Misterious Mist: Difference between revisions

----

{{examples}}

 

* The valley of the Fountain of Life from ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean|Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides]]'' is filled with mist.

* There of course is also ''[[The Fog]]'' which heralded the arrival of pissed off ghosts.

 

* The aptly named ''[[Mistborn]]'' series has the mists at night. Unlike most examples, this mist is a good thing, since they're actually {{spoiler|a manifestation of [[God of Good|Preservation]]}}. It's more than a rumor that they defend the righteous.

** It does become [[Fog of Doom]] during ''Hero of Ages'', when [[God of Evil|Ruin]] magnifies the mists until they block out the sun.

* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (novel)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'', one of the obstacles in the maze for the final Triwizard task is a golden mist. When you step into it, you halluncinate that you've turned upside-down and are standing on the sky. Harry is afraid that if he moves a foot he'll plummet head-first to the ground thousands on feet below.

 

* In the BBC's production of ''[[Sherlock Holmes|The Hound of the Baskervilles]]'', Holmes, Watson and Lestrade are waiting for the titular hound to be released when a fog rises, obscuring their vision of the area. The mist is natural (the story does take place in England), but since the creature they're waiting for has a long and mysterious past associated with it, the mist not only presents a practical problem, it also adds to the tension of the moment. This is also the first time the creature will be clearly seen (an earlier appearance engineered by the villain was very brief and intended to instill fear in the viewers), so the impending revelation adds to the emotional weight of the moment.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'':

** In "The Curse of Fenric", mist on the sea presages attacks and the arising of the Haemovores: the Vikings whom the curse followed from the Holy Land were terrified of a Black Mist that followed their longship all the way to Northumbria.

 

* In [[Classical Mythology]], the gods can create a mist to hide themselves and others, usually for the purpose of rescuing a wounded soldier. This is called 'nephilistic rescue'.

** In ''[[The Iliad]]'', Aeneas (who later escapes from Troy and founds Rome in ''[[The Aeneid]]'') gets rescued in the form of a mist by Aphrodite and Apollo.

* In ''[[Brigadoon]]'', the titular [[Vanishing Village]] is surrounded by mist.

 

* ''[[Bionicle]]'': the [[Mask Power|Akaku Nuva]] is unable to pierce through the mist in the Swamp of Secrets of Karda Nui.

 

* In ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island]]'', one island is wreathed in spooky mist. The Lost Welshman has been, well, lost in it for years, and you need to find him to get the way to the next island.

** In ''[[Escape from Monkey Island]]'', there is the Mists of Time Marsh, plunging into which gets you displaced in time as well as space.

* There's the mist in ''[[Final Fantasy]] XII'' which while invisibly around everywhere pools and is visible in more magical areas. This mist is also magically charged, creating a type of [[Background Magic Field]].

 

* A possible variation in the short-lived animated series ''[[Father of the Pride]]'': Sigfried and Roy, who are ''extremely'' talented showmen and are capable of using actual magic, use mist from a (sometimes) undetermined source to initiate a [[Dynamic Entry|dynamic introduction]]. This mist is usually followed by casual conversations with the humans in the room at the time, and (occasionally) accompanied by a tiny magic trick just to show off or demonstrate the point they were trying to make. On a more straightforward example, one episode had two up-and-coming stage magicians propositioned to be the duo's rivals, and, quite possibly, replacements. One of their advertisements showed them dressed in scarlet-red robes, chanting a spell while standing around a giant spherical object. While this is happening, mist has begun to envelop the stage they are performing on.