"We've got company, Blue Beetle." "Hey!" "Allow me." "[GROANING]" "The BB gun fires a..." "High-intensity pan-chromatic disorientation strobe." "Nice." "But what do you do about the...?" "[GAGGING]" "Nausea?" "Haven't quite licked that." "[COUGHING]" "I used to carry knock-out pellets." "They kept exploding on my belt." "Tell me about it." "Cost me a fortune to improve the casings." "Deuterium-fluoride laser." "Don't have problems with residual heat?" "SILVER AGE BLUE BEETLE:" "Got around it by adjusting its wavelength." "Less powerful, but it gets the job done." "[ALARM BLARING]" "People just don't appreciate the time and expense that goes into this high-tech gear." " They'd rather see fisticuffs." " True." "Uppercuts and slams are no substitute for having the proper tools when it comes to crime fighting." "[RUMBLING]" "But they are a whole lot more fun." "YOUNG MAN:" "The careening starship plummets through the Earth's atmosphere, pieces of its fuselage ripping off before it crashes in a remote desert." "With the life ebbing from his body the alien orders his power ring to search the planet for a successor." "The ring's energy searches the globe until it finds a man without fear." "And a new hero is chosen." "Wow, dude, that's amazingly stupid." "That's the best you could come up with for the origin of the Green Lantern?" "Give me a break." "What?" "What's wrong with my story?" "First of all, a dude without fear has a serious mental condition." "And secondly, how does a ring choose someone?" "I don't know, it just does." "No." "What happened was some ordinary guy just lucked into finding it." "Everyone knows it's the ring that's special not the person." "I mean, I could be the Green Lantern." "No way, Paco." "You know something?" "You're so wrong." "People aren't handed out powers randomly, there's always a reason." "Heroes are chosen because they're worthy to be heroes." "PACO:" "Okay, so wanna make s'mores?" "Fools." "Your bullets are useless against my awesome power to repel." "You might try a new deodorant." "Batman." "Question:" "Do you think heroes are chosen or is it just dumb luck?" "Blue, not the best time." "Come on." "I just flew 1500 miles to ask it and the least you..." "[BEEPING]" "Hi." "Sorry, 1442." "I'm kind of in the middle of something here." "Dr. Polaris?" "Come on." "You can take care of this guy in two seconds." "You're just exercising." "And this is important." "Do you think I was chosen to replace the Blue Beetle because we share the same heroic traits?" "There have been a lot of Blue Beetles, and you're nothing like the one I knew." "[GRUNTS]" "You knew one?" "[BATMAN GRUNTING]" "[BEEPING]" "So you've been holding out on me this whole time?" "Dude, come on." "Now is not the time, Jaime." " Give me the lowdown." " Leave it alone." "Okay, then." "Bye." "Thanks a lot, Dark Knight." "[BEEPING]" "What, an Internet search?" "It's not like the last Beetle's gonna have a fan page." "Huh." "Who knew?" "Hero of Hub City." "I wonder what the weather's like there this time of year." "There it is, Kord Enterprises." "Okay, smarty armor if there were, say, a secret lair under here what would be the quickest way you...?" "[SCREAMING]" "No, no, no!" "[GRUNTS]" "[COUGHS]" "Gross." "Suit, from now on I drive, got it?" "Wow, this is so cool." "Feels like coming home." "And apparently, no one's been home in a long time." "Hola." "Sweet ride." "[MACHINE ACTIVATING]" "Trip log." "These coordinates show the last place the Beetle flew to." "You think he's still there?" "What if he's stranded or injured or something?" "No, I'm not nuts." "This could be the reason why I was chosen." "Maybe the Beetle's in danger and I'm supposed to save him." "Oh, yeah?" "Well, you know what?" "Who asked you?" "[BEEPING]" "Okay." "I'm up, I'm up." "Approaching destination?" "There's nothing out here but water." "[CHUCKLES] Oh." "Cloaking screen." "Well, that is cool." "BATMAN [OVER SPEAKER]:" "Come in, Blue Beetle." "Bats, not the best time." "Look, I know I was short with you earlier." "But there are things I'm not sure you're ready to deal with." "Like there was a Blue Beetle before me named Ted Kord?" "Oh, yeah, and that's not all I found out." "I'm on my way to his last known location." "I'm going to find out why I became the Blue Beetle." "It's something I need to do." "You have no idea what you're getting yourself into." "Teenagers." "Whoever or whatever's down here went to a lot of trouble to remain anonymous." "[BEEPING]" "What?" "What's up?" "What are you doing?" "Each one of these is a miracle of science." "They're unique, beyond value." "Who are you?" "I'm Jaime Reyes, the new Blue Beetle." "I came here to find the original." "So you're my replacement." "I thought you'd be taller." "Welcome to Science Island." "I'm Ted Kord, the Blue Beetle." "BATMAN:" "From now on, no more kid partners." "Of course, I guess the adult variety got me into just as many jams." " And you just gave the Scarab to him?" " I loaned it to him." "I thought maybe he could get it to work for me." "I mean, he seemed so mild-mannered." "No worries, buddy." "It's my mess, I'll clean it up." "I said you could borrow it." "Borrow." "Robotics experts." "A table's never just a table with you guys, is it?" "We're finally gonna put that brain of yours to good use." "Making license plates at Iron Heights prison." " Looks like he had a contingency plan." " Good thing we have our own." " Hit robots, make fall down?" " That's the one." "Your setup's amazing." "The whole world could be just like it." "No poverty or pollution or want." "As the Blue Beetle I could only help one person at a time." "I came to this island to harness the amazing technology of the Scarab to benefit all mankind." "If humanity would just work together, we could do anything." "Instead of wallowing in petty feuds and obscene greed we could be..." "Sorry, I get a little carried away sometimes." "Now, there's something I'd like to show you." "These are my helpers." "They will do the farming to feed the poor." "The building to house the homeless." "A vast tireless workforce just waiting to be powered by the awesome energy of the Blue Scarab." "About the Scarab." "Why me?" "Why did I get it?" "I dream of a perfect world, but I can't do it alone." "I sent out my Scarab in search of an ally programmed it to seek someone of great virtue." "Someone worthy to inherit the mantle of the Blue Beetle." "And it found you." "Will you help me?" "[MACHINES ACTIVATING]" "I wish Batman would've told me all this." "Batman." "He's an old chum of mine." "Don't take it personally, he's not much of a talker as I recall." "Tell me about it." "Mostly he just grunts." "[BOTH LAUGH]" "A new age of peace and prosperity for all begins in the morning." "Good night." "All unassigned drones on defense perimeter." "Protocol:" "Batman." "Just think, I'm part of all of this." "[JAIME GRUNTS]" "Oh." "Sorry, little guy." "I spilled your..." "[BUZZING] ...bullets?" "It's probably nothing, right?" "[FOOTSTEPS THUDDING]" "Oh, man." "No." "No, no." "[SCREEN BEEPING]" "[BEEPING]" "Call Bats?" "Yeah, that's just what I was thinking." "[GASPS]" "Batman won't be taking any calls." "[GRUNTS]" "Thanks to your timely warning, I was prepared for his arrival." "[GRUNTING]" "The problem with being a beetle is that people are always pulling off your wings." "[GRUNTING AND GROANING]" "Goodbye, Jaime." "[SCREAMS]" "Can't move." "Uhn!" "Uhn!" "Sure you can." "Aah." "Batman." "Battle drones, initiate attack sequence." "No missiles in the lab, please." "I wouldn't." "All that stuff about making a better world and I fell for it." "Oh, no." "I'm completely sincere about that." "War, conflict, strife, they'll all vanish with humanity under the absolute control of one single leader." "Mankind will flourish as I eliminate any..." "Freedom." "It's a small price to pay." "Now if you'll excuse me." "So the old Beetle turns out to be a crazy megalomaniac." " Whoops." " That man isn't Ted Kord." "It's Jarvis Kord, Ted's uncle." "BATMAN:" "Ted was a brilliant scientist who promised his mentor, Dan Garrett to carry on the mantle of the Blue Beetle." "But Ted couldn't get the Scarab to work." "Instead he used guts and technical ingenuity to battle crime as the new Blue Beetle." "His only mistake was trusting his uncle to unlock mysteries of the Blue Scarab." "Jarvis was unhinged." "He used the alien technology of the Scarab to create an army of super androids." "An army that he planned to unleash on Hub City using a rocket ship." "Ted didn't like that." "Neither did I." "[TIMER BEEPING]" "We had to get the Scarab away from Jarvis and stop his invasion at the same time." "Can't override the launch." "I have an idea." "Just not sure it's a good one." "[GRUNTS]" "[GRUNTING]" "BATMAN:" "Ted made the ultimate sacrifice." "And in doing so made sure the Scarab fell into the right hands." "Your hands, Jaime." "Ted didn't make it?" "I wasn't sure you were ready to know about this." "Our work is dangerous." "And not all hero stories have happy endings." "Ted made his choice." "But now you're the Blue Beetle." "What will yours be?" "[MACHINE WHIRRING]" "[BEEPING]" "For once, suit, we're in agreement." "[GRUNTS]" "Oh, just great." "All island-based units, priority command destroy Batman and Blue Beetle." "Aah!" "Nice throw, but the countdown can't be stopped." "And your failure ushers in a new era for mankind..." "There's another way." "The armor can get me inside." "I can override the safeties on the reactor." "BATMAN:" "Destroy the island before the launch." "Not bad." "Do it." "[ACTIVATING]" "One problem." "Getting off before the big bang." " How much time will we have?" " Yeah." "We should run." "Go." "Don't wait for me." "Oh, sure." "Let me carry the megalomaniac." "My hands are free." "[GRUNTS]" "[GRUNTS THEN GROANS]" "This baby came fully loaded." "Who knew?" " I told you not to wait for me." " Yeah, right." "I locked Jarvis in the can." "Hope you don't have to go." "Look, I'm sorry I got all hung up on the Beetle history lesson." "I wanted so badly to have been chosen to be this hero instead of lucking into it." "I guess I was an idiot to fall for Kord's story about me being special." "The Scarab did choose." "It let you access its powers." "Not Ted." "But being chosen doesn't make you a hero." "What you choose does." "I just wanna do the right thing." "Like Ted would've done." "BATMAN:" "Spoken like a true hero." "[ENGLISH SDH]"