"The Rise of the Blue Beetle" is the first episode of the animated television series Batman: The Brave and the Bold. The episode introduces Blue Beetle in his first on-screen appearance.

Blue Beetle is the name of three superheroes appearing in a number of American comic books published by a variety of companies since 1939. The most recent of the companies to own rights to Blue Beetle is DC Comics, which bought the rights to the character in 1983, using the name for three distinct characters over the years.