Rounding out the Legion: Supergirl casts its Brainiac 5

The Legion of Super-Heroes is coming to National City and bringing a popular character with them: Brainiac 5. And now we know who’s playing him.

The Legion of Super-Heroes. We know they’re on their way and going to move the story forward in a big way. In addition to seeing Mon-El’s return (and subsequently wrapping up his storyline for real this time), both Saturn Girl and Brainiac 5 will head to National City to help Supergirl out with her impending Worldkiller problem.

Arriving in episode 10 this season, Jesse Rath will be playing Brainiac 5. Of course, he shares a name with one of Superman’s greatest villains, but he’s actually a good guy. In fact, he’s often depicted as Kara’s far-flung love interest. To the point where she left her cousin Clark and chose to stay with Querl Dox instead.

Here it is depicted in the Justice League Unlimited animated series. Check it out:

While I don’t think Kara will leave National City, Supergirl‘s executive producer Andrew Kreisberg did say, “Someone down the road will like Kara a lot, which will be a lot of fun.” This loosely translates to #Karamelisdead, but hey, we still have a few episodes to go before then.

In the meantime, we do have to wait for Samantha Arias to actually go berserk and become Reign. So far, we only knew her to be a hardworking mother doing her best to juggle L-Corp and Ruby responsibilities.

But as Monday’s Lena Luthor-centric episode proves, sometimes fallout takes a few episodes. I mean, she’s only saved the world on like a dozen occasions, but according to Katie McGrath:

"What’s lovely about this episode is you get to see a broken Lena, not emotionally broken with a man, like broken, like all of her worst fears have come to life that she is exactly like her family, that in doing what she thought was the right thing, she has essentially become this monster that has poisoned children."

“Monster” is a heavy-handed word for someone who is neither a modified Kryptonian or a Coluan intellectual with green skin. But you get it.

The annoying thing about Supergirl remains how it picks and chooses when it will stay faithful to the comics and when it’s going to twist stories for the sake of … whatever. So Brainiac and Kara may or may not be a thing. Still, I want to see him and see how they handle his physical appearance later this season.

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