye managed to recover but was never able to perform its duties to the same standards as it had done before.
- These events concern the Pre-Crisis continuity also known as Earth AD.
Brother MK I
The Brother MK I satellite was created by Batman following his growing mistrust of the Justice League and the belief that they were misusing their powers. This act came when Dr. Arthur Light threatened to get revenge on the family of League members and was even responsible for raping Sue Dibny. Thus, the League had decided to alter Dr. Light's personality though knew that Batman would never stand for such an act. As a result, they wiped his memories of the incident though Wayne ultimately managed to regain the lost memory. Outraged, he decided to take a step several years later in order to monitor the actions of the Justice League along with other Metahumans. Using Wayne Industries subsidiaries, he acquired funding to build the Brother Mk I satellite and programmed with the help of the scientist Buddy Blank from Pseudopersons Inc. The satellite was a semi-autonomous artificial intelligence system with an anti-detection stealth system that had been launched into geosynchronous orbit around the Earth. Once there, its purpose was to monitor every Metahuman on the planet be they good or evil. (The OMAC Project)
New 52
Ultimately, Lord and Checkmate initiated an assault against the Brother Eye satellite just as OMAC attacked the Cadmus headquarters. The satellite initially allowed Kho to act on his own initiative whilst it dealt with the intruders and seemingly destroyed its attackers in orbit. This led Brother Eye to believe Checkmate had been vanquished and teleported Kevin Kho back home where he reverted back to his Human guise. However, this turned out to be a trap as the attack on the satellite was not meant to destroy Brother Eye but magnetise its hull thus attracting nearby asteroids towards it. This encased the satellite in asteroids and Brother Eye congratulated Maxwell Lord on his trap. However, before being encased, it fired its remaining energy into Kevin Kho who was turned into his OMAC form and permanently kept him in his superpowered state. Maxwell Lord in the mean time believed that Brother Eye had finally been defeated. (OMAC)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Brother Eye was created by Jack Kirby and made his first appearance in OMAC v1 #1 (October 1974).
In other media
Television
- In Batman: The Brave and the Bold Episode "When OMAC Strikes!", Brother Eye makes its first animated appearance as a satellite that was responsible for conferring powers onto Buddy Blank following his transformation into OMAC.
Video games
- In DC Universe Online, Brother Eye was a machine intelligence created in secret by Batman but went rogue whereupon it allied itself with Brainiac during his invasion of the planet. The computer was dispatched to Gotham City where it unleashed the O.M.A.C. virus on the populace leading to heroes and villains fighting its forces. Though defeated, Brother Eye escapes and later participated in the attack on the Batwave that was turned into a large Brainiac Construct where it was finally defeated by various heroes and villains.
Appearances
- The OMAC Project:
- OMAC:
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