Black Beetle (comics)

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character_name=Black Beetle
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publisher=DC Comics
debut="Booster Gold" (Vol. 2) # 5
December, 2007
creators=Geoff Johns
Dan Jurgens
Norm Rapmund
alliances=Time Stealers
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Black Beetle is a fictional character, a supervillain in the DC Comics universe. He first appeared in "Booster Gold" (Vol. 2) #5 (December, 2007).

Fictional character biography

Black Beetle (originally posing as a Blue Beetle from the future) appears to Booster Gold in a time sphere, and offers him a chance to go back in time and save his best friend, Ted Kord from his death at the hands of Maxwell Lord, despite Rip Hunter's claims that Ted's death is a point of solidified time, and thus cannot be altered. Booster agrees to go along with Black Beetle, who has also recruited Dan Garret, the first Blue Beetle, and Jaime Reyes, the current Blue Beetle, for the mission. The group are successful in rescuing Ted, and he and Booster return to the present. Upon their return, however, they learn that the timeline has been altered, and that Max and his OMAC's are policing the whole world ["Booster Gold" #6] . When Booster and Beetle, gathering some of their old Justice League International teammates, attempt to fix the timeline, they are attacked by Black Beetle, who reveals his true colors, and his affiliation with the "Time Stealers", a group consisting of Despero, Per Degaton, the Ultra-Humanite, and Booster's father, who attack the group. As the battle rages, Ted realises that the only way to fix things is to return to the past and allow himself to be murdered. Black Beetle attempts to stop him, revealing that he is "Jaime Reyes' greatest enemy", and that Jaime took away someone very close to him. He also reveals that he followed the Time Stealers' plan to prevent Ted's death so that Jaime would never have become the Blue Beetle. Both he and Ted enter the Time Stealers' time sphere, which then activates ["Booster Gold" #10] . In the next issue, Ted is revealed to have restored the timeline. The where (and when)-abouts of the Black Beetle, however, are unknown. ["Booster Gold" #1,000,000]

Powers and abilities

The Black Beetle wears what appears to be a silver-colored version of Jaime Reyes' scarab suit. Although presumably it has all the powers of Jaime's suit, Black Beetle's has so far only been seen utilizing energy blasts and flight abilities.

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