Empty Void

“	Too slow.	„
	~ Empty Void to Flashy Flash

Background

Empty Void, who now goes by the alias That Man or The Great One, is the founder of the secret Ninja Village. Void used to be Blast's partner during his search for the mysterious cubes. After becoming influenced by "God", he monsterized and became a pawn of god.

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Over the last 20 years, Void, Blast, and a group of collaborators searched for the mysterious cubes linked to "God" that could transform humans into monsters. They found these cubes allowed communication with "God," referring to them as out-of-place artifacts (ooparts). At some point, "God" transformed Void into a Mysterious Being, making him a pawn, which led Blast to confront and defeat his former partner. After suffering defeat at the hands of the highest-ranked hero 15 years ago, Void was seriously injured and placed in a recovery capsule. At some time in the past, he founded the Ninja Village to cultivate suitable individuals from childhood who could be granted power by "God," with those individuals being the ninjas trained within the village. Ninjas Arc While resting in his hideout, Speed-o'-Sound Sonic is approached by the Heavenly Ninja Party. This party consists of ninjas from previous graduating classes of the village, including Gale Wind and Hellfire Flame. They tell Sonic that Empty Void, who they address as "That Man", has awakened, and reveal to Sonic their plans to kill Flashy Flash and Blast, make Void their leader, and come out of the shadows to take over the world with their superior ninjutsu skills. Later, when Blast is at the Hero Association Headquarters alongside Saitama, Flashy Flash, Sitch, and Manako, Void launches a surprise attack with his Dimensional Slash, targeting the association complex. However, Blast successfully fends off the assault, safeguarding the headquarters. Blast goes on to reveal that Void had absorbed Garou's divine power following his defeat at the hands of Saitama, and that Blast briefly confronted him after the power absorption but Void decided to withdraw from the confrontation with the hero. Later, after Sonic and Flash defeat the Heavenly Ninja Party, Void employs his illusion abilities to pose as Flash. In this disguise, he suddenly appears next to Sonic and tricks him into touching a mysterious cube, catching the ninja off-guard. Flash desperately tries to stop this by rushing towards and shouting at Sonic but fails. Upon contact, the cube immediately renders Sonic unconscious. Flash attacks Void from behind, who dodges his sword strike, appears behind him while restraining his sword hand, and mocks him for being too slow. He then evades a kick from Flash and strikes him in the chest with the mysterious cube, rendering him unconscious as well. Having broken free from the effect of the cube on his own, Sonic wakes Flash up by punching him hard in the face, to Void's surprise. He comments on the dynamic between the duo that those who are overconfident in their abilities cannot maintain an equal relationship, and that it's only a matter of time before they inevitably drift apart. Flash mistakenly interprets this as Void speaking about himself and Blast, but he clarifies that he is referring to Sonic and Flash - the former excelling in mental fortitude, while the latter surpasses in skill, resulting in a balanced partnership. Vehemently disagreeing with Void's assessment, Sonic and Flash generate numerous afterimages through their high-speed movements and charge at the ninja leader in a coordinated effort to impale him. Since Sonic has proven resistant to the cube's effect, Void decides to eliminate him. The duo's attack misses as Void warps himself to a hyperspace dimension outside the normal flow of causality. In this transdimensional space, he can perceive the infinite branching of parallel universes and realities of the multiverse, visualized as floating "bubbles" that he can interact with using a special technique. Focusing on the bubble containing Sonic and Flash, Void identifies Sonic as the primary target before utilizing his Dimensional Slash to cut through the selected bubble, striking Sonic's location from outside the universe. Seemingly sensing the impending attack, Flash warns Sonic, who is then struck by several dimensional slashes that seemingly obliterate his upper body. Witnessing Sonic's apparent death, a horrified Flash is confronted by the teleporting Void, who aims to exploit Flash's emotional vulnerability and tries to convert him into a Mysterious Being once more. Before Void can use the mysterious cube to put Flash to sleep again, Blast intervenes, punching him back with his Gravity Knuckle and saving the fellow S-Class hero. It is then revealed that Sonic was in fact saved by Blast as well, who had used a portal to conceal Sonic's upper body and trick Void, making it look like his upper body got destroyed.

General Information

Name: Unknown

Other Names: Empty Void (Originally), The Great One

Origin: One-Punch Man

First Appearance: One-Punch Man Ninjas Arc

Company: Shueisha, Tonari no Young Jump

Creator: One, Yusuke Murata (The illustrator)

Sex: Male

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Pronouns: He/Him

Age: Unknown

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Ninja Village

Story Role: Villain, Former Hero controlled by bigger villain

Classification: Pawn of God

Species: Human (Originally), Unknown (Currently)

State of Being: Transcendent (Empty Void absorbed Awakened Garou's powers, who received the power of God, allowing Empty Void to go outside of the causality of the universe and fold entire dimensions like bubbles to cut the universe from outside, along with use attacks that comes from a higher dimension where God is located that ignores distance, energy, and size)

Physiology: Humanoid Physiology

In-Universe Creator: Potentially God

Occupation: Ninja

Affiliations: God, Ninja Village

Enemies: Blast, Flashy Flash, Speed-o'-Sound Sonic, Hero Association

Status: Alive

Alignment: Neutral Evil (Empty Void fell under God's control during his and Blast search for the cubes)

Threat Level: Cosmic Threat (A follower of God, who can use attacks that comes from a higher dimension where God is located that ignores distance, energy, and size, going outside of the causality of the universe and fold entire dimensions like bubbles to cut the universe from outside)

Codex Statistics

Grade: S (Empty Void absorbed Awakened Garou's powers, who received the power of God, allowing Empty Void to go outside of the causality of the universe and fold entire dimensions like bubbles to cut the universe from outside, along with use attacks that comes from a higher dimension where God is located that ignores distance, energy, and size)

Tier: Varies on Cosmic Forces, Varies on Mode Changes. 2-C through going outside of the causality of the universe

Cardinality: Varies on Mode Changes, up to ℵ0

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Varies on Cosmic Forces (Empty Void absorbed Awakened Garou's powers. Received the power of God and due to his ability to absorb and copy all manners of martial arts and also use that flow he awakened to the flow of cosmic forces and their dispensation of power allowing him to pull things like nuclear fission nuclear explosions and cause gamma ray bursts which are this powerful), Varies on Mode Changes (Garou can shift to different types of people such as when he went into "Mode: Saitama" and perfectly copied Saitama's strengths and abilities). Universe level through going outside the causality of the universe (Was able to go outside of the causality of the universe and fold entire dimensions like bubbles to cut the universe from outside, essentially being far larger then the universe itself)

Durability: Varies on Mode Changes. Universe level through going outside the causality of the universe

Striking Strength: Varies on Mode Changes. Universe Class through going outside the causality of the universe

Lifting Strength: Varies on Mode Changes. Cosmic through going outside the causality of the universe (Was able to go outside of the causality of the universe and fold entire dimensions like bubbles to cut the universe from outside, essentially being far larger then the universe itself)

Travel Speed: Varies on Mode Changes. Faster Than Light normally (Empty Void absorbed Awakened Garou's powers, who is far superior to his monster self, who traveled around so fast that he, Flashy Flash, and Platinum Sperm left behind geometric formations of light, with Garou and Platinum Sperm in 13 milliseconds making denser clusters of light)

Attack Speed: Varies on Mode Changes. Faster Than Light normally

Reaction Speed: Varies on Mode Changes. Faster Than Light normally

Stamina: Varies on Mode Changes. Likely Limitless

Range: Standard Melee Range, Varies on Cosmic Forces, Varies on Mode Changes. Universal (Able to go outside of the causality of the universe and fold entire dimensions like bubbles to cut the universe from outside, essentially being far larger then the universe itself), Cross-Dimensional with Dimension Slash (Noted by Blast that Empty Void can use an attack known as a dimension slash, which is an attack that comes from a higher dimension where God is located that ignores distance, energy, and size), Multiversal+ while outside of causality (Can go outside of causality and view parallel worlds branch out and infinite different possibilities)

Intelligence: Cosmic Intelligence (Empty Void absorbed Awakened Garou's powers, who received the power of God and having him be able to go outside of the causality of the universe and fold entire dimensions like bubbles to cut the universe from outside)

Knowledge: Cosmic level

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Cosmic Awareness (Can go outside of causality and view parallel worlds branch out and infinite different possibilities), Intangibility (Spatial; Attacks can go right through Empty Void as he hides within a higher dimension), Reality Separation (True Reality Separation) & Acausality (Causality Immunity; Empty Void can go outside the causality of the universe and attack enemies from outside), Transformation (Shapeshifting; Can take the forms of others to trick people, such as when he hid himself as Flashy Flash to trick Speed-o'-Sound Sonic), Consumption (Metaphysical Consumption) & Absorption (Consumed and absorbed Cosmic Garou's powers to receive powers from god, become much stronger, and revive himself), Dimensional Travel (Flashy Flash notes that both Blast and Empty Void are capable of moving between dimensions), Dimension Manipulation (Noted by Blast that Empty Void can use an attack known as a dimension slash, which is an attack that comes from a higher dimension where God is located that ignores distance, energy, and size. Can fold entire dimensions like bubbles and intervene from the outside)

Telepathy (Touching the cube allows one to speak with God telepathically, further confirmed by Stitch that the monsterizing cubes are artifacts for contacting god), Illusion Manipulation (Standard Illusions; The cube of God takes advantage of the emotional dependences in one's heart to tempt one to accept gods power), Space-Time Manipulation (Noted by Blast that touching the cube warps space so that you can communicate with God, and causes the area the cube is touched in for time to pass slowly)

All beings in One-Punch Man have a Limiter which through trying to break it, starts granting them the following abilities: Indomitable Will (One that breaks their limiter need to have extreme will to continue), Mimicry (Physiology Mimicry; Limiter users should scale to Phoenix Man, who could gain abilities based off the inspiration of his costume), Supernatural Resilience (Characters like Garou were able to survive being ripped apart and a hole in his chest), Resurrection (To experience explosive growth, one must be on the brink of death and die than resurrect), Reactive Adaptation (Garou has shown to increase himself to blitzing and overpowering Darkshine, who previously managed to break his entire ribcage, by breaking his limiter)

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Equipment

• Monsterizing Cubes: Void keeps a monsterizing cube in his possession. By either inducing someone to make physical contact with the cube, or forcibly pressing it against them, he can trigger its ability to immediately render them unconscious for a temporary duration. While unconscious, the victim experiences a vision or dream in which they encounter "God," who offers them power. He attempted to convert Sonic and Flash into monsters using this method.

• Swords: Empty Void has two swords on his back that he uses in combat, they are far more powerful then regular blades as they can cut through Blast's energy projectiles.

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Notable Techniques

• Dimensional Slash: A technique bestowed upon Void by "God" that involves interference from a higher dimension. When used, he goes outside the causality of the universe, where he can perceive endless floating "bubbles" representing parallel worlds and their possibilities, which he interacts with using a special jutsu. After choosing a specific one, Void pinpoints the target of his attack before slicing through the selected bubble in order to unleash interdimensional slashes that manifest at the target's exact location from outside the universe; its effectiveness, however, depends on the user's capabilities. During its first use, Void unleashed widespread, devastating slashes from this higher plane aimed at the Hero Association headquarters, splitting the surface and creating deep holes in the ground.

• Monsterizing Cube Illusions: Empty Void can forcibly press the cube against a target putting them into an illusionary space to tempt them into becoming monsters.

• Absorption: Empty Void can absorb energy from one's body, including when he absorbed the divine energy coming from Awakened Garou's body.

• Outside of Causality: Void is able to access outside of causality and view parallel worlds of every possibility and choose the specific one he wants to attack.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Empty Void currently has shown to attack from outside of the causality of the universe.

Weaknesses: Nothing notable.

Trivia

• In the original webcomic, Empty Void's name was not revealed.

Battle Records

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• Blast - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Another Dimension
  • Note: Blast only partly shows the flashback of him and Empty Void fighting and never notes who actually won.