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Blank Book
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This is when a character picks up a book and sees it is essentially empty. It's just a cover (possibly even without a title) pasted onto a blank book, or one filled with nonsense words like Lorem Ipsum over and over, or that just simply stops partway through. Why is this book blank? There's a few less than good reasons for it. It may be that the character is trapped in a Lotus-Eater Machine of some kind and the book being empty or filled with nonsense is a sign that something isn't right, since a Master of Illusion would have to manually "write" each and every book themself. It's also possible that the character is in some kind of stage filled with prop books, or the book is a deliberate fake intended to deceive. Someone (or thing) may have "stolen" the contents of the book and left it completely wordless in the process. In fact, some words may literally fly off the page or drip off as wet ink. Alternatively, the contents might technically exist but rendered invisible outside of the specific conditions required to read it. Lastly, the book being blank could be an Aesop for knowledge or lack of it. Perhaps the famed book of wisdom is blank because the person finding the book is supposed to write out the important knowledge themself because having gone through the quest to find the book, they now have the wisdom to write the book of wisdom themself. A case of All That Glitters. If the book was a blank holy text, it shows that character is denied the knowledge that will save their soul because they are now beyond redemption. Or it might just be a gag replacement for World's Shortest Book. This trope is for in-universe cases only. If a character quickly flips through the book to find the only page that matters, but closely examining the sequence shows that other pages are blank or gibberish, that's simply the creators cutting costs on unimportant details; if those pages actually contain unique material, that's Freeze-Frame Bonus. |
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In Dark Sun: Shattered Lands Keldar, assistant of an evil mage, carries a blank book, where he finds justification for his murders. Yes, he's insane. | |
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The Smurfs: In the story "The Smurfs And The Book That Tells Everything", the titular Book That Tells Everything is initially blank except for the page numbers. However, when the reader of the book asks it a question, the book will cause the answer to the question to appear only on that selected page. | |
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Lobo: The Wisdom Of Lobo was an actual book included in a three-book Lobo slipcased set back in the 90s. It was blank. | |
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Two Fire Emblem games, Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776, feature empty books as Spell Books that have been completely used up and thus no longer usable until being repaired. Since tomes have limited uses in most games of the series, it's implied that spells literally drain incantations from pages of magic books with every use. It's just that these two games are the only ones that let you keep and repair broken weapons, whereas they disappear completely elsewhere.note Three Houses also features broken weapons that can be repaired, but in this game magic is casted "by hand", no tomes or staves required | |
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Arrow. In a flashback to Lian Yu, Oliver Queen finds the book containing the List on the body of his father. However all the pages are blank, and the List only appears—having been written in invisible ink—when Oliver tries to burn the pages as kindling. | |
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One of these appears in The Chronicles of Prydain; it's discovered text appears when the pages are viewed with a particular kind of magical light. | |
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In the seventh arc of Umineko: When They Cry, Will attends Beatrice's funeral. In her coffin, there is no body, just a book. When Will opens the book, the pages turn to petals. It's later shown that the book contains Battler's final iteration of what happened during the Rokkenjima murders - an iteration that is only to be shared between himself and Beatrice. | |
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Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures: Villain Ezekiel Rage constantly quotes from the black-paged "Book of Rage". When Jessie finds it, she discovers it's completely blank except for a picture of Rage's dead family. | |
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Black Hammer: Lucy Weber goes to the Rockwood library to look up the history of this mysterious town where the heroes have been stranded for the past ten years, only to discover that all the books on the subject are blank. | |
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In NetHack, there are blank spellbooks; using a magic marker, you can turn these into spellbooks of any spell you already know (or spells that you don't know, but there's a random failure chance for those). | |
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The Justice League cartoon episode "Legends" where Green Lantern, Hawkgirl, Martian Manhunter, and Flash got transported to an alternate universe where the Silver Age heroes John Stewart read about as a boy are real. Midway through, John gets suspicious that the world isn't all it seems, and goes to a library, where he finds all the books are blank. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978) mentions a book called Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It notes that most people give up upon reaching the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Subjunctive Intentional and that in later editions the pages after this were left blank to save on printing costs. | |
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The Babadook: When Amelia first reads "Mister Babadook", she finds that the last half of the book is just blank pages. When the book returns after she has destroyed it, those pages are now filled with new text and illustrations promising a very nasty fate for her and her son. | |
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SAS: Rogue Heroes Captain Stirling hands out an operations order to the assembled members of the newly formed Special Air Service, detailing the objectives set by GHQ, their chain of command and uniform requirements, and the equipment assigned to them. All the pages are blank, making it clear that they're expected to come up with all these things themselves. Stirling collects Winston Churchill's autograph on a blank sheet of paper, then types up an order on it afterwards for the bearer to be given every assistance. It's implied that Churchill knows full well what Stirling is doing—he even gets the general in charge of the Western Desert campaign to countersign it. |
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Calvin and Hobbes: One strip invokes this trope. Calvin uses this as an excuse for not doing his homework: "I tried, but the book publisher didn't use the proper print fixative. Needless to say, when I picked up the book all the letters slid off the page and fell on the floor in a heap of gibberish!" | |
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The Father Brown story "The Blast of the Book". The mystery concerns a cursed book that makes anyone who reads it disappear. After Father Brown presents the solution, he is asked: | |
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In the anime adaptation of Future Diary, Minene checked her future-telling cellphone diary after Yomotsu hypnotized her into seeing a piece of wood as her cellphone. At first the diary showed the same thing as last time, and when she tried to read it, the entry went blank. | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-1230 is a sentient book that gives you a long and vivid Heroic Fantasy dream if you go to sleep after reading it. When the book is opened, the first page you see will always read "A hero is born", while all other pages will be blank. SCP-2123 ("I Accidentally The Whole Universe") is a particle accelerator in Texas that creates large amounts of ionizing radiation and cannot be turned off. After 3 OSHA inspectors who were visiting the facility died from radiation exposure in December 2003, the Foundation discovered that all the facility's physical and digital records were blank. |
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In 1408, the protagonist is a skeptical atheist out to debunk supernatural hotspots. He comes to the titular hotel room, which has a reputation for a lot of suicides or unusual deaths happening there. The haunting starts, and as it keeps getting worse, he finds himself trapped in the hotel room. In a moment of desperation, he picks up the hotel room's Gideon bible only to find that all the pages are blank. | |
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In Final Fantasy XIV, blank books are used as a gag in the Flavor Text of two housing decorations in the form of a collection of books, implying that all they're good for is making the owner look well read. | |
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Happens in Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Scroll turns out to be totally blank. Instead, it is a mirror, meant to prompt the lesson that true strength comes from within rather than spelling anything out. The villain would've stolen the scroll and not understood, but the hero earned the privilege to open the scroll, and realized its true meaning. Notably, when the villain does get a glimpse at the scroll during the climax he can only stare blankly as his own reflection and say that he sees 'nothing'. Po even tells him "It's ok, I didn't get it at first either." | |
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In Dark City, John Murdoch discovers that a picture book he drew in as a child is now completely blank. For extra Paranoia Fuel, when he tries to show it to a cop later, it's filled out. | |
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DuckTales (2017): In "Quack Pack!", one of the things that causes Huey to suspect they're trapped in a sitcom reality is that his beloved Junior Woodchuck Guidebook is just a prop book with blank pages. | |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: In the city of Windhelm there's a book titled The Book of Fate in Calixto's House of Curiosities. It was apparently discovered in the Arcane University in Cyrodiil and purports to contain the reader's fate. When the Dovahkiin reads it, the pages are blank. Make of that what you will. There are two plausible explanations: the book is a fake entirely plausible since Calixto is a crazy Serial Killer, or it's because certain people who play a pivotal role in the setting (implied to be every player character in the series) don't exactly have a predetermined fate like most mortals. In one bandit cave near Whiterun, the blind watchman Ulfr the Blind can be found "reading" a book creatively titled "Ulfr's Book." Seeing as he's completely blind, it probably doesn't make that much of a difference to him that the book is completely blank. |
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The Book Chute in Fallout: New Vegas: Old World Blues turns books you put into it to blank books. The Chute itself claims that knowledge being dangerous and hence it being the chute's responsibility to remove knowledge from books for your safety, citizen. The Courier can turn it around and give the Chute books already too ruined to be read and then using the resultant blank books as one element in making educational books (that is, skill books). | |
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xkcd: In this comic, a man has a shelf full of books, all of them blank except for a smudge of ink on one page, which he uses to make a profound point about imagination. His friend simply asks, "Who sold you all these blank books?" The alt text reveals the comic is actually a metaphor for homeopathic and "alternative" medicine. | |
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In Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-, the book was blank for the first person to pick it up. Once handed to another person, it was filled with the first person's memories for the second to explore. | |
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Fake books may also be used on movie sets. For example, the books in Dumbledore's office from the Harry Potter films are actually phone books with the covers changed. | |
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In Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening, Dalish elf Velanna will mention the damage centuries of slavery and persecution has done to elven folklore. One of her gift items is a blank book, which you can give with the suggestion she make her own stories for future elves. ("It's got a tree on the front, you like trees, right?") | |
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In The Stormlight Archive, one of the devotaries (religious orders) uses a blank book called The Book of Endless Pages as a metaphor. The book cannot be filled because there is always more to learn. | |
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Galaxy of Fear once has the protagonists find a cursed Jedi library. Anyone but a Jedi who removes a book, dies - not just rumored, it's witnessed, too. The pages of removed books then crumble to dust. Actually, the library was burned down ages ago. The books are fakes put in by the Big Bad, and are made to sap Life Energy and store it for research. So, no knowledge to be gained from reading them, even if a droid does all the handling. | |
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In Ghostwriter (2019), Ghostwriter has the ability to release fictional characters from books into reality. The pages of the books they are released from turn blank, and the characters disappear from the cover as well. Once the protagonists solve the characters' problem, they return to the book and the words and cover images are restored to normal. | |
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Resident Evil has a red book where the pages are all blank. It's meant to be used as an obtuse way of opening a secret passage by placing the book on a shelf with other similar books and rearranging them to form a picture of a nude woman on the book bindings. | |
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In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Bashir realizes he's still in Sloan's mind when his copy of A Tale of Two Cities has "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," at the point where he left off. Because he hadn't finished the book, Sloan's mind filled in the unread parts with repetitions of what he had read so far. The Tome of the Pah-wraiths is a forbidden and blasphemous text in the Bajoran faith. But when it is opened, the pages are all blank, confounding those who would seek the evil knowledge within. Only after a virtuous man is murdered while trying to keep the book from evil hands and his blood drips onto the pages does the actual text appear. Even, then only the Chosen One of the Pah-wraith can actually read it; anyone else who tries risks being supernaturally blinded. |
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In Penny Arcade Adventures, the Necrowombicon appears to be blank to anyone not meant to read the book. To anyone planning on spreading horrific evil that will advance the goals of the four evil gods, it is full of handy step-by-step instructions. | |
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In ×××HOLiC, there was a demon that ate words from books. It was eventually tricked into eating the words on a Protective Charm, making it Sealed Evil in a Can. | |
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One of these appears as an equippable weapon for Charlotte in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin. While it is a pathetic weapon, it is necessary for a sidequest, in which the Tortured Monster Gergoth must be slain with it. | |
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| Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_76c6804a | |
| Blank Book / int_77448160 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_77448160 | comment |
A Pure Formality: All the books and papers at the police station are suspiciously blank. | |
| Blank Book / int_77448160 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_77448160 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Pure Formality | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_77448160 | |
| Blank Book / int_7aaf9e41 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_7aaf9e41 | comment |
Batman: In Batman (Grant Morrison), the Joker's Joke Book is supposedly written in an ink that only the insane can read. It's intentionally unclear whether this is literally true, or simply a way of saying a crazy person will imagine there's writing in it. Either way, to most people, it's a Blank Book. | |
| Blank Book / int_7aaf9e41 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_7aaf9e41 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_7aaf9e41 | |
| Blank Book / int_7fbd6753 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_7fbd6753 | comment |
Thunder Cats 2011: Sought-after Great Big Book of Everything and Tome of Prophecy and Fate the Book of Omens, at least, in its appearance as a book. It's actually a Magitek computer. | |
| Blank Book / int_7fbd6753 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_7fbd6753 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| ThunderCats (2011) | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_7fbd6753 | |
| Blank Book / int_8085bad5 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_8085bad5 | comment |
A Beginner's Guide to the End of the Universe: All the books in the mansion library are blank, with only two having images and text — and even then, only on the pages on which they happen to be open to when found. | |
| Blank Book / int_8085bad5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_8085bad5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Beginner's Guide to the End of the Universe (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_8085bad5 | |
| Blank Book / int_8898094b | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_8898094b | comment |
Librom in Soul Sacrifice contains the story of a mage, as well as information on the world and its creatures. But if you turn to the end of the book, there's only a set of frenzied ramblings and then blank pages. Librom only writes himself as you relive the memories within the pages. | |
| Blank Book / int_8898094b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_8898094b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Soul Sacrifice (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_8898094b | |
| Blank Book / int_8bc3c047 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_8bc3c047 | comment |
In Warriors of Virtue, the child protagonist is asked by the Big Bad to read from the magical Manuscript and tell him what it says. The Manuscript suddenly shows blank pages, to which the protagonist says "Shit happens." | |
| Blank Book / int_8bc3c047 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_8bc3c047 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Warriors of Virtue | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_8bc3c047 | |
| Blank Book / int_90b916ba | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_90b916ba | comment |
In Batman: The Animated Series, when Bruce Wayne was trapped by the Mad Hatter in a Lotus-Eater Machine, one of his first clues something was wrong with the perfect world was that all the books were unreadable. | |
| Blank Book / int_90b916ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_90b916ba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman: The Animated Series | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_90b916ba | |
| Blank Book / int_90c73dda | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_90c73dda | comment |
In the Animorphs Prequel The Andalite Chronicles, the Time Matrix creates a miniature universe based on the memories of Elfangor, Loren and the future Visser Three. Elfangor leafs through a book in Loren's faux bedroom and notes that it ends halfway through; he reasons Loren didn't finish the book's real-world counterpart, giving her mind nothing to fill in for the rest. | |
| Blank Book / int_90c73dda | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_90c73dda | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Animorphs | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_90c73dda | |
| Blank Book / int_919c4f7d | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_919c4f7d | comment |
Radiant Historia: The White Chronicle, which the protagonist receives in the prologue, first appears to have blank pages. It's later revealed that the book is magical in nature, which is why it first appeared blank. However, it is never made clear whether the book has any actual text in it, as there is no further mention of its contents. One can only suspect that the book-like interface of the game is what the White Chronicle is supposed to look like on the inside. | |
| Blank Book / int_919c4f7d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_919c4f7d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Radiant Historia (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_919c4f7d | |
| Blank Book / int_91c54bc9 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_91c54bc9 | comment |
The Holdovers: When Hunham is packing up after having been let go, Mary shows up to his door. She gifts him a book, just like Paul did earlier in the movie. But when Paul flips through it, confused, Mary explains that it’s for him to write his monograph in. | |
| Blank Book / int_91c54bc9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_91c54bc9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Holdovers | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_91c54bc9 | |
| Blank Book / int_98288223 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_98288223 | comment |
The Magicians (2016): Season 3 is all about a scavenger hunt for seven keys, each with supernatural powers and rumored to unlock the secret to restoring magic (or just a gateway for a lovecraftian horror to crash the party), and the map is a mostly-blank book with only one chapter, about a woman who wanted to become a knight (and for obvious reasons has been forbidden to). The book fills its pages as more keys come into close proximity with it. | |
| Blank Book / int_98288223 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_98288223 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Magicians (2016) | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_98288223 | |
| Blank Book / int_9908ca47 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_9908ca47 | comment |
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Tom Riddle's diary is effectively blank until someone writes into it, at which point the book writes a response. After Harry destroys it with the Basilisk venom, it goes blank for good, though not before bleeding ink. | |
| Blank Book / int_9908ca47 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_9908ca47 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_9908ca47 | |
| Blank Book / int_9b1c2acd | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_9b1c2acd | comment |
In Fahrenheit 451 (The Film of the Book, at least), some of the prop books used for fireman training are wooden blocks, but others that require flexibility are shown to be purposefully blank and therefore legal. | |
| Blank Book / int_9b1c2acd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_9b1c2acd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Fahrenheit 451 | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_9b1c2acd | |
| Blank Book / int_9d47a2a2 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_9d47a2a2 | comment |
A Song of Ice and Fire has Jaime Lannister, the new commander of the King's Guard, finding a book in which the deeds of all commanders are written. His part is mostly blank. He will have to fill in his deeds, and up to that point those are mostly deeds he regrets, and therefore he chooses to be a better person so he could be proud of what he will write down for posterity. | |
| Blank Book / int_9d47a2a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_9d47a2a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Song of Ice and Fire | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_9d47a2a2 | |
| Blank Book / int_9dec5fef | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_9dec5fef | comment |
Cast a Deadly Spell. A man steals the Necronomicon and sells it to mobster Harry Borden. After Borden pays for the book and the man leaves, Borden opens the book and discovers its pages are blank - it's a fraud. | |
| Blank Book / int_9dec5fef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_9dec5fef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Cast a Deadly Spell | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_9dec5fef | |
| Blank Book / int_a33d74a4 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_a33d74a4 | comment |
Played with in the final trilogy of the Sword of Truth series. Richard finds a book that is supposedly a user manual for his unique and powerful form of magic, which has always worked entirely on instinct, as he has nobody around to teach him how to properly use it. Unfortunately, when he tries to read the book, it's blank, which at first he takes as being because he's lost his magic, as the series has previously established that magic books are charmed so that if you don't have magic, they appear blank. At the same time, the Chainfire spell has also been shown erasing other books, so the reader might attribute the blank pages to that instead. Eventually, however, it's revealed that the book was meant to be blank, and represents the final, unspoken Wizard's Rule. | |
| Blank Book / int_a33d74a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_a33d74a4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sword of Truth | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_a33d74a4 | |
| Blank Book / int_a825da3e | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_a825da3e | comment |
In Magic: The Gathering, the cards Tome Scour and Curse of the Bloody Tome show works in books being removed. Both spells move cards from the opponent's library into their graveyard. | |
| Blank Book / int_a825da3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_a825da3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Magic: The Gathering (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_a825da3e | |
| Blank Book / int_a896e651 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_a896e651 | comment |
A variant in Against a Dark Background features a book which isn't merely blank, but impossible to write upon; the pages are glossy plastic, rejecting ink and even reflecting attempts to mark them with a laser. It's said to be God's Book, because God Is Evil. It's actually a decoy to both gain the trust of a rather stupid monarch and get the surveillance devices it contains into the castle library. It fails. | |
| Blank Book / int_a896e651 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_a896e651 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Against a Dark Background | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_a896e651 | |
| Blank Book / int_ab4584fb | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_ab4584fb | comment |
In Dark Oracle the eponymous comic book would inevitably arrive with most of the pages blank. As the episode progressed, pages would fill in, eventually revealing whichever horrific future Cally and Lance had to avert. | |
| Blank Book / int_ab4584fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_ab4584fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dark Oracle | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_ab4584fb | |
| Blank Book / int_af54d560 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_af54d560 | comment |
Goosebumps (2015): Whenever a monster escapes from one of R.L. Stine's manuscripts, the book becomes blank. Justified as the monsters are composed of the ink itself. | |
| Blank Book / int_af54d560 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_af54d560 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Goosebumps (2015) | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_af54d560 | |
| Blank Book / int_b0a4cf6f | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_b0a4cf6f | comment |
Ordinary Girl: While most people see the contents of a regular novel in Unless You, Dylan sees it as this. | |
| Blank Book / int_b0a4cf6f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_b0a4cf6f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ordinary Girl (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_b0a4cf6f | |
| Blank Book / int_b4622158 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_b4622158 | comment |
Rakenzarn Tales: The titular book has a few pages filled with a mystery language and the magic word that transports the user into Rakenzarn, but the rest are blank. As the story progresses, the pages are filled with a recounting of the protagonist's journey, represented as the in-game journal feature. | |
| Blank Book / int_b4622158 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_b4622158 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Rakenzarn Tales (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_b4622158 | |
| Blank Book / int_b4afaad1 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_b4afaad1 | comment |
Frederik Pohl's Gateway has a blank book "Everything We Know About the Heechee", much like in the original novel. Unlike the novel, in the game such books actually serve as logs of prospectors studying Heechee artefacts. | |
| Blank Book / int_b4afaad1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_b4afaad1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Gateway (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_b4afaad1 | |
| Blank Book / int_b670d842 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_b670d842 | comment |
Truth Martini has two main methods when it comes to gaining new followers. His "House Of Truth" wrestling school, which graduating from comes with a moderate chance of wrestling for Ring of Honor, and forcing them to see his wisdom by smacking them with his "Book Of Truth", which is full of blank pages. | |
| Blank Book / int_b670d842 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_b670d842 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Truth Martini (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_b670d842 | |
| Blank Book / int_b7e8e4b6 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_b7e8e4b6 | comment |
In the My Little Pony 'n Friends episode "Through the Door", a magical door leads to a land of storybook characters. When the characters exit their world and enter Ponyland, the books containing their stories become blank and restore themselves when they return. | |
| Blank Book / int_b7e8e4b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_b7e8e4b6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| My Little Pony 'n Friends | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_b7e8e4b6 | |
| Blank Book / int_b9cf766a | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_b9cf766a | comment |
For one punishment on Impractical Jokers, Sal has to read an excerpt from a book that he "wrote" called "Keeping the Faith: My Battle with Chronic Flatulence" at a book reading. When he opens the book, he discovers that it's completely blank, so he has to make up an... appropriate(?) anecdote on the spot. Hilarity Ensues. | |
| Blank Book / int_b9cf766a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_b9cf766a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Impractical Jokers | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_b9cf766a | |
| Blank Book / int_be477d50 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_be477d50 | comment |
Sponge Bob Squarepants: In the episode "Frankendoodle," Spongebob has a bookshelf full of these, and he later uses one to trap Doodlebob in the second dimension. Though given his interest in the arts, it's possible that they're just empty sketchbooks, or school notebooks. | |
| Blank Book / int_be477d50 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_be477d50 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| SpongeBob SquarePants | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_be477d50 | |
| Blank Book / int_c104a0eb | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_c104a0eb | comment |
In The Book of Eli, the book in question is written in Braille but makes for an equally surprising revelation. | |
| Blank Book / int_c104a0eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_c104a0eb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Book of Eli | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_c104a0eb | |
| Blank Book / int_c42e147b | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_c42e147b | comment |
In The Nekropolis Archives, every book in the Great Library of the Nekropolis contains nothing but blank pages. The library is actually a physical manifestation of the memory of the ancient vampire Waldemar; when Waldemar "reads" from a book, he is actually recalling the information from the depths of his mind. | |
| Blank Book / int_c42e147b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_c42e147b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nekropolis Archives | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_c42e147b | |
| Blank Book / int_c43df4d8 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_c43df4d8 | comment |
Doctor Who: In the episode "The Big Bang", Amy Pond is given River Song's diary as a wedding present. However, the book is blank because the Doctor has been erased from time. Once Amy remembers the Doctor and brings him back, the diary's contents return. Variation in the classic story "The Android Invasion": the Doctor twigs that the pub he's in is actually an alien mockup after discovering all the pages on the daily calendar are identical. |
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| Blank Book / int_c43df4d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_c43df4d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Doctor Who | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_c43df4d8 | |
| Blank Book / int_c75605f9 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_c75605f9 | comment |
In The Great Gatsby, Owl-Eyes expects that Gatsby's library is filled with blank books and just for show. He's partly right. The books are all real, but the pages are uncut, meaning Gatsby paid full price for real books to fill a purely decorative library. Owl-Eyes notices this and calls Gatsby "a regular Belasco," complimenting him on the thoroughness of the illusion. | |
| Blank Book / int_c75605f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_c75605f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Great Gatsby | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_c75605f9 | |
| Blank Book / int_c9b98f4e | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_c9b98f4e | comment |
In the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story "The Once And Smurfy King", Brainy's daughter Sophia is busy writing the titular story and her friends try to steal it at night to see what she wrote in it so far, only for Sophia to trick them into stealing an identical-looking book with nothing but blank pages in it to keep them from stealing the actual original manuscript. | |
| Blank Book / int_c9b98f4e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_c9b98f4e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Empath: The Luckiest Smurf / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_c9b98f4e | |
| Blank Book / int_cd057650 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_cd057650 | comment |
In Beautiful Creatures the book that Ethan's father was working on. It turned out to be a large pile of squiggles. | |
| Blank Book / int_cd057650 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_cd057650 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BeautifulCreatures | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_cd057650 | |
| Blank Book / int_d1e4c01a | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_d1e4c01a | comment |
Sphere: None of the materialized copies of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea have any print past page 87, since that's where the reader was too scared to read past while he was a child. | |
| Blank Book / int_d1e4c01a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_d1e4c01a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sphere | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_d1e4c01a | |
| Blank Book / int_d2dfd2f2 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_d2dfd2f2 | comment |
When the Pilgrims in Journey to the West finish their journey to India to collect the Buddhist scrolls, they discover that the sacred text they were meant to find were, in-fact, blank. While horrified and angry at first, the Buddha himself explains that this is metaphorical of the state of existence and its lack of inherent meaning, the scrolls acting as a Bait-and-Switch MacGuffin meant to teach them a lesson that their journey culminates into. | |
| Blank Book / int_d2dfd2f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_d2dfd2f2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Journey to the West | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_d2dfd2f2 | |
| Blank Book / int_d46cc708 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_d46cc708 | comment |
Ed, Edd n Eddy: For some reason in "Nagged to Ed", the Kanker sisters have a shelf of blank books in their trailer. Edd seems to have a minor freakout when he discovers this. | |
| Blank Book / int_d46cc708 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_d46cc708 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ed, Edd n Eddy | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_d46cc708 | |
| Blank Book / int_dab7c96c | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_dab7c96c | comment |
Pleasantville: The library's books are mostly blank until the male lead exposes the locals to the concept of reading for pleasure, at which point new words appear. | |
| Blank Book / int_dab7c96c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_dab7c96c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pleasantville | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_dab7c96c | |
| Blank Book / int_db2eaaa1 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_db2eaaa1 | comment |
The Book of Life is this for those who are creating their own story, like Manolo. | |
| Blank Book / int_db2eaaa1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_db2eaaa1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Book of Life | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_db2eaaa1 | |
| Blank Book / int_e07874a9 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_e07874a9 | comment |
Circle of Iron uses the Zen Buddhist variant: The seeker finally reaches the fabled book of wisdom after fighting through profound personal trials; only to find that on each page is not the answers he expected, but merely a mirror. The lesson being that "true wisdom comes only from within". | |
| Blank Book / int_e07874a9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_e07874a9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Circle of Iron | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_e07874a9 | |
| Blank Book / int_e293455a | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_e293455a | comment |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer In "I Robot, You Jane", the book used to seal Moloch was blank until the sealing ritual was performed, at which point it would fill up with words. When Willow scanned it into the library computer, it became blank again, as Moloch was released into the internet. When Willow's Superpowered Evil Side emerges in "Villains", she absorbs the text from all the books in the Magic Box on dark magic. Her friends later try to find out about the magic she's using, but the books are now blank. |
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| Blank Book / int_e293455a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_e293455a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_e293455a | |
| Blank Book / int_e66220af | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_e66220af | comment |
Pan's Labyrinth: The Faun gives Ofelia a blank book and instructs her to open it when she is alone, whereupon the instructions for the tasks she must complete will appear to her. The book also lets her know about her mother's impending death in childbirth by displaying a blood splotch that takes the shape of a womb before spreading to fill the entire page. | |
| Blank Book / int_e66220af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_e66220af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pan's Labyrinth | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_e66220af | |
| Blank Book / int_e9e37e8 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_e9e37e8 | comment |
Gateway mentions a joke item: | |
| Blank Book / int_e9e37e8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_e9e37e8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Heechee Saga | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_e9e37e8 | |
| Blank Book / int_ecee4546 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_ecee4546 | comment |
The Librarians 2014: Whenever there's a book with blank pages, it's a good assumption that a fictional is nearby. | |
| Blank Book / int_ecee4546 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_ecee4546 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Librarians (2014) | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_ecee4546 | |
| Blank Book / int_f01be352 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_f01be352 | comment |
One of the poets in The industry of poetry chapter of Gog gives the eponymous protagonist a book containing only titles on otherwise blank pages. He said that the interaction between text and reader produces the true meaning of a work of literature, and that his titles are the logical conclusion of that. Gog is livid. This is probably intended as a critique of modern literary criticism. | |
| Blank Book / int_f01be352 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_f01be352 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Gog | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_f01be352 | |
| Blank Book / int_f2041376 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_f2041376 | comment |
Whenever the Book of Shadows goes blank in Charmed, there's something very wrong happening. Usually it means that the sisters have lost their powers, as they and the book are linked. | |
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1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_f2041376 | featureConfidence |
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| Charmed (1998) | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_f2041376 | |
| Blank Book / int_f502a38a | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_f502a38a | comment |
Sassette in The Smurfs (1981) episode "Bookworm Smurf" encounters a book that's initially blank in Papa Smurf's laboratory, but then it has the words "if these words are read by you, whatever you say next will come true" suddenly appear on the pages. Sassette then uses the book to make a wish that she never wants to see another book again, and then suddenly all the books in the world vanish. | |
| Blank Book / int_f502a38a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_f502a38a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Smurfs (1981) | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_f502a38a | |
| Blank Book / int_f9368d52 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_f9368d52 | comment |
In Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, when everyone loses their memories, Jiminy Cricket tries consulting his journal, but the pages are all blank. In Kingdom Hearts II, everyone loses their memories of the events of Chain of Memories, and Jiminy's journal is erased again, except for the sentence "Thank Namine." | |
| Blank Book / int_f9368d52 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_f9368d52 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_f9368d52 | |
| Blank Book / int_fbf33963 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_fbf33963 | comment |
Happens at the beginning of Inception when Cobb steals the documents from the vault inside Saitos dream. When Saito catches on that someone is trying to steal his secret memories, he checks the documents in the vault to find literal Blank Pages placed there by Cobb. But now that Saito is aware that someone's going through his memories, the pages in the document stolen by Cobb have most of the content blackened out, as Saito tries to block him out of his subconsciousness. | |
| Blank Book / int_fbf33963 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_fbf33963 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Inception | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_fbf33963 | |
| Blank Book / int_fdd8d054 | type |
Blank Book | |
| Blank Book / int_fdd8d054 | comment |
The Hollow: In the beginning of Season 2, the gang experiences some weirdness around town. Trying to pick out more differences, Adam looks through his copy of Moby Dick only to find that it's blank past the first couple pages because he never finished the book. It turns out they're still in a computer simulation, constructed from their memories. | |
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1.0 | |
| Blank Book / int_fdd8d054 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Hollow | hasFeature |
Blank Book / int_fdd8d054 |
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