Television
- The Ted Kord version of Blue Beetle appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, in the episode "Fall of the Blue Beetle!", voiced by Wil Wheaton. Kord appears in flashbacks working together with Batman. When he is unable to get the scarab to work, he lends it to his insane scientist uncle Dr. Jarvis Kord to activate it. However, Jarvis planned to use it to power Blue Beetle robots to take over Hub City, and Ted recruits Batman to help get it back. When Jarvis activates a rocket to send the robots to different parts of Hub City, Ted enters the rocket before it blasts off and blows it up, stopping the robot invasion, but he is killed in the process. After Ted's death, Jarvis takes his identity to trick the new Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes) into helping him while he was on Science Island. The episode "Menace of the Madniks!" sees Booster Gold (who has been missing Ted since his death) travel back in time to help Ted defeat his old foes the "Madniks" (who resemble the "Madmen" of the original series and had been renamed the Madniks). Though the mission appears successful, when Booster returns to the present he finds Hub City in ruins and Batman battling terrifying evolved forms of the Madniks. Batman and Booster together return to the mission and, with Ted's help, manage to revert the Madniks to their original forms. Batman and Booster say a final goodbye to Ted, immediately before the Batman of Ted's own time arrives to enlist him for what will be his final mission.
- Ted Kord appeared in the season 10 episode of Smallville entitled "Booster" and was played by Sebastian Spence. In the episode, it is revealed that Kord never takes the identity of Blue Beetle from Dan Garret, who died after failing to control the scarab. Kord obtains the device and hopes to utilize its potential for good, but it later escapes and possesses Jaime Reyes. Kord then hires Booster Gold to find it. Kord keeps Booster on his payroll after the hero helps Reyes control his scarab-enhanced powers.
- Blue Beetle appears in Mad voiced by Keith Ferguson. He joins the other superheroes in a musical number that asks Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman about being called "Super Friends." In his part, he states that no one pokes the Super Friends page on Facebook.
- Ted Kord is mentioned in the Young Justice: Invasion episode "Salvage." Jaime Reyes stated that he was the creator of the Scarab's AI component. It is also mentioned that Ted Kord had been killed by The Light (Project Cadmus' Board of Directors), which lead to Jaime taking up the mantle. Superboy states that he knew Ted and that he was a good man. A holographic memorial of him is present in Mount Justice as seen in "Satisfaction".
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
“... there is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.”
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)
“Photographs may be more memorable than moving images because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Television is a stream of underselected images, each of which cancels its predecessor. Each still photograph is a privileged moment, turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)