During the course of the first half of “The Flash” season 2, Zoom established himself as a force to be reckoned with. The villain has decimated just about everyone he’s come into contact with and even left Barry himself temporarily paralyzed. Everyone’s wondering, who is Zoom?
Many fans believe that Zoom will be revealed to be an evil version of Barry Allen from Earth-2. IGN recently caught up with Grant Gustin who plays Barry on the show and they asked him straight up if he thinks Zoom is another version of Barry.
“I don’t think it’s going to be Evil Barry. But I was pitching that idea really early on, like, “How fun would that be, it’d be so cool!” I just selfishly wanted to play the villain. I didn’t even know who it was until last night, actually. I hadn’t asked. I asked way more questions last year. Jesse [L. Martin] likes to know as little as possible and I’m kind of taking that route this yea, so I’m surprised when I see the scripts and surprised when I do it. I hadn’t asked who Zoom was. I didn’t want to know, but [Greg] Berlanti called me last night to catch up and talk about the episodes and that came up and he broke down that whole story for me and how it’s going to evolve and what’s going to happen. So I do know now. Obviously, I’m not going to tell you! [Laughs] There are so many twists and turns involved with it and so many characters’ arcs that are connected to it. I said it about Thawne last year. Even if you think you know, there’s going to be some part of it that no one is going to guess exactly what the reveal is.” Gustin said.
There you have it. According to Grant, Zoom is not evil Barry Allen. Other popular fan theories include Zoom being Henry Allen, Eddie Thawne or Joe West just to name a few. Either way we’ll be finding out in the weeks to come as “The Flash” returns to TV on January 19, 2016.
