Editing Flash Thompson (section)

==Other versions==
===Amalgam Comics===
In the [[Amalgam Comics]] universe, Flash is a member of the New York Special Crimes Unit. He is also highly distrustful of Spider-Boy, believing him to be in league with the villains he fights.<ref>''Spider-Boy'' #1</ref>

===Heroes Reborn===
In the ''[[Heroes Reborn (2021 comic)|Heroes Reborn]]'' event, a change in the timeline results in a continuity in which the Squadron Supreme are Earth's mightiest heroes while the Avengers never came to be. In this continuity, Flash unintentionally stops Peter from becoming Spider-Man by pushing him out of the way of the radioactive spider right before it bites him.<ref>''Peter Parker, The Amazing Shutterbug'' #1 (2021)</ref> After attending Capitol University, he ran for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, but lost to [[Nighthawk (Marvel Comics)|Kyle Richmond]].<ref>''Heroes Reborn: Double Action'' #1 (2021)</ref> While attending the University, he fell in love with Gwen Stacy. His obsession with her drove him mentally unstable, leading him to kill her stalker, Miles Warren, and succeed him as the new '''Jackal'''. He eventually deduced that Gwen was the vigilante Nightbird and began killing people connected to her. Gwen eventually defeated him and had him committed to Ravencroft Asylum, where no one believed him when he claimed that Gwen was Nightbird.<ref>''Heroes Reborn: Nightbird'' #1 (2021)</ref>

===House of M===
During the 2005 [[House of M]] storyline, Flash is a commentator for the program ''Sapien Deathmatch'' in which sentient beings fight violent battles for the entertainment of the mutant ruling class. In his first noted performance, Flash narrates a battle between a robotic Sentinel and the human [[Tony Stark]].<ref>''[[House of M: Iron Man]]'' #1 (Sept. 2005)</ref>

===MC2===
In the [[Marvel Comics 2|MC2]] continuity (the alternate future of [[Mayday Parker|Spider-Girl]]), Flash Thompson is now on the faculty of his old high school. He is the coach of the girls' basketball team. He married [[Black Cat (Marvel Comics)|Felicia Hardy]], but they later divorced after they had two children ([[Felicity Hardy|Felicity]]<ref>''Spider-Girl'' #45 (May 1, 2002)</ref> and Eugene Jr.). He still is unaware of the fact that Peter Parker was Spider-Man, and is similarly unaware that Peter's daughter is Spider-Girl. Felicity, on the other hand, is aware of all of this and briefly assumed the [[Scarlet Spider]] identity in attempt to partner with Spider-Girl.{{Volume needed|c=y|date=April 2019}}

===''Spider-Man: Life Story''===
''Spider-Man: Life Story'' features an alternate continuity where the characters age naturally, with the story beginning with Peter Parker becoming Spider-Man in 1962. In 1966, Flash volunteers to serve as a soldier in the Vietnam War. When Peter asks him why he'd be willing to go after the effects the previous war had on his father, Flash says that he believes it's what Spider-Man would do. Flash is later killed in action in 1974, leading Peter to question if he could have saved Flash by volunteering as well.<ref>[[Zdarsky, Chip]] (w), [[Bagley, Mark]] (p), Dell, John (i). ''Spider-Man: Life Story'' #1–2 (May – June 2019)</ref>

===''Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane''===
In ''Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane'', Flash is the star football quarterback at Midtown High. Flash bullies Peter and refers to him as Puny Parker. Flash recently started dating Liz Allan again; this ended after she dumped him at homecoming for declaring his love to Mary Jane in front of the whole school.<ref>''Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane'' (Dec. 2005 – July 2007)</ref>

===Spider-Verse===
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* On Earth-51412, Flash's counterpart '''Gene''' is in a relationship with Sarah Jane (this universe's Mary Jane) and bullies Patton Parnell (this universe's Peter Parker).<ref>''Edge of Spider-Verse'' #4</ref>
* Earth-11's Flash Thompson starts off having a friendly relationship with Penelope Parker (Earth-11's Peter Parker), even before the spider bites her and after she becomes Spider-Girl.<ref>''Spider-Verse'' #1. Marvel Comics (New York).</ref>
* A version of Captain Spider appears as one of the spider-themed heroes recruited by Spider-UK to help combat the Inheritors.<ref>{{Cite comic|writer = Dan Slott|penciller = Olivier Coipel|inker = Olivier Coipel|story = Spider-Verse Part One: The Gathering|title = The Amazing Spider-Man|volume = 3|issue = #9|date = November 5, 2014|publisher = Marvel Comics|location = United States}}</ref> He is killed by [[Morlun]].<ref>{{Cite comic|writer = Dan Slott|penciller = Olivier Coipel|inker = Wade von Grawbadger, Olivier Coipel, John Livesay, Victor Olazaba, Mark Morales|story = Spider-Verse Part Three: Higher Ground|title = The Amazing Spider-Man|volume = 3|issue = #11|date = December 10, 2014|publisher = Marvel Comics|location = United States}}</ref>

===Spider-Island===
Flash Thompson (as Agent Venom) is the main protagonist in this [[Secret Wars (2015 comic book)|Secret Wars]] Warzone version of ''Spider Island''. He leads the resistance after most of the heroes and citizens have been mutated into spider monsters by the Spider Queen. Inspired by the sacrifice of Spider-Man, he leads the resistance (consisting of Werewolf by Night, Jessica Drew, and Vision) into stopping the Queen. His plans to release some heroes from the Spider Queen's control by mutating them into other monsters (such as Curt Connors' Lizard formula and Morbius' vampire formula) succeed and he is able to get monstrous versions of Captain America, Captain Marvel, the Hulk, and Iron Man on his side. When they go get Stegron to help in the cause, they discover Spider-Man's alive and Flash finds out he's Peter Parker. They rescue both to help in their cause. Flash eventually leads the rebellion to successfully stop the Spider Queen, but at the cost of his own life (due to requiring the symbiote to possess the Spider Queen to take her down). Peter becomes the new baron of the place and plans to honor Flash's memory.{{Volume needed|c=y|date=May 2018}}

===Marvel Adventures===
In the ''[[Marvel Adventures]]'' continuity, [[Werewolf by Night|Jack Russel]]'s family home is in Queens, New York. This brings Werewolf into conflict with Spider-Man after he reluctantly turns the somewhat innocent Flash Thompson into a werewolf. Fortunately Dr. Strange's knowledge of Romanian lycanthropy saves Flash.<ref>{{cite comic| writer= [[Peter David|David, Peter]]|penciller= [[Mike Norton|Norton, Mike]]|inker= [[Norman Lee|Lee, Norman]]|story= Hair of the Dog That Bit Ya|title= [[Marvel Adventures]]|issue= #17 |date= Sept. 2006}}</ref>

===Venomverse===
In [[Venomverse]] a version of Agent Venom is part of the Venoms army gathered by a Venomized Doctor Strange to fight the [[List of alien races in Marvel Comics#P|Poisons]]. He tries to calm down both Eddie (from the main universe) and Spider-Man (from a universe who didn't get rid of the symbiote), but they're attacked by the Poisons and he himself is killed by a Poison Hulk.<ref>''Venomverse'' #1</ref>

===Ultimate Marvel===<!-- This section is linked from [[Gwen Stacy]] -->
[[File:Frederick 'Flash' Thompson (Ultimate Marvel character).jpg|thumb|upright|Frederick "Flash" Thompson, art by [[Mark Bagley]]]]
The [[Ultimate Marvel]] incarnation of the character is '''Fredrick "Fred" Thompson''',<ref name="USM65">[[Bendis, Brian Michael]] (w), [[Bagley, Mark]] (p). ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' #65 (Oct. 2000). Marvel Comics.</ref> a high school jock who bullies Peter Parker and is friends with fellow student [[Kenny McFarlane|Kenny "Kong" McFarlane]].<ref name="USM65"/> Unlike most versions, he does not idolize [[Ultimate Spider-Man|Spider-Man]] (something that Kenny does instead) and is generally portrayed unsympathetically. When Flash challenges Peter to a fight, Peter merely blocks a punch from Flash and manages to break his hand. When Peter joins the basketball team, Flash's attitude changes, on account of his tendency towards loyalty to his teammates. When Flash suddenly wants to talk to Peter alone for a moment on at least two occasions, Peter turns him down rather furiously, believing he just wanted to bully in private. After Gwen Stacy's death, it is revealed that Flash had a crush on Gwen and was actually trying to ask Peter for help in approaching Gwen for a date. During [[Silver Sable]]'s hunt of Spider-Man, Flash is kidnapped after being mistaken by the Wild Pack for Spider-Man, having only moments before disappeared into an alley Flash happened to be standing in. After realizing their mistake, the group considers killing him but Flash is able to escape. This experience gives Flash a new level of popularity within the school, especially after a TV movie is made about his ordeal. After Peter's apparent death as Spider-Man, Flash realizes that he is the only one who did not know that his former bullying victim and the young hero are the same person.<ref>{{cite comic|title=Ultimate Fallout|date=July 13, 2011|volume=1|issue=#1|page=10|publisher=Marvel Comics|location=New York|writer=[[Brian Michael Bendis|Bendis, Brian Michael]]|penciller=[[Mark Bagley|Bagley, Mark]]|inker=[[Andy Lanning|Lanning, Andy]]|letterer=Petit, Cory|colorist=[[Justin Ponsor|Ponsor, Justin]]; [[Laura Martin|Martin, Laura]]|editor=Paniccia, Mark; [[Sana Amanat|Amanat, Sana]]|access-date=January 21, 2022}}</ref>

===''What If?''===
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In "What if the Radioactive Spider Had Bitten Someone Else?", Flash is one of three characters bitten by the radioactive spider which is behind the Spider powers; the other two are [[Betty Leeds]] and [[John Jameson (comics)|John Jameson]]. After inadvertently killing the wrestler [[List of Spider-Man supporting characters#Other|Crusher Hogan]] in the ring due to his underestimation of his new strength, Flash begins to fight crime under the name '''Captain Spider''', but his career comes to a brutal stop when he fights the [[Vulture (Marvel Comics)|Vulture]], is knocked out of the sky. Without any web-shooters to save him, he falls to his death. Only Peter bears witness to his demise.<ref>''[[What If (comics)|What If?]]'' #7</ref>

In "What if Peter Parker Had to Destroy Spider-Man?" a darker twist to the "Captain Spider" story is depicted, with Flash still possessing his aggressive, selfish bully attitude from his early appearances. As Peter witnessed the spider-bite, he becomes Flash's confidant, and Flash pressures Peter to make Flash a costume and weapons. Not wanting Flash to harm anyone permanently, and motivated by his concern for innocents after [[Mary Jane Watson]] is killed in a botched burglary, Peter devises the web-shooters, but Flash uses his powers to become a super-criminal called The Spider. A pep talk from [[Aunt May]] and [[Uncle Ben Parker|Uncle Ben]] inspires Peter to do something, beginning with him inadvertently saving Otto Octavius from the accident that transformed him into Doctor Octopus in canon. With Octavius's aid, Peter uses his scientific genius to create a robotic exo-skeleton similar to Doc Ock's familiar tentacles, along with other methods that allow him to counter Flash's powers and incapacitate him. Later, [[Mister Fantastic]] removes Flash's powers (noted to only be possible because Flash was captured early enough that the changes weren't infused into his DNA) and remarks that Peter has a bright future ahead, using technology rather than biological powers.<ref>''What If?'' vol. 2 #76</ref>

In "What if J. Jonah Jameson Adopted Spider-Man?", JJJ adopts Peter after Chameleon's attempt to hijack a [[NASA]] shuttle resulted in the deaths of Aunt May, John Jameson, and Chameleon himself. Jameson hires Flash to be Peter's bodyguard, writing off their antagonism as youthful energy. Because Jameson remains convinced that Spider-Man is to blame for the shuttle accident, he hires Spencer Smythe to create the Spider-Slayers, only for Peter to sabotage them in secret. At the demonstration, Flash notices that Smythe has also created the [[Scorpion (Mac Gargan)|Scorpion]] suit and takes it for himself, hoping to protect Spidey and possibly become a hero in his own right. However, the serum affects Flash's mind, causing him to go berserk, and Peter (now maskless) goes to try to bring him down. Blinded by rage and addled by the serum, Flash refuses to believe that "Puny Parker" could be Spider-Man and attacks, nearly killing Peter until Jameson intervenes using a remote-controlled Spider-Slayer robot and shoots Flash with an antidote dart.<ref>''What If?'' vol. 2 #82</ref>

In ''What if Flash Thompson became Spider-Man?'', the [[Nick Fury|Unseen]] depicts another example of a timeline in which Flash Thompson is Spider-Man. In this timeline, just as Peter did, Flash starts out in wrestling before taking on a 'heroic' role when he stops the burglar who would have killed Ben Parker, with J. Jonah Jameson finding solace in praising Spider-Man as a hero after the existing system fails to save his son from the shuttle accident that Peter would have saved him from in canon. Flash eventually drops out of school to act full-time as Spider-Man, living in a [[trailer park]] with no apparent official income. Peter still becomes Spider-Man's photographer through more conventional methods, but when May Parker suffers serious complications and requires a rare drug to treat her disease, Peter tracks down Flash to ask for his help, only for Flash to accidentally kill Peter when he throws him into the wall of his trailer in a rage in the blind belief that Peter was making him look bad out of jealousy due to their history. Forced to face the fact that he is actually a brutal criminal rather than his perceived role as a hero after seeing the error of his ways, Flash takes action to confront Doctor Octopus and acquire the medicine for May, but subsequently turns himself in for Peter's death.<ref>''What If? Spider-Man'' vol. 2 #1</ref>