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{{quote|''"I will bring peace to the world. Everlasting peace. And unity. And [[Unwilling Roboticisation|uniformity]]."''|'''The Cyber-Controller'''
This trope refers to a common plot by [[Visionary Villain|the villains]] [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|with a cause]], wherein they reason that all of humanity's problems and unhappiness are caused by people being separate/different from one another, and so try to forcefully [[Individuality Is Illegal|eliminate the differences and individuality]] of everyone by merging everyone into one mind/body/soul/etc.
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* [[A God Am I|Less noble minded villains]] who seek to create a [[Hive Mind]] just to make themselves the [[Hive Queen]]. In this case, the villain has a [[Take Over the World]] goal but with a twist. They may use the [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] cause as a ruse.
* [[For Science!|Curious villains]] who want to see if it can be done and what would happen. This kind of guy is likely to hear [[You're Insane!]] often and [[Insult Backfire|not care.]]
* Other. The character involved may have some other reason. For instance, Gendo Ikari from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' wanted to {{spoiler|be reunited with his wife who was stuck in Unit 1 and create a utopia}} which was completely different from SEELE's goal.
Compare/contrast [[The Evils of Free Will]], where the villains use force, brainwashing, and other things to systematically eliminate unique thinkers until everyone is basically a carbon copy, ''but remains an individual physically''. A standard feature of pretty much every [[Dystopia]], ever.
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* Megatron's goal in ''[[Transformers]]: [[Beast Machines]]'' is to absorb every other [[Our Souls Are Different|spark]] on Cybertron and thus creat a brand new world with himself as its single guiding intelligence. [[Fanon]] sometimes claims this as a [[Omniscient Morality License|ridiculously long-term]] [[Gambit Roulette]] by [[Deus Est Machina|Primus]].
* In ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'', Timmy wishes everyone was the same after dealing with some arrogant jerks, turning everyone into gray blobs. However, they remain arrogant jerks (declaring themselves to be the "grayest and the blobbiest" of gray blobs), and he realizes that changing what people look on the outside isn't going to change what they're like on the inside.
* In the [[Crossover]] between ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
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* The ODE System from ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' attempts to do this. Its creator, Wilhelm von Juergen, fell into one massive [[Wangst]] after losing his family, thus thinking that if humanity unites into one to protect the Earth, nobody needs to be sad like him, thus he radically changed his normal system into this. Too bad the system ends up going [[Knight Templar]].
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* In the [[Warren Ellis]]
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Goals and Objectives Index]]
[[Category:One With the Index]]
[[Category:Plots]]
▲[[Category:Assimilation Plot]]
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