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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 9546835" data-attributes="member: 6796468">There's four big reasons goblins and orcs are green in the cultural zeitgeist.1) Games.Warcraft, sure. But also Warhammer miniatures and stuff. But with an even wider impact, Legend of Zelda type stuff. Original.<img src="https://www.zeldadungeon.net/wiki/images/4/4e/Moblin-Blue-LoZ-Sprite.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Sure, they're more blue than green, but on a crappy old CRT the difference is minimal.2) Movies.Hobgoblins, Ghoulies, even Labyrinth had green goblins. Sure, Ghoulies and Labyrinth also had yellow and red and orange ones, too.3) Comic Books[ATTACH=full]391071[/ATTACH]4) Fabric Dye.<img src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/JECrcLLPitp6aL6NeySIKTd9UxQ=/0x0:4200x2800/1400x1400/filters:focal(1764x1064:2436x1736):format(jpeg)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/53681359/GettyImages_537801104.0.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />This dress, and dresses like it, killed or injured thousands upon thousands of well to do women and their servants in the 1800s because it used Arsenic to get that particular shade of luscious vibrant green. Culturally we associate this color with death and ugliness, largely, because of it. Sure, there's elements of putrescence with green, or mold and rot, but this? This right here is the good stuff.This is why Goblins and Orcs are green at the root of it all. In the old folklore they were just tiny ugly people. Often misshapen, hairy, or in some cases 'Too Pale' rather than being green.</blockquote>

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