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7	->''"That thing's green. Green! Ha ha ha!"''
8	-->--'''Unknown fish''' in the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E5WormyPattyHype Patty Hype]]"
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10	In cartoons, mostly of the kids' variety, [[ToiletHumor gross out humor]] is a regular fixture. Some [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience colors]], like brown and [[YellowSnow yellow]], have obvious meaning in these settings. But those aren't the only two colors used to denote gross stuff. [[NoseNuggets Boogers]] are [[green:green]]. Farts, bad breath, and the smell of garbage are shown as [[VisibleOdor clouds of green stink]]. [[VomitIndiscretionShot Vomit is usually shown]] as greenish. Slime, snot, pimple ooze, and many other ambiguously gross ''stuff'' in cartoons will usually be in green to designate its putrid nature.
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12	This is often one of the reasons why kids may [[KidsHateVegetables hate vegetables]], especially green ones.
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14	Often a form of EditorialSynaesthesia when used to represent unpleasant odors or gases.
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16	See also GreenAroundTheGills and SicklyGreenGlow, when a nauseated character's face turns green and where green represents something dangerous or evil respectively. Also see TechnicolorToxin for when poison is represented with the color green. And finally, they are not all [[GreenAndMean bad guys.]]
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19	!!Examples:
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23	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
24	* ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'': One of Love's {{Image Song}}s mentions a green apple being sour and hard.
25	* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'': the extremely dangerous and long extinct herbivore beast Death Gore were dark green in color, extremely repulsive in appearence and almost destroyed the entire world by overeating whole forests. BigBad [[spoiler: (sort of) Acacia]], while merged with his Appetite Devil, has a grotesque, green body seemingly made of pustule-like tumors and is extremely revolting in appearence and behaviour.
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28	[[folder:Fan Works]]
29	* ''Fanfic/ElementalsOfHarmony'': ''Phthisis Is Magic'': From [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/29275/5/my-little-praetor-phthisis-is-magic/visible-symptoms Chapter 5]], a spell is used to conjure a viridian foul ooze. Viridian is a shade of green.
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32	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
33	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', Hercules is covered in green slime having cut his way out from inside the Hydra. Swaying on his feet, Hercules tries to sheath his sword, only to drop it on the ground, before he himself collapses in the puddle of gore. Looking at Phil, who asks how many horns he see, a dizzy Herc sees triple and his answer is "Six?" The slime washes off after it started raining.
34	* In ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', the emotion Disgust is green, as are memory orbs created under her influence. She sometimes reacts at anything gross or unpleasant.
35	* The titular character from ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' is an ogre with green skin who lives in a swamp, bathes in mud and swampwater, and has many gross habits, such as [[{{Gasshole}} belching, farting]], and eating bugs.
36	* In ''WesternAnimation/SpaceChimps2ZartogStrikesBack'', Dr. Poole says she's starting to find his ugliness "strangely adorable".
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39	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
40	* In ''Film/TheGreenSlime'', the titular slime is a green glop that will turn into a large green monster with [[ShockAndAwe deadly, electrified tentacles]].
41	* ''Film/Troll2'': Pretty much everything involving the goblins ([[NonIndicativeName not trolls]]) involves green, particularly the concoctions they make to turns humans into plants to feed on. Most of the human characters seem amusingly [[FailedASpotCheck unaware]] that the glass of water they're about to drink looks like lime Kool-Aid.
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44	[[folder:Literature]]
45	* In ''Literature/GoodFamiliesDont'', the living fart is green.
46	* Monster Blood from the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' series is described as a green ooze with a SicklyGreenGlow. Averted in Monster Blood IV, where it's blue instead. Vivid shades of green are also often used in the books' cover art to convey this same sense of queasy dread.
47	* In ''Literature/FungusTheBogeyman'', the Bogey people are green and have disgusting habits like being perpetually dirty and eating flies.
48	* ''Literature/PrincessesOfThePizzaParlor'':
49	** One of the potions in the first main story of the series is a green potion of jumping boosts:
50	---> The stuff tasted like pure, concentrated awful.
51	** In the ninth main story, the color is connected with clouds of magical stink.
52	*** One of the magical items is a [[spoiler:wand that]] shoots out stinky gas, the light of its casting is green, and [[spoiler:the wand itself is painted green]].
53	*** A stink cloud of green gas is emitted from a staff.
54	* ''Literature/SickSimon'' has a green book cover and it's a gross-out book about a disease spreading.
55	* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', one of the Clans' worst sicknesses is called greencough, named for the phlegm that cats get from it.
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58	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
59	* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'': In "Money", Edmund finds himself in a spot of bother and needs to find a thousand pounds in a day unless he wants to be murdered. Percy decides to help by perfecting alchemy, but only succeeds in making a dubious-looking substance Blackadder dubs "Green". Percy still hopes to make money by selling it as jewellery despite its appearance.
60	-->'''Blackadder:''' It looks like you've sneezed.
61	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': As with SicklyGreenGlow, writer Terrance Dicks observed that "The color for monsters is green for some reason."
62	* ''Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'''s "Green Slime" was an example of this trope, because the slime was supposed to be "gross", but it became more of a celebrated icon of Nick than anything unpleasant.
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65	[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
66	* The Cavity Goon from ''Series/TheAdventuresOfTimmyTheTooth'' has green fur and is associated with bad dental hygiene, namely eating junk food, and his VillainSong even describes him as being icky, slimy, and dirty. He doesn't bathe or clean his room and he throws his trash on the floor.
67	* Oscar the Grouch from ''Series/SesameStreet'' and most of his relatives have green fur and live in trash cans, as they have an extreme fondness for trash. Played with, as Oscar [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness was originally orange]], and according to WordOfGod, he would still be orange if he bathed once in a while. This gets discussed when he sings a revised version of Kermit the Frog's "Bein' Green", where he brings up the things ''he'' likes about the color.
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70	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
71	* In ''Franchise/GarbagePailKids'', a parody of the Cabbage Patch Kids, green is used for snot and other gross-out humor motifs.
72	* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}, ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar & ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': While he is associated with other colours (such as bruise purple, pus yellow and faecal brown) the favoured colour of Nurgle, the Chaos God of disease, rot, filth and life, is green and almost all of his followers show the colour somewhere on their bodies.
73	** Likewise, the Orcs/Orukks/Orks of the same setting are always a deep, dark green color, and live in slovenly conditions, alongside boars and other dirty creatures, barely shower or clean themselves, and keep any scraps and pieces of whatever they destroy laying around in case they need it for later, leading to settlements of scrape and garbage.
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76	[[folder:Video Games]]
77	* Gruntilda Winkybunion from ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' is a WickedWitch with green skin and many disgusting habits and hobbies, such as [[NoseNuggets picking her nose]], cuddling a loogie-filled handkerchief in bed, wearing streaky brown undies, and inflating party balloons with her butt.
78	* The eponymous ''VideoGame/{{Boogerman}}'', a [[ThePigPen Pig-Pen]] superhero whose main source of power is his own secretions like boogers, farts and burps, all disguised with the color green, which is also the color of his superhero suit (with a red cape). This was passed to his [[GuestFighter appearance]] in ''VideoGame/ClayFighter 63 1/3'', where even his [=2P=] color is a greenish yellow.
79	* ''VideoGame/CuteKnight1'': The [[MuckMonster living piles of trash]] that can be fought in the dungeon are green-colored.
80	* In ''[[VideoGame/DevilishHairdresser Devilish Valentine]]'', the liquid that the Devil [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink sneaks into the Angel's date's food]] is green. The dish later emits a green gas when consumed.
81	* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': The Afflicted followers of Peryite vomit up a neon green substance that they gather in jars and also use as a projectile attack.
82	* In the ''VideoGame/{{Gauntlet}}'' installment, ''Dark Legacy'', poison gas is colored green as well as the barrels which release said gas when destroyed. Similarly tainted meat and fruit are distinguished from other food items by being a sickly green.
83	* ''VideoGame/JimmyAndThePulsatingMass'': The Revolting Blob is a green BlobMonster made of gunk and trash.
84	* ''Franchise/LeagueOfLegends:'' Twitch, the Plague Rat, is an overgrown sapient rat that fights with a crossbow shooting sewage. His outfit and poison effects are all a bright green, and he's designed to look appealingly ugly and somewhat unhinged, with his lanky proportions and bulging eyes.
85	* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'': Zigzagged for "gloop", a green, slimy substance that's occasionally seen. On the one hand, the monster that secretes it is named Icky, and some monsters (particularly Katsumas) gag if you try to feed it to them. On the other hand, it is edible.
86	* Chaos from ''VideoGame/PrimalRage'' has the special move "Fart of Fury", where he releases a green cloud of methane as a projectile.
87	* ''VideoGame/{{Pronty}}'' is set entirely underwater. The most polluted areas of the ocean depths are, unsurprisingly, filtered in shades of dirty-green. Some area even has clouding green fog thick enough to obscure your onscreen characters.
88	* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'': The clouds of smoke from stink bombs are green.
89	* ''VideoGame/{{Koral}}'' have you playing as a plankton exploring various ocean floors which are brightly-colored, save for one heavily-polluted area where the water's filtered in green.
90	* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfPenAndPaper'': Ectoplasm's FlavorText is "Gross!", and it's a green sparkly wisp.
91	* ''{{Franchise/Doom}}'', ''VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena'' and {{VideoGame/Unreal}} always use a SicklyGreenGlow for 'toxic waste' or green sludge that will kill a player. The textures make it appear like it's staining the walls. Quake III has the bot characters calling the slime disgusting.
92	* Unreal and ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament'' have the "Goo Gun" that ''fires'' toxic green slime, which makes a squishy sound and emits noxious gas when it lands on the floor or walls. Taken even further with the Chaos UT mod for Unreal Tournament - you can get poison arrows for your crossbow. Hit an player or bot with them and they will ''cough up'' blobs of green goo.
93	* ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' has the SicklyGreenGlow for toxic waste but the Xen levels and the creatures from Xen have this as one of their motifs.
94	* In various ''VideoGame/TheSims'' iterations, Sims with low hygiene usually develop green stink clouds around their person.
95	** ''VideoGame/TheSimsMedieval'' has no specific Hygiene need (as your Sims are in TheDungAges, washing is available, but never required) but does give you a green stink cloud in one quest when you're required to carry [[ForeignQueasine nasty cheese]] around.
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98	[[folder:Web Original]]
99	* The throwing up emoji has green vomit.
100	* ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity'': Tissues hates the color green as revealed in ''WebAnimation/FansFantasticFeatures''. Considering his snot is green and always sneezes it out, his hatred of green could be because of his sickness: The "Condishawn".
101	* ''Website/TheOnion'': The picture used for "Rotting Crab Smell" is a greenish gas.
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104	[[folder:Web Videos]]
105	* Due to his association with the color Green, alongside all the jokes Matt and Pat make about him, Woolie from ''[[WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay Super Best Friends]]'' is usually referenced when something gross is seen on screen. Such as referring to any sort of filthy area or house as either the Woolie Hole or House.
106	* The ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'' version of Shrek is much grosser than his movie counterpart. SML Shrek defecates in Mario's bathroom frequently (leaving large messes as well), one time eating moldy cheesecake, which caused him to poop all over the couch, he farts a lot, and sometimes eats unhealthily. The actual Shrek's gross habits are more limited and a bit tamer.
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109	[[folder:Western Animation]]
110	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode [[Recap/ArthurS5E5TheLousyWeekYouAreArthur "The Lousy Week"]], Buster is dirty and has green gas on his head.
111	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Appa the big Sky Bison's snot is a sickly shade of green, as seen in the first episode when he sneezes on Sokka, who has to wipe away the green stuff with a disgusted expression.
112	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Breadwinners}}''. Farts are represented by a green gas cloud.
113	* ''WesternAnimation/CharlieAndLola'': In "This is Actually My Party", Lola finds the idea of green frosting gross.
114	* ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'': Virtually any time someone stinks, green fumes emanate from them.
115	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheHive'', rotten bananas have green stink lines coming off them.
116	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', when something smells bad, there's a green cloud.
117	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Numberjacks}}'': The Problem Blob is a green BlobMonster that spits green goo on people.
118	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'':
119	** In the episode "Down 'N Dirty", Buttercup refuses to take a bath, and throughout the episode, she is enshrouded by a green cloud of stink to represent her B.O.
120	** Alluded to with the name of the Gangreen Gang, a gang of green-skinned youths whose [[PunnyName name is punned after]] gangrene, a disease characterized by tissue death due to blood loss.
121	* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'':
122	** Downplayed for Slimer, who's green and blobby and leaves {{ectoplasm}} everywhere, but isn't portrayed as particularly gross.
123	** In "Ghostbuster of the Year", there is a green ghost who eats messily.
124	** "Follow That Hearse" features some toxic green gunk.
125	* Phil and Lil [=DeVille=] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' both wear green shirts (as green is their favorite color), and have [[FilthyFun an extreme fondness for anything gross]], including worms, insects, boogers, mud, and toilet water.
126	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarePants'': In the episode "Something Smells", Spongebob's awful breath is shown as a noxious green gas emanating from from his mouth.
127	* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': In "Moist Vessel", the green fumes that emerge from the holodeck filters serve as a visual aid to the audience that they're nauseatingly stinky.
128	* In ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'', Whiff and Scruff, the engines who work at Whiff's Waste Dump, are both painted green (though Whiff is a dark green, while Scruff is a light green). While both engines get [[ThePigPen very messy and smelly]] as the result of working at the Waste Dump, Scruff in particular [[HatesBaths hates being cleaned]].
129	* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
130	** Farts (usually caused by [[{{Gasshole}} Owen]]) are usually animated as green clouds.
131	** Courtney's biggest fear in "Phobia Factor" is green jelly because she thinks it resembles snot.
132	* In the ''WesternAnimation/TrueAndTheRainbowKingdom'' episode "Cosmic Sneeze", a Rainbow Kingdom resident spits out her drink when it is turned green by the Wachoogieboogies.
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135	[[folder:Real Life]]
136	* Invoked by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Yuk Mr. Yuk]], a symbol created by the University of Pittsburgh as a more convincing poison-warning signal for children. The traditional skull and crossbones symbol [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing was associated with pirates, and therefore considered "cool"]] and thus wouldn't warn kids away from poison. The symbol itself is a green face with a disgusted expression, the color chosen due to this trope. The ads promoting him even specifically stressed his greenness with a simple rhyme:
137	-->Mr. Yuk is mean\
138	Mr. Yuk is ''green!''
139	* Mucus ''can'' become a greenish color if you are sick. Since your nose is unlikely to run in any other situation (unless you have allergies, that is), and you run the risk of infection if you touch a sick person's mucus, this serves to enforce this trope.
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