For his Earth One equivalent see Hunter Zolomon (Earth One). For the one that had his identity stolen by him see Jay Garrick. For other uses of "Zoom", see Zoom (disambiguation). For other uses of "The Flash", see The Flash (disambiguation). For other uses of "Black Flash", see Black Flash (disambiguation).
| Hunter Zolomon | |
|---|---|
| Information | |
| Occupation | Servant of the Speed Force (formerly) Leader of Team Zoom (formerly) Vigilante (in secret; formerly) Member of Team Flash (in secret; formerly) Serial Killer (convicted) |
| Status | Unknown |
| Family | James Zolomon (father) Ashley Zolomon (mother; deceased) |
| Alter ego | Black Flash Zoom (formerly) The Flash (while masquerading as Jay Garrick; formerly) |
| Actor | Teddy Sears Ryan Handley (as Zoom) Tony Todd (voice; as Zoom; uncredited) Octavian Kaul (young) |
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Hunter Zolomon was a meta-human speedster from Earth Two. Years after witnessing his father murder his mother when he was a child, Hunter became a serial killer. Following the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator explosion, Hunter was affected during electroshock therapy by the dark matter emitted, giving him superhuman speed and various other abilities derived from it. Following this, he escaped and began acting as a supervillain known as Zoom, stylized as the Speed Demon. Later, using Velocity serums, Hunter managed to artificially increase his speed to the point where he could break the dimensional barrier. Having got tired of being the villain, Hunter decided to become "the hero" as Jay Garrick/The Flash, stylized as the Crimson Comet, borrowing the name from the speedster he found on another Earth and kept as prisoner. He created the charade in order to instill false hope - hope that would be ripped away.
Discovering the existence of Barry Allen on Earth One, Hunter traveled to the other Earth and acted as his friend and mentor, apparently training him to fight Zoom, but instead forcing Barry to increase his speed to eventually take it for himself. Hunter eventually killed a time remnant of himself to give Barry a reason to avenge "Jay" and increase his speed even further, only for his true identity as Hunter Zolomon to be discovered by Team Flash soon after. Shortly after, intending to break Barry emotionally, he murders the latter's father Henry Allen, thus being indirectly responsible for Barry creating Flashpoint. After losing a race to Barry Allen and attempting to destroy the multiverse, Time Wraiths appeared and imprisoned Hunter in the Speed Force, while reducing him to a decayed spectre-like form known as Black Flash, similar to that of the Time Wraiths.
He returned as a mindless being bound to the will of the Speed Force for all eternity, while hunting down the rogue speedster Eobard Thawne. After Eobard and the Legion of Doom assembled the Spear of Destiny and changed reality, Zolomon was held captive by Eobard in S.T.A.R. Labs. After the timeline was restored, Zolomon chased down a future version of Eobard who had travelled to 1916 to ensure the Legends wouldn't stop him from altering reality with the Spear of Destiny, and killed him, also erasing all of his time remnants he had created and restoring his non existence. He was later sent after Savitar as the latter tried to send fragments of himself through time using the Speed Force, only to be frozen and shattered by Killer Frost.