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* MistakenForPedophile: Andrew, who suffers from extreme agoraphobia, is visited by a girl scout, but gets so panicked that he grabs her arm and tells her to leave. He later gets a knock on the door from the girl's mother, who mistakenly believes that he forcibly kissed her. However, this is because she was trying extremely aggressively to sell him cookies, and after he made her leave, she made a [[FalseRapeAccusation deliberate false allegation allegation]] against him that he molested her, [[DisproportionateRetribution as revenge for not buying her cookies]].

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* MistakenForPedophile: Andrew, who suffers from extreme agoraphobia, is visited by a girl scout, but gets so panicked that he grabs her arm and tells her to leave. He later gets a knock on the door from the girl's mother, who mistakenly believes that he forcibly kissed her. However, this is because she was trying extremely aggressively to sell him cookies, and after he made her leave, she made a [[FalseRapeAccusation deliberate false allegation allegation]] against him that he molested her, [[DisproportionateRetribution as revenge for not buying her cookies]].
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* ThePowerOfHate: If Andrew and Dave focus in on an object while in the void (often how much they dislike it), it disappears from existence. [[spoiler:They weaponize this on each other in the climax]].
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* MistakenForPedophile: Andrew, who suffers from extreme agoraphobia, is visited by a girl scout, but gets so panicked that he grabs her arm and tells her to leave. He later gets a knock on the door from the girl's mother, who mistakenly believes that he forcibly kissed her.

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* MistakenForPedophile: Andrew, who suffers from extreme agoraphobia, is visited by a girl scout, but gets so panicked that he grabs her arm and tells her to leave. He later gets a knock on the door from the girl's mother, who mistakenly believes that he forcibly kissed her. However, this is because she was trying extremely aggressively to sell him cookies, and after he made her leave, she made a [[FalseRapeAccusation deliberate false allegation allegation]] against him that he molested her, [[DisproportionateRetribution as revenge for not buying her cookies]].
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* LosingYourHead: Dave and Andrew eventually wish away everything around each other in an argument until they're both down to just their heads.
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* GirlScoutsAreEvil: The Girl Scout that helps Andrew when he locks himself out of his house tries to help ease his obvious anxiety; when he demands that she leaves on grounds of him being NotGoodWithPeople, she retaliates by ''[[DisproportionateRetribution accusing him of molesting her]]''.

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* GirlScoutsAreEvil: The Girl Scout that helps Andrew when he locks himself out of his house tries to help ease his obvious anxiety; when he demands that she leaves on grounds of him being NotGoodWithPeople, too awkward, she retaliates by ''[[DisproportionateRetribution accusing him of molesting her]]''.
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* RiddleForTheAges: Did the duo actually wish away everything into nonexistence, or are they stuck in a limbo where wishing things away actually wishes them back into reality?

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* GirlScoutsAreEvil: The Girl Scout that helps Andrew when he locks himself out of his house tries to help ease his obvious anxiety; when he demands that she leaves on grounds of him being NotGoodWithPeople, she retaliates by ''[[DisproportionateRetribution accusing him of molesting her]]''.



* HumiliationConga: Ludicrously exaggerated in the film's setup to show just how bad Andrew and Dave have it in life. Dave is openly ridiculed by all of his coworkers and boss, his girlfriend never loved him and she goes as far as to embezzle over $27,000 from his company and blame him for it. As for Andrew, the ''one'' time he goes outside ends up getting him accused of child molestation.



* NervousWreck: Andrew has cripplingly severe anxiety as a result of his parents dying that prohibits him from comfortably leaving his home.



* RealityWarper: Played with. The two protagonists eventually realize that they can change the featureless environment with their own thoughts, but they can only will things ''out'' of existence, they [[CreativeSterility can't create anything new]].

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* RealityWarper: Played with. The two protagonists eventually realize that they can change the featureless environment with their own thoughts, but they can only will things ''out'' of existence, existence; they [[CreativeSterility can't create anything new]].


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* TheShutIn: Andrew, which makes his decision to explore the nothing with Dave some considerable CharacterDevelopment.
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* MistakenForPedophile: Andrew, who suffers from extreme agorophobia, is visited by a girl scout, but gets so panicked that he grabs her arm and tells her to leave. He laters gets a knock on the door from the girl's mother, who mistakenly believes that he forcibly kissed her.

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* MistakenForPedophile: Andrew, who suffers from extreme agorophobia, agoraphobia, is visited by a girl scout, but gets so panicked that he grabs her arm and tells her to leave. He laters later gets a knock on the door from the girl's mother, who mistakenly believes that he forcibly kissed her.
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* MistakenForPedophile: Andrew, who suffers from extreme agorophobia, is visited by a girl scout, but gets so panicked that he grabs her arm and tells her to leave. He laters gets a knock on the door from the girl's mother, who mistakenly believes that he forcibly kissed her.
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* {{Hikkikomori}}: Andrew is suffering from extreme social withdrawal, and won't leave the house that his parents left him. His best friend and roommmate David is apparently his only outlet to the world.
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* SerialEscalation: The film takes this to the very extreme as [[spoiler:the two main characters gain the ability to wish the universe into nothingness, including themselves, leading to a finale where all that's left is the two characters' heads and a turtle on an infinite expanse of white light.]] also, it stars the guy who plays [[Series/StargateAtlantis Rodney McKay.]]


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* SerialEscalation: The film takes this to the very extreme as [[spoiler:the two main characters gain the ability to wish the universe into nothingness, including themselves, leading to a finale where all that's left is the two characters' heads and a turtle on an infinite expanse of white light.]] also, it stars the guy who plays [[Series/StargateAtlantis Rodney McKay.]]

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* BlankWhiteVoid: The movie is mostly set in a white void.



* WhiteVoidRoom: The movie is mostly set in a white void.

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* WhiteVoidRoom: The movie is mostly set in a white void.

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* InsaneTrollLogic: "Andrew, we can't be dead! We have ''cable''!"
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Dave and Andrew have been best friends for years, now living in Andrew's home beneath a freeway. Their house is due to be demolished when they both wish for everyone to "go away". The whole world outside inexplicable vanishes and is replaced by an endless white void.

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Dave and Andrew have been best friends for years, now living in Andrew's home beneath a freeway. Their house is due to be demolished when they both wish for everyone to "go away". The whole world outside inexplicable inexplicably vanishes and is replaced by an endless white void.
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[[quoteright:299:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nothing_movie.png]]

''Nothing'' is a 2003 Canadian comedy film by Creator/VincenzoNatali.

Dave and Andrew have been best friends for years, now living in Andrew's home beneath a freeway. Their house is due to be demolished when they both wish for everyone to "go away". The whole world outside inexplicable vanishes and is replaced by an endless white void.

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!!This film provides examples of:

* TheAloner: The protagonists. Hordes of angry people are settling on their house, they are hiding in a room, crying and hugging... and suddenly everything apart from them and the house disappears, replaced by a big, white, surprisingly bouncy nothing.
* MinimalisticCoverArt: The poster only features the two protagonists on a white background. And the said protagonists don't cover much space there. Besides the title, billing block and the company logos, that's pretty much it.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc8XXv3pl10 trailer]] makes it out to be a psychological thriller/horror/sci-fi much in the same vein as Creator/VincenzoNatali's earlier film ''Film/{{Cube}}'', when in actuality it is a lighthearted buddy comedy that is almost nothing like that.
* RealityWarper: Played with. The two protagonists eventually realize that they can change the featureless environment with their own thoughts, but they can only will things ''out'' of existence, they [[CreativeSterility can't create anything new]].
* SerialEscalation: The film takes this to the very extreme as [[spoiler:the two main characters gain the ability to wish the universe into nothingness, including themselves, leading to a finale where all that's left is the two characters' heads and a turtle on an infinite expanse of white light.]] also, it stars the guy who plays [[Series/StargateAtlantis Rodney McKay.]]
* WhiteVoidRoom: The movie is mostly set in a white void.

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