History Main / MergingMachine

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, the effect is [[MergingMistake 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.

* One of the ChooseYourOwnAdventure books based off of ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' called "Monster Mix-Up" used this as its primary gimmick. Bowser has a device called the Monster Mixer, which looks like a [[http://www.mariowiki.com/File:Mix.jpg giant flying egg-beater]], that he uses to fuse his minions together into more dangerous troops. The ending has Princess Peach consider unfusing them with a device based upon a soup strainer.

* ''Film/TheFly'' is arguably based around an accidental version, merging a man with a fly (and later the man-fly with the teleporter itself). Many parodies and homages tend to fall into this trope by having multiple "mixings" take place.

* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' Part 8 (''[=JoJolion=]''), the Wall Eyes are a geological phenomenon that have this effect on objects buried in the ground near them. One character demonstrates this by burying a lemon and an orange, then digging them up and cutting them to reveal that they've swapped segments. [[spoiler:Later it's revealed that this has nothing to do with the Wall Eyes, and the ground has had this property for generations. It's also responsible for the creation of protagonist Josuke Higashikata, who's the merger of two men, Yoshikage Kira and Josefumi Kujo.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'' has Cubits, a special ore collected by the Mixels, which allows them to create their [[FusionDance Mixes, Maxes, and Murps]] in the first place. All it takes is at least two Mixels that share the color scheme of the Cubit (or a Rainbow Cubit, which can be used by any tribe in any way), and a single touch from each, and they'll become a new combination.

* ''Film/TheFly'' is arguably based around an accidental version. Many parodies and homages tend to fall into this trope by having multiple "mixings" take place.

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

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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, the 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.

May be involved in ItemCrafting.

* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': In the ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E24ManosTheHandsOfFate "Manos" The Hands of Fate]]'' episode, Joel's invention exchange is the Cartuner, a device that takes two newspaper comicstrips and combines them into something funnier than the source material. ''"Comicstrip/{{Ziggy}} had Comicstrip/{{Garfield}} neutered?!"''

* In ''[[ForgottenRealms Tymora's Luck]]'' tinker gnomes and two gods made a "fusion chamber".

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

* 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. But instead of Brundlefly, he gets the 1958 Fly (Bart with a fly head, the fly with Bart's).

* ''Franchise/{{BIONICLE}}'': the Spear of Fusion, which can also be used in reverse.

* Wapol of ''Franchise/OnePiece'' had this as one of his sub-powers. While the Munch-Munch Devil Fruit gave him the power to fuse himself with anything he ate, he could also fuse eaten objects with each other, creating an entirely new object. This trope ends up being [[ExploitedTrope exploited]] as he ends up profitting by promoting the fused objects as toys and selling them.

* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-914 SCP-914]], [[InSeriesNickname "The Clockworks"]]. Putting two items in the input booth and running the machine on "fine" (the setting for turning things UpToEleven) or "very fine" (typically produces something that goes BeyondTheImpossible relative to the input) tends to yield outputs that combine aspects from both inputs; in one of the side-stories, 914 was fed a [[RedShirt D-class]] and a 64-core supercomputer multiple times, with outputs including sixty-four small robot spiders [[{{Squick}} with human faces]] and a human with a supercomputing brain (which was the desired output). In addition, one of its other settings, "coarse," often functions as an {{Inversion}}, separating objects into their component parts.

* The ''SCPFoundation'' has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-914 SCP-914]], [[InSeriesNickname "The Clockworks"]]. Putting two items in the input booth and running the machine on "fine" (the setting for turning things UpToEleven) or "very fine" (typically produces something that goes BeyondTheImpossible relative to the input) tends to yield outputs that combine aspects from both inputs; in one of the side-stories, 914 was fed a [[RedShirt D-class]] and a 64-core supercomputer multiple times, with outputs including sixty-four small robot spiders [[{{Squick}} with human faces]] and a human with a supercomputing brain (which was the desired output). In addition, one of its other settings, "coarse," often functions as an {{Inversion}}, separating objects into their component parts.

* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': In the ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E24ManosTheHandsOfFate "Manos" The Hands of Fate]]'' 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. ''"Comicstrip/{{Ziggy}} had Comicstrip/{{Garfield}} neutered?!"''

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* ''TheFly'' is arguably based around an accidental version. Many parodies and homages tend to fall into this trope by having multiple "mixings" take place.

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* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': In the ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E24ManosTheHandsOfFate "Manos" The Hands of Fate]]'' 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?!"''

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* ''{{BIONICLE}}'': the Spear of Fusion, which can also be used in reverse.

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* * In a failed CBS pilot a scientist developing a teleporter decides to use it to surprise his girlfriend in another lab by teleporting in with a rose and invite her out for a date, but being unfamiliar with the lab he teleports into the same location of an advanced space probe complete with AI and survival instincts she's developing causing them to merge. As a result when he's threatened the probe that's otherwise invisibly merged with him emerges in increasing degrees until when at risk of death it completely takes over looking like a vaguely humanoid killing machine.

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Tuvix". A transporter accident fuses Tuvok and Neelix together, forming the title character.