Hunter claims that he decided to become The Flash after seeing Barry on Earth-One, but the portals between the worlds didn’t open up until the end of Season 1 and it’s implied in this Earth-Two flashback that Jay has been Earth-Two’s Flash for much longer than that. Hunter got the idea for The Flash after seeing Barry’s version. But where did the name come from? Is The Flash really going to use such an iconic comic book character in such a arbitrary way? This is seemingly why there is no Jay Garrick on Earth-One because it is just a name Hunter made up. (You know, to keep people from realizing he was notorious serial killer Hunter Zolomon…). This also seems to be the point when Hunter decided to adopt the Jay Garrick persona as his non-Flash alter-ego. Like, I know it was a bad haircut, but come on guys. Confusingly, though Hunter Zolomon seems to be recognizable to the people of Earth-Two (including Harry), no one recognizes him as Jay Garrick. Harry explains that Hunter Zolomon is notorious on Earth-Two for having killed 23 people - and for having a really bad haircut. Rather than go the orphan-turned-hero root, Hunter went in a different direction to become an orphan-turned-serial-killer. He became a young, strapping serial killer. Great Expectations, however, this is not. Instead, he went to live in a Dickensian orphanage, before growing up in the foster care system. Unlike Barry, who went to live with parent extraordinaire Joe West (seriously, when is this guy going to write a guide to parenting already?), Hunter had no one after he lost his parents. Yep, pretty dark stuff for an episode of The Flash. It’s implied that James Zolomon, Hunter’s dad, is some kind of soldier, wearing the helmet that Hunter would go on to wear as Earth-Two’s Flash and yelling about having fought for his country as he attacked his wife. The Flash was really pushing the Barry/Zoom parallels in “Versus Zoom.” Zoom began life as Earth-Two’s Hunter Zolomon, a boy who saw his father kill his mother before killing himself.
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