Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-1827503-20160224141915

With the recent reveal that Zoom is an equivalent of some sort to Jay Garrick, we need some sort of way to keep Teddy Sears' various characters straight and unambiguous.

For the purpose of this discussion, Jay refers to the Jay Garrick who died in 2x14, Zoom refers to the speedster who killed him, Hunter refers to Hunter Zolomon from Earth One, and Mask refers to Zoom's masked prisoner.


 * In-narrative, we are not supposed to know Mask is a Jay Garrick equivalent. He spelled out "J-A-Y" in tap code and is played by Teddy Sears, but his actor was only discovered because of a production error and he never directly claimed to be Jay Garrick.
 * The only one of the four who has directly mentioned their name is Jay. We know Hunter's name only because Jay mentioned it, and we do not know Mask's name outside the tap code or Zoom's name outside evidence from the comics.
 * The article name Jay Garrick (Earth Two) cannot be used to disambiguate Jay and Mask at this time, even if Mask's tap of "J-A-Y" is inferred to be his name, because Jay is known to be from Earth Two and Mask's only appearances are on Earth Two. Furthermore, there is no evidence Mask is not from Earth Two.
 * Zoom's civilian name is unknown. You may assume he's Earth Two Hunter Zolomon, but this isn't by any means confirmed.

On that note, here's what I think we should do once this is all cleared up at the end of the season.


 * If there are two Jay Garricks and two Hunter Zolomons, one each from Earth One and Earth Two, we use the Earths as disambiguation.
 * If there are multiple Earth Two Jay Garricks, and neither has a known alternate civilian name, unusual disambiguation is needed, such as Jay Garrick (speedster) or Jay Garrick (imposter).
 * If Zoom is a future version of Earth Two Jay Garrick, and there is no way to reconcile Jay's death with Zoom's existence, then Jay is either Jay Garrick or Jay Garrick (Earth Two) depending on Mask's identity, and Zoom is Jay Garrick (Zoom). The same applies if Zoom is a future Earth One Hunter Zolomon, but for Hunter instead of Jay.

Again, this may be all unnecessary, but I stress that we have to stick with what we are intended to know at this point. We can't go off assumptions if we want to be considered a legitimate wiki. 