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Line 26: == Film == * In [[John Carpenter]]'s ''[[The Fog]]'', undead pirates came out of the mist to seek their revenge. * In [[Tim Burton]]'s ''[[Sleepy Hollow (Film)\|Sleepy Hollow]]'' the fog actually reaches out and puts out the torches around the village before the headless rider comes out of it. * ''[[The Ten Commandments]]'' (1956). The tenth plague that kills all the firstborn in Egypt is depicted as this. * ''[[28 Days Later\|28 Weeks Later]]'' had the poison gas the US Army unleashed on London in its attempt to kill off the remaining Infected. Line 42: * ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' has a city full of murderous mist. Touching the corrupted fog of [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast\|Shadar Logoth]] will either kill you outright ''or'' infect you with an eventually-lethal [[Hate Plague]]. Originally, the fog was contained in the city, but once one of the infected escaped into the countryside, it came with him, and is now (under the command of the aforesaid infectee) capable of forming spontaneously in unexpected places and ripping apart everyone within. * The Mind Fog is a creepy and illegal magical effect in ''[[The Dresden Files]]''. * In William King's [[Warhammer ~~40000~~40,000]] [[Space Wolf]] novel ''Grey Hunters'', the Chaos forces cause a green and yellow fog to boil up. It obscures vision, allows their enemies to sneak up, and contains some kind of poison. * ''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. Line 58: == Tabletop Games == * The mist-loving Sea Zombies in the [[Dungeons ~~and~~& Dragons]] ''Greyhawk Adventures'' supplement were <s>a ripoff of</s> inspired by John Carpenter's zombies. [[Dungeons ~~and~~& Dragons]] also features air elementals, which are clouds that try to kill you. [[Dungeons ~~and~~& Dragons\|Ravenloft's]] most iconic set-piece is The Mists that hang over most of the Land, and this is often used as a [[Down the Rabbit Hole\|means to pluck players out of their home world]]. It gets to a point where experienced players will run screaming from the slightest sign of mist. One of the nastiest salient powers mentioned in the [[Ravenloft]] supplement ''Van Richten's Guide To Vampires'' was the possibility of a Patriarch vampire using its energy-drain ability ''while in mist-form''. This was a particularly terrifying prospect under 2nd Edition rules, when there was virtually no way to fight back against a gaseous-form opponent. ** There was also a spell call Murderous Mist, which was a druid spell that created hot steam that could boil your eyes. Then again, there are even the more classic Cloudkill and Acid Fog spells. * In the [[Villains and Vigilantes]] adventure ''Devil's Domain'', killing demons released a cloud that caused humans to go insane and attack you. Line 72: == Video Games == * ''Legend of Legaia'' provides a misguided [[Big Bad]] who creates the Fog of Doom, which warps the titular [[Utopia]] into a [[Crapsack World]]. But otherwise, [[Irony\|the fog was harmless]]. Unless you were wearing a Seru, as the fog turned those, and anyone who was wearing one, into a horrible monster. And given that, before the fog, everyone was using them non-stop to do everything, it was a fog of doom. Oh, and if you ran into one of those previously mentioned monsters that were lurking in the mist just outside of the few remaining safe havens, you were screwed, since ordinary weapons were worse than useless against them. * In the ''[[City of Heroes]]'' [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game\|MMORPG]], the Dark Astoria iszone awas ~~zone~~originally 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. ** With the Banished Pantheon's success at waking the death god Mot, the mist has vanished and the level of the enemies has shot up dramatically; the zone is now end-game content for incarnate-level heroes. * ''[[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]]''. Line 87 ⟶ 88: * It's just like they say in [[First Encounter Assault Recon]] : #$@&ING RUN!!! * In the latest version of ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' the surfaces of evil regions have a variety of clouds of randomly named materials ("execrable soot", "accursed gloom", etc) which cause randomly determined symptoms, ranging from mild dizziness to all of your internal organs rotting to becoming a zombie. == Western Animation == Line 106: {{reflist}} [[Category:Weather and Environment]] [[Category:~~Doomy~~Doomed ~~Dooms of Doom~~Tropes]] [[Category:Older Than Television]] [[Category:Horror Tropes]] [[Category:~~Fog of Doom~~{{PAGENAME}}]]