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.
- 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".
- Sonic the Hedgehog (2020): Sonic is a huge fan of the Flash, owning and reading a lot of his 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.
Live Action TV
- 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.
- 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.
- The X-Files: Teenagers Max Harden and his girlfriend Chastity Raines acquiring super speed and running at the speed faster than the eye is like speedsters Hermes, Johnny Quick, Jay Garrick, Sonic the Hedgehog, Wally West, Black Flash, Speedy Gonzales, Jesse Quick, Barry Allen, Cheetara, Professor Zoom, Bart Allen, Quicksilver, Max Mercury, XS, Little Beeper, Tornado Twins and the Road Runner among other examples.
- 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. One to Shazam! when a cup of coffee brings Doc from "injured to normal", and another to The Flash, when Roger is explaining how Doc's Caffeine Bullet Time 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.
- Batman: The Animated Series: Star Labs is cited in a list of potential sources of the Scarecrow's fear gas.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Episode six, "Power Ponies," features a spoof of The Avengers and Justice League. The main villain, the Mane-iac, is a parody on Doctor Octopus, The Joker and Poison Ivy (and possibly Marvel's Medusa and Sedusa), Pinkie (Fili-Second) has super speed, akin to The Flash, Fluttershy (Saddle-Rager) loses her temper like The Incredible Hulk, Rainbow Dash (Zapp) controls the weather like Storm, Applejack (Mistress Mare-velous) has a lasso like Wonder Woman, Rarity (Radiance) has a gem that creates shiny things like Green Lantern, and Twilight (the Masked Matterhorn) has a freezing beam just like Iceman. Spike is merely put as Robin, and although his character was just there for comic relief, and also as The Load and a Tagalong Kid, he ended up being The Chessmaster due to his insight on the comic books themselves.
- 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.
