The Flash

Goldfaced - S5-E13

Trivia: Sherloque develops a crush on Renee Adler, a clear play on "Irene Adler" from other Sherlock Holmes media. Although only appearing in one book, in TV shows/movies Irene is frequently a love interest of Holmes.

Jon Sandys

Luck Be a Lady - S4-E3

Trivia: Wally says he's going to move to Blue Valley. In the comics, Blue Valley is where Wally West (son of Rudy and Mary West) was from.

Bishop73

Invasion! - S3-E8

Trivia: The facility where the bunch of heroes are training is identical to the hall of justice from the 80's cartoon.

oswal13

The Race of His Life - S2-E23

Trivia: The way the other Flash dies and vanishes is exactly how Flash did in the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" DC comic book.

Back to Normal - S2-E19

Trivia: The cellar where Wells was caught belongs to ACE chemical, a regular feature of DC comic book characters.

Pilot - S1-E1

Trivia: When Barry as a child is getting away from some bullies, he has a back pack that has the colors of Flash in the comics.

ozwal13

Attack on Central City - S3-E14

Factual error: Wells states that there are "precisely 90,000" possible 5-digit combinations for the keypad (to abort the nuclear code). However, there are actually 100,000 possible combinations (10^5).

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Barry Allen: My name is Barry Allen and I'm the fastest man alive. When I was a child, I saw my mother killed by something impossible. My father went to prison for her murder. Then an accident made me the impossible. To the outside world, I'm just an ordinary forensic scientist, but secretly I use my speed to fight crime and find others like me, and one day I'll find who killed my mother and get justice for my father. I am The Flash.

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