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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: theThe Gathering|Tahngarth]]''', ''Fog Elemental'' flavour text}}
 
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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== Anime And Manga ==
* ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'' had mist that turns you into a zombie.
* The ninjas of Kirigakure (meaning "Hidden Mist") in ''[[Naruto (Manga)|Naruto]]'' use fog for their silent killing techniques. So, it's not the fog trying to kill you, but ninjas ''in control of the fog'' trying to kill you.
* Somewhat, in one of the Pokemon mangas there was a Haunter called the "Back Fog". Yeah, he wasn't friendly.
 
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* In [[Tim Burton]]'s ''[[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.
* ''[[Twenty Eight28 Days Later|28 Weeks Later]]'' had the poison gas the US Army unleashed on London in its attempt to kill off the remaining Infected.
** 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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* 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|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]].
* 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.
* In ''[[Septimus Heap (Literature)|Septimus Heap]]'', the bank of Fog surrounding the House of Foryx conceals an Abyss.
* [[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: theThe Original Series]]'' episode "Obsession", with the star traveling vampire cloud.
* Mistfall in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S18 E3 Full Circle|Full Circle]]''.
 
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* 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 ''[[Silent Hill Origins (Video Game)|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.
* 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 (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: theThe 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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* 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.
* ''[[Xiaolin Showdown (Animation)|Xiaolin Showdown]]'' had the Woozy Shooter. It induces a [[Mushroom Samba]] in its victim, and the user can take advantage of that.
* 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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