Basic Trope: Two characters who are in a romantic relationship merge together.
- Straight: Alice and Bob have been going steady for a month, and have the ability to combine into one being.
- Exaggerated: Alice and Bob are madly in love, and have been madly in love in all of their past lives. They fuse together on their honeymoon, and not only is it Permanent, but they are capable of having children in this form.
- Downplayed: Alice and Bob are on-again off-again lovers, and make many a Merging Mistake.
- Justified:
- The Applied Phlebotinum that allows humans to merge is powered by sex.
- Alternatively, the magic that allows humans to merge harnesses the energy of love.
- Inverted:
- Alice and Bob are Star-Crossed Lovers of a sort, in that they cannot touch each other without instantly disintegrating.
- Subverted: It’s a really elaborate extension of those two-person sweater things.
- Double Subverted: ...which is the only thing they can wear because everything it covers is connected.
- Parodied: Alice and Bob claim that having sex will transform them into a superbeing, but it’s really just an excuse to bang in the middle of a fight.
- Enforced: The director wanted to make a Dragon Ball Z homage, and Executive Meddling demanded more romance. The director thought that combining those two ideas into this trope among other things would be interesting.
- Defied: She Is Not My Girlfriend, she’s just my fusion partner!
- Played for Laughs: So much crap is smuggled in via drawing parallels between fusion and sex.
”we can’t fight him as we are now! Let’s... (puts on Sexophone music) Combine our strength.
”Hold on, WE DON’T HAVE PROTECTION!”
- Implied: the Ambiguously Gay (or Ambiguously Straight) Duo can fuse together.
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