History Main / HiveMind

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

* The alien invaders of the film ''Film/IndependenceDay'', so says the theory.

* ''Literature/TheMidwichCuckoos'', which was adapted onto film twice as ''Film/VillageOfTheDamned''. The alien "Children" (30 boys and 30 girls) have two distinct group minds. They protect themselves (and cause havoc along the way), both use telepathy to control others' actions, organs, and other parts of the body.

* In ''DarkAngel'' transgenics of X7 series (children having disturbing pure black eyes). "The X7s are stronger and faster than the X5 series. They were designed with hive minds and are capable of communicating through sound waves, much like bats, but do so without opening their mouths. Their communications are inaudible to non-X7s. They never speak. "

* A very weak version of this exists in ''EarthFinalConflict'' with the [[EnergyBeing Taelons]], whose minds are joined in the Commonality. However, they are full individuals and don't share each other's thoughts. The Commonality mainly serves to keep the Taelons from reverting into the savage Atavus state. A human jacked into the Commonality experiences the greatest high possible, and a few seconds can feel like hours.

* An episode of ''{{Sliders}}'' has the heroes travel to three remarkably similar worlds, all of which had invented a miracle cure of sorts that consists of bacteria that quickly repair any damage to the human body. The problem is, the bacteria communicate via pulses of light, which are not limited to just within the body. Thus, all those with the bacteria sense each other, although they still retain a measure of individuality. On one world, this has resulted in an Inquisition of sorts that hunts down any "Believers", as they're called. On another, the Believers are a peaceful commune living in tents and meditating. On the third world, the cure was destroyed years before once the authorities realized the problem, although Quinn re-introduces it from his own blood. The sliders also find a way to shut off the bacteria (without removing the effects of what has already been "fixed" in the body) using an oversized flashlight pulsing a coded shutdown signal. This immediately disconnects the individual from the hive mind and leaves them feeling empty and nostalgic.

** Another ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' example from the Original Series: the androids in the episode "I, Mudd" were all psychically connected, communing with a central computer during moments of uncertainty or confusion. Many of the androids had identical forms and spoke in unison.
*** Another TOS episode had an omniscient computer named Landru which controlled and psychically linked the humans of its planet after they had undergone a process called "absorption."
** The changelings of ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' spend most of their time in a liquid state on their home planet (the entire species essentially resembles a vast ocean). While in this state, they share a collective consciousness, which they refer to as "the Great Link", while still retaining their individuality. It is also possible for ''any'' number of changelings to link in this way.
** An episode of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' involved a trio of ex-Borg drones who still formed a small, personal "collective". Problem was, they were hearing each others' thoughts every second, including while they were asleep, and the LossOfIdentity was driving them insane. Once this is fixed, they find no longer knowing what the others are about to say a huge relief.

* In ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' the [[AncientConspiracy Seers of the Throne]] have access to a group of servants referred to as "Hive-Souled"; essentially, a single mind/soul born in multiple bodies (generally twins or triplets, although modern science has allowed them to greatly increase the potential numbers). Each individual body of a Hive-Soul is essentially just a single component of their collective mind, having no individual personality, and being able to share experience and memory instantly (if one becomes aware of something, the rest are also immediately aware of it) and it can be difficult for any of them to act in a non-synchronised manner unless they are skilled at multi-tasking (although magic can help with this). For the purpose of magic, they also count as a single target; any spell cast on one of them affects all of them equally. This also extends to any kind of physical alteration (including, unfortunately for them, injuries).

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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[Characters/SCPFoundation [=Characters/SCPFoundation=]]]
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-253 SCP-253 ("The Cancer Plague")]] and [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-408 SCP-408 ("Illusory Butterflies")]] are examples of this.
** [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-171 SCP-171 ("Collective Brain Foam")]] 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, [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-427 SCP-427 ("Lovecraftian Locket")]] 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."
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-428 SCP-428 ("The Crowd")]]. The various members of the "crowd" can think as one, which allows SCP-428 to move quickly in a way that a crowd of normal human beings attached together cannot. It retains some of the talents, skills and memories of the people it absorbs and can use these abilities to add new members or attempt to escape.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1657 SCP-1657 ("MAN EGG")]]. Instances of SCP-1657 have a collective memory. Anything that one of them experiences is known and remembered by all of them.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1888 SCP-1888 ("Terraforming Temple")]]. Plants and animals exposed to SCP-1888-2 develop a group intelligence that they use to efficiently eliminate intruders.
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* ''OrionsArm'' has in increasing levels of individuality: hiveminds, groupminds and tribeminds.

** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-253 SCP-253 ("The Cancer Plague")]] SCP-253 and [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-408 SCP-408 ("Illusory Butterflies")]] SCP-408 are examples of this.

Related to, but separate from {{Synchronization}}, where each individual ''experiences'' what the other does without necessarily being in rapport with each other. Contrast both MindHive and ManySpiritsInsideOfOne, both its complete opposites, when multiple minds or SplitPersonalities are sharing one body (differentiated by the level of accord between them and/or their "host"); and PiecesOfGod, where a CosmicEntity is split into several pieces, which may or may not be living entities themselves. May be controlled by a HiveQueen, which serves as the titular keystone of a KeystoneArmy. See also PsychicLink for other connections between minds. A related plot is TheEvilsOfFreeWill. Compare SplitPersonalityMerge, where two or more SplitPersonalities become one. When the person speaks in plural, see IAmLegion. If the hive mind is controlling many smaller creatures that forms the shape of a larger creature, you may be dealing with TheWormThatWalks.

* A lot of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' portrays Changelings this way, with Chrysalis as either the entire race's HiveQueen or one of many.

* The Flood from ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''. While an early stage Flood infestation lacks a hivemind and thus behaves in a mostly non-sentient manner, later stages will be coordinated by a highly-intelligent "Gravemind" once enough enough sentients are assimilated. Said Gravemind has access to every single bit of knowledge from every single sentient ever consumed by the Flood, even if said consumption happened 100,000 years ago.

* The Flood from ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''. The flood do without a hivemind and behave like nonsentients until they assimilate enough people and then they create a Gravemind. They follow this trope then as the Gravemind organizes them better.

* Ryou and Fuu from ''{{Sketchbook}}'' appear to be ''extremely'' in sync, especially when playing pranks on other students.

* The Wisps in the ''Franchise/{{Ultima}}'' games all share a single mind, which calls itself Xorinia and claims to be an interdimensional information broker. It/they are quite puzzled by the fact that humans are individuals, and don't quite understand why they have to repeat everything from scratch every time they speak to the human race.

* In the Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse, the Tholians are part way there. While all individuals (and indeed possessing just as many dreamers, dissenters, seditionists and individualists as any other Trek culture), they have a version of this on the instinctive level. The Tholian lattice connects the minds of all Tholians, distributing basic race-knowledge to all and allowing individuals to commune with one another. The lattice is regulated carefully, with different castes having different degrees of access. On occasion, it can indeed cause the entirety of the Tholian race to share an experience, as was the case with the telepathic assaults of the Shedai. See StarTrekVanguard and StarTrekTheLostEra in particular.

* The Orz in ''StarControl'' are hinted (and confirmed by WordOfGod) to be the extensions of an EldritchAbomination which calls itself "Orz". As such, the "*fingers*" (as Orz's extensions refer to themselves) all have the same mind, which is currently staying in whatever dimension Orz calls home (it refers to ''our'' dimension as "*the middle*").

* A character in SpiderRobinson's ''[[Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon Lady Slings The Booze]]'' is one person with two bodies. Apparently she started out as identical twins, but her parents treated them as one person and eventually she stuck that way. [[spoiler: Sadly, Arethusa loses one of her bodies at the end of the book.]]

* The cho-ja from Raymond E. Feist's ''[[TheRiftwarCycle Empire Trilogy]]'' share conciousness amongst the [[HiveQueen hive queens]] who have reached maturity.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation''

* Sherri and (is it Terri?) in the ''{{Simpsons}}''.

* The cheerleaders in ''[[Manga/MahouSenseiNegima Negima!?]]''; even though there's three of them, they might as well be one character.

* 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.

* Christopher Hinz's ''Paratwa'' series uses this as a main theme. The aliens' evolution stressed cooperation (instead of competition as on Earth) as the key to survival. Alien/human hybrids were telepathically connected, and ''usually'' went fatally insance if their twin died.

** The Hive Mind's only weakness is that it does not have unlimited range. Rank-and-file 'nids will loose contact with orbiting Hive Ships unless they stay in range of synaptic repeater organisms such as Hive Tyrants, lest they revert to their animalistic instincts and wander off, becoming no better than exceptionally deadly animals. [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong Genestealers]], who operate tens of light years in advance of a Hive Fleet, have their own limited consciousness as a result.

-->-- '''The Many''', ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2''

* The Many from ''VideoGame/SystemShock II'' - and let's not go into when they try to recruit '''[[PlayerCharacter you]]''' into their fold.

* The [[Series/TheColbertReport Colbert]] [[StudioAudience Nation]] are [[http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/149059/january-31-2008/andrew-napolitano of one mind]]. Overlaps with 'Internet' above when they act as [[InternetCounterattack Colbert's zombie army]] online.

* {{Internet Counterattack}}s on social media can become this.

* Some pairs of twins, and intensely bonded lovers, give this appearance. An extreme example of such twins might be Jennifer and June Gibbons; an extreme example of such lovers might be certain BDSM Dominant/submissive pairings.