Jon Hancock
Mar 17, 2004, 05:09 am
<img src="http://comixfan.com/xfan/images/headshots/dc/zoom.gif" align=left hspace=10 alt=>Real Name: Hunter Zolomon
First Appearance: Flash: Secret Files and Origins #3
Known Relatives: Ashley (ex-wife), Unnamed parents (deceased), Unnamed father-in-law (deceased)
Known Allies: formerly Detectives Chyre and Morillo, Flash III, F.B.I.
Major Enemies: Flash III
Height: 6'1''
Weight: 181 lbs.
Eyes: Red, (As Zolomon, Brown)
Hair: Brown
Hunter Zolomon's life did not have a happy start. Brought up in a dysfunctional family with an abusive, alcoholic father and a mother who rarely spoke to him, he struggled as hard as he could to achieve something more with his life. Finally Zolomon managed to graduate and he planned to leave for college, full of hope for the future. On the day he was due to leave for college, Zolomon was out of his home for a while and returned to discover the police, laying siege to his house. It transpired that Zolomon's father was a serial killer. Worse still, his mother had known and when she finally summoned the courage to alert the police, she became his latest victim. Refusing to give up, the older Zolomon was killed by the police in a shoot out.
Zolomon had no idea of his father's criminal activities and soon became obsessed with understanding the process of the criminal mind. Zolomon proceeded to study criminology and psychology, achieving high marks in both, before joining the F.B.I. In a happy coincidence, Zolomon's girlfriend, Ashley, also joined the bureau at the same time and the two trained under her father, who was an instructor on the training campus at Quantico.
Zolomon soon married Ashley and grew firmly attached to his father-in-law. Seeing him as the parent he never had, the three would go on cases and call outs together. As part of their training the married couple would always follow Ashley's father's lead. One case ruined this. Zolomon was given the responsibility of co-ordinating an attack on a house that the F.B.I. had under siege. Inside the house was a serial killer dressed like a clown. Due to an error of judgement, Zolomon cost Ashley's father his life. In the same incident he seriously injured his knee and was unable to run or walk without a cane. Ashley left him and he was soon thrown out of the F.B.I.
Piecing the fragments of his life together, Zolomon relocated to Keystone City where he joined the police department as a profiler, working with the Department of Metahuman Hostilities. Zolomon set out to discover why so many super-villains insisted on operating within Keystone City despite the presence of the Flash. When his profiles provided no clues he dug further and eventually uncovered a huge criminal black market, simply known as the Network. This market had been operating for over a decade and was being run by the villainess, Blacksmyth.
Zolomon's work in discovering the Network and in solving a number of other cases put him on good terms with the department's resident detectives, Chyre and Morillo. On numerous occasions he was crucial to their and the Flash's work. However, he always resented being stuck behind his desk and longed for the action he enjoyed earlier in his life.
With life finally starting to seem more positive for him again, Zolomon's fortunes were cruelly reversed by an attack from Gorilla Grodd. This attack left him seriously wounded and paralysed from the waist down. This lack of mobility and independence led Zolomon into a state of severe depression. Desperate for a solution to his situation, he begged the Flash for help. Knowing through his profiling of the Flash's Cosmic Treadmill, he begged the Flash to travel back in time and prevent the accident that cost him his wife and father-in-law. The Flash refused as he had only recently experienced the turmoil that can come from trying to change the past.
Driven by desperation Zolomon attempted to hotwire the Cosmic Treadmill by using the research that the F.B.I. had conducted on it. Rather than work as he had planned, the device exploded. The explosion demolished the Flash Museum and shifted Zolomon onto a faster timeline, essentially giving him super-speed. Driven insane and seeing the parallels in his surname, Zolomon latched onto a conversation he had recently held with the Flash about Professor Zoom and decided to become the new Reverse Flash, taking the name of Zoom.
Determined to make the Flash realise his loss he aimed to make the hero face his own ultimate tragedy. No matter what it took, Zoom was convinced he had to persuade the Flash by destroying the hero's life. Confronting the Flash and beating him easily Zoom set about putting his plan into action. Flash found that he could not absorb his speed as Zoom didn't gain his speed from the Speed Force, rather from the shift in timelines. Even after stealing the speed from Jesse Quick, Impulse and Jay Garrick, the Golden Age Flash, Wally was still unable to keep up with Zoom.
Their fight ended in tragedy as Zoom aimed to make Flash feel loss like him. With a click of his fingers, Zoom caused a sonic boom that destroyed the windows of buildings for blocks around but more importantly knocked the Flash's pregnant wife, Linda, off her feet. After being rushed to a hospital Linda was given a clean bill of health only to discover that she had lost the twins she was carrying.
Enraged the Flash confronted Zoom for one last time. During an intense battle where both men pushed their speed to the limits, Zoom was trapped by the Flash inside one of the time pockets that his speed occasionally tore open. Frozen in time, Zoom is forced to watch his greatest mistake of the failed siege, repeated over and over without being able to involve himself.
Zoom is currently held in Iron Heights penitentiary. Recently Zoom's estranged wife Ashley has travelled to Keystone City filled with guilt over her ex-husband's predicament and insanity. Taking a job as profiler with KCPD, she aims to cure him of his insanity and rehabilitate him.
Zoom possesses super speed of a magnitude greater than the Flash, Impulse, Jay Garrick and Jesse Quick's speed combined. Zoom is the only speedster who doesn't take his speed directly from the Speed Force. Instead Zoom has been shifted onto a different timeline and thus appears to move faster as he is always in the future. The origins of Zoom's powers mean that he rips open time pockets that show images from his past as though on a video. He is also unlikely to be able to steal speed, as he has no apparent connection to the Speed Force.
APPEARANCES:
DC First: Flash/Superman
Flash (2nd series) #181-200, 210
Flash: Iron Heights
Flash: Secret Files and Origins #3
First Appearance: Flash: Secret Files and Origins #3
Known Relatives: Ashley (ex-wife), Unnamed parents (deceased), Unnamed father-in-law (deceased)
Known Allies: formerly Detectives Chyre and Morillo, Flash III, F.B.I.
Major Enemies: Flash III
Height: 6'1''
Weight: 181 lbs.
Eyes: Red, (As Zolomon, Brown)
Hair: Brown
Hunter Zolomon's life did not have a happy start. Brought up in a dysfunctional family with an abusive, alcoholic father and a mother who rarely spoke to him, he struggled as hard as he could to achieve something more with his life. Finally Zolomon managed to graduate and he planned to leave for college, full of hope for the future. On the day he was due to leave for college, Zolomon was out of his home for a while and returned to discover the police, laying siege to his house. It transpired that Zolomon's father was a serial killer. Worse still, his mother had known and when she finally summoned the courage to alert the police, she became his latest victim. Refusing to give up, the older Zolomon was killed by the police in a shoot out.
Zolomon had no idea of his father's criminal activities and soon became obsessed with understanding the process of the criminal mind. Zolomon proceeded to study criminology and psychology, achieving high marks in both, before joining the F.B.I. In a happy coincidence, Zolomon's girlfriend, Ashley, also joined the bureau at the same time and the two trained under her father, who was an instructor on the training campus at Quantico.
Zolomon soon married Ashley and grew firmly attached to his father-in-law. Seeing him as the parent he never had, the three would go on cases and call outs together. As part of their training the married couple would always follow Ashley's father's lead. One case ruined this. Zolomon was given the responsibility of co-ordinating an attack on a house that the F.B.I. had under siege. Inside the house was a serial killer dressed like a clown. Due to an error of judgement, Zolomon cost Ashley's father his life. In the same incident he seriously injured his knee and was unable to run or walk without a cane. Ashley left him and he was soon thrown out of the F.B.I.
Piecing the fragments of his life together, Zolomon relocated to Keystone City where he joined the police department as a profiler, working with the Department of Metahuman Hostilities. Zolomon set out to discover why so many super-villains insisted on operating within Keystone City despite the presence of the Flash. When his profiles provided no clues he dug further and eventually uncovered a huge criminal black market, simply known as the Network. This market had been operating for over a decade and was being run by the villainess, Blacksmyth.
Zolomon's work in discovering the Network and in solving a number of other cases put him on good terms with the department's resident detectives, Chyre and Morillo. On numerous occasions he was crucial to their and the Flash's work. However, he always resented being stuck behind his desk and longed for the action he enjoyed earlier in his life.
With life finally starting to seem more positive for him again, Zolomon's fortunes were cruelly reversed by an attack from Gorilla Grodd. This attack left him seriously wounded and paralysed from the waist down. This lack of mobility and independence led Zolomon into a state of severe depression. Desperate for a solution to his situation, he begged the Flash for help. Knowing through his profiling of the Flash's Cosmic Treadmill, he begged the Flash to travel back in time and prevent the accident that cost him his wife and father-in-law. The Flash refused as he had only recently experienced the turmoil that can come from trying to change the past.
Driven by desperation Zolomon attempted to hotwire the Cosmic Treadmill by using the research that the F.B.I. had conducted on it. Rather than work as he had planned, the device exploded. The explosion demolished the Flash Museum and shifted Zolomon onto a faster timeline, essentially giving him super-speed. Driven insane and seeing the parallels in his surname, Zolomon latched onto a conversation he had recently held with the Flash about Professor Zoom and decided to become the new Reverse Flash, taking the name of Zoom.
Determined to make the Flash realise his loss he aimed to make the hero face his own ultimate tragedy. No matter what it took, Zoom was convinced he had to persuade the Flash by destroying the hero's life. Confronting the Flash and beating him easily Zoom set about putting his plan into action. Flash found that he could not absorb his speed as Zoom didn't gain his speed from the Speed Force, rather from the shift in timelines. Even after stealing the speed from Jesse Quick, Impulse and Jay Garrick, the Golden Age Flash, Wally was still unable to keep up with Zoom.
Their fight ended in tragedy as Zoom aimed to make Flash feel loss like him. With a click of his fingers, Zoom caused a sonic boom that destroyed the windows of buildings for blocks around but more importantly knocked the Flash's pregnant wife, Linda, off her feet. After being rushed to a hospital Linda was given a clean bill of health only to discover that she had lost the twins she was carrying.
Enraged the Flash confronted Zoom for one last time. During an intense battle where both men pushed their speed to the limits, Zoom was trapped by the Flash inside one of the time pockets that his speed occasionally tore open. Frozen in time, Zoom is forced to watch his greatest mistake of the failed siege, repeated over and over without being able to involve himself.
Zoom is currently held in Iron Heights penitentiary. Recently Zoom's estranged wife Ashley has travelled to Keystone City filled with guilt over her ex-husband's predicament and insanity. Taking a job as profiler with KCPD, she aims to cure him of his insanity and rehabilitate him.
Zoom possesses super speed of a magnitude greater than the Flash, Impulse, Jay Garrick and Jesse Quick's speed combined. Zoom is the only speedster who doesn't take his speed directly from the Speed Force. Instead Zoom has been shifted onto a different timeline and thus appears to move faster as he is always in the future. The origins of Zoom's powers mean that he rips open time pockets that show images from his past as though on a video. He is also unlikely to be able to steal speed, as he has no apparent connection to the Speed Force.
APPEARANCES:
DC First: Flash/Superman
Flash (2nd series) #181-200, 210
Flash: Iron Heights
Flash: Secret Files and Origins #3