Josephine McCormick

## **Red Striker Beetleborg****Platinum Purple Beetleborg**

**Josephine "Jo" McCormick** is the **Red Striker Beetleborg**, and later the **Platinum Purple Beetleborg** in the second season.

## Biography

Jo is Drew's little sister, she was granted the ability of super strength by Flabber, which she activated by cracking her knuckles. After Roboborg arrived, Jo received an upgrade, **Mega Spectra Platinum Purple Beetleborg**, after Nukus and Vilor went Mega themselves. Her Red Striker armor was modeled after a female Japanese Rhino Beetle, and her Platinum Purple armor after a ladybug. Jo is often shown wearing a baseball cap backwards.

### Jo's Change

A unique casting change occurred and instead of an official departure removing the character Jo from the cast, when Shannon Chandler left the series, her character remained. Halfway through Season 1, Wolfgang, while playing with a magic book, accidentally cast a spell that caused Jo to change in appearance. Brittany Konarzewski took over Chandler's role in the guise of actually being the original Jo with a new look and voice. To counteract this, Flabber used his magic to make her look and sound the way she always had, but it didn't work on anyone who actually watched the spell being cast. So the viewers, Flabber, Drew, Roland, and Jo herself could still see Jo in her new appearance, but the Hilhurst monsters as well as their family and friends saw her as she looked before.

## Beetleborg

* Red Striker
* Platinum Purple

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**Arsenal**

* Beetle Bonder
* Sonic Laser Saber
	+ Sonic Laser
	+ Pulsaber
* Beetle Battler
	+ Striker Blaster

**Vehicles**

* Red Striker A.V.

* Default
* Mega Spectra

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**Arsenal**

* Data Bonder
* Data Laser
* Metallix Baton
* Astral Pulsar

**Vehicles**

* Sector Cycle
* Platinum Purple B.V.

> Go, Mega Borg!
>
> Transformation announcement, Beetleborgs Metallix

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**Arsenal**

* Cross-Bow

**Vehicles**

* Mega Spectra Sector Cycle

## Notes

* Jo being played by two actress may be an unintentional reference to how her counterpart from *Juukou B-Fighter* had two different users.

## Appearances

* File:Icon-bfighter.png *Big Bad Beetleborgs*
	+ Episode 1: *Beetle Rock, Part 1*
	+ Episode 2: *Beetle Rock, Part 2*
	+ Episode 3: *TNT for Two*
	+ Episode 4: *The Ghost is Toast*
	+ Episode 5: *The Treasure of Hillhurst Mansion*
	+ Episode 6: *Never Cry Werewolf*
	+ Episode 7: *Say the Magic Word*
	+ Episode 8: *Lights, Camera, Too Much Action*
	+ Episode 9: *Nano in the House*
	+ Episode 10: *Locomotion Commotion*
	+ Episode 11: *Cat-Tastrophy*
	+ Episode 12: *Drew and Flabber's Less Than Fabulous Adventure*
	+ Episode 13: *Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun*
	+ Episode 14: *It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World*
	+ Episode 15: *The Hunchback of Hillhurst*
	+ Episode 16: *The Littlest Brattleborg*
	+ Episode 17: *Haunted Hideout*
	+ Episode 18: *Monster Rock*
	+ Episode 19: *Convention Dimension*
	+ Episode 20: *Root of All Evil*
	+ Episode 21: *The Doctor Is In*
	+ Episode 22: *Space Case*
	+ Episode 23: *The Brain in the Attic*
	+ Episode 24: *Bye, Bye Frankie*
	+ Episode 25: *Fangs Over Charterville*
	+ Episode 26: *Curse of the Shadowborg*
	+ Episode 27: *The Rise of the Blaster Borg*
	+ Episode 28: *The Revenge of Vexor*
	+ Episode 29: *A Friend in Need*
	+ Episode 30: *Raiders of the Tomb*
	+ Episode 31: *Big Rumble in Charterville*
	+ Episode 32: *Yo Ho Borgs*
	+ Episode 33: *Christmas Bells and Phantom's Spells*
	+ Episode 34: *Pet Problems*
	+ Episode 35: *Phantom of Hillhurst*
	+ Episode 36: *Operation Frankenbeans*
	+ Episode 37: *The Curse of Mums' Tomb*
	+ Episode 38: *This Old Ghost*
	+ Episode 39: *Jo's Strange Change*
	+ Episode 40: *She Wolf*
	+ Episode 41: *Something Fishy*
	+ Episode 42: *Bride of Frankenbeans*
	+ Episode 43: *Fangula's Last Bite*
	+ Episode 44: *The Good, the Bad, and the Scary*
	+ Episode 45: *Buggin' Out*
	+ Episode 46: *Svengali, By Golly*
	+ Episode 47: *Big Bad Luck*
	+ Episode 48: *A Monster is Born*
	+ Episode 49: *Norman Nussbaum: Vampire Hunter*
	+ Episode 50: *Brotherly Fright*
	+ Episode 51: *Fright Files*
	+ Episode 52: *Borgslayer!*
	+ Episode 53/Finale: *Vexor's Last Laugh*
* File:Icon-kabuto.png *Beetleborgs Metallix*
	+ Episode 1: *Crush of the Crustaceans*
	+ Episode 2: *Metallix Rising*
	+ Episode 3: *Battle Station Alert*
	+ Episode 4: *Ghoul Trouble*
	+ Episode 5: *Totally Slammin' Sector Cycles*
	+ Episode 6: *Headless Over Heels*
	+ Episode 7: *Monster Imposter*
	+ Episode 8: *Horror Hotel*
	+ Episode 9: *Les is More*
	+ Episode 10: *Sunset Boo-levard*
	+ Episode 11: *Extra... Beetleborgs Revealed*
	+ Episode 12: *Who's that Ghoul?*
	+ Episode 13: *Attack of the Brain Suckers*
	+ Episode 14: *Don't Fear the Reaper*
	+ Episode 15: *The Old Gray Flabber*
	+ Episode 16: *Son of Frankenbeans*
	+ Episode 17: *How Does Your Garden Grow?*
	+ Episode 18: *The Curse of the Mummy's Mommy*
	+ Episode 19: *Halloween Haunted House of Horrors*
	+ Episode 20: *Booger Man*
	+ Episode 21: *The Poe and the Pendulum*
	+ Episode 22: *The Lost Comic*
	+ Episode 23: *Enter the Dragonborg*
	+ Episode 24: *To Foretell the Truth*
	+ Episode 25: *Wolfie's Wild Ride*
	+ Episode 26: *Lady and the Champs*
	+ Episode 27: *Astral Ransom*
	+ Episode 28: *Astral Ambush*
	+ Episode 29: *Roboborg*
	+ Episode 30: *Mega Spectra Beetleborgs*
	+ Episode 31: *Battle of the Giants*
	+ Episode 32: *Robo Rumble*
	+ Episode 33: *Super Fang*
	+ Episode 34: *Experiment in Evil*
	+ Episode 35/Finale: *Mega Borg Power*

## See Also

* Rei Hayama - counterpart in *Juukou B-Fighter*.  *See comparison page*.
* Mai Takatori - counterpart in *Juukou B-Fighter*.  *See comparison page*.
* Ran Ayukawa - counterpart in *B-Fighter Kabuto*.  *See comparison page*.