Blue Beetle

The first Blue Beetle trailer has arrived giving us our first official look at the highly-anticipated DC film releasing this August.

He has also had one other brush with a live-action incarnation appearing in an episode of the tenth season of Smallville. The second version was a Charlton Comics character that was eventually purchased by DC Comics and served as the inspiration for the Nite Owl character in the Watchmen series. [Cobra Kai](https://thenerdy.com/tag/cobra-kai/)) as the Beetle himself, Jaime Reyes.

The “Blue Beetle” trailer released today, providing a glimpse into the world of the bug-legged superhero. Set to hit theaters on August 18.

DC's Blue Beetle trailer features Xolo Maridueña as Jaime Reyes and Susan Sarandon as Victoria Kord fighting over the mysterious and alien power of the ...

The Blue Beetle trailer looks fun. The trailer for the Blue Beetle movie has apparently dropped sooner than DC had anticipated. She seems to believe the Scarab belongs to her (perhaps a nod to Victoria’s comics relationship to Ted Kord, a previous Blue Beetle) and will do anything to get it back.

With the first trailer for DC's Blue Beetle movie now online, we break down everything you need to know about Jaime Reyes and the other heroes who have ...

Is Blue Beetle part of the old DCEU, the new DCU, or neither? The Ted Kord Blue Beetle joins the Justice League, paving the way for his iconic partnership with Booster Gold and playing a key role in the DCU up until his death in 2005’s Countdown to Infinite Crisis. Fury of the Gods](/articles/shazam-fury-of-the-gods-director-dcu-overhaul), there's nothing stopping Gunn from working Blue Beetle into his new DCU if that's what Gunn wants. But only now is Blue Beetle appearing in a live-action film. The latter revamped the Blue Beetle mythos by more closely tying Jaime to his predecessor, Ted Kord, and revealing the scarab to be magical in origin rather than extraterrestrial. It’s also worth pointing out that Blue Beetle is the main inspiration for Watchmen’s Nite Owl. In emergencies, Jaime can even activate “infiltrator mode,” which allows the scarab to take control of the suit and dispatch enemies with brutal efficiency. Again, Jaime’s own inexperience is the greatest hindrance to his powers, and early on he struggles to bond with the scarab and realize his true potential. Though DC eventually canceled the Blue Beetle series in 2009, Jaime continued to play a role in books like Teen Titans and Justice League: Generation Lost. While the Blue Beetle character dates all the way back to 1939, Jaime Reyes himself didn’t come along until 2006. Jaime quickly embraces his new role as a teen superhero, with his story continuing in the pages of the monthly Blue Beetle comic. Whether alone or fighting alongside groups like the Teen Titans, Blue Beetle is a powerful force for good, even if his scarab initially has darker motives.

This morning DC and Warner Bros. gave us our first look at Blue Beetle, the former HBO Max exclusive superhero movie from Angel Manuel Soto that's now ...

Jaime Reyes is here to bring a new hero to the DC Universe, but his new movie trailer also has some interesting connections to Blue Beetle's comics past.

The trailer ends with a brief look at what appears to be the inside of Jaime’s eventual base of operations—seemingly taken over from somewhere inside Kord Industries, given that we see the costumes of the two prior Blue Beetles in the background for a moment. Early on in Jamie’s story, and seemingly in the movie as well, the Scarab often manifests the suit of its own volition, and it takes Jaime a while to actually control his newfound abilities. Given the shadow Kord Industries casts over this whole trailer, it’s no surprise that we’re seeing a lot of Ted’s time as the Blue Beetle even if Ted himself is not the star of the show in this movie. Inside the Big Belly Burger box is in fact not a Big Belly Burger—but the alien scarab that bonds with Jaime’s spine, transforming him into the Blue Beetle. Jaime is given a mysterious package to safeguard with his life in an innocuous hamburger box—which in and of itself is a DC Comics reference. While in most of its history Ted has directly led Kord Industries himself, most recently in the comics, and in the Blue Beetle movie, it’s managed by his sister, Victoria.

Fans are excited over a trailer of the first live-action DC Comics Latino superhero, "Blue Beetle" starting Xolo Maridueña as Jaime Reyes, to be released in ...

Soto told reporters and audience members at a recent Q&A that the film is “unapologetically Latino," IGN “Oh, this movie is going to be epic," one TikTok user [said](https://www.tiktok.com/@society.made.the.joker/video/7217856243023531306?_r=1&_t=8bC9AenvX5i) in a post regarding the trailer. “We are not a genre and we’re not a buzzword either. (In the comics, she’s the sister of the previous owner of the Scarab, Ted Kord.) In the comics, Jaime Reyes is of Mexican American heritage and lives in El Paso, Texas. Reyes is chosen by the Scarab as its symbiotic host, attaching itself to his spine and giving him a bio-mechanical blue suit of armor with extraordinary powers.

"The universe has sent you a gift. You have to figure out what you're gonna do with it."

The scarab activates and attaches itself to his face, to everyone's horror—yep, just like the face huggers in Alien. When the Scarab suddenly chooses Jaime to be its symbiotic host, he is bestowed with an incredible suit of armor capable of extraordinary and unpredictable powers, forever changing his destiny as he becomes the superhero Blue Beetle. Director Angel Manuel Soto [decided not to follow](https://gizmodo.com/dc-blue-beetle-trailer-dc-xolo-mariduena-george-lopez-1850285295) one of the classic storylines, opting instead to cherrypick his favorite moments from the character's entire run. and DC Films decided to add the film to their slate of upcoming theatrical releases instead. The mantle passed to Garrett's student, Ted Kord (and to DC Comics), in 1966. Reyes is the Blue Beetle in this new film from the DC Extended Universe, played by Xolo Maridueña (Cobra Kai).

The debut of young Jaime Reyes represents a sea change in this troublesome franchise. Will the long-awaited film be a new beginning?

From Jaime Reyes' powers to former Blue Beetles' costumes, here are 9 Blue Beetle trailer Easter Eggs and how they tie into the DC Universe.

That's because it contains an ancient relic known as “the Scarab,” which chooses Reyes to be its host, giving him superhuman powers much to the astonishment of ...

The new movie was originally set to release on HBO Max, but will now have a theatrical release. “The universe has sent you a gift and you have to figure out what you are going to do with it,” the character of Rudy, played by George Lopez, tells Reyes in the trailer. [dropped the trailer for “Blue Beetle,”](https://youtu.be/vS3_72Gb-bI) featuring Xolo Maridueña as Reyes, a recent college graduate who becomes a superhero after he is asked to hold on to a box, but not open it.