10 Little Known Superheroes That Would Make DC Millions On Film

10. Booster Gold

Now Booster may not be a Green Lantern (much to the annoyance of confused autograph-seekers everywhere), but what he is is a deeply interesting and morally complex character - one with a rich enough backstory to entertain several mediums.

Booster Gold, aka Michael Jon Carter, is a time travelling superhero who heads to the past to foil crimes (because that's easy for a man from the future, obviously), and one who develops a reputation for glory-seeking at that. A number of life-changing events later and, wouldn't you know it, the man grows a conscious, with the Booster of today's comics very much being a mature superhero through and through.

Of all the journeys DC could bring to both the big and small screens, Booster's has to be the best. Seeing the character develop from being a thoroughly unlikeable guy into a proper hero - one to rally behind no less - would add a whole new dimension to the DCEU. It also helps that he's the perfect hero for DC Rebirth too, so yeah, let's get him in everything; comics, film, TV - all of it.

Ewan Paterson

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.

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