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{{quote|Looks more like a purple chronicle. Why do they always use purple for black?|'''''[[HC Bailly]]'''''}}
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== Anime
* In the anime of ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', the uniforms of the Oniwabanshuu/the Oniwaban Group have been colored purple. The original manga was bichromatic, and Watsuki's coloring has been...startlingly inconsistent. The fans who wonder will probably never know whether the Oniwaban uniforms actually ''were'' purple, or if that was just a choice made by the animators to avoid the pitfalls of animating black.
* Takasugi Shinsuke from [[Gintama]], who is a [[Space Pirates|Space Pirate]] and definitely not a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]], has a purple Kimono.
* In ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', Hino Rei is noticeably native Japanese (even though all but Aino Minako supposedly ''are''),{{verify|reason=Is
* The Moon Empress in ''[[Yaiba]]'' has her hair and [[Playboy Bunny]] outfit shaded violet.
* In the manga of ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'', Anthy's hair is black, while it's purple in the TV series and movie.
* Inverted in ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'', in which Sakuyamon, which is a [[Holy Hand Grenade|Vaccine type]], has a purple light power. The more dark Virus types are more associated with red.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* There is some debate over whether or not [[The Joker]] originally wore a purple or black suit.
** Regardless, the purple suit is now iconic and has been used throughout comics and by actors as varied as Cesar Romero, Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger and Mark Hammill's versions of the Joker.
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* Shows up in some ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]'' art related to Black cards. For instance, some [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=157889 varieties] of [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=8331 Swamps] have purple colors. This is largely to give them ''some'' color, as purple isn't claimed by any of the others. Inverted, however, with some old card catalogs; Red, Blue, Black, and Green card names are all printed in their respective colors, but White is printed as purple (since, obviously, printing it as white would be problematic).
** Frequently inverted in regard to White cards; several White spells are seen emiting a purple light.
* In the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' card game, "Dark" has a purple symbol. Earth, on the other hand, has a black symbol with white
* ''[[Bakugan (game)|Bakugan]]'' of the Darkus element are colored black and purple.
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== Toys ==
* Ravage, the stealthy jaguar whose colors traditionally are black with either red or yellow highlights, has recently been getting purple highlights on his figures. His abilities have always been explicitly shadow-based, and it seems like designers are taking it to the next level.
* Toy versions of Spider-Man's black costume sometimes get this, as a pure black costume would be visually uninteresting and, apparently, toy designers get sick of blue highlights.
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* Played straight inconsistently in the ''[[Pokémon]]'' games: some Dark-type moves are purple, even though the icon for the Dark type is black, with purple being used for the Ghost type. Likewise, a standard Shadow Pokemon has a black-purplish aura when detected. A Shadow Pokemon caught in Hyper or Reverse Mode has a blood-red aura instead
* Shadow-based weaponry and attacks in ''[[Spiral Knights]]'' are typically purple.
* The ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' series as a whole depicts Dark magic as a mix of black and purple, at least from the GBA era onward. Most playable Dark users - [[Fire Emblem Elibe|Sophia, Lleu, Niime, Canas]], [[Fire Emblem:
* ''[[Metroid Prime|Metroid Prime 2: Echoes]]'' brings the purple blob-shooting Dark Beam that can [[Freeze Ray|freeze enemies]] with charged shots. [[Dark World|Dark Aether]] is visually a copy of Light Aether, but darker and purplier. Not to mention the dark purple Ing and the purple-colored doors that require said Dark Beam to open them.
** In earlier stages of the game, the unique damage received from exposure to Dark Aether's takes the form of purple circles.
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=== [[Visual Novels]] ===
* Miku's hair in ''[[A Profile]]'' is called black, but it clearly has some shade of purple. On the cover and in the introduction, it's a fairly bright purple, but apart from that, it tends to be grayish purple instead.
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