User blog comment:VideoGameFan9012/Season 2's Upcoming Episodes/@comment-1038387-20120722081715/@comment-34954086-20120723002735

Vit. in the comics, that's pretty much the entire point of Black Beetle, he uses Blue, Black and Red Scarabs at same time, doesnt need them to be merged by apocalypse to do so. But he doesnt look any different to a buffer version of Blue Beetle so the likelihood is that he's just a frontier agent of the Reach. I've always only used Big Beetle to describe him.

@Duck: Reach use scarabs on pretty much any kinda alien, while Black Beetle happened to be human, we dont even think this guy is black beetle. And meat could be more liek "Chum" if you chopped up Lagoon Boy or King Sha'ark they'd be nothing but chum either.