Hive Mind / Lampooned

Suspiciously Specific Denial is abound.

Examples of people acting as though they share a Hive Mind:

Anime and Manga

• Bakuman。: Mashiro and Azuki are "on the same wave" as he puts it.
  • And Mashiro and Takagi are "one soul in two bodies" as they put it.
• The cheerleaders in Negima! Magister Negi Magi adaptation Negima!?; even though there's three of them, they might as well be one character. This isn't true in the main continuity, where they each have clearly distinct characters.
• Ryou and Fuu from Sketchbook appear to be extremely in sync, especially when playing pranks on other students.
• Being sextuplets, the Matsuno brothers of Osomatsu-kun are capable of moving and speaking in perfect unison. Also being the mischievous runts they are, they'll invoke the trope to confuse people on which one to punish.
  • Downplayed in Osomatsu-san. The brothers have largely started positioning themselves as individuals rather than a Sibling Team and have lost their twin telepathy to some extent, but they'll slip into the hivemind state now and again for kicks.
• The Quintessential Quintuplets: Being quintuplets, the Nakano sisters are perfectly capable of moving and speaking in unison. However, at the series proper, the girls are already deviating from this, when them having their own distinct personalities and likes. In Chapter 70, Nino even explicitly says that they don't have Twin Telepathy.

Comic Books

• In the classic Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge stories of Carl Barks, Huey, Dewey and Louie (pictured above) are virtually indistinguishable in appearance and personality, and almost invariably finish each other's sentences. Their ability to pool their intellects (and tap into the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook) makes them smarter than any of the other characters, including wily, savvy Scrooge himself; they're almost always the ones to solve the mystery/resolve the problem.
• The Astro City story "Everyday Life" features the Gorilla Swarm, an army of insect-headed primates with a hive mind. The story even has them being controlled by a villain (The Silver Brain), making this a double instantiation of the trope.

Fan Works

• The female characters in Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness, who are capable of communicating on a 'frequency only other girls could understand'. This is mostly used for facilitating the rapid spread of gossip.

Film — Animated

• Both the Squeeze Toy Aliens from the Toy Story series films and the Moonfish from Finding Nemo. (Those ones were actually rather cute.)
  • Also from Finding Nemo, the flock of Seagulls.

Literature

• In Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, Randy Waterhouse's former business partner and current Brainwashed and Crazy nemesis Andrew Loeb is a member of an online project designed to use the internet as a means of connecting humans into a Hive Mind. Beyond that one ambition, none of the members seem to agree on anything.
• It is unclear whether the xibits from the Kadingir series are a straight example or not. The three-thousand strong colony of small orange balls of fur usually displays one emotion at a time, with every single xibit acting as one, and Ishtar even acknowledges at one point that she feels them as an emotional unit. However, enough xibits have shown individual traits and actions to challenge the pure Mind Hive theory. Them speaking only in gibberish doesn't help research much, either.

Live-Action TV

• The Colbert Nation are of one mind. Overlaps with 'Web Original' below when they act as Colbert's zombie army online.
• Legion in Red Dwarf is a variation, in that he is essentially a composite gestalt entity formed from the consciousness of those around him; they retain their individuality completely, but he needs them to remain in his space station in order to have any kind of existence that isn't that of a mindless essence. His first incarnation was the sum mental abilities of some of the finest minds and geniuses of their generation. His second was that of the Red Dwarf crew.

Webcomics

• Bob and George has X, in his first chronological physical appearance (the rest were pre-existent spirit forms or time-travellers. Or Alternates. Or future alternate spirit forms. Or a pair of kumquats, hiding in the shape of X. Something along those lines.) go omnicidal (in a way) when no one would be his friend, and then proceeds to link up every robot to his mind. And then picks up a cyborg. And then through that cyborg the entire human race.
• Gavotte from Skin Horse is an actual hive of bees, and the Project's boss. And then there's a couple of their clients, such as Cypress, a sentient swamp comprising some twelve million organisms in New Orleans. Or WhimsyCorp, a corporation founded by a Mad Scientist that slowly became complex enough to achieve self-awareness independent of her employees and executives. Unity also qualifies, even though she's usually a solitary being; her true self is actually a gallon of black "nanogoo" that controls her body. She can possess other bodies by having the goo injected into them (but only temporarily, as a living body without the necessary augmentations will reject her eventually), and leaves behind a slight imprint of herself in the process; during one story arc, after possessing a multitude of animals, all her former hosts return en masse to fight on her behalf.

Web Original

• Most Wikis, including this one. "Collectively, we know everything. Individually, we're a bunch of idiots". But be careful because, "None of us is as dumb as all of us."
• "Hivemind" is a 4chan meme where people who spend too much time on 4chan internalize certain memes (including hivemind itself) and when given familiar stimulus may respond with very similar answers in rapid succession. To count, the posts have to be made within the same minute. This happens fairly often. This meme has spread across the Internet and is now used by people who have no idea of its origin.
• There's a Gaia Online achievement called Hive Mind. To get it, 15 people have to post on a single page of a thread with their avatars all wearing the same outfit.
• The Onion asks, "How Does A Hive Mind Keep A Synchronized Swimming Team So Coordinated?"

Western Animation

• The Delightful Children from Down the Lane in Codename: Kids Next Door speak and act in perfect synchronicity; this is less because of telepathy than because they personify conformity.
  • It's never really explained whether they all think the same, whether they all have a mental connection or whether they are just the same person. It’s even more confusing when they use 1st person subjective pronouns “I” and “We” interchangeably.
    • Later episodes make it pretty clear they are separate people. In the Season Finale of the first season, they stop talking in unison briefly when Father yells at them. Later, in Operation: U.N.D.E.R.C.O.V.E.R., it is proven that one can work separately from the others, at least for a little while. (Four of them even call the fifth an idiot at the end for blowing the plan.) As for the other possibilities...your guess is as good as any.
    • In the movie about Numbuh Zero, it is revealed that they were originally former KND Operatives from Sector Z, but captured by Father and turned into their current state by a special personality altering machine, otherwise known as a "Delightfulization Chamber". It blew a fuse and made the transformation process stronger and permanent, except for a temporary reversion through the Recommissioning Module. And when that wears off, they are actually drawn to each other by what looks like magnetism.
• The Bebe robots from Kim Possible, and possibly Kim's twin brothers.

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