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The two Jennies often considered each other “sisters”, and were literal siblings in some incarnations; however, other incarnations of Nowhere were corrupted incarnations of Everywhere, or unrelated to her by blood (to the point that some versions of Nowhere had a romantic interest in Everywhere). Additionally, there existed at least [[#Divergent Everywheres|one “strain”]] of malevolent shifters in the Multiverse, using the name “Jenny Nowhere”, who were in actuality originally incarnations of Jenny Everywhere, but had lost their link to the hive mind and become agents of evil. Their relationship to the independently-telepathic Jenny Nowheres documented in other accounts is unclear.

===Physical appearance===

Jenny Nowhere's physical appearance was more variable than [[Jenny Everywhere]]'s. There were two main trends; some versions of Nowhere were taller than Jenny Everywhere and very conventionally attractive, almost statuesque. They tended to have blond hair. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Damn Fine Hostile Takeover (comic story)|Damn Fine Hostile Takeover]]'', ''[[Truth Serum (comic story)|Truth Serum]]'', etc.; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Nowhere (short story)|Nowhere]]'')  

===Divergent Everywheres===

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One Jenny Nowhere was originally [[Jenny Everywhere#Becoming Jenny Nowhere|an incarnation]] of [[Jenny Everywhere]] until a freak accident cut her off from the Jenny Everywhere psychic network. Suddenly free from the constant influence and watch of the billions of other Jennies, she came to believe that she had only now gained free will, with all the other incarnations of Jenny living in a kind of mindless slavery, mere puppets of a hyper-dimensional entity. She reverse-engineered her injury and worked out how to replicate its effects through controlled brain surgery, and began finding other Jenny Everywheres in other worlds. Each of them in turn became a Jenny Nowhere with similar convictions to the original and spread out further to unmake Everywheres herself. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'')

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One of these Jenny Nowheres, an unknown amount of links down the “chain of succession”, was physically identical to [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|the Jenny]] who was friends with [[Kim (Parallax Universe)|Kim]] in the [[Parallax Universe]], but wore tight, black leather clothing. She was eventually killed while trying to turn the Parallax Jenny into another Nowhere. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Parallax (short story)|Parallax]]'')

[[File:Jenny Nowhere in Mitigating Circumstances.png|thumb|right|210px|Jenny Nowhere about to duel [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventurous art student|her benevolent counterpart]]. ([[VIDEO]]: ''[[Mitigating Circumstances (video story)|Mitigating Circumstances]]'')]]In [[Universe (Mitigating Circumstances)|one universe]], Jenny Nowhere had long reddish hair, and she wre a light blue scarf and green-tinted goggles. She once fought [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventurous art student|Jenny Everywhere]] in a duel of wooden swords which both took extremely seriously, and in which Nowhere somehow managed to indeed injure Jenny sufficiently that she had to ask for an extension on a university essay that she had due to [[Professor Alexander]], although Everywhere still evidently emerged the victor. ([[VIDEO]]: ''[[Mitigating Circumstances (video story)|Mitigating Circumstances]]'')

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One version of Jenny Nowhere looked identical to [[Jenny Everywhere (Reality Z-25 31-H)|the Jenny Everywhere]] often associated with [[Reality Z-25 31-H]]. After arriving in this reality, she was captured by [[Doctor Brain]] and briefly used as a power source for an [[Doctor Brain's Portal|interdimensional portal]]; after [[Captain Evening (Reality Z-25 31-H)|Captain Evening]] rescued her, she claimed to be Jenny Everywhere, and joined his superhero team [[the Odds]] for some time, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[For Whom The Toll Bells (comic story)|For Whom The Toll Bells]]'') though she also began to build up an alternative identity as the supervillain “Evil Cloak” to advance her true plans. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Following Up (comic story)|Following Up]]'', etc.) After revealing herself to the Odds, she was ultimately eaten by the demon [[Gazoom]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Meanwhile, In Queens (comic story)|Meanwhile, In Queens]]'')

[[File:Jenny Nowhere (Truth Serum).png|thumb|left|150px|Jenny Nowhere gloating over Jenny Everywhere. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Truth Serum (comic story)|Truth Serum]]'')]]One version of Jenny Nowhere, who had pale eyes, long blonde hair, and the classic black outfit, teamed up with evil chemist [[Caleb Ketchum]] as part of some scheme which involved tracking down a [[Rabbi (Truth Serum)|rabbi]] in hiding. They managed to capture [[Jenny Everywhere#Facing Caleb Ketchum|Jenny Everywhere]] and feed her truth serum, but found, to their disappointment, that she didn't actually know the answers to their questions. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Truth Serum (comic story)|Truth Serum]]'')

[[File:Jenny-nowhere-texting.png|right|thumb|210px|Jenny Nowhere looking for something better to do. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[After the Party (comic story)|After the Party]]'')]]One incarnation of Jenny Nowhere resembled a more cynical doppelgänger of her universe's [[Jenny Everywhere#Back to school|Jenny Everywhere]], with a darker palette and a glum attitude. When an in-universe fan of [[Fourth Wall Awareness|the webcomic Jenny existed in]] asked when they would meet Jenny Nowhere, Nowhere replied by asking Everywhere to "leave [her] out of this." ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Road to Nowhere (comic story)|Road to Nowhere]]'')

[[File:Jenny Nowhere in The Mind of Jenny Everywhere.png|thumb|left|The blue-eyed Jenny Nowhere. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Mind of Jenny Everywhere (comic story)|The Min of Jenny Nowhere]]'')]]One version of Jenny Nowhere looked somewhat similar to the [[#Agent of Chaos|agent of Chaos]] faced by the [[Westbrook]] [[Jenny Everywhere#Jenny Jacobs, the Shifter of Westbrook|Jenny Everywhere]], with inhuman eyes, blond hair and a hoodie. Her eyes were solid blue instead of black with white pupils, however. This Nowhere was apparently able to interfere with the psychic network of Everywheres, being present in an attempt to depict the complexities of Jenny Everywhere's mind; she looked sulky, crossing her arms and stating simply “Nowhere”. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Mind of Jenny Everywhere (comic story)|The Mind of Jenny Everywhere]]'')

[[File:Jenny Nowhere in Century Smith and the Time Terror.png|thumb|right|300px|“Smith's friend” shortly before she revealed herself to [[Century Smith]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Century Smith and the Time Terror (short story)|Century Smith and the Time Terror]]'')]][[Universe B (Century Smith and the Time Terror)|One universe]]'s incarnation of Jenny Nowhere was born without a psychic connection to the network of her other selves' minds, though she was still aware of who she was, and had the means of travelling across dimensions. She was “pale, with dark hair and thin features”; she sounded “reserved, almost monotone” and, becoming a dimensional scientist in the hope of fixing her condition, she took to wearing an increasingly ragged white labcoat. She began building a machine that could split her across the Multiverse, hopefully merging her into the wider Jenny Nowhere “network”. However, it needed tremendous amounts of paradox energy to power itself up.

Smith contacted her, setting her a date at the [[Interdimensional Tavern]], in the hope that she could help with his new friend [[Briar]]'s [[vampire|vampirism]]. She accompanied the two to the [[Interdimensional Library]] to seek a cure, but then managed to convince them to head to her own house in her home universe. There, she strapped Briar in her machine and prepared to absorb the energy from her mysteriously-split timeline. However, Briar managed to push her out of the way and was zapped instead; the machine thus ironically caused the very divide in her timeline whose potential Nowhere had used to power it. The paradox caused a dangerous feedback that caused the machine to explode. When the dust cleared, Nowhere had vanished, though Century Smith guessed that she had simply [[shift]]ed to safety. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Century Smith and the Time Terror (short story)|Century Smith and the Time Terror]]'')

[[File:Jenny Nowhere in Love.png|thumb|220px|left|Nowhere making her declaration to [[Jenny Everywhere#Romanced by Nowhere|Jenny Everywhere]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[That Feeling When Your Antagonist Is Gay For You (comic story)|That Feeling When Your Antagonist Is Gay For You]]'')]]One incarnation of Nowhere had chalk-white skin and short black hair. Her eyes were peculiar, with the shape or presence of her pupils seemingly altering from day to day based on her mood. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Death of Jenny Everywhere's Toaster (comic story)|Death of Jenny Everywhere's Toaster]]'', ''[[Earthworm Jim And Psy-Crow Cosplay By Jenny Everywhere And Jenny Nowhere (comic story)|Earthworm Jim And Psy-Crow Cosplay By Jenny Everywhere And Jenny Nowhere]]'', etc.)

This version of Nowhere was obsessively in love with Jenny Everywhere, who did not return her feelings. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[That Feeling When Your Antagonist Is Gay For You (comic story)|That Feeling When Your Antagonist Is Gay For You]]'')

When she first declared to Everywhere that though her powers “may give [her] the ability to run wherever and whenever”, “the one thing [which she couldn't] outrun” was Nowhere's love, Everywhere was baffled at this statement, although it was far from obvious that she did ''not'' reciprocate. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[That Feeling When Your Antagonist Is Gay For You (comic story)|That Feeling When Your Antagonist Is Gay For You]]'') The two cautiously started dating, and became embroiled in an adventure together. At one point, Everywhere told Nowhere that they could get through “this” so long as Nowhere “didn't do anything”. Nowhere claimed she wasn't going to do anything, but blatantly appeared to be considering literally stabbing Everywhere in the back. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Nowhere Dooming Herself To Be With Her Enemy. (comic story)|Jenny Nowhere Dooming Herself To Be With Her Enemy.]]'')

At some point, this Nowhere used a mysterious machine to trap Jenny Everywhere in [[Universe A (Jenny Everywhere and the Very Normal Story)|a universe]] where she couldn't use any of her shifting powers, or even remember anything about the other universes she'd visited in the past, though she did recall the existence of such universes. Also trapped were [[Jenny Everywhere's parents (Jenny Everywhere and the Very Normal Story)|versions of Everywhere's parents]] from [[Universe B (Jenny Everywhere and the Very Normal Story)|another universe]], and the incarnations of [[Jimmy Wherever#Trapped in a “Very Ordinary” world|Jimmy Wherever]], [[Jenny Anywhere#Trapped in a “Very Ordinary” world|Jenny Anywhere]], [[Jenny Somewhere#Trapped in a “Very Ordinary” world|Jenny Somewhere]] and [[Jimmy Anytime#Trapped in a “Very Ordinary” world|Jimmy Anytime]] that these Jennies were familiar with.  

At some later point, Nowhere surprised Everywhere by trying to cover her bleached-white skin with make-up to look more like Everywhere. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Nowhere Wearing Makeup To Look Like Jenny Everywhere (comic story)|Jenny Nowhere Wearing Makeup To Look Like Jenny Everywhere]]'') When Everywhere cosplayed as [[Earthworm Jim]], Nowhere dressed up as Jim's nemesis [[Psy-Crow]], with whom Jim was sometimes shipped; Everywhere was unimpressed and, staying in-character, told Nowhere to “eat dirt”. To her surprise, Nowhere seemed prepared to comply. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Earthworm Jim And Psy-Crow Cosplay By Jenny Everywhere And Jenny Nowhere (comic story)|Earthworm Jim And Psy-Crow Cosplay By Jenny Everywhere And Jenny Nowhere]]'')

After discovering that all the [[Jimmy Anytime]]s and [[Jimmy Wherever]]s in the [[Multiverse]] had somehow lost their interdimensional connection, Everywhere and Anywhere came to the conclusion that this must be Nowhere's doing, with Nowhere having somehow turned Anytime's time-travel powers against him to cancel out the two Jimmies' existence (as interdimensional beings) altogether. Jenny Everywhere shifted herself and Anywhere to Nowhere's [[Universe B (Wherever at Anytime)|current location]], where they discovered that she had managed to abduct the “original” Wherever and Anytime and regressed them to before Anytime realised he was not Jimmy Wherever. Anywhere managed to liberate them, however, and, after one of the two Jimmies attacked the other (outing himself as Anytime), she grabbed onto him and triggered his own time-travel powers to bring him and Wherever back in time to where they'd been taken from, fixing the timeline. Everywhere was left pondering what lengths Nowhere might go to next. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Wherever at Anytime (novel)|Wherever at Anytime]]'')

[[File:Jenny Nowhere in Death of Jenny Everywhere's Toaster.png|thumb|right|Nowhere hiding Everywhere's [[toaster]] behind her back. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Death of Jenny Everywhere's Toaster (comic story)|Death of Jenny Everywhere's Toaster]]'')]]Jenny Nowhere once wrote a “fanfic” about herself and Everywhere. In it, Nowhere lost her memories after being hit on the head with a mysterious glowing rock in the middle of a fight with Everywhere. Everywhere decided not to tell the amnesiac Nowhere that they were enemies, instead claiming that they were friends, and the two soon began kissing. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Jenny Nowho? (novel)|Jenny Nowho?]]'')

Everywhere's [[toaster]] was once “kidnapped” by Nowhere, who threatened to destroy the toaster by dropping it from a great height unless Everywhere complied with Nowhere's demands. When Jenny called her bluff, Nowhere went through with it, to Jenny's horror. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Death of Jenny Everywhere's Toaster (comic story)|Death of Jenny Everywhere's Toaster]]'')

One one occasion, [[Jenny Everywhere#Romanced by Nowhere|Jenny Everywhere]] apparently sent Nowhere to [[Hell]]. However, she returned, surprising Jenny as the Shifter was “frolicking through a field of alien flowers” in [[Universe A (Jenny Everywhere and the Nowhere Spiral)|one universe]]. They got to fighting, but after getting caught off-guard by her rival first punch, Nowhere started to spiral increasingly out of control as she loudly insisted that she wasn't getting weaker, only to keep taking hit after hit without putting up any effective defence.

While the chased Jenny collapsed to the floor of the Infinite right there and then, falling asleep almost instantly, [[Jenny Everywhere#Half-angel half-demon Jenny Everywhere|another Jenny]] who's been holding off Nowhere allowed her to fully enter the Infinite. The magician Jenny played around with Nowhere for a while, playing magical tricks on her, before “handing her over” to [[Jenny Everywhere#Bunny Jenny|Bunny Jenny]], and on and on. Nowhere, surrounded by Everywheres running literal rings around her, seemed to finally lose her mind completely to the “Nowhere Spiral”, her rational mind entirely consumed by her self-contradictory obsession with Jenny Everywhere. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere and the Nowhere Spiral (novel)|Jenny Everywhere and the Nowhere Spiral]]'')

Shortly after [[Jenny Everywhere]] disappeared across the [[Multiverse]], one dour incarnation of Nowhere was dueled and defeated in [[Universe A (The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere)|one universe]] by [[Jenny Anywhere#Looking for Everywhere|Jenny Anywhere]], who tied her down with [[shift-preventing chain]]s. Anywhere then interrogated Nowhere, trying to get her to tell Anywhere how to bring Everywhere back. However, Nowhere managed to make Anywhere realise that she was not actually responsible, being neither capable or interested in wiping Jenny Everywhere from reality ''completely''. She provisionally left Nowhere tied up until Everywhere could be found, promising to go back for her if and when Jenny Everywhere did turn up again, or it otherwise became apparent that Nowhere hadn't been responsible. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere (short story)|The Disappearance of Jenny Everywhere]]'')

[[File:Jenny Nowhere as an Impostor.png|thumb|200px|left|Jenny Nowhere as an Impostor. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Nowhere Is Sus, She's The Impostor! (comic story)|Jenny Nowhere Is Sus, She's The Impostor!]]'')]]In [[Universe (Jenny Nowhere Is Sus, She's The Impostor!)|one universe]], Jenny Nowhere was a member of a futuristic, spacesuit-wearing crew; her spacesuit was black, with a skull motif. Also in the crew [[Jenny Somewhere#As a Crewmate|Jenny Somewhere]] and [[Jenny Everywhere#As a Crewmate|Jenny Everywhere]]. Unbeknownst to Everywhere and Somewhere, however, Nowhere was actually a murderous Impostor. After a body was found near some vents, the two real Crewmates began investigating, deducing that the Impostor must be someone from electric; however, returning to the scene of the crime, they seemed unaware that Nowhere was lurking in the shadows in person, dagger in hand. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Nowhere Is Sus, She's The Impostor! (comic story)|Jenny Nowhere Is Sus, She's The Impostor!]]'')

A version of Jenny Nowhere once crashed a birthday party organised by [[Jenny Everywhere#Birthday party|a Jenny Everywhere]] in a “[[Place (Fragment: Nowhere Plan)|place]]” created by Jenny Everywhere herself. She had a convoluted plan and “some new tricks”, with Everywhere later admitting that her gambit could have worked if she'd caught Jenny Everywhere alone. However, her many guests at the birthday party, which included [[wizard]]s, [[kaiju]], gods, and “things beyond gods”, fought back and saved the day. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fragment: Nowhere Plan (short story)|Fragment: Nowhere Plan]]'')

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The [[38167th Universe]]'s version of Jenny Nowhere was a woman with waist-length blond hair. She was orginally the (adopted) sister of [[Jenny Everywhere (38167th Universe)|the local Jenny Everywhere]], who played an unfortunate part in turning her innocent sister into the monstrous Nowhere, which was the source of their enmity. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Family Business (short story)|Family Business]]'')

In [[Universe (This Might Happen Someday)|one universe]], “Jenny Nowhere” existed as a fictional character alongside Jenny Everywhere. By 3001, there also existed a woman named Jennifer “Jenny” Nolan. She was a pale, short-haired blonde who often wore a black jumpsuit. Making use of the wide range of available, safe body-modification options in her native era, she had modified her eyes to be pitch-black and ringed with stars. Notably, “Jennifer Nolan” may only have been a localisation to give an equivalent name by 21st century standards to how her actual, potentially more exotic-seeming name might have come across in her native society — such as “Jenifa Luĉjo”.  

Either way, she was a self-confessed adrenaline junkie, often going on adventures in virtual worlds with her friend [[Jenny Everywhere#Jenny Everywhere|Jenny Evans]] (with whom she shared a home “overlooking the rings of [[Saturn]]”), acting as her rival. She was highly driven during their games, slipping easily into the part of a ruthless villain. The other Jenny was a fan of Jenny Everywhere fiction, and completed a 25-year effort to read or otherwise experience all surviving Jenny Everywhere fiction on August 13th, 3001, which was close to her birthday. Jennifer gifted her a pair of goggles and a scarf to mark the occasion. This prompted both girls to realise that they could, by this point, consider themselves the closest thing their world had to proper incarnations of Jenny Everywhere and Jenny Nowhere, with knowledge of all Jenny Everywhere fiction acting as Jenny's way of tapping into her counterparts' experiences. Although neither took the idea wholly seriously, they soon departed for another virtual adventure and it may or may not have prompted Jenny to discover right there and then that she had ''real'' [[shift]]ing powers. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[This Might Happen Someday (short story)|This Might Happen Someday]]'')

When the [[Jenny Everywhere#In Reality 18|Jenny Everywhere]] of [[Reality 18]] was transported by the [[Key of Enecloog]] to a hellish projection of all her dark thoughts, the scene was overseen by a looming Jenny Nowhere, “not quite real, watching from overhead like [[the Devil#Other references|the Devil]] himself”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Apocryphal Journeys of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Apocryphal Journeys of Jenny Everywhere]]'')

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When the [[Interdimensional Ham Radio]] allowed “interdimensional busybodies” to ask questions to the [[Laura Drake (775th Universe)|Laura Drake]] and [[Jenny Everywhere (775th Universe)|Jenny]] of [[Universe (Jenny and the Multiverse)|one universe]], who lived on the island of [[Mystepolia]], one of the questions concerned Jenny Nowhere, asking if “when she showed up”, she would have a moth motif to match the main Jenny's mysterious association with butterflies. Jenny was merely confused by the question and moved on. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Demon and the Butterfly (comic story)#Special Q&A|The Demon and the Butterfly: Special Q&A]]'')

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A version of Jenny Somewhere existed in the [[925th Universe]] and was present at the [[Dibbsy Store]] on December 24th, 2022 alongside [[Jenny Everywhere (925th Universe)|Jenny Everywhere]], [[Jenny Somewhere (925th Universe)|Jenny Somewhere]], [[Laura Drake (925th Universe)|Laura Drake]] and a few other notable individuals. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas (short story)|A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas]]'')

Also active in the 925th Universe, but apparently not the person seen at the Dibbsy store, was a woman who called herself Miss Erehwon. At some point she became aware of [[Dynamite Thor]]. One day she appeared unexpectedly, gave him a flimsy story and a lot of explosives, then sent him off to the [[Kablamazon]] offices in search of [[Jenny Everywhere (925th Universe)|a villain]], in the hopes that Thor would not recognize Jenny Everywhere until it was too late. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Set Up to Blow Up (short story)|Set Up to Blow Up]]'')

A prequel story related how she acquired [[The Doctor's TARDIS|her transportation]] by travelling to a distant universe and seeking out an [[The Doctor|old man]] at just the right time, though she did not outsmart him by as much as she'd hoped. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[How to Steal Timeships & To Influence Time Lords (short story)|How to Steal Timeships & To Influence Time Lords]]'')

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[[File:Normal Halloween final panel cropped.png|thumb|[[Jenny Everywhere (Jenny Everywhere meets Peter Griffin)|Jenny Everywhere]], dressed as [[Jenny Nowhere (Halloween Preparations)|Jenny Nowhere]], explains her costume to [[Peter Griffin]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Curse of a Fairly Normal Halloween (comic story)|The Curse of a Fairly Normal Halloween]]'')]]

==Behind the scenes==

After making her debut as a twist ending to [[COMIC]]: ''[[Damn Fine Hostile Takeover (comic story)|Damn Fine Hostile Takeover]]'', Jenny Nowhere was defined (as it were) by [[Nelson Evergreen]] on Episode #20 of the ''Webcomic Beacon'' podcast as “a blank slate. How she looks, how she dresses, her character quirks, what her agenda might be – it’s all up to the individual who wants to do something with the name. Anyone can create their own Jenny Nowhere from the ground up.”<ref name="JEN" /> He explained:

{{quotebox|Jenny Nowhere is also known as "The Shifter Slayer", or simply "Nowhere". She is the sworn enemy of Jenny Everywhere, and seeks to kill any and all Shifters that live throughout the many alternate universes. She has the same Shifter powers as Everywhere, but she uses them in a far more sinister manner. She's a public domain character who can be used by anyone, so long as you include this paragraph.|Lady Kraken}}

===Notes & References===

{{Jenny Everywhere recurring cast}}

{{Incarnations of Jenny Nowhere}}