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A Foggy Day in London Town
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From the second half of the 19th century until well around The '50s, England and especially London were associated with foggy, damp environments where nobody could see anything in the mist other than shadowy figures. This Ominous Fog and Mysterious Mist made it an ideal setting for detectives solving murder mysteries in near darkness or horror stories. That fog was Truth in Television for many decades, especially in London, situated as it is in a river valley near where it turns into an estuary. That plus the typical wet British Weather makes for ideal fog conditions. But the traditional impenetrable London fog is not just fog, but actually smog — fog combined with smoke, which was especially common in London around that time from all of the coal fires since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Unlike ordinary fog, which can shift in and out quickly and isn't too bad for visibilitynote By the technical definition, fog can allow visibility up to 1 km. (as an Englishwoman in San Francisco once commented), old London smog smelled awful and had a nasty green tinge, hence the common nickname "pea soup" fog. And it was a lot thicker than regular fog, too; you were lucky if you could see 10 feet in front of you. The smog was a staple of Victorian London, when the city industrialized and both homes and businesses started burning coal for heat, but it got dramatically worse after World War II, when Britain began exporting its high-quality coal in far greater quantities to pay for its war debt, leaving the locals with poor quality sulphurous coal that made the problem worse. It culminated in the 1952 "Great Smog" of London, a smog so bad that 4,000 people died as a result, some because of accidents thanks to near-zero visibility, but many just from inhaling the toxic air and getting sick. Only then did the British government act to actually reduce the pollutants, starting with the Clean Air Act 1956. The last bad "pea soup" fog came in 1957, making this a Dead Horse Trope. Because modern London doesn't see this level of smog anymore, the trope is usually used to set the stage of Victorian London or The Edwardian Era, especially stories about crime (no Jack the Ripper story is complete without a foggy crime scene note although the evidence shows that there was no fog on the days (or rather, nights) of any of the murders ). You can also expect works that date from around that time to describe a foggy London as well, such as the Sherlock Holmes stories. |
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Played for laughs in Nick Knatterton's London adventure "Ein Kopf fällt in die Themse" ("A head falls into the Thames"), where Nick's investigations are intermittently hampered by the fog. In one scene, he visits a suspect at her home, and when the conversation is finished he leaves. Opening the front door he asks in puzzlement: "Why is there a curtain in front of the door?" — "That's not a curtain, that's the fog." | |
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In the Let's Go Luna! episode "London Frog", Andy, Carmen, and Leo are all in London, looking for Big Ben, but they aren't able to see it in the fog. Luna helps them find their way through the fog by listening for certain sounds. | |
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The Great Stink in The Difference Engine due to the profusion of Steampunk industry. Thanks to the politics of the time it gets blamed on Luddite sabotage instead. | |
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At the climax of the final season of Penny Dreadful, London is blanketed with a toxic fog that reportedly kills thousands of people (although the vampires might have had something to do with it as well) as the first stage in a fortunately averted Apocalypse. | |
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Sunless Skies: Albion (steampunk future space-London) is drenched in smoke, with most of the backgrounds you fly over being extremely smoky and foggy thanks to the pollution from the workworlds. | |
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Miyuki from Nurse Angel Ririka SOS thinks that London is like this in her imagine spots. | |
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Count Duckula: When Duckula goes to London to become a detective, there's so much fog the characters can't see anything more than a meter away. | |
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In one series of episodes of Batman ("The Londinium Larcenies"/"The Foggiest Notion"/"The Bloody Tower"), Batman and Robin travel to Londinium (the Bat-universe's analog to London; actually the Roman name for London) to battle Lord Marmaduke Ffogg and Lady Penelope Peasoup. Not only is Londinium depicted as very foggy much of the time, but Ffogg's weapons are also all fog-based. | |
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Arrow. In the episode "Haunted", Oliver Queen rings up John Constantine for help, and establishing his Englishness somehow requires Constantine to be standing on a foggy street with antique-looking street lamps. Perhaps he started time travelling earlier than we thought? | |
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The Simpsons: In "Treehouse of Horror XV" the third segment is a parody of the Jack the Ripper time period, with Bart and Lisa acting as a Sherlock Holmes and Watson ripoff investigating crimes in Victorian London where the fog is looming everywhere. | |
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In the Are You Being Served? episode "The Bliss Girl," the fog has entered the building, and into the elevator. | |
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Blake and Mortimer: Prevalent in The Yellow "M", where Blake and Mortimer walk in the London streets at night and are trying to catch a mysterious criminal. | |
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The Lodger, Alfred Hitchcock's first film, is subtitled A Story of the London Fog. A Serial Killer is stalking the foggy streets of London, and the new lodger at Mrs. Bounting's rooming house might be him. | |
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Bleak House. When Esther arrives in London she ask a passer by what this dense brown smoke might be and thinks it is a great fire. | |
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Pandora's Box ends with Lulu meeting Jack the Ripper on the Ominous Fog-bound streets of London. | |
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Asterix in Britain (the Animated Adaptation of the comic book) has Asterix ask Anticlimax if it is always foggy in Britain, to which he responds "Oh my goodness no, owe only have fog when it isn't raining". Cue the rain. | |
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In one Sesame Street News Flash, Kermit has gone to London to report on the London Fog. He is interrupted by the London Frog, a Guardsman carrying the London Log, and the London Hog. Then the fog clears up, so they all dance the London Clog. | |
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Ankh-Morpork, Discworld's Fantasy Counterpart Culture to London, is known for its "gumbo fog", which is like a pea-souper only thicker, fishier, and with things in it that you'd probably rather not know about. | |
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Popeye lampshades this in 1942's "Spinach Fer Britain" as he approaches London. | |
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A Little Princess: "..the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted" | |
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Most of the night scenes in Jack the Ripper (1976) are accompanied by a thick fog. One especially memorable scene has the Ripper pursuing his victim through a fogbound park. | |
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The Inspector Gadget episode "Gadget's Clean Sweep," where the main characters go back in time to 19th century London to stop M.A.D. from killing Gadget's ancestors of the time (Char and Chimney Gadget, both of whom are chimney sweeps). In many scenes, there is some kind of fog shown throughout London, and we even have characters disappearing and reappearing in the fog. Averted in "The Infiltration" and "Unhenged," both of which take place in London. |
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The smog is a plot point in a few episodes of Call the Midwife, particularly the pilot; set during the smog of 1957 (one of the last, and the worst one since the 1952 Great Smog), Nurse Jenny Lee's first patient trips over one of her children's toy fire engines while trying to hang the washing in the garden amidst the pea soup. A concussion and premature delivery result. | |
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Transformers: Super-God Masterforce has a commercial airline flight coming in to land at a London airport, with the pilots commenting about how thick the fog gets. | |
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An episode of The Impossibles from the 1960s played with this trope. In "The Terrible Twister" it takes place in foggy London. After he is caught, the Twister is employed to help dispel the thick London Fog, which the Lemony Narrator pokes fun at saying that Londoners can finally see each other. | |
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Zombies Christmas Carol: Fog is present throughout London, representing both the plague and encroaching death. | |
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Transformers: ★Headmasters depicts London as a wooded forestland where the locals ride around on horseback. Just to make this even worse, the series is meant to take place in 2011. | |
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When Nellie Bly arrived in London on the round-the-world trip that she wrote about in Around the World in Seventy-Two Days, "a gray, misty fog hung like a ghostly pall over the city." | |
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Sunless Sea: London is described as foggy a lot in the lore-text, with many of your encounters in the town ending with the other party disappearing into the fog. Gameplay-wise, though, London is one of the least foggy areas in the game. | |
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In The Princess Thieves, After robbing the Marquis of Cheswick, Robin and Oberon loose the watchmen by disappearing into the thick, London fog. | |
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Escape Me Never: All the scenes set in London are shown to be foggy and damp. This is plot-relevant as, when her little son Piccolo gets sick, Gemma blames it on the crappy London weather. | |
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In The Ghoul, Laing travels to London and attacks Betty on the street on a foggy night so he can steal her bag and plant a note in it. | |
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An episode of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo named "The Night Ghoul of Wonderworld" had the gang go to a robotic amusement park designed after Victorian London. As a result this trope is there in all its characters-disappearing foggy glory. | |
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Terror Is My Trade: In this 1958 crime novel, protagonist Chester Trask gets out of a car in London and complains of the fog, "some fog" which he can feel stinging his eyes and taste in the back of his throat. This also serves as Ominous Fog as Trask is headed to a confrontation with gangsters that turns violent. | |
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The Crown (2016): The Series 1 episode "Act of God" depicts the Great Smog of 1952, which happened only a few months into Elizabeth's reign. Winston Churchill (Prime Minister at the time) initially dismissed it as "just fog" and presented a very limited policy response, to the consternation of the Palace and most everyone else. Churchill was later moved by the sight of one of the Downing Street secretarial pool killed by a lorry that couldn't see her in the pea soup. | |
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Get Smart: London is depicted with fog so thick in the "That Old Gang of Mine" episode that Max and 99 can barely see where they are going, so they ask directions of several people who come walking along. The punchline comes when Max reveals they've been standing in their hotel room the whole time. Again in "House of Max, Part I". Max and 99 are sent to London to investigate a series of murders by Jack the Ripper actually a wax dummy brought to life. At a foggy late night rendezvous, a Scotland Yard inspector tells Max, "The Ripper usually strikes when the city's heavy with fog. Therefore I don't think he'll strike tonight." |
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In one episode of Peabody's Improbable History, Peabody and Sherman visit 1880 to assist Scotland Yard in the investigation of the disappearance of the Crown Jewels and the Tower of London with them. Fog is the predominant weather condition, and plot-relevant in that it's the only reason nobody could find the Tower until dawn. | |
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It is mentioned all throughout A Christmas Carol. Near the start of the story, for instance: Later when Scrooge returns to his home at night, where he will be visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley: And near the end, during the famous moment when Scrooge awakens and feels like a new man and opens the window: |
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Danger Mouse strikes a deal with the Fog Monster of Old London Town in a bid to rescue Penfold from Baron Greenback (episode "The Four Tasks of Danger Mouse"). | |
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Blacksad: Blacksad is attacked by a knife-wielding man on a foggy evening, and dryly notes he had the Jack the Ripper impersonation down pat, down to the disappearing in the fog. | |
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In Sorcerer Conjurer Wizard Witch, Edwin visits Shadow London, an otherworld where all the legendary places and characters of London's history live on. It is, naturally, shrouded in fog. Edwin notes the difference between the fog of Shadow London, "thick mist, odourless but damp, arranged in artful drapes", and the real London's fog, which is "yellow-green and foul". | |
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Spider-Man: Knight and Fogg were two British super-powered contract killers who appeared in The Spectacular Spider-Man #165-167 back in 1990. The latter saw himself as the personification of the London fog and could transform his body into a gaseous form that obscured his opponents' sight; his favorite method of attack was to strangle his targets from afar with his partially solidified hands. | |
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Nero: In Het Vredesoffensief van Nero (1951) (The Peace Initiative of Nero) Nero, Petoetje and Madam Pheip walk around in London where the fog makes it impossible to see where they are going or to whom they are talking. | |
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Epic Rap Battles of History: A foggy London atmosphere is created in the background when Batman battles Sherlock Holmes and when Jack the Ripper battles Hannibal Lecter. | |
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Shadowrun: London sprawl is commonly referred to as "The Smoke". Thanks to the relaxed environmental standards and the massive factory smoke provided by both London and Birmingham, the fog is back with a vengeance. | |
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Bonneton in Super Mario Odyssey is heavily based on England and has very thick smog all over the place. The local Bonneters even speak in a diction faintly evocative of stereotypical British English. | |
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Asterix: In Asterix in Britain, Asterix travels to Great Britain, where they are suddenly (as in, in between saying "the fog falls" and "fast") caught up in a natural fog (since the story takes places in 50 BC, centuries before industrial times) and can't see anybody or anything. Anticlimax says it is a natural phenomenon in his country, and that there's this "only when it doesn't rain". | |
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Pokémon: The Series: One Alola episode features a detective Show Within a Show seemingly set in the Galar region, complete with smog. Taken to a ridiculous degree in Pokémon Journeys. You know an episode is set in Galar all because the weather is foggy. Everywhere. |
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In Fallen London, the weather changes every now and then, but it is very often foggy. Which is impressive, because in this universe, London is underneath the earth. On the rare occasions that the fog lifts, "For a moment it seems like London never fell." Sunless Sea: London is described as foggy a lot in the lore-text, with many of your encounters in the town ending with the other party disappearing into the fog. Gameplay-wise, though, London is one of the least foggy areas in the game. Sunless Skies: Albion (steampunk future space-London) is drenched in smoke, with most of the backgrounds you fly over being extremely smoky and foggy thanks to the pollution from the workworlds. |
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Mentioned in Love at First Bite, when Dracula reminisces about how he'd lost Mina Harker in the fog, thus explaining why he didn't wind up with her after his run-in with Van Helsing. | |
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Despite its association with Sherlock Holmes the London fog is only mentioned in a handful of novels, but Ominous Fog of the rest-of-Britain variety nearly ruins Holmes' gambit in The Hound of the Baskervilles and leads to Stapleton drowning in the moor, and is discussed shortly beforehand. | |
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Mobile Fighter G Gundam has an episode set in London, which just happens to fog up during former three-time Gundam Fight champion Gentle Chapman's fights. The fog is actually manufactured to conceal the fact that his wife is sending out dummy mobile suits to help him win, in violation of Article 5 of the Gundam Fight International Regulations that stipulates all Gundam Fight matches to be one-on-one. | |
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The Case Of The Mukkinese Battle Horn opens with the screen filled with impenetrable London fog. But the narrator cheerfully points out that even in the thickest of fogs, there are some landmarks you just can't miss. Like Nelson's column, for example. *sound of car crashing* "You see? There's someone not missing it now!" | |
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In The Cannonball Run, Seymour Goldfarb (Roger Moore) says this when his car starts filling up with smoke after using the smoke screen and oil slick to get the pursuing police cars off his tail. | |
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Gaslight uses this as Ominous Fog to establish mood, like when Paula is being led away from the house after her aunt has been murdered, or later, when her evil husband Gregory is skulking through the streets and alleyways. | |
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