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You're gonna want to see this, son.
~ James to his son, Hunter, just before he kills his wife and Hunter's mother, Ashley, changing Hunter for life.

James Zolomon is one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside the Reverse-Flash) of Season 2 of the TV series The Flash.

He is the father of Hunter Zolomon, who would later go on to become the anarchistic supervillain Zoom due to his father's actions. Back when Hunter was a child, James was an abusive patriarch towards his family and ended up murdering Hunter's mother one night in front of him, scarring his son and triggering him into developing an uncontrollable bloodlust.

He was portrayed by Shaine Jones.

History[]

Past[]

James Zolomon was a soldier on Earth-2 who was a veteran of a conflict known as War of the Americas. He was thought to be a war hero. But in actuality, he was an abuser to his wife, Ashley Zolomon. When he returned home after being on the front lines for years, he would find his wife was in the process of leaving him with their son Hunter Zolomon. He would physically beat her in front of their son. He would go to his son, have him put on his helmet he wore during the war and said "You're gonna want to see this". He would then pull out a shotgun and murdered his wife in front of their son. He would then be arrested and sent to prison for the rest of his life.

Assuming he didn't meet his end before 2019 (or 2024 in the original timeline before the Anti-Monitor's attack), James is assumed deceased when an antimatter wave cut a swath through Earth-2, destroying the universe, with all living beings destroyed in the process, which would have included James.

The Flash[]

Regardless if he was now dead, because of his actions, Hunter would be put in the system and would live in foster homes. Hunter would pick up homicidal tendencies because his father's actions psychologically damaged him. He would become a serial killer, which was a rarity on Earth-2. When the particle accelerator within S.T.A.R. Labs exploded, Hunter became something much worse. He would terrorize Central City as the evil speedster Zoom, and lead Black Siren, Killer Frost, along with an army of meta-humans. He would eventually be stopped by The Flash and his team from Earth-1, with his battle against them concluding on the Time Wraiths being send after him by the Speed Force, transforming him into the Black Flash and sentencing him to eternal servitude as the Speed Force's enforcer.

Following the Multiverse's reorganization by Oliver Queen, it's unknown how the merge of Earth-1 and Earth-2 into Earth-Prime affected James Zolomon's history, but considering how Zoom still existed and was defeated by Team Flash like in the original Multiverse, it's more than likely that James still killed Ashley, was thrown into prison and Hunter became Zoom, with whether James is still alive by 2023 or not being unknown.

Trivia[]

  • As shocking as it sounds, James Zolomon is actually a bit better than his unnamed mainstream counterpart. In the comics, Zoom's father was a serial killer who killed six little girls and murdered his wife the day Hunter was going to attend college for the first time due to her reporting him to the police, who then gunned him down for refusing to surrender. In the Arrowverse, James was a soldier who fought presumably for the side of good in the War of the Americas, given how the Americans deemed him as "war hero", in addition that Ashley may have assumed he liked to kill when he in reality only killed bad people and his decision to kill his wife could have been possibly triggered by Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

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