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[[Power Glows]], but ''evil'' power glows green. Most of the time, this glow is closely related with death, as well. Good characters may wield power that has a green glow, but this is always a "healthy" or "natural" shade of green. Evil green is a more sickly, yellower shade that makes you want to take a shower to wash it off after just looking at it.
 
According to the principles of [[Technicolor Science]], radiation and all things [[I Love Nuclear Power|nuclear]] have a green glow, although this is seldom the case in [[Real Life]] (Cherenkov radiation in the pools of nuclear reactors is ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130516235727/http://www4.nau.edu/meteorite/Meteorite/Images/Cherenkov.jpg blue]'', radioactive cesium chloride fluoresces faintly blue, and hot radioactives are [[wikipedia:File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|orange]]).
 
Maybe the trope originated with [[wikipedia:Radium dials|radium-dial watches]], or perhaps bioluminescence (usually green), or perhaps just the odd pale green that corpses turn (and very faintly glow).
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