The Flash
Fans ofThe Flashhave have a go at it how deadly and dangerousHunter Zolomon a.k.a . ZOOMtruly is for old age . But as proof that even the most vicious - seeming villains can surprise you , the truth about Hunter ’s ownFlashpointorigin storyhas been break … and it was all he needed to die a submarine sandwich ’s death saving the DC Universe , the timestream , the Flash family , and more .
Considering how easily most Flash fans assumeHunter Zolomon ’s originis as much a written matter of the first Reverse - Flash as his suit of clothes , his actual tragic origin is often overlooked . With his female parent murdered by his founding father , Hunter ’s life sentence started almost the same as Barry Allen ’s . Where Barry give his life-time to leaven guilt or innocence , Hunter devoted his to profiling , to catch killers ( like his own fatheractuallywas ) . But it ’s now been reveal that Hunter ’s origin narration is even more unjust and brutal than rooter ever really cognize .
The new Revelation are built on the origination storyFlashfans have always known : Hunter joined the FBI as a profiler , found his married woman , Ashley , along with her Father of the Church as a mentor on the job . But when Hunter made the incorrect call , see to it his superior that a serial sea wolf ( ' The Clown ' ) did n’t use guns , the misunderstanding cost Ashley ’s father his living . And so Hunter ’s life unraveled , set him on his path to become the nefarious Zoom . But Barry Allen just key out that was n’t the literal story …
As Barry is discovering the honest origin of Hunter Zolomon , the villain himself is finishing his mission to kill as many heroes as he has to to win the power of not only the Speed Force , butthe Strength , Sage , and Still Forcesas well . His finish is legal : to make so drastic an imbalance , the Black Flash will come to drink down him ( like all other speedster before ) to restore order . And when it does , Hunter will pour down Death itself , becoming the not bad Flash in the Multiverse . Which is the exact moment Barry differentiate him the truth .
Having found a second readiness of fingerprints on the accelerator pedal that kill his mentor , Barry is able to show Hunter the Sojourner Truth : he was n’t wrong about The Clown , and the tragedy that destroy his life was n’t his doing . It was Eobard Thawne who trip back to put the ordnance in that Orcinus orca ’s hand , creating the Reverse - Flash the same way he created the first Flash , his own nemesis . Eobard ’s long game is n’t unclouded , but the truth is all Hunter postulate to see . see the chaos he has wreaked by loose the Forces , and knowing what Wally would do , Hunter gives Barry a message :
Only I can do this , Barry . I control all four Forces and I can repair the Force Barrier . But you postulate to live . Find Eobard Thawne ! get hold out why he did this to us ! The real reasonableness . And … differentiate Wally … I ’m sorry . I wish he and I could have stayed friends … This is what Flashes do , proper ?
Then , as a monitor of why he and Wally West were friends in the first lieu , Hunter sacrifice himself to be absorbed not only into the Speed Force , but restore all the Forces to their rightful places , along with the barrier that he previously crack open .
The change to Hunter ’s descent may be pick out better or worse by somefans of Wally West ’s Flash , but calamity and ruefulness were always major part of their competition . With this story , writer Joshua Williamson , and artists Scott Kolins and Luis Guerrero sustain enough of the unspoiled humankind remained in Hunter to agnise his mistakes , and atone for them . The final verdict may have to wait until Eobard Thawne ’s architectural plan is totally revealed . But in the meantime , carry Wally West to have one more reason to destroy Thawne when he finds out the scoundrel ruin his best friend ’s sprightliness , too . But he could n’t take all the hoagy out of him … which should consider for something .
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