I'm genuinely interested in what the "shocking new threat" is. Especially since the whole r&d system is based on Brainiac's no-good doing, and it'll have to be something suitably epic to push the narrative into the next year. Given that the heroes and villains were "working together" to fight Brainiac, will their respective attentions be turned to each other now? Also, there is so much unused space in both Gotham and Metropolis, I hope that we can start seeing those buildings unbottled.

Braniac is easily the most terrifying grain based supervillain, Brainiac has nothing on him.

Actually I think Flax Luther is most feared now after the Muffin Man subdued Braniac in issue 9 of The Grain Wars.

Braniac is terrifying. Bowel movements are no laughing matter, mortal!

Honestly, I'm more interested in the new threat then I am about the idea of ending Brainiac. Like, I get that the game needs to keep moving, so that a year later it makes sense that players should be taking him down and moving on (I mean, even if it wasn't an MMO, its still based on Comics, and this is how these things move) but it just seems like he was a passing threat to meet an ends, which in this case was to create the player characters.

Saddest thing of all is probably the fact that the stuff leading up to the game made his threat all the more dire then it feels like it was -but, again, thats both MMO's and comics for yoy.

I'm kind of hoping however that the next threat will be Darkseid and Apokolypse. I know its a bit cliche in the DCU now, but being able to actually play that battle out.. That'll be something that'll get me to log on more (which, given I haven't since I set up my free account.. Is really actually saying a lot)

@quantumriian

I say this a lot, but I'm still pretty positive they lifted a good deal of this game from the dead MXO, which had TONS of dead space in all of its areas. So its not all that surprising that DCUO has it too.