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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "Obsession", with the star traveling vampire cloud.
* Mistfall in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S18
== Tabletop Games ==
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* In the ''[[City of Heroes]]'' [[MMORPG]], Dark Astoria is a zone covered in a frustratingly opaque mist, filled with arcane and supernatural enemies. For extra points, all of the neighborhoods and landmarks in Dark Astoria are named after old school horror authors, filmmakers, and characters. Adding to the creepy lethality of the zone, players can see vague images of the zone's long-dead inhabitants in the mist... who fade upon approaching.
* ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'s'' [[Fog of Doom]] was the source of many a scary monster. On the other hand, it was also the source of many a {{spoiler|black mage.}}
* The miasma of ''[[Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles]]''.
* There was a fog in ''[[Blue Dragon]]'' that inebriates its inhalers. And it's at sea. Close to rocks to run into.
* Some of the early pre-release materials for ''[[Silent Hill Origins]]'' suggested that the town's [[Ominous Fog]] would cross the line to become an active, amorphous enemy. The game switched production teams midway through development, and though a later sequel, ''[[Silent Hill Homecoming]]'', did feature an otherwise corporeal monster named "Smog", the [[Fog of Doom]] idea never panned out.
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* The creepy fog in Sei-an City in ''[[Okami]]'' is slowly killing everyone in the city. Turns out it's caused by a monster called Blight, {{spoiler|which is living in the Emperor's Stomach}}.
* ''[[Deadly Premonition]]'' has a purple fog which drives people insane.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'', once you head to the Forest Temple in human form with Midna, you have to go through a mass of purple fog following a monkey with your lantern. The fog doesn't affect your enemies, sadly, making it very annoying when you're running along and the monkey suddenly stops in terror and you careen into purple death. The mist in the Earth Temple of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'' is infamous for not only robbing you of your item use, but also for concealing none other than [[Goddamn Bats|the dreaded Floormasters]].
* ''[[Freelancer]]'' has a number of [[Space Clouds|nebulae]] that will [[Hollywood Acid|corrode your hull]], bombard you with radiation, or conceal [[Space Pirates|pirates]] or [[Eldritch Abomination|Nomads]].
* It's just like they say in [[First Encounter Assault Recon]] : #$@&ING RUN!!!
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* From Friday the 5th of December to Tuesday the 9th of December, 1952, London was enshrouded with what has come to be called the Great Smog of 1952. One of the worst pollution episodes in history, the Great Smog killed nearly 4000 people, and hospitalized nearly 100,000 more from respiratory tract infections and hypoxia (the inability to get enough oxygen).
** A [[wikipedia:1948 Donora smog|nearly identical situation]] happened in the mill town of Donora, PA in 1948 which led to the death of 20 and the infection of nearly 7,000, nearly half of the town's population, from respiratory illness. The smog also left many survivors with lasting illness. The event is still considered one of the worst environmental disasters in US history.
* Take the inherent danger of driving in thick fog with some Californians' ''infamous'' driving habits...and you have a recipe for disaster.
* On August 21, 1986, volcanic activity released a massive amount of carbon dioxide into Lake Nyos in Cameroon. The gas emerged from the water's surface as a massive cloud that (due to CO<sub>2</sub> being heavier than air) hugged the ground like a fog bank. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzchV_gQG10 This "death fog" engulfed three lakeside villages, killing approximately 2000 people.]
* Time and medical statistics have made it increasingly clear that the dust-clouds from the World Trade Center attacks constituted a slow-acting example of this, given the number of rescue personnel who have succumbed to respiratory disease and cancer after breathing in those dust particles.
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