Trivia / The Flash 2014 S 2 E 15 King Shark

• Lying Creator: After saying that Zoom would not be Hunter Zolomon, this episode had executive producer Andrew Kriesberg deliberately call him that.
• Recycled Script: In Season One, we are introduced to Dr. Harrison Wells. However, in the second half of the season he's revealed to in fact be Professor Eobard Thawne, aka the Reverse-Flash, aka the man in the yellow suit who killed Barry's mother. Faux-Wells becomes a sort of mentor figure to Barry, and fakes not having Speed Force potential by rolling around in a wheelchair, but sometimes leaks details about the Speed Force that he shouldn't know. He also had the ability to create "speed mirages" to fool everyone into thinking he and Reverse-Flash were different people. Come Season Two, Thawne dies and we are introduced to yet another mentor for Barry, Jay Garrick (the Flash of Earth-2). He arrives to warn Barry about an incoming threat in the form of Zoom, an evil speedster who is Jay's arch-nemesis who steals speed (as he apparently did with Jay). Throughout the season, he is shown to have no Speed Force potential in his blood, rendering him powerless thanks to Zoom's machinations. In the previous episode, we see Zoom's arm go right through Jay just before the main breach closes, pulling him in as it does so. In this episode (which just happens to be in the second half of the season), Zoom dumps Jay's body in his makeshift prison, and finally pulls his mask off, revealed to be...someone who looks and sounds a lot like Jay. Executive producer Andrew Kriesberg even admitted it's practically the same.
  • Another worthy detail to note is that both Reverse-Flash and Zoom decidedly distort their voices to the point of being unrecognizable as their civilian identities. However, while the producers retained Tom Cavanagh and his voice for Reverse-Flash/Thawne, they hired Tony Todd to be Cast as a Mask in order to further the mystery behind Zoom. For the most part, it was probably as shocking a Wham Shot when Zoom revealed himself as it was for Thawne to reveal himself.