The Flash Season 2: 12 Big Questions We're Asking After 'Versus Zoom'

6. Is There A Real Jay Garrick?

The Flash Jay Garrick Hunter Zolomon
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This episode finally gives us the answers as to who Zoom is, and what that means for the character we saw killed on Earth-1 by him.

Zoom is Hunter Zolomon, complete with a backstory that includes his father killing his mother as he watched, being left in an orphanage, becoming a serial killer, and then gaining his speed in the particle accelerator explosion. That Jay Garrick on Earth-1, then? Not a Speed Mirage, but a time remnant - Hunter from the past, brought into his future/our present, which, er, I don't even know. I promised I won't go there, and I'm sticking to that.

But then, if Jay is Hunter, and Hunter is Zoom, and the Hunter on Earth-1 is just his doppelgänger, how does Jay Garrick fit into things? Does he even exist, or was it just a name thought up by Hunter? The fact there's no Jay on Earth-1 indicates the former, but that's gonna p*ss off a lot of comics fans (more so than they already are) at the treatment of an iconic character in The Flash mythos.

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