Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-47881-20130118212340/@comment-1038387-20130120121621

Regulus22 wrote: Supergirl dated Brainiac 5, Brainiac being one of the top 5 enemies of Superman, 5 being his descendant having gained the ability to pass on his intelligence/nature or something biologically.

Actually, this was an ass-pull needed for the DCAU, which portrayed the original as an artificial intelligence. The original Brainiac in the Silver Age was an organic alien (who later transplanted his brain into a robot).

Regulus22 wrote: a disembodied organ in a jar of course can't really get physical with a gorilla. Don't sweat it.

He did, for a time, inhabit an android body. And they did.