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I like drawing the Genie because then I don’t have to worry about legs.
Perhaps a combination of Partial Transformation and Super Smoke or a general characteristic of beings that aren't of this earth, including but not limited to genies and ghosts. Characters with fog-feet operate as if they have a full anatomy, but some portion of their lower body is invisible or insubstantial.
Compare and contrast Invisible Anatomy. For the trope where feet are blurred due to speed, see Wheel o' Feet.
Examples
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Films — Live-Action
Live-Action TV
- Charmed has demons made of smoke; they wear cloaks and don't have feet, but still hover and such.
Myths & Religion
- In Japanese mythology, ghosts are typically depicted as legless.
- Cartoon depictions of ghosts in Western culture often portray them as legless, but there's no real cultural evidence that ghosts are thought to be this way... it seems to simply be a visual shorthand to imply their otherworldly nature.
Tabletop Games
Video Games
- Touhou has Mima, Konngara, and Soga no Tojiko (funnily enough, she has two of them).
- In Sonic Adventure 2, a chao that plays with bats will eventually have its legs disappear; it'll hover above the ground instead.
- The Firelord hero from Warcraft 3 has a humanoid torso, but moves along on a tail made of magma.
- Ghosts in Puzzle Pirates are wisps of smoke from the waist down, but act as if they had normal legs.
- Zettai Hero Kaizou Keikaku has an item that replaces the main character's legs with a cloud.
- Tornadus, Thundurus, and Landorus from Pokemon Black And White all have clouds for lower torsos.
- In Baldur's Gate II, the genie model (used for djinn, dao and, less apropriately in terms of looks, efreet) has both a legged and a "tapering down to a point as if emerging from a bottle or lamp" version.
- Elias from Panel De Pon has normal feet, but her lower body transforms into a cyclone during her attacking animation. One of her official artworks
 ◊ evokes this, too.
- In Catacomb Abyss, spectres (if that's really what they're called) are bat-featured vaguely humanoid insubstantial-looking creatures that taper down to a point and float just above the ground.
Web Comics
- In Sins, Lust tends to get stuck with this a lot.
- Ghosts in minus. have fog-feet; but they can fly, so they don't really need feet anyway.
- Sprites in Homestuck, which is appropriate since most are prototyped with and take on the memories and form of dead people close to the player. Curiously, though, actual dead people and ghosts such as Aradia don't follow this trope.
- The Literal Genie of The Princess Planet; the page quote from the artist explains why.
- Ghosts in Our Little Adventure are pictured with a wisp of smoke instead of legs.
Western Animation
- Danny Phantom: Danny had a ghost-like tail some of the time.
- The Faceless One from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was always portrayed, both in animation and comic books, as a ghostly figure with mystic smoke around his legs. When he finally received an action figure that had no representation of the smoke, many fans were displeased.
- The Venture Brothers: The villain known as The Phantom Limb has a very dangerous version of this trope.
- Wakfu
- McDeek the Genie, in his true form, has a long trail of purple smoke instead of legs.
- Rushu, lords of the Shushus, is a special case: he can replace his lower body by searing flames if he chooses so.
- SpongeBob SquarePants: the Flying Dutchman refers to his as "my ghostly tail".
- Casper Scare School: all ghosts have genie-like tails most of the time, however Casper is shown to be able to grow a pair of legs when needed, so presumably other ghosts can do this too.
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