Jaime lives in
El Paso, Texas, and is the son of
Alberto Reyes and
Bianca Reyes and the brother of
Milagro Reyes. Jaime has an acute sense of responsibility for his immediate family and friends
Paco and
Brenda Del Vecchio, though he complains about having to sort out their problems.
Teen Titans Jaime first teams up with the
Teen Titans when they battle
Lobo, who the Reach hired to maintain their facade as benevolent protectors. Although criticizing Jaime for his lack of formal training, the Titans extend an invitation to visit and perhaps join the team. During the "Titans of Tomorrow, Today!" arc, Jaime takes the Titans up on their offer to visit, only to find that an
alternate future version of the Titans have captured several members of the
Justice League. He later proves instrumental in the younger Titans' victory against their future selves. Jaime is recruited by
Black Beetle (who originally identifies himself as a Blue Beetle from the future) and Dan Garrett to go into the past with Booster Gold to prevent
Ted Kord's death. After saving Kord, Jaime and Garrett return, and the future is revealed to be a dystopia ruled by
Maxwell Lord, who now was never exposed and defeated. Seeing the damage done by their actions, Kord decides to accept his death and returns to the past, restoring the timeline. Jaime comes into conflict with
Kid Devil, who still harbored a grudge against him because of both the future Titans incident and his status with
Ravager. Jaime tries to mend fences with Kid Devil, but their squabbling allows Shockwave to escape. After working with Jaime to defeat Shockwave, Kid Devil realizes that he is being sincere. The two reconcile and reveal their secret identities to each other. Later, at
Titans Tower,
Robin offers Jaime full-membership, which he finally feels ready to accept.
Series finale A group of Reach infiltrators and a negotiator invade Jaime's school's dance. Having been inspired by the scarab to rebel, the Kahji Dha Revolutionary Army (KDRA) sets out to make Earth safe by destroying those that could pose any threat. They see Jaime as a threat and attack. During the fight, Nadia, part of Jaime's tech support, is killed. Taking the fight into orbit, Jaime has the scarab hack into and deactivate the KDRA, but deactivates itself for 27 days in the process. The negotiator quickly recovers and Jaime is forced to take him on a
kamikaze dive to the Earth's surface. The impact kills the negotiator and badly hurts Jaime, although the scarab protects him from the brunt of the impact. Over a period of weeks, Jaime and the scarab slowly recover. Unbeknownst to Jaime, the Reach negotiator's scarab is recovered by Hector, Jaime's other tech support.
Further adventures Starting in
Booster Gold vol. 2 #21, Blue Beetle was featured as a 10-page ongoing co-feature. The stories focused on a smaller cast than before, focusing on Jaime, Paco and Brenda while Jaime's family occasionally appears. The rebooted scarab is shown to be more bloodthirsty than in the past, constantly urging Jaime to use more lethal weaponry. Jaime encounters Black Beetle, who claims to be his future self and injures Milagro Reyes. Soon after, Jaime is attacked by Ted Kord, who has been resurrected as a
Black Lantern. Jaime and Booster Gold work together to destroy Kord with a special light gun that separates him from his Black Lantern ring.
Justice League: Generation Lost During the
Brightest Day storyline,
Deadman has a vision of Jaime shaking hands with Maxwell Lord, who is holding a gun behind his back. Jaime informs
Static that he plans to briefly leave to visit his family, fearing what would happen if he were to die without saying goodbye. Shortly after arriving home, Jaime and his family are attacked by a squad of
OMACs. Jaime repels the OMACs, but is accidentally sucked into a teleportation rift that they created. The heroes end up in Russia, where Jaime learns of Lord and his attempt to make the world forget he ever existed. He agrees to help the former Justice League members bring Lord to justice.
The New 52 In September 2011 after the conclusion of the "
Flashpoint" storyline event, DC Comics cancelled all of its monthly books and relaunched 52 new monthly titles with a new continuity, in what was called
The New 52. One of the new series as a
Blue Beetle series written by
Tony Bedard and drawn by Ig Guara and cancelled in February 2013. Jaime Reyes and his friend Paco are driving to a party when a fight over a backpack between some men and the
Brotherhood of Evil members
Phobia,
Plasmus, and
Warp erupts from a nearby building. To protect Paco, Jaime grabs the backpack. When
La Dama's agents
Brutale, Bone-Crusher, and Coyote join the fight, Brutale throws a knife at the backpack. The scarab inside is set off and Jaime is transformed into Blue Beetle. In
Green Lantern: New Guardians, representatives of the Reach attack Odym, homeworld of the
Blue Lantern Corps, where it is revealed that their armours have taken control of them; Jaime speculates, during a confrontation with
Kyle Rayner, that his armour is damaged, explaining why he is in control of himself where other Reach soldiers are enslaved to their armour.
DC Rebirth In the 2016 relaunch of the DC Universe,
DC Rebirth, Jaime is working with Ted Kord to study the beetle attached to Jaime's back and remove it. Once again, the beetle's origin is retconned, as revealed by
Doctor Fate, who tells Kord that the beetle is not alien, but magical, similar to the original continuity pre-
Infinite Crisis.
Graduation Day In the
Blue Beetle: Graduation Day miniseries, Jamie is still continuing his superhero duties as Blue Beetle while also finally graduating from high school. During the ceremony, he gets a transmission from the scarab indicating that the Reach are planning something. After Jaime's graduation party,
Superman and Jaime share a heart to heart about Jamie's uncertainty for his future and what he wants for himself. Superman then informs Jaime that, until they get a better understanding of the Reach broadcast, Jamie is "grounded" from being Blue Beetle and should spend time with his family. Jaime then find out from his parents that, because he is not attending college, he will be heading to Palmera City to work at the family diner for the summer. Then, Paco shows everyone a video of a mysterious Yellow Beetle arriving in
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