Why is the DOOM space marine outfit green??

[vanilla_d00m]

^ Topic.

 

I searched and see nothing about it.  Why green?? I never gave it any thought untill that why are cacodemons red thread..

Edited May 21 by vanilla_d00m

[Trigsy]

I would guess it has something to do with the cover art and contrast. Alternatively, something to do with little plastic soldiers being green.

[idbeholdME]

Green is the army color, so probably to make it easily recognizable one is a member of the armed forces.

[BeachThunder]

 

[RataUnderground]

To not be confused with a red cacodemon.

[DNSKILL5]

For the same reason most militaries use green colored fatigues. It isn’t always for camouflage, it’s also used to identify. 

[Desfar]

So the blood is more visible

[Meerschweinmann]

When you are playing DOOM in Multiplayer there are other colors for Players 2-4

[xScavengerWolfx]

Like IdbeholdME said: The army wears green so there's your answer. The Doom marine is a ex army person working (used to work for) the UAC and then when the egg heads decided to open the portal to hell, he was the only one to send them back to where they belong.

 

Or i could be pulling stuff out for my ass and just making something up, who knows.

[DiavoJinx]

2 hours ago, vanilla_d00m said:

^ Topic.

 

I searched and see nothing about it.  Why green?? I never gave it any thought untill that why are cacodemons red thread..

Why do the monsters bleed red?

 

Same answer: because that's how id designed the art.
Not every piece of art has a deep history of meaningful design decisions. =)

[Redneckerz]

Just now, DiavoJinx said:

Why do the monsters bleed red?

 

Same answer: because that's how id designed the art.
Not every piece of art has a deep history of meaningful design decisions. =)

In current-day Doomology, everything has meaning. everything.

[Sneezy McGlassFace]

It's green to blend in the wilderness of Phobos. You can clearly see thick vegetation in E1 sky. That's also why the chainsaw was shipped in. 

[LegendaryEevee]

@vanilla_d00m From a military family.  This is because it's standard colors for the Marines (USMC) as well as Marines Special Forces (MARSOC).  Old School Death Match levels back when we had LAN parties you could be different colors.  Red, Green, Blue, and Black, etc.

 

[aboyes1989]

26 minutes ago, DiavoJinx said:

Why do the monsters bleed red?

 

Same answer: because that's how id designed the art.
Not every piece of art has a deep history of meaningful design decisions. =)

 

 

This. I get everyone wants lore to every sprite, sound, texture or cover art piece.. but sometimes dev teams just think thing look cool a certain way.

[bsharp]

"doomguy was punched in the stomach by a revenant and vomited on his suit. due to the general unavailability of clean water in hell, it has stayed green ever since."
- john romero, 1887

[Shepardus]

In the Doom Bible it was actually intended for the player to change color based on the weapon they were holding, but this was never implemented (the palette swaps were instead used for the different players in multiplayer games): https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_Bible#Weapons

[Doom-X-Machina]

Define "green".
What is "green"?
Does "green" truly exist if nobody can hear or see it?
What if "green" is an illusion created within the mind?

The big questions...

[idbeholdME]

Now that the warmup question has been answered, time for the real hitter:

Why is Megaarmor blue? Without the answer, the internal consistency of the entire Doom-verse is at stake!

[Sonikkumania]

He's an Gaddafist.

[ZeroTheEro]

olive drab is a common sight for plain color for military stuff anyhow.

[DoomGater]

He was fooling around on the gras with Daisy and he got  green stains all over his clothes. Or maybe, it's rabbit shit.

[Forgotten Soul]

On 5/22/2024 at 5:16 AM, bsharp said:

- john romero, 1887

Yea, Romero is 137 years old.

[VICE]

1 hour ago, Forgotten Soul said:

Yea, Romero is 137 years old.

Only in this incarnation.

 

 

If you ask me, the marine outfit is not green enough.

[Stupid Bunny]

The question I’ve always wondered is what color is his armor before he picks up the green suit of security armor? Is he shirtless? T-shirt? Different, shittier green armor? I’ve legitimately tried to speculate about this very pointless question