Disgraced 25th-century athlete Michael Carter steals advanced future tech and travels to the present to reinvent himself as the world’s most famous superhero: Booster Gold. Using historical knowledge fed by his AI companion Skeets, he stages perfectly timed rescues and quickly becomes a media sensation.
But his manufactured heroics begin destabilizing the timeline. Watching from the shadows is time hunter Rip Hunter, who knows Booster was never meant to be a celebrity.
As a catastrophic event approaches that was never supposed to happen, Michael must choose between protecting his brand or becoming the hero he only pretended to be.