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