History Main / SecondaryColorNemesis

** Sir Crocodile, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea and the Straw Hat Pirates' first major enemy in the Grand Line. His outfit is predominantly orange, with a green, furry coat which he wears drapped on his shoulders.

** Cell is mostly green with orange highlights throughout his face and body in his initial and second forms. Purple is added to the mix in his "[[BishonenLine Perfect Cell]]" form, although the orange is gone by then.

* ''Franchise/Naruto'': Orochimaru's usual outfit is mostly light brownish, but it also contains a dark green undershirt and collar as well as a large purple rope belt tied around his waist.

** Piccolo from ''Franchise/DragonBall'' is perhaps one of the most famous examples of this on in anime. He is a green-skinned alien (formerly thought to be a demon) with a predominantly purple outfit. He eventually became Goku's ally and one of the good guys.

** In perhaps the most iconic comic book example, SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker sports bright green hair, and a flashy purple suit, generally with either an orange, shirt, vest, or tie.

* In ''Film/{{Batman}}'' the Jack Nicholson Joker features the classic combination of green hair, purple suit, and bright orange shirt. For an added bonus, he and his goons deface the Gotham museum of art by painting everything purple and green.

** Early Spider-Man foe The Prowler wore a green bodystocking and a purple mask and cape.

** The Riddler sometimes wears a suit and hat, and sometimes bodystocking, but it's always green.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', kept most of the villains in their iconic costumes: The Joker wore a purple suit and had green hair, the Riddler sported a green suit and bowler hat, and Poison Ivy had a green leotard.

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' stayed true to comic book depictions for the most part, with Parasite having purple skin, and Brainiac's drones depicted with pale green faces and hands, and darker purple torsos and legs. Darkseid's son Kalibak also gained a green costume.

* In ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' Bowser's very first sprite is orange and green. While he sometimes has red or yellow accents in later instalments, he generally keeps his orange and green themes in contrast to Mario's blue and red.

** The Four's worst enemy, DoctorDoom, wears a long green cloak, hood, and surcoat over his armour, distinguishing him from the Four in their bright blue bodysuits.

** Namor reappeared in the SilverAge as an antagonist to the Fantastic Four. The only thing he wore were his green swimming trunks.

* ''XMen'': Back when the original team wore matching blue-and-yellow uniforms, their main opponents were Magneto's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Its color palette contained a bit of red, but the rest of the colors were secondary: Magneto wore red-and-purple, Toad wore orange-and-grey, Mastermind wore a brown trenchcoat, Quicksilver wore green-and-green, and Scarlet Witch wore red-and-pink.

** ComicBook/TheRiddler sometimes wears a suit and hat, and sometimes bodystocking, but it's always green.

** All the [[GreenGoblin Green Goblins]] costumes have featured a green face, arms, and legs, with a purple cap, torso, boots, and gloves. The Ultimate Universe version also qualifies, being a hulking green monster wrapped in a purple cloak and hood.

* In ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'', Elijah talks about the use of secondary colors to characterize villains in comic books. Within the film, the first villain David faces on his path to becoming a superhero is a sadistic janitor who wears bright orange overalls, while his diabolical arch-enemy wears [[spoiler:purple, because it's Elijah himself.]]

* In the live action TV Series/{{Batman}} almost all of the villains wore secondary colors rather than primaries. Third season villian "Shame" was an exception, with a tan buckskin coat and pants, and usually his shirt in some form of red and a blue neckerchief.

** Louie The Lilac wore a Lavender (Purple) suit, shirt and hat. The hat-brim binding and hatband and his tie were darker Purple

Sometimes even the bad guys want to wear bright colors. All those [[EvilWearsBlack deep blacks]] and [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver bloody reds]] can get monotonous after awhile. Unfortunately, the heroes have already monopolized the [[PrimaryColorChampion primary colors]] so what's our poor villain to do? Why crack out the secondary colors, of course.

** {{Brainiac}} has green skin, and usually wears a purple bodysuit. His great-grandson, [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperheroes Brainiac 5]] subverts the trope, featuring the same green skin and purple bodysuit, but being an unabashed, if arrogant, good guy.

* In ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'' Elijah talks about the use of secondary colors to characterize villains in comic books.

** In perhaps the most iconic comic book example, The Joker sports bright green hair, and a flashy purple suit, generally with either an orange, shirt, vest, or tie.
** The Riddler sometimes wears a suit and hat, and sometimes bodystocking, but it's always green.

** R'as Al-Ghul's costumes are subject to change, but his green and gold one is his most well-known.
** Catwoman usually wears black today, but early in the comics wore both green and purple.
** DependingOnTheArtist, the scarred side of Two-Face's visage is either green or purple; one side of his custom-made suit usually reflects this coloration.

** The main color of Galactus' costume is purple (or pink, depending on who you ask). His original colors were green-red-and-brown.

** All the Green Goblins costumes have featured a green face, arms, and legs, with a purple cap, torso, boots, and gloves. The Ultimate Universe version also qualifies, being a hulking green monster wrapped in a purple cloak and hood.

Compare PurpleIsPowerful, SicklyGreenGlow.

** The Man of Steel's archnemesis, LexLuthor, famously donned a purple and green warsuit in the eighties, and has continued to use it ever since. In ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'', Luthor dons a purple shirt and pants, and a green trenchcoat in place of the warsuit.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' had Mongul I, in his trademark purple costume, and put LexLuthor in a green suit of armour similar to his one from the comics (though without the purple highlights).

Contrast PrimaryColorChampion.

A sub-trope of GoodColorsEvilColors. May have connections to PurpleIsPowerful and SicklyGreenGlow, though not necessarily. Contrast RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver, EvilWearsBlack, and its inversion, PrimaryColorChampion.