History Main / WhiteVoidRoom

* ''Film/DaftPunksElectroma'' features one. Exaggerated to the point in where the workers in the room are also wearing white and don't have distinguishable outlines, resulting in them perfectly blending into the white walls.

* ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'': The map gm_construct has one of these, until you change the color of its walls. Earlier versions of the map, available on the Internet, have a glitch where trippiness happens when the player paints the walls in that room transparent.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Spongebob SquarePants}}'', episode titled "SB-129", Squidward attempts to avoid Spongebob and Patrick by going to the Krusty Krab and hidding in the walk-in freezer. He is then locked in and forgotten thus stuck frozen for two-thousand years. In the future, Spongebob (called Spongtron) leads Squidward to a time machine which Squidward later breaks. Squidward is then seen what seems to be lost in time; he is in an empty white void with no other sea creatures, objects, or scenery.

* The white room behind the mirror in the DS remake of ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''. It has in it just one star.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'': The UsefulNotes/NintendoDS version has such a room with a secret Power Star inside. You can access it by going into the room with the mirror wall (where the portal to Snowman's Land is) as Luigi, grabbing a Power Flower to become intangible, and going into the mirror's reflection and entering the door on the other side.

* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. T'Pol uses a mental version to avoid distractions while meditating. So she's not happy to find Trip Tucker there, a sign that their brief "[[InterspeciesRomance intimate relationship]]" has led to a [[MindlinkMates somewhat more permanent connection]].

* The ''Website/TurkeyCityLexicon'' {{Deconstruction}}s this trope under the name "White Room Syndrome." According to the Lexicon, to begin a story with "She awoke in a white room" is "a clear and common sign of the failure of the author's imagination," since, if you think about it, it's likely [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a barely coded description]] of the writer's own ideas slowly coming together while staring at a featureless blank white ''piece of paper.''

* The ''Website/TurkeyCityLexicon'' {{deconstruct}}s this trope under the name "White Room Syndrome." According to the Lexicon, to begin a story with "She awoke in a white room" is "a clear and common sign of the failure of the author's imagination," since, if you think about it, it's likely [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a barely coded description]] of the writer's own ideas slowly coming together while staring at a featureless blank white ''piece of paper.''

* ''Literature/Escapist Dream'' has place that players go to before embarking into the virtual reality world Escapist Dream called the Lobby. It's basically this white room "bleached so much that it was painful to look at". Although a bit cliched that a virtual reality story has this feature, it was later revealed in the following chapters that the creators of the Escapist Dream were inspired by ''Film/TheMatrix'', hence why they have a white void room.

* ''Literature/TheMetamorphosisOfPrimeIntellect'' has several characters in a post-TechnologicalSingularity universe living in white void rooms. Most, though, find that they don't really want to live in a completely featureless white void, and and up decorating their living areas, thus completely missing the point of not owning anything when there's no longer any meaning to concepts like "home".
* The ''Website/TurkeyCityLexicon'' {{deconstruct}}s this trope under the name "White Room Syndrome." According to the Lexicon, to begin a story with "She awoke in a white room" is "a clear and common sign of the failure of the author's imagination," since, if you think about it, it's likely [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a barely coded description]] of the writer's own ideas slowly coming together while staring at a featureless blank white ''piece of paper.''
* Aside from the camera setup at one end and the television monitor setup at the other, the Television-Chocolate Room in ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' is "completely bare" and white thanks to the walls, floor, and ceiling being painted such, as well as the extremely bright light coming from overhead lamps (so bright that one cannot enter the room without donning special dark glasses).
* In ''Literature/InstrumentOfGod'', the magistrate tells two lawyers how they have a "stasis field" that suspends people in another area where ten minutes passes in their world no matter how long the person is in the field. In this case it's used to send someone to the prison law library, but in cases of misconduct or bad behavior ("sending them to Coventry") it can be turned into a completely white room. The magistrate even uses a ShoutOut to the White Room from ''Film/TheMatrix''. It's used for solitary confinement for disciplinary cases, generally one minute, but it's considered so bad a punishment that the maximum time the courts will allow them to use it is one hour.
* ''Literature/TheMazeRunner''. Thomas is placed in one at the end of "The Scorch Trials". Teresa tells him (via telepathy) that this is because he had started to show symptoms of the Flare, making him a danger to the other survivors. This turns out to be a lie; the real reason Thomas was placed in the white room was so that WICKED could stimulate a particular emotional response in him, enabling them to collect more killzone patterns.
* In "Literature/{{Swellhead}}", one of Creator/KimNewman's 'Diogenes Club' novellas, Richard Jeperson has retreated from contact with the outside world. Sent to recruit him for one last mission, Stacy finds he's turned his bedroom into one of these, to minimize his exposure to stimuli.

* ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'': The map gm_construct has one of these, until you change the color of its walls. Fun glitch: make the walls in that room transparent. Enjoy the trippy!

* The "night loops" of Germans kid TV series "Bernd das Brot" always play in such a room, nicknamed "White Hell". (Also, it has torus topology, so running away is no option for poor Bernd.)

* ''Film/THX1138'' (pictured) is the {{Trope Maker|s}}.

A featureless white room. So featureless, in fact, that you can't even tell where the walls, floor, and ceiling end--they all blend seamlessly together under the uniform light, so the chamber looks more like a white void than a room. Sometimes, the only indication that it's ''not'' a void is the fact that the characters have something solid to stand on.

* In ''Film/{{WillyWonkaandtheChocolateFactory}}'', everyone goes into a white room to see the demonstration of Wonkavision.

* In ''Film/WillyWonkaandtheChocolateFactory'', everyone goes into a white room to see the demonstration of Wonkavision.

* In the film ''Film/{{Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory}}'', everyone goes into a white room to see the demonstration of Wonkavision.

* In the film ''Film/{{Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory}}'', everyone goes into a white room to see the demonstration of Wonkavision.

[[caption-width-right:350:No, the background is not transparent, tropers.[[note]]Wait, did you say you have night vision switched on?[[/note]]]]

* ''Series/TheGoodPlace'':
** The "boundless void" where Janet, the humanoid AI who runs the titular neighborhood, lives when not interacting with the humans is depicted as featureless white space.
** Janet Warehouse is a location within the Neutral Zone that creates and stores Good Janets (and perhaps also Neutral Janets). It's a bright white void room.