History Main / OminousFog

* ''TheSimpsons'' parodies the hell out of OminousFog in the ''Treehouse of Horror'' short featuring werewolf Flanders. "Guess I forgot to put the fog lights in!" Also, the other ''Treehouse Of Horror'' short with the fog that turned people inside out.

* MagicalPokaan has a vampire robot that creates its' ''own'' fog.

* "GoneWithTheWind". After suffering hunger and cold during the Reconstruction, Scarlett has a recurring dream of running through a mist. The dream comes true after Melanie's death, when Scarlett runs home to her mansion in the hopes of reconciling with Rhett. Rhett winds up leaving her. Ominous, indeed.
* In the OldKingdom trilogy, fog can be a cover for Dead, for whom light is dangerous.

** DungeonsAndDragons' {{Eberron}} setting also gives us the Mournland, which is [[{{Mordor}} an entire (ex-)country made of this trope.]]

* {{Touhou}} 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil's very plot involves red fog clouding the sun. [[GamePlayAndStorySegregation Though it doesn't show up on your screen.]]

* A common element in TheSlenderManMythos; it's ''very'' common for a foggy picture of trees to have just one tree, just one [[ParanoiaFuel that looks a bit off.]] [[OhCrap Then you see a man-shaped object among the branches.]]

* TheSimpsons parodies the hell out of OminousFog in the ''Treehouse of Horror'' short featuring werewolf Flanders. "Guess I forgot to put the fog lights in!" Also, the other ''Treehouse Of Horror'' short with the fog that turned people inside out.

* In NewSuperMarioBrosWii, there's an ominous dark purple [[AdvancingWallOfDoom advancing wall]] of OminousFog moving forwards through level 8-1, which OneHitKill any player characters (and maybe enemies) on impact. Best advice is obviously to run.
* In AlanWake, you spend most of the game running through (natural) fog shrounded forests. Every so often though, the wind will pick up and the fog turns pitch black. From a story perspective, it indicates [[BigBad the Dark Presence]] is nearby, while from a gameplay perspective it indicates that you're about to be swamped by [[TheHeartless the Taken]]. Both are pretty effective at upping the tension.

* ''TheFog''. Duh.

* ''TheMist''

* ''The Mist''

* ''The Fog''. Duh.

* ''KingKong'': In all three versions of the story, the approach to Skull Island is shrouded in fog.

->''Fair is foul, and foul is fair:\\
Hover through the fog and filthy air''\\
-- '''WilliamShakespeare''', ''{{MacBeth}}''

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* Fog also appears when the BigDamnHeroes reach the center of Shinjuku in ''DemonCityShinjuku''.
* The geography of ''OnePiece'' gives us the Florian Triangle, an area of ocean covered in Ominous Fog where the number of ships which have vanished is well in the hundreds if not higher. Within it is the ''Thriller Bark'', the gargantuan ship Gecko Moria uses as his base. The trope is slightly inverted in that the fog is actually ''protecting'' the victims of Moria, who cannot be exposed to sunlight after he steals their shadows. It's played straight at the end of the arc, [[http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/490/03/ which implies]] that there is indeed ''something'' within the fog besides the ''Thriller Bark'' that attacks ships.
* MagicalPokaan has a vampire robot that creates its' ''own'' fog.
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If the [[EmpathicEnvironment environment is empathic,]] it should be possible to read your general situation from the weather. Now, everyone with even a whiff of [[GenreSavvy genre-savviness]] knows, that dense fog is about as bad a sign as [[AStormIsComing a howling tornado on the horizon]].

** ''Twilight Princess'', once you head to the Forest Temple 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.

** ''Twilight Princess'', once you head to the Forest Temple 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 and you careen into purple death.

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->To one who, journeying through night and fog,
->Is mired neck-deep in an unwholesome bog,
->Experience, like the rising of the dawn,
->Reveals the path that he should not have gone.
->--'''Joel Frad Bink'''

* Brandon Sanderson's ''Mistborn'' trilogy features metal-burning magic-users who [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin have a certain affinity with the concealing mists that form from nowhere at nightfall]], which commoners fear. When the all-powerful, immortal Lord Ruler is assassinated, the mists begin to emerge during the day, last for weeks, form ghosts, and kill people. [[spoiler: though that was to "snap" the skaa peasants so they could fight in the final battle.]]