BLUE BEETLE BREAKDOWN! DC Easter Eggs You Missed!

welcome back to New rockstars I'm Eric Boss and this is a breakdown of Blue Beetle this DC Superhero film starring solomonar duena as Jaime Reyes was so much fun and I'm gonna break down some details and Easter eggs you might have missed film opens on a snowy dick site as Lieutenant Ignacio carapax Raul Max Trujillo locates the Scarab artifact care packs in the comics is the indestructible man but this movie combines that with another DC villain omac he's greeted by Victoria Court Susan Sarandon their vehicle is lit with a purple glow as everything with court Industries in this film has a purple color tone now Victoria cord mentions promethium which is a super powerful metal alloy that's kind of like the dcu's vibranium it was used to make weapons and armor for Deathstroke played by Joe Manganiello in the Justice League theatrical cut post-credit scene and voiced by Will Arnett and Teen Titans go to the movies now in the opening credits we see the Scarab blind through space and we see a flash of green lights knocking it off course the director has confirmed that this is intended to be from a Green Lantern we don't know which one yet but one of the Green Lanterns now this opening credits Montage mentions a headline with the name Dan Garrett that was the name of the first Blue Beetle when the character began under Fox comics and then Charlton Comics before it was acquired by DC Comics and at this point the Blue Beetle title had moved on to Ted cord Ted's sister Victoria court is actually a recent Comics introduction in Blue Beetle graduation day number two which came out in February of this year this is also the issue that introduced Palmyra city as a setting in the DC Comics where as in this movie the family lives on El Paso Street as the city of El Paso also is an important influence on Palmyra City we see an open credits Montage a headline Garrett receives research funding from Ted cord linking all the generations of Blue Beetle to this one shared history we see a daily planet newspaper reporting new hero in Palmyra City vigilante Blue Beetle saves City from fire fist fire fist Lyle Burns was a Blue Beetle villain from the 1980s in this opening potash we also see the Ted cord Blue Beetle costume though we do not see his face because no actor has been credited in the role yet though someone must have played that voice in the post credit scene we still know who yet Jaime's playing lands at Palmyra City home of the Blue Beetle this idea of a tropical City with an urban center right on the Beach we're calling Miami Florida and I like how the underside of this plane has two spots that look like the pattern on a beetle exoskeleton Jaime has returned from Gotham City where he is a pre-law student and I could explain his black graduation cap with a yellow tassel because black and yellow are commonly known as Gotham's colors on the escalator he passes a sign Bow State number one lowest tax rate for corporations in America yes the cities being industrialized and urbanized making it hard for families like the Reyes is to keep living there we see a Starbucks replacing a Carne asuria we see signs for the new cord buildings going up and the edge keys I'm just surprised that the edge Keys lasted this long there's also a grocery store named Soto after the director of this movie Angel Manuel Soto Uncle Rudy by the way is a Cheech and Chong bobble heads on the dashboard and later we get a close-up of one of them during the action scene super fun now while the cord Industries is coated purple the Reyes family home their walls the rooftop and soon Jaime's armor are all color coded the same shade of blue Jaime and his sister look out from the keys to downtown Palmyra City where you can see an ace chemical sign that of course is the open-vaded chemical company that deformed The Joker and a sign that shows up background of many of these DCU movies but the purple cord tower towers over them all in this Tale of Two Cities but beside the tower we see later is the lexcorp building they get a gig working on the cleaning crew of The Mansion of Victoria cord and there's this great shot where it seems like Jaime has achieved his dream of owning a mansion but then we cut to Milagros to see that they are actually on the clock but in that wide drone shot of Jaime's imagination there were no other workers on the ground so for a brief moment it was just him alone Jenny cord James Aunt Vicki over the omac the one-man Army Corps the Drone policing system using exoskeletal symbiotes that latch onto the spinal column in the DC Comics Omak was a Captain America type hero from the early 70s with the brother eye satellite that was actually reinvented as an AI hive mind during the 2005-2006 Infinite Crisis event where omac went on to stand for observational meta human activity construct and then later Omni mind and Community Jaime's grandmother watches on TV a bunch of shows including one with his golden Scarab this is actually a brief shot from the 1992 indie horror film Kronos written and directed by Guillermo del Toro his first feature film a horror about his a Scarab that gives the wearer eternal life but with consequences I may goes to court Industries for an interview and he sees that all the employees wear purple pastel already feeling out of place Jenny steals the Scarab from Sanchez's office in a big belly burger box big belly Burger being a chain from the DC Comics technically a subsidiary of lexcorp with a logo that looks like Bob's Big Boy the Scarab latches onto Jamie's face and this whole section is horrifying filled with famous horror movie homages the initial latch is like the alien xenomorph Facehugger the exoskeleton bulges out of his back and burns through his sweater and then flies him up to the ceiling just like in John Carpenter's The Thing during the blood test scene then Jaime's body initially Falls limp making him look like he's a corpse the acid covers his hand and burns off his clothes as Jaime screams it drips off onto the ground the fluid looks like the discharge some beetles are known to excrete as a defense mechanism Jaime screams his pain as the sludge covers his head his eyes and his nose even his teeth really I think the creepiest reference point could be from another DC movie Superman 3. when the supercomputer becomes self-aware and it stares Vera transforming her into a cyborg and she screams as her skin is covered in wires and metal plating in this Blue Beetle suit Jaime looks at the frame photo of the Virgin Mary and his Beetle eyes reflect over hers who just feels wrong but it sets up the scare of having a female voice this entity kajida voiced by Becky G akajida is later revealed to be the Super Advanced weapon created by the alien species called the reach it first landed on Earth in ancient Egypt and was accidentally imbued with magical powers that's destroying the comics and we see a bit of that in the opening sequence Scarab takes Jaime for a test flight when Jaime is in low orbit you no longer hear his wing thrusters only his voice in the kajida replying to him because there's no external sound in space I'm a suit slices through a bus but doesn't hurt anyone Jaime freaks out as he puts his clothes back on saying you can't fly Superman can fly now presumably Blue Beetle is set in the DC EU that this movie was developed to be a part of and his Superman would be Henry Cavill but we don't see any of the Justice League members in this movie James kind of said that he intends Blue Beetle be part of his future Gods and Monsters slate blue beetle was going to be a Max release though along with Batgirl and Batgirl was gonna have Michael Keaton as that universe is Batman but in the flash began in the Ben Affleck DC EU but ended in a George Clooney Batman Universe so this is all very confusing I'm just gonna default to Blue Beetle being in the DC EU but to throw a random Theory at you we did learn from the Stinger scene in The Flash that George Clooney's Batman is still out there in the Multiverse somewhere and Batman Robin had a Wild neon version of Gotham not unlike the skyline of Palmyra City so I don't know maybe those two movies exist in the same world where neon is a dominant aesthetic thank you to better help for sponsoring this video watching stuff frame by frame is great but it can also be really rewarding to zoom out and look at things like story pacing and character development for a movie you can just let it play out but when you're the target of analysis it's better to get some help from betterhelp regardless if you have a clinical mental health issue like depression or anxiety or if you're just going through a hard time therapy can give you some tools to approach your life in a very different way with better help you can tap into a network of over 30 000 licenses and experienced therapists who can help you with a wide range of issues it's easy to sign up and get matched with a therapist there's a link in my 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hiding himself in shame away from his family in his room and having to come to terms with its new existence jaimeg picks up Jenny who tells the family about the scarab's history as an ancient sentient weapon that willingly chose Jaime as its host at her house party Victoria offers her military contact a real Cuban cigar said enough that their secret Island Fortress Is Near Cuba Rudy Jaime and Jenny break into court tower Rudy blocks the security monitors with the stop-motion animated series Colorado aka the red grasshopper which was a 70 Spanish language Mexican TV series that parodied superhero shows since it's greater Matt granny actually said that he created the Bumblebee man after seeing El chapulin in Colorado in a Mexican Motel so you see this Simpson's character wasn't a parody of like absurdist Mexican humor it was a parody of a parody of how goofy American superhero TV shows have become so they steal the smart watch that used to belong to Ted cord and they run into carapax to excuse his body with the omac Prototype kachida takes the wheel and brings the heat to carabax despite Jaime begging not to engage but stop short of killing Kira packs an important decision Rudy and Jenny pull the handbrake to take out carabax with the Japanese machine and the three go to Jenny's childhood home where they use Ted Court's watch to open his secret laboratory Rudy Compares Blue Beetle to Superman and Metropolis or Flash in Central City but he says not as good I debate that Rudy does say that Batman's a fascist so for Rudy it's clear he just prefers superheroes with brighter colors and who are more friendly in nature in this lab we see the past areas of the Blue Beetle suits from the Dan Garrett era and the Ted Court era though one of the mannequins is empty since Ted court is currently using it wherever he is 10 records gear especially his ship might remind viewers of the night owl from Watchmen and there's a reason behind that because night owl and some of the Watchmen characters are based on this Charlton Comics characters that were included in that DC acquisition Blue Beetle was a direct inspiration for Alan Moore when he created Night Owl we learned more about the history of the superhero Blue Beetle who had studied kajida and the Ted Court mysteriously disappeared leaving Court Industries in Victoria's hands and the post-credit scene of this movie will show a transmission from Ted Court screamed to scramble to make out who it is but just so we're clear it's not Ted last of Jason Sudeikis that was debunk also later in that post credit scene we see a package of Oreos now these were favorite snack of the Martian Manhunter though sometimes the comics are called Chocos for whatever legal reasons the director has said that these Oreos were an intentional Easter egg to imply that Ted court and Martian Manhunter had been on adventures before Martian Manhunter appeared in the Snyder cut of the Justice League this could be include linking this movie to the snyderverse I don't really know this one's much brighter and lighter in tone so Victoria's helicopter flies toward Jaime's home in the keys and Jaime summons kachita by realizing it won't let him die so he jumps off a building a huge leap of faith but also a leap of desperation because this raid of the ray is home with the blinding flashlights definitely shot to evoke the traumatic raids of immigrant homes by Ice agents especially the shots of the neighboring families pairing out their windows and doors with concern it really makes you hate Victoria court for ordering to Target the family in particular and the fact that Alberto dies from a heart attack shows that factors like anxiety and Trauma high blood pressure these are often unseen effects of families and communities like this but impact the family's Justice harshly so a justifiably distracted Jaime gets taken by karapaks to the Cuban Island Fortress and they call this Pago Island this is a location in the blue beetles comics where Dan Garrett dies and Ted cord becomes the next Blue Beetle I may get strapped to a machine that downloads the knowledge from the kachida to the omax and during this Jaime experiences a vision from his father in this kind of spirit realm to embrace his Destiny as a Blue Beetle I may awakens and karapak's zomax suit has evolved into this more powerful form using this downloaded knowledge but it's not just on Jaime the whole Reyes family uses Ted Court's bug ship and its Arsenal to raid the island and it's so great Jaime battles Kara packs and it nearly kills him this time but the kajida reveals to Jaime the memories of carapax's past as a Child Soldier in Guatemala and is enslavement by Victoria for this omac program so I'm a spares carapax and we have to point out here that one of Ted's gadgets is a modified Nintendo Power Glove this is the controller for the Nintendo Entertainment System released in 1989 but before this its most infamous appearance was on film when it was being wielded by the video game hustling bully in the Wizard starring Fred Savage when the power glove looks like the coolest thing in the world but anyway this flashback with care packs is interspersed with real news footage of US military action in South America the director said that he wanted to remind the audience that karapak's backstory was based on real historical events carapax turns up Victoria and sets the omak's suit to explode to destroy the island and himself and Victoria in the aftermath Jenny takes overcord Industries and pledges to rebuild the Reyes home and Jaime and Jenny finally get that Smoochy smooch so where is Ted cord broadcasting from in the post-credit sequence well we made a video breaking down that scene where we theorized it he could be stuck in time with his time traveling best bro Booster Gold who has already been announced as the focus for the upcoming Max series another theory could involve the reach these aliens created the scarabs and used them to conquer worlds they have fought the Justice League in the lanterns on a number of occasions the director has said that the reach could play a part in a future sequel it is possible that Ted obsessed with harnessing the power of the Scarab ran afoul of the Reach In Space it was captured I don't know from you what do you like the most about this Blue Beetle film and how do you want him to come back into DC Universe subscribe to all three of our channels in the new rockstars Network you can follow me at eavos thanks for watching I'll see you next time bye [Music] foreign [Music]

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Length: 12min 43sec (763 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 22 2023