[1] A second version of the character is a Hypertime-line counterpart and partner of the original, who became Waverider after his superpowered doppelgänger's death during the storyline Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!

However, when he encounters Captain Atom, their energies interact to create a temporal wave that enables Monarch to travel back in time and kill Dove.

Despite the Linear Men's policy of non-intervention in the timeline, Waverider helps Superman defeat Doomsday by transporting him to the end of time, where he is destroyed by entropy.

[11] In Convergence, Booster Gold becomes a new Waverider after Rip Hunter takes him into the timestream to save him from dying due to the effects of excessive time travel.

He can also access a person's aura to view their past and future, fly at the speed of light, fire quantum energy blasts, and become invisible and intangible.