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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)''}}
{{quote|''"I've seen fog so thick you could cut it, but none that could cut'' me''."''|'''[[Magic:
This isn't the normal mist that comes at a bad time, obscuring vision or providing dramatic tension. It's certainly not that serene mist that comes just after a gentle rain... no, this fog is malevolent and evil and it will get you.
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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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== Anime And Manga ==
* ''[[
* The ninjas of Kirigakure (meaning "Hidden Mist") in ''[[
* Somewhat, in one of the Pokemon mangas there was a Haunter called the "Back Fog". Yeah, he wasn't friendly.
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== 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.
* ''[[
** Whereas in ''[[Planet Terror]]'' and ''[[Return of the Living Dead]]'', it's the fog that creates the zombies in the first place.
* The whole concept of ''[[The Mist]]''.
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* ''[[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
* ''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 (film)|Tales from Camp Crystal Lake]]'' series of books by Eric Morse <ref>
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' story "[[
* 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.
* In ''[[
* [[Tales of the Magic Land]] (a series of loose Russian translations of the [[Wizard of Oz]] books) has a book aptly named ''The Yellow Fog'' where a witch named Arachna who attempts to subdue the Magic Land with the titular fog. While not lethal (it's meant to subdue rather than exterminate, after all), it has several negative effects: it's toxic, for one, and it also blocks off the sun leading to intense cold in the usually winterless Magic Land.
* In ''[[Mistborn]]'', the mysterious threat called the Deepness is actually the normally benign mists, which [[God of Evil|Ruin]] intensified until they form a crop-killing particulate winter.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Star Trek:
* Mistfall in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S18
== Tabletop Games ==
* The mist-loving Sea Zombies in the [[Dungeons
** [[Dungeons
** [[Dungeons
** 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.
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== Video Games ==
* ''Legend of Legaia'' provides a misguided [[Big Bad]] who creates the
* In the ''[[City of Heroes]]'' [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]], the Dark Astoria
** 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''
* 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 ''[[
* 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]].
* In ''[[Lost Kingdoms]]'', the black mist contains monsters and is the influence of the [[Big Bad]]. A [[Sidequest]] reveals a scientist who tried to save his hometown, but ended up creating a white mist containing ''weird'' monsters.
* In ''[[Castlevania: Symphony of the Night]]'', Alucard can actually change into a playable Fog of Doom once you've found the right items: with the "Form of Mist" and "Gas Cloud" relics, his mist form is invincible and causes damage to any enemies within it, while constantly draining a small amount of MP. It's every bit the [[Game Breaker]] it sounds like, though you can only get it near the end of the game.
* 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
* ''[[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!!!
* 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 ==
* One ''Treehouse Of Terror'' episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' had a fog that turns people inside out.
* One episode of ''[[Danger Mouse]]'' has the "Dreaded Fog Monster of Old London Town". It being a kid's cartoon, the Fog is more of a prankster than a threat.
* ''[[
* The cloud of Joker Venom that [[The Joker]] doses Gotham with in one ''Batman: The Animated Series'' episode could qualify as the 'insanity-inducing' variant... But you had to be exposed to it for a long time in order for the insanity to take effect.
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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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