Flash
Flash, flashes, or FLASH may refer to: Template:TOC right
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Fictional aliases
[edit]- The Flash, several DC Comics superheroes with super speed:
- Flash (Jay Garrick)
- Barry Allen
- Wally West, the first Kid Flash and third adult Flash
- Bart Allen, the second Kid Flash who also became the adult hero for a time
- Flash (G.I. Joe), a character in the G.I. Joe universe
- Flash, a robot in the video game Brave Saga 2
- Flash, a character in the comedy film Daddy Day Care (2003)
- Flash, a character in the TV science fiction drama Real Humans
- Flash, a character in the 1989 American action comedy movie Speed Zone
- Flash, a character in the TV sitcom Step by Step
- Flash, a character in the film Zootopia (2016)
- Flash Gordon, the titular hero of science fiction comic strip
- Flash Sentry, in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
- Flash Thompson, a Marvel comic book character
- Flash, known as Furzz in the US, an anthropomorphic rabbit from Roary the Racing Car
Films
[edit]- Flash (1997 film), Disney Channel
- Flash (2007 film), Malayalam
- The Flash (film), 2023 film based on DC comics
Games
[edit]- Flash (pinball), a 1979 Williams pinball game designed by Steve Ritchie
- Teen patti or Flash, a three-card poker-style game, popular in South Asia
- The Flash (video game), a 1991 action video game
Literature
[edit]Comics
[edit]- Flash Comics, a 1940s anthology comic book
- The Flash (DC Rebirth), a comic book in the DC Rebirth relaunch
- The Flash (comic book), an ongoing comic book featuring the titular DC Comics hero
Other literature
[edit]- Flash (Krentz novel), a 1998 romance novel by Jayne Ann Krentz
- Flash (Modesitt novel), a 2004 science fiction novel by L. E. Modesitt
- Flash (magazine), a quarterly Australian photography magazine
- Flash (Auckland newspaper), a community newspaper of Auckland City, New Zealand
- Flash (French newspaper), defunct far-right newspaper in France
Music
[edit]Artists
[edit]- Flash (band), a 1970s progressive rock group
Albums and EPs
[edit]- Flash (Amoyamo album) (2013)
- Flash (EP), a 2010 extended play album by Crystal Kay
- Flash (Jeff Beck album)
- Flash (Electric Food album) (1970)
- Flash (Flash album) (1972)
- Flash (Moving Sidewalks album) (1968)
- Flash (Towa Tei album) (2005)
- Flash, a 1996 album by Red Five
Songs
[edit]- "Flashes" (song), a 1931 composition by Bix Beiderbecke
- "Flash" (Queen song), 1980
- "Flash" (Stéphanie song), 1986
- "Flash" (B.B.E. song), 1997
- "Flash" (Iggy Azalea song), 2012
- "Flash" (Perfume song), 2016
- "Flash" (X1 song), 2019
- "Flash", a song by 2hollis from Star, 2025
- "Flash", a song by Cigarettes After Sex from their self-titled album, 2017
- "Flash", a song by Rocket Punch, 2022
TelevisionTemplate:Anchor
[edit]- The Flash (1990 TV series), a 1990 American superhero series
- The Flash (2014 TV series), a 2014 American superhero series
- "Flash" (The Detectives), a 1995 episode
Military
[edit]- FLASH (Z), a military message precedence designation
- M202 FLASH, a rocket launcher
- Operation Flash, a May 1995 Croatian Army offensive in Western Slavonia
- Tactical recognition flash, a coloured patch worn on the arm of combat clothing to distinguish their regiment or corps
People
[edit]In arts and entertainment
[edit]- Flash (wrestler) (born 1981), masked professional wrestler
- Flash Brown (born 1981), pornographic actor and basketball player
- Adam Flash (born 1971), American professional wrestler
- Flash Flanagan (born 1974), American professional wrestler
- Grandmaster Flash (born 1958), American hip hop musician and DJ
- Larry "Flash" Jenkins (1955–2019), American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter
- Scott Norton (born 1961), American professional wrestler
- Flash Terry (1934–2004), American guitarist and singer
In sport
[edit]- Flash, on the TV show American Gladiators
- Gabriel Elorde (1935–1985), Filipino professional boxer
- Richard Flash (born 1976), English footballer
- Josh Gordon (born 1991), American football player
- Flash Hollett (1911–1999), Canadian ice hockey defenceman
- Cordarrelle Patterson (born 1991), American football player
- Gordon Shedden (born 1979), British racing driver
- Dwyane Wade (born 1982), American basketball player
- Lee Young-ho (born 1992), South Korean professional Starcraft player also known as "Flash"
Other people
[edit]- George Flash (1909–1990), Israeli politician
- Sandy Flash (died 1778), American highwayman
- Mark Kennedy (policeman), known undercover as Flash or Mark Stone
Places
[edit]- Flash, Staffordshire, England, a village
- The Flash (lake), a lake near Borras, Wales
Science and technology
[edit]Computing
[edit]- Adobe Flash (formerly Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash), multimedia platform software
- Flash memory, a kind of non-volatile computer memory
- Flash!, the bundled graphics package for the SAM Coupé
Other uses in science and technology
[edit]- Flash (manufacturing), an excess material attached to a moulded product along a parting line
- Flash (photography), instantaneous illumination for picture taking
- FLASH, a particle physics facility in Germany
- Flash lightning, a lightning burst within a cloud (Intracloud)
- FlAsH-EDT2 or FlAsH tag, a fluorescent label for proteins
- Fly Castelluccio Flash, an Italian paramotor design
- Hook flash in telephony, often labelled on buttons as simply 'flash'
- M202 FLASH, a rocket launcher
- Tilbury Flash, an American racing monoplane built in the 1930s
- Fast low angle shot magnetic resonance imaging (FLASH), an MRI pulse-sequence
Sports
[edit]- Flash (juggling), a type of throwing and catching
- Delaware Blue Coats, originally the Utah Flash, an NBA Development League team
- Flash Engineering, a Swedish motorsports team
- Flash Stakes, a former Thoroughbred horse race
- Kent State Golden Flashes or just the Flashes, the athletics teams of Kent State University
- Las Vegas Flash, an inline hockey team in 1994
- Monterrey Flash, a Mexican indoor soccer team formed in 2011
- Rochester Flash, a former American Soccer League team
- San Diego Flash, a soccer team based in San Diego, California
- Western New York Flash, an American women's soccer franchise
Other uses
[edit]- Flash (cleaning product), the trading name of Mr. Clean in the UK and Ireland
- Flash (lake), a body of water that forms where the land below it has subsided
- Flash (tattoo), a source pattern for body art
- Flash, to expose a person's private parts to another person in exhibitionism
- Flash, a lightning bolt symbol, for example in Flash and Circle
- Flash Airlines, a private charter airline operating out of Cairo, Egypt
- Flash BRT, a bus rapid transit network in Montgomery County, Maryland