History Main / GreenIsGross

* In ''WesternAnimation/Hercules'', Hercules is covered in green slime having cut his way out from inside the Hydra, Hercules is covered with green slime. Swaying on his feet, Hercules tries to sheath his sword, only to drop it on the ground, before he himself collapses in the puddle of gore. Looking at Phil, who asks how many horns he see, a dizzy Herc sees triple and his answer is "Six?" The slime washes off after it started raining.

* The titular character from ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' is an ogre with green skin who lives in a swamp, bathes in mud and swampwater, and has many gross habits, such as [[{{Gasshole}} belching, farting]], and eating bugs.

* Invoked by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Yuk Mr, Yuk]], a symbol created by the University of Pittsburgh as a more convincing poison-warning signal for children. The traditional skull and crossbones symbol [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing was associated with pirates, and therefore considered "cool"]] and thus wouldn't warn kids away from poison. The symbol itself is a green face with a disgusted expression, the color chosen due to this trope.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'', Whiff and Scruff, the engines who work at Whiff's Waste Dump, are both painted green (though Whiff is a dark green, while Scruff is a light green). While both engines get [[ThePigPen very messy and smelly]] as the result of working at the Waste Dump, Scruff in particular [[HatesBaths hates being cleaned]].

* ''VideoGame/JimmyAndThePulsatingMass'': The Revolting Blob is a green BlobMonster.

* In ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', the emotion Disgust is green, as are memory orbs created under her influence.

See also GreenAroundTheGills and SicklyGreenGlow, when a nauseated character's face turns green and where green represents something dangerous or evil respectively. Also see TechnicolorToxin for when poison is represented with the color green. And finally, they are not all [[GreenAndMean bad guys.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarePants'': In the episode "Something Smells", Spongebob's awful breath is shown as a noxious green gas emanating from from his mouth.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', when something smells bad, there's a green cloud.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheHive'', rotten bananas have green stink lines coming off them.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "The Lousy Week", Buster is dirty and has green gas on his head.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'', Whiff and Scruff, the engines who work at Whiff's Waste Dump, are both painted green (though Whiff is a dark green, while Scruff is a light green). While both engines get [[ThePigPen very messy and smelly]] as the result of working at the Waste Dump, Scruff in particular [[HatesBaths hates being cleaned]].

* Unreal and ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament'' have the "[[FanNickname Goo Gun]]" that ''fires'' toxic green slime, 3whic makes a squishy sound and emits noxious gas when it lands on the floor or walls. Taken even further with the Chaos UT mod for Unreal Tournament - you can get poison arrows for your crossbow. Hit an player or bot with them and they will ''cough up'' blobs of green goo.

* Oscar the Grouch from ''Series/SesameStreet'' and most of his relatives have green fur and live in trash cans, as they have an extreme fondness for trash. #played with, as Oscar was originally orange, and according to WordOfGod, he would still be orange if he bathed once in a while.

Often a form of EditorialSynesthesia when used to represant unpleasant odors or gases.

** Monster Blood from the ''Literature/Goosebumps'' series is described as a green ooze with a SicklyGreenGlow. Averted in Monster Blood IV, where it's blue instead.

* ''Film/Troll2'': Pretty much everything involving the trolls involves green, particularly around the concoctions they make to turns humans into plants to feed on.

** From the first main story of the series, is a green potion of jumping boosts:
---> The stuff tasted like pure, concentrated awful

*** A [[spoiler:wand that]] shoots out stinky gas, the light of its casting is green, and [[spoiler:the wand itself is painted green]].

** Monster Blood fom the ''Literature/Goosebumps'' series is described as a green ooze with a SicklyGreenGlow. Averted in Monster Blood IV, where it's blue instead.

* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'': In "Money", Edmund finds himself in a spot of bother and needs to find a thousand pounds in a day unless he wants to be murdered. Percy decides to help by perfecting alchemy, but only succeeds in making a dubious-looking substance Blackadder dubs "Green". Percy still hopes to make money by selling it as jewelry despite its appearance.

* Oscar the Grouch from ''Series/SesameStreet'' and most of his relatives have green fur and live in trash cans, as they have an extreme fondness for trash.

* Franchise/GarbagePailKids, a franchise with trading cards, a film and a never aired animated series. A parody of the Cabbage Patch Kids, green was used for snot and other gross-out humor motifs.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}, ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar & ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': While he is associated with other colours (such as bruise purple, puss yellow and faecal brown) the favoured colour of Nurgle, the Chaos God of disease, rot, filth and life, is green and almost all of his followers show the colour somewhere on their bodies.

* ''VideoGame/CuteKnight1'': The [[MuckMonster living piles of trash]] that can be fought in the dungeon, are green-colored.

* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'': The clouds of smoke from stink bombs, are green.

* {{Franchise/Doom}}, ''VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena'' and {{VideoGame/Unreal}} always use a SicklyGreenGlow for 'toxic waste' or green sludge that will kill a player. The textures make it appear like it's staining the walls. Quake III has the bot characters calling the slime disgusting.
* Unreal and ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament'' have the "[[FanNickname Goo Gun]]" that ''fires'' toxic green slime, when it lands on the floor or walls it makes a squishy sound and emits noxious gas. Taken even further with the Chaos UT mod for Unreal Tournament - you can get poison arrows for your crossbow. Hit an player or bot with them and they will ''cough up'' blobs of green goo.

* Due to his association with the color Green, alongside all the jokes Matt and Pat make about him. Woolie from ''[[WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay Super Best Friends]]'' is usually referenced when something gross is seen on screen. Such as referring to any sort of filthy area or house as either the Woolie Hole or House.

* The eponymous ''VideoGame/{{Boogerman}}'', a [[ThePigPen Pig-Pen]] superhero which his main source of power is their own secretions like boogers, farts and burpings, all disguised with the color green, which is also the color of his superhero suit (with a red cape). This was passed to his [[GuestFighter appearance]] in ''VideoGame/ClayFighter 63 1/3'', where even his [=2P=] color is a greenish yellow.

See also GreenAroundTheGills and SicklyGreenGlow, when a nauseated character's face turns green and where green represents something dangerous or evil respectively. Also see TechnicolorToxin for when poison is represented with the color green.

* ''Film/TheGreenSlime'', the titular slime is a green glop that will turn into a large green monster with [[ShockAndAwe deadly, electrified tentacles]].

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* ''Fanfic/ElementalsOfHarmony'': ''Phthisis is Magic'': From [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/29275/5/my-little-praetor-phthisis-is-magic/visible-symptoms Chapter 5]], a spell was used to conjure a viridian foul ooze. Viridian is a shade of green.

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* *''Literature/PrincessesOfThePizzaParlor'':

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* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'': In ''Money'', Edmund finds himself in a spot of bother and needs to find a thousand pounds in a day unless he wants to be murdered. Percy decides to help by perfecting alchemy, but only succeeds in making a dubious-looking substance Blackadder dubs "Green". Percy still hopes to make money by selling it as jewellery despite its appearance.

--> '''Blackadder:''' It looks like you've sneezed.

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* Due to his association with the color Green, alongside all the jokes Matt and Pat make about him. Woolie from [[WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay Super Best Friends]] is usually referenced when something gross is seen on screen. Such as referring to any sort of filthy area or house as either the Woolie Hole or House.

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* Invoked by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Yuk Mr, Yuk]], a symbol created by the University of Pittsburgh as a more convincing poison-warning signal for children. The traditional skull and crossbones symbol [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing was associated with pirates, and therefore considered "cool"]] and thus wouldn't warn kids away from poison. The symbol itself is a green face with a disgusted expression, the color chosen due to this trope.

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* Everything Nurgle-related (Chaos god of disease, filth, and love) in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}'' is predominantly green, whether diseased skin, festering boils or clouds of well-fed flies.