The Color of Corruption - How Purple Is Used in Video Games

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The Color of Corruption - How Purple Is Used in Video Games
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Sounds like someone just watched Unbreakable for the first time.

Super heroes are red and blue, super villains are green and purple.

So:

Hero: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/35/Supermanflying.png

Villain:
https://superheroeseveryday.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/149-luthor-new-costume.jpg

Hero:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/Web_of_Spider-Man_Vol_1_129-1.png

Villain:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6c/Green_Goblin_Comic_Art_by_Luke_Ross.webp/279px-Green_Goblin_Comic_Art_by_Luke_Ross.webp.png

So I know what you're thinking... "What about Hulk? Green skin, purple pants, why is he a hero?"

https://superbromovies.com/2018/05/02/the-hulk-and-the-incredible-colors-of-a-villain/

"Simple: he wasn’t originally the hero. In the early issues of the character, the Hulk was more of a villain, destroying everything in his path and Dr. Bruce Banner was the hero of the story."

Hulk was originally grey. Printing error made him green, they kept it.

I think it was more that the printer couldn't consistently make him the same gray, but could with green