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[[caption-width-right:239:He doesn't even need the fire where he's going.]]

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* Erzebet of the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' can do this. It's one of several shapes she can shift into. Unfortunately, she loses her clothing when she does it. And because of the shapes she can take, her family cast her out, thinking she was a vampire. She's not, she's just a limited Shifter.
* Fog, white supremacist supervillain from ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', can (as his name suggests) turn into a thick cloud of fog. The fog [[DeadlyGas can damage living tissue]] (''don't'' inhale any!) and also provides cover for his [[BattleCouple wife Night]], who gains extra powers when unseen.
* In ''Literature/TheZombieKnight'', Xuan Sebolt's ''[[SuperMode pan-rozum]]'' form is a cloud of phosphorus-oxide smoke that also wields [[PlayingWithFire fire]] and [[HollywoodAcid acid]] powers. Presumably other servants with gaseous elements could do the same, although Xuan gets extra credit for achieving the effect with a compound of his normally-solid element.
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* ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'': Vampire Lord, as [[OneWingedAngel Vampire Genesis]], can turn into a damaging pink mist.

* The three Mists in ''ComicBook/{{Starman|DCComics}}'' all have this power.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': The [[ComicBook/SupermanBrianMichaelBendis Brian Michael Bendis run]] introduces the villain Red Cloud [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin who can transform into a cloud of red mist.]]
* The "foglets" in ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' upload their brains into clouds of {{Nanomachines}} smoke, and take any form they like.

* Jack Fleming from ''Literature/TheVampireFiles'' has this as his only alternate form, as opposed to Drac's additional wolf and bat shapes, but with the added perk that his smoke form is invisible -- except, oddly, in mirrors. He can still hear when "vanished", but he's blind until he reappears, and while he can move around (like swimming underwater with his eyes shut), he can't touch anything or do anything except brush against people and make them feel really cold. He uses it for evading bad guys and B&E, sometimes simultaneously.

* In ''Literature/TheZombieKnight'', Xuan Sebolt's ''[[SuperMode pan-rozum]]'' form is a cloud of phosphorus-oxide smoke that also wields [[PlayingWithFire fire]] and [[HollywoodAcid acid]] powers. Presumably other servants with gaseous elements could do the same, although Xuan gets extra credit for achieving the effect with a compound of his normally-solid element.

* Half Demon Parker and his brother both have this power in ''Series/{{Charmed|2018}}''. Unclear if this is a standard demonic power or reserved for more powerful demons.
* Kyle Nimbus, a.k.a. "The Mist" from ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' is a death row criminal who was in a gas chamber during a MassSuperEmpoweringEvent. As a result, he has the power to willingly turn into a cloud of poisonous gas and retain movement control. While under this shape he can also move about as fast as the Flash, but it is exhausting and he's soon forced to return to his human form. Barry later learns to suffocate him by rapidly spinning his arms to create a suction vortex.

* One of the [[MonstersOfTheWeek supers-of-the-week]] on ''Series/NoOrdinaryFamily'' has this power.
* Laas the Changeling from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' can transform into mist -- so good that O'Brien assumes someone has tampered with the weather controls. It's implied most changelings can do this, and can use it to get into any non-hermetic place. (Laas can even creep into a runabout, in space!)

* In a ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'' cinematic, it is shown that Dark Templar Zeratul's invisibility manifests like this.

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* ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'': Vampire Lord, as [[OneWingedAngel Vampire Genesis]], can turn into a damaging pink mist.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Prince|2010}}'', [[BigBad the Snake]] can turn into black smoke at will. This means he's completely impossible to confront physically; the Little Prince's efforts are entirely toward thwarting his plans, not fighting him.

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Chaos can assume the shape of a [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2007-05-01 monstrous "cloud" form]] with many heads and wispy tendrils that are [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2007-05-03 constantly shifting and changing.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' villain Red Cloud can transform into a cloud of red mist.

* ''Film/The Mummy1999'': Imhotep doesn't exactly turn into smoke, but can become a cloud of dust and sand moving under its own power.

* ''Franchise/{{Dracula}}'':
** 1931's ''Film/{{Dracula|1931}}'' sequel ''Film/SonOfDracula'' has vampires that can travel by turning themselves into a mist.
** Francis Ford Coppola's ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' is one of the few cinematographic adaptations faithful enough to have the title vampire turning into mist before slipping into Mina's bedroom or Renfield's cell.
** ''Film/DraculaDeadAndLovingIt'', being surprisingly well-researched for a parody movie, includes Dracula turning into fog.

* From ''Film/{{The Mummy|1999}}'', Imhotep doesn't exactly turn into smoke, but can become a cloud of dust and sand moving under its own power.

* Minor ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' villains Knight and Fogg features Fogg, who has this as a superpower. He doesn't become fully intangible though, seeing as he gets taken down by electricity.

* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': The Lin Kuei assassin Tomas Vrbada, a.k.a. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Smoke]], has the ability to conjure and transform into smoke. This extends even to his cyborg form, strangely enough. Later installments attributed this to {{Nanomachines}}.
** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'': Smoke's ladder ending reveals that Smoke is [[spoiler:apparently an amnesiac {{youkai}} called an enenra, a Japanese smoke monster that lives in bonfires. As a child, Tomas sacrificed by a cult who intended to summon a demon. [[GoneHorriblyRight They got one all right]]. They probably didn't count on it being the spirit of the child they'd just murdered coming back to kill them as revenge, except ''they'' don't get to become smoke monsters in human form.]]
** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'': Smoke's powers are a result of learned practical magic to make up for his lack of innate ElementalPowers like his brothers [[AnIcePerson Bi-Han]] and [[PlayingWithFire Kuai Liang]].

* One member of Demon Card around the beginning of ''Anime/RaveMaster'' could do this.

* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': The Lin Kuei assassin Tomas Vrbada, aka [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Smoke]], has the ability to conjure and transform into smoke. This extends even to his cyborg form, strangely enough. Later installments attributed this to {{Nanomachines}}.
** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat2011'': Smoke's ladder ending reveals that Smoke is [[spoiler:apparently an amnesiac {{youkai}} called an enenra, a Japanese smoke monster that lives in bonfires. As a child, Tomas sacrificed by a cult who intended to summon a demon. [[GoneHorriblyRight They got one all right]]. They probably didn't count on it being the spirit of the child they'd just murdered coming back to kill them as revenge, except ''they'' don't get to become smoke monsters in human form.]]

* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'':
** Smoke. This extends even to his robotic form, strangely enough. Later installments decided to explain this as "nanomachines".
** Since the reboot, Smoke is [[spoiler:apparently an amnesiac {{youkai}} called an enenra, a Japanese smoke monster that lives in bonfires. This is because he was a cult's HumanSacrifice as a child, burned alive to summon a demon. [[GoneHorriblyRight They got one all right]]. They probably didn't count on it being the spirit of the child they'd just murdered coming back to kill them all right back in revenge, except ''they'' don't get to become smoke monsters in human form.]]

-->-- '''Kain''', ''Blood Omen: VideoGame/LegacyOfKain''

A subtrope of ElementalShapeshifter.

* One power that Kain earns in ''Blood Omen'' and keeps throughout the ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' games is the ability to turn into mist to pass through portcullis and grates.