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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.
* ''[[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.
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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 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 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.
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== 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.
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