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== [[Tabletop Game]] ==
* ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' has several Prestige Classes that are based around the idea of using emptiness as a weapon, as well as the Binder PC class, who channel the power of entities that have been banished to nothingness, not to mention the infamous Sphere of Annihilation.
* The Neverborn in [[Exalted]]. According to some theories, Creation's version of the Void wouldn't even exist if not for them. By extension, the Deathlords and the Abyssal Exalted. Interestingly, in ''Exalted'', the Power of the Void is closely associated with [[Necromancer|Necromancy]], to the point that anyone who can use one can generally use the other to some extent.
** Needless to say, this is also true in ''[[Wraith: The Oblivion]]'', where the force the Neverborn serve is tellingly called "Oblivion."
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* ''[[Anima: Beyond Fantasy]]'' presents the Etrien Gnosos which is this trope with [[Face Monster Turn]] added; and played straight with Ildabaoth Veda (bonus points for being both a [[Creepy Child]] and a [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|white haired pretty girl]]).
** In the [[No Export for You|(currently in Spanish only)]] ''Arcana Exxet'' one of the subschools of magic (appropiately named ''Void'') lets the player use the power of the Void.
* The Dark Eldar in ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' have access to a weapon called the Dark Lance, in the 5th edition, they have a flyer which has a beefed up version called the Void Lance, these Voidraven Bombers also have a bomb, called the Void Mine which first creates a protected sphere, to utterly annihilate everything in it.
* "Void" is one of the types of heroes in ''Ascension'': their abilities focus on removing your own cards from play, which is nifty for thinning out your deck.
 
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*** However, the two are very different takes on this trope: Exdeath appears o be attempting to wipe out everything, while Cloud Of Darkness seems to be a sort of mystical "immune response" created by the universe when a world has too much of either darkness or light, to balance things out and restart the cycle (admittedly, by killing everyone currently alive). When they meet up in [[Dissidia]], each arrogantly announces that their understanding of the Void is the only correct one. Regardless, [[Fan Nickname|Voidshipping]] is a [[Fan-Preferred Couple|very popular]] [[Crack Pairing]].
* Xemnas from ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' is said to be attributed to the "element" of nothingness and repeatedly acknowledges it. He also refers to nothingness as The Void during his boss battle. However, his attacks [[Hard Light|manifest]] as [[Pure Energy]], including barriers of energy and his signature [[Laser Blade|Ethereal Blades]]. The closest to a "Void" attack is his desperate final attempt to kill Sora and Riku, where he pulls them into a black void and surrounds them with a field of Etheral Blades that fire like lasers at them.
* ''[[StarcraftStarCraft]]'' Dark Templar / Nerazim draw psionic power from The Void (essentially, space itself), as opposed to the Khalai Protoss, who use their own [[Hive Mind]] / [[Instrumentality]] link for power. Void-based abilities apparently include cloaking, trapping targets in a "Void Prison", and (for Zeratul, at least) short-range teleportation.
** It's also worth noting that the [[Yin-Yang Bomb|combination of the two]] is very powerful and there's even a Dark Templar prophecy speaking of the "Twilight Deliverer" that [[Foreshadowing|signals a time of great peril]] for the Universe.
** The Twilight Deliverer is bad news, but the Twilight ''[[The Messiah|Messiah]]'' is a mythological figure that is supposedly able to wield the powers of both Khala and Void in tandem and is a major force for good. What's more, the Messiah is supposedly cyclical, returning in a new form when it is needed. The (mostly Dark) protoss who espouse this theory are apt to hold that Tassadar (who ''did'' [[Yin-Yang Bomb|channel both back in]] ''[[StarcraftStarCraft]] 1'' to destroy the Overmind) was {{spoiler|or is, [[Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence|depending on your interpretation]]}} a fulfillment of this prophecy.
* ''[[League of Legends]]'' has the Void, a dimension which apparently scars the mind of all who look into it and contains sentient horrors ("Terror coming... [[Eldritch Abomination|Daddy coming...]]"). Void-powered characters are [[H.P. Lovecraft|doom prophet Malzahar]] and obvious [[StarcraftStarCraft|Protoss expy]] Kassadin, as well as the monsters Cho'Gath and [[Cute Monster|Kog'Maw]].
* The Void element in ''[[Adventure Quest]]'' is different from all of the elements because monsters cannot have resistances to it. The rare ones that do are often unique and highly dangerous.
** The Void Dragon is a particularly dangerous example. It uses Void element attacks against you, which is bad since there is no way for players to reduce Void damage. It can also absorb health every time you miss an attack. Void dragons even absorb Void damage to heal themselves. The only saving grace is that they take twice as much damage from standard elemental attacks. They also happen to look like [[Alien|Xenomorphs]] mixed with dragons.
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