History Main / TechnicolorToxin

* ''{{Bleach}}'' features Mayuri's Ashisogi Jizo, which releases a purple poison cloud. The affected victims also turns purple. [[spoiler: Gin Ichimaru's true power release a deadly poison with a purple aura.]]

* In ''InuYasha'', Naraku's Shouki is dark purple, and is most certainly poisonous.

* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', when [[spoiler:Joffrey is poisoned at his wedding feast]], it's strongly implied that this was the work of the Tyrells, specifically CoolOldLady Olenna, who would have taken a poisonous stone disguised as an amethyst out of Sansa's jeweled hair net and dropped it in his cup of wine. One indication of this is that when Tyrion gets [[spoiler:Joffrey's]] wine poured over his head, it's described as a "red torrent," but when he picks up the chalice after it's been refilled and drunk from, the remaining wine is purple.

* In the Cave level of the Subspace Emissary story in ''SuperSmashBros Brawl'', the poison gas you encounter is purple colored.

* In ''{{Disgaea}}'', poisoned characters are signaled with purple bubbles.

* In ''{{Castlevania}}: [[CastlevaniaCircleOfTheMoon Circle of the Moon]]'', the poison status effect causes Nathan to take on a purple tint. Poisonous snakes, Poison Armors and other poison enemies are purple, fitting the games focus on [[ElementalPowers different elemental traits]]. The Manticore card applies the Poison element to your spells, which results in predominantly purple graphical effects. Interestingly enough, antidotes are also represented by a bottle filled with purple liquid.

* [[AloofBigBrother Sesshomaru]]'s poison in ''InuYasha'' tends to be yellow or greenish.

* TheJoker's Smylex toxin is usually shown as a green liquid or gas. This was common enough that it's included in ''{{Batman}}'' films, games, and animated series that he appears in.

* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', [[TheDragon Cobra]]'s actual Dragon Slayer venom is dark red in color and more ''steaming'' than bubbling. Cuberios' poison too is showed to have this color, and yet his/hers victims become purple instead as seen above.
* In ''InuYasha'' during the fight against [[BattleCouple Juromaru and Kageromaru]], [[ActionGirl Sango]] uses a poison that turns the ground red in order to force Kageromaru to come out.

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Eastern media tend to portray poisonous substances in a dark purple color, usually bubbling. In Western media, [[SicklyGreenGlow Sickly Green]] is more common (because of the former popularity of Arsenates, which really are fluorescent green). There are also other works from both sides of the Atlantic showing poisons and venoms of various other colors. BonusPoints if it's shown [[PoisonIsCorrosive melting stone]] and steaming foul vapors.

* In ''OdinSphere'', poisoned characters turn purple.

* In the first three ''{{Onimusha}}'' games, there are some cases of yellow poisonous gases, especially in the second game.
* In ''WorldOfWarcraft'', the Rogue can put poison on his weapons. There are many kinds of venom, including green as well as red and black.
* [[TheLegendOfDragoon Feyrbrand]] can also produce and shot blue poison (causes Fear) and grey poison (causes Stun).

* ''CastlevaniaCurseOfDarkness'' features green colored poison status, and uses purple for the "cursed" status alteration. However, at least one enemy ([[LizardFolk White Gravial]]) spews a purple liquid.

* In ''{{Runescape}}'', poison is bright green. Poison damage is represented by bright green splats, poisoned weapons turn bright green at their tips, and your Life Meter changes to a bright green color when you're poisoned.

* Most toxins in ''WorldOfWarcraft'' are green.
* In ''{{Warcraft}} III'' the plague cloud released by some Scourge units is green and intoxicates anyone nearby. The Venom Globe is bright green and Dryads can use green poisonous spears.
* Feyrbrand the Green-Tusked Dragon from ''TheLegendOfDragoon'' is green and can spit a poisonous green goo from its belly. Furthermore, toxic stuff tends to be green-colored.
* Throughout the ''{{Ultima}}'' series, the various color-coded potions do a variety of things, but the green potion is always poison, and a poisoned character's health bar turns green. Furthermore, some of the games had green swamps that would poison your character if you walked through them without special swamp boots (also green).

* In ''PerfectDark'', the nerve gas in Area51 is greenish in color.

* In the anime of ''SengokuBasara'', Matsunaga uses purple poison gas in order to take down Kojuro. In contrast the gas Sasuke uses as an antidote is green.
* ''{{Bleach}}'' features Mayuri's Ashisogi Jizo, which releases a purple poison cloud. The affected victims also turns purple. [[spoiler: Gin Ichimaru's true power release a deadly poison with a purple aura.]]
* [[MeaningfulName Cobra]] from Oracion Seis in ''FairyTail'' owns a violet giant snake named Cuberios which is poisonous and his/her victims turn slowly purple when bitten (seen in the anime with [[ActionGirl Erza]]). Also his Poison Dragon Slayer's scales are violet.

* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', when [[spoiler:Joffrey is poisoned at his wedding feast]], it's strongly implied that this was the work of the Tyrells, specifically CoolOldLady Olenna, who would have taken a poisonous stone disguised as an amethyst out of Sansa's jeweled hair net and dropped it in his cup of wine. One indication of this is that when Tyrion gets [[spoiler:Joffrey's]] wine poured over his head, it's described as a "red torrent," but when he picks up the chalice after it's been refilled and drunk from, the remaining wine is purple.

* In ''{{Pokemon}}'', the Poison elemental type has a purple icon, "Poisoned" status is also purple, and many Poison-type attacks (such as Toxic and Gunk Shot) are represented with a bubbly purple goop. Furthermore, many Poison-related Pokemon like Koffing/Weezing, Ekans/Arbok, Gastly/Haunter/Gengar, Nidoran/Nidorina/Nidorino/Nidoqueen/Nidoking, Zubat/Golbat/Crobat, Stunky/Skuntank, Skorupi/Drapion are violet in color.

* In the VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} games, the spores from the Puffstool and the poison gas in the sequel are purple. The color coding is also used for (the more pinkish) Munge Dweevils, which are part of a family of enemies with [[ElementalPowers elemental powers]] [[spoiler: as well as the [[FinalBoss Titan Dweevil]], when he's about to use his poison weapon.]] Oddly, ''White'' Pikmin are the type immune to the latter, while Purple Pikmin don't have a hazardous element they're immune to[[color:*:though they can't be blown by wind]], making Whites the only Pikmin who's color does not match that of their element.

* [[AloofBigBrother Sesshomaru's]] poison in ''InuYasha'' tends to be yellow or greenish.

* Averted and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in Terry Pratchett's ''[[Discworld/FeetOfClay Feet of Clay]]'' - Vimes expects arsenic to be green and is surprised to learn otherwise.

* In ''Webcomic/OrderOfTheStick'', the poison [[spoiler:used by Daimyo Kubota to kill Therkla]] is green and features green bubbles from the victim. Later, the Strength-draining poison used on Vaarsuvius features green bubbles as well.

* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', [[TheDragon Cobra's]] actual Dragon Slayer venom is dark red in color and more ''steaming'' than bubbling. Cuberios' poison too is showed to have this color, and yet his/hers victims become purple instead as seen above.

* In ''InuYasha'' during the fight against [[BattleCouple Juromaru and Kageromaru]], [[ActionGirl Sango]] uses a poison that turns the ground red in order to force Kageromaru to come out.

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** Poison status in the ''Mario & Luigi'' games turns the brothers indigo or bright violet.

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* Averted and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in Terry Pratchett's ''[[Discworld/FeetOfClay Feet of Clay]]'' - Vimes expects arsenic to be green and is surprised to learn otherwise.

* In the {{Pikmin}} games, the spores from the Puffy Toadstool and the poison gas in the sequel are purple. The color coding is also used for Munge Dweevils, which are part of a family of enemies with [[ElementalPowers elemental powers]] [[spoiler: as well as the [[FinalBoss Titan Dweevil]], when he's about to use his poison weapon.]]

* In ''{{Pokemon}}'', the Poison elemental type is purple, "Poisoned" status is also purple, and many Poison-type attacks (such as Toxic and Gunk Shot) are represented with a bubbly purple goop. Furthermore, many Poison-related Pokemon like Koffing/Weezing, Ekans/Arbok, Gastly/Haunter/Gengar, Nidoran/Nidorina/Nidorino/Nidoqueen/Nidoking, Zubat/Golbat/Crobat, Stunky/Skuntank, Skorupi/Drapion are violet in color.

* The Miasma spell in ''FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' is purple.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy'' the "Poison" and "Toxin" status itself is usually shown in the form of green bubbles/green oozing stuff.

* Bio spell in ''FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance''.

* In ''CastleCrashers'' the poison is green, and the Green Knight can use poisonous attacks.

* In ''VideoGame/GemCraft'' green gems are the poisonous one.

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* The poison in ''WheresMyWater''.

* ''{{Naruto}}'' features purple-colored poisons, seen with Shizune's BreathWeapon and Sasori's weapons.
* ''OnePiece'' has several instances of purple poison, including Crocodile's Hookhand, Wanze's BigFancySword, [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Marigold's spit]], [[PetalPower Musshuru's spores]] and, of course, [[PoisonousPerson Magellan himself]]. Bonus point for having also the PoisonIsCorrosive effect and noxious steams.

* Starting from ''FinalFantasyI'', almost all the games in the saga features purple swamps where you take damage as you walk.

* In ''FinalFantasy'' the "Poison" and "Toxin" status itself is usually shown in the form of green bubbles/green oozing stuff.
* In ''FinalFantasyII'' Venom magic is bright green at low levels and dark green at high levels.
* In ''FinalFantasyVII'' not only are poison spells green, characters also glow green when poisoned.

* ''AgeOfMythology'' features green poisons.

* In ''FairyTail'', [[TheDragon Cobra's]] actual Dragon Slayer venom is dark red in color and more ''steaming'' than bubbling. Cuberios' poison too is showed to have this color, and yet his/hers victims become purple instead as seen above.
* ''OnePiece'' has the dreaded [=MH5=] poison gas, which releases a white cloud of deadly poison. However, it is usually changed to the usual purple mist in the video games featuring [[CombatPragmatist Don Krieg]] as a playable character. Furthermore, Magellan's [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Venom Demon: Hell's Judgement]] is crimson-colored and releases foul smokes, giving the impression of being hot somehow.

Eastern media tend to portray poisonous substances in a dark purple color, usually bubbling. In Western media, [[SicklyGreenGlow Sickly Green]] is more common. There are also other works from both sides of the Atlantic showing poisons and venoms of various other colors. BonusPoints if it's shown [[PoisonIsCorrosive melting stone]] and steaming foul vapors.

[[caption-width-right:150:[[KingsQuestV "Watch out! A pOIsonous bottle!]]"]]