Hunter Zolomon

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==In other media==
 
==In other media==
 
===Television===
 
===Television===
*In the 2014 The Flash series, the character of Zoom and Hunter Zolomon both appeared in the second season of the show as separate character. Zoom was a speedster from Earth-2 that was the nemesis of Jay Garrick who had arrived on Earth-1 in order to steal the Speed Force from Barry Allen. The episode "The Reverse-Flash" revealed that the Earth-1 counterpart of Jay Garrick was orphaned in his childhood and adopted with him being known as Hunter Zolomon who lacked any superpowers.
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*In the 2014 The Flash series, the character of Zoom and Hunter Zolomon both appeared in the second season with a full backstory revealed in the episode "Versus Zoom". It was shown that Hunter Zolomon of Earth-2 as a boy witnessed his father kill his mother whereupon he was left at an orphanage. By adulthood, he had become a serial killer who was apprehended and sent to prison for electroconvulsive therapy when the Harrison Wells of his world had activated his particle accelerator experiment. The energy wave gave Zolomon access to the Speed Force and he became a Metahuman criminal called Zoom. In time, he began to use drugs named Velocity-6 to increase his power but this had fatally damaged his body which was slowly dying unless he found a cure by draining the Speed Force from a powerful speedster. By this point, Zolomon had adopted a new identity as Jay Garrick who operated as a superhero that battled Zoom as part of his sadistic desire in giving hope to the people only to take it away. After a singularity opened a gateway to Earth-1, Zoom travelled to that world and learnt of the superhero Barry Allen who operated as his planet's Flash. Thus, as Zoom, he embarked on a plan to steal the Speed Force from him whilst as Jay Garrick he attempted to befriend him. The Earth-1 counterpart of Zolomon continued his normal life and lacked the superpowers of his counterpart as shown in the episode "The Reverse-Flash".
  
 
===Video games===
 
===Video games===

Revision as of 05:32, 25 April 2016

Hunter Zolomon as Zoom in Flash v2 #197.

Hunter Zolomon is a male comic supervillain that features in DC Comics.

Contents

Biography

Battling Wally West in Flash v2 #199.

Overview

Personality and attributes

Powers and abilities

Notes

  • Hunter Zolomon was created by Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins where he made his first appearance in The Flash: Secret Files & Origins v1 #3 (November, 2001) and later debuted as Zoom in The Flash v2 #197 (June, 2003).

In other media

Television

  • In the 2014 The Flash series, the character of Zoom and Hunter Zolomon both appeared in the second season with a full backstory revealed in the episode "Versus Zoom". It was shown that Hunter Zolomon of Earth-2 as a boy witnessed his father kill his mother whereupon he was left at an orphanage. By adulthood, he had become a serial killer who was apprehended and sent to prison for electroconvulsive therapy when the Harrison Wells of his world had activated his particle accelerator experiment. The energy wave gave Zolomon access to the Speed Force and he became a Metahuman criminal called Zoom. In time, he began to use drugs named Velocity-6 to increase his power but this had fatally damaged his body which was slowly dying unless he found a cure by draining the Speed Force from a powerful speedster. By this point, Zolomon had adopted a new identity as Jay Garrick who operated as a superhero that battled Zoom as part of his sadistic desire in giving hope to the people only to take it away. After a singularity opened a gateway to Earth-1, Zoom travelled to that world and learnt of the superhero Barry Allen who operated as his planet's Flash. Thus, as Zoom, he embarked on a plan to steal the Speed Force from him whilst as Jay Garrick he attempted to befriend him. The Earth-1 counterpart of Zolomon continued his normal life and lacked the superpowers of his counterpart as shown in the episode "The Reverse-Flash".

Video games

Appearances

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