Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes)
Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | DC Comics |
First appearance | As Jaime Reyes:
Infinite Crisis #3 (February 2006) As Blue Beetle: Infinite Crisis #5 (April 2006) |
Created by | Keith Giffen John Rogers Cully Hamner |
In-story information | |
Full name | Jaime Reyes |
Species | Human |
Team affiliations | Justice League Justice League International Teen Titans Young Justice Secret Six |
Partnerships | Batman Booster Gold Traci Thirteen |
Notable aliases | Blue Beetle, Scarab |
Abilities | See list
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Jaime Reyes is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Keith Giffen, John Rogers, and Cully Hamner,[1] the character made his first appearance in Infinite Crisis #3 (February 2006). Jaime Reyes is the third character to assume the mantle of Blue Beetle, but is substantially different from his predecessors.
Introduced in 1939, the original Blue Beetle, Dan Garret, was a Fox Comics police officer who fought crime with superpowers gained by ingesting Vitamin 2X. A revamped version of this character, archaeologist Dan Garrett, introduced in 1964 by Charlton Comics drew mystical abilities from an ancient Egyptian scarab. Published by Charlton Comics and later DC, 1966 creation Ted Kord was Garret's student who continued his legacy of costumed crime-fighting, although he had no superpowers.
DC's introduction of Jaime Reyes in 2006
Jaren Brandt Bartlett portrayed the character in a 2011 episode of the television series
Publication history
In Infinite Crisis #5 (March 2006), Reyes became Blue Beetle's third incarnation. His own monthly series debuted two months later with Blue Beetle vol. 7 #1 (May 2006);[2] it was initially written by Keith Giffen and John Rogers,[3] with artist Cully Hamner.[4] Giffen left before issue #10 and Rogers took over full writing duties, joined by new artist Rafael Albuquerque.[5] Rogers left in issue #25 to concentrate on his television series Leverage.[6]
After a couple of fill-in issues, Lilah Sturges became the main writer in issue #29[7] but the series was canceled with last issue #36 in February 2009.[8] Editor Dan DiDio put the cancellation down to poor sales and said that Blue Beetle was "a book that we started with very high expectations, but it lost its audience along the way".[9]
The character returned in June 2009 as a "co-feature" of the more popular Booster Gold comic.[10]
Character biography
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Jaime lives in
Infinite Crisis
The mystical Scarab that had given Dan Garrett his powers had been thought destroyed. When it was found intact, it was given to
The Scarab came to Earth in El Paso, Texas, where Jaime picked it up. Not long after, Booster Gold appeared at Jaime's house to retrieve it, but it had fused itself to Jaime's spine while he was sleeping. Booster recruited Jaime for Batman's assault on the Brother Eye satellite, since the Scarab was the only thing that could see the satellite. Using the Scarab's powers, Jaime was able to reveal the satellite to Batman's group, and enabled them to defeat it in their spaceship. Once Brother Eye was sent plummeting Earthward, Jaime disappeared from the ship, teleported away by the scarab, which sought to escape the Green Lanterns on board.
Ongoing series
Jaime was next seen in his own monthly series, fighting off Green Lantern
He began a career as a superhero, meeting
Contrary to Jaime's initial belief, the scarab is revealed to be extraterrestrial technology. However, magical influences involving the first contact with Earthmen left the scarab "corrupted" and uncontrollable by the
The Reach
In a Countdown to Final Crisis tie-in, Jaime assists Traci Thirteen (former) in foiling Eclipso's attempt to kidnap a baby with great magical potential and use it as a new, uncorrupted host. In the aftermath, Jaime and Traci kiss, hinting at a relationship starting.
Jaime takes the fight to the Reach, using the time-warping qualities of the Bleed to attack three of their machines at once. When this fails, Jaime attacks the Reach's flagship, but the Reach use their weapons to attack his home. Jaime's emotional outburst at this attack allows the Reach to shut down the scarab and remove it from Jaime, who is thrown into a holding cell while the scarab is taken for examination, but the scarab transfers its knowledge into Jaime before removal, allowing the young hero to break free. Meanwhile, Jaime's family, having escaped the attack, are protected from further Reach assault by Peacemaker, the Posse, Traci Thirteen, La Dama and later
Teen Titans
Jaime first teams up with the Titans in
Jaime comes face to face with the
During the "Titans of Tomorrow, Today!" arc, Jaime takes the Titans up on their offer to visit, only to find that an alternate future version of the Titans have attacked the Tower and managed to kidnap key members of the
Jaime is recruited by
The villain
In the aftermath of the massive Final Crisis crossover event, Kid Eternity, Static and Aquagirl join the team after their rescue from the Dark Side Club. Aquagirl begins hitting on Jaime despite knowing of his relationship with Traci, often speaking to him in Spanish to hide her intentions from the team. Despite feeling attracted, he chooses to remain loyal to Traci.
After Wonder Girl is kidnapped by the Fearsome Five, Beetle reluctantly allows Traci to assist the team in rescuing her. In the aftermath, Red Devil is killed saving the city.[16]
When Beast Boy arrives at Titans Tower to lead the team, Jaime distrusts him and accuses him of caring more about winning Raven's love than helping the team.[17]
Series finale
A group of Reach infiltrators and a negotiator invade Jaime's school's dance. Having been inspired by the scarab to rebel, the "Kahji Dha Revolutionary Army", sets out to make Earth safe by destroying those that could pose any threat. They see Jaime as a threat and attack.[18] During the fight, Nadia, part of Jaime's tech support, is killed. Taking the fight into orbit, Jaime has the scarab hack into and deactivate the KDRA, but deactivating itself for 27 days in the process. The negotiator quickly recovers and Jaime is forced to take him on a kamikaze dive to the Earth's surface. The impact kills the negotiator and badly hurts Jaime, although the scarab put up a shield that protected him from the brunt of the impact. Over a period of weeks, Jaime and the scarab slowly recover. The scarab of the negotiator had, unbeknownst to Jaime, been recovered by Hector, Jaime's other tech support, who, as he left the country, used the negotiator's name "Djo Zha" which a flight attendant confuses with "Joshua", indicating that he had bonded with it.[19]
Further adventures
Starting in Booster Gold vol. 2 #21, Blue Beetle was featured as a 10-page ongoing co-feature. The stories focused on a smaller cast than before, focusing on Jaime, Paco and Brenda while Jaime's family occasionally appears. The rebooted scarab is shown to be more bloodthirsty than in the past, constantly urging Jaime to use more lethal weaponry. In the first serial, Jaime faces the android daughter of an old supervillain.
The Black Beetle attacks during a family hike. During the battle, Black Beetle claims to be Hector's future incarnation, wanting revenge for Nadia's death. He retracts his statement, claiming to have killed Hector and taken his scarab. When Milagro was injured by Black Beetle, Jaime loses his temper, finally giving in to the scarab's suggestions to use lethal force.[20] Jaime eventually manages to use tachyon beams to paralyze Black Beetle, only for the villain to claim that he was Jaime from the future and that he would don the black scarab after Milagro (who would suffer brain damage from the injury she had just received in the present) destroyed the scarab. Jaime, deciding to get Milagro medical attention as quickly as possible, was forced to let Black Beetle escape. Before he departed, Black Beetle tells Jaime: "When you see Ted Kord, tell him I said 'drop dead'". When Jaime states that Ted was already dead, Black Beetle replies "Yeah. I know". A few days later, Milagro is shown recovering in the hospital and Jaime is left deeply disturbed by his encounter.[20]
Blue Beetle also teams with egotistical superhero
Not much later, he is visited by
Later, both team up to destroy the Black Lantern, succeeding by blasting him with a special light gun designed by Ted Kord and separating him from the ring. Then, they move the remains into the Time Sphere and take the lifeless corpse to Vanishing Point Fortress, in the last second of the universe. There, Jaime promises to eventually live up to the legacy of the Blue Beetle and reestablish the Blue & Gold Team.[23]
Justice League: Generation Lost
Following
During the start of the
Before they can figure out their next move, the base is attacked by the Creature Commandos. During the battle Max reveals himself while posing as one of the Creature Commandos. Blue Beetle ends up unconscious and Max captures him, heading to the teleporter and leaving the JLI behind.[30] When Blue Beetle is in captivity, Max injects him with an unknown substance.[31] Tortured, he remembers Max's existence as the man who killed Ted Kord and destroyed his legacy.[32] Jaime eventually manages to send a signal to the rest of the JLI to lead them to Max's headquarters. He breaks out of the laboratory and attacks Max, who, having discovered the weaknesses of the Blue Scarab, zaps Jaime with a special beam and, just as the JLI arrives, shoots him in the head with a blaster, apparently killing him in the same manner as his predecessor.[33]
Max escapes from the JLI using an escape pod. Failing to capture Max, the JLI carried Jaime on the land surface where paramedics
The New 52
In September 2011 after the conclusion of the "Flashpoint" storyline event, DC Comics cancelled all of its monthly books and relaunched 52 new monthly titles with a new continuity, in what was called The New 52. One of the new series as a Blue Beetle series written by Tony Bedard and drawn by Ig Guara and cancelled in February 2013.[38]
Reyes and his friend Paco are driving to a party when a fight over a backpack between some men and the
In Green Lantern: New Guardians, other representatives of the Reach attack Odym, homeworld of the Blue Lantern Corps, where it is revealed that their armours have taken control of them; Jaime speculates, during a confrontation with Kyle Rayner, that his armour is damaged, explaining why he is in control of himself where other Reach soldiers are enslaved to their armour.
After being captured by Lady Styx's henchmen in Blue Beetle vol. 8 #16, Jaimie is forced to take part in the bounty hunter game The Haunted on the planet called Tolerance. After losing control over the Scarab armor In Threshold #8 the producer of the show The Hunted, reveals that the show has been cancelled and sends Jaimie back to Earth.
In Futures End #0 Blue Beetle is seen working together with the resistance against Brother Eye and all the other dead superheroes. He dies and mutates into a robot controlled by Brother Eye.
DC Rebirth
In the 2016 relaunch of the DC Universe, DC Rebirth, Jaime is working with Ted Kord to study the beetle attached to Jaime's back and remove it. Once again, the beetle's origin is retconned, as revealed by Doctor Fate, who tells Kord that the beetle is not alien, but magical, similar to the original continuity pre-Infinite Crisis.[43]
Graduation Day
In the Blue Beetle: Graduation Day miniseries, Jamie is still continuing his superhero duties as Blue Beetle while also finally graduating from High School. However, during the ceremony, he gets a transmission from the scarab indicating that the Reach are planning something. Afterwards, following a party to celebrate Jaime graduating, Superman and Jaime share a heart to heart about Jamie's unsureness for his future and what he wants for himself. Superman then informs Jaime that, until they get a better understanding of the Reach broadcast, Jamie is "grounded" from being Blue Beetle and should spend time with his family. Jaime then find out from his parents that, because he's not attending college, he'll be heading to Palmera City to work at the family diner for the summer. Then, Paco shows everyone a video of a mysterious Yellow Beetle arriving in Sensuntepeque, El Salvador.[44]
Powers and abilities
The Blue Beetle scarab is grafted onto Jaime Reyes's spine and can manifest a number of powers of its own volition, an act usually accompanied by blue energy emitted by the scarab's "antennae". Over the course of the first year of his ongoing series, Jaime had little, if any, control over those powers, but slowly asserts himself. When Jaime is in danger, the scarab activates, crawling out on to Jaime's back and generating a high-tech suit of powered armor around his body. The armor is resilient enough that it can protect him against re-entry from Earth's orbit. When the danger passes, the scarab deactivates, dissolving the costume and retracting back onto Jaime's spine, causing intense pain.[45]
When in use, the suit can reconfigure itself to produce a wide array of armaments. Common functions include an energy cannon, a sword and shield, a grappling hook, a device resembling a communications satellite, and a set of foot-long powered blades that can shear through tree trunks. In addition, the suit can produce a set of wings for flight that can also act as shields. Jaime alludes to weapons that may be powerful enough to harm even the Spectre, one of DC's most powerful characters, claiming that some of the weapons are of mass-destruction caliber, but refuses to use lethal force.[46] The suit can adapt to different situations, including producing energy discharges from the hands that can neutralize magic, discharging Kryptonite radiation and tuning "vibrational frequencies" of extra-dimensional objects to make them visible. The suit can create armaments of different composition and style. The wings, for example, were initially composed of the same blue opaque armor as the rest of the suit, but beginning with Blue Beetle vol. 7 #12 (April 2007), began manifesting themselves in the form of a colorless, translucent material.
The scarab has at least one power it can manifest whether dormant or active; it can give Jaime a peculiar form of "sight" to perceive extra-dimensional objects, which gather information on the scarab user's adversaries. The scarab is able to communicate with him in a more comprehensible fashion if need be. The scarab's language slowly morphs into a format resembling English, claiming Khaji Da as its own name and Jaime as its first real friend.
The scarab exhibits a reluctance to harm nature, as evidenced in Blue Beetle vol. 7 #4, in which Jaime is attacked by a pair of anthropomorphized trees, and the suit declines to use great force against them, until Jaime convinces the scarab that his life is in danger and wrests control over the suit to destroy the trees, much to the scarab's displeasure.[48]
When necessary, Jaime can have the Scarab take over in Infiltrator Mode. When this happens, the suit becomes taller, more muscular and grows spikes and allows the scarab to fight without Jaime's conscience as a restriction. This lets it fight more brutally, but Jaime and the scarab do not like this and only resort to it in desperate situations.
Other versions
- An alternate version of Jaime appears in Joker.
- In the alternate future called of the book Titans Tomorrow, Red Devil killed this timeline's Blue Beetle.
- In the alternate timeline of the 2011 Flashpoint storyline, Jaime was a part of a team called the Ambush Bugs led by the Canterbury Cricket. They did an attack on the Amazons which ended in failure with the demise of every bug hero except the Canterbury Cricket.[49]
Collected editions
The Blue Beetle series has been collected into a number of trade paperbacks:
Vol. # | Title | Collected material | Pages | Year | ISBN |
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1 | Shellshocked | Blue Beetle vol. 7, #1–6 | 144 | 2006 | 978-1-4012-0965-0 |
2 | Road Trip | Blue Beetle vol. 7, #7–12 | 2007 | 978-1-4012-1361-9 | |
3 | Reach for the Stars | Blue Beetle vol. 7, #13–19 | 168 | 2008 | 978-1-4012-1642-9 |
4 | End Game | Blue Beetle vol. 7, #20–26 | 176 | 2008 | 978-1-4012-1952-9 |
5 | Boundaries | Blue Beetle vol. 7, #29–34 | 144 | 2009 | 978-1-4012-2162-1 |
6 | Black and Blue [50] |
Blue Beetle vol. 7, #27–28, #35–36 Booster Gold vol. 2, #21–25, #28–29 |
168 | 2010 | 978-1-4012-2897-2 |
The New 52 | |||||
1 | Metamorphosis | Blue Beetle vol. 8, #1–6 | 144 | November 20, 2012 | 978-1401237134 |
2 | Blue Diamond | Blue Beetle vol. 8, #0, 7–16 Green Lantern: New Guardians #9 |
240 | April 30, 2013 | 978-1401238506 |
DC Rebirth | |||||
1 | The More Things Change | Blue Beetle: Rebirth #1 Blue Beetle vol. 9 #1–5 |
144 | May 16, 2017 | 978-1401268688 |
2 | Hard Choices | Blue Beetle vol. 9 #6–12 | 168 | January 2, 2018 | 978-1401275075 |
3 | Road to Nowhere | Blue Beetle vol. 9 #13–18 | 144 | July 17, 2018 | 978-1401280833 |
In other media
Television
- Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears in the Smallville episode "Booster",[51] portrayed by Jaren Brandt Bartlett. This version is a shy and clumsy teenager from Metropolis who was bullied until he bonded to the Blue Beetle scarab following a traffic accident near Kord Industries. Seeking to find the scarab, Ted Kord hires Booster Gold to help him, leading to the latter fighting Reyes before ultimately convincing him to stand up for himself. Kord offers to remove the scarab, but Reyes chooses to keep it and become a hero with his and Booster's help.
- Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears in Reach's control and is forced to attack the Green Lantern Corps, but eventually regains control and frees the rest of the Reach's thralls via the Green Lanterns' energy.
- Additionally, an evil alternate universe incarnation of Reyes called the Scarlet Scarab (also voiced by Friedle) appears in the episode "Deep Cover for Batman!" as a member of the Injustice Syndicate.[53]
- In 2010, Geoff Johns announced a TV series featuring Jamie Reyes / Blue Beetle,[54][55][56] with a test trailer starring Garrett Plotkin as Reyes being released. Scenes of this trailer were shown as part of the DC Nation block of programming in 2012 on Cartoon Network during the premiere of Green Lantern: The Animated Series. However, no further announcements have been made.
- Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears in Young Justice, voiced by Eric Lopez.[57] This version is initially a member of the Team who became attached to the Blue Beetle scarab while passing by Kord Industries after Ted Kord sacrificed himself to stop the Light from obtaining the device. Additionally, Reyes does not experience pain while transforming into the Blue Beetle. Moreover, the Scarab (also voiced by Lopez) can speak in English, finds lethal courses of action preferable to capture and restraint, and was severed from the Reach's control after it landed on Earth centuries prior and came into contact with ancient Bialyan mystics. After being misled by the Reach's Green Martian thrall, B'arzz O'oomm / Green Beetle, Reyes and the Scarab fall under the Reach's control until the Team use the ancient mystics' magic to free them along with Green Beetle. Reyes would go on to help thwart the Reach's invasion of Earth and, in the third season, join Beast Boy's Outsiders and enter a relationship with Traci Thurston.
- Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears in Justice League Action, voiced by Jake T. Austin.[58]
Film
- Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears in films set in DC Animated Movie Universe (DCAMU), voiced again by Jake T. Austin. This version is a member of the Teen Titans.
- He first appears in Justice League vs. Teen Titans.[59]
- In Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, his troubled family life is explored as he takes up work in a soup kitchen and eventually reconciles with his family.[60]
- Reyes makes a non-speaking appearance in a flashback in Paradooms.
- An older Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears in a self-titled film, portrayed by Xolo Maridueña.[61][62][63] This version is a recent college graduate from the fictional Palmera City instead of El Paso, Texas who was personally entrusted with the Scarab by Ted Kord's daughter, Jenny Kord, to keep it away from Ted's villainous sister, Victoria.
- Reyes will return in films set in the DC Universe (DCU) franchise,[64] with Maridueña reprising the role.[65]
Video games
- Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears as a playable character in Batman: The Brave and the Bold – The Videogame, voiced again by Will Friedle.[66][67]
- Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears as a DLC character in Young Justice: Legacy, voiced again by Eric Lopez.
- Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears as a playable character in Infinite Crisis, voiced again by Eric Lopez.
- Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears as a character summon in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.
- Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears as a playable character in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, voiced by Dee Bradley Baker.
- Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears as a playable character in Injustice 2, voiced by Antony Del Rio. This version is a member of Batman's Insurgency.
- Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears as a playable character in Lego DC Super-Villains, voiced by Josh Keaton.
Miscellaneous
- Jaime Reyes appears in DC Universe Online: Legends as one of several metahumans gathered by Lex Luthor.
- Jaime Reyes appears in
- The Injustice incarnation of Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears in the Injustice 2 prequel comic as a protege of Ted Kord.[citation needed]
- Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle makes background appearances in DC Super Hero Girls as a student of Super Hero High.
See also
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