Spock's Blood after the childhood fight scene

Quick question ... I saw a clip on YouTube and since it wasn't too high-rez I couldn't be sure. But, after young Spock gets into the fight with the other kids, it looks as if he has a spot of red blood on his lip. We all know it should be green.

Can anyone confirm or deny this?

 

Don't worry, it's green

Approved.

 

Can we confirm or deny that we all know it should be green?

 

There's a nice green bruise too.

 

Why is his blood green and not red, anyway? Are Vulcan traits just more dominant than human traits? Maybe it should have been something in-between.

 

Green and red mixed makes.. mud.

It was kind of dried green blood by that point so it was very dark.

 

Maybe you should just go to see the movie.

 

It was green.

 

Is there a lot of canon about why Vulcan blood is green? I'm no chemist but it seems a bit fanciful to me*. Horseshoe crabs have blue blood because their blood is based on copper instead of iron. What kind of blood base would turn green on oxygenation?

*yes, yes, I realise how ridiculous it is

 

Corroded pennies turn green. Gene Roddenberry remembered this from his childhood spent digging them out of fishponds and incorporated into his Spock biology. Thus green blood means it is copper based.

 

It was purple on account of his having contracted Grabthar's Flu.

He can thank Kohlinar that he didn't get Lounse Disease or he'd have been bleeding polka-dots.

 

the bruises on his face have a greenish tint..

 

Then he got it wrong. See my horseshoe crab posting above.

 

Yeah, I think McCoy cited his copper based blood as the reason Spock survived the cloud creature attack in 'Obsession'.

 

I believe Spock's blood is red.
It just turns green when it comes in contact with his make-up.

 

This has been discussed at length before; expect to see posts introducing octopus biology into the thread, too.

There's a Grabthar's flu? Fascinating.

 

Yes. Hits like a hammer apparently.

 

But it shall be avenged.

 

Yeah, but it's chartreuse. It should have been a deep emerald.

CANON VIOLATION!

(Yes, I am joking.)