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{{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)]]}}

|image=[[File:SMRPG NS Booster.png|200px]]

|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}}

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.

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.

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's leaking fluid, and his Snifsters have to explain that she's 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 [[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 doesn't 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.

===''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)===

!Colspan=2|Other stats for Engine 023 Booster<ref>[https://sites.google.com/site/supermariorpgspeedruns/switch/misc-stats-and-data Super Mario RPG Speedruns - Misc. stats and data]</ref>

|Lamb's Lure/Sheep Attack, Geno Whirl, Pure Water, Yoshi Cookie

|JapM=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]]''.

*"''I've got something special to show off.''"

SMRPG Booster Battle.png|Booster's battle

Eating Rasp.gif|Booster eating Raspberry at the wedding hall in Marrymore

Booster2.png|Snifster 1 catches Mario hiding behind the curtains in the [[Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch)|Switch remake]]

==Names in other languages==

{{foreign names

|JapR=Bukkī

|JapM=Possibly derived from「不器用」(''bukiyō'', "inept") or「不器量」(''bukiryō'', "ugly"); rendered "Bookie" in the Shogakukan guide<ref>''Super Mario RPG'' Final Edition, page 2. "'''''The Bookie Tower'''''"</ref> and at least one English-language preview<ref>{{cite|title=''Nintendo Magazine System'' (UK) issue 38|page=70}}</ref>

|Fre=Booster

|GerM=Masculine form of ''Borste'' ("bristle"), possibly referring to his beard

|KorM=Transliteration of his Japanese name

|JapM=Booster (Buki 023); "Buki" refers to Booster's original train,「ブキ９６」(''Buki 96''), while "023" refers to the remake's release year.

*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}}.

*Booster is in the Booster the Sixth portrait when he relinquishes the [[Elder Key]]. According to the [[Dr. Topper]] quiz, he is the 7th generation.

 

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