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Booster Gold

Booster Gold


Family	Unnamed sister
Occupation	Former football star
Powers and Abilities	Energy projection (From his suit) Flight (From the legion ring)
Played By	Eric Martsolf
Status	Alive
Last Seen	2011 (Booster)
Appeared In	Booster

"I am Booster Gold, the greatest hero you've never heard of... till now!" - Booster Gold, Booster

Booster Gold is a showboating, fame-hungry, "superhero" from the 25th century who traveled back to the past to take Clark Kent's place as Metropolis' hero.

1 Physical Appearance
2 Personality
3 Powers and Abilities
4 Early Life
5 Season Ten
6 In the Comics
7 Notes
8 Appearances
9 External Links

Physical AppearanceEdit

Booster Gold is a tall and handsome man with a ready smile at all times. He keeps his blond hair cropped short and his face clean shaven at all times.

When he appeared in Booster, wearing his hero costume that he stole in the future; a blue and gold uniform made from what appears to be leather, designed with a blue star in the center of his chest, gold gauntlets with blue gloves that have gold mechanisms in the center that can emit beams of energy and blue boots. The costume is also covered in a series of corporate sponsors much like Nascar drivers.

He often wears a pair of yellow colored sunglasses and what looks to be a hands-free telephone device that is in truth his sentience companion and time-line information source: Skeets, which he stole from a museum before coming to the early 21st Century.

Booster also wears a Legion ring that he admits he stole from the Legion.

PersonalityEdit

"Danger... is my middle name. So is fame, fortune, and front page." - Booster Gold, Booster

On the surface Booster Gold is the stereotypical showboat. Arrogant, greedy, and egotistical, Booster does whatever he can to gain attention, fame and riches. For him, it seems that the greatest thing in the world is an adoring fan and beautiful woman fawning over him. He initially seems to see heroics as a game and competition for attention, rather than a duty to actually help people with his abilities.

His need for fame has resulted in him ignoring the important stuff many times and do things that could be considered extremely unheroic and wrong. His greed resulted in his Football career ending, and ego caused him to ignore Jaime Reyes's pleas for help. He also seems to suffer from an ironic level of low self-esteem, feeling he is not up to par naturally with real heroes like Clark. Hence why he resorts to over compensating and obnoxious means.

Beneath his bravado however, Booster does have the heart of a hero. He truly wants to be the kind of person that Clark Kent is as demonstrated by how he managed to talk Jaime down during his unintentional rampage with the scarab.

Powers and AbilitiesEdit

While having no special powers on his own, Booster Gold was given a variety of abilities from the objects he stole from the future. He stole a high-tech suit, a Legion ring and Skeets.

The suit granted him the following abilities:

Force field generation: Booster can erect dense force field barriers; he created a golden force field around himself and Jaime to save him from being run over.
Energy projection: Booster can, while wearing the suit he stole, project powerful energy emission beams from his hands capable of sending the Scarab armor flying.
Super strength: He was about to punch the armor even though it survived being blasted 90 feet away meaning with the suit he has considerable super strength.
Super durability: Booster is able to hold his own against Jaime's choke hold for an extended amount of time and apparently unharmed after Jaime freed him from the choke hold.

The Legion ring granted him:

Flight: Booster showed this ability when he flew away after saving Jaime Reyes from being hit by a car. He can fly exceptionally fast as he left a yellow trail behind him.
Time travel: He used the Legion ring to go back from the future to our present time. Skeets aids Booster by telling him When and Where to arrive, and uses the ring to time travel to that point of time and place.

In addition to his abilities, Booster also wears a stolen A.I. headset.

Skeets: an artificial intelligence unit that Gold communicates with. It has an unlimited amount of knowledge about the past. Skeets also acts as Booster's wireless headset, able to make and receive calls and take messages. He is also sentient as he is able to give Booster advice.

Early LifeEdit

Sometime early in his life Booster was a football player, who started to bet on his games, and even lost on purpose in order to gain the bet money. As his life began to fall apart, he stole a Legion ring from the Legion and Skeets from a museum. Using the Legion ring he travels to Metropolis, 2011, to try and replace Clark in history as "The World's Greatest Hero".

Season TenEdit

Although he promoted himself as a fighter of justice, in reality, he left the future in pursuit of mega-fame and fortune. Arriving in downtown Metropolis, Booster arrives on scene just in the nick of time to save Jaime Reyes from a car accident before Clark has a chance too. Booster immediately begins to win the city over with his flashy costume, powers and charming personality to the media, however he knows the only way he can really make it big is by getting an exclusive one-on-one interview with Lois Lane, whom he calls a "hero-maker."

Booster attempts to charm Lois into giving him an interview, he even tries to use the lure of temptation on Lois for a secured guarantee on nailing the Daily Planet job promotion she's up for. Lois turns him down instantly at the same time Cat Grant who's become a supporter of Booster tries to get interview with him but he's not interested.

Clark discovers that Booster made an agreement with Ted Kord to find a missing extraterrestrial technology that went missing during Booster heroic save of Jaime Reyes in exchange Booster would be handed the key to the city of Metropolis from the mayor. So he can re-write history and take Clark Kent's destiny as "The World's Greatest Superhero". Booster meets with Clark and reveals he knows his secret.

He tries and get him to reveal himself to the world public at the key to the city ceremony, But Clark refuses and give booster inspirational advice about what it truly means to be a hero. Booster shows he is unconcerned with the details of heroism and explains as long as he arrives just in the nick of time to save the day everything will be fine. Clark notices the Legion ring on his finger and Booster reveals he's from the future. Clark warns him that by coming back in time he's altering history.

Booster reassures Clark that his partner Skeets is equipped with information him of impending accidents. He also says that he won't be needing the glasses or the suit because the world has the "Man of Gold" now. However Booster's presence has altered events and during the rehearsal he's attacked by Kord's armored weapon that's using Jaime as a vessel. Booster was at first afraid to fight the out of control Jaime, but Skeets convinces him to "Go big or go home", so Booster takes action. Unfortunately, the Scarab armor overpowers him and begins to choke the life out of him. Luckily, Booster gets through to Jaime, encouraging him to fight it, which allows him to take control of the armor and morph back to himself.

After, Booster tells Clark that he is regretful of his actions and explains how he missed that feeling of being a hero and that's why he came back to the past to become a hero. Booster reveals his past to Clark and that he stole the suit, the ring and even Skeets and that his own sister told him the suit doesn't make the hero. Clark encourages Booster to be a true hero and take Jaime as his protege, to which Booster agrees. Before he leaves, he comments on Clark's current superhero name, The Blur, saying that he should change it into something more "super".

Later, he upgraded the systems in Watchtower based on his and Skeets' knowledge of technology from the future.

In the ComicsEdit

Michael Jon Carter and his sister Michelle Carter were born as twins to a loving mother and a irresponsible father in Gotham City in the 25th century. On their 4th birthday, their father left the household to pursue his true love, gambling, leaving a huge gambling debt behind for the struggling family. Michael became a football player in college, hoping that he would make it into the big leagues, when his mother was suffering from a debilitating disease that required a treatment that his family could not afford. Turning to the same vice as his father, Michael made bets and purposely threw games in order to earn enough money for the treatment. After his mother was cured, Michael was arrested and put in jail for gambling, instantly breaking his mother's heart.

After he was set free from jail, Michael managed to get a job as a security officer for the Metropolis Space Museum, where he saw images of superheroes from the 20th century that were legends in his time. Deciding to change his life and become a superhero himself, Michael stole some artifacts from the museum as well as the security robot Skeets and used Rip Hunter's time machine to travel back to the late 20th Century. It was there that he made his public debut, saving the life of the President of the United States from the Chiller as the new superhero Goldstar. Nervous, Michael misspoke on live television and got stuck with the name Booster Gold instead.

Booster Gold was a main player in the revamped Justice League International, run by Maxwell Lord, during the late 1980's. Booster teamed up with Ted Kord, the Blue Beetle, who quickly became a good friend, together causing some major trouble for the League, and drawing them into some of their funnier adventures, including setting up a casino on a living island. Frustrated at the lack of respect he received from his teammates, Booster quit the JLI and formed The Conglomerate, though he would later return to the League's ranks. During the battle with Doomsday his suit was destroyed, leaving him no longer able to function as a superhero. Ted came to the rescue and built him a new suit, although it was much bulkier and tended to malfunction. During a battle with the Overmaster, Booster was mortally wounded, losing his suit and his right arm. Ted built Booster another suit, which also served as a life-support system and included a cybernetic arm.

After the death of Sue Dibny, Booster, becoming disillusioned with his fellow heroes, gave up the Booster Gold identity and returned to normal civilian life. This did not last long, as he teamed up with his friend Ted to find who was manipulating Kord Industries, an investigation that led to Ted's death and Booster's temporary hospitalization. During the following crisis, Booster brought together former team members of his version of the Justice League to help find the killers. After this group encountered a trio of O.M.A.C.s, which resulted in the death of Rocket Red and the hospitalization of Fire, as well as the destruction of the power source of Booster's suit, Booster left the group, claiming that he was going "home."

Soon thereafter, however, Booster reappeared, with a once-more functioning suit as well as Skeets, who had been previously destroyed, seeking the Blue Beetle Scarab. He found it fused to the spine of teenager Jaime Reyes, whom he promptly brought to the Batcave to aid in Batman's mission to find and destroy Brother Eye. When a ballostro brought a nuclear submarine into the middle of Metropolis, Booster tried to reclaim his lost glory by defeating the beast. However, he had no luck until Supernova arrived to teleport the creature away. The submarine had been damaged, and was in immediate danger of setting off a nuclear explosion in the middle of the city. Booster managed to lift the vessel in his forcefield and fly it out of harm's way. However, he was seemingly killed in the blast. It was later revealed that Booster had conspired with Rip Hunter and used his time-traveling capabilities to fake his own death. The Booster skeleton found at the blast-site was actually his dessicated remains from his death at some point in the future. Aware that his longtime robotic ally, Skeets, had apparently turned traitor, Booster secretly adopted the heroic identity of Supernova and traveled backwards in time to a point prior to his apparent "death" in order to ferret out the cause of Skeets' malfunction.

Booster returned to Rip's lab and agreed to work for him on one condition: that Rip will allow him to change history to save some people important to him, starting with the best friend he ever had. Though Booster and Rip manage to rescue Ted Kord, it is later revealed that with out the death of Ted Kord, Max Lord accomplishes his early plan in killing many of the DCU's heroes. Ted Kord then decides to sacrifice himself and returns to the time were he is killed by Maxwell Lord, in order to save the heroes of Earth. But Booster was not left alone, as Rip Hunter surprises Booster by rescuing Booster's sister Michelle right before she died in one of Booster Gold's early adventures.

It is later revealed that Booster is in fact Rip Hunter's father. Booster is unaware of this, and Rip Hunter hasn't told him.

NotesEdit

Even thought his name is not revealed in Booster, Booster Gold's name is Michael Jon Carter and he is from 25th century's Gotham City according to Geoff Johns twitter. ^{[citation needed]}
Booster Gold referred to his sister. In the comics Michelle Carter is the younger twin sister of Booster Gold who traveled into the past to be a superhero like her brother. She is known as the superheroine Goldstar.
The show girls who are part of Booster Gold's campaign wear costumes similar to Goldstar's uniform. ^{[picture needed]}
Booster Gold's claim to be from the 25th century doesn't explain how he got a Legion ring, as there is no way he could have acquired a ring from the Legion, who are from the 31st century. He would have to have lived over 600 years before by the time the Legion ring was made.
"I am Booster Gold, the greatest hero you've never heard of... till now!" Booster's quote could also refer to the episode of the JL/JLU where Booster Gold and Skeets make their first appearance, "The Greatest Story Never Told"