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** '''TLOK Book 3''': Korra is down for the count, poisoned by Zaheer and the Red Lotus. But Jinora tells Suyin Bei Fong that the poison is metallic. Suyin manages to metalbend the poison out of Korra's body (even though [[SeriesContinuityError that's not how metalbending works]]), saving her life - though she's still wheelchair-bound, two weeks later.
** '''TLOK Book 4''': A nearly-defeated Kuvira tries to kill Korra with the damaged spirit cannon. Kuvira ends up on the wrong end of the cannon just as it's about to fire. Korra jumps in and manages to counter the previously-unstoppable energy blast with her own energy. The resulting conflict rips open a new Spirit Portal - which also allowed Korra and Kuvira to ride out the resulting explosion safely.
** '''TLOK Book 4''': A nearly-defeated Kuvira tries to kill Korra with the damaged spirit cannon. Kuvira ends up on the wrong end of the cannon just as it's about to fire. Korra jumps in and manages to counter the previously-unstoppable energy blast with her own energy. The resulting conflict rips open a new Spirit Portal - which also allowed Korra and Kuvira to ride out the resulting explosion safely.
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** '''TLOK Book 3''': Korra is down for the count, poisoned by Zaheer and the Red Lotus. But Jinora tells Suyin Bei Fong that the poison is metallic. Suyin manages to metalbend the poison out of Korra's body (even though [[SeriesContinuityError that's not how metalbending works]]), saving her life - though she's still wheelchair-bound, two weeks later.
** '''TLOK Book 4''': A nearly-defeated Kuvira tries to kill Korra with the damaged spirit cannon. Kuvira ends up on the wrong end of the cannon just as it's about to fire. Korra jumps in and manages to counter the previously-unstoppable energy blast with her own energy. The resulting conflict rips open a new Spirit Portal - which also allowed Korra and Kuvira to ride out the resulting explosion safely.
** '''TLOK Book 4''': A nearly-defeated Kuvira tries to kill Korra with the damaged spirit cannon. Kuvira ends up on the wrong end of the cannon just as it's about to fire. Korra jumps in and manages to counter the previously-unstoppable energy blast with her own energy. The resulting conflict rips open a new Spirit Portal - which also allowed Korra and Kuvira to ride out the resulting explosion safely.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E6RickPotionNumber9 Rick Potion #9]]", a love potion piggybacking off of the flu virus manages to infect the entire planet, making almost everyone [[LoveMakesYouCrazy violently obsessed]] with Morty. When Rick's attempts to fix it only make things [[BodyHorror exponentially]] [[ApocalypseHow worse]], the two abandon their world for a parallel universe were they got lucky, fixed everything, then immediately died, and replace their old selves without skipping a beat. Morty's resultant existential crisis plays a major part in his character development from then on.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': Mister Mxyzptlk tricks Bizarro (a failed clone of Superman) to fight the Man of Steel. It looks like Superman might lose, suddenly Mxyzptlk's superiors summon the villain back to the fifth dimension and remove his powers. Without the cosmic imp's interference, Superman naturally beats Bizarro.
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** '''TLOK Book 3''': Korra is down for the count, poisoned by Zaheer and the Red Lotus. But Jinora tells Suyin Bei Fong that the poison is metallic. Suyin manages to metalbend the poison out of Korra's body (even though [[SeriesContinuityError that's not how metalbending works]]), saving her life - though she's still wheelchair-bound, two weeks later.
** '''TLOK Book 4''': A nearly-defeated Kuvira tries to kill Korra with the damaged spirit cannon. Kuvira ends up on the wrong end of the cannon just as it's about to fire. Korra jumps in and manages to counter the previously-unstoppable energy blast with her own energy. The resulting conflict rips open a new Spirit Portal - which also allowed Korra and Kuvira to ride out the resulting explosion safely.
** '''TLOK Book 4''': A nearly-defeated Kuvira tries to kill Korra with the damaged spirit cannon. Kuvira ends up on the wrong end of the cannon just as it's about to fire. Korra jumps in and manages to counter the previously-unstoppable energy blast with her own energy. The resulting conflict rips open a new Spirit Portal - which also allowed Korra and Kuvira to ride out the resulting explosion safely.
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** Another Family Guy episode involved Stewie adopting a malevolent turtle. Long story short, things escalate and they end up in a fight to the death. Stewie, for whatever reason, is no match for the small reptile, and is nearly killed... until [[SuperMarioBros Super Mario]] bursts in and kills the turtle.
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** Another Family Guy episode involved Stewie adopting a malevolent turtle. Long story short, things escalate and they end up in a fight to the death. Stewie, for whatever reason, is no match for the small reptile, and is nearly killed... until [[SuperMarioBros Super Mario]] Franchise/{{Super Mario|Bros}} bursts in and kills the turtle.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom: WesternAnimation/TheUltimateEnemy'': Although Danny's able to defeat his [[FutureMeScaresMe evil future self]], he's too late to save his friends and family from dying in an explosion. Right as it goes off, TimeMaster Clockwork stops time and saves them. Clockwork himself claims Danny [[EarnYourHappyEnding earned that victory]] and that the choice he makes afterwards on his own (coming clean about cheating on a test) is what matters, but the Observants still consider it unfair interference.
-->"That's a direct violation of the Protocol of Temporal Displacement! In other words, ''you cheated!''"
-->"That's a direct violation of the Protocol of Temporal Displacement! In other words, ''you cheated!''"
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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': The ending of "Mime For A Change". After everyone is turned into lifeless gray statues by Mr. Mime[[note]]No, not [[Franchise/Pokemon that Mr. Mime]][[/note]], Bubbles apparently brings everyone back to life by ThePowerOfRock mixed with ThePowerOfLove song, "Love Makes The World Go Round". How ''music'' managed to bring anyone from that state is anyone's guess, but [[MST3KMantra they did, so we shouldn't question it.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': The ending of "Mime For A Change". After everyone is turned into lifeless gray statues by Mr. Mime[[note]]No, not [[Franchise/Pokemon [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} that Mr. Mime]][[/note]], Bubbles apparently brings everyone back to life by ThePowerOfRock mixed with ThePowerOfLove song, "Love Makes The World Go Round". How ''music'' managed to bring anyone from that state is anyone's guess, but [[MST3KMantra they did, so we shouldn't question it.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': The ending of "Mime For A Change". After everyone is turned into lifeless gray statues by Mr. Mime[[note]]No, not [[Franchise/Pokemon that Mr. Mime]][[/note]], Bubbles apparently brings everyone back to life by ThePowerOfRock mixed with ThePowerOfLove song, "Love Makes The World Go Round". How ''music'' managed to bring anyone from that state is anyone's guess, but [[MST3KMantra they did, so we shouldn't question it.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/AllHailKingJulien'' has a few examples of vary levels of in-universe justification, but none stick out more than "Election", where Julien loses an election to a mad tyrant who promises his rule will be cruel and unstoppable, and is then abruptly [[BoltOfDivineRetribution struck down by lightning and killed instantly before he can really do anything.]]
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** Season 27 episode "The Girl Code" where Homer got fired from his job due to a social media post and Lisa creates an app to predict the consequences of social media posts called Conrad.
--> Homer: "My fate will be decided in the classic tradition of Greek drama, ''Deus ex machina''."
--> *notification sound*
--> Lisa: "I just got an email from Conrad! He hacked into the power plant mainframe and found incriminating information! Now he's blackmailing Mr. Burns to get you your job back!"
--> Simpsons family: "Opa!"
--> *end credits roll*
--> Homer: "My fate will be decided in the classic tradition of Greek drama, ''Deus ex machina''."
--> *notification sound*
--> Lisa: "I just got an email from Conrad! He hacked into the power plant mainframe and found incriminating information! Now he's blackmailing Mr. Burns to get you your job back!"
--> Simpsons family: "Opa!"
--> *end credits roll*
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Not an example. It was foreshadowed and focused on for the entire season, and thus not sudden or unexpected. It originated from the Elements and the Tree of Harmony itself, and thus could be expected to grant the power to save the day.
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** ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over A Barrel]]'': There's a conflict between the natives of the land and the newly settlers over the land; during the episode they keep arise the issue of reaching a consensus of relocating the apple orchard so the Buffaloes may complete their time-old tradition, or for Buffaloes to just go around the orchard. But somehow, everything is solved after a "[[FoodFight gruesome]]" battle; by the Buffaloes' appreciation for the settlers' pastries. So now the settlers agreed to a path through the trees (rather than cut down all of them as the Buffaloes originally wanted), and even agreed to share the wealth of the land with the Buffaloes.
** ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]'' also includes a Deus Ex Machina, in the form of [[TheCavalry Celestia]] showing up and dispelling the Want It, Need It spell from Mr. Smartypants and telling Twilight that no, really, you don't actually have to send a letter every single week (though in the end Celestia manages to turn it into everyone sending her letters sporadically). Justified in-story after the fact as Spike having surreptitiously contacted her off-screen when Twilight was spiralling out of control. Less unacceptable than most examples as the central conflict of the story was Twilight freaking out over nothing rather than the Want It, Need It spell and Celestia talking to Twilight was a logical means of solving the true central conflict.
** Subverted and played with in ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 Return of Harmony Part 1]]'' when strange things are happening such as chocolate raining down from clouds made of cotton candy and ears of corn spontaneously popping into popcorn. Twilight Sparkle shows up out of nowhere claiming some new spell she had conveniently just learned [[EpicFail should fix everything]].
** ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]'' also includes a Deus Ex Machina, in the form of [[TheCavalry Celestia]] showing up and dispelling the Want It, Need It spell from Mr. Smartypants and telling Twilight that no, really, you don't actually have to send a letter every single week (though in the end Celestia manages to turn it into everyone sending her letters sporadically). Justified in-story after the fact as Spike having surreptitiously contacted her off-screen when Twilight was spiralling out of control. Less unacceptable than most examples as the central conflict of the story was Twilight freaking out over nothing rather than the Want It, Need It spell and Celestia talking to Twilight was a logical means of solving the true central conflict.
** Subverted and played with in ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 Return of Harmony Part 1]]'' when strange things are happening such as chocolate raining down from clouds made of cotton candy and ears of corn spontaneously popping into popcorn. Twilight Sparkle shows up out of nowhere claiming some new spell she had conveniently just learned [[EpicFail should fix everything]].
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** ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over A Barrel]]'': Barrel]]": There's a conflict between the natives of the land and the newly settlers over the land; during the episode they keep arise the issue of reaching a consensus of relocating the apple orchard so the Buffaloes may complete their time-old tradition, or for Buffaloes to just go around the orchard. But somehow, everything is solved after a "[[FoodFight gruesome]]" battle; by the Buffaloes' appreciation for the settlers' pastries. So now the settlers agreed to a path through the trees (rather than cut down all of them as the Buffaloes originally wanted), and even agreed to share the wealth of the land with the Buffaloes.
**''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]'' Zero]]" also includes a Deus Ex Machina, in the form of [[TheCavalry Celestia]] showing up and dispelling the Want It, Need It spell from Mr. Smartypants and telling Twilight that no, really, you don't actually have to send a letter every single week (though in the end Celestia manages to turn it into everyone sending her letters sporadically). Justified in-story after the fact as Spike having surreptitiously contacted her off-screen when Twilight was spiralling out of control. Less unacceptable than most examples as the central conflict of the story was Twilight freaking out over nothing rather than the Want It, Need It spell and Celestia talking to Twilight was a logical means of solving the true central conflict.
** Subverted and played with in''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 Return of Harmony Part 1]]'' 1]]" when strange things are happening such as chocolate raining down from clouds made of cotton candy and ears of corn spontaneously popping into popcorn. Twilight Sparkle shows up out of nowhere claiming some new spell she had conveniently just learned [[EpicFail should fix everything]].
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* In one of the episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'', "Astro's Big Moment", George becomes the judge on a dog show. His family expects that he will let their dog, Astro, win, or else his son will be heartbroken; his boss expects that he will let ''the boss's dog'' win, or else he'll lose his job; and a local mobster in turn promises that he won't live till evening if he doesn't let ''the mobster's dog'' win. George thus [[SadisticChoice finds himself in a desperate situation where choosing any of the three contestants will result in doom]]. But then, at the last minute, the police arrives to put the mobster in jail, while the boss's dog unexpectedly goes into labor and must be taken out of the show, thus saving George.
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* In the [[WesternAnimatio/GravityFalls]] BigFinale [[spoiler: Stanley manages to scam Bill a trickster god via HeroicSacrifice causing one of the most effective [[TearJerker tear jerkers]] in the end he loses all of his memories... until he recovers them, manages to count as DeusExMachina cause there's no evidence of a consequence or Bill coming back, an AssPull cause he got better by Mabel's scrapbook even though Stanford stated TWICE that it was impossible for him to recover his memories and as a WriterCopout since it happened just a couple minutes afterwards.]]
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** '''TLOK Book 3''': The mildest of the bunch. Korra is down for the count, poisoned by Zaheer and the Red Lotus. But Jinora tells Suyin Bei Fong that the poison is metallic, so she can still save Korra (Yes, she saw them administer the poison in her spirit form, but how did she know it was metallic?). Suyin manages to metalbend the poison out of Korra's body (somehow), saving her life - though she's still wheelchair-bound, two weeks later.
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** '''TLOK Book 3''': The mildest of the bunch. Korra is down for the count, poisoned by Zaheer and the Red Lotus. But Jinora tells Suyin Bei Fong that the poison is metallic, so she can still save Korra (Yes, she saw them administer the poison in her spirit form, but how did she know it was metallic?). metallic. Suyin manages to metalbend the poison out of Korra's body (somehow), (even though [[SeriesContinuityError that's not how metalbending works]]), saving her life - though she's still wheelchair-bound, two weeks later.
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* ''WesternAnimation'' the final battle of "Ego Trip" in ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' is resolved by Dee Dee suddenly wandering in through a time portal, proclaiming [[CatchPhrase "Oooh, what does this button do?"]] and pressing it before promptly walking back through the time portal.
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* ''WesternAnimation'' the The final battle of "Ego Trip" in ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' is resolved by Dee Dee suddenly wandering in through a time portal, proclaiming [[CatchPhrase "Oooh, what does this button do?"]] and pressing it before promptly walking back through the time portal.
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* The [[WesternAnimation/FantasticFour 90s Fantastic Four show]] has "Where Calls Galactus", where {{Galactus}} decides to consume Earth after [[EnemyMine allying with the Four against a common enemy]]. All seems lost...[[spoiler: until Comicbook/GhostRider shows up out of ''nowhere'', uses his guilt-inducing power to incapacitate Galactus, and then vanishes into the night.]] It should be noted that the episode is based on a comic book arc by Creator/JohnByrne, and it makes much more sense in the original.
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* The [[WesternAnimation/FantasticFour 90s Fantastic Four show]] has "Where Calls Galactus", where {{Galactus}} ComicBook/{{Galactus}} decides to consume Earth after [[EnemyMine allying with the Four against a common enemy]]. All seems lost...[[spoiler: until Comicbook/GhostRider shows up out of ''nowhere'', uses his guilt-inducing power to incapacitate Galactus, and then vanishes into the night.]] It should be noted that the episode is based on a comic book arc by Creator/JohnByrne, and it makes much more sense in the original.
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** Perry and Doof in "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbPhineasAndFerbGetBusted Phineas and Ferb Get Busted]]".
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** '''ATLA Book 2''': Aang [[spoiler: is killed by Azula, and subsequently resurrected by Katara's spirit oasis water.]] They're only able to escape after Iroh inexplicable escapes his crystal restraints in the other room, and holds off their attackers.
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** '''ATLA Book 2''': Aang [[spoiler: is killed by Azula, and subsequently resurrected by Katara's spirit oasis water.]] They're only able to escape after Iroh inexplicable inexplicably escapes his crystal restraints in the other room, and holds off their attackers.
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*** The sequel, ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks Rainbow Rocks]]'': The villains have absorbed enough magic and [[MindControlMusic enthralled the students]] such that Twilight Sparkle and friends MagicMusic won’t cut it. Cue [[EleventhHourRanger Human!DJ Pon-3]] showing up in a CoolCar that [[TransformingVehicle TRANSFORMS]] into a sound stage with [[AscendedMeme BASS CANNONS]], enabling them to fight back in a climatic showdown. [[RuleOfCool For some reason, this received less criticism then last the above]].
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*** The sequel, ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks Rainbow Rocks]]'': The villains have absorbed enough magic and [[MindControlMusic enthralled the students]] such that Twilight Sparkle and friends MagicMusic won’t cut it. Cue [[EleventhHourRanger Human!DJ Pon-3]] showing up in a CoolCar that [[TransformingVehicle TRANSFORMS]] into a sound stage with [[AscendedMeme BASS CANNONS]], enabling them to fight back in a climatic showdown. [[RuleOfCool For some reason, this received less criticism then last the above]].
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Energybending isn\'t deus ex machina, as it doesn\'t solve an unsolvable problem. Problem: Stop Ozai. Solution: Kill Ozai. Mind you it hits the other two requirements perfectly.
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** '''ATLA Book 3''': Thanks to the events of the Book 2 finale, Aang is unable to access the [[SuperMode Avatar State]] and in the showdown with [[BigBad Fire Lord Ozai]], Ozai has him on the ropes. Ozai presses his attack against Aang's desperation rock shield and conveniently smashes Aang into a rock that hits him in the ''exact right spot'' to unblock his chakra and activate the Avatar State, flipping the fight into a CurbStompBattle in Aang's favor. This is only after Aang has gotten a completely unknown form of bending handed to him by a Lion Turtle. While the Lion Turtles have been mentioned previously, energybending hasn't.
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** '''ATLA Book 3''': Thanks to the events of the Book 2 finale, Aang is unable to access the [[SuperMode Avatar State]] and in the showdown with [[BigBad Fire Lord Ozai]], Ozai has him on the ropes. Ozai presses his attack against Aang's desperation rock shield and conveniently smashes Aang into a rock that hits him in the ''exact right spot'' to unblock his chakra and activate the Avatar State, flipping the fight into a CurbStompBattle in Aang's favor. This is only after Aang has gotten a completely unknown form of bending handed to him by a Lion Turtle. While the Lion Turtles have been mentioned previously, energybending hasn't.
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* Every season finale of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' and its sequel, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' (so far) has ended with at least two of these[[note]]With the exception of ATLA Book 2, where there had a DiabolusExMachina and TLOK Book 3, which was a convenient contrivance at worst[[/note]]:
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*** [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks The sequel]], the villains have absorbed enough magic and [[MindControlMusic enthralled the students]] such that Twilight Sparkle and friends MagicMusic won’t cut it. Cue [[EleventhHourRanger Human!DJ Pon-3]] showing up in a CoolCar that [[TransformingVehicle TRANSFORMS]] into a sound stage with [[AscendedMeme BASS CANNONS]], enabling then to fight in a climatic showdown. [[RuleOfCool For some reason, this was less criticized]].
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*** [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks The sequel]], the sequel, ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks Rainbow Rocks]]'': The villains have absorbed enough magic and [[MindControlMusic enthralled the students]] such that Twilight Sparkle and friends MagicMusic won’t cut it. Cue [[EleventhHourRanger Human!DJ Pon-3]] showing up in a CoolCar that [[TransformingVehicle TRANSFORMS]] into a sound stage with [[AscendedMeme BASS CANNONS]], enabling then them to fight back in a a climatic showdown. [[RuleOfCool For some reason, this was received less criticized]].criticism then last the above]].
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** ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls Equestria Girls]]'': Blatantly. Both the viewer and all the characters fully expected that [[OneWingedAngel Demon Sunset Shimmer]] would ''kill'' Twilight Sparkle and friends, but then “the magic of friendship” intervenes, saving them AND giving them the power to [[AnticlimaxBoss quickly and easily beat her]].
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** ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls Equestria Girls]]'': Blatantly. Both the viewer and all the characters fully expected that [[OneWingedAngel Demon Sunset Shimmer]] would ''kill'' Twilight Sparkle and friends, but then “the magic of friendship” intervenes, saving them AND giving them the power to [[AnticlimaxBoss quickly quickly, easily, and easily one-sidedly beat her]].her]].
*** [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks The sequel]], the villains have absorbed enough magic and [[MindControlMusic enthralled the students]] such that Twilight Sparkle and friends MagicMusic won’t cut it. Cue [[EleventhHourRanger Human!DJ Pon-3]] showing up in a CoolCar that [[TransformingVehicle TRANSFORMS]] into a sound stage with [[AscendedMeme BASS CANNONS]], enabling then to fight in a climatic showdown. [[RuleOfCool For some reason, this was less criticized]].
*** [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks The sequel]], the villains have absorbed enough magic and [[MindControlMusic enthralled the students]] such that Twilight Sparkle and friends MagicMusic won’t cut it. Cue [[EleventhHourRanger Human!DJ Pon-3]] showing up in a CoolCar that [[TransformingVehicle TRANSFORMS]] into a sound stage with [[AscendedMeme BASS CANNONS]], enabling then to fight in a climatic showdown. [[RuleOfCool For some reason, this was less criticized]].
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** ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight’s Kingdom Part 2]]'': Tirek steals all magic in Equestria and appears unstoppable... then the Mane 6 open that hexagonal box and everything’s fine.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls Equestria Girls]]'': Blatantly. Both the viewer and all the characters fully expected that Sunset Shimmer would ''kill'' Twilight Sparkle, but then “the magic of friendship” intervenes.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls Equestria Girls]]'': Blatantly. Both the viewer and all the characters fully expected that Sunset Shimmer would ''kill'' Twilight Sparkle, but then “the magic of friendship” intervenes.
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** ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight’s Kingdom Part 2]]'': Tirek steals all magic in Equestria and appears unstoppable... then the Mane 6 open that hexagonal box that was found at the start of the season, and everything’s fine.
had a major role in ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Part 1]]''. Lo and behold, it gives them the power to save the day.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls Equestria Girls]]'': Blatantly. Both the viewer and all the characters fully expectedthat that [[OneWingedAngel Demon Sunset Shimmer Shimmer]] would ''kill'' Twilight Sparkle, Sparkle and friends, but then “the magic of friendship” intervenes.intervenes, saving them AND giving them the power to [[AnticlimaxBoss quickly and easily beat her]].
** ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls Equestria Girls]]'': Blatantly. Both the viewer and all the characters fully expected
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' did this often with the magic wands with "The Beauty of Kootie," and "7 Continents for 7 Koopalings," serving as the most blatant examples.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in "Recycled Koopa" in which magic didn't really solve anything.
* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' [[LampshadeHanging hung an enormous lantern]] in the form of a ParentalBonus: One episode involved the hunt for the "Orb of Machina", a MacGuffin intended to cure Genie's cold.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
** Parodied when just as Stan and his family are about to be stoned to death, George Bush and the army arrive to save them with the line "Democracy has arrived!", throwing an American flag through the judge. Instantly, all of Saudi Arabia becomes some kind of democratic paradise, and Stan gives a line parodying the end of ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''. However, none of it mattered in the end, as it was AllJustADream.
** Though a real one took place in the form of Roger using his "husband"'s (long story) apparent political influence to call the Saudi executioners just in time to call off the stoning and free the Smiths.
* A few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' turn out to be this, with special mention for "Moby Dopes". Dagget brings home a killer whale to their pond, thinking it to be as kind as [[Film/FreeWilly Willy]], but is really a carnivorous beast eating everyone and everyTHING in sight. It looks like it's about to be the end of the beavers... until a T-rex comes in and eats it. Norbert even lampshades this.
-->'''Norbert''': Where in the name of Deus Ex Machina did that T-REX come from?!
** [[spoiler: As it turns out, [[WhatAnIdiot Dagget happened to bring home the T-rex from an amusement park prior to the Killer Whale,]] [[HereWeGoAgain and are promptly chased by a new more vicious predator]].]]
* Every season finale of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' and its sequel, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' (so far) has ended with at least two of these[[note]]With the exception of ATLA Book 2, where there had a DiabolusExMachina and TLOK Book 3, which was a convenient contrivance at worst[[/note]]:
** '''ATLA Book 1''': Yue [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices herself]] to restore the Moon Spirit and restore Waterbending. Aang merges with the Ocean Spirit to become [[FanNickname "Koizilla"]] and destroys the Fire Nation fleet.
** '''ATLA Book 3''': Thanks to the events of the Book 2 finale, Aang is unable to access the [[SuperMode Avatar State]] and in the showdown with [[BigBad Fire Lord Ozai]], Ozai has him on the ropes. Ozai presses his attack against Aang's desperation rock shield and conveniently smashes Aang into a rock that hits him in the ''exact right spot'' to unblock his chakra and activate the Avatar State, flipping the fight into a CurbStompBattle in Aang's favor. This is only after Aang has gotten a completely unknown form of bending handed to him by a Lion Turtle. While the Lion Turtles have been mentioned previously, energybending hasn't.
** '''TLOK Book 1''': Amon manages to take away Korra's Earth, Fire and Waterbending, but unlocks her previously unaccessible Airbending in the process, allowing her to beat him and -expose him as a Bender to Republic City. With Katara unable to heal Amon's damage, she's the Avatar in name only. When Korra travels and sits by an ice cliff to reflect and cry over her loss of identity, she's finally able to communicate with the spirit of Aang (something she's been unable to do the entire season). One flash of Aang's Energybending later, and not only does Korra have all her other bending back, now she's able to access the [[SuperMode Avatar State]] (which she's also been unable to do). She's then able to restore the bending of every one of Amon's victims.
** '''TLOK Book 2''': Deus-ex-Jinora. Vaatu fuses with Unalaq and reduces Raava (the Avatar Spirit) down to her bare essence. Korra uses the Tree of Time to pull some super spirit mojo and goes after [[FanNickname Unavaatu.]] So far so good. But it turns out she's not up to the task, and just as Unavaatu begins to use Unalaq's spirit-waterbending technique to corrupt her, Jinora's spirit suddenly appears from the spirit aurora over Republic City with an orb of light and showers it on cosmic Korra and Unavaatu, which has the resulting effect of dispelling Unavaatu's spirit-waterbending corruption technique and then jumpstarting/revealing Raava's regrowth inside Vaatu, thus allowing Korra to free Raava and purify Unavaatu.
** '''TLOK Book 3''': The mildest of the bunch. Korra is down for the count, poisoned by Zaheer and the Red Lotus. But Jinora tells Suyin Bei Fong that the poison is metallic, so she can still save Korra (Yes, she saw them administer the poison in her spirit form, but how did she know it was metallic?). Suyin manages to metalbend the poison out of Korra's body (somehow), saving her life - though she's still wheelchair-bound, two weeks later.
* The finale of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'': the Maximals, holed up in the Ark, are getting pummeled by the Decepticon warship Megatron just found. Thanks to a tip from Dinobot II, they find a working shuttle in one of the bays. They take that shuttle, kamikaze it into the enemy ship, and then fly home on it, creating a StableTimeLoop.
--> '''Blackarachnia''': ''The history tracks never mentioned this!''
--> '''Rhinox''': ''History's still being made!''
* ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'': Lumpus is riding atop his walking lawnchair the elves built him (don't ask). He has Santa, who is armed with naught but a tetherball, down on the ground (''don't'' ask). Slinkman and the kids have failed in rescuing the jolly old elf and are lying in a heap. This looks like the end...'til Lumpus is hit by a meteor. There ''was'' mention of a meteor shower at the very beginning, but still. And then another meteor shows up and ''narrates the ending'' a la the snowman from an early film version of ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer''. Just in case you were still wondering what kind of show this was.
* In a HalloweenEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', Cleveland defeats a JerkJock from a neighboring town by setting a polluted river on fire, which wakes up a sea serpent that eats the guy whole. Cleveland himself didn't know it was there.
** In another episode, Cleveland and the kids are about to go over an InevitableWaterfall with seemingly no hope of surviving it when a grey screen with "Scene Missing" comes up. When it cuts back to the episode, Cleveland is thanking a talking Walrus with a handlebar moustache and top hat for saving them, then the Walrus jumps into the water, claps, then jumps out and flies off leaving behind a trail of rainbows.
* Many of WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'s problems were solved in this way. Some examples include being able to wear a mask at the party to cover a pimple because it's a costume party and his video that he doesn't want Patti to see actually going to Mr. Bone.
* Several ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' episodes ended with very blatant examples, all operating under RuleOfFunny. An example is when Evil the cat unleashed a cosmic MonsterClown that was unstoppable. Jim calls an ObstructiveBureaucrat, who demands the clown obtains a license to destroy the universe, the stacked-up application form for which extends above the atmosphere. Which must be filled in in triplicate of course. This is discounting the many times where the bad guy is beaten, somehow gets back into power in the last few seconds, then gets hit by the [[RunningGag falling cow.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' MusicalEpisode: the loophole in Flappy Bob's contract that defeated the pixies isn't even hinted at until the final act.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** The ending of the episode "Lois Kills Stewie". No, before we find it out it was a [[AllJustADream simulation]]. When Stewie is about to shoot Lois, she is saved when he is shot by Peter... who was last seen on the couch at home.
** Another Family Guy episode involved Stewie adopting a malevolent turtle. Long story short, things escalate and they end up in a fight to the death. Stewie, for whatever reason, is no match for the small reptile, and is nearly killed... until [[SuperMarioBros Super Mario]] bursts in and kills the turtle.
** There was also that one time "Democracy took hold" and ended the Iraq War.
* The [[WesternAnimation/FantasticFour 90s Fantastic Four show]] has "Where Calls Galactus", where {{Galactus}} decides to consume Earth after [[EnemyMine allying with the Four against a common enemy]]. All seems lost...[[spoiler: until Comicbook/GhostRider shows up out of ''nowhere'', uses his guilt-inducing power to incapacitate Galactus, and then vanishes into the night.]] It should be noted that the episode is based on a comic book arc by Creator/JohnByrne, and it makes much more sense in the original.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones''' CowboyEpisode was resolved when a stone version of the [[Series/{{Bonanza}} Cartwright family]], with no warning whatsoever, charge in out of nowhere to rescue the main characters.
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' has an in-universe example with Fry creating his own deus ex machina while trying to save the Earth from a Brainspawn invasion. After cornering the Brainspawn leader in a library, it forces Fry, Leela and itself into the nearby books (causing the three to relive events from whatever book they're in,) with the chase scene eventually ending with Fry trapping the Brainspawn leader in a poorly-written book that he wrote on the spot, which ends with the leader killing Fry in the book and then suddenly leaving [[RougeAnglesOfSatin "for no raisin."]]
* During an episodes in ''Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs'', Harry is playing a life sized version of snakes and ladders, with the snakes leading you to a tub of "bubbly wubbly" (comfortable green bubbles), required a roll of 2 in order to escape. Just before they're about to win, they land on a snake. Harry somehow leaves the die behind on the board, and therefore has trapped himself and all his dinosaurs. Everyone is worrying about how they're stuck indefinitely and are thinking of a way to escape when Trike, the Triceratops, creates a large racket scratching himself with a playing card that he found out of nowhere (and offscreen too). Harry takes the card, and it very conveniently is a "GET OUT OF THE BUBBLY WUBBLY TUB AND GO TO THE LAST SQUARE" card.
* Played straight in the {{cliffhanger}} episode “Council of Evil” in ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002''. Skeletor’s Council of Evil has taken nearly all of the Masters hostage; he’s used the Ram-Stone to force open the doors of Greyskull, knocking the Sorceress out in the process. The only thing standing in his way is Adam, who doesn’t even have his Sword of Power (having dropped it earlier). Nonetheless, Adam is determined to fight to the end… Until, as a final sign that the universe hates him, Skeletor’s old henchmen show up, having been sprung from prison by Kobra Khan. The villain simply knocks him into the abyss surrounding Greyskull saying “Good riddance to bad royalty!” and it seems the DarkestHour is truly upon Eternia. Would a miracle occur? Try ''three'' miracles. First off, Orco shows up where Adam lands, having recovered the Sword. Then, from seemingly nowhere, Zodac appears inside the Castle and revives the Sorceress, and they combine their powers to reinforce the barrier. Skeletor attempts to use the Ram-Stone again, only for Adam – now in his heroic form as He-Man – to take him by surprise, grab it, and crush it. He’s still outnumbered, but then comes number three – cue a BigDamnHeroes by the other Masters, who have been rescued by Moss Man (who Skeletor had never even considered, it seems). After this, the villains decide to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere cut their losses and flee]], but it did seem like everything all came out of nowhere. And the stage is set for Season Two.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' HalloweenEpisode ''Mickey's House of Villains'', various Disney Villains [[HostileShowTakeover take over the clubhouse at midnight on Halloween]] in a bid spearheaded by Jafar, turning it into the [[TitleDrop House of Villains]]. After all other attempts to get the clubhouse back fail, Mickey resorts to wearing his robe and Yensid's hat from the ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'' short so he can engage Jafar in a magic duel. Jafar kicks his ass anyway, and things look quite grim... until Aladdin just shows up and tosses the heroes the magic lamp. Plausible, yes, but clearly not set up in prior scenes. Aladdin wasn't even seen at the house prior to this moment, so it's possible he wasn't even there until the final act and couldn't have had any way of knowing the heroes needed him to give them the lamp. It wasn't even Jafar's lamp. It was Genie's.
* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'' got most of its humor from the fact that the titular HumongousMecha was a literal example. In fact, one of the numerous buttons on its control panel was even marked "Save the World" (which was actually missing). More often it was subverted as whatever was supposed to be this of the episode backfired or misfired and the thing that ends saving the day turns out to be [[BrickJoke a seemingly unimportant plot element from earlier in the episode]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over A Barrel]]'': There's a conflict between the natives of the land and the newly settlers over the land; during the episode they keep arise the issue of reaching a consensus of relocating the apple orchard so the Buffaloes may complete their time-old tradition, or for Buffaloes to just go around the orchard. But somehow, everything is solved after a "[[FoodFight gruesome]]" battle; by the Buffaloes' appreciation for the settlers' pastries. So now the settlers agreed to a path through the trees (rather than cut down all of them as the Buffaloes originally wanted), and even agreed to share the wealth of the land with the Buffaloes.
** ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]'' also includes a Deus Ex Machina, in the form of [[TheCavalry Celestia]] showing up and dispelling the Want It, Need It spell from Mr. Smartypants and telling Twilight that no, really, you don't actually have to send a letter every single week (though in the end Celestia manages to turn it into everyone sending her letters sporadically). Justified in-story after the fact as Spike having surreptitiously contacted her off-screen when Twilight was spiralling out of control. Less unacceptable than most examples as the central conflict of the story was Twilight freaking out over nothing rather than the Want It, Need It spell and Celestia talking to Twilight was a logical means of solving the true central conflict.
** Subverted and played with in ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 Return of Harmony Part 1]]'' when strange things are happening such as chocolate raining down from clouds made of cotton candy and ears of corn spontaneously popping into popcorn. Twilight Sparkle shows up out of nowhere claiming some new spell she had conveniently just learned [[EpicFail should fix everything]].
--->'''Twilight:''' My fail safe spell... FAILED!
** ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight’s Kingdom Part 2]]'': Tirek steals all magic in Equestria and appears unstoppable... then the Mane 6 open that hexagonal box and everything’s fine.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls Equestria Girls]]'': Blatantly. Both the viewer and all the characters fully expected that Sunset Shimmer would ''kill'' Twilight Sparkle, but then “the magic of friendship” intervenes.
* Spoofed in the ChristmasSpecial ''WesternAnimation/OliveTheOtherReindeer'': Olive gets locked in the van of a mean-spirited mailman who wants to ruin Christmas. Her method of escape is contained within a box addressed "To: Olive From: Deus Ex Machina"
-->'''Olive:''' D'you know anyone named Deus ex Machina?
-->'''Martini:''' Denise who?
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' relies on several per episode as {{running gag}}s to maintain the status quo. It is usually excused with RuleOfFunny.
** Perry and Doof in "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbPhineasAndFerbGetBusted Phineas and Ferb Get Busted]]".
* Invoked in ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot''. Mainframe is damaged beyond repair and there's nothing anyone can do to stop the system from crashing and killing everyone. Bob's "last resort" is to backup everyone, let the system crash, and pray for a system restart from the user. Sure enough, the User restarts his computer and saves everyone, including the people already killed before the crash.
** Before CerebusSyndrome, an episode about Hexadecimal changing all of Mainframe [[TakenForGranite to stone]] concluded with Hex deciding she was bored and snapping her fingers to de-petrify everyone. Admittedly, it took a little [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath prompting]] from Bob. And it is [[MadGod Hexadecimal]]...
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
** Parodied and lampshaded in the episode "Thank God, It's Doomsday" where Homer is the only person called up to Heaven after the Rapture; when he asks {{God}} to put things back the way they were ([[InsaneTrollLogic on the logic that Superman did it in his first movie]]), God raises His hands skyward and shouts "''Deus Ex Machina!''", after which everything goes back to normal.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E15MissionaryImpossible Missionary Impossible]]" sets up the ending like this is the ''only'' way out. Homer and a little girl are trapped on a tiny island in the middle of the lava - on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean - and we're just waiting for the rescue helicopters or something equally incredible to save them. But the show suddenly stops and some commentators laugh and wonder how they're going to get out of ''this'' one. And by the way, it's Pledge Drive Week, so phone in now... (The show is intentionally [[NoEnding left unresolved]].)
** The ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' parody episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E14DasBus Das Bus]]" where all the kids are left stuck on the island at the end and Creator/JamesEarlJones, in a voiceover narration role, says that they were eventually saved by "...oh, let's say, Moe".
** That infamous episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E18TheDayTheViolenceDied The Day The Violence Died]]" where Bart & Lisa help a homeless man win a lawsuit against Itchy & Scratchy studios. Itchy & Scratchy gets back on its feet thanks to two kids named [[IdenticalStranger Lester & Eliza]]. They also helped Apu after he was arrested for public nudity and helped Krusty get back together with his never-before mentioned estranged wife.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Mintberry Crunch of the Superhero arc, but a lesser example as it was hinted someone would step up.
* The end of the WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob|Squarepants}} episode ''Hello, Bikini Bottom''. Mr. Krabs buys back the Krusty Krab with Gary's collage funds after selling it to a pawn shop in the beginning so he can afford to take SpongeBob and Squidward on tour.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' loved doing this.
** In [[Recap/TeenTitansS3E13TitansEastPartTwo the Season 3 Finale]] Cyborg is the only Titan left who can resist Brother Blood's [[MindManipulation Mind Control]]. Blood has effortlessly torn Cyborg's leg and arm off, controlled the other Titans, and is ripping Cyborg's circuitry apart, trying to find the component that makes Cyborg immune. Cyborg announces [[HeroicResolve "It's my SPIRIT!"]] instantly rebuilds a replacement arm and leg, ignores Blood's energy blasts (the ones that blew his arm and leg off 15 seconds ago) and takes Blood out with one punch. They at least {{lampshade|Hanging}} it this time.
--->'''Beast Boy''': [[DoingInTheScientist So are you magic now or something?]]
--->'''Cyborg''': [[ItOnlyWorksOnce I'm sure it was a one-time deal.]]
*** And they explain the mechanic fine (Blood was trying so hard to use his PsychicPowers to control Cyborg's mind that he accidentally allowed Cyborg to access them). The problem was, they explained this ''after the fact'', with no indication beforehand that something like this was possible or that Blood had anything but complete control over his powers. This is especially jarring precisely because it ''wouldn't have taken much foreshadowing to establish the mechanic beforehand''. Sigh.
** In [[Recap/TeenTitansS4E13TheEndPartThree the Season 4 Finale]] Raven embraces ThePowerOfFriendship, reverts to her normal age, and gains complete control of her powers long enough to blast her evil father into oblivion.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation'', Buster and Babs are saved from a fatal fall by a plot hole (a literal hole in the ground, that magically transports them back home).
--> '''Buster:''' [[SelfDeprecation I was wondering how our hack writers would get us out of this one.]]
* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' episode "A Prime Problem", Megatron throws Spike out of his rocket, but then Powerglide shows up out of nowhere and saves him. It could be assumed that he was there all along and simply hadn't appeared on screen, except for the fact that before this episode, all but two of the Autobots had had land-based altmodes. Later, in ''Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce'', The Autobots are revealed to be equipped with non-lethal knockout gas just as Decepticon zombies attack Rome.
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' has an episode titled [[InvokedTrope Deus Ex Machina]]. In it the B plot of Miko caught by a security guard is wrapped up by Agent Fowler suddenly showing up to solve the problem. Miko even [[LampshadeHanging explains how the trope works]] just before Fowler shows up to execute it (although he ''was'' mentioned earlier, so it's not 100% straight).
* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'':
** In the tenth episode of season 2, Bloom discovers her healing powers when she brings Sky back from the dead.
** In the Season 1 finale, Bloom manifests the ability to teleport the way witches do (without a portal, for which a special form is required in Season 4) just in time to save herself from drowning and **** Icy off enough to waste a ton of magical power trying to shoot her down again, which basically wears her out so much that she passes out; considering that Bloom was useless with magic for most of the first season (and, in fact, had no powers for much of the back half of the season), it's nothing less than miraculous.
* ''WesternAnimation/YogiBear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose'' ends with the titular plane magically flying itself back home while everyone is sleeping.
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** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in "Recycled Koopa" in which magic didn't really solve anything.
* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' [[LampshadeHanging hung an enormous lantern]] in the form of a ParentalBonus: One episode involved the hunt for the "Orb of Machina", a MacGuffin intended to cure Genie's cold.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
** Parodied when just as Stan and his family are about to be stoned to death, George Bush and the army arrive to save them with the line "Democracy has arrived!", throwing an American flag through the judge. Instantly, all of Saudi Arabia becomes some kind of democratic paradise, and Stan gives a line parodying the end of ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''. However, none of it mattered in the end, as it was AllJustADream.
** Though a real one took place in the form of Roger using his "husband"'s (long story) apparent political influence to call the Saudi executioners just in time to call off the stoning and free the Smiths.
* A few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' turn out to be this, with special mention for "Moby Dopes". Dagget brings home a killer whale to their pond, thinking it to be as kind as [[Film/FreeWilly Willy]], but is really a carnivorous beast eating everyone and everyTHING in sight. It looks like it's about to be the end of the beavers... until a T-rex comes in and eats it. Norbert even lampshades this.
-->'''Norbert''': Where in the name of Deus Ex Machina did that T-REX come from?!
** [[spoiler: As it turns out, [[WhatAnIdiot Dagget happened to bring home the T-rex from an amusement park prior to the Killer Whale,]] [[HereWeGoAgain and are promptly chased by a new more vicious predator]].]]
* Every season finale of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' and its sequel, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' (so far) has ended with at least two of these[[note]]With the exception of ATLA Book 2, where there had a DiabolusExMachina and TLOK Book 3, which was a convenient contrivance at worst[[/note]]:
** '''ATLA Book 1''': Yue [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices herself]] to restore the Moon Spirit and restore Waterbending. Aang merges with the Ocean Spirit to become [[FanNickname "Koizilla"]] and destroys the Fire Nation fleet.
** '''ATLA Book 3''': Thanks to the events of the Book 2 finale, Aang is unable to access the [[SuperMode Avatar State]] and in the showdown with [[BigBad Fire Lord Ozai]], Ozai has him on the ropes. Ozai presses his attack against Aang's desperation rock shield and conveniently smashes Aang into a rock that hits him in the ''exact right spot'' to unblock his chakra and activate the Avatar State, flipping the fight into a CurbStompBattle in Aang's favor. This is only after Aang has gotten a completely unknown form of bending handed to him by a Lion Turtle. While the Lion Turtles have been mentioned previously, energybending hasn't.
** '''TLOK Book 1''': Amon manages to take away Korra's Earth, Fire and Waterbending, but unlocks her previously unaccessible Airbending in the process, allowing her to beat him and -expose him as a Bender to Republic City. With Katara unable to heal Amon's damage, she's the Avatar in name only. When Korra travels and sits by an ice cliff to reflect and cry over her loss of identity, she's finally able to communicate with the spirit of Aang (something she's been unable to do the entire season). One flash of Aang's Energybending later, and not only does Korra have all her other bending back, now she's able to access the [[SuperMode Avatar State]] (which she's also been unable to do). She's then able to restore the bending of every one of Amon's victims.
** '''TLOK Book 2''': Deus-ex-Jinora. Vaatu fuses with Unalaq and reduces Raava (the Avatar Spirit) down to her bare essence. Korra uses the Tree of Time to pull some super spirit mojo and goes after [[FanNickname Unavaatu.]] So far so good. But it turns out she's not up to the task, and just as Unavaatu begins to use Unalaq's spirit-waterbending technique to corrupt her, Jinora's spirit suddenly appears from the spirit aurora over Republic City with an orb of light and showers it on cosmic Korra and Unavaatu, which has the resulting effect of dispelling Unavaatu's spirit-waterbending corruption technique and then jumpstarting/revealing Raava's regrowth inside Vaatu, thus allowing Korra to free Raava and purify Unavaatu.
** '''TLOK Book 3''': The mildest of the bunch. Korra is down for the count, poisoned by Zaheer and the Red Lotus. But Jinora tells Suyin Bei Fong that the poison is metallic, so she can still save Korra (Yes, she saw them administer the poison in her spirit form, but how did she know it was metallic?). Suyin manages to metalbend the poison out of Korra's body (somehow), saving her life - though she's still wheelchair-bound, two weeks later.
* The finale of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'': the Maximals, holed up in the Ark, are getting pummeled by the Decepticon warship Megatron just found. Thanks to a tip from Dinobot II, they find a working shuttle in one of the bays. They take that shuttle, kamikaze it into the enemy ship, and then fly home on it, creating a StableTimeLoop.
--> '''Blackarachnia''': ''The history tracks never mentioned this!''
--> '''Rhinox''': ''History's still being made!''
* ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'': Lumpus is riding atop his walking lawnchair the elves built him (don't ask). He has Santa, who is armed with naught but a tetherball, down on the ground (''don't'' ask). Slinkman and the kids have failed in rescuing the jolly old elf and are lying in a heap. This looks like the end...'til Lumpus is hit by a meteor. There ''was'' mention of a meteor shower at the very beginning, but still. And then another meteor shows up and ''narrates the ending'' a la the snowman from an early film version of ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer''. Just in case you were still wondering what kind of show this was.
* In a HalloweenEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', Cleveland defeats a JerkJock from a neighboring town by setting a polluted river on fire, which wakes up a sea serpent that eats the guy whole. Cleveland himself didn't know it was there.
** In another episode, Cleveland and the kids are about to go over an InevitableWaterfall with seemingly no hope of surviving it when a grey screen with "Scene Missing" comes up. When it cuts back to the episode, Cleveland is thanking a talking Walrus with a handlebar moustache and top hat for saving them, then the Walrus jumps into the water, claps, then jumps out and flies off leaving behind a trail of rainbows.
* Many of WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'s problems were solved in this way. Some examples include being able to wear a mask at the party to cover a pimple because it's a costume party and his video that he doesn't want Patti to see actually going to Mr. Bone.
* Several ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' episodes ended with very blatant examples, all operating under RuleOfFunny. An example is when Evil the cat unleashed a cosmic MonsterClown that was unstoppable. Jim calls an ObstructiveBureaucrat, who demands the clown obtains a license to destroy the universe, the stacked-up application form for which extends above the atmosphere. Which must be filled in in triplicate of course. This is discounting the many times where the bad guy is beaten, somehow gets back into power in the last few seconds, then gets hit by the [[RunningGag falling cow.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' MusicalEpisode: the loophole in Flappy Bob's contract that defeated the pixies isn't even hinted at until the final act.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** The ending of the episode "Lois Kills Stewie". No, before we find it out it was a [[AllJustADream simulation]]. When Stewie is about to shoot Lois, she is saved when he is shot by Peter... who was last seen on the couch at home.
** Another Family Guy episode involved Stewie adopting a malevolent turtle. Long story short, things escalate and they end up in a fight to the death. Stewie, for whatever reason, is no match for the small reptile, and is nearly killed... until [[SuperMarioBros Super Mario]] bursts in and kills the turtle.
** There was also that one time "Democracy took hold" and ended the Iraq War.
* The [[WesternAnimation/FantasticFour 90s Fantastic Four show]] has "Where Calls Galactus", where {{Galactus}} decides to consume Earth after [[EnemyMine allying with the Four against a common enemy]]. All seems lost...[[spoiler: until Comicbook/GhostRider shows up out of ''nowhere'', uses his guilt-inducing power to incapacitate Galactus, and then vanishes into the night.]] It should be noted that the episode is based on a comic book arc by Creator/JohnByrne, and it makes much more sense in the original.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones''' CowboyEpisode was resolved when a stone version of the [[Series/{{Bonanza}} Cartwright family]], with no warning whatsoever, charge in out of nowhere to rescue the main characters.
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' has an in-universe example with Fry creating his own deus ex machina while trying to save the Earth from a Brainspawn invasion. After cornering the Brainspawn leader in a library, it forces Fry, Leela and itself into the nearby books (causing the three to relive events from whatever book they're in,) with the chase scene eventually ending with Fry trapping the Brainspawn leader in a poorly-written book that he wrote on the spot, which ends with the leader killing Fry in the book and then suddenly leaving [[RougeAnglesOfSatin "for no raisin."]]
* During an episodes in ''Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs'', Harry is playing a life sized version of snakes and ladders, with the snakes leading you to a tub of "bubbly wubbly" (comfortable green bubbles), required a roll of 2 in order to escape. Just before they're about to win, they land on a snake. Harry somehow leaves the die behind on the board, and therefore has trapped himself and all his dinosaurs. Everyone is worrying about how they're stuck indefinitely and are thinking of a way to escape when Trike, the Triceratops, creates a large racket scratching himself with a playing card that he found out of nowhere (and offscreen too). Harry takes the card, and it very conveniently is a "GET OUT OF THE BUBBLY WUBBLY TUB AND GO TO THE LAST SQUARE" card.
* Played straight in the {{cliffhanger}} episode “Council of Evil” in ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002''. Skeletor’s Council of Evil has taken nearly all of the Masters hostage; he’s used the Ram-Stone to force open the doors of Greyskull, knocking the Sorceress out in the process. The only thing standing in his way is Adam, who doesn’t even have his Sword of Power (having dropped it earlier). Nonetheless, Adam is determined to fight to the end… Until, as a final sign that the universe hates him, Skeletor’s old henchmen show up, having been sprung from prison by Kobra Khan. The villain simply knocks him into the abyss surrounding Greyskull saying “Good riddance to bad royalty!” and it seems the DarkestHour is truly upon Eternia. Would a miracle occur? Try ''three'' miracles. First off, Orco shows up where Adam lands, having recovered the Sword. Then, from seemingly nowhere, Zodac appears inside the Castle and revives the Sorceress, and they combine their powers to reinforce the barrier. Skeletor attempts to use the Ram-Stone again, only for Adam – now in his heroic form as He-Man – to take him by surprise, grab it, and crush it. He’s still outnumbered, but then comes number three – cue a BigDamnHeroes by the other Masters, who have been rescued by Moss Man (who Skeletor had never even considered, it seems). After this, the villains decide to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere cut their losses and flee]], but it did seem like everything all came out of nowhere. And the stage is set for Season Two.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' HalloweenEpisode ''Mickey's House of Villains'', various Disney Villains [[HostileShowTakeover take over the clubhouse at midnight on Halloween]] in a bid spearheaded by Jafar, turning it into the [[TitleDrop House of Villains]]. After all other attempts to get the clubhouse back fail, Mickey resorts to wearing his robe and Yensid's hat from the ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'' short so he can engage Jafar in a magic duel. Jafar kicks his ass anyway, and things look quite grim... until Aladdin just shows up and tosses the heroes the magic lamp. Plausible, yes, but clearly not set up in prior scenes. Aladdin wasn't even seen at the house prior to this moment, so it's possible he wasn't even there until the final act and couldn't have had any way of knowing the heroes needed him to give them the lamp. It wasn't even Jafar's lamp. It was Genie's.
* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'' got most of its humor from the fact that the titular HumongousMecha was a literal example. In fact, one of the numerous buttons on its control panel was even marked "Save the World" (which was actually missing). More often it was subverted as whatever was supposed to be this of the episode backfired or misfired and the thing that ends saving the day turns out to be [[BrickJoke a seemingly unimportant plot element from earlier in the episode]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over A Barrel]]'': There's a conflict between the natives of the land and the newly settlers over the land; during the episode they keep arise the issue of reaching a consensus of relocating the apple orchard so the Buffaloes may complete their time-old tradition, or for Buffaloes to just go around the orchard. But somehow, everything is solved after a "[[FoodFight gruesome]]" battle; by the Buffaloes' appreciation for the settlers' pastries. So now the settlers agreed to a path through the trees (rather than cut down all of them as the Buffaloes originally wanted), and even agreed to share the wealth of the land with the Buffaloes.
** ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]'' also includes a Deus Ex Machina, in the form of [[TheCavalry Celestia]] showing up and dispelling the Want It, Need It spell from Mr. Smartypants and telling Twilight that no, really, you don't actually have to send a letter every single week (though in the end Celestia manages to turn it into everyone sending her letters sporadically). Justified in-story after the fact as Spike having surreptitiously contacted her off-screen when Twilight was spiralling out of control. Less unacceptable than most examples as the central conflict of the story was Twilight freaking out over nothing rather than the Want It, Need It spell and Celestia talking to Twilight was a logical means of solving the true central conflict.
** Subverted and played with in ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 Return of Harmony Part 1]]'' when strange things are happening such as chocolate raining down from clouds made of cotton candy and ears of corn spontaneously popping into popcorn. Twilight Sparkle shows up out of nowhere claiming some new spell she had conveniently just learned [[EpicFail should fix everything]].
--->'''Twilight:''' My fail safe spell... FAILED!
** ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight’s Kingdom Part 2]]'': Tirek steals all magic in Equestria and appears unstoppable... then the Mane 6 open that hexagonal box and everything’s fine.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls Equestria Girls]]'': Blatantly. Both the viewer and all the characters fully expected that Sunset Shimmer would ''kill'' Twilight Sparkle, but then “the magic of friendship” intervenes.
* Spoofed in the ChristmasSpecial ''WesternAnimation/OliveTheOtherReindeer'': Olive gets locked in the van of a mean-spirited mailman who wants to ruin Christmas. Her method of escape is contained within a box addressed "To: Olive From: Deus Ex Machina"
-->'''Olive:''' D'you know anyone named Deus ex Machina?
-->'''Martini:''' Denise who?
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' relies on several per episode as {{running gag}}s to maintain the status quo. It is usually excused with RuleOfFunny.
** Perry and Doof in "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbPhineasAndFerbGetBusted Phineas and Ferb Get Busted]]".
* Invoked in ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot''. Mainframe is damaged beyond repair and there's nothing anyone can do to stop the system from crashing and killing everyone. Bob's "last resort" is to backup everyone, let the system crash, and pray for a system restart from the user. Sure enough, the User restarts his computer and saves everyone, including the people already killed before the crash.
** Before CerebusSyndrome, an episode about Hexadecimal changing all of Mainframe [[TakenForGranite to stone]] concluded with Hex deciding she was bored and snapping her fingers to de-petrify everyone. Admittedly, it took a little [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath prompting]] from Bob. And it is [[MadGod Hexadecimal]]...
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
** Parodied and lampshaded in the episode "Thank God, It's Doomsday" where Homer is the only person called up to Heaven after the Rapture; when he asks {{God}} to put things back the way they were ([[InsaneTrollLogic on the logic that Superman did it in his first movie]]), God raises His hands skyward and shouts "''Deus Ex Machina!''", after which everything goes back to normal.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E15MissionaryImpossible Missionary Impossible]]" sets up the ending like this is the ''only'' way out. Homer and a little girl are trapped on a tiny island in the middle of the lava - on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean - and we're just waiting for the rescue helicopters or something equally incredible to save them. But the show suddenly stops and some commentators laugh and wonder how they're going to get out of ''this'' one. And by the way, it's Pledge Drive Week, so phone in now... (The show is intentionally [[NoEnding left unresolved]].)
** The ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' parody episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E14DasBus Das Bus]]" where all the kids are left stuck on the island at the end and Creator/JamesEarlJones, in a voiceover narration role, says that they were eventually saved by "...oh, let's say, Moe".
** That infamous episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E18TheDayTheViolenceDied The Day The Violence Died]]" where Bart & Lisa help a homeless man win a lawsuit against Itchy & Scratchy studios. Itchy & Scratchy gets back on its feet thanks to two kids named [[IdenticalStranger Lester & Eliza]]. They also helped Apu after he was arrested for public nudity and helped Krusty get back together with his never-before mentioned estranged wife.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Mintberry Crunch of the Superhero arc, but a lesser example as it was hinted someone would step up.
* The end of the WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob|Squarepants}} episode ''Hello, Bikini Bottom''. Mr. Krabs buys back the Krusty Krab with Gary's collage funds after selling it to a pawn shop in the beginning so he can afford to take SpongeBob and Squidward on tour.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' loved doing this.
** In [[Recap/TeenTitansS3E13TitansEastPartTwo the Season 3 Finale]] Cyborg is the only Titan left who can resist Brother Blood's [[MindManipulation Mind Control]]. Blood has effortlessly torn Cyborg's leg and arm off, controlled the other Titans, and is ripping Cyborg's circuitry apart, trying to find the component that makes Cyborg immune. Cyborg announces [[HeroicResolve "It's my SPIRIT!"]] instantly rebuilds a replacement arm and leg, ignores Blood's energy blasts (the ones that blew his arm and leg off 15 seconds ago) and takes Blood out with one punch. They at least {{lampshade|Hanging}} it this time.
--->'''Beast Boy''': [[DoingInTheScientist So are you magic now or something?]]
--->'''Cyborg''': [[ItOnlyWorksOnce I'm sure it was a one-time deal.]]
*** And they explain the mechanic fine (Blood was trying so hard to use his PsychicPowers to control Cyborg's mind that he accidentally allowed Cyborg to access them). The problem was, they explained this ''after the fact'', with no indication beforehand that something like this was possible or that Blood had anything but complete control over his powers. This is especially jarring precisely because it ''wouldn't have taken much foreshadowing to establish the mechanic beforehand''. Sigh.
** In [[Recap/TeenTitansS4E13TheEndPartThree the Season 4 Finale]] Raven embraces ThePowerOfFriendship, reverts to her normal age, and gains complete control of her powers long enough to blast her evil father into oblivion.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation'', Buster and Babs are saved from a fatal fall by a plot hole (a literal hole in the ground, that magically transports them back home).
--> '''Buster:''' [[SelfDeprecation I was wondering how our hack writers would get us out of this one.]]
* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' episode "A Prime Problem", Megatron throws Spike out of his rocket, but then Powerglide shows up out of nowhere and saves him. It could be assumed that he was there all along and simply hadn't appeared on screen, except for the fact that before this episode, all but two of the Autobots had had land-based altmodes. Later, in ''Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce'', The Autobots are revealed to be equipped with non-lethal knockout gas just as Decepticon zombies attack Rome.
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' has an episode titled [[InvokedTrope Deus Ex Machina]]. In it the B plot of Miko caught by a security guard is wrapped up by Agent Fowler suddenly showing up to solve the problem. Miko even [[LampshadeHanging explains how the trope works]] just before Fowler shows up to execute it (although he ''was'' mentioned earlier, so it's not 100% straight).
* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'':
** In the tenth episode of season 2, Bloom discovers her healing powers when she brings Sky back from the dead.
** In the Season 1 finale, Bloom manifests the ability to teleport the way witches do (without a portal, for which a special form is required in Season 4) just in time to save herself from drowning and **** Icy off enough to waste a ton of magical power trying to shoot her down again, which basically wears her out so much that she passes out; considering that Bloom was useless with magic for most of the first season (and, in fact, had no powers for much of the back half of the season), it's nothing less than miraculous.
* ''WesternAnimation/YogiBear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose'' ends with the titular plane magically flying itself back home while everyone is sleeping.
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