History Main / BlankWhiteVoid

* ''VideoGame/{{OMORI}}'' spends his downtime in a relatively featureless void called 'White Space' when he's not interacting with his neighbor friends. The only things of consequence in it are his laptop, his sketchbook, a cat, tissues for wiping away his tears and a black bulb suspended overhead.

* ''VideoGame/{{OMORI}}'' spends his downtime in a relatively featureless void called 'White Space' when he's not interacting with his neighbor friends. The only things of consequence in it are his laptop, a cat, tissues for wiping away his tears and a black bulb suspended overhead.

** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS9E16TheBigPangTheory The Big Bang Theory]]", Stewie and Brian end up in a white, floorless nothingness when they go back in time before the big bang. They demonstrate the versatility of the nothingness when Stewie snaps his fingers to alter the physics, and creates a musical staff with their two heads taking place of the musical notes, where the two heads sing the Carmichael/Loesser song "Heart and Soul".

* The last issue of ''ComicBook/MarvelTheEnd'' takes place in an empty void [[spoiler:that used to be the Marvel universe]] where Thanos and Adam Warlock have their final conversation before bringing everything back to normal.

-> "This cage is vast, it has no walls. While I stand still all I see is a white plain stretching across an equally blank sky. There is no life in this place."
-->-- '''SCP-000''', [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-000 SCP-000]], Website/SCPFoundation

* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', any alchemist who opens the Gate of Truth is transported to a white void.
* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'': Zone resides in one of these.
* The [[YearInsideHourOutside Hyberbolic Time Chamber]], a.k.a. the Room of Space and Time, from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' looks like a small but ornate building with two huge hourglasses flanking it, all of which is located in a white void.
* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', when [[TopGod Zen'o]] [[OneHitKill destroys]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill the multivese]] in the Future Trunks timeline, all that's remains is a blank void of sparkly glitter that Zen'o is left drifting in.
* In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' the 12th [[EldritchAbomination Angel]] Leliel's body was comprised of a black VoidBetweenTheWorlds known as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_sea Dirac sea,]] which Ritsuko hypothesized was connected another universe to theirs.
* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'': A black version of this is made by [[spoiler:Othinus]] for her final battle with Touma, when [[spoiler:she destroys the world]].

* In ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'', its titular character [[spoiler:mercy-kills Michael Demiurgos]] in one of these, [[spoiler:and proceeds to create his own Totality of creation in it with the released energy]] and, at the end of the series, [[spoiler:ventures out into this same Void again, where he either "imposes himself upon it, or becomes it"]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Shakara}}'': The armory that contains the lost superweapons of the Shakara is inside a featureless white pocket dimension that is very reminiscent of the construct program in ''Film/TheMatrix''.
* ''ComicBook/TheGreatPowerOfChninkel'': G'wel and J'on are both thrown into the Non-World by the Immortals, a white space between the worlds. It turns out to be [[spoiler:the prison for king N'om, who defied O'ne by declaring himself a god in his place.]]
* [[ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool Gwenpool]] learns how to [[NinjaProp leave the comicbook panel]] and go into the page gutter (although for her, she can also the other pages in this "Gutter Space"), even using that to push villains into the featureless void.
* What remained of the Marvel multiverse, outside of the world egg containing Battleworld, after the last Incursion hit and ComicBook/SecretWars2015 started was a blank white void identified as "The Place of Couldn't Be, Shouldn't Be". As the Marvel Universe tends to run on metaphor at that cosmic level thinking of it as a blank sheet of paper (or new document file) is probably not far off.
* Near the end of the first volume of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', dream controlling super villain John Dee tries to battle with [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Dream]] over control of the DreamLand. Dee stands a chance in this battle largely thanks to his use of the Ruby, an ArtifactOfPower[=/=]ArtifactOfDoom that Dream created long ago. In the middle of the fight Dee realizes that Dream had to put a portion of his life and power into the Ruby to create it, and furthermore the Ruby sucked more out of Dream when he attempted to reclaim it, so Dee decides to smash the Ruby, thinking that doing so would kill Dream, similar to how [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings destroying the One Ring effectively killed Sauron]]. When Dee finishes breaking the Ruby, Dream is gone and Dee stands alone in a white void, with nobody else around and nothing there as far as the eye can see... until suddenly Dream speaks, and we realize that the endless white void is simply the palm of Dream's hand. Turns out that rather than killing him, smashing the Ruby that held a big chunk of his power simply returned all that power and life force to him. Dee's [[OhCrap panicked reaction]] to this development is both very natural and understandable.
* When [[ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}} Genis-Vell]] went mad and helped the cosmic villain Entropy destroy the universe, the result was Genis, Entropy, Rick Jones, and a couple of other characters standing around in a Blank White Void, astonished that it had actually happened. Entropy realizes that he never actually expected to succeed and doesn't know what to do now. So they do some [[TimeyWimeyBall timey-wimey jiggery pokery]] and the universe comes back.
* ''ComicBook/MarvelTheEnd'': The last issue takes place in a empty void, [[spoiler: that used to be the Marvel universe]], where Thanos and Adam Warlock have their final conversation before bringing everything back to normal.
* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': Lucifer is banished to a featureless white dimension after he invades the second Earth. [[spoiler:He's later joined by Beelzebub.]]

* ''Fanfic/FatesCollide'': [[spoiler:Ruby Rose's Silver Eyes give her a Reality Marble that is one of these. In addition, it holds an apparition of her mother Summer Rose, who attacks her enemies with a scythe and is almost invisible because of her white cloak.]]

* In ''Film/BruceAlmighty'' the [[MagicalNegro Supreme Being]] invites the protagonist into a white ''loft''.
* The Creator/VincenzoNatali film ''Film/{{Nothing}}'' is mostly set in a white void.

* In ''Film/{{Pi}}'', the protagonist finds himself in one of these. It's implied that he's [[NearDeathExperience standing on the border of life and death]] as he calmly starts to recite the universal number, which has previously been noted to possibly be God's true name. [[spoiler:He wakes up from this state, only to realize that he was probably hallucinating.]]
* Creator/GeorgeLucas's first film, ''Film/THX1138'', is about an automated {{dystopia}} of the future. Criminals and non-conformists are contained in a bivouac that seems to be the only thing in the midst of an endless empty whiteness. This is an illusion caused by narcotics in the inmates' food that limits their depth of vision.

* Creator/WilliamSleator's SF novel, ''Literature/HouseOfStairs'' where the setting is just a big white void criss-crossed with stairs. And one toilet, and a pellet dispenser. And somewhere, presumably very far off, is an elevator that gets you out. That toilet is their only water supply (so they wash up in it too), and the only non-stairs element besides the machine. It constantly flushes, but still.
* Such a scene was included in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' [[spoiler:Involving Harry meeting and speaking briefly with Dumbledore.]] It stops being a blank white room and becomes King's Cross Station fairly quickly, though. [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows The film version]] goes both ways, being a blank white version of King's Cross.

* Inverted in ''The Time Ships'', by Creator/StephenBaxter. The Time Traveler is imprisoned by Morlocks by means of a single shaft of light in a seemingly-infinite ''black'' room. He's psychologically unable to walk out of sight of the beam.
* Played straight in ''Literature/DrFranklinsIsland'' by Ann Halam. Semi, the main character, and Miranda, her friend, are able to communicate through radio when they are animals, but in a white-void-like space where they both appear in their human forms, where Miranda has a strange black bracelet on her leg, the same as the one she is wearing to stop her flying away as a bird. Semi dislikes the white space, saying that it feels like being dead.
* Once [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] [[spoiler:figures out who killed him]] in ''Ghost Story'', he is taken out of the BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind between [[spoiler:Molly and Corpsetaker]], and ends up in one of these while he talks to [[spoiler:Archangel Uriel]].

** The show featured an early example in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E2TheMindRobber "The Mind Robber"]], as the Doctor and his companions find themselves trapped in the land of Fiction. This being [[NoBudget classic series]] ''Doctor Who'', you actually ''[[SpecialEffectFailure could]]'' see the edges of the walls, but the cast never did...
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E5WarriorsGate "Warrior's Gate"]] is set almost entirely in one of these, to eerie effect.
%%** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E10JourneyToTheCentreOfTheTARDIS "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS"]], [[spoiler:the heart of the [=TARDIS=]]] is one of these.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E9ItTakesYouAway "It Takes You Away"]]: [[spoiler:When the [[GeniusLoci Solitract]] drops the Norwegian cottage guise when the Doctor is the only visitor left, it takes the form of one of these, with beams resembling the cottage attic, and itself in the form of a talking frog sitting on a chair.]]

* ''{{Series/Legion|2017}}'': In "[[Recap/LegionS3E8Chapter27 Chapter 27]]", the astral plane is white and featureless when Charles Xavier initially confronts Present Amahl Farouk, then negotiates a truce with him, and later convinces David Haller to accept the peace agreement.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. At the beginning of the episode "Tapestry", Picard apparently dies on Dr Crusher's operating table after being shot through the heart. He wakes up in a bright white void in which he can make out a white-robed figure who reaches out to him... [[spoiler:only for it to turn out to be Q, who informs Jean-Luc that he's dead, Q is God, and they're going to spend eternity together. Picard is not convinced.]]
** In the ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "The Visitor", a white void is used to represent the "subspace vacuole" that Captain Sisko is trapped in.

** ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. T'Pol is shown meditating in a mental version of this to avoid distractions. Unfortunately she discovers her brief "[[InterspeciesRomance intimate relationship]]" with Trip Tucker has led to a [[MindlinkMates somewhat more permanent connection]] when he appears in there as well.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "A Matter of Minutes", Michael and Maureen Wright attempt to use their neighbor Cliff Turner's phone but when they enter his home, they find nothing but a featureless white void. The same thing happens later when they run down an alley. The supervisor explains to them that he and his workers did not bother to construct the family home or the alley when building the minute 11:37am on April 27, 1986 as no one is supposed to see either during that time.
* ''Series/YoGabbaGabba'': The show is set in a white void filled with miniature playsets, where toys come to life.

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* The music video for the ''Music/AHa'' song ''Take On Me'' features the protagonist being sucked into her own drawing, a blank white sheet of paper as the background.

* In ''VideoGame/TheStanleyParable'', you can go through a window and outside the map into one of these. [[DevelopersForesight No, this isn't a glitch; there's even a secret ending there.]]
* In ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'', when [[spoiler:Sammer's Kingdom is destroyed, the door that led there now leads to a vast, empty landscape.]]
* [[BigBad Ganondorf's]] [[FateWorseThanDeath ultimate fate]] at the end of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' is to [[SealedEvilInACan be sealed away]] in AnotherDimension which is depicted as a white, formless void where [[AndIMustScream he can do nothing but spew vile invectives at the heroes]].
* ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' uses one as its HubLevel, with small previews of each of the nine levels being used as their entrances. Used properly in the game's epilogue, where [[spoiler:both Dr. Eggman and his past self from 20 years ago are both stuck in a true white void.]]
* ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath''. In the final phase of the [[spoiler:Chakratarvin the Creator]] boss fight the boss itself turns an entire plane of existence into this just by his raw power alone. It looks a lot like The Creator's room from VideoGame/DotHackGU above. Helps that it's made by [[Creator/CyberConnect2 The Same Company]], and is likely a ShoutOut.
* In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' and ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', the Rakata use mind traps as prisons, which are represented by the prisoner in an empty white void.
* ''VideoGame/LineRider'' takes place in an empty white area. The only objects are Bosh and the lines you draw.
* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', this turns out to be the ultimate endgame of [[BigBad Master Xehanort]]: to use the power of Kingdom Hearts to destroy the current universe and reduce it to a blank slate where he can rebuild it from scratch. It's more apparent in the Japanese script, where he calls it a "pure white world", whereas he calls it "an empty world, pure and bright" in English.
* ''VideoGame/{{OMORI}}'' spends his downtime in a relatively featureless void called 'White Space' when he's not interacting with his neighbor friends. The only things of consequence in it are his laptop, a cat, tissues for wiping away his tears and a black bulb suspended overhead.

* ''WebAnimation/AnimatedInanimateBattle'': The show is - for the most part - set in a similar yellow-and-white void referred to as "the Blank Slate". Outside the characters themselves, the only notable things in said void are some poker cards, a pile of trash that Oodle flinged to kingdom come, a bush, an ocean with some ice floating in it, a mountain, and some claw machines as of the third episode.
* ''WebAnimation/DaAmazinOTAdvenchr'': The series takes place in a white landscape. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in Appisote 18, where the series [[ArtEvolution gains a background]] [[spoiler:until Lite kills himself at the end of the Appisote to stop the "evolving"]].

%%* And, of course, [[http://angryflower.com/emptyw.gif Bob the Angry Flower]].
* ''WebComic/BlankIt'' takes place in one of these. It quickly turns into a surreal, Alice in Wonderland style adventure.
* Richard of ''WebComic/LookingForGroup'' was banished into a featureless white void while battling the sisters. He dubbed it the "Plane of Suck".
* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'' has an interesting meta-example: throughout the comic, the web page's background and decorations change to match the comic image. So when Sette falls into a [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds bizarre parallel dimension]], the page goes [[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch07/oww.html totally black]] (to the extent that Sette [[MediumAwareness tries to fiddle with the page forward/back buttons]] because nothing else is visible) and a bit later, [[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch07/ch07_30.html completely white.]]

* There have been several cases in ''Webcomic/LsEmpire'' where the characters were in a featureless white void: when they were in a brand new dimension, one of the authors [[PocketDimension left pocket]], and the VoidBetweenTheWorlds. They comment on this.
-->'''Void''': So this is the new dimension huh? Where's the color?
-->'''Mr L''': Uh, Void. I think you mean, where's the EVERYTHING?
* Roxy describes the PowerOfTheVoid as an endless expanse of white which she can draw out anything from in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''.
* ''Webcomic/OneOverZero'' is set in one of these. Then the characters create land from the corpse of a dead giant and eventually build a town there. The introduction of all the characters and other objects, one by one, to this realm forms the backbone of the comic's storyline.
* ''Webcomic/ABeginnersGuideToTheEndOfTheUniverse'' is set within a pocket dimension in the shape of a complex of increasingly lavish apartments (going from a basic bachelor pad to a full-blown mansion) floating in an immense white void broken only by a seemingly endless railway and an ominous, pulsing black star. [[spoiler:It's all that is left of the universe after it underwent heat death and collapsed into a singularity, that being the black star. The reason there's anything at all besides empty void is because the Everyman -- the AnthropomorphicPersonification of humanity's collective unconscious -- willed a number of pocket existences and the railway connecting them, in order to preserve existence in some form.]] In the sequel, ''Webcomic/ChairmanJackEmerge'', the civilization that was built clinging to the railway ends up making extensive use of flying vehicles as the only meaningful way of moving through the void.

* In ''WebComic/HonkaiImpact3rdSecondEruption'', we learn that [[spoiler:the Will of Honkai, the gestalt mind driving every Honkai Beast,]] resides in a parallel dimension devoid of anything but a white emptiness, with the only furnitures being dependent on whoever interacts with it. In Sirin's case, it sits comfortably on a rock throne; in Otto's case, it's seen praying before a blue crucifix.
* A number of early ''Webcomic/{{Nedroid}}'' strips have little in the way of background, to the point where the characters eventually begin to lampshade it, such as when Reginald gets tired of the featureless white void in which he inhabits and takes a trip to the [[http://nedroid.com/2010/01/change-of-scenery/ featureless black void]] for a change of scenery.
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Ellen [[https://www.egscomics.com/?date=2006-05-08 floats]] in a featureless black void at the end of the memories inserted into her dreams.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Blindscape}}'': The opening shot is the man waking up against a white void background, as he is blind, and has not seen or felt anything. Images only appear as he hears them or touches them.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', the SorcerousOverlord King Sombra created a PocketDimension version of this as part of his complex security system. And the only way out is by climbing a vast, EvilTowerOfOminousness-sized staircase.
* In the "[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsMagicalMovieNight Mirror Magic]]" short for ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'', the Humane Seven end up trapped in one of these [[spoiler:thanks to BigBad Juniper Montage using a mirror with Equestrian magic]]. The room inside the mirror starts to break apart as the mirror takes more damage in the outside world.
** And again in the "[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRollercoasterOfFriendship Rollercoaster of Friendship]]" special, when the Humane Seven (barring Applejack and Rarity) ended up in one [[spoiler:after being zapped by Vignette Valencia's magic-infused phone]]. [[SubvertedTrope Unlike the above example]], it's later revealed that they were just teleported to an empty WhiteVoidRoom within the amusement park, [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe much to Sunset Shimmer's chagrin]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "SB-129", Squidward was on a TimeMachine that went haywire and ended up in one of these.
** [[TheDitz Patrick's]] dreamscape turns out to be one of these with just him on a coin-operated kiddie ride [[spoiler:and a sewer grate that his last quarter fell into]].
* This is what ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' is without any chalk in it. Minus the floor. It's literally a bottomless abyss.

** A cutaway in the season 3 episode "The Thin White Line" shows the Griffins visiting Purgatory. It's a white space that doesn't even have a floor; you're just suspended in the void.
** In the Season 8 episode "Road to the Multiverse", Brian and Stewie visit an alternate universe that is this, with just them and "Compliment Guy," who stands so far away that he's almost a dot. He is the only inhabitant of his universe and his sole purpose is to yell compliments from a distance. Brian and Stewie then leave that universe and back to their own universe, in front of their house. However, it turns out that they are only standing in front of a large ''picture'' of their house, and two workers come along and carry the picture away, revealing that they are simply in yet another White Void Room. Stewie tells Brian that they are in The Universe of Misleading Portraiture. It has no true specific locations, only portraits that represent the locations. But then they see Compliment Guy in the distance of the void... but then it turns out that he and the void are simply yet another Misleading Portraiture, which gets carried away by two workers, revealing another white void room, but with a horizon where a gray wall meets a white floor.
** In the season 9 episode "The Big Bang Theory", Stewie and Brian end up in a white, floorless nothingness when they go back in time before the big bang. They demonstrate the versatility of the nothingness when Stewie snaps his fingers to alter the physics, and creates a musical staff with their two heads taking place of the musical notes, where the two heads sing the Carmichael/Loesser song "Heart and Soul."
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' movie "Destination Imagination", Frankie is held prisoner by an imaginary friend who controls a pretend world in a toy box. (Actually, she's more like the first person he's seen in a very long time and so he gets very excited. She genuinely enjoys the experience but she's not allowed to leave his world.) When Mr. Herriman tries to take her back to Foster's, the friend in control of the world gets very angry. As he chases them he destroys the world and it becomes one of these, albeit with debris and landmarks still around.
* The ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Void" is about another dimension, accessed through a [[TheLonelyDoor Lonely Door]] floating around in space, that starts out as pure white and changes according to your desires.
* A "WhatIf" episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' ends with Fry destroying the universe, yet he and a few others survive, suspended in a white featureless void.
-->'''Stephen Hawking:''' Great. The entire universe was destroyed.
-->'''Fry:''' Destroyed? Then where are we now?
-->'''Al Gore:''' I don't know. But I can darn well tell you where we're not: the universe.
-->'''Nichelle Nichols:''' ''[groaning]'' Eternity with nerds. It's the Pasadena ''Franchise/StarTrek'' convention all over again.
-->'''Gary Gygax:''' Anyone wanna play ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' for the next quadrillion years?
* ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' features one of these in between episodes. Uncle Grandpa and his group seem to walk around it just fine, but one who comes in unprepared, say, [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse the Crystal Gems]], can easily get lost.

* Many early animated inserts on ''Series/SesameStreet'' take place in white voids, or at least in minimalist environments.