The Blue Beetle movie comes out this week and I’m moderately excited. The trailers look fun, and I have faith in the character and the actors. But DC has been bombing at the box office for years now, and the movie also looks very, very predictable. Will people turn out to watch it anyway? We’ll see!

For my part, I wanted to do a Blue Beetle-themed List of Six. But I’ve already done lists about bug-themed superheroes and about specifically armored bug-themed superheroes. So what else was there to do? How about a list of other blue beetles out there in the world? It started as a silly idea, but I did some Googling and I have found six other blue beetles in the world of pop culture (mostly). Weird, huh? Don’t believe me?

Join me after the jump to see my list of other blue beetles that exist beyond the actual, comic book Blue Beetle!

6. Cobalt Milkweed Beetle

So this little guy isn’t exactly part of popular culture, so forgive me for that. But the Cobalt Milkweed Beetle is a literal blue-colored beetle from the real world. They are just a bunch of typical beetles, eating plants and being bugs. The Cobalt Milkweed Beetle is found primarily in America, west of the Rocky Mountains. There’s also the Blue Mint Beetle, which is blue and a beetle and is found in Europe. I’m sure there are even more. But blue is an actual color that beetles come in in the real world. So that’s neat!

5. Blue Scarab

When trying to find a sixth entry for this list, I thought: surely there’s a character named ‘Blue Scarab’ somewhere in the universe, right? And sure enough, I was correct! The Blue Scarab was the villain in an old Scooby Doo episode from 1979. He was the villain in the first episode of Scooby Doo & Scrappy Doo, so make that for what you will. In the episode, the assistant to a comic book artist is tired of being just an assistant, so he dresses up like his boss’s comic book character to scare him…or something. I dunno, I haven’t seen the episode. But scarabs are beetles, and here’s the Blue Scarab!

4. KoKabuterimon

I don’t play Digimon or read Digimon or watch Digimon, but I know they exist and I know they are infinite. So a search for blue beetle Digimon successfully turned up KoKabuterimon! I looked this little fella up on the Digimon wiki and I don’t even know where to begin. They’ve appeared in the show(s), the card game, maybe the video game? I don’t really know or understand. The point is they exist, they’re a beetle and they’re blue. I’m on a roll!

3. Heracross

Can’t do Digimon without also checking Pokemon, and sure enough, a blue beetle pokemon has been with us since the beginning. Heracross is one of those dumb pokemon that doesn’t have any evolution, so what’s even the point? Seriously, one of the major fun parts of playing Pokemon is training and raising your pokemon until they get stronger and evolve. But not Heracross! Wait…hold the phone. The internet is telling me that Heracross first appeared in the second generation of games. Are you kidding me?! Heracross was not one of the original 151?! But…but…surely…my mind is freakin’ blown.

2. Paul McCartney

Do The Beatles have colors? Why is Paul McCartney blue? Because of the famous album cover to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, baby! That cover is famously very colorful, and the Beatles all famously wear different colored outfits, and Paul McCartner is the one wearing a blue outfit! Simple as that! He’s the Blue Beatle! You’re welcome.

1. Blue Beetleborg

This is the big one, the important one, the only one that really matters: Big Bad Beetleborgs! I loved Power Rangers as a kid, so I easily and gladly jumped right into Big Bad Beetleborgs when it joined the Fox kids lineup. The Blue Stinger Beetleborg is the leader, real name Drew McCormick. He was the typical white bread kid hero, and often got the special toys, like Mega Blue Beetleborg. He’d eventually go on to become gold in season two, but nobody cares about gold beetles. Blue is the color we care about!

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