Editing Booster

{{about|the character in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars|the item in [[Mario Party: Island Tour]]|[[Booster (Mario Party: Island Tour)]]|the item in [[Dr. Mario: Miracle Cure]]|[[Booster (Dr. Mario: Miracle Cure)]]}}
{{character infobox
|image=[[File:SMRPG NS Booster.png|160px]]<br>Artwork from ''Super Mario RPG'' (Nintendo Switch)
|species=[[Human]]
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars]]'' ([[List of games by date#1996|1996]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch)|Super Mario RPG]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]]) ([[List of games by date#2023|2023]])
}}
{{quote|I wonder when my next bride will fall from the sky?|Booster|Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars}}
'''Booster''' is a character who appears only in ''[[Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars]]'' and its [[Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch)|Nintendo Switch remake]]. He lives in [[Booster Tower]] with three [[Snifster]]s. He is of the seventh and current generation of Boosters. Despite this background, Booster would rather have fun and spend his days playing with his Snifsters and others he invites to his tower.
==History==
When [[Exor]] crashes into [[Bowser's Keep]], [[Mario]], [[Bowser]] and [[Princess Peach]] are sent flying in different directions. While Mario lands safely at [[Mario Bros.' House|his house]], Peach lands at Booster's Tower. In response to this, Booster decides he must marry this woman who fell from the sky. Booster locks Peach on the balcony of his tower, waiting until the time is right to marry her, despite her constant cries for help.

When Mario arrives at the tower, Booster thinks he is there to enjoy his tower. He meets Mario again higher up in the tower and determines that he is the "Mario" who Peach has been screaming about. Booster attempts to eliminate Mario with some [[Rob-omb]]s, but Mario can evade their explosions or leave the room altogether. In either situation, it causes Booster to cry as he leaves on his toy train.

Upon reaching the top of Booster's Tower, Mario is forced to hide behind the curtains as Booster and his [[Snifster]]s enter the room. He asks the Snifsters if he should marry her and after one of the Snifsters mentions that the wedding ceremony would be a great party, they all rehearse the wedding. Booster then realizes that Mario will show up and asks his Snifsters to find the [[Mario doll]] behind the curtains. If Mario can avoid getting caught, Booster ignores him and finds his Mario doll, only to find he cannot reach it. Mario promptly jumps to retrieve it for him, and, out of gratitude, Booster gives him an exclusive item called [[Booster's Charm]]. If Mario gets discovered by the Snifsters three times, he and his allies are forced to fight Booster.

[[File:Booster's ancestors SMRPG.png|thumb|Portraits of Booster's ancestors.]]
Booster starts the battle accompanied by his three Snifsters, but he cannot be attacked and does not act. Once the Snifsters are defeated, Booster becomes vulnerable and begins the fight proper. Booster either attacks or throw a bomb at one character, the latter of which hits with 1.5x the power of his normal attack, until his HP is reduced to 500. When this happens, Booster incorporates two new attacks to his arsenal: the first is [[Spritz Bomb]], which hits one character for 2x the power of his normal attack. The second and more dangerous attack is one exclusive to him called [[Loco Express]]. It hits one character for 4x the power of his normal attack. 

Regardless, Booster ends the rehearsal and opens the door to the balcony using the password, which in the original game is the name of the player's save file and in the remake is the player's Nintendo Switch profile username. He takes Princess Peach and goes to [[Booster Hill]]. Mario gives chase, but he has to first battle Booster's clown minions, [[Grate Guy]] and [[Knife Guy]]. After dispatching them, Mario chases Booster up Booster Hill to [[Marrymore]], the marriage resort where Booster plans to marry Peach. He takes over the wedding hall and kicks out [[Raz]], [[Raini]], and their guests. When Mario and Bowser barge into the wedding hall, they cause Peach to lose some of her belongings. Depending on how fast Mario collects the belongings, Booster may kiss Bowser, the lectern, or Mario. Later, Booster eats Raspberry, the bottom half of the [[Cake (boss)|cake]], and cries because of how delicious it is. With this, the wedding concludes and Booster and his Snifsters return to Booster's Tower.

If Mario returns to the balcony on Booster's Tower after the events of Marrymore, Booster can be seen with his Snifsters. He stares at the sky, thinking another potential wife may eventually fall down to him. Later, if Mario returns after the events of [[Nimbus Land]], [[Valentina]] is seen on the balcony. She rejects Booster at first, but Booster whispers something into her ear and she falls in love with him. When she approaches him, Booster tries to distance himself from her. Viewing the balcony after this point shows them standing together.

In the ending, the two are wed with [[Dodo]] presiding over the wedding. Booster seems to get nervous with Valentina constantly getting closer to him, and he flees the wedding. In the [[parade]] during the credits, Booster rides his train. He notices that his Snifsters are chasing after a [[Beetle (Super Mario RPG)|beetle]] and jumps out of the train to join them. Afterwards, he rides in the [[Koopa Clown Car]] as Bowser chases after him.

==General information==
===Personality===
Booster is an eccentric and immature figure, relying on his [[Snifster]]s to do all his work and explain things to him. He has a collection of dolls that he likes to play with, using these to rehearse real-world scenarios, and designs his tower around various child-oriented attractions, most prominently a ridable toy train that he uses to traverse the area. He tends to be ignorant and/or naïve much of the time, thinking that Peach's calls for help are her way of expressing happiness, only realizing the truth when he encounters Mario the second time. Furthermore, when Peach is crying at Marrymore, he believes that she is leaking fluid, and his Snifsters have to explain that she is upset. He thinks drinking punch and eating cake is complicated and proposes to boil the wedding cake in order to eat it. Despite his character arc revolving around his desire for a wife, he seems to display little interest in romance and is more interested in the rites and rituals of marriage, which he treats as a game. As soon as he eats [[Cake (boss)|Raspberry]], he considers his wedding to Peach successfully over, despite the fact that no ceremony was held, and he leaves Peach behind, not understanding that a marriage involves a couple living together after the fact. The Nintendo Switch remake additionally shows that he lacks financial responsibility: his biographies in the [[Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch) bestiary|Monster List]] indicate that he is constantly in debt as a result of the costs needed to maintain [[Booster Tower|his tower]], but he continues to spend money on his pet projects.

Booster is also shown to be egotistical and aggressive. On top of having an entire tower dedicated to himself, much of his behavior is oriented around personal pleasure even when it comes at the expense of others. This is most prominently illustrated in his attitude towards Peach, failing to acknowledge that she does not want to marry him and only worrying about the possibility of Mario disrupting the ceremony. Additionally, he forcibly clears out the Marrymore chapel in the middle of [[Raz]] and [[Raini]]'s wedding and has his Snifsters barricade the building shut, aiming to keep it to himself while he gets married.

==Profiles and statistics==
===''Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars''===
{{:Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars bestiary|transcludesection=Booster|image=[[File:SMRPG Booster idle.gif]]|align=horizontal}}

===''Super Mario RPG'' (Nintendo Switch)===
{{:Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch) bestiary|transcludesection=Booster}}
{{:Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch) bestiary|transcludesection=Booster 2}}
{|class="wikitable"
!Colspan=2|Other stats for Engine 023 Booster<ref>{{cite|url=sites.google.com/site/supermariorpgspeedruns/switch/misc-stats-and-data|title=Misc. stats and data|publisher=Super Mario RPG Speedruns|language=en|accessdate=June 27, 2024}}</ref>
|-
!FP
|0
|-
!Attack
|75
|-
!Defense
|120
|-
!Magic Attack
|1
|-
!Magic Defense
|80
|-
!Speed
|25
|-
!Evade
|0%?
|-
!Spells
|None
|-
!Special Moves
|Loco Express 023
|-
!Element Resistances
|None
|-
!Status Resistances
|Sleep
|-
!Other Resistances
|Lamb's Lure/Sheep Attack, Geno Whirl, Pure Water, Yoshi Cookie
|-
!Coins
|100
|}
{{Multilang profile
|columns=1
|type=website
|Jpn=ブッキータワーに住む、ヒゲづらの男。突然空から降ってきたももいろのおじょうさんと結婚しようとしている。<br>「さて。　てんくうから　はなよめが　ふってきた　きょうこのごろ！」
|JpnM=A bearded man who lives in Booster Tower. He is about to marry a peach-colored lady who suddenly fell from the sky.<br>"Right! Now, about the girl in my life, who thinks I should marry her?"
}}

==Quotes==
===''Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars''===
:''For a full list of quotes, see [[List of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars quotes#Booster|here]]''.

===''Super Mario RPG'' (Nintendo Switch)===
;Post-game wishes on Star Hill
*"''I've got something special to show off.''"
*"''[[Geno|That doll]] was something special.''" (after having been defeated as Engine 023 Booster)

==Gallery==
<gallery>
SMRPG Booster Artwork.png|Artwork from ''Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars''
SMRPG Booster Finds Mario.png|Booster finding Mario behind the curtains
SMRPG Booster Battle.png|Booster's battle
RPG Spritz Bomb.png|Booster using Spritz Bomb
RPG Loco Express.png|Booster using Loco Express
SMRPG Booster Hill.png|Mario reaching Booster at Booster Hill
Eating Rasp.gif|Booster eating Raspberry at the wedding hall in Marrymore
Booster2.png|Snifster No. 1 catches Mario hiding behind the curtains in the [[Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch)|Switch remake]]
SMKun 50 Booster.png|Booster in ''[[Super Mario-kun]]''
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jpn=ブッキー<ref> [[:File:Top 37.jpg|''Super Mario RPG'' 1995 Top Sun trading card]] </ref><ref> [[:File:Card 31.jpg|''Super Mario RPG'' 1996 Bandai Namco trading card]] </ref>
|JpnR=Bukkī
|JpnM=Possibly derived from「不器用」(''bukiyō'', "inept") or「不器量」(''bukiryō'', "ugly"); rendered "Bookie" in the Shogakukan guide<ref>{{cite|quote='''The Bookie Tower'''|date=1996|title=スーパーマリオRPG - FINAL EDITION 任天堂公式ガイドブック|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|language=ja|isbn=4091025382|page=2}}</ref> and at least one English-language preview<ref>{{cite|date=November 1995|title=''Nintendo Magazine System'' (UK) issue 38|page=70}}</ref>
|Chi=武奇
|ChiR=Wǔqí
|ChiM=From a transliteration of his Japanese name and possibly「武力」(''wǔlì'', force)
|Dut=Booster
|Fre=Booster
|Ger=Borsto
|GerM=Masculine form of ''Borste'' ("bristle"), possibly referring to his beard
|Ita=Booster
|Kor=부키
|KorR=Buki
|KorM=Transliteration of his Japanese name
|Spa=Costarugo
|SpaM=Portmanteau of ''costa'' ("coast") and ''tarugo'' ("blockhead")
}}
;Booster (When Caught)
{{foreign names
|Jpn=ブッキー（カーテンかくれんぼ失敗）
|JpnR=Bukkī (Kāten Kakurenbo Shippai)
|JpnM=Booster (Curtain Hide and Seek Failure)
|ChiS=武奇（窗帘捉迷藏失败）
|ChiSR=Wǔqí (Chuānglián zhuōmícáng shībài)
|ChiSM=Booster (Curtain Hide and Seek Failure)
|ChiT=武奇（窗簾捉迷藏失敗）
|ChiTR=Wǔqí (Chuānglián zhuōmícáng shībài)
|ChiTM=Booster (Curtain Hide and Seek Failure)
|Dut=Booster (gevangen)
|DutM=Booster (caught)
|Fre=Booster (Mario découvert)
|FreM=Booster (Mario exposed)
|Ger=Borsto (dingfest)
|GerM=Booster (apprehended)
|Ita=Booster (catturato)
|ItaM=Booster (caught)
|Kor=부키(커튼 숨바꼭질 실패)
|KorR=Buki (Keoteun Sumbakkokjil Silpae)
|KorM=Booster (Curtain Hide and Seek Failure)
|Spa=Costarugo (cuando te pilla)
|SpaM=Booster (when he catches you)
}}
;Engine 023 Booster
{{foreign names
|Jpn=ブッキー（ブキ０２３）
|JpnR=Bukkī (Buki023)
|JpnM=Booster (Buki 023); "Buki" refers to Booster's original train,「ブキ９６」(''Buki 96''), while "023" refers to the remake's release year.
|Chi=武奇（武奇023）
|ChiR=Wǔqí (Wǔqí023)
|ChiM=Booster (Booster 023); "武奇96" (''Wǔqí 96'', Booster 96) is Booster's original train, while "023" refers to the remake's release year.
|Dut=Booster (Turbotrein 023)
|DutM=Booster (Turbotrain 023)
|Fre=Booster (Loco 023)
|Ger=Borsto mit Borstolok 023
|GerM=Booster with Borstolok 023; ''Borstolok'' comes from ''Borsto'' ("Booster") and ''Lokomotive'' ("locomotive")
|Ita=Treno Booster 023
|ItaM=Booster Train 023
|Kor=부키(부키023)
|KorR=Buki (Buki023)
|KorM=Booster (Booster 023); "부키96" (''Buki 96'', Booster 96) is Booster's original train, while "023" refers to the remake's release year.
|Spa=Costarugo (Expreso 023)
|SpaM=Booster (023 Express)
}}

==Notes==
*Booster bears a striking resemblance to both [[Wario]] and ''{{wp|Final Fantasy IV}}''{{'}}s {{fandom|finalfantasy|Cid Pollendina|Cid}}, having bared teeth, a similar nose to Wario's, straggly beard, and horned helmet as Cid had in his original artwork by {{wp|Yoshitaka Amano}}.
*In concept art, the top of Booster's helmet can be seen emitting steam like a {{wp|chimney (locomotive)|locomotive chimney}}.<ref>kurashimakaz (March 10, 2021). [https://twitter.com/kurashimakaz/status/1369697859868659714 Twitter post by Kazuyuki Kurashima with an early relationship chart]. ''Twitter''. Retrieved March 27, 2022.</ref><ref>{{cite|title=''Nintendo Switch Super Mario RPG Official Guide Book''|publisher=SE-MOOK|page=219}}</ref> While this does not visibly happen in the final game, Booster semiregularly makes train noises in Japanese, which in English only happens when he reappears on his train. In the remake, Eastern-language translations (Chinese and Korean) are closer to the Japanese version while Western-language translations (Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Dutch) are closer to the English version, with the exception of the moment where Mario and Peach overhear Booster approaching; while Booster's exclamation is rendered as a vague "A...ha!" in English, French and Italian—interpreted as panting up the stairs in exhaustion in simplified Chinese and German and as an "ajá" of surprise in Spanish—the Dutch equivalent more closely matches Japanese, traditional Chinese and Korean, where it is intended to be the sound of an incoming train.
*Booster is in the Booster the Sixth portrait when he relinquishes the [[Elder Key]]. According to the [[Dr. Topper]] [[the Trial Course#Room 1 6|quiz]], he is the 7th generation.

==References==
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