Why The Mechanic is Brains
I wrote this theory awhile back but it might be more relevant now. The entirety of the Mechanic’s character could be pinpointed to the comic released in 1968 by the name of Brains is Dead. It follows the supposed death of beloved engineer Hiram Hackenbacker before Hiram was his real name. That’s important for pretty early on in the comic when Scott Tracy drops Brains off for an appointment with his eye doctor, Hiram Blake.
However, Hiram Blake and his assistant have been “removed” and replaced by the Hood’s goons.
They waste no time subduing Brains, but the little dude is able to yell out to Scott before mysteriously going silent. They somehow tie Brains down to a chair with three-hundred-thousand straps before Scott can walk through the front door and--
flip the light switch on the wall, revealing the humble mobile office chair to be a makeshift electric one with enough power to induce a near fatal shock.
Look familiar!?
Even the colors are same as the ones utilized in the comic panels above. Brains has a very lovely funeral with all those who truly knew him, and his casket is shot deep into space after an emotional Tracy family send-off. This proves very useful to the Hood because he won’t have to dig up a grave to retrieve his tiny lifeless corpse.
The Tracy family truly believe that Brains is dead, sealing his fate indefinitely. The Hood is able to control Brains mind with his unexplained demon powers. Some insist this is a gift from his dark lord while others suspect him of besting Mesmero in a fist fight at 4am in the Dairy Queens parking lot.
When the Tracy’s find out what the Hood is up to it’s already too late.
( Recent Tracy Island ) Brains has made a full schematic of Tracy Island for the Hood to use while arming his giant satellite-- also built by Brains-- to shave off a layer of rock beneath the house, causing it to sink below the waves with all the Thunderbirds inside.
The Mechanic’s Connection:
The Hood had developed the satellite when the Mechanic was more impressionable to his power, but the materials and skill required to build the satellite were too ambitious at the time. The Hood buried the plans for the satellite and replaced it with the Chaos Crew. They would keep International Rescue busy and stay within budget while he resumed his plans for world domination.
The Mechanic is demoted to getaway driver with the satellite now off the table. However, the Mechanic is two weeks late getting the Hood out of prison. This is possibly due to his arrest not being in the plan, because he’s too far away to control the Mechanic as easily as he was at the start of their partnership. More evidence of this being true is the Mechanic reminding the Hood in season two (2) episode thirteen (13) of his promise to release him after he did what he asked. Very obvious manipulative lie!
The Mechanic is desperate to get away and regain his freedom. The poetic b*stard is going to build the thing that started it all to end it all. But he hadn’t accounted for The Hood’s survival, for he’s doubtless now that the Mechanic can build the sentinel and enact free shipping on his half-off deal for a quick demise. He’ll stop at nothing to have him build it again for its original purpose.
Conclusion:
The Mechanic is Brains’ character by becoming the Hood’s enslaved engineer in his place, sparing the audience the shock and violence of his “death” while still supplying the connections required to reenact the drama of the original comic.
