Of course, this revelation could also be used as a great source of drama in confrontations with Barry and the rest of the STAR Labs team. He serves as the show’s grounding rod and emotional center for many of the characters and revealing him to be the evil-incarnate Zoom would take everything about Joe’s character and effectively throw it into a breach. Only known by one name, the question is: Who is Zoom?īarry Allen’s foster father Joe West has no previous connections to the Speed Force and is the “everyman” on a show where powers are the norm for a lot of the leads and recurrent guest stars. Only a well timed rescue by Cisco Ramon saved the day. Eventually, Zoom and Barry faced off, with Zoom easily defeating Barry, breaking his back in the process and parading his broken body in front of Central City. The creation of the Singularity at the end of Season 1 created breaches between Earth-1 and Earth-2 over the course of the first half of the season, Zoom sent metahumans from Earth-2 to attempt to kill the Flash.

Tony Todd lends his deep iconic voice to the role of Zoom, but the physical actor portraying the role has not been revealed. Hot on the heels of a successful of Season 1, Season 2 of The Flash introduced a new villain to oppose Barry Allen and the STAR Labs team: Zoom, a speedster apparently from Earth-2 clad in a black version of the Flash’s iconic costume, with talon-like fingertips and a mask seemingly melted onto his face.

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