Source: sparknotes.com
16. Blue Beetle
(Justice League International, DC Comics)
The Blue Beetle is another secret favorite of mine, mostly spinning out of my intense love of Booster Gold. I have since gone back and read Ted's appearances in Justice League International, and even his original series, and it only made me love him more.
But Kord was always kind of thought of as a joke, but a brilliant one, at that. I mean, this is the man who coined BWAHAHA as a comic book term. He's a friggin' legend.
Ted met his tragic end in the pages of Countdown to Infinite Crisis, when he started to suspect something was up with his old buddy Max Lord. Ted went after him, and discovered that Max was uniting the forces of Checkmate and Brother EYE's OMAC Project to rid the world of superheroes. He asked Kord to join him, since Ted has no powers of his own, and therefore wouldn't be one of Max's targets. Ted responded, at gunpoint, with the immortal phrase, "Rot in hell, Max."
He was then promptly shot in the head.
