History PlayingWith / AssimilationPlot

** Against all odds, Ecarion succeeds and creates the World Mind... [[TheAloner Which then finds itself totally alone, having absorbed all minds into itself.]] The lone mind spends it's time angsting in a WorldOfSilence.

** The World Mind seeks to alleviate it's loneliness by finding friends through the cosmos. Of course, the only thing that could possible be scintillating conversation for a worldmind is another worldmind, so it plants the idea of an AssimilationPlot into random species throughout the cosmos...

* '''Downplayed''': Ecarion plans only on merging Troperia into HiveMind. This is step one in his plan for revenge for his wife's death.

* '''Inverted''': Everyone on Vespia decides to differentiate themselves by the typical division that puts themselves at risk of discrimination.

** ...which was Ecarion's ultimate purpose after all.

** Even objects that doesn't have mind on its own were assimilated into the Hive Mind.

** Every single mind on Earth, including animals, plants and even microorganisms was assimilated. Even objects that couldn't have mind on its own were assimilated into the Hive Mind, allowing the BigBad to control it.

** Every mind, including animals and even some plants.

** [[WellIntentionedExtremist Ecarion believes that division by any sort of difference or isolation is not beneficial to the human race.]]

* '''Lampshaded''': The villain is reading a copy of ChildhoodsEnd in quite a few scenes.

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': Ecarion plans only on merging Troperia into HiveMind. This is step one in his plan for revenge.

** Every mind merged into a single cluster is much easier to control than separate minds running around.

** ...which was [[CompleteMonster Ecarion]]'s ultimate purpose after all.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

** Rare optimistic deconstruction: Ecarion sees that, given an ego, most people end up very unhappy. His AssimilationPlot, instead of violating everyone's privacy, is more of a mass "enlightenment", in which everybody lets go of their ego and realises that everything is truly "one".

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* '''Exaggerated''': Every mind, including animals and even some plants.

** ...However, an entity/a glitch in the virtual reality merges the separate minds into one.

* '''Deconstructed''':
** [[EvenEvilHasStandards Ecarion's allies don't approve of his real plan]], resulting in an EnemyCivilWar. His [[EnemyMine former allies and the heroes]] [[CurbStompBattle obliterate Ecarion]].
** Merged as one mind, people have no privacy and are forced to share thoughts and feelings with strangers and their enemies. As a result, the newly created entity is schizophrenic. AndIMustScream, indeed.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** [[EvenEvilHasStandards Ecarion's allies don't approve of his real plan]], resulting in an EnemyCivilWar. They fall to Ecarion, and are the first to be assimilated.
** ...which was [[CompleteMonster Ecarion]]'s ultimate purpose after all.

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* '''Straight''': BigBad Ecarion in [[CaptainErsatz Mechanical Messiah]] [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Aluabath]] decides to merge every mind on Earth into a single cluster.

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* '''Justified''': [[WellIntentionedExtremist Ecarion believes that division by any sort of difference or isolation is not beneficial to the human race.]]

* '''Subverted''': Ecarion merges every mind on Earth into a giant red sphere... but actually the red sphere is a virtual reality machine where the intelligent beings live as usual.

* '''Double Subverted''': ...However, an entity/a glitch in the virtual reality merges the separate minds into one.

* '''Deconstructed''': [[EvenEvilHasStandards Ecarion's allies don't approve of his real plan]], resulting in an EnemyCivilWar. His [[EnemyMine former allies and the heroes]] [[CurbStompBattle obliterate Ecarion]].

* '''Reconstructed''': [[EvenEvilHasStandards Ecarion's allies don't approve of his real plan]], resulting in an EnemyCivilWar. They fall to Ecarion, and are the first to be assimilated.

* '''Double Subverted''': ...However, there is an entity in the virtual reality machine who makes people want to be one with each other.

** Merged as one mind, people have no privacy and are forced to share thoughts and feelings with strangers and their enemies. AndIMustScream, indeed.

* '''Subverted''': Ecarion has eliminated all feelings of loneliness and being ostracized, and mankind now accepts each others' personal differences and decides to unify itself.

* '''Double Subverted''': ...But the unification ends up making every mind to connect to each other and one superior HiveMind through TheVirus.

* '''Justified''': Ecarion believes that division by any sort of difference or isolation is not beneficial to the human race.

* '''Parodied''': ???

* '''Lampshaded''': ???