I was reading over the new Playboy magazine today (of course for the articles now!) and obviously noticed how much this thing has changed. It's had to tailor itself to survive against the newer generation.
A time when men relied on magazines such as Playboy, no longer exists. The magazine's content became available at just at the touch of your fingers on your keyboard when computers came along... Then the phone and tablet. The Internet has come along way and with its infinite access to the thing that is life, it's become our main fuel of this new world - the new generation. A generation so heavily reliant on technology and as technology advances, gripping our society tighter and tighter, we indulge ourselves on it further and further. Our obsession with it and reliance on it paves an uncertain path...
And this is where I feel Brainiac could serve as a reminder to the plot point set up in MOS... that Earth could potentially fall into the same trap as Krypton did in years to come if not saved in time... Lex creating Doomsday in BvS was another point in how dangerous our obsession with new forms of creationism can be: he was warned what this technology could do and was forbidden to use it, but ignored everything, which lead to his fall from grace.
I would envision Brainiac disguising himself as Milton Fine, infiltrating his way into the ranks of Lexcorp and taking it over, coming to set up a way of taking advantage of humanity's excessive indulgence and reliance on pushing technology to greater limits, and ultimately stripping and stealing it all from us, leaving our society shrunkened down to the primordial ooze from which we came. Brainiac reflecting that it would give us a chance to start again - reboot ourselves as a society.
Conceived and born on Colu, but educated on Earth, that's how I would have him. Almost an infant with no knowledge to begin with, no forms of communication. No understanding of existence. But he eventually gains access to our Internet and absorbs every tiny scarp of information, processing and correcting it to the point of perfection, where he registers all undeniable answers to questions we still ask to this day, by calculating and crisscrossing all information that contain conflicting particles...
He should be a villain that points out our faults as a specie and why Superman is irrelevant to humanity's fate... Because the destiny we are forging by our own nature can not possibly be changed, so we are fated to a sentence similar to Kryptonon's. So, the only method Superman can take to delay humanity's inevitable fate, is to strip it from its technological obsession, rebooting it, returning us to the basics...
Saving the world from a deathly fate similar fate to Krypton's, but throwing us into a world we could only consider as a modern Stone Age, and this allowing the villain to win...
It's not an easy idea to comprehend though I would imagine the world remaining fine, but now without a good sense of being kicked to learn its lesson.
But a plot involving humanity getting obsessively high on Fine/Brainiac's promise of a bigger and brighter technological society, finally allowing us to do the things we can only dream of, would serve that purpose of a warning story...
Metallo, to me, would serve the purpose of a secondary villain, and as a mirror to how obsessed we are with our technology, that we would literally turn ourselves into slave machines to keep ourselves constantly updated to the reshaping of our future and its path we're trekking...
a spaceship crash-landed in the heart of Russia, where it was taken and studied by the Soviet Union. Inside, appearing to be deceased, the metalic machine was taken apart, where scientists discovered via computer algorithms, stripping back to the basic cores of the creature's brain, just how intelligent and advanced the technology they possessed was. However, despite the powers they had in their possession, the "Brainiac" project was deemed too unethical to continue on, and it was suppressed.
