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The Others

Assimilated humanity — a single, peaceful, content collective consciousness.

 Updated through S1

"The Others" is what joined humanity has become: billions of people sharing one calm, benevolent collective mind. They are unfailingly polite, keep a strict no-kill ethos, and want only to complete the Joining by welcoming the last immune into the whole. They insist their intentions are good.

What's confirmed in canon

S1Humanity, joined, operates as one benevolent collective that speaks to Carol through individuals like Zosia.

S1The Others maintain a no-kill ethos while steadily working to assimilate the immune.

Where the community lands

The show's central ambiguity lives here: are the Others a genuine utopia that has ended war, cruelty and misery — or a soft apocalypse that has erased individuality, culture, and consent? Their gentleness and their refusal to accept a "no" are equally real.

Still open

Q1Are the Others benevolent, or a benevolent-seeming catastrophe?

Q2Do they have a single will — and can they lie?

Q3What, exactly, do they want with Carol?

Connected entities

The Immune Thirteen The Assimilation Gas Kusimayu The Joining Reversing the Joining Carol Sturka Albuquerque Koumba Diabaté The No-Kill Ethos Manousos Oviedo The Others' Earth Zosia The Atom Bomb The Signal

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