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== Literature ==
* Averted and lampshaded in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s "''[[Feet of Clay (novel)|Feet of Clay]]"''. Vimes is very surprised to find out that arsenic is not green, since that is how he imagined a deadly poison.
** A dwarf who succumbs to poison in ''[[Thud!]]'' does salivate green, however.
** [[Terry Pratchett]] is very familiar with this trope: when he was press officer for British Nuclear Fuels, he got used to TV journalists bringing their own green smoke and bubbling test tubes so power plants would [[Reality Is Unrealistic|look right]].