The word "fusion" refers to the merging of two or more distinct elements into a single whole. It's a pretty universal concept, with a great many new genre and style coming about due to thinking X would taste great with Y.
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Contrast Literal Split Personality and Self-Duplication, when an individual gets split into two or more beings, Split-Personality Merge, and Physical Attribute Swap, where two characters exchange physical traits instead of mixing them. Contrast also Grand Theft Me, which looks like the Power Booster or Switcher variant but with less cooperation and more hostility. Compare Combining Mecha. Not to be confused with Composite Character. See also All Your Powers Combined, Motif Merger, and Equippable Ally (for a less intrusive method of combining two characters). This trope may sound like a literal version of Mating Dance, but it's not. When the fusion goes horribly wrong, see Merging Mistake. If the components cannot easily be discerned in the result, see Fusion Dissonance. If the components have a romantic relationship, also see Romantic Fusion. If the fusion is done between siblings, it's a Sibling Fusion.
Fusions are cool. They allow two beings to merge together to create a stronger being. However, fusions are in practice incredibly dangerous. Whether it was done with science, biologically or through magic, even the slightest mistake can make the results less than ideal if you're lucky.
How the fusion can result in a failure varies. Sometimes the result is a mesh of body parts or full of deformities. Sometimes the fusion at first looks fine but is actually incredibly unstable, and will fall apart at some point. Sometimes the fusion wasn't intended to happen in the first place, which just increases the chance of it being really wrong. The only real requirement is that the fusion needs to be physical in nature.
Not a whole lot; I'm not really seeing any Thor in the Robin/Wolverine sidekick. More to the point, while it does an admirable job pointing out who was fused, it doesn't really explain what the hell caused this awesome fusion to begin with.edited 12th Oct '12 2:21:16 PM by ShadowHog
@Another Duck: There are other pictures including a snake(cobra?) and an other animal(?) but they don't look as clean and would probably be to big, and they don't include the dance. and I'm a little drunk right now and don't really feel like finding a picture that wouldn't fit anyway.
Later, on the beach, Steven is sitting with Connie and telling her about the experience of trying to learn to Fusion Dance, but that he can't seem to get it. Ever supportive, Connie asks if writing the steps down will help. Steven tells her that he's not sure that's the problem, but that it's something else. Connie confesses that she likes to dance, and was really excited about a dance at her school, but ended up not going because she kept thinking about everyone staring at her. Steven points there's no one staring now (except him, as Connie notes). He clarifies that he meant he was asking her to dance. Connie accepts Steven's invitation and takes his hand. As the sun sets on the water, the two kids dance together, but as things go with kids their age, it goes from serious dancing to silly, playful dancing. Connie bumps into Steven by accident, and he begins to lose his balance. She lunges to catch him so he doesn't fall. As their foreheads touch and the pair laugh, blushing and drawing together, there's a pinkish glow from below them...
Pearl, still alarmed, tries to get them to separate, but the fusion calls Pearl out for being worried that Steven couldn't fuse, and demands to know if she's not proud of him. Pearl stammeringly says she is, and asks Garnet to back her up. But Garnet has her own ideas on how Steven and Connie should deal with being fused.
Stevonnie has a momentary bit of awkward discomfort: Steven and Connie would each get one donut, but Stevonnie is both of them in the same body with both consciousnesses. One side of Stevonnie offers to end the fusion, but the other side says not to worry. Sour Cream approaches and offers Stevonnie a flyer inviting them to a rave with a bunch of friends from the internet and free glow sticks.
Kevin asks Stevonnie why they left him on the dance floor. Stevonnie says they don't feel like dancing anymore but Kevin is insistent, arrogantly declaring the two of them "angels walking among garbage people". Stevonnie is put off, insisting he doesn't even know them. They say they just don't like being alone here. Kevin insists that the cure to their loneliness is to come back and dance with him. Exasperated and irritated by his clueless and arrogant persistence, Stevonnie snatches his arm and drags him back to the dance floor, making one important clarification:
Stevonnie's dance routine this time is much angrier and less graceful. Kevin is taken aback and tells them to bring it back. But now that Steven and Connie are displeased and angry with Kevin, their fusion ends: Stevonnie vanishes in a puff and Steven and Connie end up sprawled on the dance floor. Kevin is weirded out that his hot dance partner was really two kids and takes his immediate leave. Steven and Connie, happy to be two individuals again, enjoy dancing together as Sour Cream showers the floor with glow sticks.
However, there are instances of resulting fusions that are too different from their components. It could be that their fusion takes them apart on the atomic level and puts them back together in a way that it might as well be an entirely new body, or it involves some Shapeshifting but Morphic Resonance is just unnecessary for the process. Whatever the case may be, none of the fused components are recognizable in the result just by mere observation.
When the fusion's anomaly is unintentional, it's a Merging Mistake. It can overlap with Fusion Dissonance if the mistake deforms the result enough for the components to be unrecognizable. Compare with Random Species Offspring, for mismatching results from a different kind of combination.
Death Battle's ninth season is about to end, and what better way to cap the year off in style by examining one of the biggest dream matches in Dragon Ball history, given how many of Akira Toriyama's own creations have been such a part of the show's many incredible episodes? For years, fans have seen sworn rivals Goku and Vegeta combine their forces into two godly entities that very few have managed to defeat - one through the Fusion Dance invented by the Metamorans and the other through the Potara earrings favored by the Kai, and in turn, this has led to many debates on which fusion method maximized their combined strengths the best. Considering that both Gogeta and Vegito have only had 3 shared appearances within mainline canon, Wiz and Boomstick - with the aid of Earth's Dragon Balls - decide to evaluate all of Dragon Ball media and more to compare and contrast both fusions and see which one of them can finally lay claim to being the superior one in a death battle!
To start our fusion fight to the finish, we first go back to the year 1995, when the movie Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn aired in theatres, and during the final leg of the film, it happens: after struggling to defeat the monster Janemba, Goku and Vegeta were forced to utilize one final option, and fused to become a warrior strong enough to defeat the incarnation of evil, Gogeta.
While Gogeta is powerful, he's not permanent. Like most Metamoran fusions such as Gotenks, Gogeta can only be around for half an hour before he defuses back into Goku and Vegeta and the fusion's time limit can be shortened if he expends energy too quickly, such as when he defused in his fight with Omega Shenron in ten minutes, though against Broly, Gogeta maintained the fusion's full time limit even when striking the Legendary Super Saiyan hard enough to shatter reality, and he was simply in base Super Saiyan at the time; he wasted little time in defeating him once he turned Super Saiyan Blue, and Whis even implied that Gogeta could take on the God of Destruction, Beerus.
In the 1995 Weekly Jump Issue 28, it was stated that, as long as he didn't take longer than thirty minutes, Gogeta would beat Vegito, and in Dragon Ball: Raging Blast, a "What If?" scenario of Gogeta and Vegito fighting ended with the Metamoran fusion victorious, though he was nearly about to defuse afterwards. Truly, Gogeta has proven his place among Dragon Ball's upper echelons of heavy hitters.
With our first fusion covered, we now focus on the second fusion of Goku and Vegeta; in the spring of 1995, the dreaded monster known as Majin Buu threatened the safety of Earth, forcing Goku and Vegeta to resort to fusion. However, this time, Goku didn't have time to teach his rival a dance routine that the prince would end up despising, leading them to utilise a different method: a pair of earrings worn by the divine Supreme Kais known as the Potara which, when the Saiyans wore each on opposite ears, caused the duo to combine to become Vegito.
Later, Vegito would gain access to divine ki and the Super Saiyan Blue form, which helped in his fight with the similarly fused deity, Merged Zamasu, though like Gogeta, he ended up cutting his time short to forty minutes in the manga and ten minutes in the anime. Originally, Potara fusion was considered permanent, but would later be retconned to only being permanent when involving a Supreme Kai, with the fusion otherwise lasting for an hour at most and have their own set of rules, such as if the fusees are transformed when they fuse, the fusion can't power down, which can run the risk of wasting energy and time and the fusion being sustained by the earrings themselves rather than the fusion's body.
In the Heroes continuity, Vegito would end up gaining access to Super Saiyan 4 much like his Dance counterpart, and has also fought similar opponents, such as the ancient Saiyan Cumber and the Dark King Mechikabura. Daizenshuus 4 and 7, two Dragon Ball Encyclopedias, have both stated that Potara fusion is superior to the Fusion Dance and Elder Kai has also stated this, though this may have been under the belief that Potara fusion was permanent, so there would be no reason to hold back to avoid running out a time limit. But despite this limit, Vegito is certainly just as much a force to be reckoned with as his Dance counterpart. 2ff7e9595c
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