Blue Beetle

Blue Beetle is a video game character.

Overview

Blue Beetle is a video game character in a fighting game which was played by William Clayton and Felicity Smoak. The latter chose Blue Beetle as her fighter and lost to William's Sub-Zero.^[1]

Powers and abilities

Abilities

• Hand-to-hand combatant: As a character in a fighting video game Blue Beetle is a proficient fighter.^[1]

Appearances

Arrow

Season 6

• "Promises Kept" (video game)

Behind the scenes

• In the DC comics Blue Beetle is a legacy name of several superheroes. The version depicted in the game is Jaime Reyes.
  • The video game used is Injustice 2, based on DC comics, in which Blue Beetle is indeed Jaime Reyes.
• This is not the first time Arrow is adapting several aspects of Blue Beetle as Ray Palmer was originally written to be Ted Kord, the second Blue Beetle from the comics. While idea was scrapped and Kord was replaced with Palmer, Kord Industries and Kord Enterprises are still frequently seen in the series.
  • The fact that Felicity Smoak is playing as Blue Beetle might be a reference to the fact that she dated Ray Palmer, who was originally supposed to be Ted Kord, the Blue Beetle. However, this specific Blue Beetle depicted in the game is Jaime Reyes rather than Kord.

References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "Promises Kept"