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'''Legion:''' There is no "individual". We are geth. There are currently 1,183 programs active within this platform.<br />
'''[[Sapient Ship|EDI]]''': "[[I Am Legion|My name is Legion, for we are many.]]"<br />
'''Legion''': [[The Bible|Christian Bible, the Gospel of Mark, chapter five, verse nine]]. We acknowledge this as an appropriate metaphor. We are Legion, a terminal of the Geth.|''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]''}}
 
As [[Hive Mind]] is one mind, many bodies, [[Mind Hive]] is many minds, one body.
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*** For some reason he also never gets very big otherwise. Maybe because impersonating an elephant isn't especially subtle in Fantasy Germany, and when they have artillery it doesn't give you much of a combat bonus, either. Despite the bent rail he doesn't generally have the impact on his environment that you'd expect from something the size of an elephant...
* In ''[[Hellsing]]'', vampires keep all the souls of the people they've devoured inside them. Alucard had millions of souls {{spoiler|until the finale}}.
* In the [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] Virtual World arc, after Nezbit of the [[Kaiba Corp]] Big Five managed to take Honda's body, all five of them collectively shared the body in a duel against Yami Yugi and Jonouchi. Although they were able to chat amongst each other to make decisions, they rotated out who was in charge while also rotating deck masters.
* At the end ''[[Saint Beast]]: Kouin Jojishi Tenshi Tan'', there is a monster made up of the angry spirits of purged angels, sharing one giant body of miasma. A similar case occurs earlier with the dead of the lake town.
 
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In Glen Cook's ''Black Company'' Novels, Soulcatcher (a powerful spellslinger whose primary talent is [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]), might well be the epitome of this trope.
* Hohass "Runt" Ekwesh from the [[X Wing Series]] is this. He has many minds and they're all different. There's the pilot mind, the pirate mind, the careful mind, the student mind....yea, his entire race is made up of creatures with a different mind for each task.
* Frank Herbert's ''[[Dune]]'' series. Abominations are people who experience Bene Gesserit past memory sharing before birth. As a result, they are subject to being taken over by the personalities of their genetic ancestors. This can lead to some interesting situations:
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* ''[[Lexx]]'': Kai has the memories of all those he has assassinated in his service to His Divine Shadow.
* ''[[Dollhouse]]'': By the end of the series, both Echo and Alpha have assimilated dozens of personalities.
* [[Red Dwarf (TV)|You may call me Legion, for we are many.]] "You mean you're a gestalt entity?" "Yes."
* The Time Lord Matrix in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' is a computer housing the collected memories of all the deceased presidents of Gallifrey. Unlike the Kree Supreme Intelligence (see Comics), it is not itself sentient, but it is possible to enter it as a virtual reality [[Cyberspace]].
* Done in ''[[Stargate SG -1]]'' and again in ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]''; in both cases, the mind hive was created to serve as [[The Ark]].
* ''[[Crusade]]'' had one of these as a [[Monster of the Week]]. It began to spread parts of itself amongst the crew of the Excalibur, [[Mind Virus|turning each crew-member into a platform for one of its personalities]].
 
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The [[Mecha -Mooks|Geth]] from ''[[Mass Effect]]'' are a purely software-based species, and house themselves in massive space-based data hubs that contain millions of Geth programs, all of which communicate and work to build consensus. When the Geth need to fight or perform other necessary tasks, they upload themselves into "mobile platforms" - the Geth soldiers, ships, and vehicles encountered in the games themselves.
** Interestingly, "individual" Geth programs are non-sapient, being too simple to function beyond their original purpose; this was an intentional limitation placed by the Quarians to avoid creating an AI. However, when the programs are able to network together, they are able to create something greater than the sum of their parts and achieve a unique form of sapience.
*** Then again, in Mass Effect 2, the destruction of a Geth hub is compared by Legion to the destruction of a city full of Geth.
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* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'': Sora. {{spoiler|There are three, maybe four, other minds in his heart at this point.}}
** As of ''Birth By Sleep'', this turns out to also be true of {{spoiler|Xehanort}}. He's got {{spoiler|Terra, Master Xehanort, and Master Eraqus}} in ''his'' heart.
* Alex Mercer of [[Prototype (Videovideo Gamegame)|Prototype]]. How he came to be like this is really, really tragic and frightening. {{spoiler|The original Mercer was a [[Mad Scientist]] who unleashed the Blacklight virus on Penn Station to spite Blackwatch when they cornered him, but inadvertently became the host of the virus. Initially the player character is the reanimated corpse of Mercer that thinks it's really him. However, as he kills and absorbs other humans, the original Mercer is supplanted as the memories and minds of his victims are incorporated into him. This actually causes undead, [[Humanoid Abomination]] Mercer to grow a conscience and become ''less'' of a dick than the real one}}.
{{quote| '''Alex:''' {{spoiler|Because everyone I've killed...}} They're in me. They ''are'' me.}}
* The Many in ''[[System Shock]] 2''. In contrast to self-centered megalomaniac Shodan, who speaks in the [[I Am Legion|voice of the legion]], The Many alternate between separate and distinct voices. Humans assimilated by it begin slipping into the voice, though.
* The Beast in [[Homeworld (Video Game)|Homeworld]]: Cataclysm is both. It converts spaceships and control them with it conciousness, but at the same time absorbs all the data it founds and uses it to form its speech pattern.
* In ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'' {{spoiler|the newborn Spirit Martel}} proclaims she is this, although it seems {{spoiler|that while she's made up of all "who were sacrificed to the Great Seed", she has the appearance and personality of Martel Yggdrasil}}. It's unclear whether the souls comprising her will merge over time or not.
* In ''[[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Portal 2]]'', it is revealed that rogue AI {{spoiler|1=GLaDOS}} was constructed with at least one if not more [[Brain Uploading|uploaded human personalities]] in addition to the multiple contradictory directives and [[Restraining Bolt|Restraining Bolts]] that Aperture Science tried to install to keep it in check.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* Similarly to [[Dune]], [[Points of Familiarity (Fanfic)|Points of Familiarity]] has a post-Third-Impact Shinji Ikari and the "Well of Souls." Near as anyone can determine, he is the last surviving human with a body. Everyone else lives in his head.
 
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