History Main / MergerOfSouls

* ''DeliciousInDungeon'':

** 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"]]. This is an equal fusion of two souls rather than the destructive lyctoral process.
** Teacher is fifty souls merged into one being, and while he seems friendly enough his motivations are unclear to everyone, and he possesses significant and grotesque power if provoked. He's described as a [[FlawedPrototype prototype]], though what exactly he's a prototype for is yet unrevealed.

** 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 after their HeroicSacrifice at the end on ''ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}'', 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.

** 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. It's unclear what happens to all of the souls when a Hollow is killed by a Soul Reaper. The dominant soul is "purified" and sent to Soul Society (or sent to Hell if they're evil enough), and reenters the cycle of reincarnation. But it's never specified whether the same thing happens to all of the other souls a Hollow has eaten, or whether they've all been permanently merged and will reincarnate as a single composite soul from then onward.

* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'':

* This occurs at the end of the first ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'' manga (and in [[Anime/GhostInTheShell1995 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/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': [[spoiler:The [[AssimilationPlot Third Impact]] as envisioned by [[AncientConspiracy Seele]]]] would've resulted in all human beings on the planet having their souls merged into one singular whole, with all individuality dissolved. [[spoiler:Although the process is initiated in the middle of the ''End of Evangelion'' movie, it fortunately gets aborted before it reaches the point of irreversibility]].
* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':

* ''Manga/InuYasha'':
** Demons do this all the time, fusing together to make more powerful demons. The Shikon Jewel was created when a particularly large number of demons fused to fight a priestess. After a long battle both souls fused and crystallized into the series' MacGuffin.
** Naraku was created when the deranged and perverse thief (and Kikyou's StalkerWithACrush) Onigumo merged with thousands of demons. And at one point in order to obtain a stronger body, he perfoms a Kodoku spell: thousands of fierce demons fight inside a cave in a mountain, and the winner absorb and merge with the losers. Eventually Naraku ends up absorbing the surviving demon in himself.

** During ''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. The personality of the fused being seemed to be a mix of both Goku and Vegeta's personalities. It's later revealed in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' that the potara fusion is only permanent if one of the fusees is a kai unless the dragon balls are used to undo the fusion as what was done to defuse Kibito and Shin.
** ''Anime/DragonBallZFusionReborn'', Janemba was created when a soul cleansing machine in the afterlife exploded. Causing all the evil souls to merge into the Oni guarding it.
* In ''Anime/{{Shinzo}}'', all Enterrans, the new inhabitants of Earth, are reduced to an Encard when defeated. The victor can then decide to keep the card, destroy it (effectively destroying that Enterran's soul) or eat or absorb it. The soul and power of the eaten Enterran are then merged with the eater's, who usually remains in control but does take over some of the physical characteristics of the other Enterran.
* Gaia and the alien Gaia in ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'' are two giant aggregates of ghosts. In the end, they merge.
* In ''Manga/SaintSeiyaTheLostCanvas'', the Oneroi, four dream gods, have a OneWingedAngel form that fuses four of their souls into a single body. While each souls is still separate, they work in tandem to keep the body from being destroyed by harm and grant it NighInvulnerability. The catch? Attacking all four souls ''simultaneously'' with precision strikes can kill them.

* Demons fuse all the time in ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' and it's spin-offs, preferring to do it to gain more power or when one or both is on death's door. In fact, it is how the titular hero is born, with extremely powerful demon Amon fusing with lowly human Akira. How much of each other's personality remains and the exact reasoning for the fusion depends on the adaptation.

* An arc of Creator/{{DC|Comics}}'s ''ComicBook/{{Hitman}}'' comic featured the Mauser, a demonic minion created by merging the souls of several Nazi S.S. officers.

* In "What If ComicBook/TheAvengers Had Lost the Evolutionary War?" from the second volume of ''ComicBook/WhatIf'', many of the superhumans cut their ties to humanity and leave Earth find their own destiny. Eventually, they merge with the {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of Death and Eternity, and the resulting entity leaves to create a big bang for a new universe, afterwhich it splits into just Death and Eternity. Meanwhile, humanity evolves to the point that the humans merge their minds and become one with the planet itself, transforming themselves into a GeniusLoci.
* 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 after their HeroicSacrifice at the end on ''ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}'', 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.
* ''ComicBook/{{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.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': ComicBook/SteveTrevor of Earth-One was brought back from the dead by housing him in the body of the Steve from Earth-270, whose memories were already a mess due to Eros' actions. The Earth-One Steve didn't fully overwrite the other, as he gained memories he wouldn't have otherwise had from him so it acted more like a merger with the first Steve being more dominant.

* Some ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfictions resolve Harry's Horcrux problem by having him absorb the bit of Voldemort's soul instead of trying to destroy him.
* Happens a lot in ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'', normally with Shadows of Existence merging with souls. [[spoiler:The original Rarity dies by merging with the Spirits of Dark Magic to complete them and ensure no Nightmare will ever exist again.]]

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* Creator/JimHenson's ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'' had the wise Mystics and the wicked Skeksis, who were created when the Dark Crystal shattered. They were two halves of the souls of the creatures which shattered the crystal, and a death of a Mystic also kills their Skeksis counterpart, and vice versa. In the climax of the film, the crystal is mended by the hero Jen, and the two races are made one once more.
* 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".
* ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'' has a secret society of old people hoping for a second chance at life by reincarnating into the body of one child.

* Happens towards the end of Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/TheLastQuestion'', when the remaining humans (by now bodiless entities) merge one by one with humanity's hypercomputer, the Cosmic AC.
* Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}: Literature/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.
* In George Zebrowski's ''Literature/{{Macrolife}}'', The Agregate of Minds is a distributed artificial intelligence (spread among a fleet of a million or so [[ThatsNoMoon artificial worlds]]) whose countless processors and memory storage systems apparently include a library of simulated personalities. It is apparently capable of reversing the process, allowing a component intelligence to function independently in order to hold conversations and then reabsorbing it when done.
* Happens in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering's'' ''Literature/KamigawaCycle'' between [[spoiler:Michiko and The Taken One]] so that they can become {{Barrier Maiden}}s.
* In ''Literature/TheLegendOfDrizzt'' Crenshinibon, an ArtifactOfDoom taking the form of a crystal shard (from whence the first book of ''Literature/TheIcewindDaleTrilogy'' gets its name), was formed from a ritual that merged the souls of seven liches. [[spoiler:Upon its destruction in ''[[Literature/TheSellswords Servant of the Shard]]'' the souls are apparently separated and pass on.]]
* In ''Literature/TheGodsThemselves'', this is how the Soft Ones in the parallel universe have sex. [[spoiler:It's also how the Hard Ones are formed, when the last mating becomes permanent.]]
* A couple of examples from ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime''.
** Slayer, the Shadow's top assassin, was created from merging the souls (and bodies) of two separate men, Luc and Isam; though he still demonstrates separate personalities, the two souls and closely attached to each other in some unspecified manner, and he is known as "the Man with Two Souls" among the Shadow's elite.
** Early in the series, [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Mordeth]] tried to pull a GrandTheftMe on [[PunchClockVillain Padan Fain]]. Because of the Dark One's touch on Fain, this failed, and what resulted was a third personality that combined the worst elements of both men.
* ''Literature/{{Aeon 14}}'': AI are forbidden to fuse with organic minds under the Phobos Accords[[note]]the treaty establishing civil rights and a legal system for AI in the Sol system, which the ''Intrepid'' crew continues to follow after leaving Sol[[/note]] to prevent [[YourSoulIsMine one from being dominated by the other]], and AI/human partnerships are legally limited in duration to keep it from happening naturally. However:

* ''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"]]. This is an equal fusion of two souls rather than the destructive lyctoral process.
** Teacher is fifty souls merged into one being, and while he seems friendly enough his motivations are unclear to everyone, and he possesses significant and grotesque power if provoked. He's described as a [[FlawedPrototype prototype]], though what exactly he's a prototype for is yet unrevealed.

* Creator/JamesHerbert:
** In ''Literature/TheDark'', occultists rouse an incorporeal sentience, manifest in darkness, which drives people homicidally insane. The titular Dark seems infused with discarnate deranged souls.
** In ''Literature/TheGhostsOfSleath'', the souls of HumanSacrifice victims form an amorphous haze.
* In ''Series/DoctorWho'' novel ''[[Recap/PastDoctorAdventuresMatrix Matrix]]'', the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin Time Lord Matrix]], a database comprised of deceased Time Lords' brain patterns, is revealed [[spoiler: to have been purged of destructive, potentially rebellious thoughts, which, hidden beneath the Citadel, are highjacked by the Valeyard]]. They manifest as a coalescence of shadow, and thrive on destruction.

* Castiel, an angel from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', became something far more powerful by absorbing the souls of Purgatory. [[spoiler:Unfortunately one set of them was too powerful for him and took over.]]

* Hive, the Season 3 BigBad of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', is a parasitic Inhuman, who {{Body Surf}}s into freshly dead corpses whenever he's in need of a new host body. In doing so, he gains access to the new host's memories and personalities, allowing him to impersonate them well enough to convincingly fool anyone. And as it turns out, he keeps the memories of every prior host even after moving onto a new one, enabling him to shift between personalities at a whim.

* In the ''Music/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]].

* In high Hindu philosophy, the goal of the soul, over however many incarnations it takes, is to unite with the Brahman, the absolute reality.
* The concept of ''UsefulNotes/{{Animism}}'' is loosely connected to this. Under an animistic belief, every individual object has a "soul". However, this becomes ambiguous when you consider that every "object" is made of smaller objects, and is itself part of a larger object. (For example, each speck of dirt makes a rock, which together make up mountains.) Thus, most animistic faiths have larger [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Deities which personify any concept]] are likely to be this, especially considering that no two worshippers interpret ''anything'' exactly the same way.
* This is the most common difference that ''UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}}'' has from other "Dharmic" belief systems (such as Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism). While the latter three all believe in an eternal, unchangeable, immutable soul that is stuck in the hellish cycle of rebirth, Buddhism instead argues that there is no such thing as a "self" and that once one lets go of the illusion that there ''is'' one, you are fully free to become one with this world and the one beyond. As such, the state of Nirvana is one in which there is one massive harmony of souls existing as one.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':
** The GodEmperor of Mankind was said to be the reincarnation of thousands of prehistoric shamans' souls, merged into a singular being.
** 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, creating the NegativeSpaceWedgie known as the "Eye of Terror" in the process. The other three Chaos Gods formed in a similar manner, but more slowly and less dramatically.
** The Craftworld and Exodite Eldar have been trapping the souls of their dead in stones to keep Slaanesh from eating them and to eventually form a new god they call Ynnead, the God of the Dead. [[spoiler: As of 8th Edition, they've partially succeeded.]]

** Pharaonic Guardians are created by a powerful {{Necroman|cer}}tic rite that [[YourSoulIsMine extracts the souls]] of several mortal victims and fuses them into a single spiritual entity with an [[MacguffinGuardian overriding sense of purpose]].

* Towards the end of ''VideoGame/DustAnElysianTail'' it's revealed that [[spoiler: Dust himself]] has the souls of [[spoiler: Ginger's brother and the BigBad's [[TheDragon henchman/best friend]] who slew each other]]. It's explicitly stated that the resulting being has its own mind and body, with either soul just providing moral guidance and power respectively.
* Exdeath, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'', came about after a multitude of evil beings were sealed within a tree in the Forest of Moore.
* ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}''

** Also, this is the basis of [[DarkMessiah Jedah's]] AssimilationPlot in the third game. He plans on absorbing all of Makai's souls into his body, creating a perfect being (the Shintai) and then resetting all of reality [[WellIntentionedExtremist so that he can save his world]].
* ''VideoGame/StarCraft'': The various [[EnergyBeing "archons"]] created by the protoss.
** The [[VideoGame/StarCraftI first game's]] high templars can perform a one-way fusion into an archon, a ghostly psionic entity that is very damaging and quite hard to kill[[labelnote:*]]barring use of the science vessel's EMP, which strips their shields to leave them with just a small amount of HP[[/labelnote]]. The ''Brood War'' expansion allows two dark templar to fuse into a dark archon, a caster unit.
** The ExpandedUniverse and ''Enslavers II'' add-on campaign have Ulrezaj, a rebel Dark Templar who eventually fuses with ''five'' others to form an AxCrazy super-archon of sorts. He's eventually defeated in the ''Literature/DarkTemplarTrilogy'' by [[spoiler:having the last of the templar Preservers [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice herself]] to [[SealedEvilInACan seal him with her into a khaydarin crystal]]]].
** ''VideoGame/{{StarCraft II}}'' dispenses with the dark archon, allowing archons (initially called twilight archons, but this was dropped in early patches) to be created from any combination of two high templar or dark templar.

** Ermac is made up of the thousands of souls whose shells died resisting Shao Kahn's rule fused together to make a body. Ermac serves as an enforcer for Shao Kahn, killing dissenters and adding their souls to his collection. [[spoiler: His body is starting to degrade in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' due to Shao Kahn's death.]]
* ''Videogame/EverQuestII'' introduces the Duality. The combined essences of the great wizard Al'Kabor and a powerful necromancer named Dartain sharing one body. His physical body morphs between the two personalities at frequent intervals.
* In ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2: Mask of the Betrayer'' the Thayan Academy of Shapers and Binders has a wizard who can fuse souls, and bound his own soul into a clay {{golem}} to do it more safely. A sidequest on the same level requires you to trade a particular soul to two [[OurDemonsAreDifferent pit fiends]]. Unfortunately, they can't agree on what the soul should have; in fact each gives mutually exclusive requirements. [[spoiler:The solution ends up being to have the aforementioned wizard fuse two completely opposite souls together.]]

* The [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Generation IV]] Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Spiritomb is a collection of 108 souls that have amalgamated together out of negative emotions.
* In TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon of ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga 2,'' [[spoiler: Serph and Sera]] fuse into the androgynous Seraph, gaining a new Atma form and pooling their learned skills in the process.
* There's conflicting evidence for this and MindHive in the case of ''Franchise/MassEffect's'' Reapers. They're created from the amalgamation of millions of sapient minds but it's unclear whether the souls are fused or exist separately: [[spoiler:Legion]] states the latter, but Reapers act like single entities and refer to themselves with singular pronouns (contrast [[spoiler:Legion]], who always uses "we").
** By the end of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', [[spoiler:Legion's varying programs have knitted together to form a personality core]]. Unfortunately, he has to die to save his people soon after.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVI'', [[spoiler:TheHero and Carver become merged with their Real World counterparts, granting them new powers. The Hero's counterpart takes a bit of work, though.]]
* 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.
* The FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' is implied to be one of these. [[spoiler: Specifically, it is implied to be the combined might and Souls of every being that ever Linked the First Flame, as its Japanese name translated is "Incarnation of Kings". It also borrows quite a few design cues from The Chosen Undead from ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' and its second phase move set and theme is a direct CallBack to Gwyn, the first Lord of Cinder.]]
** The first of the Lords of Cinder, the powerful souls who once linked the fire, that the [[PlayerCharacter Ashen One]] faces on their journey is actually an entire army called the Abyss Watchers, who all partook in an oath and drank wolf blood, a process that fused their souls together. As such, they can only use the full extent of their [[PlayingWithFire powers]] while the soul inhabits a single individual and the player receives a single soul upon defeating them, entitled ''Soul of the Blood of the Wolf''.
* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series' lore, this is one of the more prominent theories regarding the [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence apotheosis]] of [[GodEmperor Tiber Septim]], the [[FounderOfTheKingdom founder of the Third Cyrodiilic Empire]] who posthumously became the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Aedric Divine]] [[DeityOfHumanOrigin Talos]]. It states that Tiber Septim's [[CourtMage Imperial Battlemage]], Zurin Arctus, who was tasked with finding a replacement power source for the [[HumongousMecha Numidium]], attempted to [[YourSoulIsMine soul-trap]] Wulfharth Ash-King (a notable [[EternalHero Shezarrine]], [[GodInHumanForm physical manifestations]] of the soul of Shezarr/Lorkhan, the [[GodIsDead "dead"]] creator god of Mundus, the mortal plane) using the [[SoulJar Mantella]]. Arctus succeeded, but Wulfharth killed Arctus with his [[LanguageOfMagic dying breath]]. The two beings are theorized to have been merged into the undying entity known as the Underking. Following the [[TimeCrash Warp in the West]], the Underking recovered the Mantella and freed his soul, allowing him to finally die. Septim, who had possibly [[BecomingTheMask "mantled" Shezarr]], thus ascended with them into godhood as a merged entity. Another theory states that Septim, Arctus, and Wulfharth were all part of the same [[CompositeCharacter "oversoul"]] from the start. Needless to say, things get very {{Mind Screw}}y within the ''ES'' universe when divinity and mantling are involved, and even this theory is hotly debated (in-universe and out).
* In ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand'', [[spoiler:the final boss of Ultimate Cup Z, Chaos Elfilis, is a combination of Soul Forgo, the souls of Beast Pack mooks absorbed by Fecto Forgo, and souls stolen from Morpho Knight.]]

** And there's also the Storm of Souls, a raging maelstrom of souls formed from deceased members of the chaos-worshipping cult The Chosen and intended to be their weapon to destroy the world with. Acibek sacrificed himself to trap it in a cage forged from his own souls [[spoiler: and centuries later the Sylvan Oracle sacrificed herself to destroy it]].

* This happens in ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'', unfortunately the souls are evil souls from Hell merging together into a {{Kaiju}}-sized demon.
* In the backstory chapter of ''Webcomic/TheDragonDoctors'', [[RealityBreakingParadox a massive time-destroying paradox]] (the ghost of a woman who used time-travel to kill her past self) is merged with the soul of a cyber-shaman, giving her a new physical existence and ending the unravelling of reality. Later, the shaman explains she had to undergo an "emergency meditation" to resolve her identity and that she's not entirely the Shelinda the other characters know.

* In ''Literature/TheHomestuckEpilogues'', [[spoiler:Dirk is somehow able to ascend to his ultimate self,]] giving him access to the memories of both his alternate timeline selves and [[spoiler:his pre-scratch counterpart Bro.]] Since this includes any splinter selves that have gotten merged with other people, this unfortunately also means he has access to [[spoiler:''Lord English'']].

* There was an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' featuring an advanced anti-ghost robot designed to destroy (actually disperse) ghosts instead of capturing them. As soon as the dispersed essence concentration went above a certain threshold, [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101026075728/ghostbusters/images/5/53/Giantmassghost.jpg well]]...
* Tigerhawk in ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' was originally a [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Vok]] Emissary made from Tigatron and Airazor's bodies. However, their [[OurSoulsAreDifferent Sparks]] followed their bodies, and after Tigerhawk was defeated, Airazor and Tigatron's sparks merged and took control of the shell.
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': [[spoiler: "Dark Danny"]] is the result of a FusionDance between [[spoiler: the ghost selves of Danny and Vlad in an alternate timeline, though Danny is the dominant personality due to being the one to overshadow Vlad (though he definitely took after Vlad's evilness), which is why he's treated as an older Danny even if he's actually closer to an EnemyWithout.]]
* In an episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}} W.I.T.C.H.]]'', Will is forced to absorb her dying Altermere duplicate into herself so that her memories and feelings will live on in her. Will gains the Altermere's memories in the process.
* Tengu Shredder from ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' is the result of the Shredder Tengu fusing his soul whith Oroku Saki.

* ''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.

** ''Anime/FusionReborn'', Janemba was created when a soul cleansing machine in the afterlife exploded. Causing all the evil souls to merge into the Oni guarding it.

*** Jade's kernelsprite is originally prototyped with her god-dog Becquerel, forming Becsprite. Later, this is prototyped against with the body of her dead dream-body to create Jadesprite, which retains Jade's appearance and personality with Becquerel's ears, powers, and occasional bark. In [S] Collide, [[spoiler:when Jade ascends to the God Tiers, a process that involves a player dying and then reawakening in their dream body with godlike powers, she fuses with Jadesprite to result in waking Jade with Bec's held-over traits and some of Jadesprite's memories]].

** Kernelsprites are game constructs resembling floating orbs that can be "prototyped" up to two times, merging the things placed in them into a composite entity. If two deceased or living beings are prototyped, the result is a sprite with a merged name and personality.

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Kernelsprites are game constructs resembling floating orbs that can be "prototyped" up to two times, merging the things placed in them into a composite entity. If two deceased or living beings are prototyped, the result is a sprite with a merged name and personality.