User blog comment:UltimateYJfan98/what power would you like to have and why/@comment-2212711-20120612225819/@comment-2212711-20120622043821

It can't change color or form. Inorder to use the scarab's powers you have to have the armor at least partially formed. In the comics it even has to potential to kill spectre if Jaime hadn't stopped the scarab.