Goldstar (DC Comics)
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance |
Collins: Booster Gold (vol. 1) #1 (February 1986) Carter: Booster Gold (vol. 1) #5 (June 1986) Widdle: Lobo (vol. 2) #5 (May 1994) |
| Created by |
Collins: Dan Jurgens Carter: Dan Jurgens Widdle: Alan Grant |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Theresa "Trixie" Collins Michelle Carter Ernest Widdle |
| Place of origin |
Collins: Earth Carter: Earth Widdle: Planet Harmony |
| Partnerships | Carter: Booster Gold |
| Supporting character of | Widdle: Lobo |
| Abilities |
Collins: Magnetically based abilities of flight and super-strength Carter: Magnetically based abilities of flight and super-strength, magnetical blasts, resilience to chronal damage, ability to travel in time, schooled in time-travel mechanics Widdle: Good morals, harmonic "niceness vibes" |
Goldstar is the name used by three fictional characters in publications from DC Comics- Trixie Collins, Michelle Carter and Ernest Widdle.
The Goldstar name was actually Booster Gold's original chosen superhero name, but when asked who he was by the President of the United States (whose life he'd just saved), Booster mangled his old football nickname (Booster) and Goldstar. The President introduced him as Booster Gold and the name stuck.
Attempting to develop a female sidekick for Booster Gold, his corporation hires then S.T.A.R. Labs scientist Jack Soo to create a supersuit for her to wear, the resulting suit infused with magnetic energy which the wearer could use to "key" onto a metallic object to attract or repel the object or the wearer, mimicking the abilities of super strength and flight. The costume was then dubbed with the name that Booster's corporation had at the time, Goldstar.
When a weak and physically ill Booster's life was threatened by an anti-superhero mob, Booster's personal secretary Theresa "Trixie" Collins reluctantly donned the costume to save his life and followed Booster when he traveled back to the future to save his life and repower his depleted costume. When the group were finally able to return to the present, Trixie gladly gave the costume back, having no intention of ever becoming a superhero.
Booster's twin sister Michelle Carter traveled back in time like her brother and was interested in being a superhero. Michelle decided to explore the present, a time unfamiliar to her and "borrowed" the Goldstar costume. She later died during her adventures, but has since returned, having been saved at the last second by Rip Hunter, so there is some question, due to the mechanics of time travel as to whether she actually ever died at all. Michelle is currently being trained by her brother to be a Time Master.
Her death is later revealed as fully expunged from the timeline: since no body was found after the explosion, Rip Hunter actually plucked her from her designed fate to deposit her safely years after her supposed death. Michelle spends some time blissfully unaware of the deeper implications of her return, until Jason Goldstein, the villainous Rex Hunter, deleted from his intended timeline by the Time Stealers because of Rip Hunter actions, returns as a chronal energy being, forcing Goldstar to witness her intended fate. Despite Rex Hunter's defeat, Michelle is left deeply traumatized, and starts obsessing about her own death, strongly believing her life a glitch in the timeline. Resentful against Rip Hunter and Booster Gold for having hidden her real fate from her Goldstar disables Skeets with a powerful magnetic blasts, and escapes into the timestream to an unknown place.
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