History Main / MergerOfSouls

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
** Vriska's and Tavros' dead bodies are thrown into Jane's game sprite, yanking their souls out of the afterlife and fusing them together as "Tavrisprite". Their personalities are so irreconcilable that the sprite explodes (sending the two souls back to the afterlife) mere moments later.
** Eridan and Sollux were successfully fused into an Erisolsprite (which spends most of his time flipping people off at random), and Equiusprite is fused with Dirk's sentient AI auto-responder to create Arquiusprite. Feferi and Nepeta were also fused into a Fefetasprite, which had a peaceful life for six months but doesn't last long once Erisolsprite and Arquiusprite start arguing over her.

** [[spoiler:Squared kernelsprites (made from the merging of two seperate kernelsprites) not only merge the two souls that comprise their being, but gives them the memories of both their hosts across all timelines. Davepetasprite^2 (Davesprite and Nepetasprite) and Jasprosesprite^2 (Jaspersprite and Pre-Retcon Rosesprite) are the only two sprites of their kind.]]

* Slime spirits in ''LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesFor300YearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'' are mergers of the millions of the souls of [[CuteSlimeMook 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.

* ''Fanfic/EquestriaGirlsFriendshipSouls'': As Quincies are a military organization, every Quincy is a soldier, and their children are expected to follow the suit, no matter what branch they chose to join. In modern times, they get a chance to leave and live normal lives, but because their lives consist of training and many lost their parents and other loved ones, most choose to stay and fight the Hollows and Soul Reapers, [[ForeverWar continuing the tradition.]] [[spoiler:Shadowbolts are skilled and could do well in normal world, they train to be better warriors and soldiers. Case in point, one of them already lost her eyes and the other legs and [[{{Determinator}} they are more than ready to continue fighting]].]]

* ''Fanfic/EquestriaGirlsFriendshipSouls'': As Quincies are a military organization, every Quincy is a soldier, and their children are expected to follow the suit, no matter what branch they chose to join. In modern times, they get a chance to leave and live normal lives, but because their lives consist of training and many lost their parents and other loved ones, most choose to stay and fight the Hollows and Soul Reapers, [[ForeverWar continuing the tradition.]] [[spoiler:Shadowbolts are skilled and could do well in normal world, they train to be better warriors and soldiers. Case in point, one of them already lost her eyes and the other legs. [[Determinator It doesn't discourages them in the slightest.]]]]

** [[HornyDevils Morrigan Aensland]] fused with Lilith, who was originally a part of her soul SplitAtBirth and henceforth exists as a SplitPersonality capable of [[LiteralSplitPersonality manifesting in an independent body]], as can be seen in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom''.

* In ''Literature/TheLockedTomb'' series, becoming a Lyctor requires a necromancer to extract, consume, and successfully integrate the soul of their cavalier, thereby retaining the necromancer's magical abilities, and gaining the physical fighting ability of the cavalier. It kills the cavalier in the process, but if [[spoiler:Ianthe]]'s struggle with [[spoiler:Naberius]]'s soul is anything to go by, something of the cavalier still lives on inside the necromancer. In ''Literature/NonaTheNinth'', [[spoiler:Palamedes and Camilla create their own version Pal calls a "Grand Lysis", combining into one person who takes the name "Paul"]].

* In ''Literature/TheLockedTomb'' series, becoming a Lyctor requires a necromancer to extract, consume, and successfully integrate the soul of their cavalier, thereby retaining the necromancer's magical abilities, and gaining the physical fighting ability of the cavalier. It kills the cavalier in the process, but if [[spoiler:Ianthe]]'s struggle with [[spoiler:Naberius]]'s soul is anything to go by, something of the cavalier still lives on inside the necromancer.

* Slime spirits in ''LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesForThreeHundredYearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'' are mergers of the millions of the souls of [[CuteSlimeMook 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.

'''Ermac:''' [[IAmTheNoun We]] ''[[IAmTheNoun are]]'' [[IAmTheNoun the thousands]]!

* This occurs at the end of the first ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'' manga (and in [[Anime/GhostInTheShell the film adaptation]]). Motoko Kusanagi and the Puppet Master merge souls (or rather, "Ghosts") to become a new being the with personalities of the two, only now moved to the body of a teenage girl android.
** In ''Man-Machine Interface'' Motoko has spun off several "daughter" entities that have merged with even more people, including the protagonist Motoko Aramaki ("Motoko 11") [[spoiler: and most of the female cast of the comic. In the end they meet and merge with an extradimensional entity.]]

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': By putting his hand on Nail and later Kami, Piccolo absorbed them, gaining not only extra power but also their memories. This process was permanent; Piccolo's personality also seemed to underway slight changes after each absorption. A similar case was when Goku and Vegeta used the Potara earrings to fuse; however, in this case they split when they entered Buu's body, although it's the only way to split, and that fusion is otherwise permanent. The personality of the fused being seemed to be a mix of both Goku and Vegeta's personalities.

* While nothing was done with it, this is ultimately what [[ComicBook/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 [[https://web.archive.org/web/20170108232712/http://www.cbr.com:80/abandoned-love-the-titanic-tale-of-teen-tony-stark-aka-iron-teen/ 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.

* In the ''Franchise/EvilliousChronicles'', [[spoiler:Ma, the BigBad of the Chronicles' latter half, is a fusion of three separate souls, Irina Clockworker, Elluka Clockworker/Levia Barisol and Eve Moonlit. A major plot point of her arc is her desire to gain her own identity]].

Also also compare YourSoulIsMine and SoulPower. It's different from YourSoulIsMine because the soul is not consumed, but rather absorbed, still retaining some of its own uniqueness in the bigger whole.

* 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''.

* Creator/DanAykroyd said that Slimer from ''[[Film/Ghostbusters1984 Ghostbusters]]'' was a "vapor - a kind of confluence of stored up psychic energy, an accumulation of spirits that haunt the hotel who doesn't want to leave".

* At the very, very end of ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', it's explained that this is what happened to the souls of the various [[spoiler:Chosen Ones who sacrificed their lives in the Journey of Regeneration]] - they merged together along with [[spoiler:Martel, the woman they were trying to revive]], with the latter emerging as the dominant personality of the new [[spoiler:mana tree's]] guardian spirit.

** 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. Adjuchas then begin devouring other Adjuchas, and if they're powerful enough, they will turn into a Vasto Lorde, the final and most powerful form a Hollow can achieve.

* 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 [[https://web.archive.org/web/20170108232712/http://www.cbr.com:80/abandoned-love-the-titanic-tale-of-teen-tony-stark-aka-iron-teen/ 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.

* ''Druuna'': After the demise of Shastar and Captain Lewis, their spirits continue to live on as a VirtualGhost, with their minds folded into each other in transient stages of consciousness.

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

** [[spoiler:Sburb lore has an unconsious version of this called the "Ultimate Self", where the experiences and memories of doomed and retconned timelines shape the meta-narrative of a person. While regular kernelsprites and players aren't aware of it, squared sprites like Davepetasprite^2 can access their ultimate self's knowledge.]]

* Exdeath, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'', came about after several beings and creatures were sealed within a tree in the Forest of Moore.