If you want to learn more about the blue beetle then don't worry because i've read the wikipedia
page so that you don't have to! WOOF WOOF! Hey guys, it's me Marcus, aka the Maddogg,
and we're back with another video! First debuting as a backup feature in issue 83 of captain atom
which was released in november 1966 ted cord enters the scene as a second incarnation of the
blue beetle the first was dan garrett who reached the peak of his popularity during the golden age
of comics when he was under the representation of the now-defunct publisher fox however he isn't the
go-to when you think of blue beetles so for now we're just gonna jump back to ted cord who was a
gifted athlete and an inventor with a genius level of intellect so pretty much like knew enough every
other superhero that was coming out at the time due to his lack of superpowers he created weapons
and gadgets which were designed to look like beetles which is not too dissimilar to when it
did be who is moon knight and he created weapons and gadgets that look like the moon or when you
think about batman and he does weapons and gadgets that look like a bat because blue beetle gained
some popularity after his appearances in captain atom he was given his own five-issue mini-series
in 1967. he fleshed out his origin story so that ted was actually the student of the original blue
beetle and ted was bestowed the mantle in dan garrett's final moments after he'd been
killed whilst investigating ted's uncle as he was creating an android army that he was planning to
take over the world with but for being honest how often does someone create an android army without
the intention of world domination and today you might know the blue beetle as being part of the dc
universe but juvenile time it was actually being published and was owned by charlton comics so his
popularity during those earlier days was limited to his exposure with all the characters within
that universe a notable one being the question they teamed up a few times and the character
was actually introduced during blue beetle solo series and just before crisis on infinite earth
had happened dc had managed to acquire all the characters from charlton comics and use
this multiverse shattering event to bring blue beetle and other characters into the dc universe
cord had been recruited from his timeline by the monitor in his battle to fight the anti-monitor
and at the end of the event with all the universes being crushed into one blue beetle just managed
to remain in the dc universe he was given his own solo series that was written by len wein and went
on for 24 issues and was also given a spotlight during secret origins and it gave him exposure
to some of the company's biggest characters and managed to appear in some of their series
ted was now the owner of chord industries which was his father's company and it was kind of
similar like the situation between bruce wayne and wayne enterprises so much so that you don't
even need to change the father's name because they were both called thomas in fact the scenarios are
so similar that chord industries was eventually brought by bruce wayne who you know between
you and me is batman he managed to develop the security system for the jla hq which is surprising
considering the fact that the majority of the characters during this time all seem to have
their own r d department and if you've watched me who is power girl you'll see that there's another
character in the dc universe who has a pretty similar company but this was how ted managed
to find his in and become a member of the justice league and at some points became their pilot which
seems a bit redundant considering the fact that so many of their members can fly it was also at
this time when one of the best dynamics for this character was introduced because he became friends
with booster gold and they were commonly referred to as blue and gold and now there's not going to
be a prize for guessing why despite the fact that this was the most popularity that the character
had probably garnered since he was actually created ted was mostly relegated to being a side
character when he worked for the justice league with the next notable thing that happened to him
being during the death of superman which you know spoilers if you didn't know that that happened
it's doomsday rampaged across america ted tried to intervene but was left in a coma and with a
scar running down the back of his skull collar is somebody who likes to bet on an underdog i still
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and once ted was out of the coma his character was in a bit of a creative limbo he and booster joined
the side team extreme justice which was led by captain atom and is honestly the most 90s name for
a superhero team that i could ever imagine he was also in a mini-series called law which stands for
living assault weapon and honestly nobody should ever knowingly identify themselves under that
title the series brought together other former charlton heroes but it had poor critical reception
and not many people were buying it as we moved into the 2000s ted made a few smaller appearances
first in a team known as super buddies and he showed up a handful of times in the birds of prey
he was also alluded to that ted was attracted to oracle but because of the fact that i'm a massive
dick grayson fan and he's pretty much my boy and i'll always defend him i can't really justify this
relationship but what dc gave tedward crisis on infinite earths he took away with infinite
crisis in the build-up to the event ted is held in a belgian castle and is given an ultimatum by
maxwell lord to ensure all meta humans are kept under human surveillance and control
and i honestly don't know how maxwell thought that one would go down but unsurprisingly ted refuses
in his shot in the head which felt a bit mean however this did give me one of my favorite wonder
woman stories with superman's sacrifice i think he even recommended it everywhere to start wonder
woman but remember this point in the timeline as it's important when we start talking about jaime
reyes and yep in case you're wondering i did have to google how you pronounce that when the blue
beetle of the 27th century senses a disruption in the timeline due to ted's death link's summer with
the scarab which is gonna be more important when we talk about reyes and yeah i'm hearing it as
i'm saying it out loud but i never said that this was gonna make sense but this future blue beetle
recruits booster gold and former blue beetle dan garrett along with the newest incarnation of the
hero jaime reyes and the three of them go back in time to rescue ted just before he was killed
however this did mess up the timeline of infinite crisis because then it was never revealed that
maxwell lord was evil and that meant that in the new future he could take over because his plan
was never stopped because of this ted decides to accept his fate to restore balance to the
timeline but again this isn't permanent because he's pretty much confirmed straight away that he
survived however after this ted was relegated to mostly appearing alongside booster gold
he received a black lantern ring during blackest night but that really doesn't mean too much
because a lot of people got these including me the new 52 then happened which despite being my jam
probably wasn't ted cords he wasn't even mentioned for three years until 2014 during forever evil and
his character was young once again and dealing with lex luthor over at chord industries
and again unfortunately there wasn't too much of note for ted core during the rebirth era he did
take up the mantle of blue beetle once again for heroes in crisis and did have a handful of moments
against dr manhattan in dark knight's death metal ted was killed once again but this time by robin
king and was also resurrected quite quickly by batman in a black lantern ring so wonder how
powerful this actually is the reason whitehead was sidelined quite a bit was due to the emergence of
a new blue beetle that was created for a younger audience jamie reyes originally debuted in issue
3 of infinite crisis in february 2006 and later took up the mantle of blue beetle in issue 5 of
that same event but to create his place in the universe the mythos of blue beetle had to be
changed a bit the scarab which is another word that i'm not sure if i'm pronouncing correctly
and grants blue beetle his powers now had to be changed so it was a part of an alien technology
which gives the user the powers of the blue beetle it's now actually an alien device which bonds to
its host and gives them a suit of army and reyes is a high school student from el paso texas
he lives with his garage worker father paramedic mother and his younger sister and at one point
in the past the scarab had been taken by ted cord to shazam and at one point in the past the scarab
had been taken by ted cord to poop and at one point in the pack and at one point in the at
one point in the past the scarab had been taken by ted court to shazam at one point in the past
and at one point in the past the scarab that we were just talking about had been taken by ted
cord to be looked after and protected by shazam then there was a battle between the spectre and
shazam and the scarab which now has a mind of its own was lost in the fallout which led to it being
in the possession of reyes booster goal tried to be claiming having seen the potential it could
have in the future but when he confronted reyes he saw that he'd been infused into his spine but
this turned out to be a blessing in disguise as both jaime and the scarab were essential
in helping the heroes of infinite crisis locate brother i and also destroy it but the
powers of the scarab bestowed to him were really difficult to control at first not too dissimilar
from the views on a youtube video so help your boy out and share this video where you can the main
ability that he gives him is a suit of armor that forms around him primarily when he can
sense danger the suit can also create an array of weapons and gadgets like an energy cannon a sword
and a grappling hook and more over the course of time it's like that tx and terminator 3 except for
the fact that some people still remember that the blue beetle exists the blue energy that the super
juices can deflect magic it can negate kryptonite and it also detects interdimensional objects and
the suit can also produce wings for flight and has an infiltrator mode that causes the beetle
to become taller grow spikes increase strength and operate while taimi isn't even conscious
the scarab does have an aversion to green lanterns and their energy and not just because one's a
primary color but the other isn't and this led into reyes's first ongoing series during the
one year later era when he had a fight with guy gordon because his ring got a reaction to the
scarab but i think that's just an excuse because i genuinely believe that guy gardner would probably
have a fight with the mirror his early adventures saw him fighting crime on the streets and saw him
teaming up with people like oracle and the phantom stranger and established his own support team of
local superheroes that was known as the posse however jaime's story really started when guy
gardner explained about the reach a race of cybernetic aliens that have been at war with
the guardians of the universe since they were created there is a loose truce between the two
forces which prevents the reach from invading earth but true seeds just like rules are made
to be broken due to the reaches control over the ai function of the scarab jaime travels through
the bleed to attack them there's a lot of back and forth but eventually the link is broken which
allows the scarab to bond with jaime and actually develop its own personality now an established
member of the dc universe reyes is trained by the teen titans and eventually joins them and it was
this point where he traveled through time to save ted cord but we talked about that earlier so i'd
recommend just going back if you weren't properly listening don't worry i don't listen to my voice
either and he establishes another key villain in the black beetle but not the one from big bad
bugs it's not these two guys just going at it but now that i think about it there is quite a lot of
similarities but he is from the future and he blames the death of his sister on reyes which
is why bonds with the reach to prevent it from happening he first appeared during all of that
time travelling shenanigans and it was pretty much the most prolific time for this character because
not much else of note happened for reyes until the new 52. and this was the time when i was first
introduced to this character because the new 52 yes i've said it a couple of times is definitely
my jam and it's when i started to learn about a lot of characters reyes remained the blue beetle
and the origin story was tweaked slightly not much else was retconned or changed about the blue
beetle suit and jaime is actually recruited for the justice league international by booster gold
some of his stories include him taking on omak reaching out to the headquarter of this universe
and also having some nightmares about dr fate which we've all been there however since dc
comics moved into the rebirthy we're pretty much all incarnations of the blue beetle have
been sidelined he was given another ongoing series but this ended at issue 18. jaime was seen working
alongside and being mentored by ted cord to try and remove the scarab but once again the origin
story was tweaked a bit now the beatle was magical rather than it being alien by design and if i'm
being honest not much else of note has happened for this character the biggest recent news for
bluebeat or possibly eva and we're not just talking about the comics but it's the announcement
that he should be getting his own live-action movie as part of the dc extended universe miguel
from kobakai was cast as reyes and hopefully that's the reason why you found this video in the
first place but honestly i remember when dc said that there was supposed to be 10 films that should
have been released by now so until i see a trailer or until i'm sat in the cinema and i'm actually
watching the film i don't fully believe it's going to happen i swear there's about 30 or so films
that they've announced interim pre-production with at the moment but hopefully it does happen because
this is a great character that i think is very underrated and deserves a bit more the spotlight
but until next time just make sure that you stay safe and stay mad all you dogs see the next video