Blue Beetle

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

The trailer for 'Blue Beetle', DC Extended Universe's upcoming superhero film, is here. The film stars Xolo Maridueña, Susan Sarandon, Adriana Barraza, ...

“It’s some kind of world-destroying weapon,” a more knowledgable voice says in the trailer. The beetle has a name and it’s Scarab. His skin morphs into an exoskeleton reminiscent of a standard-issue supersuit, he grows bug-like appendages on his back, and a threat-detecting computer capable of slicing a bus in half now lives in his brain.

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.

A trailer for DC Studios' Blue Beetle was released. Starring Xolo Maridueña in the lead role, the Angel Manuel Soto directorial introduces the first Latino ...

Reyes' version of the Blue Beetle is more closely tied to the supernatural and mystical elements of the DC Universe, and he has been featured prominently in recent storylines such as Infinite Frontier and Future State. In recent years, DC Comics has introduced a new version of Blue Beetle, Jaime Reyes, which is also the subject of the aforementioned movie. Blue Beetle has been a member of several superhero teams over the years, including the Justice League and the Teen Titans. The original Blue Beetle, Dan Garrett, was created by Charles Nicholas Wojtkoski and first appeared in Mystery Men Comics #1 in 1939. Also, the movie is the first live-action superhero film featuring a Latino in the lead. Starring Xolo Maridueña in the lead role, the Angel Manuel Soto directorial introduces the first Latino superhero in DC's film history.

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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.

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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.

Back with their own series Ted Kord (Blue Beetle) and Booster Gold get to work together again, but we also get Jaime Reyes making an appearance as well! If you' ...

El Paso fans, however, may be disappointed the Sun City is left out of the just-released trailer for the Latino DC comic book superhero. The trailer was ...

Warner Bros. and DC Studios unleashes an electrifying look at their upcoming superhero flick.

Fury of the Gods''' poor commercial and critical performance still lingering in the box office air, let's hope "Blue Beetle" provides some lucrative levity to the fast-fading superhero genre. The movie also features Belissa Escobedo ("Hocus Pocus 2") as Jaime’s sister, Milagro, and Harvey Guillén ("What We Do in the Shadows") as Dr. ) as his mother, Bruna Marquezine ("God Save the King") as Jenny Kord, Raoul Max Trujillo ("Sicario") as Carapax, alongside Susan Sarandon ("Dead Man Walking") as Victoria Kord, and comedian George Lopez as Jaime’s Uncle Rudy. "Blue Beetle" co-stars Adriana Barraza ("Rambo: Last Blood") as Jaime’s grandmother, Nana, Damían Alcázar ("Narcos") as his father, Elpidia Carrillo ("Mayans M.C." [best DC extended universe movies](https://www.space.com/dc-extended-universe-movies-ranked) to prepare for the Blue Beetle's arrival. 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."

In 2018, like many Latino comic book and sci-fi/fantasy fans, I was thrilled when DC Studios announced a Blue Beetle movie featuring Mexican American.

Too often El Paso is forgotten, relegated to intangible, almost unreachable status until it makes the news as a result of a It’s not the El Paso that my family knows. El Paso is also essential to the comic book and to Reyes. The scarab is also sentient, with a knack for assessing everything as a threat to which the only response is outrageous violence. It’s at El Paso that my wife’s family crossed into the U.S. El Paso as Reyes’s home speaks to the multigenerational immigrant experience in a border town. Although he visited El Paso to get a sense for the city, Soto ultimately chose to conjure a fictional sci-fi landscape in a paradise-like shawl. The West Texas border town is important to my family and to Latino kids across the state. But he is the first with supernatural abilities, which are derived from a technologically advanced alien scarab that attaches itself to the kid. I was eager to see a Texas town featured prominently in a live-action superhero movie—to think of all the young folks across the state who would see themselves in Reyes. [Blue Beetle trailer,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?gclid=Cj0KCQjwla-hBhD7ARIsAM9tQKsawopHrsDvP3t6xa81O6JAF20JryEV7rqwSI4Z0f_2AMguFYmi1CIaAloXEALw_wcB&v=vS3_72Gb-bI&feature=youtu.be&themeRefresh=1) comic book fans learned that the movie’s setting isn’t El Paso, the canonical home of Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle. In 2018, like many Latino comic book and sci-fi/fantasy fans, I was thrilled when DC Studios announced a Blue Beetle movie featuring Mexican American teenager Jaime Reyes’s iteration of the character.