Purple is not a villain color

**Ryko** · 2012-04-29 22:59

Only heroes who cant pull it off say that.

**Tajin** · 2012-04-29 23:42

Pimps are heroes

**Kiarax** · 2012-04-30 00:00

Hulk vs Piccolo

**Ryko** · 2012-04-30 00:07

They gave wesker a purple color because capcom considered purple to be a villainous color. Theyre trying to pigeonhole people into archaic hero/villain roles and we should make sure that we don't do that to our children.

**Rhyis.** · 2012-04-30 00:07

Sounds like Bats is jealous.

**Conrad** · 2012-04-30 08:28

A common link that I've seen is that everything purple is usually strongest

**Conrad** · 2012-04-30 08:28

Except adaberk cause that shit is blue.

**Linliel** · 2012-04-30 08:29

Purple was traditionally a kingly colour because the dye was so expensive to get. Make of that what you will.

**Milkster** · 2012-04-30 08:31

I always knew I looked good in purple for some reason, that explains it.

**Linliel** · 2012-04-30 08:36

For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrian_purple

It comes from sea snails.

Pliny the elder wrote about it in AD 77:

"The most favourable season for taking these fish [i.e., shellfish] is after the rising of the Dog-star, or else before spring; for when they have once discharged their waxy secretion, their juices have no consistency: this, however, is a fact unknown in the dyers' workshops, although it is a point of primary importance. After it is taken, the vein [i.e., hypobranchial gland] is extracted, which we have previously spoken of, to which it is requisite to add salt, a sextarius [about 20 fl. oz.] about to every hundred pounds of juice. It is sufficient to leave them to steep for a period of three days, and no more, for the fresher they are, the greater virtue there is in the liquor. It is then set to boil in vessels of tin [or lead], and every hundred amphoræ ought to be boiled down to five hundred pounds of dye, by the application of a moderate heat; for which purpose the vessel is placed at the end of a long funnel, which communicates with the furnace; while thus boiling, the liquor is skimmed from time to time, and with it the flesh, which necessarily adheres to the veins. About the tenth day, generally, the whole contents of the cauldron are in a liquefied state, upon which a fleece, from which the grease has been cleansed, is plunged into it by way of making trial; but until such time as the colour is found to satisfy the wishes of those preparing it, the liquor is still kept on the boil. The tint that inclines to red is looked upon as inferior to that which is of a blackish hue. The wool is left to lie in soak for five hours, and then, after carding it, it is thrown in again, until it has fully imbibed the colour."

Apparently it stinks horribly.

**Linliel** · 2012-04-30 08:40

I could go on about the interesting non-commercially-synthesisable nature of Tyrian purple but it's mostly interesting to me as someone who works with dyed fibres.

**Conrad** · 2012-04-30 10:11

what about carbon fibre

**shepardG** · 2012-04-30 10:35

What is the history behind the letters in certain words getting swapped ... Fiber fibre , this interests me

**Demosthenes** · 2012-04-30 10:42

Tyre

**tyven** · 2012-04-30 11:35

Originally Posted by Skirkle

what about carbon fibre

fguckin lol

**quannum** · 2012-04-30 12:37

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/4...ston_super.jpg

**Rhyis.** · 2012-04-30 12:44

Thanos is an example of the pussy controlling your life.

**Ryko** · 2012-04-30 14:11

Originally Posted by Rhyis.

Thanos is an example of the pussy controlling your life.

Shit lol

**Sera** · 2012-05-01 00:18

Originally Posted by Skirkle

what about carbon fibre

Bringing back the classics ic

**Sera** · 2012-05-01 00:18

shit does not work

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