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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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Not to be confused with [[Degrassi]] sophomores hanging out in [[Local Hangout|The Dot]] in their [[School Uniforms Are the New Black|school uniforms]].
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== Anime
* In the anime of ''[[
* Takasugi Shinsuke from [[
* In ''[[
* The Moon Empress in ''[[
* 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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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Shows up in some ''[[Magic:
** 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 (
== 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.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[God of War (
* 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 ''[[
* The ''[[
* ''[[Metroid Prime
** In earlier stages of the game, the unique damage received from exposure to Dark Aether's takes the form of purple circles.
* In [[
* 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.
* ''[[
* In the ''[[
* All over the place in the ''[[
* 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.
* The Shadow Sirens and Shadow Queen of ''[[Paper Mario:
=== [[Visual Novels]] ===
* Miku's hair in ''[[
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[[Category:Purple Is the New Trope]]
[[Category:Tropes in Black]]
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