Fusion Dance / Western Animation

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• Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra:
  • The Avatar State is a Composite and Power Booster at once, with a bit of Switcher mixed in. It allows the current Avatar to harness the skills and knowledge of Raava the Avatar Spirit as well as all the previous Avatars. In moments of extreme danger or emotional distress, the Avatar State awakens by itself, and the current Avatar has no control until the danger/angst has passed. Additionally, in certain circumstances, the Avatar can take the physical form of a previous avatar. Avatar Aang was able to turn into Avatar Roku while inside Roku's temple, and into Avatar Kyoshi while wearing Kyoshi's artifacts.
  • Additionally, other forces can use Aang's body and Avatar State to their own ends, such as La the Ocean Spirit.
  • While not actually resulting in a fusion, Book 3 had an episode where Aang and Zuko perform a firebending "form" that very much resembled the DBZ fusion dance at several points and was called the "Dance of the Dragons." This is likely a Shout-Out, since the show creators are anime fans.
  • Dark spirits can also fuse with humans. For example, in The Legend of Korra's Book 2 finale, Unalaq and Vaatu merge to form the "Dark Avatar." Also in this finale, Avatar Korra reunites with a newly regenerated Raava (who had previously been destroyed by Vaatu) and starts the Avatar Cycle over again.
• In Ben 10, Ben unintentionally does the Mixed Form variant in "Dr. Animo and the Mutant Ray". Additionally, there was a promotion where Bandai sold Ben 10 toys that had codes. Typing two of the codes on the Bandai Ben 10 (now classic) website to see what two of Ben's aliens would look like fused together. With the absence of Grey matter and Ripjaws's codes, Stinkarms was the only form from the episode that could be recreated, though many fusions created separately could be made.
  • Done on purpose in the crossover episode Ben 10/Generator Rex: Heroes United, with Ben serving as a Power Booster for Rex. The background even showed a fused version of their logos.
  • A potential Future Badass version of Ben as Ben 10,000 has invented the Biomnitrix, two Omnitrix gauntlets he can slam together to transform into fully functional Mixed Form fusions of his aliens.
• In the Blue's Clues episode "Colors Everywhere" (alongside its remake Colors Everywhere with Blue), two of the color characters fuse together to make a secondary or tertiary color.
• In Danny Phantom, Dark Danny is the result of a fusion between Danny and Vlad's ghost halves, with Danny ending up with complete control, but inheriting some of Vlad's traits, like the green skin, the pointy ears, and being evil.
• In the Family Guy episode "Welcome Back, Carter", three skinny girls press themselves together for a group photo and suddenly merge to create one fat girl.
• In the Futurama episode "Murder on the Planet Express," Fry winds up wearing Bender's metal shell like a suit of armor after the former loses his helmet and the latter his gyroscope, solving both of their problems. Both seem to have an equal amount of physical control over the result, which looks like a combination of both of them and even gets a Speak in Unison moment.
  Bender: Let's call ourselves "Frender"!
• In the Gargoyles episode "Grief", a magic scroll fuses an avatar with Anubis, god of death. Pack member Jackal interrupts the ritual for it and combines with him, causing some prime terror in the process.
• The animated movie The Guardians of the Lost Code, uses a combination the composite and power booster, with the "Warrior Form" between a human and a brije: The fusion increases the human's physical strength and multiplies the brije's magical powers.
• In the penultimate episode of the second season of Justice League Unlimited, "Divided We Fall", Lex Luthor convinces Brainiac to merge with him. The resulting godlike being possesses all of Brainiac's power and knowledge combined with Luthor's ego and ambition.
• Ramon De La Porta from Kong: The Animated Series frequently uses a device to merge various animals with himself to fight the eponymous gorilla. This has been utilized to create various monsters of mythology, including the griffin and manticore.
  • Kong and the male protagonist would also merge as a Power Boost. Or rather a mental boost, the merge gives Kong a more rational mind to out-think and better handle his opponent.
• The second Season Finale/last episode ever of Legion of Super Heroes (2006) features a composite of Superman and his clone-from-the-future (er, further into the future), Superman X. It's accomplished with Saturn Girl's Psychic Powers, as it is technically a Battle in the Center of the Mind.
• Miraculous Ladybug:
  • The titular magic items are an example of the Power Booster type. The kwami apparently disappears, granting its human partner assorted superpowers, a costume, and some special equipment. They can then further fuse with other kwamis, but it has been stated to be psychologically dangerous to overdo (Marinette got a little disoriented just by wearing a bunch of Miraculouses at once, even without transforming with all of them.)
  • It's revealed in season 3 that multiple people holding the same object can be akumatized into a single villain. Oblivio is a fusion of Nino and Alya, and Heart Hunter is one of André and Audrey Bourgeois.
  • In Season 4, after fixing the Peacock Miraculous, Hawk Moth uses it with the Butterfly Miraculous to become Shadow Moth.
• In Mixels, the eponymous Mixels are capable of doing this with any other Mixel under virtually any circumstances. The series thrives on this, with at least two Mixels combining in almost every episode. Always of the Power Booster or Composite variety (with the latter dreaded, as it tends to cause more harm than good).
• In the short-lived Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm, Nightwolf was The Smart Guy and seldom joined the others in battle, preferring to stay back with his pet wolf and man the computer systems. When important missions did require him to accompany the team, he would merge with the wolf as a Power Boost when kombat got thick and open a can of whoop-ass on the Mooks. It was quite awesome to see and helped to break the monotony of the show, though he only did it like three times over the course of the series.
• The Power Puff Girls 2016: Allegro the panda and Largo the grizzly bear combine to become Tempo or the Cosmic Bear. Allegro represents the Cosmic Bear's cheery side, while Largo is all his negative traits.
• In the finale of The Owl House, Luz temporarily becomes a human/titan hybrid thanks to the Titan's spirit giving her his remaining life force to help revive her. In addition to altering her appearance to more closely resemble King, it grants her all forms of magic found on the Boiling Isles (spell circles, summoning glyphs with a thought, and King's roars) on a level far above anything else seen in the series. However, once the last of the Titan's life force leaves her body she returns to being an ordinary human with no lingering effects.
• In The Real Ghostbusters episode "The Slob", the Sleaze and his brother the Glob were able to merge into a more powerful ghost called the Slob. This proved to be a problem because it was almost impossible to trap them when they were in Slob mode. In the end, they have Professor Dweeb pretend to have captured Slimer in order to lure out the Sleaze so that the two would become separate ghosts again and therefore possible to trap individually.
• ReBoot:
  • An episode has main villain viruses Megabyte and Hexadecimal merge (via a third component, a Web Virus) to make an even more powerful hybrid called Gigabyte, who is specifically said to have both Megabyte's strength and Hexadecimal's special powers. Season 4 reveals that this fusion is more of a recombination; Megabyte and Hexadecimal used to be a single virus, Killabyte, who upgraded into Gigabyte and then split into Megabyte and Hexadecimal shortly after being portaled into Mainframe.
  • In Season 3, Bob performs a Power Booster. He merges with his (damaged) keytool Glitch upon being reunited with it toward the end of the third season. This actually ends up causing problems for him in the fourth season, as the merge didn't quite work right due to Glitch's damaged state. It's mentioned that if he continues to use his Glitch powers he'll eventually die because of it. He manages to split from Glitch (though he decides to separate from Glitch because he believes he can win Dot's love that way, not because he's going to die!) a few episodes later, returning him to his original look. Glitch also returns, repaired and upgraded.
• In the Regular Show episode "Video Game Wizards", when Mordecai tells Rigby that playing with his best friend is more important than winning a video game tournament, they're greeted by a spiritual version of the Power Glove knockoff they're competing for, who for their realization mixes them into a muscular two-headed, four-armed being with Rigby's body and Mordecai's head, arms and right leg. They proceed to easily defeat the team they're playing against before going back to normal.
• In Steven Universe, any Gem is able to perform Fusion by literally dancing, though it isn't actually strictly necessary; it's simply a way of expressing oneself while also participating in a partnership. Fusion can naturally occur when physically close in a crisis as their minds synchronize. Pearl and Amethyst can Fuse into the serene Opal, Garnet and Amethyst can Fuse into the destructive Sugilite, Garnet and Pearl can Fuse into the showy Sardonyx, and all three can combine to form Alexandrite; any member of their species can also combine with each other. Fusion is treated as an intimate act based highly on the personalities on the Gems involved. Fusions also tend to be large in comparison to the sum of their component Gems. Whether the components Gems' personalities fuse along with their forms seems to vary depending on the component Gems and the product.
  • Garnet, Opal, Sardonyx, and Sugilite all demonstrate a merged personality. Fusions with unique personalities can actually outright overwhelm the components, as demonstrated with Sugilite.
  • Alexandrite also has a merged personality, but her components will slide into control if they become too out of sync.
  • Malachite demonstrates the individuals sharing the body; her components hate each other and fight for control the entire time they're fused, leaving little to no room for Malachite to actually develop her own personality.
  • Stevonnie, due to their human-Gem hybrid nature, flips between being Stevonnie and being Steven and Connie on the fly.
  • "Keeping It Together" reveals that the Homeworld Gems have also attempted alternate methods of Fusion, by way of forcibly Fusing shards of shattered Gems together, creating monstrous, screaming results. The test subjects in question are (mostly) ''fallen Crystal Gems from the war which have been incubating under the Kindergarten for at least 5,000 years. Garnet describes the results as a perversion of everything Fusion stands for.
  • "The Answer" reveals that traditionally on the Homeworld, Gems only fuse with Gems of the same type (as seen when three Rubies Fuse into one big Ruby). Fusion between two different types of Gems is seen as scandalous, and an affront to Homeworld's Fantastic Caste System as demonstrated when Sapphire and Ruby end up accidentally Fusing together into Garnet for the first time, to the outrage of all the other Gems in Blue Diamond's court. Even then, Gems of the same type only ever Fuse for combat, not really having time to explore how their Fusions affect their personalities or their relationships with one another. Ruby only felt as though her Fusion with the rest of her squad was just a bigger version of herself, despite her and the other Rubies indeed having distinct personalities.
  • Two big mostly-silent Topaz guards also become one bigger mostly-silent Topaz guard. They have a Garnet-like relationship and choose to be Fused more than not. This is used against them when Aquamarine discovers Steven has convinced them to mutiny, threatening the two of them with separation and chastising them for becoming too "sentimental", suggesting that even Gems of the same type develop feelings for each other when Fused, and this is somewhat more accepted but still ostracized.
  • "Off Colors" reveals more Fused Gems who have become pariahs and outlaws in Homeworld society: Rhodonite, a highly-stressed fusion of a Ruby and a Pearl who fell in love, and were ostracized and replaced by their Morganite master, and Fluorite, a six-Gem polyamorous Fusion who is open to adding more to themselves if that Gem is emotionally compatible.
  • Despite their monstrous state, Fusion between Corrupted Gems, or at least an uncorrupted Gem with a Corrupted Gem, is still possible. The latter results in the uncorrupted Gem becoming Corrupted themselves.
  • "Together Alone" gave us One-Scene Wonder Jade
• An episode of Superfriends has Green Lantern using his ring to fuse himself and Superman to deal with the day's Negative Space Wedgie.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) features an involuntary fusion of two villains, Drako and The Ultimate Ninja, into a powerful but terror-inducing form.
• Transformers loves this.
  • You've got the gestalts like Devastator, Optimus Maximus, and, well, lots of things. Given that they're Mechanical Lifeforms, they kinda toe the line between this and Combining Mecha.
  • Groups like the Constructicons or Aerialbots are Combining Mecha. The 'Spark of Combination' from Transformers: Energon would count as this trope, as would Optimus Prime's combined super modes from Cybertron as Composite/Powered Up combinations.
  • This can vary by continuity. Combiners like Devastator and Superion are usually a Composite. The component 'bots go through a mental fusion to create the gestalts mind and personality. The more in sync a team is, the more mentally stable the resulting gestalt is.
    • Though Generation 1 had various combiners, the episode "Masquerade" featured a pseudo-Combiner when Optimus Prime, Jazz, Sideswipe, Windcharger, and Mirage disguised themselves — with paint — as the Stunticons to learn Megatron's newest scheme. All hell broke loose when Menasor (the real Stunticons in their combined form) showed up. In order to fool the Decepticons into thinking the real thing was a fake, the Autobots formed a second Menasor using Windcharger's magnetic powers and Mirage's illusion-projecting ability. (The fake Menasor was effective until it had to fight.)
  • There are also groups like the Headmasters and the Powermasters where a humanoid in a mech suit can transform into the head or power source of the Cybertronian. There were also Targetmasters, but the humanoid or Cybertronian only transformed into the weapon of the Transformer and didn't physically merge, so they would not be an example. (The exceptions being the Targetmasters in the Japanese Headmasters series, as the smaller partner's interface replaced the larger robot's right hand with a gun, rather than the larger robot simply holding their gun/partner.)
  • The Unicron Trilogy had Optimus Prime being able to combine with at least two separate Autobots in each series.
• Wakfu:
  • All Enutrofs and their Dhrellers in the MMO, in general. Ruel's grandmother and her Dhreller can merge before a fight. From the Special Episodes onwards, Ruel can also fuse with Junior as well.
  • Also from the MMO, an Osamodas' gobgob can fuse with them, in order to change them into their dragon from.
• Winx Club:
  • In "The Phoenix Revealed", the Trix fused together into a single being known as the Megatrix. Megatrix controls ice, darkness, and storms as well as being far more powerful than each of them individually. Averted in the Nickelodeon special, however.
  • In Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom, Bloom fuses with Daphne's Spirit by means of the nymph's mask. This way, Bloom can circumvent the limitations of her incomplete Enchantix and fend off the Ancestral Witches with a more potent brand of the Dragon's Flame.
  • In 'The Power of the Fairy Animals', the Trix fuse with their Fairy Animals near the end of Season 7. Their witch outfits change to include the features of their companions' pelts. They also gain animal-like legs and, in Stormy's case, fangs. Icy and Darcy gain tail and Stormy becomes a Winged Humanoid.
• Yin Yang Yo!: Woo Foo Auras can be combined to form a stronger fighter. Yin and Yang's usual ace in the hole is to combine their auras, forming a titan that can use both Yin's magic and Yang's might. There doesn't seem to be a limit on the number of auras that can be combined, as Yin and Yang fused theirs with Yo in the first season finale, and then with all of their Woo Foo students in the second.
• Young Justice (2010): The Forever People, a group of five New Gods from New Genesis, have the ability to fuse into the 10-foot tall being Infinity-Man.

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