Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-28265951-20160421125919/@comment-2112031-20160918001825

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.