Collective Unconscious

Collective Unconscious
The Collective Unconscious of Humankind
Power/Ability to:	Represent the collective unconscious will.

"Gods are real if you believe in them."

― Mr. Wednesday/Odin (American Gods)

"True, I'm infinite and eternal. But even I was shaped by forces external to me. You know what they are."

― The Presence (DC Comics)

"They made the world that had already been there into his creation. That the only way of making him truly omnipotent. Indeed. That god was artificially made as an answer to the hopes and dreams of mankind. A construct of blind obsession and faith that would be responsible for all creation. The power of God is just the undiluted hope of mankind. So potent is plunged us from the divine to the demonic."

― Explanation of the Nature of God (Tokyo Babel)

The power to represent the collective unconscious will. Variation of Concept Embodiment.

Also Called

• Collective Subconscious/Unconsciousness
• Ethernet/Internet/Network/Web of Minds
• The Collective Will

Fiction-Specific Terms

• Forces External (DC Comics)
• The Counter Force (TYPE-MOON)

Capabilities

The user is the collective unconscious will of something. They embody all that thing's unconscious thoughts and desires and act as an impartial executor of its will. According to Jung, the human collective unconscious is populated by instincts, as well as by archetypes: ancient primal symbols such as The Great Mother, the Wise Old Man, the Shadow and the Tree of Life.

Jung suggested that parapsychology, alchemy, and occult religious ideas could contribute understanding of the collective unconscious. Based on his interpretation of synchronicity and extra-sensory perception, Jung argued that psychic activity transcended the brain.

Applications

• Archetype Manipulation
  • Behavior Manipulation
  • Character Manipulation
  • Identity Manipulation
  • Perspective Manipulation
• Collective Mindscape
  • Mind Control
    • Subordination Manipulation
  • Collective Memory
    • Memory World Creation
• Jungian Archetype Mimicry
  • Collective Shadow
• Idea Embodiment
  • Knowledge Manipulation
• Probability Manipulation (Can manipulate which direction humanity will move)
• Subconscious Manipulation
  • Dream Manipulation
  • Instinct Manipulation
  • Subconscious Walking
• Unimind
  • Collective Memory
  • Multi Hive Mind
• Willpower Embodiment
  • Willpower Manipulation

Technique

• Counter-Force Channeling
• Intuitive Intelligence

Variations

• Collective Shadow

Associations

• Collective Entity
  • Gestalt Mind
• Collective Warping
  • Reality Mind
• Transcendent Consciousness
  • Lower Consciousness
    • Mass Consciousness
  • Higher Consciousness

Limitations

• May act based on the overall desire of whatever it represents, even if it is self-destructive.
• May be unable to act on its own, requiring avatars to act for it.

Known Users

Anime/Manga

• The Idea of Evil (Berserk)
• Gods (Code Geass); the God, the Sea of Transmigration, the Great Consciousness, the Collective Unconscious
• Adolla/the Evangelist (Fire Force)

Cartoons/Comics

• Wallace Johnson/Wally the God-Boy (DC Comics)
• Phoenix Force (Marvel Comics); All Life

Video Games

• Jenova (Final Fantasy VII)
• Sea of Souls (Persona series); Mankind
• Philemon (Persona series)
• Nyarlathotep (Persona 2)
• Erebus (Persona 3: FES)
• Yaldabaoth/The Demiurge (Persona 5)
• The Great Will/The Axiom (Shin Megami Tensei)
• God (Tokyo Babel); Mankind's hope
• Alaya (TYPE-MOON); Humanity
• Gaia (TYPE-MOON); The Earth

Gallery

The Idea of Evil (Berserk) represents mankind's collective desire for a reason for all of their suffering.

The Collective Unconsious (Code Geass) represents the collective will of mankind.

As he himself explained, Wally The God-Boy (DC Comics) appears to be some sort of abstract being, the combination of all Gods in the DC Multverse melded by the collective unconscious of humanity.

The Phoenix Force (Marvel Comics) is the collective unconscious of life itself.

The Sea of Souls (Persona), linked to the collective unconsciousness.

Philemon (Persona series) is the embodiment of humanity's collective good. Every single positive or constructive thought, feeling, or impulse ever experienced by even a single human birthed and sustains him.

Nyarlathotep (Persona 2) is the embodiment of all of humanity's collective evil. Every single negative or destructive thought, feeling, or impulse ever experienced by even a single human birthed and sustains him.

Erebus (Persona 3; FES) is the embodiment of humanity's collective desire for death, and constantly tries to summon Nyx to initiate the Fall.

Yaldabaoth (Persona 5) is the embodiment of humanity's desire to be controlled and not have to think for themselves.

God (Tokyo Babel) is omnipotent and omniscient because he was created by mankind's hope to fulfill their desires for miracles...

...having been artificially born from the dreams and hopes of mankind. The power of God is just the undiluted hope of mankind.

A Manifestation of Alaya (TYPE-MOON), the collective will of humanity.

The Axiom, also called the Great Will or The Great Reason (Shin Megami Tensei) is the Supreme Being of the entire Megami Tensei scenario, being the deepest and most primal form of humanity's collective unconscious, existing as the point of origin from which Gods as powerful as Brahman and YHVH emerge as fragmented aspects of itself, and encompassing an even deeper level than that inhabited by Philemon and Nyarlathotep, who are nothing but facets of the Great Reason.