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Zoom, real name Hunter Zolomon, is a fictional comic book supervillain from the DC Comics universe. He is the third of the Reverse-Flashes and is primarily associated with the superhero Wally West, the third Flash. As Hunter Zolomon, he first appeared in The Flash: Secret Files & Origins #3 and was created by Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins.

Hunter Zolomon had a troubled relationship with his parents, who rarely spoke to each other or to him. On the day Hunter was to leave for college, he came home to find the police laying siege to his house. His father was a serial killer who had killed six young girls. When his mother told the police, his father murdered her and was subsequently killed by the police after refusing to give himself up.
Hunter became obsessed with understanding the criminal mind to stop people like his father, studying psychology and criminology in college. He joined the F.B.I. with his girlfriend Ashley, whom he later married, and specialized in low-level costumed criminals. One case resulted in Ashley's father being killed. Hunter had thought the criminal they were after was incapable of facing his adult life, and thus would not use an 'adult' weapon such as a gun. Ashley left him shortly thereafter, and the F.B.I. terminated his employment. Hunter was also left with a damaged knee due to the case, requiring a cane for walking and unable to ever run again.
After arriving in Keystone City, he got a job as a police profiler in the Department of Metahuman Hostilities. His work put him in constant contact with the Flash, Wally West, and the two became good friends. His insight was critical in solving a number of cases, but he always resented being stuck behind a desk.
Zolomon was severely injured in an attack by Gorilla Grodd during a prison break at Iron Heights, and was left paralyzed from the waist down. He asked Wally West to use the time-traveling cosmic treadmill in the Flash Museum to prevent this from occurring, but West refused, saying that he could not risk damaging the timestream. Zolomon, feeling that Wally should be prepared to disregard such fears for the sake of their friendship, broke into the museum and attempted to use the treadmill himself. The resulting explosion destroyed the museum, gave Zolomon the ability to use his legs again and shifted his connection to time – described by Jay Garrick as being 'derailed' from the timeline by the explosion – thus allowing Zolomon to alter the speed at which he could move in time, giving him the effect of superspeed.
Zolomon decided that West had refused to help because, unlike the previous Flash Barry Allen, West had never suffered personal tragedy, and did not understand how terrible it could be. Zolomon decided that if he became the new Zoom and caused a great tragedy in Wally's life, this would help the Flash become a better hero. Using this philosophy as 'justification', he attacked the Flash and his allies. After borrowing speed from the other speedsters to even the playing field, Flash succeeded in preventing his former friend from killing his then-pregnant wife Linda Park, but Zoom created a shockwave by snapping his fingers which caused Linda to miscarry their unborn twins. Thanks to Wally using the slight 'rips' in time that were being created by the use of Zoom's powers, Zolomon was forced into a temporal anomaly and ended up in a comatose state, continually watching the death of his father-in-law.
Zolomon's ex-wife, Ashley Zolomon, replaced him as profiler and spent a lot of time attempting to communicate with him. Due to a car accident, Ashley was hospitalized for some time. It is around this period that Zoom awoke from his coma, out of concern for Ashley. He cautiously chose to remain in his cell.