History ComicBook / BoosterGold

* LawOfTimeTravelCoincidences: Booster has to travel through the DC Universe's timeline to stop villains from altering history. However, there are Fixed Points (such as ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'') that cannot be altered, no matter how badly one wants to.

* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: How to persuade Sinestro to do something.
* LargeHam: In his Smallville Episode ''Booster''.

* LivingLegend: Rip Hunter, to those who know of him.

* MacGuffin: The Egyptian knife from the "Reality Lost" arc.
* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: The Time Stealer's shtick.
* MaliciousMisnaming: He keeps being called "buster".

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.

Following ''another'' CosmicRetcon in ''Comicbook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'', he is reuinited with Beetle in their own miniseries ''Blue and Gold''.

* CallBack: Many of Booster's solo adventures feature him traveling to various historic stories in the DC Universe, including [[Franchise/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]].

* CovertEmergencyCall: Skeets comes with a "silent scream" that can alert his master of anything attacking him. The Linear Man in the ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' story arc ''ComicBook/TimeAndTimeAgain'' uses that to his advantage to lure Booster Gold to Metropolis so that he could capture him.
* 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.

* {{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.

* TarotMotifs: In ''Trinity'', Booster makes an appearance in the Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}} Arcana as the 15th of the major arcana (the Devil, which represents over-attachment to material things - fitting for Booster).

* BlackSheep: Booster goes down in history as this. Even history books call him an idiot.

* 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]]
* AngstySurvivingTwin: Booster until Michelle came back

* 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.]]

* BreakTheHaughty: Booster in the ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' miniseries where 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.]]