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Who is Zoom? Our Top 5 Theories
BY The Screen Spy Team
Published 9 years ago
By Pauline Perenack
Anyone familiar with The Flash comic books knows the origins of the comic book character Zoom.
Hunter Zolomon, a profiler with the police, worked closely with the then-Flash, Wally West, ultimately becoming good friends with him. However after being injured in an attack, Zolomon was left paralyzed from the waist down. He asked for West’s help in reversing his fortunes by time-traveling into the past and preventing the attack. West, afraid of damaging the timeline, refused, and Zolomon tried to time-travel on his own, which not only gave him his legs back, but also displaced him from the present timeline. This allowed him to control his speed, basically giving him superspeed, and becoming Zoom – a bitter enemy of West.
However, in our televised version, Zoom is a mysterious character, and theories are running wild as to who is actually behind the mask, because as we know, TV world doesn’t always line up with comic book world. Here are some theories as to who Zoom’s alter-ego might turn out to be.
Eddie Thwane of E1 – The Crazed Revenge-Fuelled Jilted Lover Theory
You may be quick to write this one off since Eddie died in season one, but it makes sense. Think about it. His body was pulled into the singularity, and we don’t know what happened to it after that. Conceivably, it could have been revived (doing who knows what to Eddie’s psyche in the process), and injected with powers similar to those of the Flash. Also, since we don’t know what happened to Eddie’s body, but we know the singularity connects E1 and E2, perhaps now-alive Eddie was deposited in E2. He’s smart enough to know that if he got to E2, he could get back to E1, and may just have been waiting for the right moment.
Crazed revenge-fuelled jilted lover theory anyone?
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