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When the subject of a TV show includes the use of deadly toxins, radioactive materials, or biological or chemical agents, you can almost be sure Special Effects artists will make them look a lot more interesting than they are in real life. This is because the vast majority of chemical compounds are colorless, odorless, tasteless and could easily be substituted with a glass of water or a spoonful of salt. Since that doesn't look exciting or menacing, they tend to get totally unrealistic spruce-ups. Radioactive elements tend to have a Sickly Green Glow, despite the fact that only radium paint does this in Real Life. And even then, it's the zinc sulfide in the paint reacting to high-energy alpha radiation that causes the pale green glow, not the radioactive element itself. Pure radium is an ordinary-looking silvery metal. Since radium paint was once used to make glow-in-the-dark watch faces and instrument gauges before the health risks became known, "radioactive = glowing green" has stuck in the public mind. For that matter, acid is almost always depicted green and frequently boiling too. While it's true that acid solutions in the real world can vary widely in color from green to red to everything in-between, the acids most often used for modern industrial purposes (sulfuric and hydrochloric) are colorless and clear. Furthermore, boiling them would not be a tremendously useful or wise thing to do. Incidentally, skin contact with most industrial acids will cause a potentially serious and painful chemical burn; but it won't dissolve someone instantly to the bone. Note, however, that there are several kinds of Deadly Gas in Real Life that are colorful — most notably, fluorine (yellow), chlorine (green), and bromine (red-brown), though bromine is a liquid at room temperature. Electricity, too, is more colorful and dramatic than in the real world, even more so in animation. Anything electrically charged, such as an electric fence, is more likely than not to light up the surrounding area with crawling arcs of jagged blue fire accompanied by a sizzling noise, even though in the real world such a display requires a charge of tens of thousands of volts and a separation from an electrical ground that is within rather narrow limits. If a person on TV is being electrically shocked, there will almost always be an extremely impressive display of buzzing and crackling arcs of flickering blue fire and perhaps even a display of X-Ray Sparks. While mains electricity at 100-250 volts is more than capable of killing a human being in the right circumstances, it isn't nearly enough for impressive displays of St. Elmo's Fire. The center of a nuclear reactor does glow, but it certainly doesn't pulse up and down, and again it's not green. The glow is called Cherenkov Radiation and it's a pleasing steady blue color. Of course, it's only safe to view that blue glow through water, at the bottom of a "swimming pool" reactor, if you see it in air, and not on the other side of thick leaded glass, then to quote Winchell Chung, "...the good news is you can probably live long enough write your last will and testament. If you write very quickly." Dropping a chunk of dry ice into a beaker of water will cause it to appear to boil and give off a ghostly white fog; this isn't all that useful (sometimes small pellets of dry ice are used this way in order to exclude air from a container briefly), but it is a staple of the Mad Scientist Laboratory. If you add a bit of universal indicator to the water, adding the dry ice will make it turn red and start smoking. Oddly, the one color you don't often see, but is actually common in laboratories, is hot pink. Phenolphthalein turns bright pink in a basic solution, and is frequently used in acid-base titrations. It will also go red in very strongly acidic solutions, though this is seldom used for anything in a laboratory. Electronics are not exempt from this either—high-tech machines will often be covered with pretty but seemingly pointless blinking LED lights (which old-school computer types refer to as "das Blinkenlights"), glass pipes full of glowing energy, and meaningless screens displaying bright symbols. Modern technology, especially things that need to be covert, don't usually have these; with the exception of MP3 players. However, if you go into a lab that works with transition metals, it will be very colorful. It's one of their noted properties. Gratuitous Laboratory Flasks are the standard container for Technicolor Science in its liquid form; expect to see plenty of examples of the Labcoat of Science and Medicine there as well. See also Technicolor Toxin and Science Cocktail. |
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Narbonic: "I find this line of questioning obscene. What manner of mad scientist neglects his flasks of colored liquid?" | |
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A dwarf who succumbs to poison in Thud! does salivate green, however. | |
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The eponymous "villain" of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog has many pieces of colorful liquid-filled equipment in his lab. | |
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The Legend of Rah and the Muggles has purple haze generated by nuclear fallout. Apparently, the moon can shine through it or something. Yeah... | |
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Batman (1966) usually follows this trope, especially with endless colorful variations of Knockout Gas. | |
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In The Feeble Files, Feeble is forced at one point to concoct a potion by mixing differently-colored potions in the right order. | |
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Lampshaded in Arrow, when they open a briefcase containing glowing blue vials. | |
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In Lamput, the various potions and serums that are created and used by the docs and their fellow lab workers come in vivid colors. | |
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Even the semi-realistic lonelygirl15 fell victim to this, albeit at a point when the realism was really starting to slack off. | |
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There are plenty of green glowing things at the nuclear power plant in The Simpsons, including Mr. Burns. In "E-I-E-I(Annoyed Grunt)" Plutonium is shown to be a glowing green instead of the real silver color, as well as a fluid instead of a solid (note that most plutonium used in the real world is in a liquid-like powdered form). A Carbon rod used to hold a door on a shuttle closed and seen in the opening is shown as a pale lime-green instead of the real-life black. Carbon rods are black, so black that carbon is sometimes used to as a pigment. However, it is also brittle. Unless the full length needs to be exposed, the rods are covered in a protective coating, with only a small amount at the end exposed. |
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In The Documents in the Case, the crucial forensic test is done with the room darkened, the only source of light being a crystal of common salt placed in the flame of a bunsen burner. It's described as giving a deathly greenish glow, though this is probably artistic licence, since the emission spectrum of sodium is orange-yellow. | |
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The third season premiere of Heroes, almost in the same breath as 90% of Your Brain. | |
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Back to the Future plays this straight with the lightning and some effects around the DeLorean, along with showing the plutonium as being bright red.note So what color is plutonium? The metal itself looks like metal, but if its reasonably pure it will probably be glowing orange for much the same reason that an electric stove's heating element does... because it's hot. | |
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In Command & Conquer: Generals, anthrax comes, in increasing lethality, as green, blue and pink clouds of death. Nuclear radiation, on the other hand, is orange. It still gets reflected by the Chinese Nuke Cannon, which may say "Green... is good." in reference to the Red Alert series' green radiation. | |
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One of R.A. Salvatore's The Legend of Drizzt novels prominently featured a giant green glowing pool of acid sitting in a cave for no reason. Walking above it was perfectly safe, but fall in and you instantly dissolved. Salvatore, it should be mentioned, was working from the manual he'd been given. Such pools of acid, along with oddly retiring lava, were staples of the Forgotten Realms Underdark campaign setting he'd been commissioned to write for. | |
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In Half-Life radioactive no-walk zones were Radium-glow green and set off the HEV suit's geiger counter. In Half-Life 2, the same zones are marked by a dark green non-glowing (yet still geiger-crackling) pit of sludge and can be traversed safely with the air-boat. In Half-Life 2: Episode One, the Citadel's Reactor Core glows blue because of what we can only assume is Cherenkov radiation. However, it is neither a fusion nor a fission reactor; it was built by Starfish Aliens from Another Dimension and generates dark energy, so any assumptions regarding its mechanics are pointless. |
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Rick and Morty in general is brightly colored and tends to get away with this trope, especially concerning Rick's fantastic inventions and other alien technology. This makes seeing a multicolored test tube set become weirdly jarring because it seems so commonplace by comparison. Best example of this is when Doofus Rick is making ovenless brownies for Jerry. | |
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Ghost Force: In one episode, Miss Jones is mixing beakers claimed to be water and sulfur trioxide, only one glows green while the other glows bright blue. | |
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Subverted subtly in The Big Bang Theory when Leonard walks into the kitchen to find Sheldon working with beakers full of colored liquid. Turns out he was trying to improvise growth plates for bacteria using flavored Jell-O. Truth in Television, sort of, as bacterial growth media often are gelatin or similar substances. It's not clear whether an improvisation with Jell-o would work, but it's not an unreasonable thing to try. | |
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In an episode of Just Shoot Me!, Maya gets covered in Toxic Waste while in the sewers and is later found to glow green in the dark. The chemicals are specifically described as "phosphates", none of which have this property in real life. The element phosphorus, on the other hand, does at least in its white form. It is also highly toxic and can (and does, though its use is controversial) serve as an incredibly lethal firebomb. This property is where the name "phosphorus" comes from, after all. And it does so because it's just slowly burns in the air. |
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In The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Frank N Furter's lab features a tank that he fills with rainbow-colored chemicals to bring Rocky to life. | |
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Obsidian contains a puzzle involving test tubes of primary-colored chemicals that need to react in a certain way with two secondary colored chemicals. And each chemical is represented by a geometric shape, with the number of each same-colored test tube corresponding to their "sides". Of course, this example is based in the simulated world of someone's dream, so what need is there for logic? | |
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Comes up in Civilization 4, where the map icon for uranium is a bunch of green rocks. Truth in Television the minor uranium ore mineral autunite actually is that color. What's more, it glows green under UV light. Also, near what is left of Uravan, the abandoned uranium mines can be easily spotted by the clear contrast of the green tailings against the red rock in the area. note Uranium is among the most interesting elements, with a variety of exotic compounds including the bright-yellow, highly corrosive and highly poisonous Uranium Hexafluoride, which meets all the criteria of Technicolor Hollywood science. It's the stuff that the "Bad Guys" want to obtain in Real Life. | |
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In the old Grenada Sherlock Holmes series Jeremy Brett's Holmes usually had a bunch of these scattered around his desk. Usually, they didn't do anything but bubble in the background, but sometimes they were used as a setpiece for solving a crime, or a bit of comic relief. | |
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The Strange and Somewhat Sinister Tale of the House at Desert Bridge: Old Man Bill's lab has many flasks and vials of colored liquids. One machine lets you create new items by combining them in different orders. | |
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Aliens in the Family: When Snizzy tries to bring a dead frog back to life, she uses plutonium. The plutonium has a yellowish-green glow. | |
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The chemistry set in The Sims yields potions of various bright colors. | |
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Played straight in The Nutty Professor. Of course, it was a comedy. | |
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This trope is played straight and averted in Borderlands. Corrosive elemental weapons and effects are day-glow green, including the expectorants of Spitter Skags. On the other hand, the obviously acidic projectiles from the Soldier, King, and Queen Spiderants are clear fluid in a gel envelope. | |
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In the Command & Conquer: Red Alert Series series, radioactive areas are recognizable by the green glow. Though while the first game was serious and grim, the other two are anything but. In Command & Conquer: Generals, anthrax comes, in increasing lethality, as green, blue and pink clouds of death. Nuclear radiation, on the other hand, is orange. It still gets reflected by the Chinese Nuke Cannon, which may say "Green... is good." in reference to the Red Alert series' green radiation. |
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The boiling vat of green acid turns up almost too many times to count in Batman: The Animated Series and several times in Teen Titans (2003) (see also No OSHA Compliance). | |
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Spoofed repeatedly on Dinosaurs. In "Power Erupts", a science fair project is a set of multicolored flasks labeled "red", "blue", "purple" and so on. In "Germ Warfare" a doctor prescribes "blue medicine" for baby Sinclair; when it doesn't work, he switches to orange medicine, "the newest and most powerful color known to science". | |
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All the Troubles of the World: The various computer parts shown during the opening and closing credits include flashing lights and strange dials. The colours are mostly red, green, and beige. | |
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Oversaturated World: Group Precipitation: "Passing Time, by Fo ME and Masterweaver": In Masterweaver's section, when science is being discussed, "multicolored test tubes" make an appearance. | |
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The police station in Lucifer has a lab with lots of beakers full of colourful liquids. | |
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In Cats & Dogs, Professor Brody's basement laboratory is wall-to-wall with glass beakers of brightly-colored fluids. (This is for a guy trying to produce a vaccine against dog allergies.) | |
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In Italian Spiderman well... | |
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In Wild in the Streets, a teenage Max Frost creates a basement drug lab with test tubes and vials of brightly-colored liquid. He tells his mother a dark green substance is LSD. | |
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Averted and lampshaded in Feet of Clay. Vimes is very surprised to find out that arsenic is not green since that is how he imagined a deadly poison. | |
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Risukuma of Puyo Puyo uses explosive beakers in battle, with the liquids in them being in bright colors like blue and green. | |
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In The IT Crowd, Richmond looks after the machines in what is presumably the server room, except he has no idea what the machines do, nor what the flashing lights mean. | |
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In Scream and Scream Again, the Hollywood Acid in Dr. Browning's facility is a sickly yellow colour. | |
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In Logan, Gabriela's footage of the lab where they experimented on the X-23 subjects features test tubes with colorful contents. | |
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In The Rock terrorists threaten San Francisco with VX nerve gas, portrayed as ominous green goo inside glass balls. | |
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Batman has a shootout scene in a chemical plant, which leads to numerous monets where vats and containers are punctured and spray reds and greens all over the place. Jack Napier also falls into a vat of green liquid. | |
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Averted in Suicide Squad, where the chemical vats that bleached the Joker and Harley Quinn look off-white. | |
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Doctor Who: "The Age of Steel": The Cybermen's electric shocks fit the "crawling blue fire" description, both when the Cybermen use them as an attack and when they malfunction. The Dalek apparatus in "Evolution of the Daleks" has both multi-coloured liquids in all sort of containers and a similar "crawling blue fire" effect for the lightning. |
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Diablo | |
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Earth 2140 is a notable aversion of the radiation subclass. Radioactive fallout doesn't glow green — or anything else. It's invisible and indicated on the minimap with an overlay of black-and-white squares so you can actually tell where it is. | |
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The University of Leicester once synthesized a krypton compound named "kryptonite" for a lark. It was a colorless crystal with a green light under it, but at least it's fairly harmful (it's a powerful oxidizer), unstable, and contained some radioactive krypton. | |
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Done infamously in The Twilight Saga: In her world, driftwood fires are blue. Supposedly because of the salt. In Real Life, the most common salt in seawater ... sodium chloride ... produces yellowish-orange flames, or in other words just about the color you'd expect a wood fire's flames to have anyway. There are salts that can produce blue flames, one example being caesium salts, but sodium is much more common in seawater than caesium is. | |
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Battlestar Galactica. Nuclear missiles always having glowing red tips; although this could be some kind of safety measure so ordnance doesn't get mixed up, even the Cylon nukes have this. Averted though with the disassembled nuclear warhead in Baltar's lab which doesn't glow at all. The glowing tips are actually little red lights that are presumably there so the audience can see the missiles at all. |
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Lost Pig: "Mysterious bubbling liquids in strangely shaped glassware is the heart of alchemy." | |
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In The Neanderthal Man, Professor Groves's workroom contains vials full of different-colored liquid, one of which is bubbling and steaming. | |
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The potion in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starts out red and then turns purple before settling on green. | |
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Parodied in the Homestar Runner toon, "DNA Evidence": | |
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Later Ultima games (the ones where inventory item are shown visually instead of as lists) have red health potions, green poison, blue antidotes, and other multicolored fluids. | |
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In Re-Animator, the Re-Agent (it revives the dead) is actually lime-green glowstick liquid. | |
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In Breaking Bad the meth starts out as the colorless crystal it is, but later in the series, Walt changes how he cooks and gets Blue Meth. Presumably, this trope is at least part of the reason for the change. (In Real Life, a blue color as pronounced as that seen in the show would indicate the presence of impurities, which is inconsistent with Walt's insistence on extremely high purity product.) | |
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Madame Curie: Marie and Pierre Curie realize that the stain on their bowl is actually the radium they were trying to isolate when they come back to the lab at night and find it glowing in the dark. | |
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Though it wasn't in a vat, The Batman lampshaded this when Batgirl said: | |
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City of Heroes | |
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