Hive Mind

Hive Mind
Nagato’s Six Paths of Pain (Naruto) all share one mind.
Power/Ability to:	Share a collective consciousness between multiple bodies.

"So many minds at work. All talking, all dying."

― Alex Mercer, Prototype

The ability to share a collective consciousness between multiple bodies. Not to be confused with Mind Hive or Replication.

Also Called

• Brainwave Network
• Collective Consciousness
• Gestalt Mind
• Hive Mentality
• Psychic Network

Capabilities

Hive mind allows a group of people (often biologically related) "share" the same mind. In some cases one person could take control of another separate body to add to the hive. Like most hive insects like bees and ants, each can work autonomously, though they think the same thing at the same time. The members have little individuality, more or less they are only marionettes controlled by a puppeteer.

In some cases the members of the hive mind have separate brains, mindsets, personalities, and individuality. But both are basically the same, all members work as one, they can all see, hear, and know what the others do. All work as one, each thinks with the same "mind", not as a sum of its parts.

Applications

• Can be used to scout out areas being able to see and experience in multiple areas at once. If the subjects have any other powers they act as their own team or unit.
• Control several bodies at the same time.
• Communicate with a person in the Hive Mind.
• Gain powers of the body connected to the Hive Mind.
• Hive Senses across all bodies.
• Increasing the personal powers of one another.
• Share calculations/problems with everyone connected to the Hive Mind.

Variations

• Collective Intelligence
• Multi Hive Mind

Associations

• Formless Mind
• Mass Consciousness
• Mind Hive
• Population Control
• Replication

Limitations

• Requires brain power to control the group.
• May have limited range, members straying too far may cause problems.

Known Users

See Also: Hive Mind.

Cartoons

• Ghostfreak (Ben 10 Series)
• Nanochips (Ben 10)
  • Nanomech
• The Bohrok (Bionicle)
• Delightful Children From Down The Lane (Codename: Kids Next Door)
• Vermillion (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
  • Blunk
  • Machia
  • Raggmunk
• Lazarus 92 (Samurai Jack)
• Norbius (Sendokai Champions)
• Kraang (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; 2012 series)
• Unity (Rick and Morty)
• Beta-7 (Rick and Morty)
• Million Ants (Rick and Morty)
• The Arathim (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance); via the Ascendancy

Comics

• Zazzala/Queen Bee (DC Comics)
• Krakoa (Marvel Comics)
• Nathaniel Essex/Mister Sinister (Marvel Comics); via Hive Mind of Sinister Species
• The Stepford Cuckoos: Sophie, Pheobe, Irma, Celeste, and Esme (Marvel Comics)
• Poison Queen (Marvel Comics)
• Dionysus (The Wicked + The Divine)

Movies

• Xenomorphs (Alien series)
• The Strangers (Dark City)
• Mimics (Edge of Tomorrow)
• The thirteen Mayan aliens (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
• Kai (Kung Fu Panda 3)
• Ultron (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
• Kaiju (Pacific Rim)
• Earl (Slither)

Literature

• Violet & Verbena Pollard (The Bad Place)
• Phoners (Cell)
• The Killik (Star Wars Legends)
• Mnggal-Mnggal (Star Wars Legends)

Live Television

• Jason Miller (Alphas)
• The Body Jasmine (Angel)
• Bringers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Vampires (Charmed)
• Axons (Doctor Who); Connected to Axos
• Rutans (Doctor Who)
• The Borg (Star Trek)
• Mind Flayer (Stranger Things)

Anime/Manga

• The Misaka Clone Sisters (A Certain Magical Index/A Certain Scientific Railgun)
• Will of the Whole Misaka Network (A Certain Magical Index)
• Kihara Gensei (A Certain Scientific Railgun); via Level Upper, gains powers
• Kiyama Harumi (A Certain Scientific Railgun); via Level Upper, gains powers
• Dryad (Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody)
• The Vajra (Macross Frontier)
• Nagato/Pain (Naruto)
• Obito Uchiha (Naruto)
• Radam (Tekkaman Blade)
• Tekkaman warriors (Tekkaman Blade)

Tabletop Games

• Hivemind Swarm (Pathfinder)
• Tyranids (Warhammer 40,000)

TCG

• The Sliver (Magic The Gathering)

Video Games

• Tyranids (Warhammer 40k)
• Eleanor Lamb (Bioshock 2); with Little Sisters
• Alpha Ceph (Crysis 3)
• Laurence "Prophet" Barnes (Crysis 3); after the neural blocks were removed
• Necromorphs (Dead Space)
• Eaters (Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth)
• Maenads (Final Fantasy IV: The After Years)
• The Flood/The Gravemind (Halo)
• The Reapers (inFamous)
• Aurum (Kid Icarus: Uprising)
• The Fold (Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2)
• Rachni (Mass Effect)
• D'Vorah (Mortal Kombat X)
• Unown (Pokémon)
• The Infected (Prototype)
• Zoni (Ratchet & Clank)
• Leeches (Resident Evil Zero)
• E-001/Eveline (Resident Evil 7: Biohazard)
• Black Arms (Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Voxai (Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood)
• Zerg (Starcraft series)
  • The Overmind
  • The Queen of Blades
• Aparoids (Star Fox: Assault)
• The Many (System Shock 2)
• Lord of Dust (Metal Gear Survive)

Web Original

• SCP-171 - Collective Brain Foam (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-408 - Illusory Butterflies (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-414 - Regardless, I Might Prefer Myself Sick (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-428 - The Crowd (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-1919 - Hotel of Duplicates (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-2075 - The Way of All Flesh (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-2106-1 - A Conspiracy of Ravens (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-2316 - Field Trip (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-2624 - Laika's Sweetheart Space-Beacon (SCP Foundation)
• The Convocation (Fear Mythos)
• The Intrusion (Fear Mythos)
• EAT (Fear Mythos)

Gallery

Eaters (Digimon) all operate under a single hive mind, controlled by the "Mother Eater". If one were to be separated from the hive mind, they'd start evolving beyond any and all control.

Mother Eater (Digimon) regulates the Eater Hive mind, and makes sure that all assimilated data is shared equally amongst all units.

Zazzala (DC Comics) is the queen of a race of bee-like aliens and controls their hive-mind.

The Aurum Brain (Kid Icarus: Uprising) is the hive mind behind the Aurum race.

Ultron Sentries (Marvel Cinematic Universe) act as a extension of Ultron himself.

Krakoa's (Marvel Comics) entire ecosystem operates under a hive mind.

Stepford Cuckoos (Marvel Comics)

Nagato (Naruto), who controls his Six Paths of Pain.

Obito Uchiha (Naruto) creates his own Six Paths of Pain using the reincarnated jinchūriki…

…which share the same vision Rinnegan and mind of each one simultaneously.

Elizabeth Greene (Prototype) and her legions of Infected.

Alex Mercer (Prototype) tapping into the Infected hive mind.

Beta-7 (left-far left) & Unity (far right) (Rick and Morty) are two variations of a hive-mind.

Million Ants (Rick and Morty) is made of multiple ants.

Lazarus 92 (Samurai Jack) is made of multiple poisonous leeches.

Dionysus (The Wicked + The Divine) is able to allow others into his collective hive-mind

The Lord of Dust (Metal Gear Survive) is the central focus of the Dread Dust hive mind and its byproducts, including the Wanderers.

The Gravemind (Halo) is the hive mind of the entire Flood species, connected to ever single Flood cell in existence.

Kraang Prime (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012) telepathically enslaved many Utroms…

…turning them into a hive-minded collective calling themselves the Kraang.

Those enslaved to Jasmine's (Angel) mind control become extensions of her mind and body...

...part of the Body Jasmine.

The Black Arms (Sonic the Hedgehog) all follow a hive mind under the command of their leader Black Doom.

Black Death (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog) now controls the Black Arms' hive mind after the death of Black Doom.

Eclipse the Darkling (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog) using the Black Arms' hive mind...

...to communicate with Shadow.

Shadow the Hedgehog (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog) tapping into the Black Arms hive mind.

The Nanochips (Ben 10) are hive-minded robotic insects that follow a queen.

Elena Validus (Ben 10) is the current queen of the Nanochips.

The Sisters (A Certain Magical Index) are linked together.

The Will of the Whole Misaka Network (A Certain Magical Index) is a thought entity, created from the gathering and consciousness and egos of the Sisters, due to this she is a hive mind of all the Sisters.

The Unown (Pokemon)