User blog comment:Lupercalus/Savitar/@comment-3221148-20161205100929/@comment-3423279-20161205165721

The principle idea behind Hunter Zolomon was "Meta-human psychologist buddy of Wally West who was crippled and gained temporal shifting powers, later deciding to cause Wally tragedy to make him a better hero"

I find little to no resemblance to the Hunter Zolomon we were shown, who was a serial killer drug addict that wanted to be the best/fastest speedster in existence, then had the Anti-Monitor plan of wiping out all but one universe.

Savitar being a different person isn't all that out there based on the previous main villain not being like the comic Zoom except for his alter ego and civilian names.