History Quotes / DEUSEXMACHINA

-->-- '''Norbert''', ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RcbtNr5YIRc#t=602]]

->''"Lois getting nuked in ''[[{{Film/Superman}} Superman: The Movie]]'' and then time getting reversed, Superman losing his powers '''FOR EVER''' in ''Film/SupermanII'' and then, I dunno, deciding he wants them back and that’s all it takes, and now this. I mean, I guess you could say the same for the comics, but the movies go the extra mile in weaseling out of their own stupid plot points by making their excuses as dumb as possible. Compared to those, a Kryptonian crystal [[OneUP 1-Up Mushroom]] is actually the most believable."''

A person or event that provides a sudden and unexpected solution to a difficulty.
->or with a line from the dub that sums up my feelings about the battle

->but either way, the message would be the same: this battle sucked. The ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' rip off golden armor power-up is the biggest load the anime producers have pulled out their ass, plain and simple. I've seen people try to explain the whole thing by saying that Ohsubame[[note]]Swellow[[/note]] is using its "Guts" characteristic or that it somehow makes sense for a tough pokemon like Ohsubame to get a friggin' power up from a bolt of lightning, but I honestly think these people are full of crap. It's just wrong for so many reasons, and I seriously hope the anime producers don't try to pull any more shit like this in the future.''

->"I've never liked this scene," I said. "Detective confronts murderer. Murderer produces gun, points same at detective. Murderer tells detective the whole sad story, with the idea of shooting him at the end of it. Thus wasting a lot of valuable time, even if in the end murderer did shoot detective. ''[[LampshadeHanging Only murderer never does. Something always happens to prevent it.]] [[MediumAwareness The gods don't like this scene either. They always manage to spoil it."]]''

->"I am [[Myth/GreekMythology Zeus!]] And I declare this conflict RESOLVED!"\\
[[UnsoundEffect DEUS EX MACHINA!]]

->"Just accept the deus ex machina. [[{{Foreshadowing}} You only get one]]."
-->-- Helen Narbon, ''{{Webcomic/Narbonic}}''

->''"And all this because he is BFF's with God. Remember in the Bible when Jesus is on the cross and he laments: "My God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Well, probably because He was playing mini-golf with Souya or something."''
-->-- '''Leo York''', [[http://http://www.critessential.com/single-post/2017/08/11/Isekai-wa-Smartphone-to-Tomo-ni-vs-KonoSuba-Mo-Magic-Mo-Problems// on]] ''Literature/InAnotherWorldWithMySmartphone''

->So the children learned how to function as a society, and eventually they were rescued by... oh, let's say... Moe.

-->--Robert [=McKee=]

->Y'know, I could have started this comparison out any number of ways. I could have started by quoting a definition from dictionary.com

->but either way, the message would be the same: this battle sucked. The ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' rip off golden armor power-up is the biggest load the anime producers have pulled out their ass, plain and simple. I've seen people try to explain the whole thing by saying that Ohsubame[[note]]Swellow[[/note]] is using its "Guts" characteristic or that it somehow makes sense for a tough pokemon like Ohsubame to get a friggin' power up from a bolt of lightning, but I honestly think these people are full of crap. It's just wrong for so many reasons, and I seriously hope the anime producers don't try to pull any more shit like this in the future.

-->-- '''Leo York''', [[http://http://www.critessential.com/single-post/2017/08/11/Isekai-wa-Smartphone-to-Tomo-ni-vs-KonoSuba-Mo-Magic-Mo-Problems// on]] ''LightNovel/InAnotherWorldWithMySmartphone''

->but either way, the message would be the same: this battle sucked. The ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' rip off golden armor power-up is the biggest load the anime producers have pulled out their ass, plain and simple. I've seen people try to explain the whole thing by saying that Ohsubame is using its "Guts" characteristic or that it somehow makes sense for a tough pokemon like Ohsubame to get a friggin' power up from a bolt of lightning, but I honestly think these people are full of crap. It's just wrong for so many reasons, and I seriously hope the anime producers don't try to pull any more shit like this in the future.

->"''Where in the name of deus ex machina did that [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs T. rex]] come from?!''"

->''"A death, an investigation, a social ill unearthed, a lecture that says things are bad...[[DebateAndSwitch but not that bad yet so relax]], and no real resolution--all neatly wrapped up in 50 minutes (For the ''Benefit of My Patients'' is the most egregious example of this, where no one explains where all the government money is going to come from to subsidize a new non-profit hospital...and vicious gang members turn into [[TastesLikeDiabetes Disneyesque community organizers]])."''

->"''That'' certainly is convenient."

->"''This particular blunder is known as deus ex machina, which is French for "Are you fucking kidding me?''"

-->-- '''Creator/WalterMoers''', ''Literature/TheThirteenAndAHalfLivesOfCaptainBluebear''

-->-- ''Literature/PhilipMarlowe'', ''Literature/TheLadyInTheLake''

-->-- RunningGag, ''Isle of Rangoon''

->"And all this because he is BFF's with God. Remember in the Bible when Jesus is on the cross and he laments: "My God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Well, probably because He was playing mini-golf with Souya or something."
-->-- Leo York, [[http://http://www.critessential.com/single-post/2017/08/11/Isekai-wa-Smartphone-to-Tomo-ni-vs-KonoSuba-Mo-Magic-Mo-Problems// on]] ''{{LightNovel/In Another World With My Smartphone}} ''

-->--Robert McKee

-->--'''[[http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/59354/quincy-me-season-five/ Paul Mavis]]''' on ''Quincy, M.E.''

-->-- '''Dogasu's Backpack''' [[http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/comparisons/houen/ep100.html review]] of the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' episode "[[Recap/PokemonS8E8SolidAsASolrock Solid as a Solrock]]"

->'''Robin:''' ''"Gosh, Batman. The nobility of the almost-human porpoise."''\\
'''Batman:''' ''"True, Robin. It was noble of that animal to hurl himself into the path of that final torpedo. He gave his life for ours."''

-->-- '''[[MetaGuy Chisame]]''', ''Anime/MahouSenseiNegima''

So the children learned how to function as a society, and eventually they were rescued by... oh, let's say... Moe.