Later he would gain those powers in full. The idea made him able to slow down time around him. He could now alter his personal timeframe, giving the effect of super-speed. The resulting explosion destroyed the museum and shifted Hunter's connection to time. Zolomon then broke into the museum and attempted to use the treadmill himself. West refused, saying that he could not risk damaging the timestream. He asked Wally West to use the time-traveling Cosmic Treadmill in the Flash Museum to prevent this from occurring. The injuries left Hunter paralyzed from the waist down. Hunter was severely injured in an attack by Gorilla Grodd in Iron Heights. His insight was critical in solving a number of cases, but he always resented being stuck behind a desk. His work put him in constant contact with the current Flash ( Wally West), and the two became good friends. He worked with the police in their Department of Metahuman Hostilities.

Hunter was also left with a damaged knee due to the case, and required a cane for walking.Īfter arriving in Keystone City, he got a job as a profiler. Ashley left him shortly thereafter, and the F.B.I.

Hunter's belief turned out true much later as the criminal was set up by Eobard Thawne, the Reverse Flash.

One case resulted in Ashley's father being killed, as Hunter had believed the criminal they were after would not use a gun. along with his girlfriend ( Ashley), whom he later married. Hunter became obsessed with understanding the criminal mind, studying psychology and criminology in college.

After refusing to give up, his father was killed by the police. His father was a serial killer, and when his mother told the police, Hunter's father had killed her. On the day Hunter was to leave for college, he came home to find the police laying siege to his house. Hunter had a troubled relationship with his parents, as they rarely spoke to each other or to him.

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