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* ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlant'': The main ship is equipped with an artificial gravity generator. When switched on, it releases purple air waves.

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* The tractor beam tool in ''VideoGame/InsanelyTwistedShadowPlanet'' is purple, as are objects that can be manipulated with it.



* Magneto's attacks in the VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom series heavily employ his lesser known GravityMaster skills and are all colored purple.



* The tractor beam tool in ''VideoGame/InsanelyTwistedShadowPlanet'' is purple, as are objects that can be manipulated with it.
* Magneto's attacks in the VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom series heavily employ his lesser known GravityMaster skills and are all colored purple.
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* ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankIntoTheNexus'': All of the gravity manipulation-themed puzzles are depicted with a very saturated purple including the grav streams that you generate with the Grav-Tether and use to get to new areas.
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The answer appears to be purple most of the time. This color does appear to be very popular to associate gravity with in East Asian media. Now, the logic for this one doesn't appear to be very obvious. Is it because [[PurpleIsPowerful gravity is powerful]]? Or maybe [[SupernaturalIsPurple otherworldy]]? After all, purple is viewed as a space-ish color, despite outer space being mostly black (but then again, PurpleIsTheNewBlack). In Western media, gravity tends to have more diverse coloring (assuming it even has color in the first place), with purple occasionally showing up as well.

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The answer appears to be purple most of the time. This color does appear to be very popular to associate gravity with in East Asian media. Now, the logic for this one doesn't appear to be very obvious.obvious at first. Is it because [[PurpleIsPowerful gravity is powerful]]? Or maybe [[SupernaturalIsPurple otherworldy]]? After all, purple is viewed as a space-ish color, despite outer space being mostly black (but then again, PurpleIsTheNewBlack). In Western media, gravity tends to have more diverse coloring (assuming it even has color in the first place), with purple occasionally showing up as well.
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* Magneto's attacks in the VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom series heavily employ his lesser known GravityMaster skills and are all colored purple.
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* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': It's very subtle, but a flash of purple light sometimes appears around Uraraka's fingers when she activates her antigravity powers.
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* The tractor beam tool in ''VideoGame/InsanelyTwistedShadowPlanet'' is purple, as are objects that can be manipulated with it.
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Issho, a.k.a. Admiral Fujitora is able to manipulate gravity, which usually manifests as purple energy waves. He follows the tradition of Marine Admirals that dress accordingly in regards to their ElementalPowers.

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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Issho, a.k.a. Admiral Fujitora Fujitora, is able to manipulate gravity, which usually manifests as purple energy waves. He follows the tradition of Marine Admirals that dress accordingly in regards to wearing attire whose color palette matches their ElementalPowers.

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A SubTrope of ColorCodedElements. Compare FireIsRed, WaterIsBlue, WindIsGreen, and YellowLightningBlueLightning.

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A SubTrope of ColorCodedElements. ColorCodedElements.

A SisterTrope to SupernaturalIsPurple.

Compare FireIsRed, WaterIsBlue, WindIsGreen, and YellowLightningBlueLightning.

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* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': The character Yaya Yah's gravity manipulation is depicted as purplish pink, and she appropriately wears lots of pink and purple.
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* Roxy "Freefall" Spalding from ''ComicBook/Gen13'' had her gravity represented through purple energy or sparkles several times. She also had a preference for purple clothing.
* ''ComicBook/{{Starman}}'': Thom Kallor[=/=]Star Boy sometimes had purple effects show up when he used his gravity manipulation powers. His original costume was also primarily purple.

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* Roxy "Freefall" Spalding from ''ComicBook/Gen13'' had has her gravity represented through purple energy or sparkles several times. She also had has a preference for purple clothing.
* ''ComicBook/{{Starman}}'': Thom Kallor[=/=]Star Boy sometimes had has purple effects show up when he used uses his gravity manipulation powers. His original costume was also primarily purple.



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* In ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'', purple is the primary color of Matoran, Toa, and Turaga of Gravity.
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* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': The character Yaya Yah's gravity manipulation is depicted as purplish pink, and she appropriately wears lots of pink and purple.
* In ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'', purple is the primary color of Matoran, Toa, and Turaga of Gravity.
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* In ''Anime/MetalFightBeyblade'', Julian Konzern owns a beyblade named Black Excalibur which is a GravityMaster. The bey itself had a black-purple color scheme and its bey spirit is portrayed with a light purple color palette.

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* In ''Anime/MetalFightBeyblade'', Julian Konzern owns a beyblade named Black Excalibur which is a GravityMaster. The bey itself had has a black-purple color scheme and its bey spirit is portrayed with a light purple color palette.
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* In ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'', purple is the primary color of Matoran, Toa, and Turaga of Gravity.
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* ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'': Magneto's elemental attacks and specials are purple colored, and are far more focused on his gravitational abilities than his signature magnet powers.
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* Averted in ''Fanfic/AmbienceAFleetSymphony''. [[spoiler:Suzukaze's protocol energy is black.]]
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* Averted for ''VideoGame/GravityRush'': if there's anything gravity related, it tends to be red, [[RedIsHeroic including main character Kat]]. The exception to this is Kat's [[TheRival rival]] Raven, whose power manifest as a [[RedOniBlueOni blue colour]].
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* Averted for ''VideoGame/GravityRush'': if there's anything gravity related, it tends to be red, [[RedIsHeroic including main character Kat]]. The exception to this is Kat's [[TheRival rival]] Raven, whose power manifest as a [[RedOniBlueOni blue colour]].
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* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'', pretty much every gravity- and graviton-based attack is black with purple highlights. This is also true concerning their [[UnrealisticBlackHole black hole]] attacks, strange enough.

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* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'', pretty much every gravity- and graviton-based attack is black with purple highlights. This is also true concerning their [[UnrealisticBlackHole black hole]] attacks, strange enough.
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* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'', pretty much every gravity- and graviton-based attack is black with purple highlights. This is also true concerning their [[UnrealisticBlackHole black hole]] attacks, strange enough.
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* ''Anime/FutureCardBuddyfight'': Most of Gaito Kurouzu's items and spells are gravity-related.

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* ''Anime/FutureCardBuddyfight'': Most of Gaito Kurouzu's items and spells are gravity-related.gravity-related, and he himself wears a ton of purple, hair included.
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* ''Anime/FutureCardBuddyfight'': Most of Gaito Kurouzu's items and spells are gravity-related.


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* Averted in ''Fanfic/AmbienceAFleetSymphony''. [[spoiler:Suzukaze's protocol energy is black.]]
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* ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'': Magneto's elemental attacks and specials are purple colored, and are far more focused on his gravitational abilities than his signature magnet powers.
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* The gravity lifts from ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' employ gratuitous purple gravity effects.
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* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'': The Gravity Suit, a recurring upgrade for Samus, is purple-colored in most games (The ''Prime'' games make it more bluish gray). However, a more literal example of this trope is in ''[[VideoGame/MetroidOtherM Other M]]'', where the Gravity Suit is just a feature of the Varia Suit instead of its own thing. Activating it causes Samus to be surrounded by a purple aura, turning her immune to all gravitational effects.

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* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'': The Gravity Suit, a recurring upgrade for Samus, is purple-colored in most games (The ''Prime'' games make it more bluish gray). However, a more literal example of this trope is in ''[[VideoGame/MetroidOtherM Other M]]'', where the Gravity Suit is just a feature of the Varia Suit instead of its own thing. Activating it causes Samus to be surrounded by a purple aura, turning her immune to all gravitational effects. In addition, in ''Other M'', passages with strong gravity have dark purple walls.
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* ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' presents SelfDemonstrating/{{Magneto}}'s elemental attacks and specials with a purple aura, focusing more on his gravitational abilities than his signature magnetic powers.
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* ''Franchise/NinjaGaiden'': The Art of The Piercing Void, one of Ryu's most powerful ninja techniques, allows him to control gravity in order to create a black hole surrounded by purple energy.

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* ''Franchise/NinjaGaiden'': ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'': The Art of The Piercing Void, one of Ryu's most powerful ninja techniques, allows him to control gravity in order to create a black hole surrounded by purple energy.
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* The Falchion β from ''[[VideoGame/{{Gradius}} Gradius Gaiden]]'' has the "Gravity Bullet" as a possible weapon which is basically a purple bullet that explodes into a purple SphereOfDestruction.
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* ''VideoGame/Dota2'': The champion Enigma is said to be the AnthropomorphicPersonification of gravity itself. He is always surrounded by a light purple aura.

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* ''VideoGame/Dota2'': The champion hero Enigma is said to be the AnthropomorphicPersonification of gravity itself. He is always surrounded by a light purple aura.
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* In ''Anime/MetalFightBeyblade'', Julian Concern owns a beyblade named Black Excalibur which is a GravityMaster. The bey itself had a black-purple color scheme and its bey spirit is portrayed with a light purple color palette.

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* In ''Anime/MetalFightBeyblade'', Julian Concern Konzern owns a beyblade named Black Excalibur which is a GravityMaster. The bey itself had a black-purple color scheme and its bey spirit is portrayed with a light purple color palette.
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* ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' presents SelfDemonstrating/{{Magneto}}'s elemental attacks and specials with a purple aura, focusing more on his gravitational abilities than his signature magnetic powers.
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Gravity, when depicted as an [[ElementalPowers element]], tends to be quite tough to visually represent in media, what with it being an invisible force and all. Well, [[BlowYouAway wind]] has a similar problem with being colorless, but people from Asia decided to just depict it as [[WindIsGreen green]] at some point. Maybe they also came with a solution for this? What kind of color would they use to represent gravity?

The answer appears to be purple most of the time. This color does appear to be very popular to associate gravity with in East Asian media. Now, the logic for this one doesn't appear to be very obvious. Is it because [[PurpleIsPowerful gravity is powerful]]? Or maybe [[SupernaturalIsPurple otherworldy]]? After all, purple is viewed as a space-ish color, despite outer space being mostly black (but then again, PurpleIsTheNewBlack). In Western media, gravity tends to have more diverse coloring (assuming it even has color in the first place), with purple occasionally showing up as well.

Like gravity, [[CastingAShadow darkness]] also tends to be associated with purple color schemes, and is not uncommon for both elements to overlap with each other. In this case, some black or dark blue may be mixed with the purple. UsefulNotes/BlackHoles are a popular result of this elemental blending, and they're also often depicted with purplish tints despite their name (again, because PurpleIsTheNewBlack). Expect {{Gravity Master}}s to have purplish motifs too.

A SubTrope of ColorCodedElements. Compare FireIsRed, WaterIsBlue, WindIsGreen, and YellowLightningBlueLightning.

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* ''Manga/BlackCat'': TheBrute Maro can both control the gravity around him and project super-dense gravity bombs, which are purple-colored.
* ''Manga/DGrayMan'': Eshi, one of the Akuma, is able to create "Gravity Chains", which are purple and made of dark matter.
* ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'': Gravimon's gravity techniques have purple energy effects on them.
* ''Manga/FairyTail'': Bluenote Stinger, one of the antagonists of the Tenrou Island Arc, uses Gravity Magic, which mixes black with two or three different shades of purple.
* In ''Anime/MetalFightBeyblade'', Julian Concern owns a beyblade named Black Excalibur which is a GravityMaster. The bey itself had a black-purple color scheme and its bey spirit is portrayed with a light purple color palette.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Issho, a.k.a. Admiral Fujitora is able to manipulate gravity, which usually manifests as purple energy waves. He follows the tradition of Marine Admirals that dress accordingly in regards to their ElementalPowers.
* ''Manga/ZatchBell'': Brago, who fills the role of TheRival. His gravity is portrayed as both black or purple (or even both) depending on the spell he uses.
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* Roxy "Freefall" Spalding from ''ComicBook/Gen13'' had her gravity represented through purple energy or sparkles several times. She also had a preference for purple clothing.
* ''ComicBook/{{Starman}}'': Thom Kallor[=/=]Star Boy sometimes had purple effects show up when he used his gravity manipulation powers. His original costume was also primarily purple.
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* The Gravity Bomb from ''VideoGame/Bomberman64TheSecondAttack'' causes a dark purple "explosion" that sucks everything found within its radius into a black hole, located at its center.
* ''VideoGame/Dota2'': The champion Enigma is said to be the AnthropomorphicPersonification of gravity itself. He is always surrounded by a light purple aura.
* The ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' has the spell Gravity/Gravira/Graviga (occasionally known as Demi), a PercentDamageAttack that is often colored purple with black, reflecting on how the gravity element is sometimes lumped with the darkness element.
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' has Gravity spells in the first game and ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]''. In the former game, they're purple mixed with black (as a nod to Final Fantasy's own Gravity spell), while in the latter, they're just purple.
* ''VideoGame/MegaMan5'': Gravity Man's... well, gravity, is shown colored purple and dark blue in at least [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/megaman/images/d/d5/Gravityman.png/revision/latest?cb=20100929004802 one official artwork]].
* ''VideoGame/MegaManX'':
** ''VideoGame/MegaManX3'': The Gravity Well weapon, used by Gravity Beetle (and X), has pale purple tones in [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/megaman/images/e/e1/RXC093.png/revision/latest?cb=20130922105731 official artwork]]. X also gets a primarily pinkish purple armor when equipped with it.
** ''VideoGame/MegaManX8'': Gravity Antonion's weapon, the Squeeze Bomb (which X can copy after defeating him), is colored black and purple.
* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'': The Gravity Suit, a recurring upgrade for Samus, is purple-colored in most games (The ''Prime'' games make it more bluish gray). However, a more literal example of this trope is in ''[[VideoGame/MetroidOtherM Other M]]'', where the Gravity Suit is just a feature of the Varia Suit instead of its own thing. Activating it causes Samus to be surrounded by a purple aura, turning her immune to all gravitational effects.
* ''Franchise/NinjaGaiden'': The Art of The Piercing Void, one of Ryu's most powerful ninja techniques, allows him to control gravity in order to create a black hole surrounded by purple energy.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'', Zarya's ultimate, Graviton Surge, is a swirling vortex of energy with streaks of dark blues and purples.
* The ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' move Gravity, which grounds all Pokemon currently in the battlefield (leaving them open to Ground-type moves while also preventing airborne techniques from being used), was depicted as a downward, dark purplish wave in Generations IV and V.
* The G-Lifter from ''VideoGame/{{Rochard}}'' is a sort of gravity gun that fires purple gravitational energy that moves objects around.
* The Violet Void power up from ''VideoGame/SonicColors'' turns Sonic into a violet-colored, living black hole.
* The Gravitron boss from ''VideoGame/{{Strider}}'' is a machine that emanates a violet gravity field around itself.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Tso Lan, the Demon Sorcerer of Moon, is able to alter gravity through dark purple beams. His outfit is a red and purple Chinese robe.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGalaxyTrio'': Gravity Girl is a costume example. Her outfit is almost entirely purple and violet, but her gravity rays are white (most of the time, at least).
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* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': The character Yaya Yah's gravity manipulation is depicted as purplish pink, and she appropriately wears lots of pink and purple.
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