He's a person who has gone by means of an extraordinary quantity of tragedy in the course of his existence, and when his back again is broken and Wally West (the then-existing Flash) refuses to use time-journey to repair Hunter's spine, Hunter unintentionally turns himself into Zoom, a speedster much a lot quicker than Wally. Blame writer-director Jared Stern, the man responsible for The Intern and the brief-lived sitcom Dr.