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[[File:purpledarkness_small_4628.png|link=Exit Fate (Video Game)|frame|Interesting shadow you got there.]]
 
{{quote|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpAFN1PFG_k#t=32s Looks more like a purple chronicle. Why do they always use purple for black?]|'''''[[HC Bailly (Let's Play)|HC Bailly]]'''''}}
 
Much like [[Hollywood Darkness]], purple is often used as a stand-in for black in comics and animation. This is predominantly because purple is easier to shade quickly and thus give the appearance of three-dimensionality; solid black objects in animation (and theoretically, [[Real Life]]) would lack contours and look very flat.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* In the anime of ''[[Rurouni Kenshin (Manga)|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 (Manga)|Gintama]], who is a [[Space Pirates|Space Pirate]] and definitely not a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]], has a purple Kimono.
* In ''[[Sailor Moon (Manga)|Sailor Moon]]'', Hino Rei is noticeably native Japanese (even though all but Aino Minako supposedly ''are''), with long black hair -- highlighted purple -- and a distinct epicanthic fold. On the other hand, Chiba Mamoru's hair is often straight black, but when highlighted, tends to be highlighted blue.
* The Moon Empress in ''[[Yaiba (Manga)|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.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Shows up in some ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering (Tabletop Game)|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 lettering--so maybe black is the new brown?
* ''[[Bakugan (Tabletop Gamegame)|Bakugan]]'' of the Darkus element are colored black and purple.
 
 
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[God of War (Video Gameseries)|God of War]]'', this is usually not used (green, red, or even yellow are more used), but Hades' Claws have a distinct violet glow.
* 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 (Video Game)|Spiral Knights]]'' are typically purple.
* The ''[[Fire Emblem (Video Game)|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 the Sacred Stones (Video Game)|Knoll]], and [[Fire Emblem Akaneia|Etzel]] - wear a shade of purple or have purple hair.
* ''[[Metroid Prime (Video Game)|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.
* In [[Age of Mythology (Video Game)|Age of Mythology]], the "Evil Clouds" are purple and black, and [[Big Bad]] Kronos has the same color smoke rising off of him. His minion also shapeshifts in a puff of purple-black smoke.
* In the GBA (and some DS) [[Super Robot Wars]] games, many units intended to be black (most notably [[Mazinger Z]] and it's relatives) were either purple or nonexistent (in the case of the Astranagant), allegedly due to the GBA not displaying black properly. However, these were alongside the [[Full Metal Panic|M9 Gernsback]] and Gespenst S, which were light grey but still usable enough to be black. Especially considering the Mazingers had perfectly fine black in their cut-ins.
* ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'' does have a black Shadow, but the logo of his power is purple, though still represented with pitch black half the time.
* In the ''[[Mega Man Battle Network (Video Game)|Mega Man Battle Network]]'' series, a lot of characters and objects associated with darkness wear purple or are colored purple; DarkMan, ShadeMan, Dr. Regal (BN5) and his henchmen, most DS Navis, DarkMega (in BN5, he's the regular MegaMan with a purple tint while his [[Mega Man NT Warrior (Anime)|anime]] counterpart has MegaMan's outfit colored purple), Dark Chips, Nebula Grey, and EraseMan, to name a few.
* All over the place in the ''[[Final Fantasy XI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XI]]'' expansion ''Wings of the Goddess''. Most prominent in the Spitewardens, who wear purple versions of [[Nice Hat|Red]] [[Badass in Aa Nice Suit|Mage]] artifact armour, though we also see it in [[Evil Is Sexy|Lady Lilith]] and {{spoiler|[[Eldritch Abomination|Atomos]]}}.
* In ''[[Breath of Fire 2]],'' Nina's "cursed" black wings appear purple in her in-game sprite.
* As the page quote points out, the Black Chronicle of ''[[Radiant Historia]]'' appears purple.
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== [[Visual Novels]] ==
* Miku's hair in ''[[A Profile (Visual Novel)|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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