Line #97 ComicBook/BoosterGold


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[TheGreatestStoryNeverTold The greatest hero history will never know!]]]]
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4	->''"Light up the whole damn sky, Daniel! This one's for the blue and the gold!"''
5	-->-- '''Booster Gold, ComicBook/FiftyTwo'''
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7	Booster Gold was the first major new character to appear in Franchise/TheDCU after ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''. He first appeared in ''"Booster Gold''" #1 (February, 1986), created by Dan Jurgens. Born in the 25th century, Booster Gold, born Michael Jon Carter, was a famous college football player, until he got caught betting on his own games. After that, his life was a wreck: he was disowned from his family, expelled from college and he couldn't play football anymore. It wasn't until he got a job at the Metropolis Space Museum as a security guard that he got the idea to go back in time to become a superhero and make a little money at it too. So he stole some equipment on display, Skeets, a security droid that he had befriended; and took a Time Sphere on a trip to the modern era.
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9	Originally intending to call himself Goldstar, at his first public appearance he flubbed it, [[AppropriatedAppellation combining his football nickname Booster with his intended superhero name]]. To his chagrin, "Booster Gold" stuck. He gained a reputation for being a sellout, taking brand endorsements while performing superheroics. Booster went on to be a part of the ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational, where he met and befriended [[GadgeteerGenius Ted Kord]], the second ComicBook/BlueBeetle. Ted's death in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' led to Booster wanting to better himself and his image in the eyes of the world, but circumstances prevented that from happening.
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11	After ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', Booster was the star of his own series once again, from October 2007 to August 2011, in which he roamed the timestream protecting history from enemies who -- if they ever saw past his foolish reputation and realized he was the one foiling their [[EvilPlan schemes]] -- would not only kill him but do it in such a way that Booster Gold never existed. So now instead of promoting himself, Booster had to do everything in his power to make people think he was an inept idiot, in order to carry out his mission to defend time itself. However, with the ComicBook/{{New 52}} relaunch on the rise, this series -- along with a number of others -- was canceled. Booster was in the ComicBook/{{New 52}}'s ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational series, though that was also cancelled with #12.
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13	Surprisingly, the pre-New 52 Booster Gold has shown up now and again. Initially appearing to his New 52 counterpart, Booster disappeared -- quite literally in this case -- apparently as a result of Superman and Wonder Woman starting a relationship. He would show up a few more times, first in ''[[ComicBook/TheNew52FuturesEnd Futures End]]'', then in ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}''. Following the ComicBook/DCRebirth relaunch, this version of Booster appeared in the ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' storyline "Booster Shot", the ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' storyline "The Gift", and ''ComicBook/HeroesInCrisis'' ... although he's sort of presented as "the" Booster Gold, in one of many reversions to old continuity that the Rebirth CosmicRetcon facilitated.
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15	Following ''another'' CosmicRetcon in ''ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'', he is reuinited with Beetle in their own miniseries ''Blue and Gold''.
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17	He also frequently appears in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', and ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction''.
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19	ComicBook/RipHunter, a frequent ally of the character ([[LukeYouAreMyFather who is also his son]]), appears as a major character in the Series/{{Arrowverse}} series ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', played by Creator/ArthurDarvill. Booster Gold himself finally appeared in the season 7 finale, played by Creator/DonaldFaison.
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21	In January 2023, [[https://variety.com/2023/film/news/dc-universe-superman-legacy-batman-green-lantern-supergirl-booster-gold-1235507426/ a television series]] starring the character was announced for Creator/HBOMax by Creator/JamesGunn and Peter Safran as part of a slate of projects in their revamp of the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse.
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23	And for the last time, he's ''not'' [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Green Lantern]].
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25	!!Tropes that can be found in Booster Gold:
26	* AbortedArc:
27	** At the beginning of Volume 1, Trixie Williams was being developed to being Booster Gold's love interest; then, wthout explanation, after the 25th century story arc, she was abruptly shipped with Dirk Davis. Again, in the last issue of Booster Gold Vol. 1 (and after Dirk Davis was inexplicably revealed to be a villain), Booster confess his love to her, the two kissed and... he flies away. The two will share a few panels in the subsequent decades.
28	** Throughout vol 2 there was a lot of hints that Ted Kord had come back from the dead, after the second story-arc. This never got properly explored before ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}.
29	* ActionDad: Booster after he adopts Rani
30	* ADayInTheLimelight: Booster's memorable episode on ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited''.
31	* AnArmAndALeg: Had his arm cut off in the 90s and had to use a prosthetic as well as a life support suit [[spoiler: before making a deal with Monarch.]]
32	* AngstySurvivingTwin: Booster until Michelle came back.
33	* ArchEnemy:
34	** Maxwell Lord, after he killed Ted Kord.
35	** Black Beetle in Booster's own series.
36	* BackFromTheDead:
37	** Michelle, Booster's sister, thanks to Rip snatching her from the moment of her death.
38	** This happened to Booster himself back in the [[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational JLI]], he died on the operating table but because of the situation, was (effectively) a zombie for about a day. Then Ted built him a PowerArmor suit that would double as life support.
39	* BackportedDevelopment: Parallax makes a brief cameo appearance from his ''Zero Hours'' days in an early issue of vol 2, acting slightly more in line with the post-''Green Lantern: Rebirth'' idea of Parallax being the Entity of Fear, rather than just Hal Jordan having gone insane.
40	* BadassFamily: The Carters.
41	* BadFuture: Saving Ted from Max Lord causes one, with Earth under the control of Max Lord and Brother Eye, most of the Justice League dead, Superboy-Prime fighting the Green Lantern Corps, and Superman directly under Max's control.
42	* BarrierWarrior: Booster's suit is equipped with a force field, courtesy of the Brainiac 5 belt, able to withstand powerful impact forces and supplying air for no-air atmospheres. Also Goldstar in Volume 2.
43	* BerserkButton:
44	** Don't hurt Skeets. Plain and simple. Just don't.
45	** Don't bring up [[TheLostLenore Bonnie Baxter]] around Rip, or taunt him about her erasure.
46	* TheBigBoard: [[Trivia/BoosterGold Rip Hunter's chalkboard]], which gives hints on future events in Franchise/TheDCU.
47	* BigBadFriend: In Issue 5 of ''[[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueGenerationLost Generation Lost]]'' Max makes it clear that he still considers Booster a friend and warns him to stay out of his way.
48	* BlueOniRedOni: Booster (Red Oni) and Michelle (Blue Oni) have a bit of this trope.
49	* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Though the point of going to the 20th century is that these 25th century "museum pieces" are still incredibly advanced tech by our standards. Though the flight ring and force field belt are actually future tech, they were left behind in "modern" times by Brainiac 5 who originates in the 30th/31st centuries depending on the continuity.
50	* BreakTheHaughty: Booster in the ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' miniseries where he is revealed to have staged a super villain attack using an actor in PoweredArmor to increase his reputation. He becomes a haughty {{Jerkass}} with a bitter hatred for the new hero Supernova and desperately searches for a chance to regain his superhero status. In issue #15 he manages to redeem himself [[spoiler:just before he dies in a ''nuclear explosion'' with only his skeleton left]]. In issue #37 it is revealed that [[spoiler:his fall-from-grace, apparent death and rivalry with Supernova (who is revealed to be Booster Gold using time travel) was all part of a plan to stop Mister Mind from destroying TheMultiverse. He still hired the fake super villain to boost his ego, which was his actual lowest point, but that was before he learned what was going on and decided to turn himself around.]]
51	* BrickJoke: Early on in Vol 2., Doctor Thirteen and his associates appear complaining about Mister Terrific, and his jacket. Anthro expresses his desire for a jacket like that. Next issue, he has somehow managed to acquire one. And then several issues later, Anthro appears in the altered timeline, still wearing the jacket, much to everyone else's confusion.
52	* BrotherSisterTeam: Booster and Michelle (alias Goldstar).
53	* BroughtDownToNormal: During ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman'', Booster, along with the rest of the Justice League at the time, nailed Doomsday with their full might, draining all of Booster's energy stores. When all that did was free Doomsday's body from his shackles, Booster got the worst of the pummeling, destroying his original suit.
54	* ButForMeItWasTuesday: During a run-in with Jonah Hex, the two are interrupted by a man barging in to tell Hex he killed the man's brother and he's out for revenge. Hex nails him with a bottle to the head and resumes drinking. Booster asks him if this happens a lot, and Hex admits it's usually every couple of days.
55	* ButterflyOfDoom: Features in the various time travel plots. Such as Max Lord taking over the world because Ted lived.
56	* ButtMonkey: Booster gets the short end of the stick from almost everyone. Even Roy Harper looks down on him. When Max Lord messed with everyone's perceptions to ruin the former JLI members, he did ''nothing'' to Booster, which Skeets states is probably because Booster's reputation is so bad that any effort on Max's part would be "redundant".
57	* CallBack: Many of Booster's solo adventures feature him traveling to various historic stories in the DC Universe, including [[ComicBook/TeenTitans the death of Ravager I]], [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke Barbara Gordon's paralysis]], and more personally [[ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis the death of Ted Kord]]. He tried to stop the latter two, but [[TemporalMutability Barbara's future as Oracle was already set in stone]], and [[BadFuture letting Ted live didn't go very well in the long run]].
58	* CapeSnag: After getting drunk, Booster admits to Skeets that the reason he abandoned the cape from his early costume was that a villain grabbed it, choked him with it, and then threw him around by it. After the fight was over Superman took the cape telling Booster he can't handle wearing one. Booster was more than embarrassed by this.
59	* CharacterDevelopment: Booster's increasing popularity is largely the result of enormous amounts of character development following Ted Kord's death. A good measure of how far he's come? 1980s JLI had Booster as largely ineffectual comic relief. 2010's JLI has Booster quickly asserting himself as the natural leader.
60	* ChestInsignia: Both Booster and Goldstar share a simple blue 5 pointed star.
61	* CivvieSpandex: When Booster saves Cyrus's life at the end of the story, he adds a longcoat to his uniform.
62	* ChromeChampion: Peter Platinum, a self-centered hero that hails from the 853rd Century.
63	* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: All of Booster's superpowers come from his costume and equipment.
64	* ClosestThingWeGot: In his ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode.
65	%%* ClothingDamage: Booster
66	* ColdBloodedTorture: Rip inflicts it on Rex to get him to talk.
67	* ColorCharacter: Gold.
68	* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: {{Lampshaded}}. [[ComicBook/BlueBeetle Ted Kord]] says the line, and Booster protests.
69	-->"You said ''I'' could say it."
70	* ContinuityNod: They're almost constant, since this series has the entire history of the DCU to play around with.
71	* CorporateSponsoredSuperhero: Booster has been this at various points in his career.
72	* CovertEmergencyCall: Skeets comes with a "silent scream" that can alert his master of anything attacking him. The Linear Man in the ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' story arc ''ComicBook/TimeAndTimeAgain'' uses that to his advantage to lure Booster Gold to Metropolis so that he could capture him.
73	* CrossoverFinale: Crossovers tend to be good and bad for Booster. While both of his ongoing titles to date have launched out of crossovers, his original series finished with a ''ComicBook/Millennium1988'' tie-in and his second series had its premise fatally undermined by ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' and finished by tying in to its time-travel-based premise.
74	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: The series revolves around this trope. Back in the day, Booster was a shameless glory hound (though his heart was in the right place) with a reputation for screwing up. Now, he's just the opposite: he's developed into a truly great hero, but his mission depends on convincing the world that he's still just an egocentric dope.
75	* DaydreamBeliever: When Booster suggests they make a pit stop in the 1950's, Rip answers, "for the last time, [[Series/HappyDays The Fonz]] is a fictional character!" Booster replies that Rip is just being mean.
76	* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Booster made one of these with Monarch to restore himself and regain his arm. For whatever reason this led him to sprouting CombatTentacles.]]
77	* DemotedToExtra: Skeets, come The New 52. You'd be forgiven for thinking he'd been PutOnABus entirely. He's reduced to being part of Booster's costume.
78	* {{Determinator}}: Booster, in spades. When Rip tricks him into trying to stop the Joker [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke crippling Barbara Gordon]], Booster keeps trying, even when he fails over and over, and Rip reveals there never was any chance of him succeeding.
79	* DownerEnding: Vol 2. ends with all of Booster's supporting cast getting [[{{Retgone}} erased from existence]], Skeets being destroyed, and Booster forgetting all of them entirely.
80	* DramaticUnmask: When we find out who stole the Supernova suit (but not the identity of Black Beetle).
81	* DisappearedDad: Jonar. [[spoiler: Though given what a nasty guy he is Booster's life would have been better if he stayed gone.]]
82	* DistaffCounterpart: Michelle as Goldstar.
83	* {{Dystopia}}: Any of the {{Bad Future}}s, but Booster's home time has a few elements of a dystopia. Fortunately we know that it's gone by the time of the Legion.
84	* EngineeredHeroics: This was Booster's original motivation, and what he's been trying to redeem himself for ever since.
85	* UsefulNotes/EsperantoTheUniversalLanguage: This is Booster's (and presumably Goldstar's) first language.
86	* EvilCounterpart: Maximilian to Skeets, the third Supernova for Booster. Maybe the Chronos Twins to Booster and Goldstar.
87	* FakeDefector: Booster temporarily defected to the Manhunters in the ''ComicBook/Millennium1988'' mini-series, although the whole thing was a ruse as he was using that role to help the heroes defeat the Manhunters. This cost him a bit of respect from his fellow superheroes, and it also cost him his fortune as his agent soon afterward ran away with his money, thus forcing Booster to become a full-time member of the Justice League.
88	* FakeUltimateHero: Or he would have been if anyone had taken his boasts seriously. An InvertedTrope after his character growth - he's a genuine hero whose effectiveness relies on almost everyone thinking he's still an attention whore.
89	* FakingTheDead: In ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', the not-death of [[spoiler:Booster Gold]] is hidden by [[spoiler:Booster Gold]].
90	* FamilyBusiness: Being a Time Master is turning into this.
91	* FanOfThePast: Booster was a history major specializing in the Age of Superheroes.
92	* FigureItOutYourself: Booster uses a variation on this, [[spoiler: to his past self.]]
93	* FishOutOfTemporalWater
94	* {{Flanderization}}: Booster Gold started as a well-meaning hero whose love of money often got him in over his head. Over the course of the '80s and '90s, writers forgot about the "well-meaning" part and turned him into a money-grubbing jerk. Thankfully, over the course of ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' and ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' in the mid-'00s, DC built Booster back up, and now he's a genuine hero again--though the lure of fame and fortune still ''occasionally'' tempt him. Even better, he now ''intentionally'' acts like that, so [[SecretKeeper no-one except Batman and Superman]] realises that he's grown into a competent hero in his own right, whilst he roams the timestream protecting history from enemies who — if they ever saw past his foolish reputation and realized he was the one foiling their schemes — would not only kill him but do it in such a way that Booster Gold never existed. So now instead of promoting himself, Booster must do everything in his power to make people think he's an inept idiot, in order to carry out his mission to defend time itself. Even before 52, some writers had started pointing out that there was more to Booster Gold than met the eye. At one point one of the other heroes muses that, being from the future, Booster must have been aware that Doomsday was a monster that was fully capable of killing Superman. And he still stepped up and took the first actual punch Doomsday aimed at a hero on his personal forcefield, to protect another member of the League. Both this acknowledgment and the moment itself hint that some people never completely forgot that Booster was kind of badass.
95	* FlyingBrick[=/=]FlyingFirepower:
96	** {{Flight}}: The Legion Flight Ring.
97	** NighInvulnerability: [[BarrierWarrior Forcefield]].
98	** {{Superstrength}}: PowerArmor and/or ClothesMakeTheSuperman.
99	** EyeBeam: EnergyWeapon for the Beam part, and the GogglesDoSomethingUnusual for the Eye part.
100	** Plus the TimeTravel Circuitry.
101	* ForWantOfANail: If Guy Gardner became Earth's first Green Lantern instead of Hal Jordan, he'd have died of a plague, and then Sinestro would've formed the Sinestro Corps a few years early, eventually conquering Earth.
102	* GeneralRipper: During ''Flashpoint'', Booster runs afoul of that reality's version of Nathaniel Adam, who never became Captain Atom and is instead a crazed elderly general convinced Booster is an Atleanean out to attack America, and who thinks unleashing Doomsday on Booster is a sensible idea, refusing to listen to Booster's pleas to stop.
103	* GlorySeeker: Booster Gold's original characterization, and ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo''. [[spoiler:The latter was an act.]]
104	* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: They have a targeting system built in, among other things.
105	* GoingForTheBigScoop: Rose Levin, a reporter Booster saves in the opening arc of vol 2. She starts investigating, and winds up meeting Daniel, then gets drafted by Rip to fix the mess Booster makes of time. [[spoiler:And learns she's going to end up marrying Daniel.]]
106	* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: Booster's ''Justice League Unlimited'' episode, the TropeNamer. Also part of Booster's most recent title, as he has to let history think he's an idiot in order to do what he does.
107	* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: Booster, on learning that his only legacy will be the egotistical Peter Platinum. Michelle, when she finds out that she should have died.]]
108	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:In order to undo the damage his survival caused, Ted Kord steals the Time Stealers' time sphere and goes back to his death... though it's implied he somehow managed to survive that.]]
109	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Booster and Ted.
110	* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Remarked upon by Booster in one issue of the comic.
111	* HoverBot: Booster's RobotBuddy Skeets, who's a floating ellipsoid.
112	* IdenticalGrandson: In this case, great-great-great (etc.) grandson: Booster bears a striking resemblance to Daniel Carter, his present-day ancestor, including personality and life experiences.
113	* IHaveNoSon: Booster was disowned by his own mother when she realized that he was gambling, just like his father was. In one account of his origin story, he took up gambling in order to pay for an expensive medical procedure to save his mother's life, which made the disownment much more heartbreaking, with his mother saying she would rather have died than live to see her son take up gambling for any reason.
114	* InSpiteOfANail: In the second arc of vol 2, due to Booster's actions, time has been rewritten, but much of the events of ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' still happened.
115	%% * KaleidoscopeEyes: Rip Hunter.
116	%% * KaleidoscopeHair: Rip Hunter again.
117	* KidFromTheFuture: [[spoiler:Rip Hunter is Booster Gold's son, helping to shape his father become the man who founds an entire family of badass time travellers.]]
118	* KillAndReplace: Rex Hunter's plan was to do this to the entire Justice League.
119	* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: How to persuade Sinestro to do something.
120	* LargeHam: In his Smallville Episode ''Booster''.
121	* LegacyCharacter: Goldstar (Michelle Carter) since the first Goldstar was Trixie Collins (and it was the name Booster had intended to use). ComicBook/BlueBeetle -- in fact it has all the Blue Beetles (including the futuristic Black Beetle) in one shot. Booster becomes Supernova, then gives it to Daniel Carter, and in the future Booster's father wears the suit. Additionally, it's been hinted that Rip would take up the Booster Gold mantle at some point.
122	* LegionOfDoom: The Time Stealers, a group of villains out to rewrite time to their own ends, consisting of Per Degaton, the Ultra-Humanite, Black Beetle and Mr. Mind.
123	* ALessonInDefeat: Rip tells Booster he's got a mission to prevent Barbara Gordon being crippled in ''The Killing Joke''. Booster tries, and fails. And again, and again, and ''again''. Eventually Rip pulls him out and says Booster could ''never'' succeed. Booster, understandably, is pissed at Rip for this.
124	* LivingLegend: Rip Hunter, to those who know of him.
125	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Michelle [[spoiler: regarding her death. When she finds out she is ''pissed.'']]
126	* LuckyCharmsTitle: Booster's first series was spelled ''Boo$ter Gold''. His second is spelled ''B∞ster Gold''.
127	* MacGuffin: The Egyptian knife from the "Reality Lost" arc.
128	* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: The Time Stealer's shtick.
129	* MaliciousMisnaming: He keeps being called "buster".
130	* MeaningfulName: Jonar means "He who tried and failed", and Rip Hunter, who 'hunts' for 'rips' in time that need corrected and makes sure things happen how they're supposed to.
131	* MistakenForGay: And ''not'' with [[HeterosexualLifePartners Ted Kord]]. As part of a sequence of events, Booster offers to buy Guy Gardner (before he became a Green Lantern) a drink, which Guy refused, assuming Booster was hitting on him.
132	* MonaLisaSmile: Courtesy of Michelle.
133	* MotiveDecay: Shortly after the mantle of Supernova is passed on to Daniel, he decides to use to play videogames without having to take breaks, since the suit alone nourishes him.
134	* MrViceGuy: In Booster's case, the search for fame and money.
135	* MythologyGag: There's one to TheGreatestStoryNeverTold in the comic. The Space Museum where Booster used to work? It had its ''own series'' back during DC's [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]].
136	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Booster saves his best friend's life? World goes to Hell.
137	* NoHeroToHisValet: In Booster's first series, Dirk Davis and Trixie Collins have this reaction when they find out Booster's backstory. [[spoiler: Also Broderick.]]
138	* NoHoldsBarredBeatDown: ComicBook/TheJoker does this to Booster, and Booster Gold and Superman have both beat each other senseless.
139	* NoodleIncident: Apparently Booster had an encounter with an overweight woman while drunk once. He's [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain tried to forget it]], but Skeets hasn't.
140	* NormalFishInATinyPond: Booster was originally ''less'' than a {{muggle}}, he was a total loser: an ex-football player from the 25th disgraced by betting on his own games who ends up as the security guard of a museum. He steals a [[TimeTravel time travel device]] and a RobotBuddy and transports himself to present day... [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass and has surprisingly become a great hero despite himself]].
141	%%* OminousMultipleScreens: In Rip Hunter's lab, and in the Vanishing Point when it's the Time Stealers' base.
142	%%* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Booster's corporate shilling.
143	* OneSteveLimit: Rip Hunter and Rex Hunter have no actual relation to one another, and in both cases "Hunter" isn't their birth name.
144	%%* PlaceBeyondTime: Vanishing Point.
145	%%* PortalCut: How Booster was originally supposed to die in ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo''.
146	* PoweredArmor: When Doomsday destroyed his original costume, Ted Kord built him a suit of powered armor to replace his futuristic costume. However, the stupid thing wasn't perfect and prone to breakdowns. Even worse, Booster was forced to use it as life support after a villain nearly killed him.
147	* PunchClockHero: At first, Booster was only interested in superheroics for the money and the fame (a bit understandably, since he screwed up his "HometownHero" status back in the future). Across nearly all adaptations, he eventually acquires fame just as he stops caring about getting it. Well, mostly.
148	* PuttingTheBandBackTogether:
149	** Max puts together the JLI in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueGenerationLost''.
150	** When Booster messes up the timeline by trying to save Ted, they reunite the old members of the ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational to overthrow Maxwell Lord in an alternate timeline.
151	* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The JLI, for the most part.
152	* RecursiveCanon: A depiction of Lex Luthor's childhood shows his father was called [[Series/{{Smallville}} Lionel Luthor]], who looked like that version of him to boot.
153	* RetGone: Discussed by Rip, who says a precaution taught by Time Masters is never revealing your real name lest an enemy use it to kill you in the crib.
154	** A favourite technique of the Time Stealers. They inflict it on Rex Hunter when he gets captured, by going back to his childhood and murdering him then.
155	** It happened to Bonnie Baxter, who Rip had feelings for. Rex taunts him about it, and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown quickly regrets it]].
156	** [[spoiler: Happens to Booster Gold when Superman and Wonder Woman kiss.]] [[SarcasmMode Of course, there is no way this means nothing bad will come of the event in the future, right?]]
157	* TheReveal: The mini-series ''Blue and Gold'' finally reveal the true identity of the Black Beetle: [[spoiler:he's actually the Booster Gold from Earth-3, inspired to do villainy by the actions of the Crime Syndicate.]]
158	* RingOfPower: Booster's Flight Ring. Is the standard flight ring employed by the adult Legion of Super-Heroes, made of a particular alloy named "valorium", bestows his/her owner with flight abilities. It is the only piece of equipment stolen from the Space Museum that survived to the most recent version of Booster's suit unscathed.
159	* RippleEffectIndicator: Booster's Justice League membership in the first arc of Volume 2.
160	* RobotBuddy: Skeets, for Booster. He's generally the most supportive of Booster, but he's not above sassing him as and when the need arises.
161	* RoomFullOfCrazy: Rip Hunter's lab in ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo''.
162	* SecretKeeper: Booster discovered that Batman had the photos of him trying to help Barbara Gordon when he tried to prevent ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke''. When Batman acknowledged that Booster has a more important job to do, he became Booster's Secret Keeper.
163	* SecretLegacy: Played with. [[spoiler: Booster thinks that the only legacy that he's going to leave behind is the egotistical Peter Platinum. In actuality his legacy is that his family becomes the Time Masters.]] Also, in the Millennium event, it was revealed that [[spoiler: Booster is a descendant of the Chosen and will aid in humanity's evolution; he still doesn't know about this.]]
164	* SealedGoodInACan: Rip Hunter used to run with the Time Masters. He locked them away in Vanishing Point because he disagreed with their methods. Eventually, due to a complicated series of events they got out, and were kind of pissed at him.
165	* SelectiveMagnetism: Goldstar has this in addition to all of Booster's powers.
166	* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Part of Booster's current job.
167	* SetWrongWhatWasOnceMadeRight: Sadly, another part of Booster's job.
168	* ShoutOut: He's not the only [[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars Jo(h)n Carter]]
169	* SiliconSnarker: Skeets, Boosters security droid and RobotBuddy who is generally supportive of him, but not afraid to throw in a few snarky jabs when he feels like it.
170	* StraightManAndWiseguy: Booster was the straight man and ComicBook/BlueBeetle was the wiseguy. Then these roles were reversed.
171	* StickyFingers: Related to the BreakOutTheMuseumPiece, Booster has a tendency to use things that are associated with other superheros.
172	* SuperheroSobriquets: The Greatest Hero You Have Never Heard Of! Previously the Corporate Crusader.
173	* SuperZeroes: Booster is thought of this way.
174	* TarotMotifs: In ''Trinity'', Booster makes an appearance in the ComicBook/{{Justice League\|of America}} Arcana as the 15th of the major arcana (the Devil, which represents over-attachment to material things - fitting for Booster).
175	* TearsOfRemorse: What sent Booster over the edge at Blue Beetle's funeral was his inability to speak.
176	* TemporalAbortion: In the comics' second run, time-travelling hero Rip Hunter states that he is using an alias ''precisely'' to avoid the outcome of one of his enemies travelling back in time and preventing his birth.
177	* TemptingFate: A drunken Booster tries to drive the Time Sphere, despite Rip's objections. Booster asks who he could possibly hit. Cue a fender-bender with the Flash's Cosmic Treadmill.
178	* ThemeTwinNaming: Michael (Booster) and his twin sister, Michelle.
179	* ThoseTwoGuys: For most of the '90s, Booster Gold and the Blue Beetle were ThoseTwoGuys of The DCU. They practically never got up to anything important of their own, but often showed up in team books or other heroes' series, where they invariably got into trouble thanks to some ZanyScheme or another. This came to an end in the '00s, when DC remembered they were both heroes in their own rights, Beetle died heroically, and Booster went on to star in his own series again.
180	* ThrowTheDogABone:
181	** After the sheer ''Hell'' Booster goes through in the first several issues of vol 2, Rip does this by saving Michelle and erasing one of Booster's [[MyGreatestFailure greatest failures.]]
182	** Not to mention Booster's failed attempts to save Barbara Gordon's spine are found out by Batman, who states he'll stand by Booster from then on, and gives him some words of encouragement. That and Michelle's return shake Booster out of his HeroicBSOD.
183	* ThrowingTheFight: Originally Booster was expelled from sports for betting on his own games; over time this has morphed into throwing games in order to get money to get his mother medical treatment.
184	* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Thirteen was Booster's Football number.
185	* TimeMachine: The Time Sphere is of the [[TimeAndRelativeDimensionsInSpace TARDIS]] type where you can program where and when you want to go.
186	* TimeTravelForFunAndProfit: He traveled back from the 25th century to the present, hoping to make a name for himself as a superhero (and make some money in the process).
187	* TooDumbToLive: Rex Hunter thought it was a good idea to tell his bosses in the Time Stealers his true name. The minute he becomes a potential liability, they go back and kill him.
188	* TookALevelInDumbass:
189	** Like most of the characters in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational'', he underwent a fair bit of [[{{Flanderized}} Flanderization]] in the title. He started off as a fairly likable, competent hero in his own book, but got progressively stupider and more vain once he joined the Justice League. It's even {{Lampshaded}} in ''Formerly Known as the Justice League'', where ComicBook/BlueBeetle points out that Booster used to be fairly intelligent, and accuses him of acting dumb and childish on purpose. Later on, it is confirmed to be (mostly) an act.
190	** He is somehow even worse when written by Tom King, often being entirely TooDumbToLive.
191	* TranslatorMicrobes: The RedBaron, [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance Renaissance Italians]], and [[AncientEgypt Ancient Egyptians]] all speaking modern English seems like a lazy, irritating flaw, until the writers thought to add a [[{{Handwave}} quick line about Universal Translator Tech from the future]].
192	* UnlimitedWardrobe: Booster has had a lot of costumes, [[http://www.boosterrific.com/booster/costume.php here]] is a list of them.
193	* WartsAndAll: Despite his flaws, Booster really is the hero he presents himself as.
194	* WeAreStrugglingTogether: In the alternate timeline Booster and Ted stumble into, the first resistance they find is led by Hawkman and Green Arrow, who historically ''hate'' one another. A disastrous alternate timeline has done nothing to stop their petty bickering.
195	* WeWillAllBeHistoryBuffsInTheFuture: Subverted. He doesn't actually know much about the history. This gets him in trouble a lot... This may be a SeriesContinuityError as in his original origin story he actually studied history in college, specializing in "the Age of Superheroes". Although, it never said he passed...
196	* WealthsInAName: Booster Gold himself is inverted then played straight. Michael John Carter traveled to the past to become rich and famous, calling himself Booster ''Gold'' despite not actually being wealthy. He does eventually achieve the wealth, eventually founding Goldstar, Inc.
197	* WouldHitAGirl: In Booster's first ''Justice League International'' appearance. He justifies this by saying that his future is one of gender equality, meaning that female villains get the same treatment as men.
198	* YouCantFightFate: Downplayed. While it is possible to change some things in the past to affect the rest of the timeline, this can lead to a Butterfly Effect that can change everything; usually the only reason Booster can affect the past is because it has already been changed/is in danger of changing on it's own due to timeholes. The theorem of "solidified time" explains: some events in time become so important to future events that they cannot be changed or will happen regardless of inference. For instance, Booster can't save Barbara Gordon because if he did she wouldn't become Oracle, ComicBook/BlueBeetle still dies [[spoiler:"officially"]] because then the events leading to Max Lord's death won't happen, which stops ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis from occurring, which in turn means TheMultiverse wouldn't exist.

Context ComicBook / BoosterGold