Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-28265951-20160421125919/@comment-27934866-20160918185343

The Wikia Editor wrote: Katchin wrote:

Hunter Zolomon:

His Time Remnants are created by running fast enough to travel a few moments into the past, so the version of himself from a few moments ago becomes the remnant of a time that no longer exists because he doesn’t need to travel back. The thing that confused me the most is despite the effects of Velocity Drugs being temporary, I was unaware it made his natural Speed Force undetectable, and that until absorbing Barry's speed he was reliant on the Drug. It made me think that when Zolomon first came on screen he was a Time Remnant (due to the fact the Speed Force wasn't detected in his system, and when he used the Velocity Drugs his lighting never turned blue). However we know the Time Remnant was created after Barry, Cisco, and Harry went to Earth-2. I don't understand why the past self is the time remnant in this scenario. I understand the term "remnant" to refer to the fact that, by traveling back in time, the future self becomes the last remnant of a timeline that no longer exists, kinda like Eobard but different.

When Zoom, for example, traveled back in time and there were two of them, which one would you identify as "the remnant". Wouldn't it be more logical to refer to the Zoom who was already there as the real one. After all, his timeline still exists, as he never left it. It's the Zoom who traveled back in time that no longer has a timeline to call his own, as it no longer exists. Eobard's Time Remnants are remnants of his personal Timeline that are protected by the Speed Force that come from an erased Timeline in order to preserve the current Timeline. So in Eobard's case his younger self are the Time Remnants until he goes back to the year 2000 when his ancestor is still alive.

In Barry and Zolomon's case originally I thought it was a case of the Speedster running back in time a few seconds turning their past self into a Time Remnant but it was hard to tell due it being instantaneous. However it turns out to be the exact opposite when either Speedster decides to travel back in time by just a few seconds just as their about to open the wormhole their Future/Present self appears just a few seconds from the Future turning themselves into a Time Remnant because the Future that they've come from will no longer exist. It works so effectively because the Original and the Time Remnant are only a few seconds apart from each other.