Booster Gold (Michael Jon Carter)

Michael Jon Carter, also known as Bharjwarj, Black Gold, Bloodspot, Booster Gold, Booster the Boy Wonder, Boosteroo, Buster, Deathstroke, Goldstar, Greatest Hero You've Never Heard Of, Guardian of the Multiverse, Jesus Alvarez, Kid, Killer Moth, Loser Gold, Major Idiot, Man of Gold, Michael Carter and The King, is a character from the DC Comics series.
== Charactah Account ==
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.
Originally intending to call himself Goldstar, at his first public appearance he flubbed it, 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 Justice League International, where he met and befriended Ted Kord, the second Blue Beetle. Ted's death in Infinite Crisis led to Booster wanting to better himself and his image in the eyes of the world, but circumstances prevented that from happening.
== Appearance ==
=== Comics ===
* 52
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* Action Comics
* Action Comics Annual
* Adventures in the DC Universe
* Adventures of Superman
* Adventures of Superman Annual
* All-Star Western
* American Heroes
* Animal Man
* Armageddon 2001
* Armageddon: The Alien Agenda
* Bat-Mite
* Batman
* Batman Beyond
* Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne
* Birds of Prey
* Blackest Night
* Bloodbath Special
* Blue & Gold
* Blue Beetle
* Booster Gold
* Booster Gold: Blue and Gold
* Captain Atom
* Convergence
* Convergence Booster Gold
* Convergence Justice League International
* Countdown
* Dark Crisis
* Dark Crisis: Young Justice
* Dark Nights: Death Metal
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* DC Universe Online Legends
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* Tales of the Teen Titans
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* The Fury of Firestorm: The Nuclear Man
* The Human Target
* The New 52: Futures End
* The New Teen Titans
* The OMAC Project
* The Outsiders
* Time Masters
* Time Masters: Vanishing Point
* Total Justice
* Trinity
* Underworld Unleashed
* Wonder Woman
* Year of the Villain: Hell Arisen
* Zero Hour: Crisis in Time
== Trivia ==
* 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".
* 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.
* Booster's first series was spelled Boo$ter Gold. His second is spelled B∞ster Gold.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Michael Carter (New Earth) at DC Database
* Michael Carter (Prime Earth) at DC Database
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