Booster Gold is a superhero and a member of the Justice League.
Description[]
Appearance[]
Booster Gold is from the 25th century, is depicted as being tall and well-built and has blonde hair. He wears the skin-tight version of his usual yellow-and-black costume complete with yellow goggles.
Personality[]
He is one of the comedy characters and we are shown different sides to him. People in the future have apparently become shallow with short attention spans, so Booster is seen to be lazy and irresponsible with an immature 'cool dude' attitude, and this makes the dutiful Batman very dismissive of him, considering him to be a "dilettante". He also seeks fame and fortune, calling himself an "entrepreneur", and has an obsession with petty money-making schemes. In explanation, we are told that he needs to better himself in the present before he can marry his sweetheart in the distant future. We see a quite different side to him when, from his remote base of Vanishing Point, he impressively monitors space-time for serious time-related problems that he can try to fix - but still with his relaxed and jokey manner - and no one else knows that he does this. He is competetive and determined to match Batman in sparring matches in the gym but always loses to the first punch.
Powers & Equipment[]
Booster describes himself as a "time traveller" and is the Justice League's expert in that field. The necessary abilities come from his "time suit" - he has stolen it from a museum in the future - and which is said to contain "time circuits" that enable him to open portals leading to different points in space and time.
The suit can do this automatically to save him from dangerous situations, and the journey can involve tumbling through a "wormhole". The suit needs to be charged up to work, and Booster does this at intervals, but there is a reserve of power for emergencies. In defense, he can surround himself with a protective bubble which can even resist Kryptonian heat vision, and, in offense, the suit is said to give off a "power blast" which can take the form of either a flash of light or an electrical discharge.
In one instance, he combines with a dozen versions of himself from different timelines to give an extra big blast. He is always surrounded by a ten-feet "temporal bubble" or "time sphere" to protect himself and others nearby from the effects of an interruption in the flow of time. His equipment is also said to include a "Legion Flight Ring" which presumably causes his ability to fly, but it may also be responsible for projecting a bubble from his right hand which can contain, carry and protect a heavy load.
There are thick bands on each wrist from which he can receive information, including a "time call" (a phone call from another time?), and he can project an ethereal display from his suit that he can read from. Booster can be assisted by his floating, egg-shaped droid called "Skeets" though it does not seem to do much. It can have fins on its lower half but not always.
He mentions a "Booster Car" (which we never see) and pretends to an unknowing audience that the Justice One craft is his own.
Relationships[]
In our vision of him in the future, we see that he originally marries the heiress Margot Montgomery but proves to be such an awful husband that he drives her mad, and she becomes the vengeful Red Velvet. He avoids this situation by conveniently changing the timeline, and no sooner has he done so he - true to form - switches his attention from Margot to another. Red Velvet addresses him as "M.J.", but his full name is not given.
Appearances[]
- 3. Night of the Bat
- 27. Time Out
- 31. Booster's Gold
- 42. Phased and Confused
- 44. System Error
- 47. Watchtower Tours
- 50. Keeping up with the Kryptonians
- 52. She Wore Red Velvet
- Short 6. Lasso of Lies
- Short 8. Selfie Help
- Short 9. Special Delivery
Links[]
- Booster Gold at Wikipedia
Notes[]
- In the comics, the 'Legion Flight Ring' is used by members of the Legion of Super-Heroes to enable them to fly. As they exist the 31st Century, they are from even further in the future than Booster.
