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Blue Beetle</tr></td><tr style="text-align: center; font-size: 90%;"><td> Image:Bbnew1.PNG Jaime Reyes as the third Blue Beetle. Art from the third cover to Blue Beetle #1 (2006), by Cully Hamner
Publisher DC Comics First appearance As Jaime: Infinite Crisis #3 (Feb. 2006) As Blue Beetle: Infinite Crisis #5 (March 2006) Created by Keith Giffen John Rogers Cully Hamner
<tr style="vertical-align: top;"><td>Alter ego</td><td>Jaime Reyes</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align: top;"><td>Abilities</td><td>Alien suit of powered armor.</td></tr> Characteristics

Jaime Reyes is a fictional comic book superhero from DC Comics, is a Hispanic teenager who became the third person to take up the identity of the superhero Blue Beetle.

Contents 1 Publication history 2 Fictional character biography 2.1 Infinite Crisis 2.2 Blue Beetle 3 Powers and abilities

[edit] Publication history

Writer Keith Giffen announced in a 2005 news article that he would be creating a new Blue Beetle, starring in his own series which would begin March 2006 and spin out of the events of Infinite Crisis. It would be co-created by writer John Rogers, who helped write the scripts of Catwoman and The Core, and artist Cully Hamner.

[edit] Fictional character biography

Jaime lives in El Paso with his father, mother and little sister; his father owns a garage. Jaime has offered to help his father out at the garage, but his father has turned him down so far, feeling Jaime should focus on his studies and enjoy his childhood for as long as he can. Jaime has an acute sense of responsibility for his family and friends, though he complains about being the one to sort out any messes.

[edit] Infinite Crisis

Main article: Infinite Crisis

The mystical Blue Beetle scarab which had given Dan Garrett his powers had been thought destroyed. When it was found intact, it was given to Ted Kord, who was never able to use it. After an attack by Brother Eye, the scarab appeared energized, and Ted brought it to the wizard Shazam, who took it and sent Ted away. Shortly thereafter, in the Day of Vengeance storyline, Shazam was killed and the scarab was blasted across the globe, along with shards from the Rock of Eternity.

The Blue Beetle scarab came to Earth in El Paso, Texas where it was picked up by a teenaged boy named Jaime Reyes. Not long after, Booster Gold appeared at Jaime's house to retrieve the scarab, only to discover that it had fused itself to Jaime's spine while the teenager had been sleeping. Booster recruited Jaime for Batman's assault on the Brother Eye satellite, since the scarab was the only thing that could see the satellite. Using the scarab's powers, Jaime was able to find the satellite and reveal it to Batman's group, enabling them to defeat it. Once Brother Eye was sent plummeting Earthwards, Jaime disappeared from the ship, apparently teleported away by the scarab, which sought to escape the Green Lanterns on board.

[edit] Blue Beetle

Jamie was then next seen fighting off Green Lantern Guy Gardner, who had apparently been driven to rage by his ring's reaction to the Blue Beetle scarab. A flashback expanded on Jaime's initial discovery of the scarab, revealing how the scarab bonded itself to Jaime and showing his first encounter with a metahuman. After the fight, Jaime found himself alone and naked in the middle of the desert, and had to hitch-hike home. Upon his return, Jaime discovered he had been missing for a whole year. One unusual part of the series is that Jaime's family and friends know Jaime is a superhero, instead of being completely in the dark.

Since the scarab has bonded with him, Jaime has been having strange dreams; it remains to be seen whether these will persist, and what they mean.

He has since began a career as a superhero, meeting Oracle, the Phantom Stranger and the current Peacemaker along the way. He often associates himself with a group known as the Posse, a street gang of local superhumans with powers of magical origin. Wendy and Marvin have also recently agreed to help Jamie keep track of crime and natural disasters in the midwest via the internet.

[edit] Powers and abilities

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• The Blue Beetle scarab is grafted onto Jaime's spine, and can manifest a number of powers at its own volition, which is usually accompanied by blue energy emitted by the scarab's "antennae". At this time, Jaime has very little, if any, control over those powers. When Jaime is in danger, the scarab activates, crawling out on to Jaime's back and generating a high-tech suit of powered armor around his body. When the danger passes, the scarab deactivates, dissolving the costume and retracting back onto Jaime's spine, causing intense pain. When in use, the suit can reconfigure itself to produce a number of different armaments, including an energy cannon, a sword and shield, a grappling hook, an advanced satellite of some sort, and a set of large powered blades attached to the hands, over a foot in length, that can shear through tree trunks, and a set of dual-purpose wings that not only allow Jaimie to fly, but can also be brought around in front of Jaime to act as shields against projectiles and energy weapons, such as the energy of a Green Lantern ring. The suit can also produce energy discharges from the hands that can neutralize magical spells. The scarab is also capable of negating the "vibrational frequency" of extra-dimensional objects, bringing them into this dimension. The armor is impervious enough that it can protect Jaime against atmospheric re-entry from Earth's orbit.
• The scarab has at least one power it can manifest whether dormant or active; it can give Jaime a peculiar form of 'sight' to perceive extra-dimensional objects. This sight is apparently intended to give the scarab's user information on what they're facing, but Jaime is presently unable to understand the scarab's written language. The scarab is able to communicate with him in a more comprehensible fashion if need be. The scarab also apparently has the ability to track anything or anyone it has previously encountered.
• The scarab appears to be unwilling to harm nature, as evidenced in Blue Beetle #4, in which Jamie was attacked by a pair of animated, anthropomorphized trees, and attempted to defend himself, only to be told by the suit, "We won't damage nature". He is almost killed as a result of this, until he convinces the scarab that his life is in danger and wrests control over the suit. Jamie destroys the trees, though the scarab continues to express its displeasure at the destruction.
• The scarab's bond with Jaime is vastly different from the previous Blue Beetles. When Dan Garrett spoke the magic phrase "Kaji Dha!", the scarab would grant him the powers and costume of the Blue Beetle - albeit not Jaime's costume. Ted was never able to use any of the Beetle's powers. The scarab never physically bonded with either of them. Why it responds differently to different bearers has yet to be revealed.
• In Blue Beetle #6 it was revealed that the scarab is alien in origin. The following issue it is revealed that the creators of the scarabs were enemies of the Green Lantern Corps.