History Main / MergerOfSouls

* While nothing was done with it, this is ultimately what [[Franchise/IronMan Tony Stark]] currently is: when Franklin Richards saved Franchise/TheAvengers and the ComicBook/FantasticFour, he recreated the heroes closer to what he remembered, hence is Tony's case, resurrecting the Tony Stark who died during ''ComicBook/TheCrossing'' and [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2013/02/28/abandoned-love-the-titanic-tale-of-teen-tony-stark-aka-iron-teen/2/ fusing him with his teenaged alternate universe counterpart]], even having memories of not just his own life and death, and his life in the ''ComicBook/HeroesReborn'' world, but of Teen Tony's as well.

* Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}: Discworld/ThiefOfTime'' introduces Lobsang Ludd and his not-quite-twin brother Jeremy Clockson. The awful truth, when it comes out, is that they are not twins at all but the same soul born twice due to a temporal anomaly (their mother is the anthropomorphic personification of Time, and her labour got a bit strange, despite the best midwife in the Discworld being present). The two half-souls are allowed to fuse together towards the end of the book, with Lobsang dominating, so as to take over the job of running Time from their mother.

* Slime spirits in ''LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesForThreeHundredYearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'' are mergers of the millions of the souls of [[BlobMonster slimes]] Azusa killed over the centuries. They have different feelings; Shalsha wants vengeance for all the deaths while Falfa is grateful for the chance to be reborn as a sentient being. They both consider Azusa to be their mother.

** Slaanesh, an EldritchAbomination and one of the setting's [[FourIsDeath four]] [[GodOfEvil Gods Of Evil]], was born when countless Eldar souls that died in extremely decadent orgies and sadistic slaughters coalesced together into a single entity.

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* The Greek philosopher Plotinus ([[OlderThanFeudalism c. 204-270 AD]]) postulated "Emanation ''ex deo'' (Out of God)". Basically, in the hierarchy of being, there is The One (who is all good, transcendent, and unchanging). The nature of the One is simply that it filters down itself, but the One never loses anything or changes. Next comes the Nous, or Divine Mind, and then bellow that is the Oversoul. From the Oversoul comes individual Human Souls. So what does this have to do with this trope? It's possible for a human soul to reunite with the One again, forever (at least in Neoplatonic tradition).
* In high Hindu philosophy, the goal of the soul, over however many incarnations it takes, is to unite with the Brahman, the absolute reality.
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'''Ermac:''' We ''are'' the thousands!

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* This is the conclusion of [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7286512/1/A_New_World_in_my_View P H Wise]]'s fanfic ''FanFic/ANewWorldInMyView'' (page pending) with Xander and Divine's souls merging.

* Happens to [[spoiler: America and Vale]] at the beginning of the sequel to ''FanFic/WeightOfTheWorld''.

* Slime spirits in ''I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 years and Maxed Out My Level'' are mergers of the millions of the souls of [[BlobMonster slimes]] Azusa killed over the centuries. They have different feelings; Shalsha wants vengeance for all the deaths while Falfa is grateful for the chance to be reborn as a sentient being. They both consider Azusa to be their mother.

* WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom: [[spoiler: "Dark Danny"]] is the result of a FusionDance between [[spoiler: the ghost selves of Danny and Vlad in an alternate timeline.]]

** Slaanesh, an EldritchAbomination and one of the setting's [[FourIsDeath four]] GodsOfEvil, was born when countless Eldar souls that died in extremely decadent orgies and sadistic slaughters coalesced together into a single entity.

* Slime spirits in ''I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 years and Maxed Out My Level'' are mergers of the millions of the souls of [[BlobMonster slimes]] Azusa killed over the centuries. They have different feelings Shalsha wants vengeance for all the deaths while Falfa is grateful for the chance to be reborn as a sentient being. They both consider Azusa to be their mother.

* Slime spirits in ''I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 years and Maxed Out My Level'' are mergers of the millions of [[BlobMonster slimes]] Azusa killed over the centuries. They have different feelings Shalsha wants vengeance for all the deaths while Falfa is grateful for the chance to be reborn as a sentient being. They both consider Azusa to be their mother.

* ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'' has a SecretSociety of old people hoping for a second chance at life by reincarnating into the body of one child.

** Hollows become more powerful by eating each other (and human souls). At lower stages of strength, this normally leads to them becoming beastial creatures known as Gillians, composed of many thousands of souls and forming the first stage of a Hollow's existence as a Menos. Occasionally one of these hollows contain a soul strong willed enough to remain sapient and somewhat intelligent, which takes control and continues to feed on other hollows to become more powerful. If such a Gillian consumes enough souls, it turns into a more powerful and now-truly intelligent Adjuchas.