Nothing (The Neverending Story)

"A hole would be something, no, it was Nothing! And it got bigger, and bigger..."

- Rock Biter about the Nothing that is destroying all of Fantasia.

"It's the emptiness that's left. It's like a despair, destroying this world and I have been trying to help it."

- Gmork about the Nothing.

The Nothing is the main antagonistic force of The Neverending Story. It is a dark void representing "human apathy, cynicism, and the denial of childish dreams" that is slowly consuming the world of Fantasia. The Nothing is described early in the film by the Rock Biter, who explains that the lake and rocks in his home land completely disappeared into oblivion, leaving behind nothing at all, not even a dried up hole. Later, the Rock Biter falls into despair as the Nothing takes away the rest of the world around him and his friends.

The Nothing has a minion, a wolf named Gmork that it sends to kill Atreyu.

In the end, the Nothing has destroyed all of Fantasia except for one grain of sand, but it is restored through the power of Bastian's wishes from his imagination and the Nothing is vanquished.