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Remember that nothing screams futuristic, cutting edge, classy purity (as well as "[[Fan Service|concentrate on my smoking hot bod]]" [[Am I Right?]]) like a white void in your workout video.
Often a sign of the [[Lazy Artist]] in [[Sequential Art]] when the background is missing.
The diffused high-key light often makes this the opposite of [[Chiaroscuro]].
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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' has the White Hot Room, which is sort of outside the universe and mostly seems to exist so that various wielders of the Phoenix Force can have conversations with themselves.
* ''[[Invincible]]'' has a room that isn't actually a white void, but drugs in the water supply have mind-control ingredients that make everyone see it that way. {{spoiler|It's for the super-soldiers.}}
** Er, as to the spoiler, that's only on occasion. It's really for ''whatever'' they need to keep quasi-invisible that day.
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* ''[[THX 1138]]'' (pictured) is the [[Trope Maker]].
* In ''[[The Matrix]]'', the Construct appeared like this when its users aren't running simulations. It could also be used to procure supplies to take into the Matrix, such as guns. Lots of guns.
** The Architect's lair would be this if he didn't stick a bunch of TV's to the wall.
* ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' has some, specifically the Deneuralizing Room. Eventually, we come to realize that it's basically a large toilet bowl.
* In ''[[Bruce Almighty]]'' the [[Magical Negro|Supreme Being]] invites the protagonist into a white ''loft''.
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* The center of the Torus in ''Epoch''.
* The ending scene of ''2001: A Space Odyssey''.
* The shower at the beginning of ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119809/ Nowhere]'' is a white void room. The movie starts off with credits over a white screen and pans down, down, down to show the main character, named Dark, in a white void with gray steam. A shower head seemingly floating in space. The scene is shot from far away so that Dark looks dwarfed by the infinite whiteness on the screen. When his mother knocks on the bathroom door, the shower is seen for the cramped, normal utility that it is.
* The time travel chamber in ''[[Guest From the Future]]'' is a blank white room with a small control stand in the center.
* The Day Of Wonders virtual reality program in the ''[[Apocalypse]]'' film series by Cloud Ten Pictures takes place in a white room with the [[Digital Avatar]] of the Antichrist offering whoever enters it the [[Mark of the Beast]], with the alternative being death, usually by decapitation.
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* For a really obscure example: A 1990s Comedy Central sketch-comedy show called "Limboland" was entirely set in one of these.
* ''[[Penn and Teller Bullshit]]'' takes place in one of these. True to the show's form of pooh-poohing hocus-pocus, though, the camera sometimes pulls out and reveals that the white void is just a set, with cameras and lights and crew (something that is very easy to forget when you only watch TV and movies from one side of the camera).
* ''The Eyewitness'' series of science/nature documentaries feature [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSNJpoUmJcg an opening sequence ]in which the camera zooms through a kind of [[Mishmash Museum]] with animals of all sorts running about; the walls also have screens and picture frames depicing various images from the natural world.
** The museum itself is shown as being like this throughout the documentaries themselves, with video clips being introduced by the camera panning to the screens and picture frames. It also had the added strangeness effect of the pictures depicted being different every time, because they would be related to the subject matter.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'':
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** ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''. 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-clothed figure who reaches out for him {{spoiler|only for it to turn out to be Q, who informs Jean Luc that he's dead and they're going to spend eternity together. Picard is not impressed.}}
** In the ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "The Visitor", a white void is used to represent the "subspace vacuole" that Captain Sisko is trapped in.
** Also used in ''Deep Space Nine'' when Sisko speaks with the Prophets.
* [[Art Attack]]
* An episode of ''[[The X-Files]]'' had Mulder captured and interrogated in one of these rooms.
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* [[Lil Wayne]] and [[Kanye West]]'s Lollipop African Remix, as seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR7_VACr-8Q here]
* The video for ABBA's "Take a Chance on Me" as seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UvtOQnPE5c&NR=1 here]. With the exception of a slight shadow of a corner in some shots.
** The video for Erasure's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSnLGdpjWf4 cover] of the same song.
* [[Lady Gaga]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTzb3L4jXmU The Brain]
* The [[Stone Temple Pilots]] did a [[Retraux]] example with ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0gAxuvo5rc Big Bang Baby]''.
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* When transitioning between areas in both ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' games, Altair/Ezio are placed in a room like this until the area fully loads.
** This trope also comes into play immediately after killing a major target so that Altair/Ezio can [[Talking Is a Free Action|take their time having a nice chat]] with the victim before escaping.
* The final [[Cutscene]] in ''[[Command
* [[Big Bad|Ganondorf's]] [[Fate Worse Than Death|ultimate fate]] at the end of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]'' is to [[Sealed Evil in a Can|be sealed away]] in [[Another Dimension]] which is depicted as a white, formless void where [[And I Must Scream|he can do nothing but spew vile invectives at the heroes.]]
* The final battle in ''[[King of Fighters|King of Fighters XIII]]'' against {{spoiler|Ash under Saiki's control}} takes place in a [[White Void Room]].
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** Minus the floor. It's literally a bottomless abyss.
* According to a ''[[Family Guy]]'' cutaway, Purgatory is this.
* In the ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'' movie, Frankie is held prisoner by an imaginary friend who controls a pretend world in a toy box. (Aactually, she's more of 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.
== Workout Videos ==
* The Yoga series from [http://www.raviana.com/ Ana Brett and Ravi Singh] often features this room, as does their website.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hBHh5tsiY8 Capoeira Fitness (Nike Courses)]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeHSOuEW8l0&feature=related Chris Freytag]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQYYM6t8Qfk Kim Strother]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xTGTj_2JdE This] spine-destroying CGI workout.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5uK5ohqUm8 This] Pilates video
* Cindy Crawford subverts this by working out in a white void room, as well as colored void rooms.
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