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===Physical appearance===

Doctor Brain was a tall, broad-shouldered, muscular man wearing ornate armour and long gloves. The most striking thing about him, however, was that his "head" was reduced to a brain and eyes, his skull and face absent. Though still connected to the rest of his body by nerves, the brain and eyes floated in an unidentified liquid in a round “fishbowl” mounted onto his neck, and on which a large electronic speaker was affixed, allowing him to speak. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Tales To Behold (comic story)|Tales To Behold]]'')

===Personality===

Although Doctor Brain wished to take over the world, this appeared to be attributable not so much to conventional thirst for power as a kind of hedonism that led to Brain wanting to get ''rid'' of every annoying thing in his life, from paperwork to superheroes. Despite the hubristic madness of his goals, Brain acted fairly normally in person, despite a certain self-consciousness that made him ''want'' to “act like a villain”. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Tales To Behold (comic story)|Tales To Behold]]'')  

===Powers & abilities===

Doctor Brain was a genius scientist with some skill in dimensional engineering. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Tales To Behold (comic story)|Tales To Behold]]'') He was capable of participating in a witchcraft ritual, although he seemed to need the help of a real witch (such as [[Jesse Brain|his daughter]]) to set one up. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[For Whom The Toll Bells (comic story)|For Whom The Toll Bells]]'')

==Biography==

===Early life===

At some point, Doctor Brain was in a relationship with a woman and they had a child together, a daughter named [[Jesse Brain|Jesse]]. They later separated and seemed to remain on bad terms, with Jesse's mother disapproving of Doctor Brain's supervillain ways and being opposed to his involving Jesse in his schemes. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[For Whom The Toll Bells (comic story)|For Whom The Toll Bells]]'')

===Summoning a Griffin===

[[File:Summoning of Mervin.png|thumb|left|250px|Brain participates in a magical ritual to summon a [[Griffin]] from another dimension. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[For Whom The Toll Bells (comic story)|For Whom The Toll Bells]]'')]]At a point when he had already been the nemesis of [[Captain Evening#In Reality Z-25 31-H|Captain Evening]] for some time, Doctor Brain secretly got [[Jesse Brain|Jesse]]'s help for a new scheme to get rid of him. Jesse was, by then, a student of witchcraft, and the two (with the help of two of Brain's henchmen) participated in a summoning ritual to bring forth a [[Griffin]] from the [[Sixth Realm]] and bind him to [[Reality Z-25 31-H|this world]] until he killed Captain Evening. The Griffin took flight, Doctor Brain and his daughter parted ways once more, and Doctor Brain thought no more of it for a long time. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[For Whom The Toll Bells (comic story)|For Whom The Toll Bells]]'')

===The Portal===

[[File:Doctor Brain Using Portal in Tales To Behold.png|thumb|right|215px|Doctor Brain tests his [[Doctor Brain's Portal|experimental interdimensional portal]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Tales To Behold (comic story)|Tales To Behold]]'')]]A few weeks later, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[For Whom The Toll Bells (comic story)|For Whom The Toll Bells]]'') Doctor Brain and some scientific assistants of his captured a [[Shift]]er]] and used her powers to power [[Doctor Brain's Portal|an interdimensional portal]] to [[Universe (Tales To Behold)|another dimension]]. Brain began tossing unwanted mail and paperwork into the portal, and intended to eventually move on to banishing ''people'', such as I.R.S. auditors and superheroes, to the other reality.  

However, when [[the Monstrosity]] began coming through in the opposite direction, he ended up having to be saved by Captain Evening, who stopped the portal by unplugging the Shifter from it. She introduced herself as “Jenny”; although [[the Odds]] believed her to be [[Jenny Everywhere#In Reality Z-25 31-H|Jenny Everywhere]] for a long time, she was in fact [[Jenny Nowhere#In Reality Z-25 31-H|Jenny Nowhere]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Tales To Behold (comic story)|Tales To Behold]]'')

=== Meeting Evil Cloak ===

[[File:Doctor Brain in In Dr. Brain's Kitchen.png|thumb|left|220px|Doctor Brain fails catastrophically at the task of dinner-making. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[In Dr. Brain's Kitchen (comic story)|In Dr. Brain's Kitchen]]'')]]Returning home to try and relax in front of the TV, he was soon disturbed by [[Jesse Brain|Jesse]], who had decided to move out of her college dorm due to a feud with her roommate [[Alicia]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[For Whom The Toll Bells (comic story)|For Whom The Toll Bells]]'') However, he came to see the bright side of this new cohabitation when he nearly burned down his kitchen trying to cook dinner, only for Jesse to magically put things right.

[[File:Doctor Brain in Following Up.png|thumb|right|210px|A battered Doctor Brain is given an offer he can't refuse by [[Evil Cloak]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Following Up (comic story)|Following Up]]'')]]With his helmet damaged in the crash, Brain was pinned on his back: there was a crack in the front of the “bowl” which would cause the nutrient fluid (in which his brain floated) to leak out if he tried to get up. A wickedly gleeful Evil Cloak then asked if he had reconsidered her offer of a partnership, implicitly pledging to help him out of this predicament if, and only if, the Doctor agreed to Evil Cloak's deal. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Following Up (comic story)|Following Up]]'') The Doctor returned home with a quick patch to his helmet and with his arm in a sling, having agreed to the bargain. He was joined by [[Jesse Brain|his daughter]], who'd had her own run-in with Evil Cloak over the course of the eventful evening. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Famous Last Words (comic story)|Famous Last Words]]'')

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