![]() If so, how would Time Remnant Hunter even know enough to fake being Jay Garrick? Team Flash is pretty complicated. But, if that was his time remnant and not him, then why would he care? The only way this would make sense is if Hunter threw his time remnant doppelganger in there right before his planned death. It’s implied that Zoom cares for Caitlin, despite being an evil super-villain, because of the time they shared together when he was infiltrating Team Flash. Except, here’s the thing: if the Hunter Zolomon we know is so motivated to prevent his own death, then would another version of him really go along with this plan? Probably not.įurthermore, this complicates the emotional logic behind Zoom deciding to steal Caitlin. This is where the Jay Garrick who died came from. We learned from the Reverse Flash’s visit earlier this season that speedsters can travel from alternate timelines that no longer exist. We saw Zoom kill Jay, right? Well, apparently, that was a time remnant version of Hunter that Zoom convinced to die for him. Here’s where things get pretty plot-holey. He convinced one of his “time remnants” to die for him. 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. It would have been cool to see this part of Zoom’s backstory explored with more ambiguity? Like, maybe, Hunter was actually trying to be a legit hero before he realized that he was dying? Maybe he didn’t want to be a “monster” like his father? At this point, however, we’re just going to have to take Zoom at his word: “It’s so fun pretending to be a hero.” Um. In what is the first part of Zoom’s backstory that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, Hunter decides to pretend at being the hero because he thinks it is fun to give people false hope. ![]() He became Earth-Two’s Flash for kicks - and made up the Jay Garrick persona.
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