Blue Beetle: and the Legend of the Scarab

What if Disney owned DC and made Blue Beetle (2021)

Jaime Reyes is a mexican young man working as a valet in San Francisco with his best friend Katy Chen, but his secret catches up to him when assassins from Black Beetle attack him on a city bus in a spectacular fight sequence where Jaime reveals his hidden identity as Blue Beetle, unleashing the alien Blue Beetle Scarab armor for the first time in public as blades, cannons, and wings erupt from the suit while the passengers panic and the fight spills through traffic, ending with the attackers retreating after realizing Jaime’s Scarab has fully bonded to him. Jaime and Katy are taken into the criminal underworld, where they encounter the powerful crime boss La Dama, who secretly controls a network of metahuman fights and black-market alien technology; inside her underground arena, Jaime witnesses a shocking battle between Khalid Nassour and the Atlantean villain Ocean Master, revealing that the strange alien tech surrounding him is tied to a much larger cosmic conflict. La Dama makes a deal with Jaime and Katy, offering to help them reach the Black Beetles while secretly pursuing her own hidden agenda; soon after, they are ambushed by the terrifying armored warrior Carapax, a relentless enforcer serving Black Beetle whose cybernetic enhancements make him nearly unstoppable in hand-to-hand combat, leading to a brutal chase and fight sequence where Jaime struggles to control the Scarab’s weapons while protecting innocent people. Jaime and Katy are eventually captured and taken to a secret high-security prison facility where they discover a surprising prisoner: Ted Kord, the previous Blue Beetle, who reveals the truth that Jaime’s Scarab is alien technology created by the Reach as a planetary infiltration weapon designed to conquer worlds from within, and that Black Beetle intends to activate Jaime’s Scarab as a beacon to summon the Reach invasion fleet to Earth. With Ted’s help the trio escape the prison while Carapax relentlessly hunts them, leading to a massive battle where Jaime finally embraces the Scarab instead of resisting it, unlocking new abilities and defeating Carapax in a destructive duel that showcases the full power of the Blue Beetle armor. Jaime eventually meets the King of the Black Beetles, and after a long and tense conversation about the Scarab’s true purpose as a tool of planetary conquest, Jaime rejects the alien destiny imposed on him, leading to a massive fantasy-scale showdown between Blue Beetle, the Black Beetles, and La Dama’s warriors; after an intense battle filled with aerial combat, alien weapons, and Scarab-powered abilities, Jaime and his allies overcome the Black Beetles and win. In the post-credits scene, members of the Justice League contact Jaime and Katy through a secure channel; there Jaime nervously speaks with Shazam, Aquaman, and Khalid Nassour, who explain that the Scarab is sending a signal far beyond Earth and may be calling something across the cosmos. In the final end-credits twist, the real intentions of La Dama are revealed: she declares herself the new Queen of the Black Beetles and retreats into the shadows with advanced Reach technology at her command, setting up a much larger threat for the future.

Story added by dippy2 on January 13, 2023