Permafusion

The Fusion Dance is a very varied tool in fiction; how many people can do it, whether it's a power boost or an actual combination, do the fusees actually combine together or one takes control of the other, and so on and so forth. However, one of the most consistent rules is the Hour of Power: No matter the fusion method, once their allotted time limit is up, the fusion breaks back into its fusees.

The Permafusion is an exception to this rule.

As the name implies, a permafusion (Permanent Fusion) is the result of a Fusion Dance which isn't subjected to a time limit: in theory, the fusion can last forever as long as no external factor forces the fusion to defuse, assuming the fusion isn't irreversible outright.

The actual control the fusees have within the fusion itself tends to vary; some stories have the fusees be able to defuse whenever they want, without the pressure of having a time limit to worry about, and simply prefer to stay in their fused form, while others have the fusees be essentially trapped within the fusion until an external factor separates them, or for the rest of the fusion's existence.

Keep in mind that despite the name being a mix between Permanent and fusion, the permafusion itself doesn't have to be permanent or irreversible; as long as the fusion has the potential to last forever, it applies. Likewise, the fusees or fusion method don't matter: human-material fusions and non-human fusions count so long as they can stay forever.

What does matter, however, is how long the fusion lasts in cases where defusion is possible. If a fusion can last forever, but only remains fused for an episode/chapter or two, it doesn't count. However, if the fusion stays fused for most, if not all of the duration of a show, manga, anime, and so on, then it counts.

The Trope Namer is Steven Universe, as the term is used by Peridot in reference to Garnet, one of the main characters who's the Romantic Fusion between Ruby and Sapphire.

Sub-Trope of Fusion Dance. Compare Merger of Souls, which is this trope applied to souls.

See also Split-Personality Merge, where it's two pieces of a person's psyche that permanently merge together. If the permafusion's potential permanent status was an unforeseen accident, it's likely a result of a Merging Mistake.

Do not confuse with Romantic Fusion and Sibling Fusion. While a strong romantic or familial relationship can help a fusion stay together forever, it's not strictly necessary.

Also do not confuse with either Shapeshifter Mode Lock or Symbiotic Possession: the former is about a shapeshifter being locked in one or even an In-between form, while the latter is about something possessing another person's body but with both working together without overwriting the other.

For examples where the permafusion is done between machines, see Combining Mecha.

If the permafusion is between realities, you get a Merged Reality.

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Examples:

Anime and Manga

• Dragon Ball Z has a few examples:
  • Namekian fusion is the very first example shown; with it, one Namekian ends up assimilating another Namekian into themselves. The end result is that the other Namekian basically ceases to exist while his memories are absorbed by the main Namekian, alongside gaining a power boost as a result of it. Piccolo ends up using this fusion to assimilate Nail after his fight with Freeza, hoping that this assimilation would give him enough strength to fight the space tyrant.
  • Cell from the Android saga is an interesting case. In essence, he's a biological android with the power to absorb people using his tail, but he was designed to absorb and assimilate Androids 17 and 18 in order to achieve his perfect form. Once he eventually manages to absorb the twins, he evolves into his Semi-Perfect and then Perfect form. However, he'll be forced to depower if forced to regurgitate either of the androids, as Gohan punching him while in Super Saiyan 2 causes him to hurl out Android 18, causing him to go back into his Semi-Perfect form. As a result. he plans to self-destruct and take out Earth with him, but Goku uses Instant Transmission to teleport Cell and himself to King Kai's planet, and once he blows himself up, he's able to regenerate himself from an intact fragment of his core and thanks to having already achieved his Perfect form prior to blowing himself up, his newly regenerated form is his Perfect one, meaning he no longer needs the other 2 Androids to maintain it.
  • The Supreme Kai's Potara earrings are also an example; when one earring is used in two characters' opposite ears, they're immediately fused into one warrior, with there being no way to actually undo the fusion. This is demonstrated by Old Kai, the end result of the previous Supreme Kai before Shin accidentally fusing with a witch, Kibito Kai, the end result of Shin and Kibito using the earrings as a part of an example of how they work, and Vegito. While the Potara earring fusion itself is permanent, this only applies so long as the earrings are worn. Should the earrings themselves be physically destroyed, the fusion will undo itself.
  • Super Buu himself is the end result of Evil Buu, the manifested version of Majin Buu, turning Majin Buu himself into chocolate and eating him (it's a long story). The end result is a towering, muscular pink version of Kid Buu, with a sadistic, prideful personality and malice to boot. Once the two fuse, Super Buu remains the main antagonist of the latter half of the Majin Buu Saga, before being forcefully unfused by having Fat Buu removed from him, allowing Kid Buu to take center stage for the final arc.
• Dragon Ball Super ends up pulling double duty during the "Goku Black Arc", retconning the previous potara example: As Gowasu, the Supreme Kai of Universe 10, explains, potara fusion is only permanent if at least one of the fusees is a kai themselves, with a fusion between mortals only lasting an hour or so. While this disqualifies Vegito as an example, we get a proper permafusion in the form of Merged Zamasu, the end result of Future Zamasu and Goku Black, a version of Zamasu, using the potara earrings to merge during the climax of the arc. Likewise, it's also revealed that a wish on the Super Dragon Balls can undo the fusion even if a Kai is involved, as explained when Supreme Kai and Kibito appear individually and not as Kibito Kai.
• Dragon Ball GT:
  • At the end of its chronologically previous series, Dragon Ball Z, the child-like monster Buu is killed and reincarnates into a human boy named Uub, coexisting with its benevolent rotund counterpart, Majin Buu. During GT's "Baby Saga", Uub, now a teenager, fights against a Baby-infused Vegeta and loses. In order to empower him, Majin Buu decides to sacrifice his life and transfers his energy/soul/essence to Uub, creating a new being: Super Oob (or Majuub). To show that it is a fused being, but of a different sort, Super Oob is wearing Majin Buu's black and yellow vest. Majin Buu then disappears for the rest of the anime.
  • During the Super 17 saga, a brainwashed Android 17 merges with a machine mutant copy of himself (Hell Fighter 17) in order to create Super Android 17, or Super 17 for short. Physically, he resembles a taller, more muscular Android 17 with much longer hair, and unlike Cell, there's no splitting the 17s apart once fused, so Goku's left with no choice but to destroy him with a Dragon Fist.
  • The climax of the Shadow Dragon saga consists of Syn Shenron absorbing the other Shadow Dragons and their Dragon Balls into himself, turning him into Omega Shenron, a being of greater power with the abilities of all other Shadow Dragons. Once he's defeated and Goku makes one last wish to Shenron, the Dragon Balls themselves merge into Goku as he and Shenron fly off.
• Fullmetal Alchemist: This describes what chimeras actually are. Utilizing alchemy to combine two beings into one, though the most common form of chimera involves combining a human with an animal. If successful, the resulting chimera looks mostly human but can transform into a hybrid form. If unsuccessful, the result is a horrific human-animal abomination who's in constant pain. And since the fusion cannot be undone once perform, the only way to stop these creatures' pain is to put them out of their misery.
• Land of the Lustrous has a dark example in the form of the main character, Phosphophyllite. In this story, the gems, or "lustrous" as they're called, are gem-based humanoids with crystalline bodies who, if one of their parts ends up broken, they can be fixed by using a gem of similar material, attaining their memories in the process. Phosphophyllite, however, is a rare type of gem, so whenever they crack or shatter one of their parts, which is often, they have to resort to using parts from other gems. While initially this only applies to their arms and legs, they eventually end up replacing their whole head with that of a gem named Lapis Lazuli, at which point Phos ends up becoming more morally ambiguous due to continued exposure to Lapis' personality. By the time Phos goes through their shattering and Heel–Face Turn they've changed so much that they're practically unrecognizable.
• Jojos Bizarre Adventure:
  • Golden Wind's final arc involves a mystical item known as a Stand Arrow, an arrow that when it pierces someone, causes them to either develop a Stand or die. However, if it hits someone who already has a stand, it causes the Stand to evolve into a Requiem Stand, with Diavolo's ultimate plan involving getting the arrow to turn his King Crimson into a requiem. Before he can get it, however, Giorno catches and ends up fusing with the arrow, with Trish even going so far as to state that the arrow now belongs to Giorno and Giorno alone, right as it brings forth the creation of Gold Experience Requiem.
  • During the climax of Stone Ocean, Enrico Pucci, through a complex chain of events, manages to fuse his stand, Whitesnake, with the Green Baby, causing his Stand to transform into C-Moon, a stand with the power to control gravity. This is part of his plan to create Made in Heaven to reset the universe, which he eventually does come the next New Moon at Cape Canaveral.
  • JoJolion: It's eventually revealed that the main character himself, Josuke Higashikata, is in fact a fusion between this continuity's Yoshikage Kira and Josefumi Kujo, as a result of the Wall Eyes. As a consequence, his Stand, Soft & Wet, is also a permafusion between Kira's Killer Queen and Josefumi's Soft & Wet, though in practice it primarily takes after the latter, with the former's explosive abilities in addition.
• In manga chapter 24 of Classroom for Heroes, the fusion done by Eliza's fusion machine is permanent. The fused characters have to endure a week before Eliza is able to add the machine's function to undo the fusion after gathering her fellow classmates' fusion data.

Comic Books

• Transformers: Occasionally comes up in the franchise, usually in relation to the the combiners.
  • Invoked, discussed, and downplayed in The Transformers (Marvel) in regards to the Headmasters ^note  where a Transformer forms a partnership with another being that transforms into the Transformer's head, the benefit generally being combined intelligence and experience in robot mode and a second pair of eyes and hands in alternate mode (e.g. with the tank Hardhead, while his partner Duros handles driving Hardhead can concentrate on firing on enemies). It's mentioned that some duos that get along particularly well seem to effectively become a new gestalt being with the skills of both (e.g. Duros and Hardhead are both blunt, straight-talking professional soldiers and so are a very effective team), while pairings that don't gel well actually suffer from it (e.g. Highbrow and Gort have clashing personalities, leading to reduced effectiveness). Special mention goes to Lord Zarak when he becomes Scorponok's head: as time goes on he slowly begins to think of himself as "Scorponok" and not Lord Zarak. By the time he perishes during the battle against Unicron, he thinks of himself as Scorponok.
  • In both the Transformers continuities by IDW Publishing, combining is almost a Dangerous Forbidden Technique due to the possibility of this occurring.
    • In Spotlight: Optimus Prime, Monstructor is introduced and described as the end result of an attempt by the mad scientist Jhiaxus to take the Transformer mantra "Till All Are One" literally and fuse six volunteers into a single being. In Monstructor's repeated appearances throughout the continuity until his destruction in The Transformers: Unicron, it's repeatedly brought up that for all intents and purposes Monstructor is the "real" being and the Monstructor Six that comprise him have long since lost any individuality.
    • When he first appears in The Transformers: All Hail Megatron, Devastator is treated the way he normally does in the fiction: the Constructicons combine into him when some extra muscle is necessary. However, as time goes on (e.g. in The Transformers: Robots in Disguise and beyond), it's brought up that they begin to feel an instinctive need to combine or at least be nearby each other. Even after Scrapper is killed and other characters join the team, the original team begins losing their individuality to the point that they begin referring to anyone replacing Scrapper as "Scrapper".
    • In the first arc of Transformers: Galaxies that acts as the Constructicons' Start of Darkness, it's shown that when they first encountered the Enigma of Combination and fused into Devastator, they found the raw power useful in their construction work. However, they began to feel addicted to the feeling of combining, and worse they began to feel a seventh personality joining them whenever they combined. When they join the main story, it's shown that they take any chance they can get to combine, and try to stay combined as Devastator as much as possible.

Fan Works

• The Big Bad of The Bridge, Bagan turns out to be a permafusion between three ancient kaiju; Doragon, Mizu, and Enjin. While they can summon these components into battle, these aren't the components themselves but rather mindless avatars and extentions of Bagan's will.
• Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Monster X, a hybrid of San (Ghidorah's severed left head) and Dr. Vivienne Graham. The hybrid originally comes about when San's original head, keeping a revived and mutilated Vivienne alive; feeds the head's own Draconic Abomination enzymes into Vivienne's system (which regenerates and mutates her body to form a human-Ghidorah Artificial Hybrid), and the head then transfers San's mind into a second head growing from the gestating hybrid's back. After the fusion, the only way to sever San and Vivienne from each other is if one of their heads is severed from their shared body, leaving the other one a single-headed hybrid without its other head, on account of Monster X's Healing Factor not working the same way that Ghidorah's did; but even this weakness is practically removed during Monster X's metamorphosis into their final hybrid form.
• Stars, Eyes of Heaven: One entry in Welcome to the SPW Foundation shows that the fake Captain Tennile had survived his fight with Jotaro by fusing with his Stand Deep Blue Moon, the result being a feral animal content with hunting prey in the ocean. As Deep Blue Moon was a criminal that killed one of the Foundation's men to take his place, the Foundation has no interest in even restoring his human mind, much less reversing the fusion.

Film — Animation

• During the climax of Wreck-It Ralph, King Candy ends up being eaten by a Cybug, which causes them to combine together into what's essentially a Cybug King Candy, retaining the intelligence of King Candy while having the powers of a Cybug. This also plays into his defeat: When the Cybugs automatically head towards a pillar of light, due to their programming forcing them to do so, King Candy's unable to resist said programming and heads into the pillar, flashing into a screaming Turbo before he's destroyed and erased in the process.

Film — Live-Action

• Kamen Rider Zero-One Others: MetsubouJinrai: The movie's secondary villain Kamen Rider Metsubojinrai is the result of the data of the four individual members of the very freedom-oriented Metsubojinrai Dot Net being meshed together with the Knight Templar-coded Mass Brain Key into a Mechanical Abomination that mindlessly opposes all other Kamen Riders in the name of peace. The creature's very first act is to mercilessly destroy the bodies of its components; effectively trapping them inside of it. The following film makes very clear that their control over the husk is minimal and that they're in perpetual agony. Isamu sacrifices his own life to put the collective out of its misery.
• The Fly (1986): A mishap with a teleportation pod merges the protagonist Seth with a housefly without him realizing it. At first, he comes out of the pod appearing completely normal, but as the film progresses, he gradually metamorphoses into a monstrous human-fly hybrid. At the movie's end, Veronica mercy kills Seth after the hybrid has a second mishap with the teleportation pod which fuses his body with shrapnel.

Literature

• The Gods Themselves: The "Soft Ones" and the "Hard Ones" are the names of two species of aliens that live in a Parallel Universe. The Soft Ones are gaseous beings with three sexes. They have sex by "melding", i.e. by having one Soft One of each sex inhabit the same space at the same time. The Hard Ones have a fixed shape and rule over the Soft Ones. Unbeknownst to the Soft Ones the Hard Ones are the result of three Soft Ones permanently melding into one being, which has the memories of the three Soft Ones that became it but can have a completely different personality.
• Tales of MU: Tara and Sara Leighton are twin sisters who were accidentally fused together by their father's teleportation device and now share one body with both of their heads on it. They were both catty, mean-spirited bullies before the fusion, especially Tara, but now they spend as much time sniping at each other as they do anyone else, as the stress of not being able to get away from each other and the complications the fusion has made in their lives have clearly affected their mental state. They eventually dropped out of Magisterius University; at that point, there had been no indication that their condition could be reversed, and the story has been on hiatus since 2017 so it's unlikely that they will ever be brought up again.
• The Locked Tomb:
  • Lyctors are all, in one way or another, the fusion of necromancer and cavalier. Generally speaking, the cavalier's soul is completely subsumed into that of the necromancer, although as the series goes on, we see MANY variations (mostly unintentional mistakes in the Lyctorhood process).
  • The most extreme example is Paul, a new kind of fusion forming a totally new person with both of the component individuals' memories.
  • Also the First House priests, revealed to be the experimental merging of hundreds of souls into one necromantic being.
• The Metamorphoses: One story explaining the origins of the god Hermaphroditus was that the nymph Salmacis fell deeply in love with him but he protested against her advances, so she prayed to the gods to merge their bodies together, which they gladly obliged. This is obviously the origin of the term Hermaphrodite.
• The Space Odyssey Series: In 3001, Bowman and HAL are revealed to have fused into one being, and they show no wish to separate.
• The Transformers Trilogy ^note A spin-off of the Dreamwave comics: Devastator suffers critical damage at the end of the second book, leaving him locked in his combined form permanently (or at least until some humans physically dismantle him post-mortem).
• Translation State: Presger Translators need to "match" with another Translator or compatible being to mature. After a stint as a fleshy blob, they separate into the same number of bodies, now sharing features of the original beings, but are implied to be a single entity with More than Three Dimensions. Some matches are an equal partnership of personalities, but others have one personality subsume the other.
• The Wheel of Time: Slayer is a unique entity that formed when two men met in the Blight and somehow merged. He retains both personalities and can switch between their physical forms at will, as well as freely shift to and from the World of Dreams.

Live-Action TV

• During the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Tuvix", a transporter accident causes Lt. Tuvok and Neelix to fuse into an entity that comes to be known as "Tuvix". Tuvix remains fused for the entirety of the episode until Janeway forcefully unfuses him back into his components.
• Ultra Series: Some series with human protagonists (as opposed to ultras in human form like Ultraseven) such as Return of Ultraman and Ultraman Ace end with their titular Ultras permanently fusing with their human hosts before leaving Earth, as opposed to splitting up as in series such as Ultraman and Ultraman Taro.

Tabletop Games

• When demons possess mortals in Demon: The Fallen, the result cannot be separated into its constituent parts any more under normal circumstances as the demon displaces the mortal's soul, leaving behind a mindless, soulless shell if the demon is later exorcised (and it's not fun for the demon, either, who actually benefits from being grounded by mortal morals, memories and sensations, as they stave off the horror of the Abyss).
• Chronicles of Darkness:
  • Spirit-Claimed are rare gestalt entities that form when a Spirit merges with a human, body and soul, rather than merely possess them. A Claimed is a single person with aspects of both their components, and can only separate in a prolonged, extremely painful process that irrevocably changes both human and spirit.
  • Changeling: The Lost: A Changeling can merge with their Fetch, the faerie simulacrum left in their place when they were kidnapped to Arcadia. It's a mutual effort that subsumes the fetch, but gives the changeling the fetch's memories and a boost on the Karma Meter.

Video Games

• Undertale has a very dark example in the form of The Amalgamates, the result of a botched experiment that attempted to implant Monsters with Determination; this caused the monsters to literally melt together into monstrosities that are one of the few creatures in the underground that the player cannot kill in any way, shape or form; trying to hurt them only causes their lifebars to grow.
• Pokémon:
  • Slowpoke's evolved forms Slowbro and Slowking are supposed to be Permafusions with Shellder, as per their Pokédex description. However, the game mechanics don't actually work that way, so it's a Subverted Trope.
  • Magneton, the evolution of Magnemite, plays this trope straight. Unlike most Pokemon evolutions, Magneton isn't an entirely new being but the result of three Magnemites being joined together through a strong electromagnetic force.
• In Fear & Hunger, one of the various ways one can show favor towards the goddess Sylvian is that of the "Sylvian marriage". First generated by one of your eligible party members accepting your request for intercourse, a successful ritual results in the two figures nightmarishly morphing together into a single being. While the resulting "Marriage" gives you a significantly higher attack stat than what you would be able to obtain otherwise (even moreso if you decide to fuse with yet another party member to form an "Abominable Marriage"), heals any limbs lost previously, and removes all phobias, the process is naturally irreversible, leaving you stuck as a hulking goliath for the rest of your days. This is especially important to remember when considering becoming an Abominable Marriage, who is unable to wear armor or accept the Sylvian cultists' healing ritual.
• StarCraft: Two Protoss Templars can merge into an Archon, a powerful entity of pure psionic energy. It sacrifices the Templars' identities, so it's only done in times of great need.
• Kirby: This is how Kirby's Copy Ability works: by literally inhaling an enemy, Kirby gains a copy of their powers, as demonstrated by him gaining a nice little hat as a bonus. While some games give him the ability to recreate the enemy as an ally, more often than not the poor sap ceases to be while Kirby absorbs their power into himself.
• Mortal Kombat 11: The big twist is that Raiden, the god of thunder of Earthrealm, and Liu Kang, the Mortal Kombat Champion of Earthrealm, fuse together to create Liu Kang, the new Fire God of Earthrealm. This is a whole new being: essentially, Raiden is no more, and Liu Kang acquires Raiden's thunder and lightning powers, while still having his characteristic fire powers. This is kept in the Mortal Kombat 1 reboot, indicating it's permanent.

Web Animation

• RWBY: Whenever Ozpin's current incarnation dies, his Resurrective Immortality transfers his soul into the body of a living person. Ozpin's and his host's souls begin by Sharing a Body and can switch control; over time, however, the two souls permanently merge to create a new being with the skills, memories and abilities of both. What personality that takes can potentially differ from incarnation to incarnation, but there will always be recognisable physical and behavioural traits that survive the merge, in large part because the reincarnation always occurs with hosts that are "like-minded souls" to Oz. The reason for his reincarnation is because the God of Light chose him to unite humanity in a single chance for redemption for an ancient wrong that was caused by Salem. If Oz fails in his mission, the gods will destroy the world. By the time he reincarnates into Oscar, he's thousands of years old and is burned out and traumatised from his Forever War with Salem.

Webcomics

• MSF High: The non-canon Simone Plus Donovan Equals storyline (a sequel to the also non-canon Don's Debt storyline) features Donovan and his Legion girlfriend choosing to merge into a single Legion queen, as a testament to their love for each other.
• Schlock Mercenary: Carbosilicate Amorphs, such as Sergeant Schlock, have a powerful reassembly reflex. Their bodies can reform after pretty much any injury, even if the pieces don't remember the whole they used to be. However, when Schlock makes contact with a version of himself from an Alternate Timeline, this reflex "thinks" that the two of them are disparate parts of one Amorph, causing them to involuntarily and permanently fuse together.

Web Original

• Ask Vector Prime: One of Bio Ranger Iga's Thirteen Great Demon Generals is the Combining Mecha Puzzler ^note technically the version from the Robo Machines comic, permanently locked in his combined form.

Vector Prime: Their egos forever linked, the six components cried out in anguish at their loss of individuality, but the aggregate Puzzler swore fealty to Iga in thanks for his continual existence.

Web Videos

• Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
  • Piccolo fuses with and absorbs Nail just like in the original, and it seems like Nail has ceased to be. Only a few seconds later, when Piccolo is getting hyped over his new power boost, it turns out Nail's mind is now occupying a space in Piccolo's head, and the two can have internal conversations with each other.
    Piccolo: Yes. Yes. Yes! YES! I CAN WIN! I FEEL GREAT! I! CAN! DO! THIS!—
    Nail's voice: What are you doing?
    Piccolo: Wh— uh... nothing.
  • Later, Kami would also fuse with Piccolo. Like with Nail, he also continues to exist as a voice in Piccolo's head and the three of them have internal conversations with each other.

Western Animation

• Danny Phantom has a very dark example in the form of Dark Danny, the end result of a future version of Danny fusing his and Vlad's ghost halves together, before Dark Danny kills his own human half in front of Vlad, ensuring that even if Dark Danny could be unfused, Danny himself could never return.
• Steven Universe is the Trope Namer. In general, Gem fusions rely on the emotional stability and/or sheer willpower of its components to remain together, with more stable relationships staying fused longer. For example, until the Season One finale, Garnet hadn't unfused since Steven was a baby, which was about 12-13 years ago.
  • The most common form of Permafusion is one between two Gems who enjoy each other's company so much, platonically or otherwise, that they don't want to stay apart. This is what Garnet's existence amounts to, as Ruby and Sapphire's love for each other allows them to stay fused as Garnet for millennia at a time.
  • The Cluster Gems are a much darker variation, being the results of Homeworld experiments that physically meld together the shards of shattered Gems, resulting in writhing masses of conjoined limbs that still have echoes of sentience from their component Gems. As it turns out, they were all just prototypes for the Cluster, which is made from the shards of thousands of Gems and resides within the core of the Earth. If it were to fully form, the result would be apocalyptic, as the planet would break apart like an eggshell. Thankfully, since Steven's able to talk to them, and get the shards in contact with each other, they become friendly.
  • Speaking of Homeworld, being a permafusion in general before Steven's era is enough to get somebody labeled an off-color and threatened with shattering. Rhodonite of the Off-Colors is the permafusion of a Pearl and Ruby whose Morganite "replaced" them as soon as they were found out, and Fluorite is a six-gem Permafusion that, while not outed as an off-color for being permafused per se, still makes her stick out like a sore thumb among Homeworld gems, which is the last thing the Diamonds want.
  • In Episode 13 of Steven Universe: Future, Steven proposes marriage slash permafusion to Connie, wanting to become Stevonnie for the long term; as Stevonnie they would get Connie's education and pursue her goals, and Steven wouldn't feel left out or have to dwell on his own pain and trauma, which he struggles with for all of Future. Connie is horrified and gently turns him down. She wants to be her own person and thinks they're way too young to really consider marriage.
• During the end of season 2 of Tangled: The Series, Cassandra ends up fusing with The Moonstone before Rapunzel can retrieve the item. From that point forward, Cassandra and the Moonstone are joined by the hip, with the latter even causing a significant change to the former as a signal that the two are now one and the same. This fusion eventually ends up being undone near the series finale, where Zhan Tiri takes the Moonstone away from Cassandra in order to regain her full power.
• In the backstory to Transformers: Prime, it's mentioned that the Autobots encountered an off-shoot known as the Mutacons, who had come into contact with the Enigma of Combination and so could combine in almost infinite ways as the situation warranted. While this made them effectively unkillable (as they could adapt to almost any situation), they also realised the Enigma's energies were slowly fusing them into a Hive Mind. They were now travelling through space in search of Nexus Prime, the master of the Enigma of Combination, hoping he could arrest their fusion before it became irreversible.
• Final Space: The Lord Commander goes through a permanent fusion in Season 3. He merges himself with the Titan embryo in the Earth's core, and he bursts free from the planet with a Titan body. An enraged Invictus, upon confronting the Titan Lord Commander, at first sets several of its Titan thralls on him, then after Ash overpowers him with ease, Invictus neutralizes him by locking him inside the same cube that once held the trueborn Titan Bolo.

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