How Blue Beetle's DCAU Dreams Were Squashed

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@dcauwatchtower 11 месяцев назад

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@Blackburn-Arts 11 месяцев назад

I genuinely hope that we someday see the teen titans and some more members of the JSA or at the very a cameo from morbius aka dream

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@RealNick04 10 месяцев назад

cringe

@Volcano22207 5 месяцев назад

Sellout

@evanlindsey1100 9 месяцев назад

You forgot to mention that the golden age Blue Beetle's superpower was a wireless radio telephone, which was science fiction at the time.

@OptimusNero 11 месяцев назад

Ted Kord was completely forgotten in the DCAU, just like Nite Owl in the Watchmen show. They truly are brothers from different universes

@jonathancampbell7798 11 месяцев назад

They allude to Dan. He's in jail apparently and also made Silk Spectre the huge dildo :/

@calvinmann5773 11 месяцев назад

They mention Nite Owl is in Prison in the Watchmen Show

@OptimusNero 11 месяцев назад

@@calvinmann5773 I know, but that doesn't erase the fact he was miserably ignored by the writers, especially when we consider how horrible his life became after the events of the original novel. Dan deserved much more than having his happy ending with Laurie completely ruined off-screen. Also, it doesn't make sense that Dan broke up with Laurie because he wanted children and she to fight crime, as, knowing the personalities of the characters in the novel, it should have been the other way around. At Least "Doomsday Clock" Respected Their Shared Happy Ending

@hellishkid9566 11 месяцев назад

Well at least with Ted, they TRIED to convince DC. Dan just got the middle finger from everyone.

@OptimusNero 11 месяцев назад

@@hellishkid9566 Yeah, too bad Daniel is considered by everyone simply as "Rorschach's wh*re". He's honestly a pretty cool and badass character

@polkadotproductions3459 11 месяцев назад

I think Kords best representation is the 15 minute short by DC showcase. It’s a love letter to Blue beetle and Charlton comics :) and Ted is voiced by anakin from the clone wars

@Batmanisbestpony 11 месяцев назад

not to mention, the way it emulated the legendary iconic 1960's Spider-Man cartoon, since the Charlton characters that DC absorbed were all pretty much created BY Steve Ditko.

@polkadotproductions3459 11 месяцев назад

@@Batmanisbestpony yeah, I find it really charming that they intentionally do the animation errors and mis-colourings

@ulyssesveracruz8343 11 месяцев назад

Polka squad 😁

@Ka-Ping 11 месяцев назад

Also Batman the Brave and the Bold

@polkadotproductions3459 11 месяцев назад

@@Ka-Ping That brave and the bold episode was awesome!

@tonyyoung3985 11 месяцев назад

According to my friend who is also a comic book writer, "No one knew who owned the rights." Which pretty much summarizes the craziness with the radio show rights. You never know what heirs to radio play would just come out of the woodwork. Best to wait until those rights lapse. So in other words, they didn't know who owned him for media, but they knew when it expired.

@onbearfeet 7 месяцев назад

Coming from the old-time radio fandom ... yup. Episodes of Blue Beetle circulated widely online as far back as the early 2000s (and let me tell you, they are INSANE to listen to), so obviously nobody was keeping very close tabs on the show, but a more high-profile use like an appearance in a DCAU cartoon could have set off an alarm in some lawyer's office somewhere.

@amelialonelyfart8848 6 месяцев назад

Reminds me of how a person recently claimed to be the heiress of an old comic writer and claimed ownership over the Green Lama, a fairly obscure golden age hero whose main call to fame lately was appearing in an all public domain team. I don't think the person ever did anything with Lama since.

@chocov1233 2 месяца назад

@@amelialonelyfart8848 Interesting. What was the public domain team called?

@amelialonelyfart8848 2 месяца назад

@@chocov1233 Project Super Powers

@OptimusNero 11 месяцев назад

I LOVED the Blue Beetle's short film of the DC Showcase collection. It was great to see Ted and the other heroes that made up the "proto-Watchmen" in an adventure that mimicked the style of the '60s Spider-Man series.

@fishin4bass2002 8 месяцев назад

And go figure it was written by Jeremy Adams who has written arguably the best flash run in over a decade

@NIDELLANEUM 11 месяцев назад

I remember when the TV show Arrow kept teasing the character of Ted Kord, because the producers wanted him to appear in the show's third season. However, they were told that "they had other plans for the character", so they had to replace him with a version of Ray Palmer's Atom that was definitely inspired by Blue Beetle. It was also clear that they didn't initially consider having Ray Palmer because they even had his longtime love interest Jean Loring in the previous season, and there weren't even attempts in tying the two together. I always found it rather weird how Arrow couldn't have used Blue Beetle in 2014 because of "other plans" that turned out to be a movie that's literally coming out *NOW*, almost a decade later. However, I now wonder if the legal issues you've mentioned in the video are the actual reason. Like, Smallville got to use him for an episode, but it would have been an issue if he was going to show up for an entire story arc, especially one that led to a spin-off in which he could have been a main character. It would make much more sense than WB saying "we have other plans" and then only unfolding those plans 10 years later

@JamesLawner 11 месяцев назад

I remember how there were plans for a Jaime Reyes!Blue Beetle show, and there was even test footage shown at Comic-Con like a decade ago (this was some years after the Smallville version, and maybe that's why Arrow couldn't use the character then?)

@atlasrises4 11 месяцев назад

I remember watching at the time and the episode Ray pops up they actively avoided having characters on screen say his name. They were clearly fighting for that chance until the last second.

@NIDELLANEUM 11 месяцев назад

It could make sense as well. After all, Smallville had Blue Beetle and Booster Gold in its final episodes as a backdoor pilot. However, that Booster Gold show was meant to be in the Arrowverse, since he was making references to Arrow.@@JamesLawner

@NIDELLANEUM 11 месяцев назад

Yeah, and Arrow's season one mentioned "Ray and Jean", so they could have at least "masked" that by showcasing that Brandon Routh's character *was* that Ray. Sure, the actress who played Jean Loring was in her 50s, while Routh was in his 30s, but there could have been other ways around, like "yeah in this continuity he's Ray Palmer JUNIOR"@@atlasrises4

@PosthumanHeresy 11 месяцев назад

@@NIDELLANEUMOr just "yeah, I like milfs"

@tesloche9349 11 месяцев назад

I love the Turquoise and Green Bromance between Turquoise Tarantula and Green Lantern

@bruhidk5585 11 месяцев назад

I find it crazy that you dive into all sources of ONE character and cross-reference and eliminate other blue beetle “appearances” it’s crazy

@spacemanspiff3052 11 месяцев назад

The Ted Kord Blue Beetle is my favorite DC hero. He was Batman with a cheery disposition and no sidekicks. My other favorites were Captain Marvel (Shazam), The Spectre (Jim Corrigan), The Huntress (Helena Bertinelli), and The Martian Manhunter. I especially enjoyed the tongue-and-cheek JLA International. I love Guy Gardner, Maxima, and Fire too. Not to forget Bloodwynd . . . he was very cool and, unfortunately, mostly forgotten.

@user-je8gh7et6v 11 месяцев назад

Half an hour ago I fid not know Nemesis existed and now I feel offended on his behalf. In half an hour more I'll probably forget he exists again though.

@TrumbullComic 11 месяцев назад

Nemesis is awesome. His backup series in The Brave and the Bold #166-193 by Cary Burkett and Dan Spiegle is some great comics.

@randyrogers9764 11 месяцев назад

Not gonna lie, I forgot he existed by the end of the video. Then I read your comment.

@Saintbow 9 месяцев назад

Ted Kord BB will always be the best Blue Beetle. The guy survived Doomsday in the comics. He is the reason the JLI became popular and stayed afloat during the late 80's and 90's. Plus, he's the first hero to fight a eating disorder/weight issues.

@avidityrar 11 месяцев назад

Was losing interest at the beginning of this video, then a single line won my loyalty. "He wore a blue suit, bug mask, and m'ilady hat" is one of the funniest lines I have heard in a very long time and your writers are properly funny so kudos to them! Epic video, great writing, and content as a whole made this one of my favourite comic videos in a long time. Well played Watchtower Database!

@jxbermudez 11 месяцев назад

Watchtower database be the only channel that can talk about a super niche topic on something i barely know/think about that can make me just stop everything im doing because they way they do it is so fun, entertaining, and endearing keep it up guys

@bennett4789 11 месяцев назад

i know more about the dcau than anybody i know in real life and everytime i wach one of these i remember that its really just the tip of the iceberg

@-Teague- 11 месяцев назад

Comic Tropes is like that to me

@bennett4789 11 месяцев назад

@@-Teague- comic tropes is my uncle in my head

@-Teague- 11 месяцев назад

@@bennett4789 that's... Not the reply I was expecting 😅

@-Teague- 11 месяцев назад

@@bennett4789 he'd make a freakin' awesome uncle though tbh

@FriendlyBatDoom 11 месяцев назад

I love Ted Lord’s team ups with his best friend Booster Gold. I also loved his cross over with Batman we need more of it because they seem like they would get along just fine.

@jackbcasey 11 месяцев назад

The green lantern booster gold joke at 7:06 is peak comedy

@wanderlustwarrior 11 месяцев назад

I think this is fhe closest Nemesis will ever get to having his own video on this channel.

@FiggityJones 11 месяцев назад

I just love the editing and the energy these videos have.

@OptimusNero 11 месяцев назад

Ted Kord's death was very sad, but it's good to know that Maxwell Lord made him a more open-minded person 😉

@TrumbullComic 11 месяцев назад

Too soon.

@ethanmandengue3870 11 месяцев назад

Bro....

@sadib100 11 месяцев назад

Maxwell Lord also became open minded in Game of Thrones.

@richborn6700 11 месяцев назад

@@TrumbullComicc'mon it's been 18 years man. Porn stars have been born since then

@cheloxmv 11 месяцев назад

@@richborn6700I'll never forgive DC for that.

@LeviChurch 11 месяцев назад

To answer the question of the day, I want Damien Wayne and Jonathan Kent as Robin and Superboy in the DCAU.

@walterobrien8045 11 месяцев назад

You know if they put Damian in the DCAU they would make him the most boring edgy white boy.

@thatmovienitpicker8070 11 месяцев назад

Is he ever actually called superboy?

@srstriker6420 11 месяцев назад

No it just raises more questions

@ethanmandengue3870 11 месяцев назад

@thatmovienitpicker8070 That was his first super hero identity.

@richborn6700 11 месяцев назад

I'd rather Connor Kent. The Super kids have been ruined by that Superman and Lois show

@GamerSlyRatchet1 11 месяцев назад

I’d like to see Anarky, Hush (lol), Killer Moth, Nocturna, Lady Shiva, Black Lightning, Richard Dragon, Superboy, and Black Orchid.

@ulyssesveracruz8343 11 месяцев назад

Off topic am i the only that finds it sad that dan garret (the original blue beetle) is mostly forgotten meanwhile his counterparts like ted and jaime are most recognised

@PosthumanHeresy 11 месяцев назад

Mostly because DC never published anything with him, and has kept him dead this entire time because... because.

@ulyssesveracruz8343 11 месяцев назад

@@PosthumanHeresy because comics 😂

@Compucles 11 месяцев назад

Isn't that the case for a number of classic DC hero monikers like Dinah Drake as the original Black Canary or Alan Scott as the original Green Lantern? (Maybe also Jay Garrick as the original Flash, except he's still pretty memorable despite not being on the same recognition level as Barry and Wally.)

@PosthumanHeresy 11 месяцев назад

@@CompuclesAlan and Jay are both still kicking and get tons of love. Heck, Alan Scott is in friggin Hush. The New 52 jettisoned them for a bit but they're back since Doomsday Clock.

@ked49 11 месяцев назад

@@Compuclesisn’t drake who Oliver calls “pretty bird” or am I thinking of someone else. And Alen has been rebooted at least three time in comics

@Hellstromknight 11 месяцев назад

I remember watching him in The Brave and the Bold cartoon and reading him in the 2003 Teen Titans comics and loving him, but didn't think anything of it until Young Justice and The New 52 where I really started loving him and him living rent free in my head.

@kingjiggle4th789 11 месяцев назад

A character I would want to see in the DCAU would have to be... Kite-man Hell yeah

@Ted-Kendrick 11 месяцев назад

Check the pages of Batman: The Adventures Continue Season One #8!

@kingjiggle4th789 11 месяцев назад

@@Ted-Kendrick Hell Yeah!

@skarloey1214 11 месяцев назад

Hell yeah

@iamnot9541 11 месяцев назад

0:29 I love that they found a clip of Joker being dressed as a judge for that line

@dcauwatchtower 11 месяцев назад

“Trial”! Great episode!

@iamnot9541 11 месяцев назад

@@dcauwatchtower I'll watch it

@espeed623 6 месяцев назад

Kind of crazy to me that General Eiling made a “DCAU” comics appearance before he even showed up in the actual JL/U series.

@sketchydude8431 5 месяцев назад

That's all over the older comics Like for example, Vandal Savage and Gorilla Grodd made DCAU comics appearances long before they became major threats in JL/U

@animatsuri 11 месяцев назад

I remember in the comics Blue Beetle(Ted Kord) paling around with Booster Gold a lot would have translated well for the animated shows.

@anthonychang1426 11 месяцев назад

Based off the ending, I can’t wait for their return.

@MattwosRandomNonContent 7 месяцев назад

25:46 The guy Beware the Batman turned into "inverted batman without the bat motif?"

@Sammy3Peat 11 месяцев назад

I feel like Ted Kord’s humor would have fit right in the DCAU

@firedragonproductions 11 месяцев назад

Please do one of these videos for Firestorm in the DCAU

@dcauwatchtower 11 месяцев назад

It’s definitely on the list

@FiggityJones 11 месяцев назад

I’d want Artemis from Young Justice to appear in the DCAU (if she hasn’t already that is in her old interpretation), kinda like how Miss Martian seems to have done “recently.” (I don’t know when that came out and I haven’t seen it, I just vaguely remember hearing it counted as DCAU).

@dcauwatchtower 11 месяцев назад

2019, and you should TOTALLY watch it! It’s great! Afterwards, check out our video on her DCAU origin!

@FiggityJones 11 месяцев назад

@@dcauwatchtower I definitely will! 😊

@LincolnDWard 11 месяцев назад

As far as I can tell, she has not appeared - even her father Sportsmaster has only been in a couple of scenes.

@FiggityJones 11 месяцев назад

@@LincolnDWard Appreciate you looking into that ^_^

@maxordman4100 11 месяцев назад

Wow that’s a wild list of comics with Blue Beetle in them! It’s curious in some ways because my first impression on Blue Beetle was that he is sort of like the straight man to the more reckless Booster Gold. However that doesn’t seem to be the personality that they gave him in that factory battle comic, since he wanted fortune and fame as much as Booster did. Thank you for talking about these cool stories. Looking forward to seeing the new movie. I enjoy your channel so far.

@OptimusNero 11 месяцев назад

5:35 There's actually a Multiversity comic in which we see a reality (Earth-4), in which the Charlton Comics characters are mixed with their Watchmen versions. It's a pretty cool Earth, to be honest

@NIDELLANEUM 11 месяцев назад

I remember how my city's comic book shops NEVER had *that* issue of Multiversity because everyone kept buying it. Made me stop trying to finish the series altogether

@spikedpsycho2383 11 месяцев назад

A Jaime Reyes in DCAU would be killer. SO would a blue Beetle movie in scope of JL vs Fatal Five

@Numbuh1NerdX 11 месяцев назад

Actually, yeah, Firestorm would be a really cool inclusion! Giving Wally a sidekick with Bart would be fun, too, and of course Barry. I have an awful question, though: a lot of the DCAU tie-in comics don’t abide by canon as a series, but it seems like a lot of them would be a-ok on an issue-by-issue basis. Why not “will-it-canon” each standalone story? I mean, aside from how time-consuming that might be (even if it could make for easier-to-research, more frequent Will It Canons 😅)

@dcauwatchtower 11 месяцев назад

You just might see a similar thing popping up soon…

@TrumbullComic 11 месяцев назад

13:36 How dare you. Nemesis rocks. The very first article I wrote for BACK ISSUE was about Nemesis, and he teamed up with Batman twice in the DCU. He was also a member of the Suicide Squad, where he told off Amanda Waller TO HER FACE and lived to the tell the tale. He's also come back from the dead and dated Wonder Woman (in that order). I will not stand for this Nemesis disrespect. Sincerely, Friend of the Channel John Trumbull (14:24)

@TrumbullComic 11 месяцев назад

And characters I'd like to see in the DCAU: Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) Nemesis (in a speaking role) Green Lantern (Hal Jordan in something more than alternate timeline cameo) The Teen Titans (Just to definitively establish who's on the team in the DCAU) The Spectre The Phantom Stranger Sandman (Neil Gaiman version) Swamp Thing The Reverse Flash Black Adam The JSA (Golden Age version) Plastic Man (Because the League needs two stretchy guys)

@5uper8eedle 11 месяцев назад

Cool video Ted is an understated favorite, but I’d like to see Donna Troy in the DCAU

@hezekiahramirez6965 11 месяцев назад

I agree he doesn't really get his due. People just remember him as a punchline, essentially. He did have a number of serious adventures tho. For a time he was sort of like a combination of Batman and Iron Man. He was a very wealthy CEO who was also a genius scientist and inventor but not full-on Tony Stark territory, tho definitely more lighthearted than Bruce Wayne. I would recommend the Charlton comics and the first eight or so issues of Len Wein's run if you've not read them. They're super fun. They're still some of my favorite comics. The Len Wein issues might be my favorite short DC run outside of the DCAU and The Spirit

@deathstarstallion 11 месяцев назад

I would really love to see Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain in the DCAU. It would be weird with Tim presumably never meeting them after what Joker did to him but still

@jadenbryant9283 5 месяцев назад

Slightly late but I guess they coukd make them connected to Terry's batman instead of Bruce but thats it

@abiodunsulaiman2297 3 месяца назад

I mean Tim's blond wife in return of the joker could be steph

@ItsOver9000Productions 11 месяцев назад

At least JL Infinity kept him alive unlike all those other adaptations that have him die before we even get to know him. Love Ted Kord and would love to see him tutor Jaime mkre often.

@smbcollector 11 месяцев назад

I watched Justice League since the first episode when I was a kid -- I was a comic and super hero obsessed child and of course I bought any of the DCAU-style comics that featured one of my favorite super heroes at the time Blue Beetle. The one character I truly wanted to see more than anyone was Plastic Man, though, and he got even less respect than BB. I remember when the Metamorpho episode came out I was disappointed to see someone who could stretch but not have it be Plas, and then seeing Elongated Man in Unlimited felt like a slap to the face.

@maksillorenzo9480 11 месяцев назад

The Green Lantern/Booster Gold joke is so so funny - great reference

@CapLives 11 месяцев назад

Quite a few characters I'd like to see in the DCAU. Starfire, Simon Baz, Natasha Irons becoming Steel, and Stephanie Brown.

@RtistiqSkubie 11 месяцев назад

Who really cares about Natasha? Stephanie is barely even worth mentioning... then they made Iceman'd Tim sooooooo she's even less of a person of interest now.

@CapLives 11 месяцев назад

@@RtistiqSkubie If you say so

@jacobwilliams1223 11 месяцев назад

@@RtistiqSkubie I like how your response to someone personally wishing certain characters to appear is just a "no" like the hell lmao

@silomenezes2935 10 месяцев назад

@@RtistiqSkubieStephanie is great character. Her run as batgirl was one of my favorites. She's not just Tim's love interest.

@thewhitewikirabbit 11 месяцев назад

You guys are amazing. Very well done! James has quickly become my second favorite comic book adjacent James (though, number one non-Austrailian James). Just wanted to say thank you and to keep being awesome

@dcauwatchtower 11 месяцев назад

That is very high praise, m8

@Inkmann09 11 месяцев назад

I love to see the Spector because he is a pretty cool and interesting character that the dcu would have heck he can even interact with dr fate and wildcat

@MattwosRandomNonContent 7 месяцев назад

I swear Dan Garett absolutely got the short end of the stick when it comes to Blue Beetle in extended media aside from radio, at best making small cameo apperances in the Batman TBatB cartoon and Young Justice.

@braxtonwages195 5 месяцев назад

I love Ted Kord’s costume and his Bug aircraft.

@nicksorenson940 11 месяцев назад

If there's one thing that continues to keep me invested in DC and Marvel media over the years, it's that I'm always learning something new as far as getting to be more familiarized with their decades long assortment of different characters from the pages of the comics. It is a shame to know that Blue Beetle had been stuck in sort of a legal limbo around the time I was watching JLU on TV, preventing me from being able to get any real introduction to him then like the DCAU had given me for other characters, but at least now we can say they've been freed enough to actually be seeing him get his own big budget movie adaptation. I more than welcome seeing WB really pull from their vast well of DC characters that could be brought to screen outside of just the most famous ones like Batman and Superman, and I'll certainly be interested in giving Blue Beetle's new movie a watch when I have the opportunity.

@michaelphillips5424 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for making this one! Loved it. As for who I'd love to see in the DCAU - Firestorm (Classic Ronnie Raymond/Dr. Stein version) and heck, Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle! Both were great in Justice Action. Speaking of Justice League Action....any chance you gentlemen will be visiting that show down the road? :)

@dcauwatchtower 11 месяцев назад

We mostly focus on the DCAU here, but it’s not impossible! Don’t currently have any video ideas for that show but maybe someday.

@LeviChurch 11 месяцев назад

@dcauwatchtower But how do you know that show isn't in the DCAU huh?

@dcauwatchtower 11 месяцев назад

Oh you

@juliiju0484 11 месяцев назад

You truly made my day better. Your videos mean so much to me. (Also, i just started reading Project Superpowers, which features a public domain but also legally distinct version of the Dan Garret Blue Beetle)

@-Teague- 11 месяцев назад

How are you reading that? I've read a bit of it in a preview and really like it but I'm not sure how to read the rest

@Trey-Jae 11 месяцев назад

That beat at the start of the “Who Is The Blue Beetle?” was hard asl

@SauronIH 11 месяцев назад

I’ve been a blue beetle fan almost as long as I’ve been a fan of anything, ever since I was a kid watching Batman brave and the bold I loved seeing young Jaime with Batman

@thejuanderer4206 11 месяцев назад

That set up for the sponsor killed me, I love it.

@freeradiomars 11 месяцев назад

Another stupendous, informative, and timely video, and...wait, wha just happened?! ...OH MY GOD, he lives!!!

@prest01 11 месяцев назад

i appreciate the spoiler warnings, i only recently got into the dcau

@Rorschach003 11 месяцев назад

It's strange how The Question and Captain Atom feature prominently in JLU but somehow Blue Beetle couldn't make it in.

@righteousgreek2161 11 месяцев назад

This type of editing is funny, keep it coming

@jonfreeman4061 11 месяцев назад

Why is Nemesis named Nemesis? It sounds like he should be, well, a nemesis to the league.

@aleanddragonITA 5 месяцев назад

Because he is the Nemesis of All Criminals Or something

@bobtherandomguy805 11 месяцев назад

Good Job Data buds, Selling out to Raid. We've all waited the day this would happen. ❤❤❤

@Batgirl_fangirl 11 месяцев назад

Awesome video, very entertaining.😊 Your knowledge of the DCAU is truly astonishing, from every little appearance and reference of the Turquoise Tarantula, I was very impressed. Now I'm going to go eat some cake and find out who this Nemesis person is. Looking forward to your next video.🙂💛

@LeviChurch 11 месяцев назад

Has Raid outlived Audible RU-vid sponsorships?

@singularity4683 10 месяцев назад

Slay the spire outro music? Chef’s kiss

@yeahsureimdownforthat1698 11 месяцев назад

I'm really waiting for the day the DCAU gets it's own interpretation of Nemesis. Oh wait.

@rafaidan 11 месяцев назад

Why Y’all Disrespecting My Boy Nemesis?

@AussieDragoon 11 месяцев назад

Congrats on the Raid Sponsorship!

@Shawnodachi 11 месяцев назад

I always wondered where the Blue Beetle was in the DCAU. I wanted him to appear in Justice League Unlimited

@Moho427 11 месяцев назад

For the question of the day, Damian Wayne, purely to see James’ anger unfold

@Kinzokugia 11 месяцев назад

16:37 The fact that Wonder Womans outfit is right there leads me to believe he already tried it on or it was next

@VicEntity 11 месяцев назад

Can't wait for Nemesis: Thee Movie available in theaters August 18th

@OptimusNero 11 месяцев назад

"But Blue Beetle never had s*x with Malin Akerman inside the bug" Let's be honest. Not just Ted, but all of us, would have LOVED the right to say we did that. Patrick Wilson is such a lucky bastard...

@AzraelThanatos 11 месяцев назад

I think that a big chunk of the reason why they were having issues there is that, at the time, it was when they were starting to push Jaime in the role, but wasn't the one that they wanted to fit into it.

@atlasrises4 11 месяцев назад

Doubtful given JLU ended the year Jaime made his first appearance

@eliandervalderen5849 11 месяцев назад

This was a great video. It was a long and winding road but Blue Beetle finally made it to the end go Justice League a u membership. Or a dcau membership. Also you inform me of Dan Garrett the police officer Blue Beetle who I was unaware existed. Thanks for that.

@mvdwraptor7983 11 месяцев назад

This channel is really starting to make Good on the : things need to change video they put out a while ago Happy to see it

@dcauwatchtower 11 месяцев назад

Just took us an entire year’s worth of story finale to get there 😅

@rickybryan1759 11 месяцев назад

Nemesis sounds like he’d be a fun character to use in peacemaker or Amanda Walker series - a super spy innthe DC - sounds fun!

@undrhil 3 дня назад

21:54 who you going to call? Gold buster! LOL

@deathseekr1537 11 месяцев назад

DCAU blue beetle is just G1 shockwave from transformers: the coolest dude ever, but he's in space chilling out

@JohnPannozzi 11 месяцев назад

Charlton Comics was very dodgy in managing the rights to their characters and properties during their collapse in the 1980s, to the point that Mort Todd (a noted comic book creator) argued that basically almost of Charlton's work is technically public domain, and that DC had to re-registered the trademarks to the Charlton heroes they acquired.

@Dreadjaws 11 месяцев назад

Can't wait for your video on Nemesis.

@notsonormalloughy0541 5 дней назад

usually i skip the sponsor segments of videos but i am mildly pleased to hear that one kingdom hearts 2 reference. even if i am a small minority that noticed it.

@tankrage17 11 месяцев назад

i would like to see a movie about prometheus taking out the entire justice league and even gives batman a run for he's money . Or an actual owlman movie with he's insights about life ! love it .

@OptimusNero 11 месяцев назад

21:20 I wish the proposed DCAU Teen Titans show ended up being made. Imagine how EPIC it would have been to see the Titans being written by the same creative team behind BTAS, Batman Beyobd, etc, and with those great designs (especially Donna Troy's 🥵👌) by Tommy Tejeda

@Rustyshackleford762 11 месяцев назад

Same !!!!

@garyromano7990 11 месяцев назад

I want everyone in the watchtower database in the dcau so they can give us hard evidence for characters

@kingofthegundam7974 11 месяцев назад

I want Jaime Reyes to be in the DCAU. Leo Quintum would be pretty cool too, maybe he could be a redeemed Lex returned from the Source Wall to help Superman in the Beyond era.

@-Teague- 11 месяцев назад

That would kind of fit with how they replaced a lot of classic characters with their legacy versions, like Wally West?

@digitaltailsmon4096 11 месяцев назад

Honestly this was a thing I was sadden by after really learning who the Blue Beatle was through Atop the 4th walls series on all three of the characters who took on the role. It’s just sad especially knowing that Booster was in the DCAU but not Ted. Especially cause their chemistry is great. But I will say Brave and the Bold did a great job tributing them

@etc2913 11 месяцев назад

i love how increasingly unhinged he becomes lol

@alterclark1 11 месяцев назад

Great video ❤ personally I made the jlu comic Canon, but 2 each their own 😅

@MattwosRandomNonContent 7 месяцев назад

14:30 NGL, Cisco's superhero name could also use an update, barely anyone uses "vibe" as in mood anymore and I think even "vibe check" fell out of use in recent years.

@dcauwatchtower 7 месяцев назад

I mean, it refers to vibrations

@lynnerose7891 14 дней назад

@@dcauwatchtower They used him and “Cynthia” on the Flash TV show, too. Apparently they didn’t have any problems with either character’s name sin tbe Arrowverse 🎉

@comixproviderftw_02 11 месяцев назад

22:56 - 23:02 That Batman clip perfectly being synced with with James rant is the best representation of his pain

@thevenom2731 11 месяцев назад

Not gonna lie. When I first saw that character who needs a more inclusive name in JLU, I thought she was suppose to be Mexican since her costume gave off that vibe. She makes a few background appearances before the show finally reveals her name. P.S. I referenced another DC hero somewhere in my comment.

@rexred7149 11 месяцев назад

As a kid I didn’t read too much comics and I didn’t know too much here was besides the main heroes but now as a adult I really wish we saw the Phantom stranger and the Spectre and also John Constantine those are my three characters I really wish we see in the show animation style 😊

@rcbmmines4579 11 месяцев назад

27:10 I remember this comic! It was probably my first introduction to Ted Kord and probably my first DCAU tie-in comic which I got as a kid.

@jeremymorris345 11 месяцев назад

I just got my Crumbly Boi shirt and it's great.

@dcauwatchtower 11 месяцев назад

🙏🙏🙏

@IanWatson 11 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@spiritofarkham1235 11 месяцев назад

The crime syndicate version of blue beetle is called the scarlet scarab in batman the brave and the bold. since no other name has been given (as far as I knoiw) I usually refer to the one in crisis on two earths by the same name.

@NoxiMation 11 месяцев назад

You guys make such good videos

@yamataichul 11 месяцев назад

I'm glad you've changed the thumbnail! But my advice is maybe, make the less is more, more consistent for every video. One character front and center with 1-2 words is probably enough. If is slightly "painted" even better

@dcauwatchtower 11 месяцев назад

We had it that as the previous one a couple days ago. Always trying new ones to see if it’ll catch more eyes.

@yamataichul 11 месяцев назад

@@dcauwatchtower keep experimenting and good luck forward 🙏 hope the channel gets at least consistent viewers like for the previous videos, your work is amazing!

@gracericpizon3955 11 месяцев назад

My memories a little foggy but if he wasn’t in the dcau I would’ve loved to see spectre make an appearance in the show

@dcauwatchtower 11 месяцев назад

He was in a couple issues of the tie-in comic, but never in the show! I agree!

@srstriker6420 11 месяцев назад

Well Batman the brave and the bold is how I first knew about the Blue Beetle but Marvel has their own Beetle, the Beetle

@ethanjackson2328 11 месяцев назад

I would’ve loved to see Cassandra Cain in the DCAU and how the continuation of the batgirl mantle would’ve been handled especially along stories like mystery of the Batwoman or even in the beyond time of the DCAU