# Flash

Flash, flashes, or FLASH may refer to:

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Fictional aliases

* Flash (DC Comics character), several DC Comics superheroes with super speed:
** Flash (Barry Allen)
** Flash (Jay Garrick)
** 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

* Flash (1997 film), Disney Channel
* Flash (2007 film), Malayalam
* The Flash (film), 2023 film based on DC comics

### Games

* 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
#### Comics

* 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

* 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
#### Artists

* Flash (band), a 1970s progressive rock group

#### Albums and EPs

* 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

* "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", a song by Cigarettes After Sex from their self-titled album, 2017
* "Flash" (X1 song), 2019
* "Flash", a song by Rocket Punch, 2022

### Television

* The Flash (1990 TV series), a 1990 American superhero series
* The Flash (2014 TV series), a 2014 American superhero series

## Military

* 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
### In arts and entertainment

* 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

* 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

* George Flash (1909–1990), Israeli politician
* Sandy Flash (died 1778), American highwayman
* Mark Kennedy (policeman), known undercover as Flash or Mark Stone

## Places

* Flash, Staffordshire, England, a village
* The Flash (lake), a lake near Borras, Wales

## Science and technology
### Computing

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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