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== [[Comic Books]] ==

* There was a strip in the 1970s [[British Comics|British Comic]] ''[[~~Whizzer and Chips (Comic Book)|~~Whizzer and Chips]]'' 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 [[British Comics|British Comic]] ''[[Whizzer and Chips]]'' 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.

* A case where the "merging machine" is a person: In the thirteenth issue of Grant Morrison's ''[[~~Animal Man (Comic Book)|~~Animal Man]]'' 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.

* A case where the "merging machine" is a person: In the thirteenth issue of Grant Morrison's ''[[Animal Man]]'' 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.

== [[Film]] ==

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== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Star Trek Voyager ~~(TV)~~|Star Trek Voyager]]'' episode "Tuvix". A transporter accident fuses Tuvok and Neelix together, forming the title character.

* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Star Trek Voyager]]'' episode "Tuvix". A transporter accident fuses Tuvok and Neelix together, forming the title character.

* ''[[~~Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV)|~~Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'': In the ''[[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 [[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]] neutered?!"''

* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'': In the ''[[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 [[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]] neutered?!"''

* Inverted and then played straight in one episode of ''[[Star Trek ~~the~~ Original Series ~~(TV)~~|Star Trek the Original Series]]'', 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.

* Inverted and then played straight in one episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'', 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.

== [[Toys]] ==

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== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''[[~~Homestuck (Webcomic)|~~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.

* ''[[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.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* The ''[[Ace Ventura]]'' 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}}.

* ''[[~~Re Boot (Animation)|Re Boot~~]]'' had an episode where a corrupted game fused Megabyte with a containment unit filled with liquid energy. It turned him into a Megatruck.

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