BrainiApe

  With the death of the Vicious Circle leader, Overlord, a power vacuum in the freak criminal team sparks off a city wide gang war as countless super villains battle for supremacy. Among the ambitious is BrainiApe, the oversize gorilla with incredible mental powers and a brain floating in an overturned fishbowl. Despite his best efforts to convince his fellow Circle teammates that he should succeed Overlord, the noble and powerful avian freak known as Powerhouse  easily dismisses his arguments.

   Who would follow a talking gorilla? - especially one as arrogant and inept as BrainiApe. Cut down to size, BrainiApe slinked away in failure. Powerhouse would again prove to be a thorn in this gorillas' backside. Working solo, BrainiApe robs a city bank and in the process, slaughters numerous innocent bystanders. The uber-chicken steps in and swiftly apprehends the evil ape, apologizing to the survivors for BrainiApes' actions. Carted off to the Vicious Circle headquarters, BrainiApe was made a prisoner, shackled and powers neutralized. In order to redeem himself, he would have to straighten up his act and obey orders as they were given.

  An opportunity to do so arrives when he is dispatched to kill Chicago cop, Savage Dragon. Using his telepathy, he planned to possess paranormal investigator Hellboy, and have him battle Dragon (who is immune to BrainiApes' mind powers). But after laying eyes on the demonic Hellboy, long dormant memories are revived. BrainiApe realizes he is Adolf Hitler (well, the brain bits at least!)
  In Romania, 1952, as he was plotting with a reborn Nazi Party, Hitler was confronted by Hellboy. In the ensuing scrap, Hellboy disables the power armour the former dictator was wearing and it explodes, tearing the Nazi demagogue apart. Only his head survived, and a few goose stepping scientists figured they could save his twisted brain. Using a cocktail of drugs and radiation, Adolf's brain was mutated to superhuman levels and housed in the body of a genetically enhanced gorilla. Unfortunately, the extensive tinkering had wiped Hitlers' memory and he eventually broke free, murdering those responsible for saving his brain. Unaware of his true origins but still an evil bastard, he went on to join the team of freaks, the Vicious Circle.

  His past now fully recalled, BrainiApe tried desperately to destroy his old nemesis Hellboy and his more recent foe, Savage Dragon. Yet, the more things change...BrainiApe is defeated once again. In the fighting, his brain is actually knocked loose from it's casing. To the heroes astonishment, the pink pulpy mass sprouts little legs and makes a break for it. Savage Dragon kebabs the brain on a big old knife and nixes that plan. The skewered brain and the gorilla carcass are handed over to the authorities.

  BrainiApe reappeared sometime later, or rather just his brain did. Overlord had been revived and was now sporting the gorilla body of BrainiApe; something that the disembodied glob intended to rectify. Interrupting a fight between Savage Dragon and Overlord, BrainiApe used his telekinesis to remove the interlopers' melon and promptly blast it to bits. Reclaiming his body, the whole of BrainiApe escaped to fight another day.
  BrainiApes' next bid for power failed like the rest. Leading a band of angry teenage thugs, BrainiApe took on Chicago's Special Operations Strikeforce, headed by Savage Dragon. Although he managed to possess Dragon's fellow officers, the mental monkey is knocked unconscious when the hero hurls his indestructible fiancée at the ape. Captured, yet again, BrainiApe is disgusted to learn that Powerhouse had tipped off the police. It seemed like that was that for the gorilla with Hitler's brain but Savage Dragon would encounter him one final time....in the Savage World!

  After being thrown through a rift in the fabric of time and space, the Chicago superhuman cop finds himself in a world turned upside-down, a post-apocalyptic mirror of the one he left behind. Dragons' path through this nightmare leads him to Australia, where he washes up on the beach unconscious. A roving airship spots the body and when it approaches to retrieve the hero, it is revealed to be piloted by BrainiApe and a pair of minions.

  Savage awakes in a prison cell and soon realizes that his fellow prisoners lack the will or desire to escape. The cause of this becomes evident when he is brought to the Arena of Death where he is compelled to fight friends from the world he left behind. Presiding over this temple of bloodsport is the Australian Prime Minister of Savage World..BrainiApe! Savage figures out which spectator is compelling him to fight (cause' he knows he's immune to BrainiApes powers) and manages to take him out. 

  Now able to act freely, Savage Dragon makes a monkey out of BrainiApe, proving that throughout the multiple planes of existence - Hitler will always get his ass kicked by the Good guys! The Dragon shares the secret of BrainiApes' past with a horrified audience who enthusiastically call for his execution. An armada of flying saucers cut short the impending sentence and the arena of freaks are vacuumed up into the crafts. But this merely gave BrainiApe a few more minutes to contemplate where he went wrong - in escaping from the spaceship they shared, Savage Dragons' and his companions' act of sabotage cause it to explode into a mighty fireball (with the simian chronic loser still aboard!). Good riddance to furry facists.

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