Criminal
Criminal Profiler
FBI Agent
Kansas City, Kansas
As a side effect, time folds upon itself revealing windows into the past.
Note: Hunter Zolomon's transformation into Zoom caused the destruction of the original Cosmic Treadmill.
Hunter Zolomon
Flash Secret Files and Origins #3 (Nov. 2001)
Zoom
Flash Vol. 2 #197 (June, 2003)
Excelling under the mentorship of his wife's father, he became overconfident, a flaw which cost his mentor his life, ended his marriage and career, and crippled his leg.
Taking a position as the criminal meta-human profiler with the Keystone Police Department, Zolomon worked closely with the Flash.
After Zolomon was brutally beaten and crippled by Gorilla Grodd, he called upon his friendship with the Scarlet Speedster to use the Cosmic Treadmill to travel back in time and change one hour that lead to the tragedies of his life. Concerned by the implication of changing the past, the Flash had to refuse Zolomon's request.
Undaunted, Zolomon broke into the Flash Museum and used the Cosmic Treadmill, while still seated in his wheelchair. The time-travel device destructed, and Zolomon woke in the hospital. Reminiscing over the tragedies of his life, he realized that the Flash was a hero who never truly experienced tragedy. Zolomon also began to notice subtle physical differences and that his legs were no longer crippled. Rushing to inform the nurse of his miraculous cure, he discovered that he had inherited powers like the Flash. Coupled with his revelation of tragedy, Zolomon realized that he "fit the profile" and resolved to teach the Flash to become the hero he should be, as his arch-nemesis, Zoom.