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Blue Beetle (2023)

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Blue Beetle (2023)	comment	Blue Beetle is a 2023 superhero film based upon the DC Comics' character of the same name. It is the fourteenth film in the DC Extended Universe, directed by Angel Manuel Soto and stars Xolo MaridueÃ±a, Bruna Marquezine, Belissa Escobedo, Adriana Barraza, Elpidia Carrillo, DamiÃ¡n AlcÃ¡zar, Raoul Trujillo, George Lopez and Susan Sarandon.Jaime Reyes (MaridueÃ±a) is a young Mexican-American go-getter trying to find both himself and his working-class family stable employment. But after a run-in with Jenny Kord (Marquezine), he's left with nothing to show for himself except a burger box. One bonding experience later, however, he finds that it contains an extraterrestrial scarab which grants him a superpowered suit, allowing him to become the worldâ€™s newest superhero. Unfortunately, Victoria Kord (Sarandon) is none too happy to share what she sees as her property, hoping to use the Scarab to manufacture her own One Man Army Corps, and the Reyes family will have to grapple with both the unpredictability of Jaime's new partner, as well as dive into the Kord family's history of superheroing.Initially intended to be set in the DC Extended Universe as a direct-to-streaming movie exclusive to HBO Max note along with Batgirl, which became a tax writeoff despite being largely complete and was shelved indefinitely the film was then upgraded to a theatrical release and underwent additional production time. Blue Beetle was then reportedly promoted as the first installment in the new continuity replacing the DCEU and called just the DC Universe or DCU, though it is not a part of James Gunn and Peter Safran's forthcoming new slate of films titled Chapter One: Gods and Monsters as of now (go figure). Gunn later clarified that DCU canon starts with Chapter One but MaridueÃ±a is due to return as Jaime in his future plans, which makes the film both part of the DCEU and, in a Broad Strokes way at least, the upcoming DCU. The film released in theatres on August 18, 2023.Previews: Trailer Tease, Trailer 1, Final Trailer
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_101500e	comment	Beneath Notice: How Jenny initially gets the Scarab out of Kord Industries: first she puts it in a standard burger box, then she hands it off to Jaime, who is just some random kid from the Edge Keys who she doesn't have any previous relationship with. As a result, he's able to walk right out even after they start locking the building down.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: Jaime's nana was a Mexican revolutionary and she shows she still has her skills when she wields one of Ted Kord's BFGs and easily guns down several mooks by herself when rescuing Jaime.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_11bc87bc	type	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_11bc87bc	comment	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: The painting of Ted Kord, while not photorealistic, bears a noticeable resemblance to Jason Sudeikis, who director Angel Manuel Soto has named as his personal pick for the role.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: Jaime is normally a teenager when he becomes the third Blue Beetle. In the film, he's now college-aged, having just graduated when the film begins. Likewise, comics Milagro is a pre-teen. Here, she's old enough to go to college herself. In the comics, Ted Kord was a relatively young man, somewhere in his thirties, when he died, shortly before Jaime gained the Scarab and became Blue Beetle. In the universe of the movie, Ted, if he's still alive, would be considerably older, in his fifties or sixties, going by the age of his sister Victoria and the fact that he has a 22-year old daughter.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_1434e55c	comment	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Jaime is clearly embarrassed by his family chanting his name to encourage him when he enters Kord's building to meet Jenny after her offer to give him a job.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_14a8e0a2	type	Villain Opening Scene
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_14a8e0a2	comment	Villain Opening Scene: The movie opens with Victoria discovering the Scarab in a frozen tundra.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Alberto claims that he's fine after his heart attack at the beginning of the film. Cue him going under cardiac arrest...
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_1888979e	type	Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_1888979e	comment	Victoria often says that "Sacrifices must be made for the greater good." as an excuse for her evil deeds. Carapax says the same to her before killing them both.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_1badfbbb	type	The Heavy
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_1badfbbb	comment	The Heavy: While Victoria serves as the overall Big Bad of the story, Carapax serves as the more present and physical threat that Jaime faces, with their final battle serving as the climax.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: At the climax, Victoria's head scientist even points out her method of getting data from Jaime and the Scarab is unnecessarily cruel, and they could do so without killing him. She ignores him.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_1f137e42	type	Artificial Limbs
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_1f137e42	comment	Artificial Limbs: Carapax lost his arm and leg to a landmine while serving in Guatemala and Victoria Kord replaced them with cybernetics as part of her OMAC experiments.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_21b5f849	type	My Name Is Inigo Montoya
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_21b5f849	comment	My Name Is Inigo Montoya: When the doctor finally has enough of Victoria, he yells out his full name to her as one final defiance while sacrificing his life to save Jaime.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The special chewing-gum that Milagro finds in Kord's arsenal and that Jenny presents as something her dad made for her comes to play a role in the climax where Jenny uses it to disable Victoria's helicopter.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: At the end of their first fight, Carapax asks Jaime if he really thought he could beat him and states that he should have killed him when he had the chance. At the end of their second fight, a grieving and enraged Jaime rebukes Carapax if he really thought he could beat him and states that he should have killed him when he had the chance. Victoria often says that "Sacrifices must be made for the greater good." as an excuse for her evil deeds. Carapax says the same to her before killing them both. While first breaking into Kord Tower to get the key to Ted's secret lab, Rudy calls Jenny "cupcake" somewhat mockingly. She gives him a weird look but doesn't comment on it. In the last scene of the movie, Jenny calls Rudy "cupcake" when she asks him if he likes the new truck she bought him.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: A furious Jaime does this to Carapax in the final battle after the latter almost kills him in battle and seemingly killed Uncle Rudy (who survived), to the point where he almost kills him but is fortunately stopped by Khaji-Da at the last second.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Two costumes seen in Ted Kord's mansion resemble the costumes worn by Dan Garrett and Ted Kord himself, the previous Blue Beetles before Jaime. Notably, Ted Kord's outfit has a crack in one of the lenses, referencing Ted's death in Countdown to Infinite Crisis. Jaime receives the Scarab in a box from Big Belly Burger, a major fast food franchise in the DC universe. The Reyes' house is located on El Paso St. Jaime in the comics hails from El Paso, Texas. invoked Jenny claims the OMAC Project was cancelled years ago before Victoria continued its production. OMAC was originally going to make its cinematic debut in Justice League: Mortal and then the planned sequel to The LEGO Batman Movie before both films were cancelled. When unleashing his most powerful attack, Jaime shouts the Scarab's name. In the original comics, Dan Garrett activated the Scarab's magic the same way.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_2726d167	type	The World Is Just Awesome
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_2726d167	comment	The World Is Just Awesome: The Scarabâ€™s first action after powering up Jaime is to launch him into the upper atmosphere, complete with a revolving shot of Jaime taking in his surroundings. Jaime goes from panicking to in awe when he's in space for the first time.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Jaime and Milagroâ€™s father Alberto suffers Death by Adaptation. The film's opening credits reveal that Ted Kord vanished some time ago. We never find out what really happened to him. Victoria never even implies that she was involved. The fact that she seemed to have no intention of hurting Jenny until her niece made it clear that she'll never stop being a thorn in her side would imply that she has some qualms about committing fratricide.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: During a scene, a television news report can be heard in the background saying in Spanish that Gotham billionaire Bruce Wayne has bought some social media app for 50 billion dollars.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_2989316a	type	The Illegal
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_2989316a	comment	The Illegal: It is all but stated that Alberto, Rudy and Nana are all undocumented immigrants, with Rudy hesitating to call the police because they'll ask for documents while indicating the three of them, talking about how he and Alberto crossed the border, and saying he "feels a certain kind of way" about the word alien. It might have something to do with Nana's revolutionary past.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_2a35374f	type	Villainous Gentrification
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_2a35374f	comment	Villainous Gentrification: Kord Industries is pricing people out from the Edge Keys for renovation and at the beginning of the film the Reyes' are three months from losing their home due to this. Luckily, Jennifer taking over at the end puts a stop to it.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_2d395ee9	type	Autobots, Rock Out!
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_2d395ee9	comment	Autobots, Rock Out!: Apparently Ted Kord's Beetle ship has its own music system, with MÃ¶tley CrÃ¼e in the playlist.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_2f8c5157	type	Rogues' Gallery Transplant
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_2f8c5157	comment	Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Downplayed. Carapax the Indestructible Man, who is normally a villain fought by Ted Kord, fights Jaime in the film. So he's fighting the same heroic identity, but a different individual.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_2f94135c	type	Thou Shalt Not Kill
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_2f94135c	comment	Thou Shalt Not Kill: Played straight and averted. Once he acquires the Scarab, Jaime is very adamant about not killing anyone, and only using the non-lethal tech on the suit to deal with his adversaries. Once they become fully synchronized, Khaji-Da comes to share Jaime's no-killing policy, especially when a furious Jaime was about to kill Carapax to which Khaji-Da prevented him from doing so. In contrast the rest of the Reyes family has no such scruples, as Rudy uses the Big Bug's legs to impale mooks and Nana gleefully slaughters mooks by the dozen with a high-tech minigun. Justified, as it's in self-defense, and Nana in particular is a former soldier.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_313e9485	type	Hero with Bad Publicity
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_313e9485	comment	Hero with Bad Publicity: Evidently, Batman's Terror Hero strategy has worked a little too well for some people, as Rudy outright calls him "a fascist".
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Jaime's friends Paco and Brenda don't appear, and nor does Brenda's Aunt Amparo, who was one of Jaime's main non-Reach villains under the name La Dama. (Arguably Victora Kord takes La Dama's role... which would make Jenny Kord somewhat equivalent to Brenda.)
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_33f6c897	type	Stoners Are Funny
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_33f6c897	comment	Stoners Are Funny: A trio of stoners are on a bench, waiting for "it" to kick in. When Jaime crashlands from the sky, cuts a bus in half, and then flies away, one comments "I think it just hit me.".
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_38119dcf	type	Not the Fall That Kills You
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_38119dcf	comment	Not the Fall That Kills Youâ€¦: Jaime's first time in the Blue Beetle suit has it send him skyrocketing above the clouds, before dropping him back down again, with the Beetle wings apparently slowing his descent just as he's over water. Ironically, hitting the water at that speed would be less damaging than stopping like that.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: Jaime gets concussed in the first fight with Carapax, but when he wakes up later he doesn't act much like someone who's been concussed. Later, when cleaning up in the bathroom, he sees his cuts closing up, confirming that the Scarab gave him a Healing Factor.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_38a1e0eb	comment	Foreign Cuss Word: Dr. "Sanchez" calls Victoria "pendeja", a Spanish slang term basically meaning "asshole" right before his Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: This isn't the first time Harvey GuillÃ©n plays a character who dramatically announces that his last name is De La Cruz.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_393ec3f9	type	Zeerust
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_393ec3f9	comment	Zeerust: All of Ted Kord's equipment was probably cutting-edge... in the 80s and 90s, which is when he was active as a superhero. His lab is decked out in CRT monitors, and his wrist-based control device utilizes monochrome LCD screens instead of resembling a modern smartwatch.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Rudy claims he has seen worse than how Jaime looks with his back showing the Scarab, but when asked where, claims You Do Not Want To Know. Nana's past, especially the details of when and where she gained her skill at wielding a minigun, is never fully revealed. If us implied she might be a former Mexican revolutionary, but never outright stated.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_3e1c753d	type	Blue Is Heroic
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_3e1c753d	comment	Blue Is Heroic: The Scarab has a shiny blue hue and it's used to fight the villains.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_40b98588	type	Adaptational Location Change
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_40b98588	comment	Adaptational Location Change: Jaime lives in El Paso, Texas in the comics, and now lives in the movie-original Palmera City, located in the Florida Keys, though their street is named El Paso in reference to the original. By the same token, Ted Kord is said to have been active as Blue Beetle in Palmera City, as opposed to Hub City in the comics.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Mostly on the sweet side. Alberto is dead and Jenny has no immediate family with her due to the death of her aunt, but the Reyes family gets help from their community to rebuild their home while Jenny is able take over Kord Industries and intends to make sure the company is more generous in the future, while also hoping to clear the familyâ€™s debts. And it's implied she and Jaime will start a relationship.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_4127eb1	comment	When Carapax gains the upper hand against him in their second fight, Jaime screams in fury after he tells him the love for his family makes him weak (only for Jaime to throw the remark back at him after he overpowers him soon after), just before Jaimeâ€™s uncle Rudy saves his nephew by distracting Carapax.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_41d8a845	type	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_41d8a845	comment	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: In the comics Scarabs are magical items that its creators use like technology. This is never brought up in the film, but the ability for Jaime to communte with his deceased father and The Power of Love power-up at the end certainly imply this.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_41feb209	type	Non Sequitur, Thud
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_41feb209	comment	Non Sequitur, Thud: Jaime says "It's Jamey, not Jaime," to his mother before passing out. (A secretary had persistently mispronounced his name as "Jamey" earlier in the film.)
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_441ccbad	type	Talking Weapon
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_441ccbad	comment	Talking Weapon: The Scarab. It's some kind of world-destroying weapon, that announces "New host acquired." after bonding with Jaime, and comments "Nice choice." when Jaime chooses to make a BFS.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_453871ec	type	What Could Have Been
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_453871ec	comment	invoked Jenny claims the OMAC Project was cancelled years ago before Victoria continued its production. OMAC was originally going to make its cinematic debut in Justice League: Mortal and then the planned sequel to The LEGO Batman Movie before both films were cancelled.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_47198ac4	type	You Do NOT Want to Know
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_47198ac4	comment	You Do Not Want To Know: Rudy claims that he has seen worse than the Scarab's appearance on Jaime's spine. When Milagro asks where, he responds with this trope.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: In a mid-credits scene a message from Ted Kord automatically starts playing on his computer, with a video transmission to Jenny to let her know he's still alive. After the credits, more stop-motion animation of El ChapulÃn Colorado starts playing.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_48c99e19	comment	Jaime and Milagroâ€™s father Alberto suffers Death by Adaptation.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: When De La Cruz helps Jaime escape, he insists to Jaime that heâ€™ll be fine. Then suddenly, his blood gets splattered on the window by Carapax.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_504a1991	comment	When he comes home from college, Jaime learns that his family concealed his father's heart attack, their auto shop going out of business, and their inability to pay rent. Then his body is taken over by an alien artifact in a Body Horror sequence. Then Kord mercenaries break into his house, kidnap him, and cause his father to suffer a fatal heart attack. Then he's held prisoner in a castle and experimented on by Victoria, nearly dying in the process.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_51c28ba3	type	Non-Action Big Bad
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_51c28ba3	comment	Non-Action Big Bad: Victoria Kord wouldn't last very long in a fight, which is why Carapax does the fighting for her. Indeed, when Carapax drags her off to destroy them both, all Victoria can do is futilely demand that he release her.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_52b36340	type	What Measure Is a Mook?
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_52b36340	comment	What Measure Is a Mook?: Jaime makes a point of not wanting to kill Carapax when he has the chance, and Khaji reminds him of that later. Yet his family shows no hesitation in slaughtering their way through countless guards to reach him.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Carapax serves as Victoria's chief lieutenant and enforcer of her will.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_541094dc	type	School Is for Losers
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_541094dc	comment	School Is for Losers: A couple jokes are made about how people who go to college are in debt for the rest of their lives.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_5b4573b1	type	Near-Death Experience
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_5b4573b1	comment	Near-Death Experience: When the Scarab is being drained and Jaime is on the verge of death, he comes to an Afterlife Antechamber that looks like his home, with his dead father waiting for him in front of a field of candles ala Macario. Alberto tells him It Is Not Your Time, gives him some final comfort and advice, and Jaime and the Scarab fully merge, reviving him.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_5c8ad7af	type	With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_5c8ad7af	comment	With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: At one point in the trailer, Rudy delivers this speech to Jaime:
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Family. Jaime's close-knit family is the source of his strength, Victoria Kord's messed up family drove her to villainy, and Carapax's Start of Darkness was losing his mother, while remembering her triggers his Redemption Equals Death moment.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_617f0563	comment	Dr. Sanchez/De La Cruz, after been mistreated, ignored and misnamed by Victoria, pulls off a Heelâ€“Face Turn and helps Jaime escape. He tells him heâ€™ll be okay, but not before he is killed by Carapax.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_643879c7	type	Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_643879c7	comment	Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Played with, as the name is associated with the scarab, but Jaime never once goes by Blue Beetle in the entire movie. The name was used by Jenny's father, Ted Kord, before his disappearance. Dan Garrett, Khaji-Da's previous host, also didn't go by the name.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_655aa5ff	type	Broken Faceplate
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_655aa5ff	comment	Broken Faceplate: In the climax, Jaime takes a stab wound, and the Scarab has to divert its attentions to healing it rather than keeping up the armor. Half of Jaime's mask is broken off and stays off for the rest of the scene. Carapax also experiences this during the final battle as a furious Jaime beats him down after the former seemingly killed Rudy, damaging his helmet even to the point of ripping it off his head in a rage.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_658f7193	comment	Lack of Empathy: Victoria appears to be a full blown sociopath, having partaken in the drafting of child soldiers decades ago. Her Establishing Character Moment has her threatening her own niece and belittling her charity work as a drain on their business just because she doesn't like the idea of Kord industries getting back into war profiteering. She directly witnesses Alberto suffering a heart attack and Jaime desperately trying to get to him, but her response is to take the chance to paralyze him and drag him away while he's screaming in anguish. To top it all off, when her employee tells her that downloading the Scarab's code will probably kill Jaime, she doesn't care and eggs him on even when he points out that this could cost them lots of valuable data.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_67711aa	type	Company Town
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_67711aa	comment	Company Town: Kord pretty much owns every square inch of Palmera City, to the extent Victoria Kord can just casually send a small platoon of goons to raid a house and shoot at a family with intent to kill with no mention of possible legal problems.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_6a643799	type	Expressive Mask
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_6a643799	comment	Expressive Mask: Thanks to nanotechnology, the face of the Beetle suit reflects all of Jaime's facial expressions, which is in line with his previous incarnations (apart from the lack of a visible mouth) as well as existing heroes like Atom Smasher or Deadpool.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_6aa64734	type	The Power of Family
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_6aa64734	comment	The Power of Family: The close bonds the Reyes family have with each other help keep them alive through the film. They rescue Jaime after he is kidnapped by Victoria Kord, and they also rescue each other when Jaimeâ€™s still figuring out his powers, sticking together despite the odds. On top of that, Jaime only grows strong enough to defeat Carapax when he believed Carapax killed Uncle Rudy.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_6aada778	type	Only the Chosen May Wield
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_6aada778	comment	Only the Chosen May Wield: The Scarab chooses who it bonds with, being nothing more than a paperweight to anyone else. When Jaime picks it up, it chooses him.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Even Jenny seems to sympathize with Victoria's bitterness about Ted inheriting the company. Ted was barely involved in Kord Industries while Victoria and their father made a fortune building and selling weapons. Still, Ted was given everything just because he was a man.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: Jaime/Blue Beetle suffers through this after Carapax/OMAC shoots at Uncle Rudy after the latter distracts the OMAC during the final battle, causing Jaime to defeat Carapax to the point where he almost kills him out of revenge, but is fortunately stopped thanks to Khaji-Da, who finally calms Jaime down by convincing him not to kill Carapax and showing the latterâ€™s traumatic memories of his past, to make Jaime understand and come to terms with him.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: When he comes home from college, Jaime learns that his family concealed his father's heart attack, their auto shop going out of business, and their inability to pay rent. Then his body is taken over by an alien artifact in a Body Horror sequence. Then Kord mercenaries break into his house, kidnap him, and cause his father to suffer a fatal heart attack. Then he's held prisoner in a castle and experimented on by Victoria, nearly dying in the process. Itâ€™s revealed in the climax that Carapax also went through this and while shown chronologically in reverse, he had lost his mother from a Kord Industries air strike during the war in the country back when he was a child, then kidnapped by Victoria Kord and forced to become a soldier, then stepping on a landmine years later at the loss of his right arm and leg, then got a transplant and finally getting the OMAC augmented into him by Victoria.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Victoria Kord has a low opinion of the lower-class, largely Hispanic residents of Jaime's neighborhood and frequently calls De La Cruz, her head scientist, "Sanchez".
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_767dbf00	type	Superhero Movie Villains Die
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_767dbf00	comment	Superhero Movie Villains Die: Double subverted. Jaime has his chance to kill Carapax, until the Scarab itself talks him out of it. Instead Carapax goes for a Redemption Equals Death - taking Victoria with him.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_77cd64fa	type	Abled in the Adaptation
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_77cd64fa	comment	Abled in the Adaptation: Zig-zagged with Alberto Reyes. In the comics, he needed a cane to walk (due to suffering a leg injury in the past). Here, he can walk just fine, but also suffers from a heart condition which turns fatal.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_77fb9fbe	type	Cathartic Crying
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_77fb9fbe	comment	Cathartic Crying: When Alberto dies, the Reyes family is breaking down, but Nana rallies them by saying that they don't have time to cry now when Jaime needs rescuing. After the climax and when they're safe and reunited in the Bug, she says that "now is the time to cry", and the whole family hugs and finally cries over Alberto's death.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: Once Jaime sees his reflection of himself in the suit after transforming for the first time, he almost says the f-word before the Scarab interrupts him.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_79f9249	type	Horrifying the Horror
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_79f9249	comment	Horrifying the Horror: Despite inflicting pain and trauma on Jaime, Carapax soon seemingly experiences this when he gets utterly defeated by Jaime who unleashing his anger after he tried to kill his uncle Rudy and becomes terrified when Jaime was about to stab him in the eye and hellbent on killing him, but was stopped thanks to Khaji-Da.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_7a77148	type	Close-Knit Community
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_7a77148	comment	Close-Knit Community: The Edge Keys are shown to be this. While they can't help during the attack on the Reyes house, they immediately rush in after it's over, calling emergency services and staying with the family when Alberto dies. At the end, they all show up for Alberto's wake, and put together a potluck for the Reyes.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_7c23607c	type	Face Hugger
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_7c23607c	comment	Face Hugger: The Scarab first attaches to Jaime by latching onto his face before migrating to his spine.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_7eb49b31	type	Almost Kiss
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_7eb49b31	comment	Implied with Jaime after his Almost Kiss with Jenny in Kord's base. He hastily pulls his jacket down so that it covers his midsection, and is still bending forward a little in the next scene.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_8183248	type	Never Mess with Granny
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_8183248	comment	Never Mess with Granny: Jaime's nana was a Mexican revolutionary and she still kicks ass, killing several mooks by herself when they go to rescue Jaime.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_834420aa	type	BFS
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_834420aa	comment	In addition to the BFS Jaime creates looking similar in design to the Buster Sword from Final Fantasy VII, he also uses an attack similar to Blade Beam to send Carapax flying though multiple structures.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_84bc0fef	type	Love Is a Weakness
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_84bc0fef	comment	Love Is a Weakness: Carapax twice calls Jaime's bond with his family a weakness, first when he's about to kill him in front of the Kord building, second when he's about to kill him on the island. Jaime finally gets to throw it back in his face after overpowering him and sparing his life, saying that his family makes him strong.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: After Jaime declares to Milagro that he's going to earn enough money to not only support his family but make them rich as well, cut to him looking out at the ocean from an extravagant estate and a woman addressing him as "Mr. Reyes", suggesting he's succeeded. Then the camera cuts to Milagro, working with him as cleaning staff on the estate, which belongs to Victoria Kord. Later on in the climax, after Jaime sees Carapaxâ€™s traumatic memories just when he was about to kill him out of rage, Khaji-Da asked Jaime if he now understands why they shouldnâ€™t kill Carapax since he was a victim of Victoria Kord like Jaime is. However, at first it seemed like Jaime doesnâ€™t listen with his rage getting the best of him, going for the killing blow with the stinger arm to finish Carapax off. Then it shortly cuts to Carapax fortunately still alive, with Jaime actually stabbing the ground next to him, now having come to reason and refusing to kill Carapax after the revelation.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_89499ccf	type	Dolled-Up Installment
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_89499ccf	comment	Dolled-Up Installment: It was originally meant to be set in the DC Extended Universe before they decided to set in James Gunn's new Shared Universe.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_8a800d36	type	Bilingual Dialogue
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_8a800d36	comment	Bilingual Dialogue: Jaime's nana only ever speaks in Spanish, even when people talk to her in English.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Dan Garrett, whose death established that the only way for the Scarab to leave its host is through said host dying.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_8f36080d	type	Artistic License â€“ Education
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_8f36080d	comment	Artistic License â€“ Education: Jaime is mentioned to have a degree in pre-law. This does not actually exist; pre-law is usually offered as a concentration or separate program alongside a standard bachelor's degree.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_8f612013	type	Token Good Teammate
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_8f612013	comment	Token Good Teammate: The doctor that Victoria employs goes along with her experiments, but shows notably more discomfort with it than any other person on her team and occasionally tries to talk him out of it. When Jaime escapes and she calls him "Sanchez" yet again, he finally snaps and saves Jaime instead, even knowing he'll die for it.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: A heroic example, averted. After Khaji-Da shows a grieving and enraged Jaime all of Carapaxâ€™s tragic memories of his past when Jaime was about to kill him and asks him if he can understand now of why they canâ€™t kill him, Jaime seemingly doesnâ€™t listen and at first furiously goes for the kill anyway. But he pulls off a Bait-and-Switch by stabbing the ground next to Carapax, having listened to Khaji-Da and coming to reason.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_90c018ac	comment	In contrast the rest of the Reyes family has no such scruples, as Rudy uses the Big Bug's legs to impale mooks and Nana gleefully slaughters mooks by the dozen with a high-tech minigun. Justified, as it's in self-defense, and Nana in particular is a former soldier.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: It doesn't happen in the story, but Victoria Kord makes it clear in dialogue that she sees Carapax as expendable and has every intention of discarding him once his services as The Heavy are no longer needed.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: Dr. Sanchez/De La Cruz, after been mistreated, ignored and misnamed by Victoria, pulls off a Heelâ€“Face Turn and helps Jaime escape. He tells him heâ€™ll be okay, but not before he is killed by Carapax. When Carapax gains the upper hand against him in their second fight, Jaime screams in fury after he tells him the love for his family makes him weak (only for Jaime to throw the remark back at him after he overpowers him soon after), just before Jaimeâ€™s uncle Rudy saves his nephew by distracting Carapax.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Victoria Kord, Ted's sister and current CEO of Kord Industries who wishes to use the Scarab to create her own version called OMAC and mass produce it.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: Milagro wears her father's mechanic jacket for the second half of the movie.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_99a12edd	type	Cyborg
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_99a12edd	comment	Cyborg: Carapax has had numerous cybernetics implanted in his body as part of the process to perfect the OMAC, including a completely artificial foot and hand.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Carapax to Jaime, who by the end of the story has almost identical powers and a red color scheme to contrast Jaime's blue.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_9bd3d2bf	type	Razor Wings
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_9bd3d2bf	comment	Razor Wings: The Beetle wings has the ability to shield Jaime and root him in place while also cutting clean through an oncoming bus. Notably, the membranes of his wings are some kind of plasma fields, so it's less like they cut and more so that they melt through, like a giant lightsaber.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: Despite having co-founded Kord Industries with her father Thomas, Victoria was passed over to inherit the company in favor of her brother Ted; her bitterness and resentment over this apparently helped shape her into the cold and ruthless person she is today. Even Ted's daughter Jennifer, who hates Victoria (and with good reason), is clearly angered that she was a victim of sexism.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Early on, it's mentioned that Alberto recently had a heart attack, though he insists he's now fine. When Victoria and her forces storm the Reyes' home, he has another, more serious one, which kills him. When Alberto dies, Nana is the one who rallies the family, telling them that it's no time to cry and they have to help Jaime now. It's later revealed that she used to be part of a revolutionary movement, meaning she has experience with losing people she loves suddenly and violently. Pay attention to the television when Nana is channel flipping, and you know exactly what will happen the rest of the movie.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Superman, Batman and Flash are mentioned. A LexCorp building can be briefly seen next to the Kord tower.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_9fbf8969	type	Cut Lex Luthor a Check
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_9fbf8969	comment	Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Victoria might have won if she hadn't been so quick to resort to using her private strike team to attack the Reyes family. She's a billionaire. If she'd been a bit patient and done her research, she easily could have tricked the Reyes family into trusting her by framing her niece as unstable, offering them money, and pretending to want to help separate Jaime from the scarab.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Carapax still has fond memories of his mother before she died. He even keeps her locket that has a picture of them, to show he still loves her.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_a20b2263	type	Purple Is Powerful
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_a20b2263	comment	Purple Is Powerful: Kord Industries has a primarily purple aesthetic, from employees wearing purple to purple neon on the building and even a military drone.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_a2340346	type	Friendly Address Privileges
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_a2340346	comment	Friendly Address Privileges: Uncle Rudy does not like being called that way by foreigners and asks Jenny to call him Cesar instead. She obliges, until he eventually allows her to call him Rudy after she proves she really is on their side.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Averted. When Jaime was about to deliver the killing blow on Carapax while enraged with his arm morphing into a stinger, Khaji-Da stops him from killing him, with the tip of the stinger only a few inches to Carapaxâ€™s eye.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_a30c287	type	Good Parents
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_a30c287	comment	Good Parents: And good siblings too! All of them are supportive to Jaime and help him in becoming a superhero.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_a31b47ae	type	Rapid-Fire "No!"
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_a31b47ae	comment	Rapid-Fire "No!": Jenny lets out a burst of this when Jaime takes drastic measures to summon the Blue Beetle suit.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_a58e5ad7	type	Naked People Are Funny
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_a58e5ad7	comment	Naked People Are Funny: Whenever Jaime changes into the suit, his clothes get burned off and he is left naked after de-transforming.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_a5a3ae2b	type	Orifice Invasion
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_a5a3ae2b	comment	Orifice Invasion: Implied; once it activates and moves to bond with Jaime, the Scarab can be seen under his shirt on his back moving downward before emerging from his upper spine. Jaime's uncle Rudy believes it went up his butt, but Jaime twice denies this vehemently.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_a63f45d5	type	Cool Uncle
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_a63f45d5	comment	Cool Uncle: Rudy is basically like a second father to Jaime, supporting and encouraging him about as much as his actual father, and they even directly share an "I love you" with each other during one quiet scene. It contrasts Victoria being an Evil Aunt to Jenny.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_a72e8cbe	type	Scarab Power
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_a72e8cbe	comment	Scarab Power: The Scarab is an extremely powerful alien weapon, with the wearer capable of easily defeating large of groups of enemies by themself.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_a7f551dc	type	Imagination-Based Superpower
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_a7f551dc	comment	Imagination-Based Superpower: The Scarab declares "Anything you can imagine, I can create." Jaime then tests this by forming a BFS.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_ab68c5cc	type	Chronic Hero Syndrome
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_ab68c5cc	comment	Chronic Hero Syndrome: Jaime can't resist trying to protect Jenny when she seems threatened by Carapax (though his attraction to her certainly helped), which reveals to Victoria that Milagro had been sneaking into the owner's bathroom instead of the employees' and gets them fired.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_ac6ea68c	type	Near-Villain Victory
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_ac6ea68c	comment	Near-Villain Victory: During their second fight in the climax, Carapax/OMAC manages to stab Jaime/Blue Beetle in the abdomen and gains the upper hand, only for it to fuel Jaimeâ€™s rage upon Carapax even after seemingly killing Rudy in front of him and gets overwhelmed by a grieving and infuriated Jaime hellbent on killing him.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: As Carapax/OMAC gains the upper hand against Jaime/Blue Beetle in the climax and was about to kill him, he then shoots at Rudy when he distracts him from killing his nephew. This causes Jaime to go on an Unstoppable Rage and ultimately defeats him in battle as revenge for his actions.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_b3f4b615	type	Raging Stiffie
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_b3f4b615	comment	Raging Stiffie: Implied with Jaime after his Almost Kiss with Jenny in Kord's base. He hastily pulls his jacket down so that it covers his midsection, and is still bending forward a little in the next scene. Right before Jaime finally kisses Jenny at the end of the movie, Khaji comments that there is a rush of blood towards his mid region.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_b5171e10	type	Tragic Villain
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_b5171e10	comment	Tragic Villain: Carapax had his mom killed by a bomb from Kord Industries, and then Victoria took him in as a child soldier, experimented on him, and turned him into her weapon, with the intent of eventually replacing him once heâ€™s no longer of use to her.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: When Jaime compares Ted Kord's high-tech Blue Beetle gear to Batman's arsenal, his uncle Rudy shouts that "Batman's a fascist!"
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_b956ebdd	type	Tron Lines
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_b956ebdd	comment	Tron Lines: The Scarab shown off in the trailer tease has a number of visible glowing circuits on its surface.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_b9fb7790	type	When Elders Attack
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_b9fb7790	comment	When Elders Attack: Jaime's grandmother joins the fight by picking up a minigun, without any strength-augmenting suit. This moment is also a minor example of Shaking Her Hair Loose as she pulls out a hairpin to let her braids down.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Happens to Jaime/Blue Beetle as he goes into a furious rage after Carapax/OMAC seemingly kills Uncle Rudy (although he fortunately survives the ordeal) when the latter distracted the OMAC. This gives Jaime the strength and power to gain the upper hand in defeating Carapax in revenge for his family, but he goes too far as he was hellbent on ending Carapaxâ€™s life to the point of Khaji-Da intervening and convincing him to spare him.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_c32201f6	type	Good Colors, Evil Colors
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_c32201f6	comment	Good Colors, Evil Colors: Blue, of course, for Jaime and the Scarab, but yellow lighting and objects are also used for the Reyes family and home. The villains, particular Carapax and Victoria's goons, are red.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_c3286b8e	type	Uptown Girl
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_c3286b8e	comment	Uptown Girl: The humble and working-class Jaime falls for the beautiful and wealthy Jenny.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: A June 2023 teaser has this for BeckyG, giving her an "Introducing Becky G" credit. She would be providing the voice of Khaji-Da, the Scarab.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_c420a553	type	We Can Rule Together
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_c420a553	comment	We Can Rule Together: Victoria does offer Jenny the chance to work with her after capturing her in the final battle, and expresses disbelief that she would choose to side with Jaime, whom she calls "Edge trash", over her own aunt. When Jenny angrily shoots back that Jaime knows far more about what it means to be family than Victoria ever could, she furiously tries to kill her niece.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_c642b187	type	In Working Order
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_c642b187	comment	In Working Order: The Bug has been sitting around in a forgotten basement for decades, but (mostly) works fine once it's booted up, needing only a kick to get it going again.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Milagro refers to Victoria Kord as "Cruella Kardashian" when she first sees her. The Reyes family constantly (and mockingly) refers to Jaime's relationship with Jenny Kord as a gender-swapped version of the telenovela MarÃa la del barrio. El ChapulÃn Colorado becomes plot relevant when Rudy uses a device of his own making that he calls "El Chapulin" to create interference with Kord Industries' security systems by broadcasting stop-motion animation of the character on all their feeds. Jaime presents Rudy as a Mexican Doc Brown. The Afterlife Antechamber where Jaime's dead father is has Death's life candle cave from Macario, which was foreshadowed earlier on when Nana was flipping through the TV channels to the channel showing the movie Macario. While fighting Victoria's minions, Jaime grabs one from across the corridor with one of the suit's legs, and proclaims "Get over here!" In addition to the BFS Jaime creates looking similar in design to the Buster Sword from Final Fantasy VII, he also uses an attack similar to Blade Beam to send Carapax flying though multiple structures. When Jaime protects his family and asks for a weapon, the suit's left hand transforms into the ZF-1 from the The Fifth Element.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_c819533b	comment	Rage Breaking Point: Jaime becomes extremely infuriated during the final battle when Carapax seemingly kills Uncle Rudy when he distracts him from killing his nephew, hellbent on killing him as revenge. It is only until Khaji-Da convinces Jaime not to kill Carapax when the former was about to kill the latter.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_ca3ef034	comment	Evil Knockoff: The OMACs are this to the Scarab, created by Kord Industries based off the Scarab's technology. Victoria wants to copy the Scarab's code so her the OMACs will have the same range of abilities.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: As Carapax begins to overload the OMAC core in his suit, he drags Victoria with him so the explosion kills them both.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_d238fd9d	comment	Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: Whenever the Scarab 'activates' the suit it burns off all of Jaime's clothes and when the suit retracts Jaime is left naked afterward.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_d2cd18c0	comment	Forbidden Fruit: Jenny hands Jaime a burger box and tells him to guard it with his life and not open or mess with it. Jaime has no problem with it, but his family decide to open it anyway to see what it is, and then Milagro and Rudy take it out against Jaime's protests. It bites them when Jaime's touch activates it and it bonds with him.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_d2e98fd5	comment	Die or Fly: Jaime has trouble getting the Scarab to act on command. How does he summon the suit? By jumping off a building.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_d45ad2f5	comment	Imported Alien Phlebotinum: The Scarab is shown in the opening to have been sent from space, with many other Scarabs, where it traveled across the galaxy to arrive on Earth. Victoria Kord plans to analyze its capabilities to enhance her OMAC devices.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_d5974c25	comment	Shaking Her Hair Loose: There's a minor example when Jenny takes off her motorcycle helmet in the closing scene.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_dae0cfd5	comment	Something Else Also Rises: Jaime's Blue Beetle suit antennae emerge, evoking this after a tender moment with Jenny.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Rudy frequently refers to Jaime as 'cabezÃ³n' note 'pigheaded'.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: The Scarab hasn't bonded with anyone since Dan Garrett, even though Ted Kord spent decades working on it, so Jenny figured that it would be safe with Jaime. She never expected it to bond with him.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Alberto is a subdued version, but no matter what life throws at the Reyes family he refuses to give up. He brought his family to America, worked endless jobs to support them all, and even at the Downer Beginning (when he's had a heart attack, lost his shop, and they're losing their home) he remains steadfast, saying they're the Reyes and they'll make it work. When everyone else is panicking about the Scarab, he calms them down and gets them moving forward. Not even dying will stop him from getting one last talk with Jaime and helping him accept the Scarab, saving his son's life from behind the grave.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_e6291d05	comment	Percussive Maintenance: Rudy's scrambling device only starts after he kicks it a couple of times. It also proves to work just as well on Kord's devices, to Jenny's surprise.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_e8dca77c	comment	Adaptation Origin Connection: In the comics, the OMACs have no real connection to any of the Blue Beetles. Here, Victoria Kord created the OMAC technology by reverse-engineering the Scarab's tech.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Victoria unleashes her army on the Reyes household, holding them at gunpoint until Jaime swoops in to fight them off. Unlike most examples, this sequence ends quite tragically, with Jaime getting defeated and taken away while his father dies of a heart attack. Jaime temporarily loses his powers while the Scarab reboots itself, putting him in danger when he's cornered by Kord's soldiers. Thankfully, Nana is there to mow them all down with Ted's minigun.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_ecfe441	comment	My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That: At the end of the film Jaime offers Jenny a ride to her dad's place. When she asks how Khaji pipes in with "I feel a surge of blood rushing toward your mid region." Jaime is not amused.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_edeafb2e	type	Malicious Misnaming
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_edeafb2e	comment	Malicious Misnaming: Victoria refers to the doctor as "Sanchez" even though he repeatedly insists that's not his name. Her doing it one time too many precedes his Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_f2227354	type	Powers as Programs
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_f2227354	comment	Powers as Programs: Literally; Victoria Kord's plan hinges on forcibly downloading the Scarab's programming to implant in her OMAC devices. When she succeeds, it upgrades the armor used by Carapax to more closely mimic the nanotech capabilities of the Scarab.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_f88f2449	comment	Downer Beginning: The film opens with Jaime, after graduating from college, learning that his family might lose their house due the landlord's increasing rent, and how his father lost his business due to suffering a heart attack, forcing him to cancel his plans to attend grad school to keep his family out of any further debt.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_f9e16ef	comment	Distressed Dude: Jaime spends the first chunk of the third act imprisoned by Victoria, spurring the rest of the gang to regroup and form a rescue party.
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Blue Beetle (2023) / int_fa4522b1	type	Standalone Episode
Blue Beetle (2023) / int_fa4522b1	comment	Standalone Episode: If taken as part of the DC Extended Universe, the movie has no explicit links to that continuity (like it merely references the existence of Batman, unlike say the first Shazam! movie which had a Batarang that was clearly the same design as those used by DCEU Batman) yet works as a standalone story within the DCEU, while also extending it further.
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