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[[green:Green]], when not portrayed with [[GreenThumb landscapes and vegetation]], is often associated with [[EmeraldPower mysterious or mystical powers]] in fiction. A specific way this manifests is aliens, ghosts, witches, zombies, or other paranormal or supernatural entities having green eyes, green skin, and/or just a general aura of green about them. Since nothing naturally emits green light, choosing that as a color scheme for otherworldly creatures is a good way to indicate their unusual nature.

SubTrope of EmeraldPower and SicklyGreenGlow and SuperTrope to GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe, LittleGreenMen, and UndeathlyPallor. Compare GreenIsGross, for when the color green is used to denote disgusting things and may overlap with this. Contrast GreenThumb, when the color green denotes the natural world.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga'': Some of the Franchouchou girls have green skin, which their manager Kotaro has to cover up with extensive make-up work so they can pass for human.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Franchise/TheDCU:
** Green is the most common, toxic, and well-known form of [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Kryptonite]]. Additionally, longtime Superman adversary ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} is an alien android with green skin.
** ComicBook/MartianManhunter belongs to the Green Martian race. His niece, Miss Martian, is naturally a White Martian but passes herself off as a green one due to it being more comfortable for her.
** ComicBook/TeenTitans has ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, an alien princess with green eyes and energy powers that are also primarily green in coloration.
** ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
*** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': The evil witch Circe wore a green outfit for most of her appearances
*** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2011'': When Franchise/WonderWoman meets this version of [[spoiler:Persephone]], the latter is pale green. Before her unhealed sliced wrists are shown, this serves as {{Foreshadowing}} that she's dead.
** There's also the Franchise/GreenLantern Corps, whose green light they use represents willpower on the emotional spectrum.
** ComicBook/{{Ragman}} wears a green costume containing the souls of the dead. It is what grants him superpowers and has been passed down from generation to generation in his family.
** The Enchantress of ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' and ''ComicBook/{{Shadowpact}}'' is a powerful witch who wears green. She can also fire magical blasts of green energy.
* ''ComicBook/SwampThing'':
** The titular character is a large, green plant monster.
** The Green is the name of the elemental force which connects all plant life on earth. It is also the source of ComicBook/PoisonIvy's powers.
* Franchise/MarvelUniverse:
** ComicBook/{{Gamora}} is an immortal, green-skinned alien assassin and considered to be the "most dangerous woman in the galaxy."
** ComicBook/ImmortalHulk has a putrid-looking shade of green for his skin, and he is meant to be a supernatural SatanicArchetype.
** The Skrulls are evil, green alien shapeshifters.
* ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'': Necroplasm, an otherworldly material, naturally glows green.
* ComicBook/TheUltraverse: Ghoul of the Exiles is a green RevenantZombie.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'':
** Part of Xibalba's color scheme is deathly green.
** Instead of unique artistic designs on their skulls, the Forgotten have glowing green spirals.
* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'', the last room left in the Other World is lit only by the green flames of the Other Mother's fireplace. The effect is [[SicklyGreenGlow very unsettling]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': The River Styx and its ghostly inhabitants are both an eerie green.
* Kai, the main villain of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' is a spirit warrior, and has a SicklyGreenGlow as his color motif.
* ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman'': All the ghosts glow pale green to underscore their undead state. The witch's powers glow bright green to emphasize her [[spoiler:supposed]] evil nature.
* ''WesternAnimation/Planet51'': All the aliens have green skin.
* The Friends on the Other Side from ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' are dark green in color.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'', FairyDevilmother Maleficent has slightly green skin and her magic usually glows green as well.
* WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryDirectToVideoFilmSeries:
** ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryAndTheWizardOfOz'': Like in the original film, the Wicked Witch has green skin.
** ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryBlastOffToMars'': The Martians are depicted as small, green aliens.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'': All four films have green, three-eyed toy aliens.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheTwelveTasksOfAsterix'': The ghosts are depicted as green.
* In ''Witches In Stitches'', all the Witches have green skin.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'': The place [[TheAfterafterlife where souls go when a ghost is killed]] has a green glow coming out of it.
* The 1980 adaptation of ''Literature/TheCantervilleGhost'' has the titular spectre, Simon du Canterville, appear to the family limned in an unearthly green radiance. His magic is also green, and he turns into a green orb when he wants to go fast.
* ''Film/EuroTrip'': A hallucinatory Absinthe fairy is fully green.
* ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'':
** Slimer is a green ghost and the unofficial mascot of the franchise.
** In general, some of the ectoplasm and other ghosts are green in color.
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing'': The army of the dead is composed of greenish ghosts.
* ''Film/MarsAttacks'': The Martians have green skin and wear green spacesuits.
* ''Film/MoulinRouge'': A hallucinatory Absinthe fairy has green skin and a green outfit.
* ''Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians'': The titular Martians have metallic-green skin.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'': Yoda is a diminutive, green alien who acts as TheMentor to Jedi.
* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'': The [[WickedWitch Wicked Witch of the West]] has sickly green skin.
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[[folder:Folklore and Mythology]]
* {{Leprechaun}}s are typically depicted as little men in green suits, sometimes with green skin in modern works.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Cthulhu of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos is described as a “gelatinous green immensity“ in ''The Call of Cthulhu''. The Great Old Ones, with their alien origins and matter, are quite unnatural.
* ''The Keeper Of The Isis Light'': Olwen was [[RaisedByRobots raised by her robotic Guardian]] alone on the planet Isis until a ColonyShip arrives. She soon [[TomatoInTheMirror learns]] that her green-bronze skin (along with other features) were caused by Guardian genetically modifying her as a toddler to adapt her to the planet, and that the colonists find it hideously lizard-like. She leaves their society in disgust.
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', the ability to [[DreamingOfThingsToCome dream the future]] is known as greensight. Those who possess this ability are sometimes called greenseers; they also have other magical abilities, such as entering and controlling the minds of animals. Amongst the [[OurFairiesAreDifferent children of the forest]], the greenseers were their leaders and shamans. The children are usually born with golden eyes, both those born with powers of a greenseer often have [[ColorCodedEyes green or red eyes]]. Jojen Reed, a human boy with the power of greensight, is also noted to have moss green eyes.
* ''Literature/TheTommyknockers'': The alien space ship that slowly causes everybody in the area to become like the aliens who built it emits an eerie green glow.
* Octarine, the [[FictionalColour colour of magic]] in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', is "a sort of greeny-purple".
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' is fond of using green to denote the "unusual" or "otherworldly" aspects of some aliens (like Medusans from "Is There In Truth No Beauty?" or Apollo's spectral hand in "Who Mourns For Adonis?") and devices (such as the Tantalus Field's effect in "Mirror, Mirror" or Romulan disruptor weapons and ships).
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': The pure essence of [[EntropyAndChaosMagic Chaos]] manifests in the physical world as bright-green crystalline Warpstone, which fuels BlackMagic and mutates anything unfortunate enough to be exposed to it. There's a [[BadMoonRising moon]] made of the stuff, which ignores normal astrophysics and keeps most sane people indoors whenever it's full.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'':
** Green is the signature color of Jupiter, Maiden of Secrets, and her Sidereals; those Chosen by Secrets have green eyes, green caste marks, and green anima banners, and their various affinities include knowledge of the occult.
** Green ''fire'', meanwhile, is usually associated with [[OurTitansAreDifferent the Yozi Malfeas]], the [[GeniusLoci Demon City]], in large part thanks to his most prominent soul, Ligier, being the green sun that illuminates the Demon City.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Theatre/BlackFriday'': Moments where [[AdorableAbomination Wiggly]] shows his power are often accompanied by a green glow, and the Tickle-Me-Wiggly Dolls that kick off the HatePlague (and the plot) are bright green. This fits into the show's TwistedChristmas theme as well, since moments of "human" evil are signified by a dark red. As a nice bonus, the show is a critique of American consumerism and capitalism, making it all the more appropriate that the main villain is associated with the color of American money.
* ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'': Just as with other versions of ''The Wizard of Oz'', the Wicked Witch (Elphaba in this case) is green. Upon being born, everyone screams when they see her color. She herself dreams of seeing the Wizard and getting him to "de-greenify" her, though she starts to feel better about her color after visiting the Emerald City.
-->'''Glinda''': ''It's all grand''
-->'''Elphaba''': ''And it's all green!''
-->'''Both''': ''I think we've found the place / Where we belong.''
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[[folder:Urban Legends]]
* Many allegedly "real" encounters with ghosts state that they glow green when they aren't [[LivingShadow living shadows]] or transparent.
* In a similar vein, tales of the aforementioned LittleGreenMen.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/AFKArena'', any magic used by a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Graveborn]] like Isabella, Daimon, Theowyn, and Shemira[[note]]Except if using an alternate costume, in which case the magic effects will change to match[[/note]] will have a sickly green glow. Their faction emblem is also green, and [[UndeathlyPallor so are several of their bodies]].
* ''Franchise/BlazBlue'':
** Ragna, Jin, and Saya (as well as Saya's clone Noel) have naturally green eyes [[spoiler:due to their nature as children of the [[ArtificialHuman fifth prime field device]]]].
** In his ghost form, BigBad Yuuki Terumi sports a green and black color scheme. This carries over to Hazama's green hair, and [[spoiler:the Susano'o Unit]] when he possesses it in Central Fiction.
* ''VideoGame/CorridorZ'': The lunch lady zombie has green skin.
* ''VideoGame/{{Diacrisis}}'': Green zombies occasionally appear.
* ''Website/GaiaOnline'': One of the main skin tones for zombies is green.
* In the ''VideoGame/HarryPotter'' games, ectoplasm left by ghosts is colored green.
* Souls and spirits from ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' are almost always visually shown with a green color. This is best represented with [[Characters/MortalKombat3 Ermac]], a being composed of a [[IAmLegion legion of thousands of souls]]. Their eyes have had a green glow ever since ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception'', and they fire off green energy blasts as part of their moveset.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Misdreavus and the Dreepy line are all bluish-green Ghost types.
** Elgyem is a grey-green, Psychic-type alien.
* In ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara 4'', Kyogoku Maria has a green (and yellow) color scheme and is an incredibly powerful wizardess.
* Throughout the ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'':
** Palgaea Shrine / Kunpaetku Shrine, a recurring HomeStage for characters like Astaroth and Lizardman, is where the evil cult Fygul Cestemus operates. Most of the time, it's filled with green lighting and surrounded by green water. And in ''VideoGame/SoulCaliburV'', Astaroth himself is green as well, due to being a FrankensteinsMonster-like replica this time.
** Necrid in ''VideoGame/SoulCaliburII'' WasOnceAMan, but was twisted into a green-skinned monstrosity called a Malefic by spending a little too much time in [[EldritchLocation Astral Chaos]]. A pale green is also the default color for Malefic custom characters in ''VideoGame/SoulCaliburVI''.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
** Green is the color most associated with the Burning Legion, specifically in the form of the green fire Fel Flame. The Legion are demons that more or less exist to destroy and/or dominate other worlds within the ''Warcraft'' universe.
** Starting in the ''Mists of Pandaria'' expansion Warlocks, a class that utilize demons and Fel magic in combat, can do a quest for a cosmetic that grants their fire spells a green color rather than the standard orange. Their corruption of the orcs of Draenor is also indicated by the normally brown or gray-skinned orcs turning green, though the most corrupted Fel Orcs turn red.
** Some of the Forsaken have skin in various shades of green. Death Knights can also come in green.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/MinilifeTV'': Master Quoker's eyes glow green [[spoiler:whenever he's possessed by the demonic entity Mako]].
* ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated'': The flashback sequence in "Ghost" involves the Mystery Skulls investigating a cave with an unusual green glow and green fog that puts [[EvilDetectingDog Mystery]] on guard the moment they step inside. It is revealed the fog in the cave is from an entity residing inside it[[spoiler:, as that same green coloring crawls up Arthur's arm to signify it possessing him]].
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'', Morgan la Fey wears green because "[[https://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0102.htm green is the color of Faerie]]".
* ''Webcomic/ZombieRanch'': Humans turned into zombies become noticeably green on the outside, while other mammals just seem to go green on the inside.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* In ''Website/{{Neopets}}'', green fur is often the color of choice for powerful magic characters, such as Sophie the Swamp Witch, Edna -- also a witch, and Xandra, whose magical power dwarfed even [[PhysicalGod the Faeries]].
* In ''Website/{{Subeta}}'', [[EldritchAbomination Riftborn pets]] will have green eyes, [[EyesDoNotBelongThere none of them in the correct place]].
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AtomicBetty'': Sparky is a short, green alien and one of the main characters.
* The Omnitrix of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' gives off a bright green glow whenever it does anything particularly powerful, Ben himself has green eyes, Ben's transformations happen in a flash of green light, and some the alien heroes (Stinkfly, Wildvine, and Upchuck) are green themselves. The trope only increased as the story went on: starting with ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'', the Omnitrix itself becomes green, all the alien forms have green eyes, Ben himself dresses in green (and so do his alien forms starting with ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'', and it's eventually revealed his favorite color is green (like we didn't guess). He could generally rival Green Lantern at this point.
** Green is also the favorite color of Azmuth (who also has green eyes), the supergenius creator of the Omnitrix among other inventions.
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': The [[PhantomZone Ghost Zone]] is generally green-colored, and the protagonist himself has "glowing green eyes" and [[AlienBlood green blood]] in ghost form and shoots green blasts of ectoplasmic energy from his eyes and hands. Additionally, many of the other ghosts also have green eyes, green skin, and/or green spectral energy.
* ''WesternAnimation/DorothyAndTheWizardOfOz'': Both Wilhelmina and her aunt, the original Wicked Witch of the West, have green skin.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Mark Chang, his parents, and some of the other Yugopotamians are green-skinned aliens.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': The [[GreatGazoo Great Gazoo]] is a diminutive green alien with immense powers.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
** Morbo is an alien with green skin who hates humanity.
** Kif and other Amphibiosans are green-skinned humanoid aliens.
** In "The Honking," the headlights and grill of original were-car SATAN emit green rays when he awakes.
* ''WesternAnimation/GerryAndersonsNewCaptainScarlet'': The Mysterons are an alien race that is never shown on screen. They are instead symbolized by twin rings of green light. Mysteron replicants also have eyes that glow green.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': Discussed in "Billy and Mandy Moon the Moon" (the final part of Cartoon Network's "Invaded" series) when Sperg says green is the favorite color of aliens.
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': The Irkens, the technologically advanced alien race to which the eponymous character belongs, are green.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': Marvin the Martian has a green helmet and green skirt.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' uses this trope quite a lot:
** Morro, Sensei Yang, and all the other ghost enemies from Season 5 have transparent green "skin" and many of them wear green.
** The Departed Blades and [[ArtifactOfDoom Yin Blade]] from the Day of the Departed episode are all transparent neon green. The resurrected past villains who use them all also have a slight green tint to show that they're undead.
** The [[ArtifactOfPower Skull of Hazza D'ur]], the artifact used by the Skull Sorcerer, is slightly green in color when inactive, and glows bright neon green when animated and floating around.
* ''WesternAnimation/MartinMystery'': Billy is a green alien who's normally the size of a small child, [[spoiler:but his true form is both much larger and more muscular]].
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': The [[GhostPirate Flying Dutchman]] and [[GhostShip his ship]] glow a sickly green color.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The first Gem Steven encounters that is explicitly not related to Earth in any way is Peridot, a [[CreepyMonotone deadpan]] green Gem with mechanical limbs that's come to Earth for reasons unknown to him that absolutely ''terrifies'' the other Crystal Gems.
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SubTrope of EmeraldPower and SicklyGreenGlow and SuperTrope to GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe, LittleGreenMen, and UndeathlyPallor. SisterTrope to SupernaturalIsPurple. Compare GreenIsGross, for when the color green is used to denote disgusting things and may overlap with this. Contrast GreenThumb, when the color green denotes the natural world.

* Octarine, the [[FictionalColour colour of magic]] in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', is "a sort of greeny-[[SupernaturalIsPurple purple]]".

* Octarine, the [[FictionalColour colour of magic]] in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', is "a sort of greeny-[[PurpleIsPowerful purple]]".

->''"Green is not a creative color."''
-->-- '''Sketchbook''', ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared''

** Palgaea Shrine / Kunpaetku Shrine, a recurring HomeStage for characters like Astaroth and Lizardman, is where the evil cult Fygul Cestemus operates. Most of the time, it's surrounded by green water. And in ''VideoGame/SoulCaliburV'', Astaroth himself is green as well.
** Necrid in ''VideoGame/SoulCaliburII'' WasOnceAMan, but was twisted into a monstrosity called a Malefic by spending a little too much time in [[EldritchLocation Astral Chaos]]. A pale green is also the default color for Malefic custom characters in ''VideoGame/SoulCaliburVI''.