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* One Treehouse of Horror episode from ''TheSimpsons'', where after Homer buys a matter transporter from Professor Frink (and uses it around the house to save him 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.

* Jakyou Manors/The Velvet Room/Demon Fusion Program-enhanced tech in most of the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games, including the ''VideoGame/{{Persona}}'' spinoff 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 ([[ShinMegamiTenseiI twi]][[StrangeJourney ce]]) and a [[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!

* One Treehouse of Horror episode from ''TheSimpsons'', where after Homer buys a matter transporter from Professor Frink (and uses it around the house to save him walking from one room to another... though it takes more effort to move the transporter booths), Bart uses it and accidently fuses with a fly. ShoutOut to TheFly.

* One Treehouse of Horror episode from ''TheSimpsons'', where after Homer buys a matter transporter from Professor Frink (and uses it around the house to save him walking from one room to another...though it takes more effort to move the transporter booths), Bart uses it and accidently fuses with a fly. ShoutOut to TheFly.

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

* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': In the ''ManosTheHandsOfFate'' episode, Joel's invention exchange is the Cartooner, a device that takes two newspaper comicstrips and combines them into something funnier than the source material. ''"{{Ziggy}} had Comicstrip/{{Garfield}} neutered?!"''

* Jakyou Manors/The Velvet Room/Demon Fusion Program-enhanced tech in most of the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games, including the ''{{Persona}}'' spinoff series, function this way for combining demons, personae, swords, spell/tarot cards, and any number of other compatible things.

* One Treehouse of Horror episode from TheSimpsons, where after Homer buys a matter transporter from Professor Frink (and uses it around the house to save him walking from one room to another...though it takes more effort to move the transporter booths), Bart uses it and accidently fuses with a fly. ShoutOut to TheFly.

** There have been cases in which accepted parts for fusions have included humans ([[ShinMegamiTenseiI twi]][[StrangeJourney ce]]) and a [[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. EvilIsNotAToy, kiddies!

* Jakyou Manors/The Velvet Room/Demon Fusion Program-enhanced tech in most of the ''ShinMegamiTensei'' games, including the ''{{Persona}}'' spinoff series, function this way for combining demons, personae, swords, spell/tarot cards, and any number of other compatible things.

* A case where the "merging machine" is a person: In the thirteenth issue of Grant Morrison's ''AnimalMan'' series, the B'wana Beast was infected with Anthrax and it drove him a bit crazy, to the point he was using his powers to merge random animals and turning the resulting chimera into killing machines.

* ''StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Tuvix". A transporter accident fuses Tuvok and Neelix together, forming the title character.
* ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'': In the ''ManosTheHandsOfFate'' episode, Joel's invention exchange is the Cartooner, a device that takes two newspaper comicstrips and combines them into something funnier than the source material. ''"{{Ziggy}} had {{Garfield}} neutered?!"''
* Inverted and then played straight in one episode of ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', where 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.

* ''{{Homestuck}}''[==]'s punch-card alchemy process lets you convert objects into punch-card codes and back, and by merging the codes, you can create merged objects.

* '' ReBoot'' had an episode where a corrupted game fused Megabyte with a containment unit filled with liquid energy. It turned him into a Megatruck.

Basically it's a device that fuses multiple objects together, kind of like FusionDance. Works by either shooting a beam or placing the objects into a machine. May also work in reverse. Sometimes, this effect is unintentional and probably not the main purpose of the device; TeleportersAndTransporters are particularly prone to becoming Merging Machines when [[TeleporterAccident something goes wrong]], especially in cases such as TeleFrag.

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

* There was a strip in the 1970s [[BritishComics British Comic]] ''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.

* There was a strip in the 1970s [[BritishComics British Comic]] (''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.

* There was a strip in some 1970s BritishComic (''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.

* There was a strip in some 1970s British comic 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.

* Jakyou Manors/The Velvet Room in most of the ''ShinMegamiTensei'' games, including the ''{{Persona}}'' spinoff series, function this way for combining demons, personae, swords, spell/tarot cards, and any number of other compatible things.

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* ''{{Homestuck}}''[==]'s punch-card alchemy process lets you convert objects into punch-card codes and back, and by merging the codes, you can create merged objects.

* A case where the "merging machine" is a person: In the thirteenth issue of Grant Morrison's ''Animal Man'' series, the Bwana Beast was infected with Anthrax and it drove him a bit crazy, to the point he was using his powers to merge random animals and turning the resulting chimera into killing machines.

* Inverted and then played straight in one episode of StarTrekTheOriginalSeries, where 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.

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