tony todd did the voice of zoom on the flash.
tony todd did the voice of zoom on the flash.
who does the voice of zoom on the flash?
tony todd
hunter zolomon / zoom (portrayed by teddy sears, initially portrayed by ryan handley, voiced by tony todd) is a speedster from earth-2 who is obsessed with becoming the only speedster in the multiverse and the main antagonist of season two. executive producer andrew kreisberg said, in season one "with the reverse-flash, we just modulated tom cavanagh's voice, and this year we wanted to do something a little bit different [for zoom]. part of the mystery of the season is who or what is underneath the zoom outfit, and so we wanted to do something like james earl jones as darth vader — this iconic voice coming out of this mask." hunter was a traumatized child (portrayed by octavian kaul) that witnessed his mother's murder at his father's hands which triggered his bloodlust as a serial killer before he gained his powers from the particle-accelerator explosion on earth-2. dissatisfied, he sought to increase his speed with the velocity serum but soon discovered it carried a fatal illness. searching for a cure, he traveled the multiverse and captured jay garrick. unsuccessful in stealing jay's speed to cure himself, hunter kept jay imprisoned with a speed-dampening mask. inspired to be both hero and villain, he used jay's name as the fraudulent flash of earth-2 to instill false hope which he would take away as zoom. discovering earth-1, he plotted to increase barry's speed and then steal it, sending various metahumans from earth-2 to fight the flash while also infiltrating the team as jay. zoom extorts harry wells into physically stealing barry's speed by kidnapping jesse wells. he also becomes caitlin snow's love interest. after succeeding in stealing barry's speed, zoom brings his army of earth-2 metahumans to conquer earth-1 and construct a device capable of destroying the other earths in the multiverse, to ensure he remains the only speedster. hunter seeks to corrupt caitlin's mind into becoming like earth-2 killer frost and then barry's by killing henry in the same spot eobard killed nora, convinced that they are similar because of their childhood traumas. however, barry ultimately bests hunter in their final fight and summons two time wraiths to punish him for his crimes against the timeline; they transform him into the corpse-like black flash enslaved to the speed force. subjugated to the time wraiths, the black flash made occasional appearances in season three, such as to hurt savitar before being killed by the earth-1 killer frost. based on the dc comics character of the same name.
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bullet::::- another version of earth-two is featured in season 2 of "the flash", but it is more of an analogue of earth-3. while possessing similarities to the 'prime' earth, this earth-two has several marked differences. the architecture, clothing fashions and entertainments are mixtures of contemporary 21st century and 1940s styles, and certain areas of science and technology are far more advanced than on earth-one. in addition, people in this earth-two are typically opposite in personality and circumstances than their earth-one doppelgangers. for instance, caitlin snow on earth-one doesn't possess the metahuman gene and is a kind, soft-spoken person, whereas her earth-two counterpart is an amoral criminal named killer frost who has ice-generating powers. iris west allen is not a reporter on this world; instead, she is a police detective whose father (a cop on earth-one) is a nightclub singer. (this aspect is similar to that depicted on the earth shown in "".) the two earths are originally connected through a wormhole created by eobard thawne/"harrison wells" (the prime earth reverse-flash) in the season 1 finale, demonstrated by the appearance of the earth-two flash's helmet. when the singularity is finally collapsed, the explosion causes 52 breaches throughout central city that allow passage between the two worlds, but only by speedsters or through tehnological means. doppelgangers from earth-two begin appearing on earth-one, being forcibly brought by zoom, a criminal speedster. zoom directs these metahumans to kill the earth-one flash or be stranded on earth-one forever. jay garrick and the harrison wells of earth-two arrive separately to help team flash with the criminal metahumans and to defeat zoom. over time, wells and barry discover a way to close off the breaches permanently, and barry and cisco travel to earth-two to help rescue wells' daughter jessie from zoom (who was holding her prisoner to blackmail wells to betray the flash and steal his speed for zoom). the final breach to earth-two beneath s.t.a.r. labs is then closed, cutting off access to both worlds, but not before jay garrick is seemingly killed by zoom and his body drawn back through the portal. barry later announces to team flash that they are not done with earth-two; they will find a way back there, avenge jay's death, and stop zoom for good. later, when jay is shown to actually be zoom (his real name being hunter zolomon), barry rededicates himself to returning to earth-two and defeating zoom. after they reopen a breach, zoom returns and kills barry's father before setting up a doomsday machine that could set off a chain reaction that destroys the multiverse. barry stops it, defeats zoom, and rescues a man zoom had kept in a glass prison all season, who is revealed to be jay garrick, the flash of earth-3, showing the show may be swapping earth-2 and earth-3 from the comics. during season 3, savitar attacks earth two s.t.a.r. labs and captures earth one iris west.
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