Blue Beetle (Reboot)

Blue Beetle is a 2016 American superhero film and part of The DC Bruce Timm Rebirth Fanon-Verse and a reboot. The film follows After Jaime Reyes graduates from college and returns to his hometown Palmera City, he is chosen to become a symbiotic host to the Scarab, an ancient alien biotechnological relic that grants him a powerful exoskeleton armor, turning him into the superhero Blue Beetle.

### The Scarab

In the remote tundra of Antarctica, members of Kord Industries, led by the company's co-founder and CEO Victoria Kord, locate an ancient alien artifact known as the Scarab.

### Jaime Reyes

Jaime Reyes returns to his hometown of Palmera City after graduating from Gotham Law University, only to learn that his family is facing eviction from their home due to financial difficulties. Jaime's sister Milagro manages to get him a job at Victoria's mansion. However, both are fired after Jaime stops a confrontation between Victoria and her niece Jenny. Jenny later tells Jaime to meet her at Kord Tower the next day to discuss a "job opportunity."

### Becoming The Blue Beetle

The next day, Jenny finds that Victoria is using the Scarab for her One Man Army Corps (OMAC) projects. She steals the Scarab and avoids security by giving it to Jaime, hidden inside a Big Belly Burger to-go box. At home, Jaime's family convinces him to open the Scarab box. When Jaime touches it, the Scarab activates and fuses with him, encasing him in an armored exoskeleton.

### Kord Tower

Jaime later finds Jenny for answers, rescuing her from Victoria's armed forces. She tells Jaime that the Scarab is a sentient weapon and that it has willingly chosen Jaime to be its host. With the help of Jaime's uncle Rudy, Jaime and Jenny break into Kord Tower to retrieve a smartwatch that once belonged to Jenny's father Ted, but are attacked by Victoria's bodyguard Ignacio Carapax, who has an OMAC prototype infused in his body. The Scarab revealed to be named Khaji-Da, temporarily takes over Jaime's body and battles Carapax. Rudy and Jenny help incapacitate Carapax, then escape to Jenny's childhood home with Jaime.

### Ted

Jenny uses Ted's watch to activate his secret laboratory and reveals to Jaime that Ted was originally a vigilante named Blue Beetle who spent his life studying Khaji-Da before mysteriously disappearing, leaving his company in Victoria's hands.

### Attack on the Reyes Household

They notice Victoria's helicopter flying toward Jaime's home, Jaime summons Khaji-Da and returns to protect his family. As they escape, Jaime's father, Alberto, suffers a cardiac arrest and dies, distracting Jaime and allowing Carapax to capture him.

### Battle at Pago Island

Jaime is taken to an island fortress near Cuba, where he is strapped to a machine that downloads information from Khaji-Da to the OMACs. While unconscious, Jaime sees a vision from his father, who encourages him to embrace his destiny as the new Blue Beetle. Jaime awakens and escapes as Carapax's OMAC suit activates and evolves into a more powerful form.

Jenny and the Reyes family use Ted's Bugship and its weapons arsenal to storm the island. Jaime reunites with his family, then encounters Carapax and battles him. Jaime nearly kills Carapax before Khaji-Da reveals to Jaime memories of Carapax's enslavement by Victoria for the OMAC experiments, including Carapax's mother's death at Victoria's hands, leading Jaime to spare him. Carapax rebels against Victoria and sets his OMAC suit to explode, destroying the island, himself, and Victoria as vengeance for his mother. As the Reyes family escapes from the island, they take time to mourn Alberto.

### Blue Beetle

In the aftermath, Jenny becomes the new CEO of Kord Industries and promises to repair the damage caused to the Reyes family, helping them rebuild their home. As the neighbors gather around the remains of the Reyes family's home and provide support, Jaime kisses Jenny and then offers to fly her to the Kord Estate as protect his home town for good as Blue Beetle.

### The Mid Credit Scene

In a mid-credits scene, a distorted recording is broadcast in Ted's laboratory, attempting to inform Jenny that he is alive.

### The Post Credit Scene

In Space, A Reach Ship has learned about The Scarab is on Earth and decided to go to Earth to find it.

## Cast

* Xolo Maridueña as Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle III
* Adriana Barraza as Nana Reyes
* Damián Alcázar as Alberto Reyes
* Elpidia Carrillo as Rocio Reyes
* Bruna Marquezine as Jenny Kord
	+ Isabella Aparicio as young Jenny Kord
* Raoul Trujillo as Lieutenant Ignacio Carapax/OMAC
	+ Ayden Rivera as young Ignacio Carapax
	+ Xol Gonzalez as teen Ignacio Carapax
* Susan Sarandon as Victoria Kord
* George Lopez as Rudy Reyes
* Belissa Escobedo as Milagro Reyes
* Harvey Guillén as Dr. Sanchez
* Becky G as Khaji-Da (voice)
* Jorge Jimenez as Tio Chema
* Eyra Agüero Joubert as Tia Maru
* Gabriella Ortiz as Tia Letty
* Modesto Lacén as General Crane
* Oshún Ramirez as Nayeli
* Carlos Ponce as Bentley Owner
* Jon Z as Dude #3
* Jason Bateman as Ted Kord/Blue Beetle ll