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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
* In [[Robert E Howard]]'s ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' story "[[Black Colossus (Literature)|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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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Star Trek the Original Series]]'' episode "Obsession", with the star traveling vampire cloud.
* Mistfall in the ''[[
== Tabletop Games ==
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* 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 (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'', once you head to the Forest Temple in human form with Midna, you have to go through a mass of purple fog following a monkey with your lantern. The fog doesn't affect your enemies, sadly, making it very annoying when you're running along and the monkey suddenly stops in terror and you careen into purple death. The mist in the Earth Temple of ''[[The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'' is infamous for not only robbing you of your item use, but also for concealing none other than [[Goddamn Bats|the dreaded Floormasters]].
* ''[[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!!!
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== Real Life ==
* 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).
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* 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.]
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