Does whatever a Blue Beetle can! Note From left to right, the three holders of the title: Dan Garrett, Ted Kord, and Jaime Reyes. Not present: the original, non-DC Dan Garrett. A, or rather, several superheroes since Blue Beetle is a, whose main motif is. The original Blue Beetle was a superhero, originally published by the Fox Feature Syndicate, first appearing in Mystery Men Comics (August, 1939).

Dan Garrett started out as a rookie cop whose father was. He got super strength from, although he could be knocked out by a blow on the head. The Golden Age Blue Beetle soon got his own magazine. He had a reasonably long run of lurid, violent adventures where he fought gangsters, gorillas, reanimated mummies, etc. He even had his own short-lived.

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But sales began dropping in the late 1940s. There were gaps of several months between some issues, and finally, in August of 1950, the series was cancelled.

Eventually bought the first Blue Beetle, at first only reprinting his old stories. When came around, they revamped him as an archaeologist who unlocked the powers of a mystical artifact he found in a pyramid. This mystical artifact was a bright blue Scarab amulet., and Dan would find himself in blue and red themed armor, shooting lightning from his hands and flying. (Although he could still be knocked out by a blow to the head. Hey, it's better than.) Dan was a pretty awesome Charlton character.

The character held his own series from June, 1964 to February/March, 1966. Then he died. Cue his friend, Ted Kord, millionaire and technical genius, who took the Scarab and the Blue Beetle mantle.

Kord was introduced in the backpages of a title devoted to in #83 (November, 1966), appearing there until #86 (June, 1967). Then he got his own magazine, lasting from June, 1967 to November, 1968. After that the character mostly appeared in anthology titles. Ted didn't have any powers - the Scarab didn't seem to work for him, so he made up for it by using his neat gadgets to fight crime anyway. If he resembled a bit, that wasn't too surprising as he was created by after he left Marvel. In the, Charlton licensed most of its superheroes to AC Comics, only to sell them to DC a few months later. Ted made his DC debut as a reader point of view character in and was integrated into shortly thereafter, holding his own title from June, 1986 to May, 1988.

He got to be a member of the, get lots of with, and be an all-around Fan Favorite. Then Max Lord.! The character was killed in the one-shot Countdown to Infinite Crisis (May, 2005). Cue the third Blue Beetle, Jaime Reyes. Note pronounced 'Hye-Mae', not 'Jamie' The new character first appeared in Infinite Crisis #3 (February, 2006). He found the Scarab lying on the ground in his home town of, took it home, and overnight it. He soon found himself speaking a language he didn't know, transforming into a much more advanced tech version of the Blue Beetle armor, and whisked away to save the universe in.

The character held his own series from May, 2006 to February, 2009. Unlike Dan and Ted, Jaime never, he got shoved. This Blue Beetle retconned the Scarab into a piece of alien technology —what wasn't retconned was the fact that Dan had been activating the Scarab using magic, which damaged the Scarab's memory and functionality. Jaime's series is notable for managing to make Jaime integrate himself into the Blue Beetle name and really well.

Although Jaime's solo series was canceled, he returned as a back-up feature in - unfortunately, the back-up also got canceled. Poor kid can't catch a break. Railroad Earth Amen Corner Rarity. That said, he did get to be a member of the (poor kid really can't catch a break), and joined the reformed JLI in Justice League: Generation Lost. Ebcs 10 Electrical Installation Of Buildings. Never quite as popular as some superheroes, the three Blue Beetles have managed to keep a legacy with very little similarity in powers or even personalities, but all three have been rather likable, and all three have been fun rather than.

Both Ted Kord and Jaime Reyes versions of the Blue Beetle have had appearances in (and a dead Garret gets a cameo). Jaime Reyes appeared as a central character in the episode 'Booster', which also featured Ted Kord as a wealthy industrialist rather than a superhero. Dan Garrett got a shout-out. DC has announced interest in making a starring Jaime Reyes. Jaime later became a major character in season 2 of, with Ted frequently namedropped and memorialized as a deceased member of the Justice League. Both Ted and Dan eventually appeared in flashbacks in 'Intervention,' detailing the Blue Beetle legacy. The team and Jaime initially assumed that the Scarab Jaime found while taking a shortcut through a Kord Industries parking lot was an invention of Ted's, but it was actually the Scarab Dan Garret found on a dig in Bialya.

While Dan believed it was just an ancient artifact that gave him powers and bequeathed it to Ted upon his death, Ted realized that it was alien technology and locked it up, refusing to allow it to merge with him. He was, however, inspired by Dan's example and joined the Justice League, fighting crime with his gadgets. When the alien race that created the Scarab came to Earth and allied with the Light, Sportsmaster and Deathstroke confronted Ted, demanding he give the Scarab over. While Ted died in the skirmish, he kept the Scarab away from the Reach, and Jaime found it.

DC later relaunched the series starring Jaime in September 2011 as part of their relaunch. As of January 2013,. The story, however, continued in the, Threshold, which was also canceled. A younger, pre-Blue Beetle Ted was introduced at the end of in 2014, courtesy of the that created the New 52. An version of Ted, based on his JLI incarnation, featured in.

The series was relaunched in 2016 as part of, featuring Jaime and Ted joining forces. Not to be confused with 's car, a blue V W Beetle that was named as a by the main character.

Or the one from. Media appearances Film - Animation •: • - Jaime appears as a member of the Teen Titans. • - Jaime appears as a member of the Teen Titans, effectively as Cyborg's replacement. Film - Live-Action • - Jaime appears as part of a large roster of heroes in the DC Films logo starting from. Whether he'll make an appearance remains to be seen. Live-Action TV • Blue Beetle: A proposed live-action series starring Jaime..

•: Ted and Jaime appear in the tenth season. Video Games • - Jaime appears as a playable character.

• - Jaime appears as a playable character. • 3: Beyond Gotham - Jaime appears as a playable character. Western Animation • - A major recurring character, and Jaime's animated debut.

Ted also appears. • - Jaime makes an appearance. • - Jaime debuts in season two, and returns in season three. Dan and Ted also exist, but are deceased. •: • In his very first appearance in Mystery Men Comics, he wore a suit and a mask that made him look an awful lot like.

He switched to a chainmail armor he's best remembered for in the next issue. • Which only made him look like. • For the record, Nite-Owl I is based on this guy, NOT Batman. Though Nite-Owl II does resemble Batman. •: What Dan Garret was before he saved Dr Franz.

•: When AC Comics briefly licensed Charlton's Action Heroes line, it established that the Charlton version of the character was the brainwashed version of the original. This would be the last time the character appeared in a modern-age comic (that is, until came along). •: Joan Mason wound up in this role a lot in Blue Beetle stories. She was more competent in her own feature, where Blue Beetle played a supporting role. •: Invented a wrist-mounted communicator, his trademark beetle-insignia-projecting belt and (later) his. •: Dan's partner on the force, Mike Mannigan, started off as this. He eventually came around and turned into one of Blue Beetle's biggest fans.

•: Joan Mason, a crime reporter, loved Blue Beetle but didn't particularly care for Dan Garret. •: The only version of the character that qualifies as this (though DC holds the trademark, which limits his usage a bit); Project Superpowers gets around this by referring to him as 'Big Blue'.

•: Sparky/Spunky, an American boy who was adopted by Lord Wellington of Suppleshire, England. Became Blue Beetle's sidekick after his adopted father sent him to United States to protect him from Nazi bombings. •: Joan Mason starred in her own feature back in the mid 1940s.

It was notable for making her more competent then she often wound up being when Blue Beetle was around, solving lots of crimes all on her lonesome. Dan Garret made a few appearances in his civilian guise, but he wasn't all that essential to the plot. •: Vitamin 2-X, a wonder-drug developed by Dr. Franz, a pharmacist he once saved.

•: How Dan found the Scarab in the first place. •: The Scarab gives Dan magical armor. • •: The Scarlet Scarab (and a bit of, but less than other incarnations) in, plus Nite-Owl I in. •: Dan makes a single appearance in.

As a dead body. •: The Blue Beetle takes his name from a scarab amulet that Dan Garrett, the first Blue Beetle, found in a pyramid and which gave him magical superpowers. His successor, Ted Kord, could never get the amulet to work, so became a Gadgeteer Genius instead. The amulet subsequently passed into the hands of Jaime Reyes, who discovered its full potential, leading to the revelation that the source of its power is not magic but advanced alien technology. •: Dan does not appear in the episode 'Booster', but is given a shout-out that explains that he had been a scientist who studied the Scarab before it fell into Jaime's possession, and that he had died when the Scarab was removed from his spine.

•: The second volume of Booster Gold had a running arc heavily hinting that Ted had somehow survived when he went back in time to his own death. It never concluded before the universe got rebooted. •: Prelude to Infinite Crisis. •: Like you wouldn't believe. •: Ted harbored a massive crush on Barbara Gordon.

They eventually became friends and flirted a little but he never had the guts to act on it. •: • Ted's the only Blue Beetle without powers, but that never stopped him. He's like who has fun. • Some characters have theorized that the reason why the scarab didn't give Ted superpowers was because he didn't need them. •: Ted had a strobe light weapon that could temporarily blind his enemies. In the DC Comics stories, he upgraded the weapon to emit a powerful burst of air that could knock back his enemies, among other things.

•: Nite-Owl II in, and, as mentioned above. • •: Following his death, Ted became a recurring character in vol.

2 thanks to and, and it wasn't till that the bus came to a halt. It took over three years before he reappeared at the end of, and it was another two years before he returned to the main DCU in with an ongoing role.

•: Ted's equipment (Bug airship, numerous gadgets, BB gun etc.) is not cheap. •: Ted had several adventures with the Question in the 60s and teamed up with the rest of the Action Hero characters in AC Comics' Sentinels of Justice • This type of grouping was repeated by DC with the Charlton-originated characters and given the of L.A.W: Living Assault Weapons. • His DC series featured adventures with the Question and the Teen Titans note at that point Nightwing, Cyborg, Donna Troy, Beast Boy, Jericho and Starfire. It also tied in to and. • Even the scarab got in on the act, getting an origin story in the 1990 Time Masters miniseries that involved the Time Masters, Vandal Savage, and Nabu of Doctor Fate fame. (Which was a bit odd, as you'd think the scarab's origin would be told in a Blue Beetle story, not an otherwise unrelated mini.) •: Ted was prone to throwing quips around in battle. • •: Jarvis Kord, who was his first enemy and the one responsible for Dan Garrett's death.

•: Ted Kord was the CEO of Kord Omniversal Research and Development, Inc. For short, you can call it KORD, Inc. • Which is a nice bit of directed at '. •: Smarter than even Batman. •: In Jaime's original series, Guy Gardner claims that Ted is smarter than Batman, but wasn't given his due credit. • and/or: • Referenced in (v2) #25 when Jaime's little sister Milagro has Booster and Ted Kord dolls get married. •: Rather than use his brutal death in the comics, the producers of opted to give Ted a heroic demise.

Instead of catching a bullet to the brain, he sacrificed his life to detonate a rocket before it could hit Hub City. • Ditto, where Ted dies in a confrontation with Sportsmaster and Deathstroke, playing keep away with the Scarab. • In, after Booster manages to save Ted, Ted decides to go back in time and face the death history intended for him because it would save Booster and stop the Black Beetle. •: A key part of Ted's character was his humility. •: Early in Ted's career it was his secretary Angela Revere, who managed to keep his life on track despite his busy schedule. •: One of the earliest examples.

Ted is notable in that, unlike the reboots of or, Dan Garret's adventures remained in continuity, with Ted often thinking about how to live up to his predecessor. One of Ted's earliest storylines involves him being a suspect in Dan's death, and on at least two occasions he has to fight an evil double of Dan who has (apparently) come back from the dead to retake the Blue Beetle identity. •: BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! •: In his Pre-Crisis appearances and early Post-Crisis stories, his full given name was Theodore. During Chuck Dixon's run on Birds of Prey, his name was revealed to be Edward (with 'Ted' as a nickname, similar to the case of Ted Kennedy). Later writers would try to reconcile the differences by listing his name as 'Theodore Edward Kord', but his most recent posthumous appearances had the name as 'Theodore Stephen Kord'.

• •: Averted, Ted is one of the few exceptions in the DC-verse. •: The Justice League International team, aka the Superbuddies. Even after Ted dies, they still pull together to help out Jaime.

•: Melody Case, Ted's research assistant turn business manager and on-again-off-again girlfriend becomes this once he promotes her. •: During the JLI days Ted grappled with a weight problem. •: How some fans still perceive him.

•: His creator was Steve Ditko, noted Objectivist. What do you think happened? Although, compared to the Objectivist characters Ditko would later create, this was downright subtle.

The fact that her father hits her is brought up very early in the series. We later find out that in the year Jaime was missing Brenda's father beat her so severely that she was hospitalized, prompting her Aunt Amparo (secretly the crime boss La Dama) to have him killed in a staged DUI so that she could get custody of her niece and give Brenda a safe home. Despite being into very illegal dealings otherwise it's indicated that La Dama is the only good parent Brenda has had since the death of her mother. • •: Jaime's suit.

•: The Scarab turns out to be one of these. Long assumed to be magical, it's actually a weapon left behind by a hostile alien race. And they want it back. •: requested that the new Beetle be Hispanic because he had some ideas on what to do with a Hispanic teen hero in Texas. •: Bianca 'Is that a giant green fist?' Reyes •: Volumes 5 and 6 of the trade paperbacks have a rather odd chronology—5 has issues 29-34, and 6 has issues 27, 28, 35, and 36 along with the Blue Beetle backup stories that ran in Booster Gold.

This allows volume 5 to cover the entire 'Boundaries' arc while volume 6 gets the two leftover one-shots that come before it. •: Eclipso is built up to be an apocalyptic threat and is about to possess a magically-gifted baby, which will make her unstoppable.

When Paco snatches the baby from her magic circle, Eclipso scoffs; due to the properties of the spell being used, must ensue, with Paco as the baby's champion. Eclipso chooses, and casts a spell to bring out his darkness and thirst for power.

Which turns Jaime into a dentist—apparently the extent of Jaime's power-lust is limited to a lucrative job. Paco just smacks him in the head with a plank.

•: Jaime to the Ultra-Humanite. Jaime: Go ahead. Kill me and he finally gets to cut loose. I'm the only thing stopping Scarab. From turning you. Into a fine red mist and a #&%#$ shag rug!

•: Nadia in the last issue pre-Flashpoint. •: Alberto and Bianca (Jaime's parents), Paco and Brenda, Peacemaker. Holds that badass runs in the Reyes family, which suggests Milagro, Jaime's little sister, is destined for big things. • That maybe becoming Canon as a recent backup suggests that Milagro will be important, maybe more important than Jaime. •: The Reach Negotiator, who at one point crushes an underling's skull just to get everyone's attention. •: The Blue Beetle suit can make so, so many different types of these. One of them is so powerful, it has theological implications.

•: La Dama's house is huge and has a gate for visitors to buzz in, shocking Jaime when he returns from his year in space to find Brenda living there. (Crime does pay, apparently.) •: Issue #26 is mostly in Mexican Spanish. •: Paco constantly surprises Jaime with his knowledge of science and apparently even has a decent grip on the how time travel works. At the same time, he's a Mexican-American who manages to fail Spanish class. •: Jaime wonders if he should invoke this when he armors up, solely for. He tries out saying ' Escarabajo' in a dramatic voice, but doesn't stick to it.

•: Jaime didn't exactly ask to be a superhero. Booster Gold tracked him down and drafted him because the scarab's armor was the only thing on Earth capable of locating Brother Eye. •: If Ted Kord was similar to, Jaime is even more so!

• Made even more blatant in Smallville, where Jaime is portrayed as a shy dork who constantly gets bullied by his classmates before finding the Scarab. While there's no way to tell the Blue Beetle is Jaime just from appearances, everyone puts two and two together when Jaime dashes into the hallways and immediately returns as the Blue Beetle during his senior prom. Although he does have the advantage of Kord Industries holograms to make it seem like Jaime the civilian is still present. •: The Scarab creates a combat suit for Jaime. • • /: Batman's appearances have him as this in full force. And lampshaded—when his friends are impressed upon finding out he met Batman, Jaime basically says 'He's not so scary in person. Even kind of funny in a really dry way.'

• •: Issue #20 shows Jaime being taken over by a Yellow Lantern ring while transforming. It's actually Peacemaker who gets hit with the ring and taken over by a scarab. •: How Jaime meets the, specifically, though not a true instance of the trope •: Referenced when Jaime and Brenda talk to the son of 's creator. Brenda: 'But.instead of robbing banks, why didn't he just market and sell his INCREDIBLY SOPHISTICATED ROBOT?'

Alan Von Neumann, Jr.: 'Who can say? It was a different time and he's long dead, so you can't ask him.'

•: Every artist draws Jaime's wings differently. This can be justified since the armor simply creates things on the fly—there's very little reason for any weapon or armor addition to look the same each time. •: Jaime during a fight with Doctor Polaris. Turns out that the Scarab killed him and resuscitates Jaime once Polaris leaves, since if Jaime had taken Polaris's seemingly fatal attack head on, he would've been vaporized. • And also during Generation Lost. •: During the Generation Lost storyline of Justice League International Jaime is captured by Maxwell Lord and experimented on so he can get important information by studying the suit.

•: The revelation of the true origin of the 'magic amulet'. (Although even with this change, the first Blue Beetle did use magic to activate the scarab, which apparently wasn't that good for it. It is.) •: Nadia is killed off on the last few pages of the last issue.

Fleeing from a superpowered enemy whose pet peeve was people getting away once they started running. •: In one issue, Peacemaker has both an activated scarab and a Yellow Lantern ring. •: Of the two major characters, one has a name and the other is just known as The Negotiator. •: A variation. Nadia has a hobby of computerizing household appliances. Nadia: Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to install Linux on the toaster. •: The Black Beetle, an enemy of Jaime's from some point in his future, who also uses a Reach scarab.

• He also has a villainous alternate universe counterpart in named Scarlet Scarab. •: The Black Beetle claims to be Hector (a member of Jaime's ), who comes to blame Jaime for the death of Nadia and flees El Paso, adopting the pseudonym Joshua. This is most likely the truth, since this origin is more-or-less depicted in the actual comics (in other books, though).

However, there's also the fact. •: The Scarab grants Jaime various powers, including protective armor, flight, and energy blasts. •: The ending of the Reach arc features Jaime calling in favors from Traci 13, Dani Garrett, Oracle, Batman, and Robin even before the former JLI members show up.

•: Alberto and Bianca Reyes are easily right up there with Jim Gordon and the Kents in the Hall Of Fame •: Most of the main and supporting characters being Hispanic, they even have a whole issue that is almost entirely in Spanish. Justified in that they hail from El Paso, where 86% of the population is Hispanic and almost as many are bilingual. •: The Scarab, which was created to be one of the most versatile - and deadly - weapons in the universe, and in that's saying something.

It has enough firepower to threaten cities, and one of its higher-level weapons has potential theological implications. • Also, real Green Lanterns don't like being around it, with responses varying from 'headache' to 'homicidal urges.' The GL Corps and the Reach have some history. Brenda is half-white, which Paco uses to tease her. •: He's even. •: Jaime and his Scarab.

•: A battle between Jaime and Bottom Feeder practically demolishes a town in the boonies, making the sheriff angrily ask who's going to pay for the repairs. Luckily Peacemaker has favors to call in. •: Blue Beetle deals with a spat of this when he takes out a gang of superpowered criminals who also happen to be illegal immigrants and the local media manages to spin it into the Blue Beetle having an anti-immigration stance, resulting in the Border Patrol deputizing him. •:, a young Gotham University professor Jaime meets in the Brave and the Bold.

•: In issue #16, Eclipso uses magic to bring forth Jaime's 'deepest, darkest fantasies of ultimate power'. She turns him into a dentist.