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List of hive minds
As conceived in speculative fiction, hive minds often imply (almost) complete loss (or lack) of individuality, identity, and personhood. The individuals forming the hive may specialize in different functions, similarly to social insects.

Literature

 * The Bebebebeque in Larry Niven's The Draco Tavern.
 * The Bicameral Order of posthuman monks who have integrated science as religion, in Peter Watts's novel Echopraxia
 * The Boaty-Bits in the Saga of Cuckoo by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson.
 * The Bugs in Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers. They include workers, warriors, brains, and queens; however the films and subsequent TV series feature several other castes.
 * The Children in The Midwich Cuckoos (adapted as Village of the Damned) by John Wyndham.
 * The Cho'ja in the Empire Trilogy by Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurts.
 * The coalescent hives in Stephen Baxter's Destiny's Children series.
 * The Compositions (such as the Bellipotent Composition) in John C. Wright's The Golden Age and its sequels.
 * The Comprise in Michael Swanwick's Vacuum Flowers.
 * The Corelings in Peter V. Bretts Demon Cycle can be controlled by Coreling-Princes.
 * The "Dark Ones" in Metro 2033.
 * The Drummers in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age.
 * The Emperor in A Confusion of Princes by Garth Nix.
 * The Formics or "Buggers" in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series (Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind).
 * Gaia in Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov.
 * The gestalt consciousness (called the homo gestalt) formed by individuals able to "blesh" (a portmanteau of "blend" and "mesh") their abilities together, in Theodore Sturgeon's novel More Than Human.
 * The Hive Mind in Neal Asher's novel The Skinner.
 * The Hive Mind in John G. Cramer's novel Einstein's Bridge.
 * The Howlers in K. A. Applegate's books Animorphs (in the series, the Howlers have a collective memory).
 * The Joined in The Light of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter.
 * The Killiks in The Dark Nest Trilogy by Troy Denning.
 * The Majat in the novel Serpent's Reach by C. J. Cherryh.
 * Man in The Last Question by Isaac Asimov.
 * The extraterrestrial hive mind named Medusa in The Cosmic Rape (also known as To Marry Medusa) by Theodore Sturgeon.
 * Mycroft Ward in Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts.
 * The Network in Brian Falkner's Brain Jack.
 * The Othermind in Tui T. Sutherland's Wings of Fire.
 * The Over-mind and the evolving children, in Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke.
 * The Overlords in Dante D'Anthony's Tales from the Pandoran Age.
 * Palador in Rescue Party by Arthur C. Clarke.
 * The Phindin from the Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice book series by Dave Wolverton and Jude Watson.
 * The Phoners in Cell by Stephen King.
 * The Precogs in The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick (and its film adaptation).
 * The Predator in Dimension of Miracles by Robert Sheckley; multiple apparent individuals are only its "fingers".
 * The Ra'Haam in Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff; a plantoid gestalt that wants to control the whole galaxy.
 * The Raxxor in Dark Swarm by Patrick Olajide are a polymorphic insect race controlled by a hive mind known as the Silent One or 'the Queen of Queens'.
 * Rook Gestalt in The Rook (novel) by Daniel O'Malley is a group of four siblings who are controlled by a single individual intelligence.
 * The Sand Beasts in Deltora Quest's The Shifting Sands.
 * The Scrin in Command And Conquer Tiberium Wars 3
 * The Shub in Simon R. Green's Deathstalker (series).
 * The Squeem in the Xeelee Sequence future history by Stephen Baxter: a group-minded aquatic race, and the first extrasolar intelligence contacted by mankind.
 * The Swarm in Michael Crichton's novel Prey.
 * The Swarm in Bruce Sterling's short story of the same name in Schismatrix.
 * The Taurans and, later, Man in The Forever War by Joe Haldemann; Man in Forever Free.
 * The Tines in A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge: a lone individual is like a dog; a pack of about 4–7 is equivalent to a human adult; in larger numbers they become confused, often nonsapient.
 * The Tyr in C. S. Friedman's The Madness Season.
 * Ygramul in The Neverending Story by Michael Ende.
 * The Vord in Codex Alera by Jim Butcher
 * The Yrr in The Swarm by German author Frank Schätzing
 * Sophia in Project Nemesis (Book 3: Chrysalis) by Brendan Reichs

Comics

 * The Brood (comics), a species of alien within the Marvel Universe.
 * Gah Lak Tus, the Ultimate Marvel version of Galactus, is depicted as a massive swarm of city-size robots forming a collective mind.
 * The Partnership Collective in Howard Tayler's Schlock Mercenary.
 * The Phalanx in Marvel universe.
 * The Supreme Intelligence of the Kree in Marvel universe.
 * The Stepford Cuckoos in Marvel Comics' X-Men series.
 * The Uni-Mind formed by the Eternals in the Marvel Universe.
 * The Thousand in Spider-Man.
 * The Xandarian Worldmind in the Marvel Universe.

Manga

 * The Akatsuki leader Nagato in the Naruto series via using special rods to transmit his consciousness into six corpses that he controls while his real body is hidden at a safe distance.
 * In the Pocket Monsters Special Diamond and Pearl Saga, the members of Team Galaxia share a hive mind that controls their moves and actions.

Animation

 * The Heart of Atlantis in Walt Disney Feature Animation Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
 * The Little Green Men (LGMs) from Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.
 * The Skraaldians in Men in Black: The Series are psychically linked; if one of their kind is killed, the others immediately know about it and who did it.
 * The alien invaders in Godzilla: The Series.
 * The Delightful Children from Down the Lane in Codename: Kids Next Door
 * Unity, Beta 7 and Million-Ants in Rick and Morty
 * The Monkey Splooge Beings in Family Guy
 * Lazarus 92 in Samurai Jack
 * Horde Prime's clones in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Anime

 * The Anti-Spirals in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann are a group mind, having foregone their individuality to stop evolution. The final battle of the series is against a being representing their collective minds.
 * The Invid race in Robotech.
 * The Lilin, the whole mankind in the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion.
 * The Central, An alternative dimensional evolution of humankind in Linebarrels of Iron.
 * The Sibyl System in charge of controlling society is made up of human brains linked together to form a super-computer in Psycho-Pass
 * The Ex-Machina, a race of mentally connected cybernetic life forms, sharing information and being divided into clusters, which appear in No Game, No Life Zero
 * The Virm in Darling in the Franxx.

Films

 * The alien children in the 1960 film Village of the Damned (and its 1995 remake), as well as its sequel, Children of the Damned (1963)
 * Nestor, from the Roger Corman film Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
 * The ghostly "Twins" in The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
 * The Machines in the Matrix trilogy form a seemingly connected mind, especially at the end of The Matrix Revolutions, where they coalesce into a face to speak to Neo
 * The children in Clive Barker's The Plague (2006)
 * The Thirteen Crystal Skeletons in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, all separate knowledge-bearing entities that ultimately merge to become a single alien being. (2008)
 * Eywa is formed by a complex neural network composed of many organisms on the moon Pandora, in the film Avatar (2009)
 * The team of motorcycle Autobots in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) known as Arcee (including Arcee, Chromia, and Elita One) share a hive mind
 * The Nanochips in Ben 10: Alien Swarm are composed of insect-like nanochips that are connected to a queen, and are able to inhabit humans to take over their bodies.
 * The Kaiju from Pacific Rim (film) share a hive mind. The scientist Newton Geiszler creates a machine which allows him to create a mental link with a kaiju brain fragment, however the result is that it attracts two Kaiju; Leatherback and Otachi which attack Shangai, China. This mental link allows Newton to view the memories of the Kaiju and find out more about them.
 * The Formics or Buggers in the film Enders Game (2013)
 * The Omega in Edge of Tomorrow (film) (2014)
 * People infected by the slugs from Slither (film) acted as a hive mind.
 * The ants in Phase IV (1974 film)

Television series

 * The Bringers of the First Evil in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
 * The various Clusters of species Homo sensorium in Sense8.
 * The X7 transgenics in the Dark Angel series.
 * The Daleks, The Cybermen and Cyberiad, the Ood, the Rutan Host, the Universal Mind, the Toclafane, the Skithra and the Fendahl in Doctor Who.
 * The Delightful Children from Down the Lane in Code Name: Kids Next Door.
 * The Replicators in Stargate SG-1 are linked via subspace, but each Replicator has its own "corner" of the space where it can think privately without the others knowing what it thinks. This, however, may be exclusive to the human-form Replicators.
 * The Bebe robots in Kim Possible.
 * The Borg in Star Trek. The Borg Queen takes a coordinator role; the drones, although having group consciousness, have species identifications and individual designations.  Some Borg unconsciously retain their identities in "Unimatrix Zero".
 * The Strigoi in the Strain TV Series on FX.
 * The Inhuman known as Hive, who is possessing Grant Ward's corpse, in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., is a parasite that can infect other inhumans, and forms a hive mind with them.
 * Unity, a hive mind who appeared in the Rick and Morty episode "Auto Erotic Assimilation".
 * Unity, an alien parasite that tried to infect the world in Superman: The Animated Series.
 * Jasmine uses hive mind in the 4th season of Angel.
 * A.L.I.E. in The 100.
 * The Flayed in Stranger Things, a hive mind controlled by the Mind Flayer in the show’s third season.
 * Legion A Gestalt entity - Red Dwarf series VI Episode 2
 * Gestalt one mind in four human bodies from the series  The Rook

Tabletop games

 * Groups of cranium rats in the Planescape campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.
 * The Modron, the Illithids and the Formian of Dungeons & Dragons.
 * The Tyranids in Warhammer 40,000.

Video games

 * The Aparoids in Star Fox: Assault.
 * The Aurum in Kid Icarus: Uprising.
 * The Beast in Homeworld: Cataclysm.
 * The C-Consciousness in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl.
 * The CABAL's cyborg army in the Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun ' s Firestorm expansion pack.
 * The Crimborg in The Kingdom of Loathing.
 * The Dark People in The Longest Journey and Dreamfall.
 * The Omar in Deus Ex: Invisible War.
 * The Darkspawn in Dragon Age Origins, led by an Archdemon. Players can drink the blood of a Darkspawn, and it will either kill them, drive them mad, or give them the ability to sense the Darkspawn, and the Archdemon.
 * The Destroyers in Guild Wars: Eye of the North.
 * The Flood parasite in Halo series kill and revive victims, stripping needed information from the brain. The Flood's collective consciousness manifests as a Gravemind, or "compound mind".
 * The Necromorph Hive Mind in Dead Space.
 * The Kharaa in Natural Selection.
 * The  Kytinn in Mortal Kombat.
 * The Klackon in the Master of Orion series.
 * The Lambent in the Gears of War series.
 * The BlackLight infected in the video game Prototype.
 * The Many in System Shock 2.
 * The Combine in Half Life 2.
 * The Orz in Star Control 2.
 * The Overmind in the first-person shooter Tremulous.
 * Planet in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
 * Multiple races in the Mass Effect universe, most prominently the rachni. The Reapers are sapient starships each composed of billions of organic minds; Sovereign, the vanguard of the Reaper fleet, addresses this by stating "We [the Reapers] are each a nation." The Collectors appear to have little or no consciousness of their own, being thralls to the Reaper known as Harbinger.
 * The Shibito in the Siren series.
 * The Skritt in Guild Wars 2. An individual Skritt is able to think for itself, however, is extremely unintelligent and vulnerable prey. However, the more Skritt you get together in a group, the more intelligent each member of the group becomes.  In theory, an entire city of Skritt could be the most intelligent species in the game.
 * Superhot in Superhot.
 * The Swarm in the Gears of War series.
 * The Tuurngait in the Penumbra game series.
 * The Uhlek race in Starflight.
 * The Vex in Destiny.
 * The X-Parasite organisms in Metroid Fusion kill and revive their living victims to turn them into zombies-like beings. The War Wasps in Metroid Prime culminate in a gigantic hive mind called the Hive Mecha in an attempt to prevent Samus Aran from receiving the missile launcher upgrade.
 * The Zerg swarm in the Starcraft series is controlled by the Overmind and, later, Sarah Kerrigan.
 * The Zoni in Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time.
 * Ceph of the Crysis series.
 * Corvus and humans with a Direct Neural Interface in "Call of Duty: Black Ops III", Causing the dead to coexist in the Frozen Forest as long as they have an active Direct Neural Interface.
 * In Stellaris, you are able to play as a "Gestalt Consciousness"-civilization.
 * The BETA from the Muv-Luv franchise.
 * The Infested in Warframe.
 * The Umbral Choir in Endless Space 2.

Unsorted

 * The Harrower in the game Gloomhaven is made up of thousands of insects, which together have intelligence via a hive mind.
 * The Pokémon Exeggcute is made up of multiple eggs that have a hive mind, controlled by the largest egg.
 * The Primes in Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga.
 * The Rat King in The Ballad of Halo Jones and in Terry Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents.
 * The slivers in Magic: The Gathering storyline. They appear first on Rath but are seen again under the battle of Otaria, and once more during the temporal chaos of Time Spiral
 * Slivers take the hive mind idea a step further: instead of sharing just a consciousness, they also share physical attributes, such as breathing fire, regenerating, growing wings, or an extra claw. They gain these attributes by being in close proximity to another.
 * The Tachyons in Godzilla: The Series.
 * The Xar-Ggothua in Xombie not only share thoughts with each other, but each one can be reborn into a new Xar or even a group of three by the Xin-Jithoth. It is assumed this can also be done to their "cousins", the Xi-Thyndri and the Xth Nthogg.
 * Quatermass and the Pit.
 * Star Maker