10 Underpowered Characters Who Shouldn't Have Beaten Major Comics Villains

8. Amanda Waller Vs. Brainiac

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With the cast of people who have failed to take Brainiac down including Superman, Wonder Woman, and even Batman on occasion, it says a lot that Amanda Waller has managed just about the most decisive victory against the twelfth-level intellect, despite a complete lack of anything resembling superpowers.

In the beautifully named Justice League: No Justice, Waller responds to Brainiac launching an attack on the Justice League by going into full stone-cold badass mode. Within the space of a mere seventeen pages, she has devised a plan and kidnapped the world's most powerful psychics, in order to straight-up destroy the alien's mind and kill him.

Tragically, as good as this plan is, it happens at the perfect wrong time, as Brainiac turns out to have needed the League's help in stoping the Omega Titans, who are apparently even worse than him. Just as he's about to give them crucial advice though, Waller's plan goes through and he dies in a semi-romantic moment in Superman's arms.

No good deed goes unpunished, I guess.

 
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