History Main / TechnicolorToxin

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro: Dawn of the Dragon'', Cynder's Poison element is green.

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* A campaign called "Mr. Yuck",(or "Officer Ugg") intended to teach young children about staying away from poisonous substances, had green stickers with a Mr. Yuck face for parents to put on containers to warn small children to not touch them.

* 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 [[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.

* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'': Spells, clouds, pools, and weapons that inflict [[ElementalPowers Poison damage]] are coloured acid green. Cursed poison looks darker and murkier, while Blessed poison has [[HealingHands healing powers]] and glows cleanly.

* Franchise/{{Pokemon}} that have strong poisonous attacks are often depicted as purple, such as Grimer, Koffing, Ekans and their evolutions.

!![[color:indigo:Purple Poison]]

!![[color:darkgreen:Green Poison]]

** In ''Hey! Pikmin'', Olimar confuses a purple [[VideoGame/{{Splatoon}} Inkling's]][[labelnote:*]](more accurately, the [[Toys/{{Amiibo}} statue]] of one.)[[/labelnote]] ink for poison just because of this trope, suggesting that he should play with water instead. He's [[RightForTheWrongReasons somewhat right about the ink]] (it is toxic... to everyone ''except'' that Inkling and his teammates), but replacing it with water would be [[SuperDrowningSkills much worse]].

* The poison in ''VideoGame/WheresMyWater''.
The poisonous gas that regularly advances and shrinks the playable area in ''VideoGame/ZombsRoyaleio'' is purple-colored.

* In "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Creator/NathanielHawthorne, [[PoisonousPerson Beatrice]] leaves purple fingerprints where she touches Giovanni.

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

* Besides chlorine, the rest of the halogen elements are like this. Fluorine is extremely toxic and reactive and has a yellow colour. Bromine is either a red-brown liquid or a bright orange gas, and Fluorine, the most reactive of the lot that isn’t Astatine (read on) is a very pale yellow gas. Iodine is bright purple, as noted above. Astatine would be black, but it's so radioactive that a sample large enough for us to see [[StuffBlowingUp would promptly explode in a nuclear fireball]]. Be careful with halogens, everyone.

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Seen often paired with PoisonedWeapons, PoisonousPerson and PerfectPoison. See also SicklyGreenGlow and PurpleIsTheNewBlack.

* Besides chlorine, the rest of the halogen elements are like this. Fluorine is extremely toxic and reactive and has a yellow colour. Bromine is either a red-brown liquid or a bright orange gas. Iodine is bright purple, as noted above. Astatine would be black, but it's so radioactive that a sample large enough for us to see [[StuffBlowingUp would promptly explode in a nuclear fireball]]. Be careful with halogens, everyone.

* ''VideoGame/Hades:'' The poison that Zagreus can be afflicted with in the Temple of Styx either comes from bright green darts, bright green goo, or bright green gas. Lampshaded by Hypnos if the poison kills you.