We begin the movie with a cheeky title sequence that reveals the scarab that offers Blue Beetle its powers flying throughout the cosmos, bouncing off asteroids and planets earlier than arriving on planet Earth sooner or later roughly a millennia in the past. There are even different inexperienced and yellow scarabs seen within the background, teasing potential sequel potentialities.
The scarab has been a part of humanity’s historical past perpetually, influencing know-how and even worshipped in Mesoamerican cultures. That sense of historical past permeates all through “Blue Beetle,” from the historical past of the character itself to how the mantle of Blue Beetle passes down from one technology to the subsequent. Not solely does Ted Kord play into the story, however even Dan Garrett, too, so the historical past of Mexican and Latino American resilience impacts Jaime himself in a big approach.
Within the current day, we meet Jaime Reyes (Xolo Maridueña) as he arrives house to the fictional Palmera Metropolis after finding out pre-law at school. However celebration takes a flip when he discovers issues are slightly bleak at house. His father (Damián Alcázar) not too long ago had a coronary heart assault, his enterprise is failing, and the household will lose their house quickly — and so they hid all of the dangerous information from him. Sadly, Jaime loses the job he desperately wants on his first day by talking out of flip in entrance of his boss, who simply so occurs to be Susan Sarandon’s Victoria Kord, the girl operating the corporate who’s taking on the Reyes’ household’s neighborhood and on the hunt for the scarab as a way to assist create a military of OMACs (One Man Military Corps)
Fortunately, Jaime additionally meets Jenny (Bruna Marquezine), inheritor to Kord Industries and a thorn in Victoria’s facet. However slightly than thank Jamie for sticking up for her when she’s being berated by Victoria and her henchman Carapax (Raoul Max Trujillo) by giving him a job, sadly, she provides him the alien scarab and makes the massive mistake of asking a Latino dude to protect a field and never be tempted to look inside.