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Mexican teenager Jaime Reyes returns home from college full of idealism and hope for his country's future. But his home isn't as he left it. Dejected and without direction now that his dreams have been dashed, Jaime finds an ancient scarab that turns out to be an alien symbiote. When the scarab chooses him, Jaime becomes the third incarnation of the superhero, The Blue Beetle. This film is a superhero movie based on the DC comic of the same name.