Booster Gold: James Franco/Zac Efron Ted Kord: Zachary Levi/Adam Devine
Skeets: Michael Emerson Jaime Reyes: ?
Dr. Thomas Kord: Kelsey Grammer Firefist: Dule Hill
Vic Sage: Jake Gyllenhaal Maxwell Lord: Jamie Foxx
---Ted Kord is the lackadaisical, playboy “black sheep” of the Kord Family, a dynasty of geniuses and prodigies, the head of which is Ted’s Father: Thomas Kord, CEO of Kord Industries. After one too many public screw-ups, Ted is close to being cut off from the family fortune entirely. Late one night, Ted and his father get into an argument at a gala and the younger Kord drunkenly attempts to drive off. After being distracted by what he thinks is a shooting star, Ted careens off the road, only to be saved by flashy superhero Booster Gold.
---As the world’s newest superhero, Booster Gold quickly becomes the hottest star in Hub City, with the help of his faithful robot companion Skeets, he plays to the press, picks up the ladies, and displays an uncanny knack of getting to potential disasters in the nick of time. While cynical reporter Vic Sage questions the secrecy behind Booster, Ted is inspired and, having cleaned up his act after the crash, fashions himself a new superhero identity based on a piece in his father’s collection of Egyptian artifacts: The Blue Beetle.
---After a series of frustrated attempts to contact Booster, Ted dons his new “super suit” and starts listening in to police radio. When an tech-savvy thug calling himself “Firefist” robs a bank, Booster easily stops him, but Firefist escapes when Ted comes crashing in, claiming to be Booster’s new partner.
--- At first, Booster is angry with Ted for “stepping on his moment” and allowing Firefist to get away. However, he and his “biggest fan” soon become best friends, bonding over their shared tastes in pop culture, superheroics, and women. Booster and Skeets help train Ted and improve his tech, with assistance from bright young intern Jaime Reyes. Dr. Kord is suspicious of Booster, but is happy to get Ted out of his hair as he works on his latest breakthrough: The Brother Eye satellite.
--- The new “dynamic duo” moves to advance their branding, having already liscensed themselves out for merchandise, by joining the Justice League. However, they are abruptly turned away by Batman for being “reckless, opportunistic idiots”. Outrages, Ted phones in a fake supervillain attack. Batman and The Flash promptly teleport to the rescue and easily discover the ruse. Batman proceeds to punch out Beetle and the Leaguers leave, though Flash admits he “Kind of likes those guys”.
---Despite their perceived embarrassment, Booster and Beetle are more famous than ever. To celebrate, they take Jaime out for his 18th birthday. While partying, however, they are caught off guard by a bombing at a Hub City Business Center. Ted and Booster suit up and save several survivors from the wreckage, but are deeply shaken by this sudden attack, revealed to have been orchestrated by Firefist.
--- Ted blames himself for letting Firefist escape, but Booster reveals his secret: He’s a screwup from the future who stole his tech and came back in time to use future headlines to attain fame and fortune as a hero in the past. Ted was meant to have died in the opening accident and Firefist never escalated beyond common villainy. Booster is convinced that this is all his fault, by interfering with the time stream. Skeets is upset by this breach of secrecy, and briefly becomes hostile with Booster.
--- Firefist continues a series of attacks, always one step ahead of the heroes. He is no amassing an anti-industry terrorist following. Public opinion for the duo plummets in the following days, with Vic Sage once again leading the assault on our heroes.
---As a result of the new string of attacks, the Brother Eye crime-stopping program is approved, and the satellite is set to launch. Dr. Kord finally seems to be proud of his son, and offers to implant the two heroes with chips connected to the Brother Eye system in order to up their crime-fighting game. Ted is eager to sign up to stop Firefist, but Booster is skeptical. He wants to search Skeets’ database, but can’t find the robot. Deciding that Firefist is the key to everything, Beetle and Booster leave to hunt him down.
---The heroes hunt down and defeat Firefist and his cell. The over-his-head ringleader reveals that he was hired by an organization called CADMUS. Ted realizes that his father was meeting with that same group at the opening gala. The two race back to Kord Tower only to be locked out. With Jaime’s help, they break and confront Skeets, demanding answers about CADMUS and Brother Eye. Skeets refuses to help and proceeds to download himself into the satellite. On the robot’s discarded metal shell, Booster realized that it was in fact produced by CADMUS in the future. Booster races to stop the launch, while Beetle and Jaime try to hack in from the Tower.
---The satellite launches with Booster racing after it. Skeets, now in complete control, reveals CADMUS plans to open a wormhole and bring in an army of future military to usher in an era of peace through domination. Back in the tower Jaime and Ted are close to disabling the defenses when they are confronted by Dr. Kord. Thomas proceeds to reveal he has removed the Blue scarab’s twin from its case. He bonds with it, becoming the Black Beetle, and attacks Ted.
---While Ted duels his father, Jaime shuts down the shields, allowing Booster to destroy the satellite and presumably Skeets along with it. He returns back to the tower in time to help defeat Black Beetle.
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--In the aftermath, the chaos is blamed entirely on Thomas and Kord Industries, and the company is bankrupted in the following litigation. Any mention of CADMUS is covered up, the wreackage of Brother Eye, Skeets, and the Black scarab are all confiscated by the government. Thomas Kord is placed in the Super Max, the U.S. government’s newest prison of super-criminals, which is shown to also house a despondent Orm, ex-king of Atlantis. Ted, Booster, and Jaime don’t know what to do, with Skeets and the Kord fortune gone, they begin to auction off Thomas’ collection (Featuring a cameo by Dr. Fate’s helmet) However, after attempting to get real jobs, they realize they just can’t stop the urge to save people. Their problem is seemingly solved when Lord Conglomerate suddenly purchases what remains of Kord Industries, and Beetle and Booster are introduced to their new boss, charismatic superhero fan: Maxwell Lord.
Mid Credits Scene: While packaging up artifacts for shipping, Jaime accidentally comes into contact with the Blue scarab. Hearing his
screams, Ted and Booster rush in to find him bonded with the scarab and transformed into the “true” Blue Beetle.
Post Credits Scene: Vic Sage, vindicated in his beliefs by the Brother Eye fiasco, receives a flashdrive containing clues about CADMUS. Donning The Question’s mask, he proceeds to launch a global, covert investigations, among his “questioning” allies, including one Detective Renee Montoya.