DC’s Blue Beetle Reveals Best Look Yet at Villain Carapax

The Blue Beetle movie will be arriving in theaters later this summer, showcasing a new corner of the DC universe along with it. As the film chronicles the origin story of Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle (Xolo Maridueña), it is expected to play off of the larger mythos in some unexpected ways — including the now-confirmed arrival of an obscure villain. McFarlane Toys recently revealed the first look at their upcoming Carapax Mega Figure tied to Blue Beetle, confirming that Carapax the Indestructable Man is in the movie. It was previously reported that Mayans MC alum Raoul Max Trujillo would be playing the character, but the first trailer only showed him in plain clothes. 

Who is DC’s Carapax?

Created by Len Wein and Paris Cullins in 1986’s Blue Beetle #1, Conrad Carapax is actually a rival of the very first Blue Beetle, Dan Garrett. An archaeologist who discovers a secret laboratory tied to the Kord family, Carapax is accidentally bonded with a robot in the laboratory, and subsequently goes on a killing spree. He went toe-to-toe with Blue Beetle multiple times over, and was later used as the basis of a robot army for the Hakke-Bruton company.

What is the Blue Beetle movie about?

In Blue Beetle, recent college grad Jaime Reyes returns home full of aspirations for his future, only to find that home is not quite as he left it. As he searches to find his purpose in the world, fate intervenes when Jaime unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of alien biotechnology: the Scarab. When the Scarab suddenly chooses Jaime to be its symbiotic host, he is bestowed with an incredible suit of armor capable of extraordinary and unpredictable powers, forever changing his destiny as he becomes the Super Hero Blue Beetle. 

The film will be directed by Angel Manuel Solo, and the cast will also include Susan Sarandon as Victoria Kord, Bruna Marquezine as Jenny, Belissa Escobedo, George Lopez, Adriana Barraza, Elpidia Carillo, and Damián Alcázar as members of Jaime’s family, and Harvey Guillen in a currently-unknown role.

“It’s such a new world and this is my first movie, my first venture into being on the silver screen,” Maridueña explained in a recent interview with Comicbook.com. “And so getting to be a part of it all, I just want to be a sponge. I just want to learn as much as possible and have fun. It felt like there was so much anticipation and so much preparation going into the project that by the first day I was like, ‘Dude.’ It wasn’t like the first day we started, we hit the ground running and it was a great time.”

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Blue Beetle is currently set to be released in exclusively in theaters on Friday, August 18th.