Brain Leeches (Avengers foes)

BRAIN LEECHES

Classification: Extraterrestrial, non-humanoid

Location/Base of Operations: Super-Nova's vessel

Known Members: None

Affiliations: Protector (Thoran Rul), Super-Nova

Enemies: Avengers (Captain America, Gilgamesh, Invisible Woman, Mr. Fantastic, Thor)

First Appearance: (as the Xandarian computer brains) Fantastic Four I#206 (May, 1979); (as Brain Leeches) Avengers I#301 (March, 1989)

Powers/Abilities: The Brain Leeches are the brains of deceased Xandarians, preserved and modified to serve as living computers aboard Xandarian vessels. They can fly, and possess tendrils which they wrap around their foes to choke them in a fight.

History: (Fantastic Four I#206, 208) - Thoran Rul journeyed into the living brains of the Xandarian computers, and requested guidance from them. The brains imparted some of their power into Thoran, transforming him into the Protector.

(Avengers I#301) - When the Avengers invaded the vessel of the Super-Nova, several dozen Brain Leeches attacked them. Because the Avengers team at that time had not trained together, they fought the creatures as individuals, winning the fight, but only with difficulty. Gilgamesh lost his helmet to one of the Brian Leeches, and was forced to let it go by Captain America. Mr. Fantastic was able to scatter most of the Brain Leeches away by flinging them with his elastic body, but he had the Invisible Woman keep one to study later.

The Brain Leeches were seemingly destroyed when Super-Nova blew up his own ship.

Comments: Created as the Xandarian computer brains by Marv Wolfman, Keith Pollard and Joe Sinnott; modified into Brain Leeches by Ralph Macchio, Mark Gruenwald, Bob Hall and Don Heck.

The "tentacles" would actually be the brainstem and the cranial nerves.
--Snood

by Prime Eternal

CLARIFICATIONS:
The Brain Leeches should not be confused with:

The Brain, Otto von Schmittsder, Nazi scientist, disembodied head, @ Adventures into Terror #4
Brain, part of the Tri-Man, @ Daredevil I#22
Brain of Earth-1958, Slugger Johnson, dreams created own reality, @ Fantastic Four I#136
Brain of Earth-2020, of the Midnight Wreckers, @ Machine Man II#1
Brainard, of the Cult of Zhered-Na, @ Adventures into Fear #13
Brain-Carriers, Binary Beings, @ Marvel Super-Heroes (UK) #385
Brain Cell, Morlock child, telepath, @ Uncanny X-Men #292
Brainchild, of the Savage Land Mutates, @ X-Men I#62
Brain-Child of Earth-S, Arnold Sutton, enemy of the Squadron Supreme, @ Avengers I#86
Brain Drain, Werner Schmidt, Nazi brain, member of Omega Flight, @ Invaders I#2
Braineaters, motorcycle werewolf gang, @ Werewolf By Night I#6
Brainfeeler, Viridian, @ Dr. Who #51
Brain Mines, Deviant weapons, used to incapacitate Eternals, @ Eternals I#4
Brainosaur, designed by Tony Stark to take out Betatron Bomb, @ Strange Tales I#138
Brain Parasites, extraterrestrial creatures, fought Fantastic Four, @ Fantastic Four I#227
Brainstorm, victim of the Mag Dog Ward, @ Web of Spider-Man #33
Brainy, one of Bianca La Niege's dwarves, @ Generation X #40

Images taken from:
Avengers I#301, page 15, panel 2

Fantastic Four I#206 (May, 1979) - Marv Wolfman (writer/editor)), Keith Pollard (pencils), Joe Sinnott (inks)
Fantastic Four I#208 (July, 1979) - Marv Wolfman (writer/editor), Sal Buscema (pencils), Diverse Hands (inks)
Avengers I#301 (March, 1989) - Mark Gruenwald & Ralph Macchio (writers), Bob Hall (pencils), Don Heck (inks), Mark Gruenwald (editor)

Last updated: 09/04/05

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