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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 (newspaper), a community newspaper of Auckland City, New Zealand

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)

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