There's nothing comic book superhero fans love to debate more than the relative power levels of their favorite heroes. So how does Booster Gold compare? Let us count the ways.

Flight
Booster Gold's Flight Ring is 30th-century technology that gives its wearer flight capabilities constrained only by the wearer's willpower and physical ability to withstand the physical hardships of flight within its current environment. The exact limits to the acceleration and maneuvering of Booster's ring, formerly the personal ring of its inventor, Brainiac 5, have never been definitively established, but Booster has used the ring to keep up with spaceships and Superman.

Super Strength
Booster Gold's costume was created from a "special fabric/microfiber power suit" liberated from the 25th-century Space Museum. Modeled on the suit once invented by Lex Luthor to fight Superman, the suit gives him enhanced strength enough to lift several tons (though not quite at Superman's level).

Energy Bolts
Booster's wrist-mounted "Booster Shots," are a repurposed Space Museum exhibit that generate a ranged energy beam that can be fine-tuned mild enough to stun a human or strong enough to shatter stone.

Enhanced Vision
Another piece of Space Museum equipment, Booster's goggles give him microscopic, macroscopic, and infrared vision on demand.

Force Field
Arguably the greatest of Booster's powers, his force field is truly impenetrable, having originally been created by the villain Brainiac and used to stymie Superman on many occasions. The force field generator is in a belt concealed under Booster's power suit, and although the field it generates surrounds Booster just above his skin by default, the field can be enlarged, shrunk, become semi-permeable, or be projected remotely via emitters in Booster's gloves. Though the field is generally used to repel matter, it can also be repolarized to absorb and redirect matter, a trick Booster calls the "Mass Dispersal Force." The only demonstrated weakness of the force field is that it runs on the same batteries with a limited charge that also power the suit and Booster Shots.

Wrist Communicators
Booster's gloves are chock full of useful tools, so it's easy to overlook that they also include audio-visual devices that passively monitor ambient network traffic and enable dedicated two-way communication with his sidekick robot, Skeets. They also allow convenient livestreaming access to social media sites.

Time Travel
As an ally of Rip Hunter, Booster Gold's power-suit has been wired with remote access to Hunter's time-travelling Time Sphere and Time Platform. So long as he is within range of the relay embedded in Skeets, Booster can teleport himself and Skeets to a Time Sphere located at any point in spacetime

In addition to all the above, it's always worth remembering that should our hero be caught without any of his very impressive technology, he is still an Olympic-level athlete with demonstrated outside-the-box problem solving skills.

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