History DeusExMachina / WesternAnimation

''WesternAnimation/Amphibia'': In the series finale, [[spoiler: Anne sacrifices her life to destroy the main antagonist and save the world. But she then finds herself in limbo, where a completely random deity reveals itself to her, then brings her back to life in the main world.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': Anytime the Amulet of Avalor summons a Disney Princess who in turn helps Sofia resolve a major conflict. It summons Cinderella to encourage her to help make amends with her stepsister Amber and give her another chance, it summons Belle when she nearly runs out of time before singing the Enchancia Anthem at the Harvest Festival when under a croaking curse and learns she has to make things right, it summons Rapunzel when Amber learns she has to make a big sacrifice for the sake of Sofia to defeat Princess Ivy, and so forth.

** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in "Recycled Koopa" in which magic didn't really solve anything.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', problems and conflicts are usually solved with [[AllLovingHero Steven]] talking down an antagonist. Either over time or at once, BigBad of the most recent Arc, White Diamond was different in that she was a force that simply [[OutsideContextProblem could not be reasoned with.]] Due to being unbelievably powerful, believing herself to be perfect and also just shutting down Steven every time he had something to say. In the final confrontation with White Diamond, she removes his gem. [[spoiler: Pink Steven]] then appears with no prior foreshadowing, [[spoiler: somehow overpowers White Diamond with his [[MakeMeWannaShout voice]], NoSells all her attacks, which prior to this point were overwhelmingly effective and then rejoins with Human Steven before the latter can die.]] After being so thoroughly humbled, White Diamond proceeds to drop all pretense of composure, throws a temper tantrum and has her entire argument (and [[MenaceDecay threat level]]) thrown out the window.

*** [[RobotBuddy Jet 2]] causes an eclipse in the TV movie Back to Bortron 7, which distracts the townspeople from seeing the Propulsion house land back on Earth.

* ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourTheAnimatedSeries'' has "Where Calls Galactus", where 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.

** '''[=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.

* The [[WesternAnimation/FantasticFour 90s Fantastic Four show]] has "Where Calls Galactus", where 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.

* 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.

* In WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse problems and conflicts are usually solved with [[AllLovingHero Steven]] talking down an antagonist. Either over time or at once, BigBad of the most recent Arc, White Diamond was different in that she was a force that simply [[OutsideContextProblem could not be reasoned with.]] Due to being unbelievably powerful, believing herself to be perfect and also just shutting down Steven every time he had something to say. In the final confrontation with White Diamond, she removes his gem. [[spoiler: Pink Steven]] then appears with no prior foreshadowing, [[spoiler: somehow overpowers White Diamond with his [[MakeMeWannaShout voice]], NoSells all her attacks, which prior to this point were overwhelmingly effective and then rejoins with Human Steven before the latter can die.]] After being so thoroughly humbled, White Diamond proceeds to drop all pretense of composure, throws a temper tantrum and has her entire argument (and [[MenaceDecay threat level]]) thrown out the window.

** '''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.

** '''[=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.

* ''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.]]

** 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.

** '''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.

** A last-minute one occurs in part 2 of "The Return of Harmony"; all the mane characters are under Discord's influence and Twilight is close to leaving and losing hope. Luckily, Princess Celestia sends back all the friendship reports Twilight sent her, which in turn breaks the MindRape, having her realize everything and restore her friends so they can defeat Discord.

** A last-minute one occurs in part 2 of "The Return of Harmony"; all the mane characters are under Discord's influence and Twilight is close to leaving and losing hope. Luckily, Princess Celestia sends back all the friendship reports Twilight sent her, which in turn breaks the MindRape, having her realize everything and restore her friends so they can defeat Discord.

* Every season finale of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' and its sequel, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has ended with at least two of these[[note]]With the exception of ATLA Book 2, where there had a DiabolusExMachina and TLOK Books 3 & 4, which have convenient contrivances at worst[[/note]]:

* ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'': In one episode, [[BigBad Skeleton King]]'s EldritchAbomination is able to turn any humans and robot monkeys into mindless zombies by using its large eye. As Hiro, being a sole survivor, gets turned into a zombie, CueTheSun in a few seconds, which kills that {{Oculothorax}} monster, and all zombifications get undone. This is only foreshadowed once a short time before, as that monster gets weakened by being exposed to any forms of light. The enemy is defeated not by someone, but something in a coincidental way.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "[[Recap/TeenTitansGoS5E52TeenTitansRoar Teen Titans Roar]]", after having spent the entirety of the episode complaining about ''WesternAnimation/ThundercatsRoar'' not appealing to their specific tastes, the '80s version of Lion-O appears from the "cartoon afterlife" to tell the Titans that the reboot is a worthy follow up to [[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985 the original]], instantly resolving the conflict of the episode. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Roar Lion-O who thanks him for the completely unforced endorsement.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "[[Recap/TeenTitansGoS5E52TeenTitansRoar Teen Titans Roar]]", after having spent the entirety of the episode complaining about ''WesternAnimation/ThundercatsRoar'' not appealing to their specific tastes, the '80s version of Lion-O appears from the "cartoon afterlife" to tell the Titans that the reboot is a worthy follow up to [[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats the original]], instantly resolving the conflict of the episode. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Roar Lion-O who thanks him for the completely unforced endorsement.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "[[TeenTitansGoS5E52TeenTitansRoar Teen Titans Roar]]", after having spent the entirety of the episode complaining about ''[[WesternAnimation/ThundercatsRoar]]'' not appealing to their specific tastes, the '80s version of Lion-O appears from the "cartoon afterlife" to tell the Titans that the reboot is a worthy follow up to [[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats the original]], instantly resolving the conflict of the episode. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Roar Lion-O who thanks him for the completely unforced endorsement.