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An [[Ominous Fog]] turns into a [['''Fog of Doom]]''' when it is trying to bite you. Sometimes the fog itself is the threat. No mere mist, the [['''Fog of Doom]]''' is often poisonous, or acidic, or causes men to go mad. Other times, the [['''Fog of Doom]]''' conceals other threats that come out of the mist to take and devour you so quickly that your friends don't even know you're gone until they look around and see you're just not there.

* 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.

* In William King's [[Warhammer 4000040,000]] [[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 ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Tales from Camp Crystal Lake]]'' series of books by Eric Morse <ref> ''Mother's Day'', ''Jason's Curse'', ''The Carnival'' and ''Road Trip''</ref> all feature a yellow fog which seems to make everyone feel more negatively, lubricating the lethal intentions of whomever finds the [[Becoming the Mask|hockey mask]] as well as the [[Final Girl]].

* 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.

* ''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 zoneoriginally 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.}}

* 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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