Booster Gold

	Booster Gold

Booster Gold (Scenesys ID: 1590)
Profile
Name:	Michael Jon Carter
Superalias:	Booster Gold
Gender:	Male
Species:	Human
Occupation:	Professional Hero
Citizenship:	American
Residence:	Metropolis
Education:	Gotham U (Expelled)
Theme:	DC (FC)
Groups:
Details
Apparent Age:	30	Actual Age:	-422
Date of Birth	29 Dec 2442	Played By	Glenn Howerton
Height:	6'5"	Weight:	215 lb
Hair Color:	Blond	Eye Color:	Blue
Twitter:	goldstar
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Character Info

Profile

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Booster Gold is a superhero who makes sure his name is all over social media--he's known as a polarizing, but somehow charismatic, figure who seems to embody the celebrity status of being a hero as much as the do-gooder efforts of one.

Timeline

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Timeline:
2442: Michael Jon Carter and his twin sister Michelle are born to Jon and Ellen Carter in Gotham City.
2446: Jon abandons his family to rack up massive gambling debts.
2458: Michael takes up football, hoping that he can clear the family's debts and bring his father home. This goal becomes all-encompassing after Ellen is diagnosed with a condition that required prohibitively expensive treatment.
2462: Jon Carter seeks out Michael, now a rising star at Gotham University known by the nickname 'Booster,' in the hopes of fixing games and making ridiculous amounts of money--profit for the father, paid treatment for Ellen.
2462: The scheme is exposed and Michael is expelled from school. The only job he is able to get is as a night watchmen at the Metropolis Science Museum.
2463: Having spent much of his time studying the historical displays on superheroics from the 20th and 21st centuries, Michael uses a security robot to help him steal a number of artifacts and activate a time-traveling device. The destination? The 21st century, where he can make tons of cash as a superhero.

2015: Michael arrives--although the time machine is trashed in the process--and sets about establishing himself under the identity 'Goldstar.' Unfortunately, he flubs this by blurting out his football nickname first, and the press hears 'Booster Gold' instead.
2015: After a rocky start, Booster Gold manages to join the Justice League.
2017: Booster participates in the fight against Doomsday, although his equipment is damaged and he spends much of the battle hiding.
2017-present: Booster works to develop, bungle, repair, and re-establish his superhero brand/image numerous times with varying degrees of success.

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Personality

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Coward:
Despite the fact that he's bought into his own hype, Booster's sense of self-preservation frequently tips toward cowardice, causing him to make 'safe' decisions, to avoid confrontations that he's not confident about winning, and to otherwise put himself in the line of fire if he can't benefit from it (and if others aren't around to save him if needed).

Family Man:
While Booster Gold is an intensely selfish and self-obsessed individual, he does love his family just as intensely, and he's kept his identity a secret for the sole purpose of protecting them in the future. (There's an element of self-preservation here, too, but it's--perhaps surprisingly--not the driving force for this approach.)

Obtuse:
Booster doesn't have the strongest sense of clarity, wisdom, or interest in complicated or nuanced matters, especially when they're not focused on his interests or values. As a result, Booster's ability to read a situation is heavily contingent on others helping/ensuring/forcing him to understand and recognize what's going on.

Self-Important:
Booster Gold is a hero obsessed with his image and, accordingly, has bought into his own hype about what he's capable of, what value he has to the world, and why he's superior to others trying to make things better for everyone.

Character Sheet

Powers

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Skills

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Combat:
While much of his training comes from football practice and college-level phys ed-class martial arts, Booster Gold has spent the last several years trying to develop his fighting abilities so as to hold his own in combat and to look good on camera/video doing so. He has a sprinkling of numerous arts, from krav maga to kung fu to capoeira to lucha. He's not necessarily an expert in any one of them, but he's not terrible, either--and against many criminals, that's enough.

Repartee:
Booster Gold's got the gift of gab, and he's frequently able to annoy and upset his enemies to a dizzying, if not incapacitating, degree simply by talking. Unfortunately, there is typically a lot of collateral damage here, as Booster annoys nearby friends and bystanders alike as well.

Self-Promotion:
Booster Gold's greatest ability is his adamantium-strength resolve to make himself a well-known celebrity. In almost any situation, Booster is able to figure out a way to better his situation--whether it's by stealing the spotlight from someone else, suggesting a way to make a corporate endorsement, or otherwise get his name on everyone's lips.

Superhero Trivia:
Thanks to a year spent as a night watchman in the 25th c. Metropolis Science Museum, and five years as a hero among his colleagues, Booster possesses a lot of (publicly available) knowledge regarding the abilities, habits, and enemies of numerous 21st century superheroes.

Resources

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Legion Flight Ring:
One of Booster's most valuable possessions is his stolen Legion of Super-Heroes flight ring. The ring permits its wearer to fly at speeds of up to 100mph. Extended use of the ring has allowed Booster to learn to mentally command the ring even when not wearing it, provided it's in close proximity to his person.

Power Suit:
Booster Gold's costume contains advanced micro-circuitry that provides him with a few key abilities:
* Strength: Booster can lift up to twenty tons thanks to the suit's mesh reinforcements.
* Protection: The suit generates a force field around Booster's body that can be extended slightly (such as to protect someone he's carrying), rendering him invulnerable to most conventional weaponry. The field has the capability to protect Booster from a punch from someone on the level of Superman or the Hulk, although the circuitry would likely fry from the strain (and render itself inoperable until repaired).
* Energy Gauntlets: The suit can generate and fire bolts of kinetic energy powerful enough to burst through two feet of concrete.

Skeets:
Booster's omnipresent sidekick/companion is a 25th century robot named Skeets, a small flying entity that helps manage Booster's business interests, schedule, and public relations disasters. Skeets also serves as the major repository of information from the future--although his information is typically inaccurate, if not outright wrong, thanks to Booster's future not necessarily being the future of this universe's present.

Visor:
Booster wears a visor that provides him with a robust range of information on a heads-up display and integrated earpiece, from mundane information (current weather conditions) to GPS data to radio frequencies to electromagnetic spectrum scans and Internet search results. They can also magnify and enhance distant visual information.

Weaknesses

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Business Acumen:
Booster is not a fantastic businessment, despite his skills at self-promotion. Time and time again, Booster's made decisions about how to build his empire only to see those decisions leave him in financial ruins.

Ego:
Booster Gold's self-importance is, unsurprisingly, a significant obstacle to his goals of becoming a well-known and well-loved hero. His ego makes it difficult for Booster to admit when he's wrong, to step aside from the limelight, or to praise others. Each of these tends to lead him to failure of varying kinds--and Booster often knows, deep down inside, that these failures are his fault, even if he'd never admit it to anyone else.

Identity:
Booster Gold keeps his identity a secret to protect his family in the future, even if 'now' may not lead to 'then'. He worries that enemies who might discover his real identity could eradicate his bloodline centuries before he--and the people he loves--are ever born.

Stuck In Present:
The time machine that Booster used to reach the present malfunctioned beyond repair upon arrival, making it impossible for him to use it again. Further, Booster's arrival in the present changed history itself; the future he arrived from is not necessarily the future that will lead from this current present. A side-effect of this is that a good deal of the information Booster has access to about the future (via his robot Skeets) is no longer accurate, whether trivially or significantly.

Role-Play

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Title	Date	Scene Summary
A Little Bit of Trouble	August 2nd, 2023	Booster gets an assist from Glamour on fighting the crime, and a big ol block from Glamour on reaping the rewards.
Reap, What Ye Sow	September 13th, 2022	Booster and Beetle catch up. Apparently Booster is a success!
THE ADJUSTER: Poeme Symphonique	September 11th, 2022	The Time Cops are gathered ... their mission? SAVE TIME ITSELF!
A Perfectly Normal Request	July 29th, 2022	No description
Don't Say a Word!	July 25th, 2022	No description
Fangirl Express with a Shake to Go	July 4th, 2022	Fangirl!!!
Oh, so that's where you've been!	June 14th, 2022	Stella and Booster come up with a business plan that definitely won't be a disaster.
Glory be to the Glory Seekers	June 1st, 2022	No description
How could Monitor Duty get any worse	May 16th, 2022	Wally, Booster, and Diana try their best to make Power Girl just a little less grumpy. Maybe it worked, maybe it didn't. (It did not, for those who cannot handle the suspense.)
My Dinner With	May 13th, 2022	My Dinner with Joan and Booster. And the bots.
The Return of the Burger Champion	May 13th, 2022	Dreamer gets coffee, Booster gets digits. And they say dreams don't ever come true...
What is the most annoying vinyl record one can find	May 13th, 2022	Kim Hayes directs Booster Gold towards Crazy Frog, the perfect musical choice for Batman's birthday.
That was Cold, Man...	May 11th, 2022	No description
Do You Want Booster With That	May 5th, 2022	Booster goes all in at burgers at Hero World!
Chilling out with a coffee	April 14th, 2022	Booster and Killer Frost meet at a coffee shop...and neither knows who the heck the other is!
could've been an accident	March 25th, 2022	J'onn and Jamie crack the case while Booster and Plas crack jokes
The Beetle's Tangled Web	March 18th, 2022	Hangovers, recriminations and Joan has a new robe!
Times They Are A'Changin'...	March 9th, 2022	Booster returns, seems deceased, but gets better, sort of.
What's that, girl	February 25th, 2022	Hella finds Booster trapped under a collapsed cave after helping civilians escape, and brings him to a hospital to recover.
Visiting Hours at Booster's Bedside	February 25th, 2022	No description
Barking Beetles Never Bite	February 19th, 2022	Ted is a lightweight. It's not pretty.
A Housewarming Get-Together, Party of Two	February 16th, 2022	A housewarming get-together turns into a deepest, darkest secrets shocker, a solemn oath to keep secrets, and burgeoning romance.
Test Driving a Kord Co Phone (Super Special Edition)	February 15th, 2022	A very eventful morning leads to new romance in the air and new possibilities, too!
Booster Gold - Phone Salesman	February 14th, 2022	Ted told Booster to
Am I Blue	February 12th, 2022	No description
= The Morning After Nothing Particularly Scandalous	February 10th, 2022	After a rude wakeup call, Ted and Stella witness Booster's culinary prowess in the kitchen. The day is saved!
Heroes Assemble Anniversary: The Watchers	February 5th, 2022	The two year anniversary of Heroes Assemble Mush sees Uatu the Watcher showing three of his colleagues various moments from the last two years of Earth's history.
Only in New York, Aftermath	February 5th, 2022	Continued from Scene #9959, Jennifer and Booster actually talk after the fight with the demon.
Only in New York	February 3rd, 2022	Booster 'saves' Jennifer from a demon!
Omg u newbs, get outta my gym	January 31st, 2022	Dinah and Rave train some while Arthur and Booster observe.
Working Brunch, for Justice!	January 31st, 2022	No description
These Lego Statues Come Apart in Your hands!	January 30th, 2022	Joan doesn't kill anyone, but comes close.
New and Old Friends	January 29th, 2022	Beware the Lego Bots!
Train with Wonder Woman	January 28th, 2022	A wild group of combat enthusiasts get a chance to train with the Amazons at the Themysciran Arts Center! Madness ensues!
Hey! You!	January 27th, 2022	April interviews Ted Kord and Booster Gold about Booster's plans for a new super hero app!
Where Is the Coffee Machine	January 25th, 2022	Shift change for Monitor Duty can sometimes be chaotic. A ghost from Dinah's past ruins her morning.
An Informal Get-Together For Friends & Allies at the Themysciran Embassy	January 20th, 2022	There is a mid month party held at the Themysciran Embassy, celebrating the new year to come. People mingle and some mystery is spied at.
Booster Gold's BILLION dollar idea	January 18th, 2022	And Booster is off again on another crazy scheme...
Keeping up with the Torches	January 18th, 2022	Karla gets GOLD BLOCKED on her efforts with Johnny
In Pursuit of LEGOs	January 17th, 2022	Joan is summoned by the promise of LEGOs. Bobo and Skeets are having a tiff. There is an erection in Ted's Penthouse. Booster watches.
Blue Beetle: Homecoming	January 3rd, 2022	Ted is back... and on his way out!
Where were you when the bombs dropped	January 3rd, 2022	A random crime occurs under the super vision of an unsavory sort. Things go sideways when MULTIPLE heroes show up and things get messy from there.
Bad Guys Gotta Be Bad	December 31st, 2021	A liguor store robbery is foiled by Booster Gold! With a little help from Aquaman and Kate Cha.
@Heartbreaker2022 Strikes!	December 30th, 2021	Booster Gold records a bunch of heroes and edits them together to perform "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley, dedicated to Blue Beetle.
Welcome Back!	October 3rd, 2020	Booster Gold throws a welcome back party for... himself, at Blue Beetle's penthouse. Huntress literally drops in on the party, and hilarity ensues.
Hashtag: AllGoldEverything Again	September 30th, 2020	Booster continues with his newest marketing campaign and SHIELD's Peggy Carter is there to scout and observe the spectacle.
Dead Gold	September 29th, 2020	Booster Gold pushes his #AllGoldEverything campaign, and Wade Wilson shows up as support. When asked of his true origin, he explains that he's Batman, and escapes with Booster Gold's off-loaded shirts!
The Bill Comes Due	July 31st, 2020	Booster Gold searches for some way to get back on top of the super-hero popularity game. The Blue Beetle comes through in the clutch ... but with unanticipated twists!
A Simple Misunderstanding	July 29th, 2020	Ted Kord is visited by a social media super-fan. Vic Sage does yoga and gets a bloody nose for his trouble. Booster Gold sears everyone's eyeballs showing off an exciting new superhero-wear product.
Blue and Gold in: Cruise Control (but it's not Speed 2)	July 26th, 2020	Blue Beetle and Booster Gold somehow manage to actually save a cruise ship full of reality show contestants ... but it's from the clutches of Captain Stingaree and the Shocker, so is it THAT impressive a feat?
Another Uncanny Valley Sunday	July 19th, 2020	Siobhan has some gigs! Booster and Ted have a misunderstanding!
A Little Surf, A Little Sun, A Little Sub	July 13th, 2020	Atlanteans being smuggled are rescued from a sinking ship.
The Best Place in NYC	June 26th, 2020	Ivy goes exploring Central Park, and winds up saving its greenery from being damaged by the notorious Booster Gold
I Am Not a SPIDER!	June 16th, 2020	The Blue Beetle meets Starfire! Booster Gold helps! Many conclusions are jumped to.
The Goal Sublime	June 9th, 2020	The Blue and the Gold and... ?
The Hero of Tomorrow, Today	June 8th, 2020	Booster Gold holds open auditions for a sidekick, but there are no takers. There are, however, a few heroes incognito in the crowd, and Freddy Freeman offers some free advice on how to be a hero.

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