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** It's never really explained whether they all think the same, whether they all have a mental connection or whether they are just the same person.
*** Later episodes make it pretty clear they are separate people. As for the other possibilities...[[Wild Mass Guessing|your guess is as good as any.]]
*** In the movie about Numbah Zero it is revealed that they were originally an elite group from the KND, but captured by Father and turned into their current state by a special personality altering machine. It went haywire and made the transformation permanent, except for a temporary reversion. And when that wears off they are actually draw to each other by what looks like magnetism.
* The Skraaldians in the ''[[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]]'' series. After Jay kills one, ALL of them want revenge.
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' seem to have a hive mind because Ferb's actions are always in perfect synchrony with Phineas's words. He performs the actions at the same time as Phineas says them aloud. A hive mind would also explain how Ferb knew what Phineas was going to say, before being knocked down with a water balloon, at the end of "Tree to Get Ready".
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* The Mariage from [[All There in the Manual|Sound Stage X]] of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''. This is the reason why they are [[Taking You with Me|quick to pull a kamikaze]] [[Cyanide Pill|upon capture]], as any information that one has is shared by every other Mariage. Their battle tactics are even commented by Quattro as being similar to those of insects.
* The insects from ''[[Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind]]'', though this is only stated outright in the manga.
* The Galactic mooks of ''[[Pokémon Special]]''. Not only do they all look alike, they all move as if one entity.
* The [[Starfish Alien|Festum]] from ''[[Fafner in the Azure|Fafner in The Azure Dead Aggressor]]'' are a [[Deconstruction]] of this; because they are all controlled by a single mind, they have no concept of life, death, emotion, or even ''information''. The [[Bishonen Line|Master-type Festum]] are their version of a [[Hive Queen]], as they can greatly influence the whole ({{spoiler|Idun}}) or {{spoiler|become entirely separate entities}} ({{spoiler|Mjolnir/Akane Makabe, Kouyou}}). They also demonstrate the ability to learn, especially in the case of {{spoiler|Idun}}; it learning hatred and wrath was what provoked their ferocious attacks.
* Heavily implied to be true of {{spoiler|Kyubey}} in [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]. [http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=3564265&postcount=1882 Later confirmed] by [[Word of God]].
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* The [[The Stepford Wives|Stepford]] [[The Midwich Cuckoos|Cuckoos]] of ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]''.
* ''[[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire|Buck Godot, Zap Gun For Hire]]'' has [http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20070804 PSmIth]. (Unusual, in that PSmIth is a population of genetically-engineered humans, and friendly to normal humans.)
* [http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ps238/comics/index.php?date=2008-09-17 The Commonality] from ''[[PS238]]''. Although presented as a benign entity, this is probably not much of a consolation for the one individual human left on the planet when everyone else is adjoined in it.
** Especially since he was the one who accidentally created it.
* The [[Green Lantern|Orange Lantern Corps]] are beings made of an orange energy that resembles fire. They recruit new members by literally consuming them. Their [[Hive Queen|Hive... uh, King]] is a comically hoggish alien named Agent Orange.
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* ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]'' uses this trope to a huge extent, even stating that the aliens in the film are a hivemind.
* In the 2007 film, ''The Hive'', a colony of ants living on an island in South America develops a collective consciousness, possibly through the help of aliens. This eventually goes to the extreme of them being able to act as one entity, and even {{spoiler|build an enormous supercomputer underground, made up entirely of ''[[Discworld|ants]]''}}.
* ''[[The City of Lost Children]]'' features "The Octopus," conjoined twins who speak in tandem, scratch each others' itches, taste what the other is eating, and generally behave as a single organism with eight limbs and two heads.
* The alien in [[The Faculty]] is a parasitic [[Hive Queen]] that infects host bodies to spread itself out. The infected lose their senses of self and become part of the collective conciousness.
** "All of you were just like the others. So, I thought I would give you a taste of my world."
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* The [[Starfish Aliens|Primes]] from [[Peter F. Hamilton]]'s [[Commonwealth Saga]] are a textbook example of a superorganism. They evolved as mindless, animal-like "motiles" that had the ability to merge with each other into a more intelligent, sentient "immotile", which would then spawn and direct other motiles by sharing neural impulses with specialized tentacles. Since each immotile can transfer [[Body Surf|its]] [[Brain Uploading|mind]] from one body to another, they are all essentially immortal (and most immotile collectives are actually clusters of hundreds of linked bodies), and also [[Absolute Xenophobe|insanely hostile]] to any life form that is not under their control, including other immotiles. Once they discover radio, they each become a true [[Hive Mind]], singular consciousnesses inhabiting armies of motile soldiers and immotile clusters. Then they proceed to [[Kill'Em All|kill each-other and everything else]].
** Their xenophobia and expansionist imperative extends to the entire Universe. An immotile ''cannot'' envision a Universe containing anything other than [[It's All About Me|itself]].
** The sequel to the Commonwealth Saga, the ''[[Void Trilogy]]'', introduces Multiples - humans who spread their minds through multiple cloned bodies, with thoughts and emotions distributed through gaia motes and cybernetics.
* Ygramul the Many from [[Michael Ende]]'s ''[[The Neverending Story (novel)|The Neverending Story]]'' is a giant swarm of arachnids that share a collective/hive mind and together appear like a giant spider. This secret is revealed {{spoiler|only to its poisoned victims who Ygramul is convinced will certainly die. Atreyu doesn't, due to a fortunate or destined encounter.}}
* In [[Repairman Jack|Hosts]], this combines with [[The Virus]]. The "Unity" takes over the minds of infected individuals, basically killing their personality, free will, etc. and inhabiting their body. They all share thoughts, try to expand the Unity and infect everyone to take over the world, and are quite willing to sacrifice individual members to meet that goal.
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** The Taxxons are individuals. The Living Hive that spawned them is another organism. Some are loyal to it, others not. Unusually enough, it's a good hive.
** ''Animorphs'' does have the Howlers which are definitely a hive mind, as the memories of each individual is shared with the rest of the species.
** At one point, the Animorphs morph into termites. When they morph into a species of animal for the first time, the Animorphs have to contend with the animal's instincts. In this case, they ended up locked into the termite hivemind, and very nearly got stuck in it. For good. The only way they escaped was when Cassie managed to force herself to believe the queen was an ant for long enough to kill her, breaking the connections, at which point everyone got a hold of themselves and demorphed (through a ''wooden floor'' - yes, it hurt like hell). The Animorphs never took hive-insect forms again.
* The Buggers of ''[[Ender's Game]]'' are the ur-example of the 'controlled by a central mind' variety. One of the causes of the war stemmed from their believing we had those too.
** They also have multiple [[Hive Queen|Hive Queens]], and it's not entirely clear if the queens share their consciousness. They are stated to be separate beings.
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* In the ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'', the Malkavian clan was eventually revealed to be a giant conduit for the mind of their founder, Malkav. He had his childer diablerize him en masse, and now exists in the Madness Network in their heads. It's a relatively neutral arrangement for the most part, because a hive mind of crazy people is ''still'' a large number of crazy people, but when he manages to focus them...
** In ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]'', the Melissidae bloodline slowly destroy the will of their ghouls, essentially making them into a [[Hive Mind]] with the Melissidae in question as the [[Puppet Master]]. This is obviously a massive [[Masquerade]] breach, as a legion of slack-jawed ghouls walking down the street gets people asking uncomfortable questions. The covenants banded together to eradicate the Melissidae, but they missed three of them. The Melissidae, wisely, have chosen to hide themselves a bit better this time around; they pass themselves off as the ''extremely'' reclusive type of cult, for example.
** For another ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]'' example, it's mentioned that particularly radical members of the Carthian Movement (vampiric modernists and political experimenters) will attempt to form a hive mind amongst the members of a coterie, using telepathic powers, identical patterns of speech and uniforms to present the image of an unified front. There's even a Devotion (combo power), Hive Nexus Gestalt, that allows the true formation of a hive mind amongst coterie members.
* In ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]'''s Lorwyn setting, the kithkin are a race of halflings with a hive-mind referred to as the ''thoughtweft''. Each kithkin has an individual mind and personality, but groups of kithkin have access to each other's thoughts and feelings that goes beyond mere [[The Empath|empathy]]. In [[Mirror Universe|Shadowmoor]], this makes the kithkin incredibly xenophobic and hateful toward any creature that isn't "one of us."
** A somewhat more frightening example would be the [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?output=spoiler&method=visual&name=+%5Bsliver%5D slivers]: each sliver is connected together via a psychic gestalt that ''was'' controlled by the ''[[Authority Equals Asskicking|enormous]]'' [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=5233 queen], when she was gone, [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=45166 a new leader] was created. Now that they're ''both'' gone, the hivemind ''itself'' is [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=136146 gaining self-awareness]. On top of that, the individual varieties of sliver [[Adaptive Ability|instill instant mutations]] in their brethren when nearby ([[No Ontological Inertia|which of course fade when they're gone]]), meaning that [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=4746 if one sliver can fly], they all can. [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=42017 If one sliver has armor-plated skin, they all do]. [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=42029 If one sliver can move at speeds approaching the relativistic] or [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=5134 shrug off magic like water off a duck's back], they all will...
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** In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', you have the option of allowing the geth to be "upgraded" to full-AI status. Presumably, this eliminates the hive consciousness.
** The Rachni in the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' backstory were an insectoid race with a telepathic hive mind controlled by the queens.
* In ''[[Darkspore]]'', the titular villains became this after [[Precursors|the Crogenitors]] created them using E-Dna.
* The Brotherhood of Shadow from the [[Knights of the Old Republic]] [[Game Mod]] of the same name were a Sith (the species, not the sect) order of warriors who considered themselves a single being, an extension of the Sith King's will. Once the lot of them are imprisoned in an [[Artifact of Doom]], they slowly ''become'' a single mind - one looking for a proper host...
* The Shivans in ''[[Free Space]]'' are hypothesized to be this in the second game because after the lead ship, the Lucifer, is destroyed, the remained units become uncoordinated and easily finished off, like it was the brain of the fleet.
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* The Peteys (and more broadly, the Fleetmind) in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''
** And the infamous Partnership Collective: A [[Hive Mind]] of [[Amoral Attorney|Amoral Attorneys]].
* In the comic ''[[MSF High]]'', the Legion are a Hive Mind which maintains individuality amongst Legions. Their society is very in-depth, and they are surprisingly friendly. Now.
* ''[[Bob and George]]'' has X, in his first chronological physical appearance (note: the rest were pre-existent spirit forms or time-travellers. Or Alternates. Or future alternate spirit forms. Or a pair of kumquats, hiding in the shape of X. Something along those lines.) go omnicidal (in a way) when no one would be his friend, and then proceeds to link up every robot to his mind. And then picks up a cyborg. And then through that cyborg the entire human race.
* Gavotte from ''[[Skin Horse]]''. An actual hive.
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** The mutant supervillain known as [[Complete Monster|The Swarm]] can transform into a seemingly numberless horde of cockroaches, each of whom she can somehow control.
*** Hive is a heroic example of the same power, only he transforms into wasps and isn't a cannibal serial killer.
* If [[Tribe Twelve|The Observer]] is to be believed, he is part of "[[You Will Be Assimilated|The Collective]]." Interestingly, he seems to contradict himself, saying "I love you all" to the people asking him questions on Formspring and later stating that he feels no emotion.
* ''[[Orion's Arm]]'' has in increasing levels of individuality: hiveminds, groupminds and tribeminds.
* ''[[SMBC Theater]]'' explores [http://www.smbc-theater.com/?id=205 hive mind dating].
* [[Akinator]] is sort of a real-life example of this--he's a program who knows, in intricate detail, tens, if not hundreds of thousands of characters both real and fictional, assembled from the contributions of millions of players worldwide.
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