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When ElementalPowers are ColorCodedForYourConvenience, air and wind, being invisible and colorless, presents a conundrum. Blue, Yellow and Red are taken by water, earth or lightning and fire, generaly, and white, the color most likely to be assigned to wind by western cultures, may be taken by some form of WhiteMagic, be it holy, light and/or healing spells.

So is many settings, wind gets associated with green, either in the color coding system, in the motifs of the characters using it, by making the actual spell effects green, or any combination of those.

* In ''{{Castlevania Portrait Of Ruin}}'' the spell Gale Wind appears in a shade of green.
** As does the wind subweapon in CastlevaniaJudgement.

* In the ''{{Suikoden}}'' series, most wind based spells are green.

* The ''Final Fantasy''-themed BonusBoss Culex of Vanda in ''SuperMarioRPG'' brings the Four Crystals into battle with him. No points for guessing which color the Wind Crystal is.

* It's easy to forget that Sailor Jupiter of ''SailorMoon'' seems to share wind powers with Sailor Uranus, since she could only create her hurricane, typhoon and tornado attacks in the manga. Her image color is green.

** Non-Persona ''ShinMegamiTensei'' titles use "zan" for [[strike:wind]] "force" spells, [[AvertedTrope which is dark gray]] except for ''DevilSurvivor'' where they are green colored..

* The [[Series/KamenRider first]] [[KamenRiderV3 three]] {{Kamen Rider}}s are powered by wind and have green feature prominently on their suits.
* KamenRiderDouble's Cyclone Memory is colored green, and it naturally extends to all forms with said Memory.
* SeijuuSentaiGingaman (and PowerRangersLostGalaxy)'s Green Ranger had wind at his command.

* Wind spells are colored green in FireEmblem.
* While the spells themselves also involve a fair bit of gray, wind attacks in BreathOfFire are denoted with a green whirlwind icon.
* Inverted in ChronoCross. Wind, along with [[GreenThumb nature]], is a manifestation of the Green element.
* Inconsistently used in FinalFantasy. FinalFantasyV plays it straight, others not so.
* Garu skills in Persona 3 and 4.

* Also, wind spells in ''TalesOfSymphonia'' are green. [[spoiler: You'll need to know this, along with the colors of the other elements, for a late-game puzzle.]]
* SagaFrontier - Gale attack and gale slash have you firing green colored "gales" of wind at the enemies.
* LostMagic - the wind runes are all green. The wind magic that comes out are green.
* Wind is green in Legend of Dragoon as well.

* MegaManZero and MegaManZX kinda had four elements. There was Fire, Ice, Electric, and Non-elemental. Fire was red, Ice was blue, and Non-elemental was purple, but Electric sometimes also represented Wind. It was yellow when it did represent Electric-based bosses but green when it represented Wind-based bosses.

* In {{Castlevania Portrait Of Ruin}} the spell Gale Wind appears in a shade of green.
* The ''FinalFantasy''-themed BonusBoss Culex of Vanda in ''SuperMarioRPG'' brings the Four Crystals into battle with him. No points for guessing which color the Wind Crystal is.

So is many settings, wind gets associated with green, either in the color coding system, by making the actual spell effects green, or both.

When ElementalPowers are ColorCodedForYourConvenience, air and wind, being invisible and colorless, presents a conundrum. Blue, Yellow and Red are taken by water, earth or lightning and fire, generaly, and white, the color most likely to be assigned to wind by western cultures, may be taken by some form of WhiteMagic,be it holy, light and/or healing spells.

When ElementalPowers are ColorCodedForYourConvenience, air and wind, being invisible and colorless, presents a conundrum. Blue, Yellow and Red are taken by water, earth or lightning and fire, generaly, and white, the color most likely to be assigned to wind by western cultures, may be taken by DivineMagic, light and/or healing spells.

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When ElementalMagic is ColorCodedForYourConvenience, air and wind, being invisible and colorless, presents a conundrum. Blue, Yellow and Red are taken by water, earth or lightning and fire, generaly, and white, the color most likely to be assigned to wind by western cultures, may be taken by DivineMagic, light and/or healing spells.

A common trope especially in video games that feature ElementalPowers. If the elements are color coded, then fire is inevitably red, ice/[==]{{water is blue}}, lightning is usually yellow, and so on.

What makes WindIsGreen notable is that it isn't a consistent feature, but it appears prominently enough.


Related to ColorCodedWizardry and ColorCodedForYourConvenience.

Many works have ElementalPowers as a theme, and most of these are easy to display. Fire is clearly visible, as is water and earth, but what about wind? A literal display would have it be entirely invisible, but that's not easy for the audience to keep track of.

The solution? Make the wind green.

Especially common in Asian fiction, since in Asia wind is also [[PetalPower closely associated with]] [[GreenThumb plants]].

** Non-Persona ''ShinMegamiTensei'' titles use "zan" for [[strike:wind]] "force" spells, [[AvertedTrope which is dark gray]].

* DevilSurvivor - the wind spells are green colored.

* Wind skills in the Disgaea series.

* Also, wind spells in ''TalesOfSymphonia'' are green.

Subtrope of ColorCodedForYourConvenience.

A common trope especially in video games that feature ElementalPowers. If the elements are color coded, then fire is inevitably red, ice/[==]{{water is blue}}, lightning is usually yellow, and so on.

What makes WindIsGreen notable is that it isn't a consistent feature, but it appears prominently enough.

Related to ColorCodedWizardry.

A common trope, especially in video games that feature ElementalPowers, is that every element will have a color associated with it. This way, you know that anything red is related to fire, blue to water, ect.

A few common examples of this trope are as follows.
* '''Fire''': Almost exclusively red.
* '''Water''': Almost exclusively blue. In settings where water and ice are distinct, water will tend to be a darker blue, ice a lighter blue.
* '''Wind''': Usually green, as per the trope name.
* '''Earth''': Yellow, brown, and orange are all common.
* '''Light''': Usually white or a bright yellow.
* '''Dark''': Usually black, though dark purple is not rare.

Related to ColorCodedWizardry, subtrope of ColorCodedForYourConvenience.

A common trope especially in video games that feature ElementalPowers, is that every element will have a color associated with it. This way, you know that anything red is related to fire, blue to water, ect.

Subtrope of ColorCodedForYourConvenience.

A common trope especially in video games that feature ElementalPowers. If the elements are color coded, then fire is inevitably red, ice/[==]{{water is blue}}, lightning is usually yellow, and so on.

What makes WindIsGreen notable is that it isn't a consistent feature, but it appears prominently enough.

Especially common in Asian fiction, since in Asia wind is also [[PetalPower closely associated with]] [[GreenThumb plants]].

Related to ColorCodedWizardry.

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