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No but for real the real reason is they don't want to confuse it with a fire attack, so it's been changed from a vaguely flame/explosion looking animation that might be confused with a fire move to a highly threatening colour (the black is pretty edgy) which also won't be mistaken for an elemental based type like grass water or electricity.
Also, gen III double helix hyper beam is the best fuck outta here retards