History ComicBook / BlueBeetle

** His DC series featured adventures with the Question and the Teen Titans[[note]]at that point Nightwing, Cyborg, Donna Troy, Beast Boy, Jericho and Starfire.[[/note]]. It also tied in to {{Crisis Crossover}}s ''ComicBook/LegendsDC'' and ''ComicBook/{{Millennium}}''.

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* RoguesGallery: Jaime has a bizzare one, most of which only get to show up once or twice. His first big enemy was his best friend's aunt, La Dama. Her number one henchman was the magician known as Diviner. The mysterious monster called Bottom Feeder has attacked him multiple times for varying reasons related to his insanity. There's also Doctor Alan Von Newman's robot creations (most of which he made back in the 40s) and [[spoiler: the Scarab should it ever be properly rebooted.]]

%%* TheSociopath: Doctor Polaris.

A younger, pre-Blue Beetle Ted was introduced at the end of ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil'' in 2014, courtesy of the CosmicRetcon that created the New 52. An AlternateTimeline version of Ted, based on his JLI incarnation, featured in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeague3000''.

* CommutingOnABus: Following his death, Ted became a recurring character in ''ComicBook/BoosterGold'' vol. 2 thanks to TimeTravel and [[ComicBook/BlackestNight a Black Lantern Ring]], and it wasn't till ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' that the bus came to a halt. It took over three years before he reappeared at the end of ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil'', and it was another two years before he returned to the main DCU in ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' with an ongoing role.

* DisappearedDad: His father died in the beginning of ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil''.

* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: Jaime tries this on anyone he finds under a scarab's control. Escalated into a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind when [[spoiler:Peacemaker is taken over by his scarab ''and'' a Yellow Lantern ring]].

* ''Blue Beetle'' - Jaime is set to headline his own solo movie in the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse.

* RealityEnsues: Blur can teleport, but even spamming Beetle with rapid teleporting, her powers are no match for his armor or weapons.
** Also people tend to think he is nuts talking to Ted who is his MissionControl.
** Subverted because it was hinted that Root, her boss, ordered her to distract Beetle.

* EvilFormerFriend: [[spoiler:The Black Beetle claims to be Hector (a member of Jaime's MissionControl), who comes to blame Jaime for the death of Nadia and flees El Paso, adopting the pseudonym Joshua.]] This is most likely the truth, since this origin is more-or-less depicted in the actual comics (in other books, though). However, there's also the fact [[MultipleChoicePast he keeps claiming to be]] [[{{Troll}} whoever will get the biggest rise out of his opponent]]. Subverted since [[spoiler: The Black Beetle claimed to have killed Hector and took his scarab which, considering we never Hector later in the stories involving Jaime, seems to be more likely to be the truth.]]

* EvilFormerFriend: [[spoiler:The Black Beetle claims to be Hector (a member of Jaime's MissionControl), who comes to blame Jaime for the death of Nadia and flees El Paso, adopting the pseudonym Joshua.]] This is most likely the truth, since this origin is more-or-less depicted in the actual comics (in other books, though). However, there's also the fact [[MultipleChoicePast he keeps claiming to be]] [[{{Troll}} whoever will get the biggest rise out of his opponent]].

** [[spoiler: Ted himself may or may not have become a villain himself in ''Comicbook/SuicideSquad'']]

* [[spoiler: FaceHeelTurn]]: Apparently is going through one in the 2019 ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad.''

* TheManBehindTheMan: Lok answers to him in ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad''

* ThereAreNoGoodExecutives: Remains an aversion, being inspired by his father's example to make a difference in the world.
** [[spoiler: That may have changed.]]

* UnfamiliarCeiling: Peacemaker waking up after ripping a scarab out of his back with a broken bit of armor. He also stands up, then falls down, and is funny.

Not to be confused with the one from Series/TheElectricCompany1971 or [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]]'s car, a blue V W Beetle that was named as a ShoutOut to the aforementioned Electric Company character by the main character.Or another [[WesternAnimation/TheTick muscled, blue, arthropod-themed superhero]].

Not to be confused with [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]]'s car, a blue V W Beetle that was named as a ShoutOut by the main character. Or the one from Series/TheElectricCompany1971. Or another [[WesternAnimation/TheTick muscled, blue, arthropod-themed superhero]].

* {{Adorkable}}: Still. If anything he's even ''more'' charmingly geeky than the previous version.
-->'''Ted:''' ''(BIG grin)'' [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gamestooge/27257308691/in/dateposted-public/ MAGIC?]]

%%* {{Adorkable}}: Like you wouldn't believe.

* BigApplesauce: In issue #6, Jaime flees to New York City to protect his loved ones and to find other superheroes who will help him be a better hero.

* NeverMessWithGranny: Jaime's grandma may be three feet tall and can't fight her way out of a paper bag, but you do not talk smack about Jaime '''or''' Blue Beetle in her presence.
* OhCrap: It takes Jaime a second to realize that Brenda watching him try to protect La Dama from Giganta is a ''very'' bad thing.

* ObliviousMockery: In one comic, Batman shows Jaime the Brother Eye satellite which went berserk and created an OMAC army in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis.'' Jaime asks what kind of person would build a machine like that, and Batman asks him not to let Green Arrow hear him say that (Batman was the one who built it).

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: Nadia in the last issue pre-Flashpoint.]]

* ArchEnemy: The Reach. The Negotiator/Ambassador and his enforcer Dawur (the primary inspiration for Black Beetle in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'') being the main ones behind the plan, but the Reach as a whole are Jaime's greatest enemy. Almost all the bad guys he fights after that are either on the Reach's pay roll or part of their plans. These villains include Typhoon, Lobo and The Ultra Humanite. [[spoiler: Even with them defeated, they still leave remnant surprises from that time, like the Khaji-Da Liberation Army.]]
* ArtifactOfDoom: The Scarab turns out to be one of these. Long assumed to be magical, it's actually [[spoiler: a weapon left behind by a hostile alien race. And they want it back.]]

* HeterosexualLifePartners and/or HoYay: [[PortmanteauCoupleName Boostle]]
** Referenced in ''ComicBook/BoosterGold (v2)'' #25 when Jaime's little sister Milagro has Booster and Ted Kord dolls get married.

* CaptainErsatz: The Scarlet Scarab (and a bit of ComicBook/SpiderMan, but less than other incarnations) in Creator/{{Marvel Comics}}, plus Nite-Owl I in ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}''.

* DyingToBeReplaced

* ArchEnemy: The Reach. The Negotiator/Ambassador and his enforcer Dawur (the primary inspiration for Black Beetle in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'') being the main ones behind the plan, but the Reach as a whole are Jaime's greatest enemy. Almost all the bad guys he fights after that are either on the Reach's pay roll or part of their plans. These villains include Typhoon, Lobo and The Ultra Humanite. [[spoiler: Even with them defeated, they still leave remnant surprises from that time, like the Khaji-Da Liberation Army.]]

* IJustWantToBeNormal: In issue #16, Eclipso uses magic to bring forth Jaime's "deepest, darkest fantasies of ultimate power". The result? She turns him into a [[spoiler:dentist]]. Also a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.

* TearJerker: In-universe example. When Jaime tells his friends and family the story about how [[spoiler:how he was left alone in space when the Scarab cloaked him and all the heroes left him behind]], everyone but Peacemaker is brought to tears. It doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} when Milagro finally gives her returned big brother a hug, though.

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* ColorCharacter

* {{Adorkable}}: Like you wouldn't believe.

* FunWithAcronyms: Ted Kord was the CEO of Kord Omniversal Research and Development, Inc. For short, you can call it KORD, Inc.
** Which is a nice bit of BitingTheHandHumor directed at "[[Creator/DCComics Detective Comics Comics]]".

* SignatureLaugh: BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

* TakeUpMySword

* ActionSurvivor
* AdaptiveArmor: Jaime's suit.

* BadassNormal: Alberto and Bianca (Jaime's parents), Paco and Brenda, Peacemaker... {{Fanon}} holds that badass runs in the Reyes family, which suggests Milagro, Jaime's little sister, is destined for big things.
** That {{fanon}} maybe becoming Canon as a recent backup suggests that Milagro will be important, maybe more important than Jaime.

* CaptainErsatz: If Ted Kord was similar to ComicBook/SpiderMan, Jaime is even more so!
** Made even more blatant in ''Smallville'', where Jaime is portrayed as a shy dork who constantly gets bullied by his classmates before finding the Scarab.

* ContinuityNod

* EvilCounterpart: The Black Beetle, an enemy of Jaime's from some point in his future, who also uses a Reach scarab.
** He also has a villainous alternate universe counterpart in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' named Scarlet Scarab.

* GreenLanternRing: The Scarab, which was created to be one of the most versatile - and deadly - weapons in the universe, and in Franchise/TheDCU that's saying something. It has enough firepower to threaten ''cities'', and one of its higher-level weapons has potential theological implications...
** Also, ''real'' Green Lanterns don't like being around it, with responses varying from "headache" to "homicidal urges." The GL Corps and the Reach have some history...

* InternalHomage: In ''Countdown to Infinite Crisis'', Ted Kord died on his knees, with a gun to his head. In ''Blue Beetle'' #24, Jaime breaks out of the Reach's prison and scavenges clothing and equipment off the Reach he dispatches that end up putting him in something that greatly resembles Ted's costume. Then he's re-captured by the Big Bad, who puts him on his knees and puts a gun to his head in an obvious callback to Ted's fate. The cover made it explicit, showing the scene with Jaime repeating Ted's last words ("Rot in Hell!").

* MaleGaze: Repeatedly used in the Brave and the Bold episode, "Night of the Huntress!" The subplot of the episode revolves almost entirely around Jaime's schoolboy crush on Huntress of the Comicbook/BirdsOfPrey.

* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Most of the Scarab's suggestions. [[spoiler: It gets better.]]
* NiceGuy: One of the most notable things about Jaime is his all-around good nature and overall genuine desire to do good and be good.
** This also ends up thwarting an attempt by Eclipso to unleash his EnemyWithin on an unsuspecting world-[[spoiler:the supervillain summons Jamie's deepest, darkest power fantasy to possess him...and said power fantasy is Jamie as a ''highly-paid dentist''.]]

* OffstageVillainy: La Dama. In the story that introduced her, she seemed at first to be abducting teens, but in the end it was revealed that she was sort of creating an ExtranormalInstitute. In an issue of the relaunched ''ComicBook/TheBraveAndTheBold'' where the Blue Beetle teamed up with Batman, an alien tried to sell her a superweapon, but it's unclear what law that breaks. (Receiving stolen property is a crime, but when one alien steals something from another alien while on another planet, good luck prosecuting.) That's it for her villainy, and on the other side she has been [[spoiler:a doting mother figure to her niece]] and has played TheCavalry to Blue Beetle at least once. This nemesis just isn't all that bad.
** It's explained that [[spoiler: Amparo ratcheted down her illegal activities immensely when her sister, Brenda's mother, got sick and she realized that she might actually have to become a good influence in the life of someone she cared about.]]

* PhlebotinumRebel

** RoguesGalleryTransplant: Doctor Polaris, Brother Eye and Jean Loring/Eclipso. Most show up for just an issue, but some stick around for a lot longer. Other one shot other rogues include Giganta and Parasite. There's also the old Dan Garret enemy Mephistopheles, a mad scientists who made monsters [[spoiler: who has long since retired, but his dog is still somewhat monstrous sometimes, as the death of his first monster scarred him deeply.]]
** ArchEnemy: The Reach by far. The Negotiator/Ambassador and his enforcer Dawur (the primary inspiration for Black Beetle in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'') being the main ones behind the plan, but the Reach as a whole are Jaime's greatest enemy. Almost all the bad guys he fights after that are either on the Reach's pay roll or part of their plans. These villains include Typhoon, Lobo and The Ultra Humanite. [[spoiler: Even with them defeated, they still leave remnant surprises from that time, like the Khaji-Da Liberation Army.]]
** After his series ends, he gets a few more rogues: Black Beetle (whose origins are clouded in mystery, to Jaime's annoyance) and Maxwell Lord among them.

-->'''Peacemaker''': Hey, any alien encounter where you don't end up dead or [[AnalProbe probed]] is a good one. Especially probed.
-->'''Jaime''': Your stories are getting weirder. You know that, right?

* TheSociopath: Doctor Polaris.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: A number of fans had trouble misreading the new BB's name as "Jamie" rather than "Jaime."
** As [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] put it, "It's 'Hye-Mae', not 'Jamie.' Don't make me pull out the [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle "More You Know"]] logo."

* HenshinHero: Blue Beetle.

* HyperCompetentSidekick: Ted seems to be delegating Kord Industries' day to day operations to his assistant Teri, who seems to not mind.
** This is a bit of a MythologyGag to Ted's first solo series at DC where he did the same thing with Melody Case. Melody however was usually far more exasperated at his antics.

* SecretKeeper: He seems to be withholding the fact that his assistant Teri and Milagro's new friend Tina are from the future, namely from Giffen and [=DeMatteis=]' ''ComicBook/{{Justice League 3000}}'' and ''3001'' series.
** Also hid the fact Jaime's mom is helping the Posse as their doctor, and he's funding her clinic.

* MagicalGirlfriend: Traci 13.

* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Most of the Scarab's suggestions.