
Ī battle ensues between the three Flashes and the two Zooms. Before Zoom can kill Kid Flash, however, Thawne arrives on a cosmic treadmill with Jay Garrick chained to the front end. As Wally and Kid Flash ( Bart Allen) attempt to contain the battle, Zoom threatens to snap Bart's neck in a manner reminiscent of what Barry had done to Eobard Thawne (Professor Zoom aka the original Reverse-Flash). After spiriting Ashley out of danger to Linda's home, Zoom returns to the battlefront to dispatch Captain Cold whom he believes is wasting the Flash's time. Zoom infiltrates the Rogue war between Captain Cold's Rogues, the Trickster's reformed Rogues, and the Top's brainwashed Rogues. Although the two share a minor attraction and romance, Zoom still considers himself married to Ashley. Barbara Minerva), seeking to recruit him into the growing Secret Society of Super Villains. Zoom is freed from imprisonment by Cheetah (Dr. When Ashley was hospitalized after a car accident, Zoom awakened from his coma out of concern. Zolomon's estranged wife Ashley replaced him as a profiler in the police department and attempted to communicate with him. Wally then forced Zoom into a temporal anomaly Hunter was rendered comatose and forced to relive his father-in-law's death repeatedly. During an attempt to kill the pregnant Linda Park, Zoom created an electrical shockwave that caused Linda to miscarry their twins instead.

Hunter became the supervillain "Zoom" (aka the second "Reverse-Flash") to bring tragedy to Wally's life, believing that this was the only way to make Wally a better hero. Hunter came to the conclusion that Wally's refusal to help was because of never suffering a personal tragedy unlike Barry Allen. The resulting explosion cured Hunter's paralysis and shifted his connection to time he now had the ability to alter his personal timeframe, granting him super-speed. Hunter then broke into the museum and attempted to use the cosmic treadmill himself. But Wally refused, not wanting to risk damaging the timestream and thus shattering their friendship.
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He begged Wally West to use the time-travelling cosmic treadmill in the Flash Museum to prevent the series of tragedies in his life from ever occurring. Hunter was severely injured during an attack by Gorilla Grodd at Iron Heights Penitentiary, and was left paralysed from the waist down. Hunter soon befriended the Flash as his insight was critical in solving a number of cases, though Hunter resented being stuck behind a desk. Abandoned by Ashley and fired by the F.B.I., Hunter moved to Keystone City and became a profiler in the police's Department of Metahuman Hostilities. The case also left him with a damaged knee, forcing him to use a cane to walk. The two specialized in apprehending low-level costumed criminals until Hunter inadvertently caused the death of Ashley's father Hunter had mistakenly believed that a criminal they were after, the Clown, was incapable of using a gun. He later joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) with his girlfriend Ashley whom he soon married. Following this incident, Hunter became obsessed with understanding the criminal mind and went on to study criminology and psychology at college.
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On the day Hunter was to leave for college, his father was revealed to be a serial killer who had murdered six young girls and his mother before being gunned down by the police after refusing to surrender. Hunter Zolomon had a troubled relationship with his parents who rarely spoke to each other or to him. Fictional character biography Origin and transformation into Zoom Hunter Zolomon as he initially appeared before his transformation as the villainous speedster Zoom. He first appeared as Zoom in The Flash (vol. Publication history Ĭreated by Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins, Hunter Zolomon made his debut in The Flash: Secret Files & Origins #3 in November 2001. In 2009, Zoom was ranked as IGN's 37th-greatest comic book villain of all time. Zoom appeared in the live-action Arrowverse television series The Flash, portrayed by Teddy Sears and voiced by Tony Todd. The second character to assume the Reverse-Flash mantle, he serves as the archnemesis of Wally West and an enemy of Barry Allen. Hunter Zolomon, otherwise known as Zoom and the Reverse-Flash, is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.


Zoom, Reverse-Flash, Judge, Flash, True Flash The Flash: Secret Files & Origins #3 (November 2001)
