Editing Harry Flashman (section)

==References in other works==
* In the Jackson Speed Memoirs, Robert Peecher borrows heavily from George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman in creating the Jackson Speed character.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://robertpeecher.com/2013/05/24/harry-flashman-and-jackson-speed/|title=Harry Flashman and Jackson Speed|last=robpeecher|date=24 May 2013}}</ref> Like Flashman, Speed is a womanizer and a coward who is undeservedly marked as a hero by those around him. Peecher also adopts the literary device used by Fraser of the "discovered" memoirs. Unlike the English Flashman, Speed is an American making appearances in the [[Mexican–American War]], the [[American Civil War|U.S. Civil War]], and other American conflicts of the 19th century.
* Writer [[Keith Laidler]] gave the Flashman story a new twist in ''The Carton Chronicles'' by revealing that Flashman is the natural son of [[Sydney Carton]], hero of the [[Charles Dickens]] classic ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]''. Laidler has Sydney Carton changing his mind at the foot of the guillotine, escaping death and making wayward and amorous progress through the terrors of the French Revolution, during which time he spies for both the British and French, causes [[Georges Danton|Danton's]] death, shoots [[Robespierre]], and reminisces on a liaison among the hayricks at the "Leicestershire pile" of a married noblewoman, who subsequently gave birth to a boy—Flashman—on 5 May 1822.<ref>Aziloth Books ''The Carton Chronicles: The Curious Tale of Flashman's true father''  {{cite web |url=http://azilothbooks.com/title_details.php?ID=4 |title=Welcome to Aziloth Books |access-date=2011-03-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707202422/http://azilothbooks.com/title_details.php?ID=4 |archive-date=7 July 2011 }}</ref><ref>Laidler, Keith, ''The Carton Chronicles: The Curious Tale of Flashman's True Father'' (Aziloth, 2010, {{ISBN|978-1-907523-01-4}}).</ref>
* [[Alex Stewart (writer)|Sandy Mitchell's]] ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' character Commissar [[Ciaphas Cain]] is partially inspired by Flashman.<ref name = "Hero of the Imperium">{{Cite book |last=Mitchell|first=Sandy|author-link=Sandy Mitchell (novelist)|title=Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium|date=30 April 2007|publisher= The Black Library|isbn=978-1-84416-466-0}}</ref>
* In [[comics]], writer [[John Ostrander]] took Flashman as his model for his portrayal of the cowardly villain [[Captain Boomerang]] in the [[Suicide Squad]] series. In the letters page to the last issue in the series (#66), Ostrander acknowledges this influence directly. Flashman's success with the ladies is noticeably lacking in the Captain Boomerang character.
* In [[Kim Newman]]'s [[alternate history|alternative history]] novel ''[[The Bloody Red Baron]]'' (part of the [[Anno Dracula series|''Anno Dracula'' series]]), Flashman is cited as an example of a dishonourable officer in a character's [[internal monologue]]. In the later novella ''Aquarius'' (set in 1968, one year before the first volume of the Flashman Papers was published), it is mentioned that the fictional St Bartolph's College at the [[University of London]] had previously been home to the Harry Paget Flashman Refectory, until its recent renaming to [[Che Guevara]] Hall in an attempt to pacify campus activists.
* Flashman's portrait (unnamed, but with unmistakable background and characteristics) hangs in the home of the protagonist of ''[[The Peshawar Lancers]]'', an alternative history novel by [[S. M. Stirling]]: the family claims to have had an ancestor who held Piper's Fort, as Flashman did; the protagonist claims his sole talents are for horsemanship and languages and has an Afghan in his service named "Ibrahim Khan" (cf. Ilderim Khan, Flashman's Afghan blood brother and servant); late in the book, he plays with Elias the Jew on a "black jade chess set" matching the description of the one Flashman stole from the Summer Palace in ''[[Flashman and the Dragon]]''; the book's chief antagonist is named Ignatieff, a reference to Flashman's Russian nemesis [[Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev|Nikolai Ignatieff]]. Another allusion to Flashman by Stirling occurs in his short story "The Charge of Lee's Brigade", which appeared in the [[alternate history|alternative history]] anthology ''[[Alternate Generals]]'' (1998, ed. by [[Harry Turtledove]]). Here, Sir Robert E. Lee is a British general in the Crimean War who orders an officer, obviously Flashman (cherrypicker trousers, rides like a Comanche in battle), to take part in a better-planned [[Charge of the Light Brigade]]. Flashman dies in the attack, demonstrating some courage despite what Lee perceives only as nervousness. So, in this version Flashman again ends up a hero. But—as he himself would have been quick to point out—he is a ''dead'' hero.
* [[Terry Pratchett]] was a fan of the Flashman series<ref name="inthewordsofthemaster">{{Cite web |access-date=5 October 2010 |url=http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cyberpunk/pratchett_words.shtml |title=In the Words of the Master}} Excerpts from interviews with Terry Pratchett</ref> and the [[Discworld]] character [[Rincewind]] is an inveterate coward with a talent for languages who is always running away from danger, but nevertheless through circumstance emerges with the appearance of an unlikely hero, for which reason he is then selected for further dangerous enterprises. In this he strongly resembles Flashman, although he is totally dissimilar in most other aspects{{According to whom|date=September 2023}}. The word "Rince" means an object that moves quickly so "Rincewind" may be a play on the name the Apache gave to Flashman which was shortened to "Windbreaker" from the full "White-Rider-Goes-So-Fast-He-Destroys-the-Wind-with-His-Speed". The Discworld novel ''[[Pyramids (novel)|Pyramids]]'' has a character named Fliemoe, the bully at the [[Ankh-Morpork Assassins' Guild]] school, who is a parody of the original version of Flashman from ''Tom Brown's Schooldays'' (including "toasting" new boys).<ref name="apf">{{Cite web |access-date=5 October 2010 |url=http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/pyramids.html |title=Annotated Pratchett File – Pyramids}}</ref> In the ''[[Discworld Diary|Assassins' Guild Yearbook and Diary]]'', Fliemoe is described as having grown up to be "an unbelievable liar and an unsuccessful bully". His name is a play on that of Flashman's crony Speedicut—both "Speedicut" and "Flymo" are brand names of lawn mowers.
* An editorial piece in the 14 May 2011 edition of ''[[The Guardian]]'' newspaper on the subject of British Prime Minister [[David Cameron]] being labelled a "Flashman" was given a Harry Flashman by-line and was written in the style of Flashman's narrative.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/may/14/unthinkable-flashman-prime-minister | location=London | work=[[The Guardian]] | title=Unthinkable? Flashman and the prime minister – Editorial | date=14 May 2011}}</ref>
* Flashman's son, Harry II, is used as a character in some of the short stories created for the "[[Tales of the Shadowmen]]" series. He first appeared in the eighth volume. His son has several of the characteristics of his father, but appears to be less a coward.
* Flashman appears as a minor character in the novel ''Dickens of the Mounted'' by [[Eric Nicol]]. This novel is a fictionalized account of [[Francis Dickens]] and, like the Flashman books, is written in the form of a discovered memoir. 
* Flashman is a character in ''Snooks North and South'' and ''Snooks The Presidents' Man'' by Peter Brian. The protagonist of these books is Snooks, who is another character from ''Tom Brown's School Days''. In Brian's books, Snooks participates in the American Civil War under disreputable circumstances and conceals his identity by using Harry Flashman's name. So the events that would be attributed to Flashman actually occurred to Snooks.
* There is a card for Flashman in ''[[Pax Pamir]]'', a board game about the [[Great Game]]. In [[Flashman (novel)|the first Flashman novel]], he is in Afghanistan for the First Anglo-Afghan War and participates in the British retreat from Kabul.
* Comic artist [[Mike Dorey]] created the character ‘Cadman the Fighting Coward’ for [[The Victor (comics)]] who was based on Flashman. Gerald Cadman, originally of Prince Rupert’s Horse “The Fighting 43rd”, was a cowardly and dishonest officer during the first world war.  Like Flashman his cowardice did not stop him from winning many medals, including the Victoria Cross, the DSO, MC and various foreign decorations, none of which he deserved.<ref name=Dorey>{{cite web|url= https://www.mikedorey.co.uk/cadman-the-fighting-coward |title=Cadman the Fighting Coward|author=Mike Dorey|publisher=mikedorey.co.uk|date=10 February 1973|access-date=10 April 2022}}</ref>