History HiveMind / PlayedStraight

** In the {{Backstory}}, the rachni were an [[InsectoidAliens insectoid race]] with a telepathic hive mind controlled by [[HiveQueen the queens]]. It's eventually revealed that the war with them was due to the Hive Mind being hijacked by a third party, probably the Reapers.

* In ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' and ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'', dragons seem to be telepathically linked to the {{kaiju}}-sized Alpha Dragon, developing a hive mind. Albeit without the Alpha Dragon around they have full individual thought.

** The Ot-Skadak are a HiveMind race of InsectoidAliens, who seem to be organized in actual hives: Their central consciousness appear to be fixed to their hive, and so each new hive grows its own consciousness. At least two distinct hives, [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-04-13 Utchi-Skafatka]] and [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-09-14 Akkro-Affka]], make appearances in the comic. The Ot-Skadak appear to have had a symbiotic relationship with the Oafans, [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-11-28 who used swarms of Ot-Skadak to store backups of their racial memories]].

** The ancient Oafa had a symbiotic relationship with a sentient insectoid swarm called [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-01-09 Utchi-Skafatka]] who stored backups of their memories.

* The Internet is about as close as to you can get to a real life human hive mind (for now...). With it, the thoughts and opinions of one person can be transmitted to millions across the world, and when people use this to collectively work towards a single goal, they can accomplish some ''incredible'' things. Don't believe us? Just look at Website/{{Wikipedia}}. Or better yet, just ask Website/FourChan...
** Not so much around the mid 2010s and 2020s onwards, as the digital citizens with reliance on internet increasing, and social medias growing polarization, which involves peoples of various backgrounds and affiliations...

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World Kasparov versus the World]] was a game of chess played by Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov against a group of approximately 50,000 laypeople over the Internet. While they discussed their next moves in a chat room, in regards of the chess game itself the so-called "World Team" acted as a single, monolithic entity. Eventually, after ''two months'', Kasparov won.

* ''VideoGame/{{Stalker}}'': The original game's primary antagonist turns out to be [[spoiler:the Common Consciousness, a group of seven scientists whose minds were linked together to form a "superconsciousness". The C Consciousness is responsible for the creation of the Zone, though that was a mistake on its part: it was trying to alter the global psyche of humankind to remove "negative" thoughts like anger, greed, etc. It also mind-controls the Monolith faction, who attempt to protect it from outside interference. Unfortunately, in ''Call of Pripyat'', it turns out that killing the C Consciousness just makes things worse: it was the only thing keeping the Zone under any kind of tenuous control, and without it, nothing is holding the Zone back anymore...]]

* The Strangers in ''Film/DarkCity''. They're on the search for human individuality.

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'':

** Sunniva encounters a group of Stone Age humans c. 40,000 years ago in Book III who have managed to form a very early one of these, coordinating hunting and general organisation and combining their otherwise limited powers to protect themselves. Given that she's an Asgardian royal and a Phoenix host, a PhysicalGod wielding the power of a CosmicEntity, she finds it adorable (including the way it fluffs up its metaphorical fur in her presence), but manages to avoid cooing because that's undignified and patronising.

* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'', Fixies, or people who had their emotions removed by the Fixer drug, are all connected to the Fixer Cloud, a program that's claimed to protect them with "a vast amount of data and independent algorithms". All of them speak robotically, refuse to accept subjective (blue-cornered) cards when selling items at your store, and track the behavior of those not given the drug (Floaties) so they can be placed on the Fixie Blacklist if they discriminate against them.

!!In General

* A lot of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfics portray Changelings this way, with Chrysalis as either the entire race's HiveQueen or one of many. This was eventually jossed, like a large number of Changeling fanon, in the actual cartoon.

* The [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombies]] of ''Manga/ApocalypseNoToride'' appear to have some kind of hive mind and bend to the will of the HiveQueen, forming large formations out of their bodies.

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' hints that this is the case with [[spoiler: Sinister]]. At first, it's suggested that he simply uses the BodySurf trick to hop from one cloned body to another via [[spoiler: the red gem on his forehead(s)]], but it is then hinted that there are multiple versions of him active at once -- including the original, something supported by [[spoiler: Maddie]] noting that he sometimes turns up in unexpected places. And if he were just hopping from body to body, she'd notice. It's what makes him so incredibly hard to kill... until Doctor Strange [[spoiler: gets hold of one of his bodies, and hacks the network]].

* ''WebVideo/NightmareTime:'' In the episode "Yellow Jacket," the fighting ring's champion incorporates this into his strategy, assimilating his opponents into a hivemind, and using them as sheilds and attackers in his fights.
* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' has (in increasing levels of individuality) hiveminds, groupminds and tribeminds.

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' hints that this is the case with [[spoiler: Sinister]]. At first, it's suggested that he simply uses the BodySurf trick to hop from one cloned body to another via [[spoiler: the red gem on his forehead(s)]], but it is then hinted that there are multiple versions of him active at once - including the original, something supported by [[spoiler: Maddie]] noting that he sometimes turns up in unexpected places. And if he were just hopping from body to body, she'd notice. It's what makes him so incredibly hard to kill... until Doctor Strange [[spoiler: gets hold of one of his bodies, and hacks the network]].
* [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwords The Four]] in ''Fanfic/DimensionalLinks'' were once one Link until the Four Sword split them into four. Unlike their successors [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwordsAdventures Green, Blue, Red, and Vio]], who are [[LiteralSplitPersonality one boy split into four boys]], they describe themselves as one boy split into four bodies. They walk, fight, and speak in sync, but they have just enough individuality to have telepathic discussions and describe themselves as plural. It is possible, but painful, to make one act individually.

* The Life Fibers in ''Fanfic/NaturalSelection'' are all operate under this and communicate with each other via connected consciousness. Ryuko is connected to it, having heard the voices and pull of the Life Fibers since she was born, though the influence waned over the years as Junketsu became a major part of her life. After Nui [[spoiler:frees her from Ragyo's Mind Stitching]], she cuts herself off from the hive mind in order to find her own truth.
* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'', Nyarlathotrot operates on this idea, with each of his ''many'' Avatars being a unique entity while still part of the collective whole that is Nyarlathotrot. Destroying one doesn't really affect him much, but will likely royally tick off the rest. A large number of his Avatars can merge together to form his original one, being considerably more powerful than the individual Avatars, but also making defeating him in one move possible.

* This is how [=StarClan=] is believed to be in ''Fanfic/WarriorsRedux''. When good warriors and seers die, they become of one mind in [=StarClan=].
* The second time Tom morphs an ant in ''Fanfic/WhatTomorrowBrings'', he's alone and feels like he's missing extensions of himself.

* ''Literature/TheElectricState'' is set in a post-apocalyptic USA, where Bad Things happened after overuse of the "Neurocaster" virtual reality system. It is implied to have created a hive mind.