DC's Blue Beetle (Smallville)

Jaime Reyes was just a timid teenager in Metropolis when a Kord Industries car nearly ran him over. His life was saved by Metropolis's newest superhero Booster Gold, but it was changed forever by that car, as a strange blue scarab crawled from the car into Jaime's backpack. The scarab would take control of Jaime's body without warning, so Jaime took this problem to the most capable man he could think of - Booster, who brushed him off. That is, until the scarab took control again, covering him in a bulky, blue carapace that it used to attack Booster. He encouraged Jaime to take control of the suit, saving his own life, but also earning him a protege in Jaime Reyes, the Blue Beetle!

 

I'll admit, I had a hard time figuring out what to do with this figure. Technically, the Smallville design is pretty accurate to the books, albeit a hell of a lot clunkier. That's a hard thing to incorporate into a minifigure, especially with a prerequisite neck attachment limiting things. Ultimately I opted for the blue epaulettes and some blue arms. Those epaulettes, by the way, are the reason why there is no group shot of the Smallville Teen Titans, since he and Miss Martian both use them, and I only have one.

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