User blog comment:TheDoctor230/Barry Hasn't Defeated a Big Bad Yet (Technically)/@comment-26537965-20180110135435/@comment-24152851-20180113115926

He's a decaying corpse used as a puppet by the Speed Force. There is no more Hunter Zolomon in that empty shell. I don't know why the wiki pits them as the same character, because they physically had the same body maybe, but they're completely different in mind. Hunter Zolomon is dead and the thing inhabiting his old skin is not him.