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{{quote|''"I don't know what happened to Antonio Bay tonight. Something came out of the fog and tried to destroy us. In one moment, it vanished. But if this has been anything but a nightmare, and if we don't wake up to find ourselves safe in our beds, it could come again. To the ships at sea who can hear my voice, look across the water, into the darkness. Look for the fog."''|'''Stevie Wayne:''', ''[[The Fog]] (1980)''}}
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Everyone knows that an [[Ominous Fog]] is a bad sign in movies, books, and television shows. One of the most sure-fire ways of generating that edgy feeling of paranoia is to enshroud the setting in a dense, opaque mist. Because anything could be hiding in there...
An [[Ominous Fog]] turns into a
Either way, you better avoid walking into a mist at all costs.
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* ''The Fog'' from James Herbert back in 1975, not related to the John Carpenter film of the same name. In this novel, a fog descends over Britain that turns almost the entire population ''insane''.
* M.P. Shiel's 1901 novel ''The Purple Cloud'' has nearly the entire human and animal population of Earth being [[Depopulation Bomb|killed off]] by the mysterious title cloud.
* The ''[[Friday the 13th|Tales from Camp Crystal Lake]]'' series of books by Eric Morse <ref>
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' story "[[Black Colossus]]", the [[Evil Sorcerer]] foe sends a mist over the desert to block his army's sight.
* Features in ''[[The Hunger Games]]''. The fog in question is a kind of nerve gas that burns the skin and causes seizures and muscle failure.
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== Video Games ==
* ''Legend of Legaia'' provides a misguided [[Big Bad]] who creates the
* 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''
* 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
* The fog that appears in the TV World in ''[[Persona 4]]''. It causes fatigue for those not wearing special glasses that allow them to see in it. It crosses over to the real world every so often and when it recedes, corpses are found in high places.
* The Kvaldir, also known as the walkers of the fog, from ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' are ghostly sea raiders who only show up in areas of very heavy fog. There's also the noxious orange mist that passes for atmosphere in the zombie-infested Plaguelands. In high enough concentrations, it's a vector for [[The Plague|the Scourge]].
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