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?
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
