The Nothing

Overview

Voice

	This section may contain speculation and/or fan interpretations.
	Due to lack of official information some information on this section may therefore be partially incorrect.

The Nothing
Reality	None
Age	N/A (Unmeasurable, older than the Zero Point)
Status	Active
Alignment	Chaotic Evil
Location	The Nothing beyond Realities
Debut	Season X (Mentioned) Chapter 3: Season 4
Personal Info
Faction	Last Reality
Affiliation	The Storm Chrome
Aliases	The Impenetrable We Distant Voice (Filenames) Nothingness (Save The World)
English	Damien C. Haas
Italian	Andrea Oldani
Portuguese (Brazil)	André Schimdt

“

In the beginning, there was Nothing. then, in a burst of pure creation, the Zero Point sprang into being.

”

— Batman/Fortnite: Foundation

The Nothing is the malevolent cosmic being ruling The Army of the Last Reality that was first introduced and mentioned during Season X. It is the first primordial entity in existence, before the birth of the Zero Point, embodying the pure Nothingness that existed before the creation of The Omniverse. Its goal is to annihilate all realities so that only it remains.

It is the main antagonist of Fortnite, acting as the main antagonist of Fortnite: Battle Royale as well as the overarching antagonist of Fortnite: Save the World and LEGO Fortnite:Odyssey.

Overview

The Nothing is a self-aware cosmic entity and the counterpart of the Zero Point, embodying the pure Nothingness that existed before The Omniverse, while the latter embodies pure creation. Seemingly unable to act by itself on The Omniverse, it founded The Army of the Last Reality, a group formed of beings mainly from The Last Reality, and other beings created or chosen by them in order to destroy The Omniverse.

Appearance

Nothing is known about the true appearance of The Nothing, or if it even has a physical form. After The End (Chapter 1) event, a manifestation of it in the form of a Black Hole appeared.

In Chapter 3: Season 4, during Bytes Quests, The being speaks through a Chromeified TV.

Personality

The Nothing speaks in a sinister male voice, speaking rather slowly in an exaggerated manner, articulating all words. It is looking for worthy individuals; it uses its skills at manipulation to guide them down a path of darkness that takes away their identity and heralds them a useful asset by giving them Chrome powers. The only known individuals chosen by the entity thus far has become members of The Army of the Last Reality.

Powers and Abilities

Source	Ability
	Chrome Manipulation Full control of everything in Chrome. The Nothing gives people it deems worthy the power to use and manipulate Chrome, like the Heralds and Bytes.
	Existence Sculpting Also known as "A fate darker than the worst imaginable". Can shape anything covered in Chrome into something new and different. The Scientist is one of its victims.
"We know your thoughts. How you feel different now. Hollow and afraid."	Mind Reading Knows everything about Bytes in Bytes Quests.
"You can't let it in. It'll drag you down and swallow you whole." -Carlos	Mental Manipulation The source of dreadfulness in The Storm of Fortnite: Save the World.

History

The Big Bang

Originally there was absolutely Nothing, however without warning there was "Something". The Zero Point appeared and created countless realities. However, that complete nothingness that was once there had a will of its own. Wishing to return everything to its original state where only it exists, it started to predate the Zero Point and The Omniverse. For this, it formed The Army of the Last Reality under unclear circumstances, and under its orders they began to annihilate one reality after another, all while searching for the Zero Point.

Fortnite: Save The World

In Save the World's Reality, The Nothing manifested itself as a type of corruption originating from The Storm, omnipresent in Storm King's realm. It striked Homebase, making people feel lazy, consuming them with existential dread and making them feels lifeless during Remote Control and Signal Strength quests.

It was revealed in Bandwidth Issues that Dr. Vinderman was aware of the existence of the being along with the Storm King, backed up with multiple weapon plans that were lost.

Unknown Time Period

One day, in unknown circumstances, The Foundation found himself in The Nothing. His armor allowed him to survive for a time in it.

Season X

In an attempt to contain the Zero Point, The Seven turned the whole Reality Zero into Nothing because of a miscalculation.

"I was not alone, others are outside the loop, this was not calculated, The Nothing is now inevitable."

Chapter 3: Season 4

During Bytes Quests, Bytes was chosen by The Nothing itself to be warrior for the Last Reality. In the Paradise Quests, The Paradigm mentioned the entity, however the audio is mostly unintelligible.

Chapter 4: Season 1

AMIE's test subjects sent through test rifts encountered "It" sculpting The Scientist and the others into something new. The test subjects returned to AMIE corrupted with new forms.

Chapter 4: Season OG

The Big Bang

After the meteor stuck the Zero Point, everything turned into Nothing just like The End (Chapter 1) event, but only for a short period of time. the Zero Point sprang into being again and caused a new Big Bang.

Chapter 5: Season 5

The Nothing (TV Form) appear represented on Mom's Spaghetti alongside Aliens, Doctor Slone and Hope.

Remix: The Finale

It is revealed that sometime after Chapter 4: Season 4, the Zero Point left alone in the dying Reality Zero was destroyed, though the involvement of The Nothing and The Last Reality is unknown. Several of its shards were seen, with one of them following The Looper, Jones and Hope to Reality: 783.

Trivia

• The Nothing is the second Fortnite antagonist to never actually appear in the game. The first is Geno.
• The voice files for The Nothing used in Bytes Quests are named "Distant Voice".
• It is implied that The Storm, Chrome, and the darkness themselves are only manifestations or extensions of The Nothing.
• There were graffiti art of creepy TV with an eye on some location on Artemis during Chapter 3: Season 3. It also appeared on Helios during Remix: The Prelude.
• There is a graffiti art of a broken TV with an eye being abducted by a Saucer in Mom's Spaghetti during Chapter 2 Remix.
• The Nothing seems to be inspired by The Nothing from The NeverEnding Story.

Speculation Trivia

• It is suggested that the Zero Point and The Nothing may just be two sides of the same coin, similar to the One Above All and One Below All in Marvel.
  • The Black Hole was implied to be The Nothing or one of its manifestation by The Scientist, while it was initially the Zero Point.
  • Zero is stated to be both "Everything and Nothing".
  • Chapter 2: Season 6, Chapter 3: Season 3, Chapter 3: Season 4 and Chapter 6: Season 1 show that the Zero Point is also a source of darkness:
    • In Chapter 2: Season 6, following the presence of Zero Point, The Spire was corrupted, imbued with dark magic, until its core became similar to Corruption Cubes.
    • In Chapter 3: Season 3, Bushranger described the Reality Tree as being "Darknessdarkness big scary", despite being made from the energy of the Zero Point.
    • In Chapter 3: Season 4, the ambience sound effect files for the Reality Tree were named "Nothing Tree". In addition, Chrome emerged from the Reality Tree and Reality Bloom.
    • In Chapter 6: Season 1, it was revealed that the Zero Point was also the source of magic itself, with one of its Shards returning magic (including dark magic) to Reality: 783.
  • In Fortnite X Marvel: Zero War Issue 4, Doctor Doom confirm that the Power of Creation can also destroy. The Imagined Order using this to create The Collider, a doomsday weapon meant to collide the Zero Point with crystals to annihilate Reality Zero.
• Some clues suggest that The Nothing and The Shapeless Man may be the same being.
  • Neither entity appears to have a physical body.
  • Both have observed and chosen individuals (Bytes and Rift Warden Stellan respectively) to help them in their objectives by manipulating them.
  • Among the dreams The Shapeless Man showed to Stellan, one was about stars swallowed in darkness, reminding how The Nothing wants to destroy The Omniverse.
  • The Nothing is theorized to be the being who manipulated Raz dreams since his childhood to make him visit The Spire and fall to darkness, just like The Shapeless Man did with young Stellan.
    • However, other elements seem to indicate that The Shapeless Man would in fact not be The Nothing, but Geno due to an element he had mentionned to Stellan: "He always said he imagined a world of perfect order. - Stellan."
• Darkness, first introduced during Chapter 6: Season 1, is believed to be The Nothing.
  • However, despite several hints and clues, there is no confirmation at this time that both are the same entity.

Gallery

The Nothing's manifestation after The End (Chapter 1) event.

Graffiti art found at Rave Cave and appeared during Remix: The Prelude.

The Nothing surrounding the Zero Point in The Big Bang event.

Graffiti art in Spaghetti Grotto in the Chapter 2 Remix.

Same graffiti in Spaghetti Grotto but slightly different.