Wil Wheaton: Ted Kord • Silver Age Blue Beetle
Fall of the Blue Beetle!
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Wil Wheaton credited as playing...
Ted Kord • Silver Age Blue Beetle
- Blue Beetle: So the old Beetle turns out to be a crazy megalomaniac. Whoops.
- Batman: That man isn't Ted Kord. It's Jarvis Kord, Ted's uncle. 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 the mysteries of the blue scarab. Jarvis was... unhinged. He used the ancient 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. We knew we had to get the scarab as far away from Jarvis as possible, and stop his invasion at the same time.
- [in flashback]
- Batman: Can't override the launch.
- Silver Age Blue Beetle: I have an idea. Just not sure it's a good one.
- Batman: [narrating] Ted made the ultimate sacrifice. And in doing so, made sure the scarab fell into the right hands. Your hands, Jaime.
- Blue Beetle: Ted didn't make it?
- Batman: 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?
- Silver Age Blue Beetle: Looks like he had a contingency plan.
- Batman: Then it's a good thing we have our own.
- Silver Age Blue Beetle: Hit robots, make fall down?
- Batman: That's the one.
- Silver Age Blue Beetle: I used to carry knockout pellets. They kept exploding on my belt.
- Batman: Tell me about it. Cost me a fortune to improve the casings.
- Batman: Deuterium-fluoride laser. Don't you have problems with residual heat?
- Silver Age Blue Beetle: Got around it by adjusting its wavelength. Less powerful, but it gets the job done.
- Silver Age Blue Beetle: People just don't appreciate the time and expense that goes into this high-tech gear. They'd rather see fisticuffs.
- Batman: True. Uppercuts and bodyslams are no substitute for having the proper tools when it comes to crime-fighting.
- [the ground collapses beneath them, and they find themselves surrounded by another group of guards]
- Batman: But they are a whole lot more fun.
- Batman: We've got company, Blue Beetle.
- Silver Age Blue Beetle: [seeing a group of security guards, he takes a device out of his belt] Allow me.
- [firing it]
- Silver Age Blue Beetle: The BB gun fires...
- Batman: High-intensity pan-chromatic disorientation strobe. Nice. But what do you do about the...
- Silver Age Blue Beetle: [seeing the security guards trying not to vomit] Nausea? Haven't quite licked that.