Shout Outs, homage shots and Mythology Gags referencing The Flash.
Anime & Manga
- My Hero Academia: One of the heroes watching the tournament in chapter 34 looks like a beefed-up Flash.
- Happy Heroes: In Season 12 episode 6, a robot wearing the Flash's costume is briefly seen.
- Big Bang Comics: Most characters are thinly disguised versions of golden and silver age DC Comics characters, and The Blitz is a Captain Ersatz of the Flash, while Cyclone is one of Kid Flash.
- The Oracle Code: Yeong wears a Flash hoodie the night the girls uncover Arkham's hidden "private ward".
Fan Works
- Not the intended use (Zantetsuken Reverse): Soma occasionally calls the Black Panther Super-Speed soul "The one that makes me like The Flash but not".
- Catch Me If You Can: Villain Protagonist Frank Abagnale Jr. uses "Barry Allen" as an alias.
- Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic is a huge fan of the Flash, owning and reading a lot of his comics.
- An early scene in the sequel has Sonic's adopted father Tom gift him with more Flash comics.
- Dresden Files:
- In "Bigfoot On Campus" Harry's commentary quips that Barrowill rushes him at a speed worthy of the Flash's understudy when the vampire is enraged.
- In Ghost Story Butters asks if Aristedes is fast like Jackie Chan, or fast like the Flash.
- In The Evolution of Emily, Miles reads The Flash during lunch. He says he relates to the character even though he can't run fast at all because having ADHD is like having a Ferrari engine in a golf cart body, and the Flash is like an actual Ferrari.
- The Big Bang Theory:
- The Flash seems to be a favorite of Sheldon Cooper. He often wears a shirt with Flash's insignia and has dressed as him in "The Justice League Recombination" and "The Middle Earth Paradigm" (where all four guys accidentally dress as Flash as well). He brags about reading a Flash comic faster than him in "The Cushion Saturation", and acts just like him in "The Workplace Song Nanocluster" after having too much coffee.
- In "The Dependence Transcendence", Sheldon gets high on energy drinks and hallucinates Flash telling him that superheroes use performance enhancing drugs all the time.
- Hikari Sentai Maskman: The appearance of the villainous character Oyo-bu is patterned over Barry Allen's (and Wally West's) costume. He even has Super-Speed.
- The Middleman: When asked by the Middleman if she reads comics, Wendy first says that she thinks Jughead "is a real hoot." When the Middleman doesn't respond, she name-drops Powers, Astro City, Fell, The Spirit, Mouse Guard, X-Men, and The Flash. The Middleman asks if she's referring to Barry Allen or Wally West.
- Rey Mysterio wore a wrestling gear based on the Flash's costume during WrestleMania XX.
- In Infinite Craft, "The Flash" is a possible crafting recipe.
- Your rival in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl who runs everywhere? His default name is Barry.
- The Sims: Many of the comics are fairly blatant Shout Outs for example Fish Master, Archie Archer and Quickfoot (all by George Mortimer
); Neo-Knight Noir by William Kane; Awesome Woman by Olive Marston... - Team Fortress 2: The Bonk Boy, Lightning Lid, and Speedster's Spandex allow the Scout to look like the Flash.
- The Whiteboard: Doc's caffeine addiction has led to a couple shout-outs to DC Comics. For example, there's one to the Flash, when Roger is explaining how Doc's Super-Speed doesn't result in Doc catching fire from air friction or getting more seriously injured.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender: In the finale, Toph calls Sokka "Captain Boomerang".
- The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: Blizzard was redesigned to look like the Flash foe (as well as Blizzard's Alternate Company Equivalent), Captain Cold.
- Garfield and Friends: In "Egg Over Easy, Part One", when Wade runs away from his friends when they try to celebrate his birthday, Bo comments that "Compared to Wade when he's scared, the Flash is a slowpoke!"
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Power Ponies", the Mane Six and Spike become superheroes. In the case of Pinkie Pie, she becomes Fili-Second, a superheroine with super speed akin to the Flash.
- The Simpsons: In "Marge Vs. the Monorail", Lyle Lanley hornswoggles Springfield into shelling out an expensive monorail system using a $3,000,000 fine from Mr. Burns for illegal radioactive waste dumping. When Lanley asks the students of Ms. Hoover's classroom if they have any questions about the monorail, Ralph asks Lanley if the monorail is faster than the Flash, to which Lanley tells him "You bet!". Another student asks Lanley if Superman can outrun the Flash, to which Lanley says "Uh, sure. Why not?"
- Superman: The Animated Series: In "My Girl," Lex Luthor is overheard explaining to his henchman that he wants him in Central City by that night.
- Tiny Toon Adventures: In "The Just-Us League of Supertoons" (part of "New Class Day"), Little Beeper's superhero alter-ego is Little Dasher, which includes a red and yellow outfit similar to the Flash's.
