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The Fog (1975)

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The Fog (1975)	comment	Before Black Gas, Crossed, the Reavers, and all of the other Hate Plagues that have been turning up lately, there was The Fog, a 1975 horror novel by English horror author James Herbert.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })It concerns what happens when an earthquake cracks open a secret bioweapon buried underground for disposal, and which causes people and animals who breathe it to go a little Ax-Crazy...and Knife Crazy, and Gun Crazy, and Rape Crazy. The main plot surrounds Jon Holman, an Environmental Officer for the British government, who is present at the fog's dramatic entrance and spends most of the book trying to stop the fog; meanwhile, Herbert occasionally takes us on little side trips to see what horrible thing the fog is making happen next.There is no relation between this novel and John Carpenter's 1980 horror film of the same name.
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The Fog (1975) / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: An absolutely heart-wrenching side-story where a lesbian is abandoned by her lover after the latter is 'cleansed' (i.e. has sex with a man) and goes to commit suicide in the sea, only to have second thoughts but is then drowned by the horde of infected citizens of Bournemouth committing mass suicide, making her death a meaningless statistic and her true reasons forever unknown.
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The Fog (1975) / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: The natural result of exposure.
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The Fog (1975) / int_35022c20	comment	This is also the fate of the scientist who created the fog, having no moral compass. Unfortunately, when he succumbed to the fog's effects in the laboratory, he destroyed all of his notes.
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The Fog (1975) / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: A lot of the characters who get killed in the vignettes are jerks, or worse (as in the case with the deviants at the boarding school). This is also the fate of the scientist who created the fog, having no moral compass. Unfortunately, when he succumbed to the fog's effects in the laboratory, he destroyed all of his notes.
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The Fog (1975) / int_97e1ca8c	comment	Almost Lethal Weapons / Plot Armor: The fog drives everyone exposed to it permanently insane, except for the protagonist who was the first one to be exposed to it, and this for some reason conferred lifelong immunity to it after suffering its effects for about a week. He spends the rest of the novel being only one of two people (the other being Casey when she's also cured) who can get close to the fog without succumbing. This is given a brief explanation; basically, while he was being treated for unrelated physical injuries he suffered before being infected, the doctors at a local hospital hit on an effective cure via a blood transfusion more or less by accident. Unfortunately, by the time anyone realises this the Fog has spread so far that people are being infected faster than they can be cured.
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