Of the lot, the teeth-baring creature with the deep green complexion in "Ellie Greenwich" is the most vampiric.
Her nemesis, Elphaba (Idina Menzel), the Wicked Witch of the West, is an idealistic do-gooder and social pariah with a scary green complexion, who is fanatically intent on liberating Oz's caged animals.
The green complexion is associated with deep knowledge and is also the colour of Budha, the presiding deity of the planet Mercury who governs intelligence.
The goddess Parvati is often depicted as a goddess with green skin complexion in Tamil Hindu tradition.
Barney likened Palmer to a medieval virgin, an ode to her ankle length red hair, sea-green eyes and complexion.
Chinese and Muslim sources of the 7th 12th centuries ce describe the Kyrgyz as red-haired with fair complexion and green (blue) eyes.
Today's all-points-bulletin for a "black man" could give way to tomorrow's search for a suspect with dimples, copper complexion, and green eyes.
With his green eyes and fair complexion, inherited from his Ashkenazi ancestors; his tendency to over-use the word Oy, a habit he picked up from me; and the surname he shares with his father, he believes he's easily recognizable as being of Jewish descent.
Mayor Cory Booker's light green eyes and light complexion suggest some white in his history and so the search to find out how his family got the Booker name is particularly revealing, not only of his own history but of a more general truth about interracial relations in the time of slavery.
And in keeping with gothic style, O'Brien has fun with his women: slender, feline, boasting green eyes, blanched complexions, elliptical speech and sinuous names.
