Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes)

Jaime Reyesis asuperheroappearing inAmerican comic bookspublished byDC Comics.Created byKeith Giffen,John Rogers,andCully Hamner,the character made his first appearance inInfinite Crisis#3 (February 2006). Jaime Reyes is the third character to assume the mantle ofBlue Beetle,but is substantially different from his predecessors.

Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle
Portion of the variant cover art ofInfinite Crisis#5 (April 2006). Art byJim Lee.
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 Static Miss Martian
Notable aliases	Blue Beetle,Scarab
Abilities	See list Reach Scarab armored suit grants: Flight Superhuman strength and durability Melee weapon production Translation of alien languages Energy pulse shield projection Ability to create and unleash powerful hand blasts/beams Sound manipulation Technomorphy Pyrokinesis & Mechanokinesis Mind link with the Scarab due to his bond with Khaji Da

Introduced in 1939, the original Blue Beetle,Dan Garret,was aFox Comicspolice officer who fought crime with superpowers gained by ingesting Vitamin 2X. A revamped version of this character,archaeologistDan Garrett, introduced in 1964 byCharlton Comicsdrew mystical abilities from an ancientEgyptianscarab.Published by Charlton Comics and later DC, 1966 creationTed Kordwas Garret's student who continued his legacy of costumed crime-fighting, although he had no superpowers.

DC's introduction of Jaime Reyes in 2006retconnedand expanded upon the Blue Beetlemythos.Revealed to be alien in origin, the scarab bonds with Reyes and provides him with a suit of extraterrestrial armor shortly after Kord's death. Though only a teenager, Reyes quickly forms a working relationship with Kord's former teammate and best friendBooster Goldand is inducted into theTeen Titansand theJustice League.

Blue Beetle has appeared in various media outside comics.Will Friedle,Eric Lopez,Jake T. Austin,and others have voiced the character in animated television series and films. Jaren Bartlett portrayed the character in a 2011 episode of the television seriesSmallville,andXolo Maridueñaportrayed the character in the 2023 live-action filmBlue Beetle,set in theDC Extended Universe.He will continue to play the character in the rebootedDC Universe(DCU) franchise.

Publication history

InInfinite Crisis#5 (March 2006), Reyes became Blue Beetle's third incarnation. His own monthly series debuted two months later withBlue Beetlevol. 7 #1 (May 2006);it was initially written byKeith GiffenandJohn Rogers,with artistCully Hamner.Giffen left before issue #10 and Rogers took over full writing duties, joined by new artist Rafael Albuquerque.Rogers left in issue #25 to concentrate on his television seriesLeverage.

After a couple of fill-in issues,Lilah Sturgesbecame the main writer in issue #29but the series was canceled with last issue #36 in February 2009.EditorDan DiDioput the cancellation down to poor sales and said thatBlue Beetlewas "a book that we started with very high expectations, but it lost its audience along the way".

The character returned in June 2009 as a "co-feature" of the more popularBooster Goldcomic.

Character biography

Jaime lives inEl Paso,Texas,USas the son ofAlberto ReyesandBianca Reyesand the brother ofMilagro Reyes.Jaime has an acute sense of responsibility for his immediate family andvariousfriends,though he complains about having to sort out their various problems.He derives strength and courage from his family's support, wanting what is best for them.

Infinite Crisis

Main article:Infinite Crisis

The mystical Scarab that had given Dan Garrett his powers had been thought destroyed. When it was found intact, it was given toTed Kord,who was never able to use it. After an attack byBrother Eye,the Scarab appeared energized and Ted brought it to the wizardShazam,who took it and sent Ted away. Shortly after, in theDay of Vengeancestoryline, Shazam was killed and the Scarab was blasted across the globe along with shards from The Rock of Eternity.

The Scarab came to Earth inEl 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 forBatman'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 theGreen Lanternson board.

Ongoing series

Jaime was next seen in his own monthly series, fighting off Green LanternGuy Gardner,who had been driven to rage by his ring's reaction to the scarab. A flashback expanded on Jaime's discovery of the scarab, revealing how the scarab bonded itself to Jaime and showing his first encounter with ametahuman.After that fight with Guy Gardner, Jaime found himself alone and naked in the desert and had to hitchhike home. Upon his return, Jaime discovered he had been missing fora yearbecause the scarab used a dimensional mode of transport to return to Earth. Unlike most superheroes, Jaime shared his identity with family and friends.

He began a career as a superhero, meetingOracle,thePhantom Strangerand the currentPeacemakerduring his early adventures and ends up in conflict with supervillains like the ones that work for the crime BossLa Dama.He often associates himself with a street gang of local superhumans known as the Posse. His support team agreed to help Jaime track crime and natural disasters in the Midwest via the Internet.

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 theReachof Space Sector 2. Gardner returns and reveals how the Reach and theGreen Lantern Corpshad battled in the past, forcing the Reach into a truce. The Reach continued pursuing their invasion plans, offering the scarab as a "protector" and then forcibly turning his host into their vanguard. The scarab's fully functionalA.I.acts as an agent for the Reach. As Jaime's scarab has only a partly functioning A.I., falling more and more into his control and forming an alliance with him, the Reach changed their agenda into feigning friendship with Jaime and the Earth, attacking him in a more subversive manner.

The Reach

The Reachare ancient enemies of theGuardians of the Universe,though their pact with the Guardians forbids them from invading new cultures, including Earth.Jaime has recently sought help fromS.T.A.R. Labsto discover the scarab's full power. The Reach appear to be enemies of theControllers;Jaime's scarab suit reacts violently to aDarkstarsuniform worn by the currentManhunterKate Spencer.

In aCountdown to Final Crisistie-in, Jaime assistsTraci Thirteen(former) in foilingEclipso'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 laterGuy Gardner,FireandIce.Attacking several guards and taking their armor, Jaime heads for the engine, forcing the Reach to shut it down which reveals their ship. Once captured and brought to the bridge, Jaime shouts "Khaji Da!".He then reveals that, during the time spent with him, the scarab has gained a personality of its own and fully detached itself from the Reach hive-mind. ClaimingKhaji Da(the combined utterance ofKhaji,the codeword forInfiltratorandDa,its own serial number) as its name, the scarab sides with Reyes against the Reach. As the battle continues the Reach Negotiator unleashes a doomsday device on Earth in retaliation for his defeat. Jaime and the scarab agree to sacrifice themselves to stop the superweapon. At the last moment, Booster Gold appears and saves them both. The bond with the scarab stronger than ever, Jaime wonders if other scarabs will gain a personality due toKhaji Datalking to them about individuality.

Teen Titans

Jaime first teams up with the Titans inTeen Titansvol. 3 #50 andBlue Beetlevol. 7 #18, fightingLobo,along with the group to ensure the launch of a satellite armed with anti-Reach technology. The Reach themselves apparently hire Lobo to keep their facade as benevolent protectors; at the last moment,Batmanand the Teen Titans believe Jaime. Although criticizing Jaime for his lack of formal training, the Titans extend an invitation to visit and perhaps join the team. The Reach later attempt to remove Jaime from the equation, combining the missing A.I. of Jaime's scarab, a new scarab and aSinestro Corpspower ringinto thePeacemaker,forcing him to cut the scarab from his spine to ensure that his scarab could not be used as a weapon again.

Jaime comes face to face with theSpectre,along with Luis, the man who had been responsible for crippling Jaime's father. After a visit from his quasi-girlfriendTraci Thirteen(former), Jaime realizes that he cannot stop the Spectre from executing the inmates. Jaime is forced to forgive Luis and reason with the Spectre. Partially successful, the Spectre warns Jaime that if he ever lets the scarab kill, the Spectre will come for him.

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 theJustice League.He later proves instrumental in the younger Titans' victory against their future selves and proves himself to be a competent hero by incapacitating theFuture Flashand freeing the Justice League. He also aids the Titans in defeatingStarro.During the conflict with the future Titans, Jaime is actively attacked by the adult version ofKid Devil,Red Devil, who claims that Jaime cannot be trusted. On the other hand,Lex Luthordescribes Blue Beetle as an "unremitting nuisance" who holds on to his view of right and wrong no matter how much the world changes around him.

Jaime is recruited byBlack Beetle(who originally identifies himself as a Blue Beetle from the future) and Garrett to go into the past with Booster Gold to prevent Kord's death. After saving Kord, Jaime and Garrett return, and the future is revealed to be a dystopia ruled byMaxwell Lord,who now was never exposed and defeated. Black Beetle is also revealed to be a future enemy of Jaime's, who tries to create this future so he will never have to deal with Jaime and so he "would not lose her". InBooster Goldvol. 2 #10, seeing the damage done by their actions, Ted decides to accept his death and returns to the past, seemingly to the exact moment where he was murdered by Lord, returning the timeline to equilibrium and thus preventing the dystopia. However, in the epilogue forBooster Goldvol. 2 #1.000.000, a figure with a scarab enters a Kord Industries building that contains a Bug and a picture of Kord's enemyOverthrowamong other things. His trademark laugh hints that it is actually Ted, who somehow escaped death but managed to fix the timestream.

The villainShockwaverevealed during his battle with Jaime that Kord Industries is now owned by the100.He again came into conflict with Kid Devil, who still harbored a grudge against him because of both the future Titans incident and his status withRavager.Jaime tries to mend fences with Kid Devil, but their squabbling allows Shockwave to escape. During their second battle with him, Kid Devil managed to tap into his demonic powers and partially melts Shockwave's armor, enabling the two boys to defeat him. This seems to squelch the ill feelings between them. Kid Devil asks Jaime if he's heard from Ravager and Jaime replies that he's faced down an entire alien race, but Ravager scares him. Kid Devil finally realizes that Jaime is being sincere and they shake hands and tell each other their real names. Later, atTitans Tower,Robin offers Jaime full-membership, which he finally feels ready to accept.

In the aftermath of theFinal Crisiscrossover event,Kid Eternity,Staticand Aquagirl join the team after their rescue from theDark 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 theFearsome Five,Beetle reluctantly allows Traci to assist the team in rescuing her. In the aftermath, Red Devil is killed saving the city.

WhenBeast Boyarrives at Titans Tower to lead the team, Jaime distrusts him and accuses him of caring more about winningRaven's love than helping the team.

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.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.

Further adventures

Starting inBooster Goldvol. 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.Jaime eventually manages to usetachyonbeams 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.

Blue Beetle also teams with egotistical superheroHardwareto bring down a group of criminals using tech stolen from the lateEdwin Alvaby the secondGizmo.Despite finding Hardware difficult to work with, the two take down the criminals and depart on friendly terms.

Not much later, he is visited bySkeets,Booster Gold's robotic partner, who warned him of his disappearance. Deciding to team up with the small machine to find Booster to pay respect to him for introducing him to the superhero world, he reaches the house of Rose Levin andDaniel Carter,Booster's 21st-century ancestors. Soon after he arrives, theBlack LanternTed Kord crashes his ship into Daniel's house and Jaime proceeds to battle Kord. Although outmatched and insulted by the Black Lantern, Jaime continues to fight until Booster enters the scene.

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.

Justice League: Generation Lost

FollowingBlackest Night,Jaime and the other Titans travel to the city of Dakota to rescue Static after he is kidnapped by a metahuman gangster namedHolocaust.Jaime uses the scarab to help locate Static, but he and his teammates are easily defeated during a battle by Holocaust, who is able to block a blast from Jaime's cannon and then strike him with a fireball. The Titans are ultimately rescued whenCyborgarrives withKid FlashandSuperboy.

During the start of theBrightest Dayevent,Deadmanhas a vision of Jaime shaking hands with Maxwell Lord, who is holding a gun behind his back.Shaken by his near-death in Dakota, Jaime informs Static that he plans to briefly leave to visit his family, fearing what would happen if he were to die without saying goodbye.Shortly after arriving home, Jaime and his family are attacked by a squad ofOMACs.With help from Booster Gold, Ice andCaptain Atom,Jaime is able to repel the OMACs, but is accidentally sucked into a teleportation rift they create. The heroes end up in Russia, where Jaime learns of Max Lord and his attempt to make the world forget he ever existed. He agrees to help the former Justice League members bring Lord to justice.After a battle with members of theRocket Red Brigade,the heroes learn that Max Lord has been manipulating the team in hopes that they would reformJustice League International,with Jaime taking the role held years earlier by Ted Kord.

Before they can figure out their next move, the base is attacked by theCreature 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.When Blue Beetle is in captivity, Max injects him with an unknown substance.Tortured, he remembers Max's existence as the man who killed Ted Kord and destroyed his legacy.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.

Max escapes from the JLI using an escape pod. Failing to capture Max, the JLI carried Jaime on the land surface where paramedicsRocket RedandSkeetstry to resuscitate him. Their efforts fail as Jaime had already died.As the team deals with his loss, suddenly he sits up, healed, declaring he knows Max's ultimate plans and that they can stop him.Jaime reveals to them that his healing scarab armor is what protected him from the blaster.When the battle against the OMAC Prime goes nowhere, Blue Beetle attacks and OMAC Prime appears to take his power, but Blue Beetle mentions that it cannot take control with the Scarab's power. Blue Beetle attacks and blasts OMAC Prime.

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 calledThe New 52.One of the new series as aBlue Beetleseries written byTony Bedardand drawn by Ig Guara and cancelled in February 2013.

Reyes and his friend Paco are driving to a party when a fight over a backpack between some men and theBrotherhood of EvilmembersPhobia,PlasmusandWarperupts from a nearby building. To protect Paco, Jaime grabs the backpack. When La Dama's agentsBrutale,Bone-Crusher and a new villain called Coyote join the fight, Brutale throws a knife at the backpack. The scarab inside is set off and Jaime is transformed into Blue Beetle.

InGreen Lantern: New Guardians,other representatives of the Reach attack Odym, homeworld of theBlue Lantern Corps,where it is revealed that their armours have taken control of them; Jaime speculates, during a confrontation withKyle 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 inBlue Beetlevol. 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 armorand regaining control back, he teams up with aNew Godnamed Lonar,to kill the creator of the game Adonis and escape the planet. Lonar kills Adonis, takes his pocket dimension, and disappears.InThreshold#8 the producer of the show The Hunted, reveals that the show has been cancelled and sends Jaimie back to Earth.

InFutures End#0 Blue Beetle is seen working together with the resistance againstBrother Eyeand 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 byDoctor Fate,who tells Kord that the beetle is not alien, but magical, similar to the original continuity pre-Infinite Crisis.

Graduation Day

In theBlue Beetle: Graduation Dayminiseries, 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,Supermanand 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 inSensuntepeque, El Salvador.

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.

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.The suit can adapt to different situations, including producing energy discharges from the hands that can neutralize magic, dischargingKryptoniteradiation 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 withBlue Beetlevol. 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 can communicate with him in a more comprehensible fashion if need be. The scarab's language slowly morphs into a format resembling English, claimingKhaji Daas its name and Jaime as its friend.However, it has occasional language relapses.The suit is capable of compensating for Jaime'sdigestive system,so that he does not need to expelwaste materialswhen using the suit, and can even make paper from dead skin cells.

The scarab exhibits a reluctance to harm nature, as evidenced inBlue Beetlevol. 7 #4, in which Jaime is attacked by a pair of anthropomorphic 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.

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

• A possible future variant of Jaime Reyes appears inJustice Society of Americavol. 3 #37-38. This version lost his powers after a group of white supremacists led byCaptain Naziactivated their Great Darkness Engine to neutralize most of the world's metahumans. After being taken prisoner by them, he is later killed by security guards while helping his fellow prisoners escape.
• A possible future variant of Blue Beetle appears inTitans Tomorrow,in which he is killed byRed Devil.
• An alternate timeline variant of Jaime Reyes appears inFlashpoint.This version is a member of theAmbush Bugswho is later killed amidst a failed attack on theAmazons.

Collected editions

TheBlue Beetleseries has been collected into a number oftrade paperbacks:

Vol. #	Title	Collected material	Pages	Year	ISBN
1	Shellshocked	Blue Beetlevol. 7, #1–6	144	2006	978-1-4012-0965-0
2	Road Trip	Blue Beetlevol. 7, #7–12		2007	978-1-4012-1361-9
3	Reach for the Stars	Blue Beetlevol. 7, #13–19	168	2008	978-1-4012-1642-9
4	End Game	Blue Beetlevol. 7, #20–26	176	2008	978-1-4012-1952-9
5	Boundaries	Blue Beetlevol. 7, #29–34	144	2009	978-1-4012-2162-1
6	Black and Blue	Blue Beetlevol. 7, #27–28, #35–36 Booster Goldvol. 2, #21–25, #28–29	168	2010	978-1-4012-2897-2
The New 52
1	Metamorphosis	Blue Beetlevol. 8, #1–6	144	November 20, 2012	978-1401237134
2	Blue Diamond	Blue Beetlevol. 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 Beetlevol. 9 #1–5	144	May 16, 2017	978-1401268688
2	Hard Choices	Blue Beetlevol. 9 #6–12	168	January 2, 2018	978-1401275075
3	Road to Nowhere	Blue Beetlevol. 9 #13–18	144	July 17, 2018	978-1401280833

In other media

Television

Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle as he appears inSmallville

Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle as he appears inBatman: The Brave and the Bold

• Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears in theSmallvilleepisode "Booster",portrayed by Jaren Bartlett.This version is a shy and clumsy teenager fromMetropoliswho was bullied until he bonded to the Blue Beetle scarab following a traffic accident near Kord Industries. Seeking to find the scarab, Ted Kord hiresBooster Goldto 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 inBatman: The Brave and the Bold,voiced byWill Friedle,whileIoan Gruffuddvoices the Scarab.
  • Additionally, an evil alternate universe variant of Reyes called theScarlet Scarab(also voiced by Friedle) appears in the episode "Deep Cover for Batman!" as a member of theInjustice Syndicate.
• In 2010,Geoff Johnsannounced a TV series featuring Jamie Reyes / Blue Beetle,with a test trailer starring Garrett Plotkin as Reyes being released. Scenes of this trailer were shown as part of theDC Nationblock of programming in 2012 onCartoon Networkduring the premiere ofGreen Lantern: The Animated Series.However, no further announcements have been made.
• Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears inYoung Justice,voiced byEric Lopez,who also voices his scarab.This version is initially a member of theTeamwho became attached to the Blue Beetle scarab while passing by Kord Industries after Ted Kord sacrificed himself to stop theLightfrom obtaining the device. Additionally, Reyes does not experience pain while transforming into the Blue Beetle. Moreover, the Scarab can speak in English, finds lethal courses of action preferable to capture and restraint, and was severed from the Reach's control after landing on Earth centuries prior and being cleansed by 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 thethird season,joinBeast Boy'sOutsidersand enter a relationship withTraci Thurston.
• Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears inJustice League Action,voiced byJake T. Austin.

Film

• Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears in films set in theDC Animated Movie Universe(DCAMU), voiced again by Jake T. Austin.This version is a member of theTeen Titans.Introduced inJustice League vs. Teen Titans,Reyes makes subsequent appearances inTeen Titans: The Judas ContractandJustice League Dark: Apokolips War,where he is killed byParadooms.
• Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears in aself-titled film,portrayed byXolo Maridueña.This version is a recent college graduate from Palmera City who was personally entrusted with the Scarab by Ted Kord's daughter, Jenny Kord, to keep it away from Ted's sister, Victoria.
  • Reyes will return in films set in theDC Universe(DCU),with Maridueña reprising the role.

Video games

• Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears as a playable character inBatman: The Brave and the Bold – The Videogame,voiced again by Will Friedle.
• Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears as a DLC character inYoung Justice: Legacy,voiced again by Eric Lopez.
• Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears as a playable character inInfinite Crisis,voiced again by Eric Lopez.
• Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears as a character summon inScribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.
• Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears as a playable character inLego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham,voiced byDee Bradley Baker.
• Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears as a playable character inInjustice 2,voiced by Antony Del Rio.This version is a member of Batman's Insurgency.
• Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears as a playable character inLego DC Super-Villains,voiced byJosh Keaton.

Miscellaneous

• Jaime Reyes appears inDC Universe Online: Legendsas one of several metahumans gathered byLex Luthor.
• Jaime Reyes appears inSmallville: Titansas a member ofJay Garrick'sTeen Titans.
• Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears in theYoung Justicetie-in comic.
• TheInjusticeincarnation of Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle appears in theInjustice 2prequel comic as a protege of Ted Kord.
• Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle makes background appearances inDC Super Hero Girlsas a student of Super Hero High.

External links

• DC Comics: Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes)Archived2008-05-09 at theWayback Machine
• DC Database Project: Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes)