History Main / MergingMachine

* The ''Film/AceVentura'' animated series has an episode based around [[WholePlotReference a scientist whose teleporter combines him with a fly]]. Later in the episode, [[spoiler:Ace is combined with Spike]].

* ''Series/ChikyuSentaiFiveman'' introduces one of these as a MidSeasonUpgrade for the villains. Specifically, they combine two monsters with phonetically similar names into a Combined Galaxy Warrior with the powers of both. The machine itself only appears twice, with TakeOurWordForIt applying elsewhere.

* Series/ChikyuSentaiFiveman introduces one of these as a MidSeasonUpgrade for the villains. Specifically, they combine two monsters with phonetically similar names into a Combined Galaxy Warrior with the powers of both. The machine itself only appears twice, with TakeOurWordForIt applying elsewhere.

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* ''Literature/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'': Shizue Izawa possesses the [[SoulPower Unique Skill]] [Degenerate], which allows her to combine and disassemble items or even abilities in her possession at will. However, Shizue was never able to draw out this Skill's full potential before her passing. After [[TheAssimilator absorbing her per her dying request]], [[TheHero Rimuru]] gains the Skill for himself and is able to start making full usage of it with [[BenevolentAI [Great Sage's] help]] to, among other things, break down weapons and items into natural resources in order to harvest those same resources to make new items, combine minor Spirits into new Spirits that he then [[FusionDance fuses with other people]], and create new Skills on the fly from existing ones in his possession. [[spoiler:[Great Sage] eventually merges with [Degenerate] in order to complete her evolution to the Ultimate Skill [Raphael, Lord of Wisdom], keeping the latter Skill's effects and boosting them even further.]]

* There was a strip in the 1970s [[BritishComics British Comic]] ''ComicBook/WhizzerAndChips'' called "Minnie's Mixer", which played this for laughs. The eponymous device looked like an electric food mixer, but when pointed at two objects in close proximity could fuse them together. Most often used to mix people or pets with objects. Fortunately the process was reversible.
* A case where the "merging machine" is a person: In the thirteenth issue of Creator/GrantMorrison's ''Comicbook/AnimalMan'' series, the B'wana Beast is infected with Anthrax and it drives him a bit crazy, to the point that he's using his powers to merge random animals and turning the resulting chimera into killing machines.

* One of the {{Gamebooks}} based off of ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' called "Monster Mix-Up" used this as its primary gimmick. Bowser has a device called the Monster Mixer, which looks like a [[http://www.mariowiki.com/File:Mix.jpg giant flying egg-beater]], that he uses to fuse his minions together into more dangerous troops. The ending has Princess Peach consider unfusing them with a device based upon a soup strainer.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E24Tuvix Tuvix]]", a TeleporterAccident fuses Tuvok and Neelix together, forming the title character. They eventually work out how to reverse the process, leading to an existential plea from him equating it to murder.

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* Inverted and then played straight in the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E5TheEnemyWithin The Enemy Within]]", in which a transporter malfunction splits Captain Kirk into two people, one with all his more aggressive traits and the other with his more passive traits. Eventually, the crew figures out what caused the malfunction and successfully uses the transporter to reunify him.
* Similar to the ''Star Trek'' example, in the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVDemonsAndAngels Demons and Angels]]" an experiment with a teleportation device causes the ship and crew to be split into "High" and "Low" versions. Eventually the crew manage to recombine them.
* In a failed CBS pilot a scientist developing a teleporter decides to use it to surprise his girlfriend in another lab by teleporting in with a rose and invite her out for a date, but being unfamiliar with the lab he teleports into the same location of an advanced space probe complete with AI and survival instincts she's developing causing them to merge. As a result, when he's threatened the probe that's otherwise invisibly merged with him emerges in increasing degrees until when at risk of death it completely takes over looking like a vaguely humanoid killing machine.

* ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'': The various shops holds a function to manually combine collected material into SocketedEquipment to boost Ann's weapons.
* Jakyou Manors/The Velvet Room/Demon Fusion Program-enhanced tech in most of the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games, including the ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' series, function this way for combining demons, personae, swords, spell/tarot cards, and any number of other compatible things.
** There have been cases in which accepted parts for fusions have included humans ([[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiI twi]][[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney ce]]) and a [[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiI dog]]. Most of the time, they remember their pasts. On the other hand, aggression level is raised and there is the question of getting a severe case of [[AxCrazy violent madness]] and eventual breakdown; so far, there has not been a single recorded case of a successful demon/human fusion in which the results did not present a form of sanity degeneration, either through [[KnightTemplar obsessive devotion to all laws]] or [[TheUnfettered complete and utter contempt for all of them]], both reaching sociopathic degrees later on. EvilIsNotAToy, kiddies!
* In ''[[VideoGame/ForgottenRealms Tymora's Luck]]'', tinker gnomes and two gods made a "fusion chamber".
* Played with in ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle'', where, at the end, the three {{Player Character}}s have to use a single Chron-O-John to travel through time, chasing the Purple Tentacle. They come out apparently fused into a single monstrosity with three heads. Later, Dr. Fred uses an X-ray machine to scan them, revealing that they're all separate people stuck in a single shirt. Embarrassed, they separate.

* Mocked in ''VideoGame/NoTimeToExplain'' for the final level. One of the Yous suggests wielding both the beam cannon and the shotgun at the same time to enable a DoubleJump, and this is somehow taken by one of the other Yous to fuse that You and Stunt Man You into one being who wields both. The fused character's profile page is even him ''screaming in agony''.
* In ''VideoGame/PsychonautsInTheRhombusOfRuin'', Raz encounters a device in a crashed alien spaceship that can split and merge objects.

* The ''Videogame/{{Scribblenauts}}'' series has the [[https://scribblenauts.fandom.com/wiki/Create-A-Tron Create-A-Tron]], an unsummonable object that only appears in "Create" levels in Super Scribblenauts and Scribblenauts Remix. Goal of these levels is to put the correct items, animals, people, etc. in the create-a-tron to create the required new object.

* ''VideoGame/{{XenoGears}}'': As part of his experiments, Krelian utilizes a method that allows him to fully integrate a person with a [[AMechByAnyOtherName Gear]]. The process itself is [[TakeOurWordForIt never shown]], the [[BodyHorror ramifications]] of the procedure however, aren't too gratifying.

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* ''Webcomic/SequentialArt'': In strip #1151, British Prime Minister Johnson announces contagion restrictions that include a ban on gatherings of more than two people. The four squirrel girls panic at the thought of being separated, so they create the "Huddle-On Collider" to fuse themselves into a single entity. The result of this daffy device is the multi-limbed abomination that pursues Kat through the basement tunnels in strip #1157.

* The ''Website/SCPFoundation'' has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-914 SCP-914]], [[InSeriesNickname "The Clockworks"]]. Putting two items in the input booth and running the machine on "fine" (the setting for turning things up a notch) or "very fine" (typically produces something that goes even higher to the input) tends to yield outputs that combine aspects from both inputs; in one of the side-stories, 914 was fed a [[RedShirt D-class]] and a 64-core supercomputer multiple times, with outputs including sixty-four small robot spiders [[{{Squick}} with human faces]] and a human with a supercomputing brain (which was the desired output). In addition, one of its other settings, "coarse," often functions as an {{Inversion}}, separating objects into their component parts.

* The ''WesternAnimation/AceVentura'' animated series had an episode based around [[WholePlotReference a scientist whose teleporter combined him with a fly.]] Later in the episode [[spoiler:Ace is combined with Spike]].

* For one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' Timmy celebrates a half-day from school by wishing up a machine that combines any distinct objects put inside. He has a lot of fun making himself half-kid and half-skateboard, but it goes wrong when Crocker combines himself with cheese and gains cheese-based powers. Timmy has to combine himself with a lot of objects to stop Crocker.
* In ''WesternAnimation/GrojBand'', DJ Fusion possesses a device called a “fusion mixer” that combines objects put on it, and with it opens up a restaurant that serves fusion foods created by the machine. However trouble brews when Grojband and their GenderFlip doppelgängers, the Newmans, fall onto it, causing them all to fuse into two-headed freaks.
* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' had an episode where a corrupted game fused Megabyte with a containment unit filled with liquid energy. It turned him into a Megatruck, and the game just happened to be a pastiche of ''Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In one Treehouse of Horror episode, after Homer buys a matter transporter from Professor Frink (and uses it around the house to save him from walking from one room to another... though it takes more effort to move the transporter booths), Bart uses it to fuse with a fly, hoping it will give him superpowers. But instead of Brundlefly, he gets the 1958 Fly (Bart with a fly head, the fly with Bart's).
* [[BigBad Alpha]] from the ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack'' series used an alien device called the Cosmic Integrator to grant him the power to fuse alien body parts to himself.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': The episode "Canderemy" has Dr. Doofenshmirtz build one of these called the Combine-inator so he could combine his two childhood loves: [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext his pet giant cockroach and garlic ice cream]]. They go together about as well as it sounds. He then weaponizes it to combine himself with his robot Norm to stand a better fighting chance against Perry. A stray shot of the inator ends up fusing Candace and Jeremy together, and when the machine goes haywire, Perry also ends up fused with equipment from Doof's lab. Eventually Phineas and Ferb undo all the fusions with a recreation of their invention the Molecular Separator, but the episode ends with one last shot from the inator fusing Phineas and Ferb, with [[BodyHorror rather uncanny results]].
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', Jimmy and Carl's hamster Mr. Wuggles accidentally swap heads after a teleportation experiment gone wrong.

* Inverted near the start of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}'' movie, where after Prickle, Goo, and Pokey accidentally [[FusionDance fuse themselves]] into a ball of clay, they get taken to a hospital where a machine is used to separate them. Notably, this entire scene was removed in the ''Director's Cut'' version.

* ''Film/TheFly1958'' and the [[Film/TheFly1986 1986 versions]] are arguably based around an accidental version, merging a man with a fly (and later the man-fly with the teleporter itself). Many parodies and homages tend to fall into this trope by having multiple "mixings" take place.