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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne]]'' {{spoiler|Hikawa's}} goal is to create a society based on this trope. And [[World of Silence|another one]].
* Unusually, a ''positive'' example of this trope appears in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''. The geth, the main enemy from the first game turn out to be a mostly peace-loving species with a 5% minority who are hostile to the organic races; they represent the most individualistic, "rebellious" part of their highly collectivist culture (justified by the fact that as individuals the geth aren't even sentient), and effectively brainwashing them to return to the collective is the ''good'' decision to make (as opposed to blowing them up). Of course they were [[Hoist by His Own Petard|Hoisted By Their Own Petard]], since they were planning to do exactly the same thing to the main collective.
** Hell, Legion (your geth Team mate) is out right ''terrified'' by the ideal of the geth becoming individualistic, when you try to claim its a good thing.
** All this may be justified by the geth's true nature: the geth are AI's, and become more intelligent when linked together. This is why there are always many geth in one platform (robot). To the geth, individuality means mental regression, so they despise it.
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* In ''[[Penumbra (video game series)|Penumbra]]: Black Plague'' a failed attempt to assimilate you into the [[Hive Mind]] results in one of the members being stuck in your head. "Clarence" hates it so much that will try to lead you to your death in order to die with you or reintegrate. When you {{spoiler|finally manage to transfer him into another body, he is quickly destroyed by other members of the [[Hive Mind]] as he's become too unique during the time he spent inside you.}}
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''''There cannot be one. There can only be us all. There cannot be one. There can only be us all...'''''}}}}
== Web Original ==
* This was one of the core tenets of the losing side of the Great War that took place 80 years before the opening of ''[[RWBY]]'', which inspired their opposition to institute a tradition of [[Colorful Theme Naming]] in protest and defiance.
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''[[Star Trek|We are the tropers of Borg.]] [[You Will Be Assimilated]]. [[Resistance Is Futile]].''
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