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Perhaps a combination of [[Partial Transformation]] and [[Super Smoke]] or a general characteristic of beings that aren't of this earth, including but not limited to genies and ghosts. Characters with [[Title Drop|fog-feet]] operate as if they have a full anatomy, but some portion of their lower body is invisible or insubstantial.
 
Compare and contrast [[Invisible Anatomy]]. For the trope where feet are blurred due to speed, see [[Wheel -O -Feet]].
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Not to be confused with [[Arpeggio of Blue Steel|Fog Fleet]]. Nor is it to be confused with the poem "The Fog" by [[Carl Sandburg]], in which the fog comes in on little ''cat'' feet.
 
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== General ==
* This is a [[Our Genies Are Different|common representation of genies]]. While the upper torso appears solid, the legs ends in a wisp of smoke, generally connected to the [[Genie in Aa Bottle|lamp, bottle or whatever genie artefact]] they're supposedly coming from.
 
 
== Anime & Manga ==
* [[Cute Ghost Girl|Sayo]] from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' even manages to ''[[Dojikko|trip]]'' over her nonexistant legs.
 
== Anime &and Manga ==
* [[Cute Ghost Girl|Sayo]] from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' even manages to ''[[Dojikko|trip]]'' over her nonexistantnonexistent legs.
* The unnamed "star" of the anime short ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byAfC5yW_hw Gisoku no Moses]'', who teams up with a pair of haunted tap shoes to dance to "Moses Supposes" from ''[[Singin' in the Rain]]''.
 
== Comic Books ==
* Secret from the comic book version of ''[[Young Justice (Comic Bookcomics)|Young Justice]]''.
* Veil from ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers Academy]]''.
 
 
== Films -- Animation ==
* ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'': Genie had [[Shaped Like Itself|a tail of the same shape as that of an archetypical genie]] most of the time.
* Hades on ''[[Hercules (Disney1997 film)||Hercules]]'', whose robes dissolve into wisps of smoke.
 
 
== Films -- Live-Action ==
* The library ghost in ''[[Ghostbusters]]''.
 
 
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]'' has demons made of smoke; they wear cloaks and don't have feet, but still hover and such.
 
== Myths &and Religion ==
 
== Myths & Religion ==
* In Japanese mythology, Ghosts don't have legs.
 
 
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Tabletop Game)|Dungeons and& Dragons]]''
** Angels in 4th Edition ''D&D''.
** Water and Air archons have this too.
* ''[[Pathfinder (Tabletop Game)|Pathfinder]]'': Wendigos have legs, just not feet.
 
 
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Touhou (Video Game)|Touhou]]'' has Mima, Konngara, and Soga no Tojiko (funnily enough, she has two of them).
* In ''[[Sonic Adventure 2 (Video Game)|Sonic Adventure 2]]'', a chao that plays with bats will eventually have its legs disappear; it'll hover above the ground instead.
* The Firelord hero from ''[[Warcraft 3]]'' has a humanoid torso, but moves along on a tail made of magma.
* Ghosts in ''[[Puzzle Pirates]]'' are wisps of smoke from the waist down, but act as if they had normal legs.
* ''[[Zettai Hero Kaizou Keikaku]]'' has an item that replaces the main character's legs with a cloud.
* Tornadus, Thundurus, and Landorus from ''[[Pokémon Black and White (Video Game)|Pokémon Black and White]]'' all have clouds for lower torsos.
* In ''[[BaldursBaldur's Gate|Baldur's Gate]] II]]'', the genie model (used for [[Djinn]], dao and, less apropriatelyappropriately in terms of looks, efreet) has both a legged and a "tapering down to a point [[Genie in Aa Bottle|as if emerging from a bottle or lamp]]" version.
 
 
== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Sins (Webcomic)|Sins]]'', Lust tends to get stuck with this a lot.
* Ghosts in ''[[Minus|minus]]'' have fog-feet; but they can fly, so they don't really need feet anyway.
* Kernelsprites in ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'', which is appropriate since most are prototyped with and take on the memories and form of dead people close to the player. Curiously, though, actual dead people and ghosts {{spoiler|such as Aradia}} ''don't'' follow this trope.
 
== Web Original ==
* The [[Short Film]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byAfC5yW_hw "Gisoku no mōzesu" ("Moses with prosthetic feet", roughly)] on [[YouTube]] features a [[Cute Ghost Girl]] who has Fog Feet teaming up with [[Animate Inanimate Object|a pair of animated shoes]] to dance to the song "Moses Supposes" from ''[[Singin' in the Rain]]''.
 
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'': Danny had a [[Shaped Like Itself|ghost-like tail]] some of the time.
* The Faceless One from ''[[He-Man and Thethe Masters of The Universe (Animation)|He-Man and The Masters of Thethe Universe]]'' was always portrayed, both in animation and comic books, as a ghostly figure with mystic smoke around his legs. When he finally received an action figure that had no representation of the smoke, many fans were displeased.
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'': The villain known as The Phantom Limb has a very dangerous version of this trope.
* ''[[Wakfu (Animation)|Wakfu]]''
** McDeek the Genie, in his true form, has a long trail of purple smoke instead of legs.
** Rushu, lords of the Shushus, is a special case: his lower body is replaced by searing flames.
 
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