Was reviewing some images on a nice site and was surprised he has some kind of machinery looking stuff on his face now. What is that crap on his face? It looks like stuff from the original Brainiac android, but I thought Brainaic 5 was biological.
He is biological ('least he was last I checked), but
a) that doesn’t mean that he can’t wear electronic addons, either as a reference to his nominal ancestor, or for other reasons, practical or aesthetic.
b) that thingie on Branie1’s head was there when he looked like (and was, for at least part of the time, masquerading as) a biological, rather than being blatantly an android - I’d always assumed them to be something his people wore, at least occasionally - either to boost their intelligence, or to aid interface with machinery, or else just because they think they look cool.
The first pic makes him look like that Nelly guy with the band-aid.(Yes, I know he doesn’t wear it anymore, but still)