10 Comics Superheroes With The Best Motivations

3. Booster Gold

Booster Gold
DC Comics

When he first appeared, Booster Gold was not a pleasant individual. Hailing from the future, Gold reveres the heroes of the 20th and 21st centuries and decides to travel back through time in search of fame and glory.

He fights crime with ease, preempting super-villain schemes utilising his knowledge of Earth history, but the rest of DC's heroes catch onto his scheme fairly quick.

Although Gold is motivated primarily out of a sense of self-preservation and ego, he soon comes to understand the real value of true heroism. Eventually, it's no longer greed that drives him, but instead a profound sense of responsibility.

When he first travelled back through time, Booster didn't realise just how much power he could wield. Now, he uses that knowledge and understanding to save people from harm, and fight injustice whenever it appears. Who doesn't love a good character arc?

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