DC’s Movie Afterlife Reveal Finally Explains A DCEU Mystery 3 Years Later

WARNING! This article contains SPOILERS for Blue Beetle

Blue Beetle‘s afterlife reveal finally explains a DCEU mystery three years later. James Gunn and Peter Safran are hard at work figuring out the next ten years of DC movies, series, animation, and video games set in the new DC Universe. While Blue Beetle was produced by the previous DCEU regime, Xolo Maridueña’s Jaime Reyes, aka Blue Beetle, has been confirmed as the first movie character of the new DC Universe, with the upcoming DC movie Superman: Legacy, which releases in 2025, serving as the DCU’s first film.

Blue Beetle told the superhero origin story of Maridueña’s charismatic Jaime Reyes. The movie featured many comedic moments as Jaime bonded with the alien scarab Khaji-Da and started to learn how to become a superhero and control his new armor, as well as how his family reacted to the surreal events as they unfolded. With such a light-hearted tone for most of its run, it was very special when Blue Beetle got emotional with its use of the afterlife, and in doing so, explained a 3-year-old DCEU mystery, as despite Jaime being a DC Universe movie character, Blue Beetle itself was envisioned for the DCEU.

How Blue Beetle Revealed The DCU’s Afterlife

While Blue Beetle is mostly a light-hearted movie, DC’s latest entry has plenty of heart thanks to the dynamic of the Reyes family, a strong unit that is there to support Jaime as he embarks on a life-changing journey. When Susan Sarandon’s Victoria Kord comes with her personal army to the Reyes household to retrieve the scarab and Jaime with it, the Reyes family gets caught in the ordeal. While most of the family manages to get out of the altercation between Blue Beetle and Kord’s goons with no scratches, Jaime’s father, Alberto, ends up suffering a heart attack and sadly is one of Blue Beetle‘s deaths.

Closer to Blue Beetle‘s ending, when Jaime needs to finally become one with the scarab to be able to save his family and defeat Victoria Kord and destroy her OMAC plans, Blue Beetle brings back Alberto for a very emotional scene. Due to Victoria downloading the scarab’s source code to conclude Carapax’s OMAC transformation and bring her army to life, Jaime finds himself in the afterlife.

Jaime meets his dad, with Alberto in a version of their home with candles expanding infinitely in the background. It’s then shown that they are on a plot of land that floats in the middle of the afterlife. Alberto tells Jaime that it is not his time and that he needs to fully bond with the scarab to be the hero he is destined to become, with Jaime then doing just that after Alberto vanishes into the light.

Blue Beetle Answered Steve Trevor’s Afterlife Mystery

Wonder Woman 1984 saw Gal Gadot’s Diana get her heart’s deepest desire come true with Chris Pine’s Steve Trevor coming back to life in the film. After dying in the original Wonder Woman, Steve comes back saying that he went to a good place before he was resurrected, but he gives no further details of what the afterlife actually looked like. Now, three years after Wonder Woman 1984 was released, Blue Beetle reveals what Steve meant, showing what the afterlife looks like in the DC Universe.