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* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': In yet another unexpected use of a power, [[spoiler:the Misaka "Imouto" clones]] use their [[spoiler:electrical powers]] to maintain [[ElectronicTelepathy constant contact through brain-based telecommunication]], allowing them to share a collective memory. They're an interesting example because while they are very much ''not'' a true HiveMind, they are brainwashed into thinking they are, to the point that they originally put zero weight on individual lives. After Touma convinces them otherwise, they're like a very large family in constant radio contact.

* Creator/AlastairReynolds' ''Revelation Space'' universe contains the Conjoiners, who have a fairly high degree of independence - more so since they figured out how creepy they were to other humans.

* There's a GaiaOnline achievement called Hive Mind. To get it, 15 people have to post in a thread with their [[VirtualPaperDoll avatars]] all wearing the same outfit.

* ''LightNovel/ToAruMajutsuNoIndex'': In yet another unexpected use of a power, [[spoiler:the Misaka "Imouto" clones]] use their [[spoiler:electrical powers]] to maintain [[ElectronicTelepathy constant contact through brain-based telecommunication]], allowing them to share a collective memory. They're an interesting example because while they are very much ''not'' a true HiveMind, they are brainwashed into thinking they are, to the point that they originally put zero weight on individual lives. After Touma convinces them otherwise, they're like a very large family in constant radio contact.

* The Vortigaunts from the ''{{Half-Life}}'' series [[JigsawPuzzlePlot may]] be an example. The aliens are connected to each other through something they call the Vortessence, which apparently spans time and space, life and death. When two or more communicate, they are able to talk simultaneously (a process they call "flux-shifting"), and it is hinted that if one Vortigaunt allows itself to be captured, the rest of the race is able to gather information through it. With one exception, Vortigaunts don't seem to have names, and just refer to themselves as "this one." Then again, they start all names with "the" (where it makes sense "The free-man" and where it doesn't "The Eli Vance"), so it is possible because they're all linked none of them ever had a need for names, they were after all psychically enslaved by the Nihilanth for an undefined period...

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* In the [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons AD&D] TabletopGame/DarkSun setting, members of the insectoid Thri-Kreen race share memories of their ancestors and have some skills "built into" their genetic code so they don't have to learn everything to survive on the harsh world of Athas from a very young age.
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There is a traditional tendency in SF and fantasy shows for Hive Mind species to be xenophobic, aggressive, and evil, even when they aren't a HordeOfAlienLocusts. This may well be due to a perceived metaphorical overlap with DirtyCommunists, or a residual, primal fear relating to eusocial insects, which are our only known examples of Hive Minds in RealLife. It could be justified, however, as it's possible that a truly hive-minded species may literally never encounter another sentient entity until it achieves interstellar travel, and so have a distinct lack of social skills. This trope is particularly common among [[Transhuman transhumanist]] works, however, where an advanced level of technology is assumed.

There is a traditional tendency in SF and fantasy shows for Hive Mind species to be xenophobic, aggressive, and evil, even when they aren't a HordeOfAlienLocusts. This may well be due to a perceived metaphorical overlap with DirtyCommunists, or a residual, primal fear relating to eusocial insects, which are our only known examples of Hive Minds in RealLife. It could be justified, however, as it's possible that a truly hive-minded species may literally never encounter another sentient entity until it achieves interstellar travel, and so have a distinct lack of social skills. This trope is particularly common among [[Transhumanism transhumanist]] works, however, where an advanced level of technology is assumed.

There is a traditional tendency in SF and fantasy shows for Hive Mind species to be xenophobic, aggressive, and evil, even when they aren't a HordeOfAlienLocusts. This may well be due to a perceived metaphorical overlap with DirtyCommunists, or a residual, primal fear relating to eusocial insects, which are our only known examples of Hive Minds in RealLife. It could be justified, however, as it's possible that a truly hive-minded species may literally never encounter another sentient entity until it achives interstellar travel, and so have a distinct lack of social skills.

There is a traditional tendency in SF and fantasy shows for Hive Mind species to be xenophobic, aggressive, and evil, even when they aren't a HordeOfAlienLocusts. This may well be due to a perceived metaphorical overlap with DirtyCommunists. It could be justified, however, as it's possible that a truly hive-minded species may literally never encounter another sentient entity until it achives interstellar travel, and so have a distinct lack of social skills.

* AlastairReynolds' ''Revelation Space'' universe contains the Conjoiners, who have a fairly high degree of independence - more so since they figured out how creepy they were to other humans.

There is a traditional tendency in SF and fantasy shows for HiveMind species to be xenophobic, aggressive, and evil, even when they aren't a HordeOfAlienLocusts. This may well be due to a perceived metaphorical overlap with DirtyCommunists. It could be justified, however, as it's possible that a truly hive-minded species may literally never encounter another sentient entity until it achives interstellar travel, and so have a distinct lack of social skills.

* ''ToAruMajutsuNoIndex'': In yet another unexpected use of a power, [[spoiler:the Misaka "Imouto" clones]] use their [[spoiler:electrical powers]] to maintain [[ElectronicTelepathy constant contact through brain-based telecommunication]], allowing to share a collective memory. They're an interesting example because while they are very much ''not'' a true HiveMind, they are brainwashed into thinking they are, to the point that they originally put zero weight on individual lives. After Touma convinces them otherwise, they're like a very large family in constant radio contact.

* In the AD&D Dark Sun setting, members of the insectoid Thri-Kreen race share memories of their ancestors and have some skills "built into" their genetic code so they don't have to learn everything to survive on the harsh world from a very young age.

*** 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 [[GreenLantern Orange Lantern Corps]] are beings made of an orange energy that resembles fire. They recruit new members by consuming them. Their [[HiveQueen Hive... uh, King]] is a comically hoggish alien named Agent Orange.

* Nestor, one of the aliens in ''Film/BattleBeyondTheStars'' is a hive-mind race. They are very bored with their life and join the heroes because it should provide exciting new experiences.

* Spider Robinson seems fascinated with this concept, as many of his later novels form a sort of continuity, with not two different takes on the Hive Mind concept.

** ''Hellstrom's Hive'' works both as a [[BeePeople strange way to live]] ''and'' as a supersystem entity with its own goals. It's interesting that at the beginning of story even some of ''its own components'' used in such "anomal" activity are unaware and some can't believe this.

* In the ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', 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...

** Getting to topic of Zurg stealing the 'Unimind' in 'The Adventure Begins', he uses it in a plot to link everyone in the universe to him after infecting it with his evil.

* Dæmons in PhilipPullman's ''HisDarkMaterials'' trilogy are the [[OurSoulsAreDifferent the manifestation of humans' souls in animal form]], therefore a human ''does'' share a mind with their dæmon - though sometimes they can conceal secrets from one another.

* SoukouNoStrain has a race of alien girls [[spoiler: whom Emily belongs to]] who's HiveMind ignores relativity (in a series where [[MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness faster-than-light travel is impossible]].) [[spoiler: Hoping to harness this power, humans captured some of them and vivisected them to create Mimics (when ''the entire race'' could feel it.)]]

* SoukouNoStrain has a race of alien girls [[spoiler: who Emily belongs to]] who's HiveMind ignores relativity (in a series where [[MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness faster-than-light travel is impossible]].) [[spoiler: Hoping to harness this power, humans captured some of them and vivisected them to create Mimics (when ''the entire race'' could feel it.)]]

* The ''AstroCity'' story "Everyday Life" features the Gorilla Swarm, an army of insect-headed primates with a hive mind. The story even has them being controlled by a villain (The Silver Brain), making this a double instantiation of the trope.

* One [[TheVirus viral]] example of this trope exists in the {{Ravenloft}} setting, in the form of Toben the Many, a {{Hannibal Lecture}}ing HiveMind composed of grinning, plague-carrying zombies.

* Manga/{{Bakuman}}: Mashiro and Azuki are "on the same wave" as he puts it.

** Even more so the ''Individual Eleven'' in the second season, [[spoiler:which are actually all controlled by the same virus that infected their brain implants]].
* The [[spoiler: Pict aliens]] in the AxisPowersHetalia movie. They all say the exact same things at the exact same time, and are [[spoiler: trying to get all humans to join them.]]

* The zombies of {{Apocalypse no Toride}} appear to have some kind of Hive Mind and bend to the will of the {{Hive Queen}}, forming large formations out of their bodies.

* ''Film/BattleBeyondTheStars'' has the Nestors as a hive-mind race.
* "The Octopus" in ''Film/TheCityOfLostChildren'' is apparently a pair of conjoined twins who act as a single creature. In addition to working in perfect unison and finishing each other's sentences, the twins scratch each other's itches and taste what the other is eating.

* The yrr in Frank Schätzing's [[Literature/DerSchwarm The Swarm]].

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation's SCP-253 and SCP-408 are examples of this. [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-171 SCP-171]] also counts as a hive mind, a gigantic foam-looking colony of microscopic organisms that incorporates any organism into its mass, resulting in a collective consciousness.
** After 10 minutes of exposure, SCP-427 mutates its participants into "Flesh Beasts", shapeless masses of tissue apparently controlled by a hive mind as seen in the transcript between Dr. [DATA EXPUNGED] and a D-class personnel - "Our biology yearns to join with yours. We welcome you to our mass. Shake the tyranny of the individual."

* The Delightful Children From Down The Lane in ''KidsNextDoor'' speak and act in perfect synchronicity; this is less because of telepathy than because they personify conformity.

* Heavily implied to be true of [[spoiler: Kyubey]] in Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica. [[http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=3564265&postcount=1882 Later confirmed]] by WordOfGod.