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7	->''Fist of the forest wind, Green Tornado\
8	Blade of the tropical storm, Green Sword''
9	-->--''Anime/GoLion [[ImageSong Sanka]]''
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11	When ElementalPowers are [[ColorCodedElements color-coded]] ([[ColourCodedForYourConvenience for your convenience]]), [[BlowYouAway air and wind]], being invisible and colorless, present a conundrum. Blue, yellow, and red are respectively taken by water, lightning/earth, and fire. In occult western symbolism, wind is supposed to be yellow, which as said is already taken by lightning or earth, and the next most likely color, white, may be taken by reserved for some form of WhiteMagic, be it holy, light, or healing.
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13	So in many settings, since it's the only one missing from ChromaticArrangement, wind gets associated with [[green:green]]. This may be in the color-coding system, in the motifs of the characters using it, by making the actual spell effects green, or any combination of those.
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15	In Hinduism, green is the color of the heart chakra, which is also associated with air. The association bleeds over into Buddhism, though not consistently. Additionally, Taoist philosophy considers wind a product of the element wood; after all, the most obvious sign of wind is when it blows through grass and trees. Therefore, you'll see this {{trope}} mostly in Asian works, particularly Japanese VideoGames, even though yellow and white are also cited as being associated with air by Chinese and Japanese symbolism. Could also be TruthInTelevision, as green skies will sometimes precede heavy storms (see the Real Life section).
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17	Today, this trope is often propagated by the association of wind with [[GreenMeansNatural earth-friendly, "green"]] wind-generated power.
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19	A SubTrope of ColorCodedWizardry and ColorCodedElements. Also a SubTrope of TechnicolorWind for other colors associating with wind.
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21	Compare WaterIsBlue, FireIsRed, and GoldIsYellow. Also compare YellowLightningBlueLightning and YellowEarthGreenEarth. Also see GravityIsPurple, for another colorless "element" that is often associated with a specific color. For another trope based on the same Hindu and Buddhist wind association, see PacifistWind.
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23	([[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant And no]], this has nothing to do [[ToiletHumor with that kind of wind]].) [[{{Fartillery}} Except when it does.]]
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25	!Examples
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29	[[folder:Advertising]]
30	* Green mint flavored products, such as breath mints and toothpaste, will often be advertised with a cooling breeze to show the one using the product, and the potential buyer, that they have a minty fresh breath.
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33	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
34	* In ''Anime/{{Bakugan}}'', Ventus [[note]]Wind element[[/note]] Bakugan are various shades of green, and brawlers who use them tend to wear green too. In the [[Anime/BakuganBattlePlanet reboot]], Ventus Bakugan are still green, but now have the [[YellowEarthGreenEarth earth element]] as well as the air element.
35	* Wind is represented as green in ''Manga/BlackClover''. The Wind Spirit Sylph appears as a fairy with a green color scheme. Her partner, Yuno, is a powerful wind mage and his grimoire and mana are green, with some of his spells having a significant green tint to them.
36	* In ''Anime/CardcaptorSakura'', Windy is a light greenish hue, though she sometimes looks more on the yellowish side.
37	* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', although not real elemental wind powers per Gotouge's own words, Sanemi Shinazugawa's Wind Breathing techniques are depicted as green colored in the Digital Color Edition, and his demon slayer mark is of a dark green color there too. Sanemi is also [[ColorCodedCharacters green-themed in general]] as the Wind Hashira. This also goes for the manifestation of Upper 4 Hantengu's pleasure, Karaku. Karaku is associated with the color green as well, although his green elemental wind powers are completely real.
38	* Zigzagged in ''Manga/FairyTail'', at least in the anime: Wind and air spells usually employ a green insta-rune circle when invoked, but the wind generated by those spells tend to be gray or colorless.
39	* In ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'', [=FuuRyuu=], whose name [[MeaningfulName means]] "wind dragon", is colored green.
40	* Shamal in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' series is firmly associated with the air element (her Device is named "Clear Wind" in German, she has wind-themed spells, and one of their RedBaron-esque titles is "Hand of the Healing Wind"... the other being "Lady of the Lake", go figure) and her magic color is light green/celadon. Her barrier jacket and most of her casual clothing are also mainly green.
41	* Vox Aura, the mech associated with wind in ''Anime/LagrangeTheFlowerOfRinne'', has a green color scheme.
42	* In ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' Fuu, who has wind-related powers, is color-coded to green. (Also: Hikaru, [[FireIsRed with fire-related powers, is color-coded to red]], and Umi, [[WaterIsBlue with water-related powers, is color-coded to blue]].)
43	* ''Anime/MazingerZ'' BreathWeapon was Rust Hurricane. Mazinger-Z blew a powerful gale of wind from its mouth grill that corroded the enemy into nothingness. In the first chapters that wind was green (although later it got changed to gray). It can be justified, since the wind was charged with corrosive particles could give him that color.
44	* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', Gaara, now Kazekage ("Wind Shadow") and head of the ninja village for the Land of Wind, has a green headpiece on the cover of manga volume 49. Previously, the piece had been shown as blue.
45	* In the ''Manga/OnePiece'' {{anime}}, the wind attack Dragon [[WildMassGuessing conveniently appeared alongside]] was green.
46	* It's easy to forget that Sailor Jupiter of ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' seems to share wind powers with Sailor Uranus since only WordOfGod has said that she can create cyclones and hurricanes. Her [[GreenThumb flower hurricane attack]] in the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]] demonstrates this, and naturally her image color is green. On the other hand, Uranus's wind powers are represented by golden energy in the first [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]].
47	* ''Anime/SmilePrecure'': Cure March, the second green-clad Cure of the entire ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise, has wind-based powers. The first green Cure, [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Cure Mint]], [[GreenThumb controlled earth]].
48	* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'':
49	** In ALO, the Sylph are wind-based fairies who are strongly associated with green, either from their choice of clothes, their hair color, or the magic they generate.
50	** In ''Alicization'', Wind Sacred Arts tend to appear as green energy.
51	* Inverted in ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'', where Mew Mint, who has wind-based attacks is {{Color Coded\|Characters}} blue, while water-elemental Mew Lettuce is color-coded green instead of the [[WaterIsBlue usual blue]].
52	* In the ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' anime, Grinpatch's [[SuperBreath breath]] is green.
53	* The Wind-attribute symbol in ''Anime/YuGiOh'' is green (both in the {{anime}} and in [[TabletopGame/YuGiOh the card game]]).
54	* Anime/CuteHighEarthDefenseClubLove has the [[SmartPeopleWearGlasses bespectacled]] Epinard for the good guys and the BeleagueredAssistant Argent for the bad guys. According to the fanbook, both have the attribute of "wind" and while Epinard plays it straight, Argent sometimes zigzags it by using silver instead of olive green.
55	* ''Literature/{{Tsurune}}'' uses a lot of wind imagery as the series deals with archery and movement is symbolized through green leaves.
56	* Wakana from ''Anime/PrettyRhythmRainbowLive'' is color-coded green and her special "quirk" is being able to feel the "wind" of music. Her ImageSong is also titled "Blowin' in My Mind."
57	* Windy the Wind Ignis from ''Anime/YugiohVRAINS'' is green. In addition to his attribute, he also creates and travels around in Data Storms, which usually take the form of tornados.
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60	[[folder:Card Games]]
61	* ''TabletopGame/ForceOfWill'' uses a green symbol for its wind-attribute cards.
62	* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' is a mixed case. On the one hand, [[http://magiccards.info/m10/en/42.html creatures]] [[http://magiccards.info/m11/en/50.html of air]] [[http://magiccards.info/m10/en/81.html and wind]] tend to be Blue, as the element itself is technically within Blue's domain, but [[http://magiccards.info/ch/en/34.html spells]] [[http://magiccards.info/10e/en/270.html dealing with]] [[http://magiccards.info/mm/en/243.html summoning]] [[http://magiccards.info/ai/en/86.html powerful winds]] tend to be Green, tying into Green's focus on denying air power to players and creatures. Black and Red wind spells also exist, as well [[http://magiccards.info/tp/en/264.html as at least one]] White wind spell and several White wind-related creatures.
63	* In ''Franchise/YuGiOh'', this is the case for the symbol of the Wind type (no type symbol is white, but the Japanese characters for all of them are), and some Wind archetypes and cards, such as the ''Gusto'' archetype and the card "[[StevenUlyssesPerhero Wynn]] the Wind Charmer".
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66	[[folder:Comic Books]]
67	* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'': Issues #39-40 have Sonic, Amy, and Tails fighting a trio of red, blue, and green Eggman robots called Egg Vipers. The red Viper is armed with flame throwers, the blue one is armed with water cannons and the green one uses wind turbines.
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70	[[folder:Fan Works]]
71	* In the ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' fanfic ''Fanfic/MapleSugarPrettyCure'', the green-haired, green-clad Cure Clover has wind-based powers.
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74	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
75	* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf - Animation/TheMythicalArkAdventuresInLoveAndHappiness'', Wolffy uses creatures called the Weathers with weather-themed powers at the beginning of the movie to fight the goats. The one that controls the wind is a pale green color.
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78	[[folder:Literature]]
79	* In all illustrated iterations (starting from the novel's illustrations) of ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'', the Ascart siblings are both wind magic users who usually wear green.
80	* In ''Literature/QuantumDevilSagaAvatarTuner'', the air currents that Gale generates are described as "bright emerald-green".
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83	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
84	* ''Franchise/{{Kamen Rider}}'':
85	** The [[Series/KamenRider first]] [[Series/KamenRiderV3 three]] Riders are powered by wind and have green feature prominently on their suits.
86	** Series/KamenRiderKuuga's Pegasus Form is ostensibly wind-elemental (though much more emphasis is placed on its being a [[FriendlySniper highly accurate sniper]]), and of course it's green.
87	** Series/KamenRiderDouble's Cyclone Memory is colored green, and it naturally extends to all forms with said Memory (including the Cyclone Dopant). As the Cyclone Memory is part of Double's default form, this also extends to any time another Rider (such as [[Series/KamenRiderZiO Zi-O]]) assumes the power of Double.
88	** Series/KamenRiderWizard's Hurricane Style is green as well as its upgraded form, Hurricane Dragon.
89	** Series/KamenRiderDrive has the Shift Car Funky Spike, which is green and lets him generate tornadoes.
90	** Series/KamenRiderSaber's resident wind-elemental Rider is Kenzan, a green-clad ninja.
91	* ''Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman'''s Green Ranger had wind at his command. (Western adaptation ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' included no such elemental powers.) But other than this, ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' avert it; with Red or Pink Rangers most commonly wielding wind. Elementally-based teams that have Green Rangers (not all of them do) tend to give them GreenThumb powers instead.
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94	[[folder:Toys]]
95	* The Air element is always represented as green in the ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' series, probably because the original Air-associated characters lived in the jungle. Downplayed in its successor ''Toys/HeroFactory'', where a character named Breez is green, but has only [[ElementalMotifs wind motifs]] with no elemental powers.
96	* {{Toys/Nerf\|Brand}} ''Vortex'' blasters are done in a fancy green shade.
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99	[[folder:Video Games]]
100	* The ''VideoGame/ArcanaHeart'' series features Tempestas, the Arcana of Wind. It takes the shape of a small, green, bird-like creature, and the attacks it allows its user to perform are all green in colour.
101	* ''VideoGame/BillyHatcherAndTheGiantEgg'' color-codes elements for eggs and some power-ups. Wind is green.
102	* ''VideoGame/Bomberman64TheSecondAttack'' features Ashtarth, one of the members of the Astral Knights, who has the power to control winds and holds the title of The Lord of the Winds. His knight outfit and elemental stone are both green-colored.
103	* While the spells themselves also involve a fair bit of gray, wind attacks in ''Franchise/BreathOfFire'' are denoted with a green whirlwind icon.
104	* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}''
105	** In ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin'' the spell Gale Wind appears in a shade of green, as does the Pneuma spell in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaOrderOfEcclesia''.
106	** The wind subweapon and Maria's [[TheFourGods Byakko]] offense in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaJudgment''.
107	** The Wind Book in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaHarmonyOfDissonance'' is also coloured green, as is the Wind Cloak from the same game.
108	* Inverted in ''VideoGame/ChronoCross''. Wind, along with [[GreenThumb nature]], is a manifestation of the Green element.
109	* ''VideoGame/{{Culdcept}} Saga'' uses Green to represent Earth and plant life, whereas wind is represented by yellow, symbolizing the wind rippling through wheat and drybrush. In fact, the elemental land for Air is represented by a wheatfield with a windmill.
110	* Appears in the video game ''VideoGame/DarkCloud 2'', as well as the original ''VideoGame/DarkCloud''.
111	* Wind skills in the ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' series.
112	* ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' splits the difference, having some wind spells be green, while others are white. It depends on the game that the caster came from and the color of the wind spells in it.
113	* In ''VideoGame/DragaliaLost'', the wind element is color-coded green. Quite a few characters attuned with the wind element also have green attire to match.
114	* In ''VideoGame/{{Dofus}}'', the Dofus of Aeralfal, the Dragon of Wind, is the Emerald Dofus. The colors yellow and white were already taken by the Ochre Dofus (belonging to Terrakourial, the Earth Dragon) and the Ivory Dofus (belonging to Dardondakal, the Dragon of Light).
115	* ''Franchise/DragonQuest'':
116	** In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVII'', just about everything that has to do with wind is green. The Green Fragments collected by the party in order to visit islands that were sealed away were originally known as [=WindShard=]s in the original [=PS1=] version. The Wind Spirit herself has green hair, wears green clothes, and her aura is green. The Air Amulet she bestows upon the party has a green jewel, as well.
117	** Although wind magic in earlier games has been portrayed as blue, white, and even yellow, modern games such as ''VideoGame/DragonQuestXI'' and spinoffs use the color green to represent the element of wind in general.
118	* Koei's ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' franchise features the Wind element in some games, represented by green energy. Pang Tong used to have a unique wind-element orb attack (most distinct in ''Dynasty Warriors 5'') which is colored an intense green. Several attacks that cause 'air bursts' show them with a white-green burst of energy and some {{Launcher Move}}s in ''5'' are depicted by a green-white whirlwind, complete with leaves.
119	* ''VideoGame/ElShaddaiAscensionOfTheMetatron'' has an unusual example. Out of the three weapons Enoch can use, the ranged one is a halo that commands [[FlechetteStorm clouds of knives]]. The light indicating it is still purified is green, and its power attacks while purified resemble green comic book wind lines. The weapon's name? Gale.
120	* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
121	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' play it straight, others not so.
122	** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'', the party's Aero and Aeroga spells and the enemy-exclusive Aerora are green. [[ElementalEmbodiment Air elementals and sylphi entites]] are green as well. The wind [[SummonMagic Esper]] Chaos zigzags it, though. While Chaos himself is partly Aeroja and Tornado are mostly grey. Even then, though, Aeroja has a bright green core and Tornado's animation is set against a backdrop of glowing green crystal shards.
123	** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', while most player character wind-based abilities are colorless or whiteish, wind crystals, solidified manifestations of elemental wind, are green. The most prominent wind-based Primal, Garuda, also has a green theme to her.
124	** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'', Aero takes the form of a green whirlwind. It's pretty much the only wind-elemental attack to be green, though. The only other wind-elemental ability that falls into this is Wind Slash in ''Tactics A2''.
125	* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'': Wind spells in the series are usually colored green and are cast using green tomes. In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', the name of the post-timeskip route in which you side with the Golden Deer is called "Verdant Wind," and it's the only route name that doesn't match the house colors[[note]]In the case of the Black Eagles, red is considered the color associated with the Adrestian Empire, so "Crimson Flower" fits[[/note]].
126	* Air type Vivosaurs in the ''VideoGame/FossilFighters'' series are have green fossils and user interface. In addition, many of them incorporate green into their appearance.
127	* Wind spells and Wind-elemented weapon skills are green in ''VideoGame/FrontierGate''.
128	* [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'', where the Anemo element is associated with a light turquoise (blueish green), and the element that a proper vibrant green is associated with is [[GreenThumb Dendro]].
129	* ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' uses purple to represent the Jupiter elemental spells ([[BlowYouAway wind]] and [[ShockAndAwe lightning]]). However, Karis, the Jupiter adept in the third game, has green hair (the other two were blond).
130	** Jupiter being purple is due to the influence of another trope -- Jupiter is the element associated with extrasensory abilities. However, green is almost as favored a color: Feizhi, Sheba (InconsistentColoring), and Sveta all have green eyes, and Karis's father Ivan has a penchant for green clothes.
131	** ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'' also has zol, {{Unobtainium}} that naturally has TronLines, can be made to fly with Jupiter-aligned energy, and can be forged into Jupiter-aligned weapons, armor, and accessories. Three guesses what color it is. A similar item is the Hover Jade from ''The Lost Age''.
132	* In ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAnimalParade'', all the harvest sprites wear outfits based on the element they have. (Red is fire, blue is water, etc.) The harvest sprite of wind, Darren, wears a green outfit and the green bell brings the wind back to the land.
133	* In ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd'', the [[PersonOfMassDestruction Herrscher of Wind]], Wendy, uses wind-based attacks. Both she and her attacks have green as their colour motif.
134	* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'', wind-based spells and attacks are light green, unlike the rest of the series where it's various shades of grey. This is likely because [[MeaningfulName Ventus]], who specializes in wind magic, is represented by green in the menus. ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories]]'' has the Xaldin enemy card which is used to activate Aero Guard. Aero Guard is a bright green wind-based shield that deals CollisionDamage to enemies, with hits dealt by it being represented by flashes of green light.
135	* ''VideoGame/{{Klonoa}}'''s ring, which fires a Wind Bullet, has a green gem.
136	* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon'', the wind element is coloured green, and all main characters representing wind (Lavitz, Greham, Albert) wear green armour/clothes.
137	* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyroANewBeginning'' has an earth breath that more or less should be called "nature breath" one of its various forms of attacks creates a green tornado.
138	* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
139	** The spell Farore's Wind from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' is green, though this has more to do with the spell's namesake, the Hylian goddess Farore, who is always represented by green. [[DummiedOut It's also rumored that the Farore-related Forest Temple in the same game was going to have some wind elements during its early development]].
140	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' features a Link who embodies BlowYouAway once he acquires the titular item-- he is, of course, clothed in green, but ''The Wind Waker'' usually averts this trope being itself white, same as the lines of wind that travel through the game's atmosphere. The Deku Leaf, which can be used to blow gusts of wind and glide on wind currents, ''is'' green, and the GustyGlade dungeon Wind Temple has lots of grassy terrain (with the plant-based character Makar serving as its new sage).
141	** This comes into play during ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwordsAdventures Four Swords Adventures]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap The Minish Cap]]''. Water and Fire are normal, but Earth is purple, and Wind, as expected, is green. However, this is because the four colors of Link's tunics in-game are Green, Red, Blue, and Purple. In the Elements' first appearance in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwords Four Swords]]'', however, the Earth Element is green and the Wind Element is purple, which was reversed in later games.
142	** The Forest Temple in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' features several wind elements, which might be a consequence of this very trope. The Gale Boomerang, found in this dungeon, shows luminous green leaves within the produced tornado when it's being used.
143	** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' all of the Champions' gifts are represented by a color. It's no surprise that Revali's Gale, the ability that lets you create an updraft, is green.
144	* ''VideoGame/LostMagic'' - the wind runes are all green. The wind magic that comes out is green.
145	* Averted in ''VideoGame/MagicalStarsign'' in which Wind magic is coded yellow, with the green color assigned to Wood magic instead.
146	%% * ''VideoGame/ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis''. %% How is this game an example?
147	* ''VideoGame/{{Maplestory}}'' has a class called the Wind Archer. It is one of the variations of the archer class, and it fights by channeling the power of wind into their attacks. Most of the attack animations and effects are green-colored.
148	* Has shown up at least twice in the ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'' series. ''[[VideoGame/MegaMan5 5]]'s'' Gyro Man and ''[[VideoGame/MegaMan9 9]]'s'' Tornado Man have green color schemes that extend to their weapons: the Gyro Attack fires green helicopter blades and the Tornado Blow summons a storm of green tornadoes. Additionally, the Tornado Hold (''VideoGame/MegaMan8'') turns Mega Man a teal color. Otherwise, he generally turned some shade of grey or blue and white. However, most of the other wind-based bosses, such as [[VideoGame/MegaMan2 Air Man]], [[VideoGame/MegaMan6 Wind Man]], and [[VideoGame/MegaMan8 Tengu Man]] avert this. Wind Man has ''some'' green on him, though his color scheme is mostly white and orange. Air Man and Tengu Man are mostly blue. [[VideoGame/MegaManV Jupiter]] is green and can fly, but his weapon is [[ShockAndAwe electric]].
149	* ''VideoGame/MegaManX4'' gives us the Double Cyclone weapon that fires small whirlwinds or deadly tornadoes with the same minty fresh color. Generally speaking, Wind is purple in the ''X'' series, with the Storm Tornado (VideoGame/MegaManX1), Wind Cutter (VideoGame/MegaManX7), and Wing Spiral (Videogame/MegaManX5) being depicted in purple and white shades.
150	* ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' kinda had four elements. There was Fire, Ice, Electric, and Non-elemental. Fire was red, Ice was blue, and Non-elemental was purple, but Electric sometimes also represented Wind. It was typically yellow when it did represent Electric-based bosses but green when it represented Wind-based bosses, though not always: Hivolt from ''ZX'' was green and focused more on the electric side of [[TransformationTrinket Model H]]'s powers (but he could also fly), while Hurricaune was mostly orange and yellow and focused more on Model H's air powers (but she could also shoot sparks from her tail).
151	* ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' plays it straighter; wind attacks tend to correspond to the Wood element in the ElementalRockPaperScissors system, which in addition to corresponding to the above-mentioned Taoist tendency to ascribe wind to the element of wood, also made it color-coded green.
152	* Fujin, the god of wind from the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' series of fighting games has a green theme, with green pants, grey hair with a green tint, green energy attacks, and even green bolts shot from his crossbow in [[VideoGame/MortalKombat4 his debuting game]].
153	* In the ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'' series, Wind skills tend to be colored green, both during gameplay and in menus. Also, of the main characters, the one who uses Wind skills the most tends to be Vert/Green Heart, who, as the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Microsoft's [[Platform/{{Xbox}} Xbox consoles]], is heavily associated with the color green (as if [[MeaningfulName her name]] wasn't clue enough).
154	* Averted in ''VideoGame/NaziZombies'', where the Wind Staff in Origins uses Yellow instead.
155	* In ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'', Wind icons, spell effects, and elemental enemies are all green.
156	* The Wind Brush Techniques in ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' shows up as swirly green lights, still drawn in the traditional Japanese painting style.
157	* ''VideoGame/{{Onimusha}}'': the elemental power of Wind and its related weapons are always associated with the color green, as seen with [[VideoGame/OnimushaWarlords Shippu]] and [[VideoGame/Onimusha2SamuraisDestiny Senpumaru]], weapons covered in green aura with a green color motif. The slight exception is [[VideoGame/Onimusha3DemonSiege Kuga]], which has a different magic, wields the element of "Sky/Air" and is teal rather than fully green.
158	* The ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games mostly avert this, as the closest thing the games have to a wind element, the Flying type, is represented instead with a sort of bluish gray. However, Tornadus, one of the OlympusMons of ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'', and the first pure Flying-type, is primarily colored green. As is [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Rayquaza]] from ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'', supposedly the very ''embodiment'' of the skies.
159	* In ''VideoGame/Quest64'' the player character controls the four elements and wind is associated with the colour green.
160	* ''VideoGame/PrayerOfTheFaithless'': Wind elemental damage's ShowsDamage numbers are in dark green.
161	* ''VideoGame/SagaFrontier'': Gale attack and gale slash have you firing green-colored "gales" of wind at the enemies.
162	* Green Wind-element attacks also appear in ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'', also by Koei. Enemies hit by Wind attacks are shown getting struck by green energy bursts shaped vaguely like a small air vortex and are thrown high into the air or sent flying to evoke wind power.
163	* Literally every ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' with sufficiently advanced graphics portrays wind - Garu in the ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'', Zan (Force) in ''VideoGame/Persona1'' and everything else - as being green.
164	** A few games take this a step further by associating the [[BlowYouAway wind users]] themselves with the colour green. This includes the "Aquarius Mask" enemies from ''VideoGame/Persona2'' (Aquarius is a wind sign) and [[PunnyName Gale]] from ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'' with his green hair, eyes, TronLines, etc.
165	* In ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'', Lidelle uses wind-based attacks in her moveset and has green as her colour motif.
166	* In the Creator/{{Compile}} shooter ''Spriggan'' and its SpiritualSuccessor ''Sylphia'', weapon powerups are colored orbs corresponding to the four classical elements. The green orb represents wind.
167	* In the ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden}}'' series, most wind based spells are green. Wind ''runes'' have been both green and a purplish hue. Meanwhile, lightning runes were electric green for several games while their spells were tinted purple. ''VideoGame/SuikodenV'' switches the colors to green-wind and purple-lightning to match the spells they emit.
168	* The ''Final Fantasy''-themed OptionalBoss Culex of Vanda in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' brings the Four Crystals into battle with him. No points for guessing which color the Wind Crystal is. Luigi can also sometimes make tornadoes (never mind how), and the wind is nearly as green as his hat.
169	* Most wind spells in the ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'' are green, the exceptions usually being white or teal in color. Accordingly, the wind [[ElementalEmbodiment spirit]], [[SummonMagic Sylph]] is often dressed in green or outright glows it.
170	* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', spells and techniques using the element of Wind are colored green, such as Cyclone and Wind Blade.
171	* The wind type in ''VideoGame/{{Temtem}}'' is coded as cyan. Some, but still relatively few temtem have this color incorporated into their design as well, most notably Tuwai and its evolutions.
172	* One of ''Franchise/TouhouProject'''s resident [[{{Miko}} Shrine Maiden]], Sanae, is associated with the wind since she is herself a wind priestess and has green hair.
173	* In the ''VideoGame/WorldOfMana'' series, wind attacks were colored yellow in earlier entries but were colored green as well in later entries. The wind elemental in the series shares a similar fate: his coloring was originally blue with yellow accents but has changed into green with yellow accents.
174	* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', wind spells are classified as Nature damage (along with lightning, poison, and earth), which is represented as green on the character pane. Shamans avert this with the wind being either white or a dusty brown but played straight with the monk's Spinning Crane Kick and its upgrade Rushing Jade Wind (removing the kick and making it RazorWind), which invokes the jade green coloration of Pandaren's matron of wisdom and healing, Yu'lon.
175	* In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'', the wind element ether crystals and Nebula enemies are green. However, when it's actually used in attacks, it's a grayish color.
176	* Averted in the ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' series, where Wind is associated with the color orange while the Earth element gets the color green.
177	* In ''VideoGame/{{Toukiden}}'', wind elemental attacks are usually green in colour, though white/clear tornadoes are pretty common. Most weapons that do wind damage are also green.
178	* In the ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' series, Lidelle (originally known in English as [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Rider/Rita/Ridel]]) is [[ColorCodedCharacters color-coded like the other Primp students to represent a puyo color]], in this case green. The magic spells she uses during puyo matches are themed around the wind.
179	* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' has green eyes and is able to [[BlowYouAway manipulate wind]] with [[SuperSpeed his powers]], in addition to being strongly associated with the wind element -- he's often described as being "free as the wind", and in ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheBlackKnight'' he's dubbed the "Knight of the Wind".
180	** There's also Jet the Hawk, who's a hoverboarder that uses a CombatHandFan. Guess what color he is.
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184	* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Dust is an energy source that produces ElementalPowers depending on what type it is. Wind Dust is sometimes depicted as green (and sometimes as a greyish-white).
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188	* ''Literature/TheBeginningAfterTheEnd'': Wind mana particles are green in color. On a character-specific note, Angela Rose, the resident wind mage of the Twin Horns, is always seen wearing light green robes.
189	* ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'': Wind magic is given the color green and all [[BlowYouAway wind]] and [[ShockAndAwe lightning]] spells we've seen cast have been green in color (except by Sakido for unexplained reasons).
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193	* Averted with the Buddhist-inspired Air Nomads in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', where the airbenders wear shades of yellow and orange and have blue arrow tattoos.
194	* In ''WesternAnimation/MeteoHeroes'' Ventum, the superhero with wind-controlling powers has a green color scheme.
195	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'' in part three of the [=OVA=] we get to see the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Six Primordial Dragons]], each color-coded after his own element. Aeralfal, the four-winged, eagle-like Dragon of Wind, is mostly green and was born from the Emerald Dofus.
196	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' plays with this. The Green Ninja is a prophecied wielder of a hard-to-define element that's a combination of Fire, Ice, Lightning, and Earth. Season 5 reveals that Master Wu had a previous student, Morro, who was the elemental Master of Wind, and who he suspected of being the Green Ninja. It didn't turn out to be true, but Morro kept the association with the color green.
197	* ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'': Windstone Crystals are green and grant the user control over wind.
198	* ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'': Hay Lin is the Guardian of Air. She wears a green top in Guardian form and her transformation sequence features the color green.
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202	* This probably has some basis in reality, since heavy storms will sometimes turn the sky an ominous greenish color. Folklore suggests that green skies mean tornadoes, but not all green storms produce tornadoes, and not all tornadic storms are green. However, if you see a green storm you should seek shelter anyways, as it will probably have hail and strong winds... Or at least a torrential downpour with some strong gusts. The reason for the green color is still a bit unclear [[note]]Partly because a strong storm is hard to reproduce in the lab, and it is hard to measure them directly without it smashing your expensive equipment.[[/note]] but it is thought to be because of light interacting with hail[[note]]This doesn't mean hail is reaching the ground - it may melt back into rain while still in the air[[/note]] in the storm cloud. Typically if a storm is green, it will indeed be either a [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast supercell thunderstorm]] with an exceptionally strong mesocyclone[[note]]A bit for those not "in the know" on extremely strong storms... A mesocyclone is a wide (2-10km), tall (height varies but 6,000m - 12,000m is normal) rotating updraft. Vertical speeds can break 200km/h, but fortunately that's rare. This is a lot worse than it sounds, as [[OhCrap almost all storms with mesocyclones have the potential to produce a tornado]].[[/note]] The good news is weather radar can see these storms (quite often depicting them, or at least their leading edge, in green) and allows advanced warning...except when these warning systems don't work, or an intense squall line.
203	* Plants (most of which have green leaves) are associated with oxygen and carbon dioxide because of photosynthesis.
204	* The planet UsefulNotes/{{Uranus}}, which consists mostly of atmosphere (and has no solid parts except for its core), has strong winds, and is named after the Greco-Roman god of the sky, is a turquoise-green color.
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