'Professor Zoom' - Hunter decided to accept his fate, along with a signature yellow suit of his own.
Seeing the parallels between his own history and that of Eobard Thawne - a.k.a. He left his wheelchair and normal speed behind, becoming faster than any speedster before.
By trying to replicate the powers of The Flash, he got much, much more than he bargained for. As fate would have it, he went about solving his problems in the same way that Eobard Thawne did years before (or centuries in the future, technically). Of course, Barry refused, which left Hunter with no option but to change the past himself. When a run-in with Gorilla Grodd saw his back broken, leaving him confined to a wheelchair, Hunter did what any friend of The Flash might consider: he asked the speedster to change the past. But with a new Flash came a new Reverse.Įnter Hunter Zolomon, an intelligent child of truly tragic circumstances who devoted his life to profiling criminals after seeing his mother killed at the hands of his father. Silly name or not, the Reverse-Flash slid into the background of the DC mythology after decades of battling Barry Allen, as the title of The Flash was passed to Barry's nephew, Wally West.
What hasn't made the leap to the TV series is Thawne's chosen moniker, 'Professor Zoom' - admittedly a little too comic book-y for such a serious drama. Eobard Thawne, the first man to sport the yellow suit (and a serious grudge against The Flash) is already a major part of The CW's series, showing how he became not just one of the scarlet speedster's greatest enemies, but one of the most deranged and ruthless villains in the DC Universe.
Not just any villain, either - he's the second man to call himself Reverse-Flash. Hunter Zolomon isn't just a character in the pages of DC Comics, but a villain. The above image should make the point clear enough, even to those who haven't followed the theories and speculation surrounding Zoom's identity.