Blue Beetle

Jaime Reyes comes home to Palmera City with his degree and learns his family is losing their house. On a gig at Victoria Kord's mansion he meets her niece, Jenny. Jenny steals the Scarab, an alien artifact her aunt wants for the OMAC super-soldier program, and hands it to Jaime in a burger box. When he opens it, the Scarab fuses with him, turning him into Blue Beetle. With Jenny and Uncle Rudy, Jaime breaks into Kord and finds the secret lab of Ted Kord, Jenny's missing father. Victoria attacks the Reyes home, and Jaime's father dies. Captured on an island, Jaime faces Carapax, his aunt's soldier, and spares him. Carapax turns on Victoria, and the family escapes. Jenny takes over Kord Industries.

• Mid-credits In Ted Kord's lab, the computer comes back online and picks up a scrambled transmission. The voice is Ted himself, calling for Jenny: he's alive.
• After the credits An animated take on the opening of El Chapulín Colorado, the Mexican show Uncle Rudy loves, plays out, capped with a comment from him.

1. ReferenceThe Bug

   Ted Kord's secret lab holds the Bug, the beetle-shaped ship he flew in the comics since 1966. It inspired Nite Owl's ship in Watchmen.

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2. ReferenceThe Scarab in a burger box

   Jenny hides the Scarab in a Big Belly Burger box, the fictional fast-food chain from the Superman comics.

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3. ReferenceNana's telenovela

   The Reyes family watches María la del Barrio, a '90s Mexican telenovela referenced more than once. The script uses touchstones like this to reflect the culture the family shares.

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