Flash

Flash, flashes, or FLASH may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

For people in arts and media, see § Artists and performers.

Fictional aliases

• The Flash, several DC Comics superheroes with super speed:
  • 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
• Flashy Flash, a hero on One Punch Man

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
• Teen patti or Flash, a three-card poker-style game
• The Flash (video game), 1991, based on the superhero
• Flash, a non-standard poker hand

Literature and visual arts

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 DC series

Periodicals

• Flash Weekly Newspicture Magazine, a defunct American photography magazine
• Flash (magazine), a quarterly Australian photography magazine
• Flash (Auckland newspaper), New Zealand
• Flash (French newspaper), a defunct far-right newspaper

Other literature

• Flash (Krentz novel), a 1998 romance novel
• Flash (Modesitt novel), a 2004 science fiction novel

Other visual arts

• Flash (photography), a device that produces a burst of light to illuminate a scene
• Flash (tattoo), a source pattern for body art
• Flash, a lightning bolt symbol, for example in Flash and Circle

Music

Music groups

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

Albums and EPs

• Flash (Amoyamo album) (2013)
• Flash (EP), 2010, 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), 1931, 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

Television

• The Flash (1990 TV series), an American superhero series
• The Flash (2014 TV series), an American superhero series
• "Flash" (The Detectives), a 1995 episode

Military

• Flash priority (or FLASH), any of several military message precedence designations
• M202 FLASH, a rocket launcher
• Operation Flash, a May 1995 Croatian Army offensive in Western Slavonia
• Tactical recognition flash, a combat clothing arm patch indicating affiliation

People

Artists and performers

• Flash Brown (born 1981), pornographic actor and basketball player
• Grandmaster Flash (born 1958), American hip hop musician and DJ
• Larry "Flash" Jenkins (1955–2019), American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter
• Flash Terry (1934–2004), American guitarist and singer

Professional fighters and gamers

• Flash (wrestler) (born 1981), masked professional wrestler
• Adam Flash (born 1971), American professional wrestler
• Flash Flanagan (born 1974), American professional wrestler
• Scott Norton (born 1961), American professional wrestler
• Flash (active 1995), on the TV show American Gladiators
• Gabriel Elorde (1935–1985), Filipino professional boxer
• Lee Young-ho (born 1992), South Korean professional Starcraft player also known as "Flash"

Athletes

• Flash Brown (born 1981), pornographic actor and basketball player
• 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

Other people

• George Flash (1909–1990), Israeli politician
• Sandy Flash (died 1778), American highwayman
• Mark Kennedy (policeman) (born 1969), known undercover as Flash or Mark Stone

Places

• Flash, Staffordshire, a village in England
• The Flash (lake), near Borras, Wales
• Flash (lake), a body of water that forms where the land below it has subsided

Science and technology

Computing

• Adobe Flash (formerly Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash), multimedia platform software
  • Adobe Animate
  • Adobe Flash Player
  • Flash Video
• Flash memory, a kind of non-volatile computer memory
• Flash!, the bundled graphics package for the SAM Coupé home computer

Other uses in science and technology

• Flash (manufacturing), excess material attached to a moulded product
• 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
• Hook flash, a telephony signal, often known as simply 'flash'
• Fast low angle shot magnetic resonance imaging (FLASH), an MRI pulse sequence

Sports

For people in sport, see § Athletes.

• Flash (juggling), a type of throwing and catching
• Delaware Blue Coats, originally the Utah Flash, an NBA Development League 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

Vehicular sports

• Fly Castelluccio Flash, an Italian paramotor design
• Tilbury Flash, an American racing monoplane built in the 1930s
• Flash Engineering, a Swedish motorsports team

Transportation

• M202 FLASH, a rocket launcher
• Flash Airlines, an Egyptian private charter airline
• Flash BRT, a bus system in Montgomery County, Maryland

Other uses

• Flash (cleaning product), the trading name of Mr. Clean in the UK and Ireland
• Flash, to expose a person's private parts to another person in exhibitionism

See also

• Flashing (disambiguation)
• Flesch (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Flash
• All pages with titles containing Flash