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18. Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes)
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Jaime fluttered around this list more than most. He's probably fluttered around quite a bit during the campaign. See, we found Jaime as he was being taken over by a symbiotic alien entity giving him a super suit of which to fight against injustice with.

We brought Jaime home, and very quickly he jumped into the role of teenager-who-doesn't-know-when-to-shut-mouth. He's heroic by nature - the idea of consorting with villains doesn't rank highly for him. But he was also very immature. So he mouthed off to Lush (who was a villain in the past) quite a bit, leading to an incident where Lush accidentally hit him with a sword. No big deal, really. But Jaime was sort of like that a lot - lovable idiot, bumbling around.

Early on, Jaime also worked in the kitchen! He needed something to do, so he attended to Ferdinand (the kithotaur chef of Wonder Woman) as a sous chef. And oh, Jaime was terrible, ah, terrible at it. Jaime was fraught with making mistakes none of us would make, and despite attending debriefings, had difficulty ever really putting anything together with himself.

Now, eventually some love quindrangle thing popped up. Jaime may have been an idiot, but he was helping ferry people across the border. He had a friend named Brenda who there seemed to be something with, but she was left behind. Jaime was brought home, and Pepper started talking to him. Then we eventually got Traci 13 to base and she was talking to him as well, strategically in a way to shut down Pepper. And then Traci became disenamored thanks to Saoirse and in the process took Pepper's interest off a peg by having Jaime smooch with Misty who thought she was a Star Sapphire and the entire time Brennus got nowhere because Jaime isn't into guys, and it was all just a whole lot of drama.

I think one of the things that pushed Jaime out the door however, aside from all the girls who liked him suddenly shunning him, and Pepper who he maybe would've had something with if not for the combination of Traci's manipulations and Pepper making drugs and killing people wantonly, was probably that we brought Harley Quinn back. See, early on, Jaime asserted that Lush was crazy. "Harley Quinn crazy". Such a phrase becomes dangerous when Harley Quinn is around.

It may have been around the time that a piano was dropped on Jaime that he decided to leave. Temporarily.

Jaime hitched a ride with the Convoy for the rest of the journey down south. He was able to get some distance, come into his own as a hero, and on return, lit up with a new fervor, reinforcing his lovable but stupid way of acting at time, giving him a sad edge as he can't confront his parents (who know he has an alien suit which is bad since his dad is xenophobic), and having just an ounce more capability than before.

When it comes to Jaime, he's always able to provide a youthful energy to a scene. Sometimes in a way that annoys people, sometimes in a way that is just flat hilarious, but Jaime's been with us since early on, and after the tribulations he's been through, has become a powerful ally whose dumb way of looking at things is always good for a laugh.

Hint for 17: It'd be fair to say this character has/had a rivalry with a PC.