History Main / HiveQueen

* The [[spoiler: Vajra Queen]] from ''MacrossFrontier''. [[spoiler: Who is, for about 15 minutes within the [[GrandFinale ending episode,]] hijacked via the efforts of [[BigBad Grace]] [[MagnificentBastard O']] [[Instrumentality Con Chekhov'sGunman nor,]] before [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome getting her new hosts head, and threfore, her - self, sniped intowards oblivion by [[TheHero Alto.]] Using [[HeroicSacrifice Mik]][[DeadpanSnarker hail's]] sniper rifle. While being backed up by (Along with [[TheRival Brera.)] a [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome literal]] [[ThemeMusicPowerUp Theme - Music - Power - Up.]] through [[LoveTriangle Sheryl and Ranka.]]]] Why yes, this series does have a rather - large - taste for [[RuleOfCool being epic,]] why may you ask?

* The [[spoiler: Vajra Queen]] from ''MacrossFrontier''. [[spoiler: Who is, for about 15 minutes within the [[GrandFinale ending episode,]] hijacked via the efforts of [[BigBad Grace]] [[MagnificentBastard O']] [[Instrumentality Con]][[Chekhov'sGunman nor,]] before [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome getting her new hosts head, and threfore, her - self, sniped intowards oblivion by [[TheHero Alto.]] Using [[HeroicSacrifice Mik]][[DeadpanSnarker hail's]] sniper rifle. While being backed up by (Along with [[TheRival Brera.)] a [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome literal]] [[ThemeMusicPowerUp Theme - Music - Power - Up.]] through [[LoveTriangle Sheryl and Ranka.]]]] Why yes, this series does have a rather - large - taste for [[RuleOfCool being epic,]] why may you ask?

* The [[spoiler: Vajra Queen]] from ''MacrossFrontier''. [[spoiler Who is, for about 15 minutes within the [[GrandFinale ending episode,]] hijacked via the efforts of [[BigBad Grace]] [[MagnificentBastard O']] [[Instrumentality Con]][[Chekhov'sGunman nor,]] before [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome getting her new hosts head, and threfore, her - self, sniped intowards oblivion by [[TheHero Alto.]] Using [[HeroicSacrifice Mik]][[DeadpanSnarker hail's]] sniper rifle. While being backed up by (Along with [[TheRival Brera.)] a [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome literal]] [[ThemeMusicPowerUp Theme - Music - Power - Up.]] through [[LoveTriangle Sheryl and Ranka.]]]] Why yes, this series does have a rather - large - taste for [[RuleOfCool being epic,]] why may you ask?

* The Vajra Queen from ''MacrossFrontier''.

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Also see GodSaveUsFromTheQueen and MonsterLord. Frequently wants to help individuals lose TheEvilsOfFreeWill.

* Inverted in ''{{PS238}}'': An AlternateUniverse version of Tyler Marlocke accidentally turned the whole of humanity into a HiveMind called the Commonality, wiping out war, greed and famine and causing a tremendous leap in technology... At the unfortunate cost of wiping out human individuality. As the one remaining person who's not part of the Commonality, he's horribly lonely, even though the Commonality is extremely grateful towards him for being its creator.

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->--''StarTrekFirstContact''

...only, that's [[RuleOfDrama inconvenient]] when it comes time for the BigDamnHeroes to save the day. Inevitably, it transpires that there is in fact someone or something in control of the HiveMind. This individual is usually - but not always - referred to as the queen. Presumably this is by [[BeePeople analogy]] with real-world ants and bees, even though real ant and bee queens exercise no control over their colonies - their sole job is to [[MookMaker pop out eggs.]]

Their methods of control can be anything from [[LoveIsInTheAir "pheromones"]], to MindControl, to Cybernetics, but always exercises iron-clad control over drones... [[HeroicWillpower usually.]] Sometimes, but not always, her powers coincide with (or as) TheVirus and [[ViralTransformation she can expand her hive to normal people.]]

Sometimes the HiveMind is designed with a HiveQueen from the start. At other times, the "control element" gets {{Ret Con}}ned into the story so that the HiveMind [[KeystoneArmy can be beaten.]] Indeed, development of a HiveQueen may be the most common form of VillainDecay that threatens {{Hive Mind}}s. It should be noted that not all {{Hive Queen}}s are evil or expansionistic... some are perfectly [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure reasonable]] if protective of their "children", it just transpires that since insects - hive minded ones especially - are seen as [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute gross]] and [[ScaryDogmaticAliens commie]] Hive Queens are too.

If the HiveQueen is pregnant with eggs/younglings/{{Mooks}}, she will almost invariably be depicted as [[AdiposeRex bloated and overweight.]]

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** Agent Orange of the [[GreenLantern Orange Lantern Corps]] is another DCU example, albeit a fat and filthy one.

* In DragonAge, the Broodmothers fit this pretty well, though more in regards to an insect hive queen than a hivemind queen, as they serve as bloated [[MookMaker Mook Makers]] that create loads and loads of darkspawn, but [[spoiler: (with one exception)]] don't actually control the darkspawn themselves. On the flipside, the Archdemon seems to have some control over the minds of the darkspawn horde, directing them to band together and attack the surface world to create a Blight event, but they don't actually create darkspawn.

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[[StarTrekVoyager http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hivequeen.gif]]

*** An alternate theory is that Locutus and Seven Of Nine (in her original appearance) existed simply as an ambassador, whereas the Queen functions as a [[WetwareCPU for the collective]]. In the ExpandedUniverse they specify that Borg Queens are always from the same race; a race selected because their females have brains which can deal with a lot of information processing tasks.

* Subverted in Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire with [=PSmith=]. A human offshoot created as an experiment to create a hive mind in the human species, [=PSmith=] lacks a queen-it's just a hive consciousness that somehow manages to keep track of, and manage, every unit at the same time without going mad. Of course, what they/it lacks in queens it makes up for in impulsiveness-when they/it loses contact with one of its units, they/it assume it was killed-and that Godot was responsible (in fact Godot didn't even acknowledge [=PSmith=] until ''after'' he/they got completely smashed, which, you guessed it, is why contact was lost. Adding to the hilarity was that since the drunken [=PSmith=] wasn't actually dead, he continued to be a part of the hivemind. As a result, ALL [=PSmith=] nodes acted drunk--and later, hungover--and had no idea they were even doing it or why.).

** There are hints that in the next expansion, set after the defeat of the Lich King, Sylvanas may be moving closer to this trope - as well as holding tighter to the VillainBall, and generally [[HeWhoFightsMonsters becoming more and more like the one who did this to her.]]

** The Gravemind only fits this trope to a small degree. Should whatever collection of Flood Biomass that represents the Gravemind be destroyed it is perfectly capable of rebuilding itself so long as at least one single spore survives.

* WorldOfWarcraft sports the Scourge, an army of undead rendered mindless or enthralled (depends on the type) by the Lich King. Notably, one of the player factions is the Forsaken, who are sapient undead who have broken free of the HiveMind. The Forsaken have a queen, Sylvanas - but she's not a HiveQueen, she is merely a leader in the more traditional sense of the word.

** And then there's Sarah Kerrigan, who assumes Queen status and title in the expansion pack after the demise of the Overmind. She also changes the theme of the Zerg race somewhat: brutal and monstrous as they were while under the Overmind, the original objective of the Swarm was to assimilate all organic life into itself and thus become perfect, an objective that was carried out without prejudice or malice. Kerrigan, on the other hand side, is actually [[HumansAreBastards Evil with a capital E]], scheming, betraying and engaging in quite a bit of sadism along the way, actively using the power of the Swarm to get revenge against those who have wronged her, and put her in a position of power over the local portion of the galaxy. Also, the expansion demonstrates how the killing of the Overmind is a great blow against the Zerg, but by no means impossible to recover from, as it is discovered that Cerebrates can physically merge together to form a new Overmind.

* Subverted in Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire with PSmith. A human offshoot created as an experiment to create a hive mind in the human species, PSmith lacks a queen-it's just a hive consciousness that somehow manages to keep track of, and manage, every unit at the same time without going mad. Of course, what they/it lacks in queens it makes up for in impulsiveness-when they/it loses contact with one of it's units, they/it assume it was killed-and that Godot was responsible (in fact Godot didn't even acknowledge PSmith until ''after'' he/they got completely smashed, which, you guessed it, is why contact was lost. Adding to the hilarity was that since the drunken Psmith wasn't actually dead, he continued to be a part of the hivemind. As a result, ALL PSmith nodes acted drunk--and later, hungover--and had no idea they were even doing it or why.).