Line #3 Quotes/DiabolusExMachina


1	->''"Tragedy always strikes when one least expects it. But to wait for a man to stand before striking him down seems almost crueler than dealing the fatal blow while he lies on the ground."''
2	--> -- '''The narrator''', ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' ([[ItsAWonderfulFailure bad ending number 5]])
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4	->''Now, you shouldn't be surprised that there is magical 'interference' at work here because on the one hand, we can pick up lifesigns so well we can identify the ''species'' of a lifeform from lightyears away, while they're hiding inside of an asteroid field--'''inside''' of an asteroid, no less? But detecting explosives ''within'' the asteroid field? [[HaHaHaNo Ha ha ha, not a chance]]. 'Interference' usually means 'from the writer'.''
5	-->--'''{{Website/SFDebris}}''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Homestead"
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7	->''"But... this is a Film/MoulinRouge review, we can't end on a happy note!"''
8	->''"You're right, we need a sad ending for no reason other than we need a sad ending!"''
9	--> -- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''' and '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''', ''MUSICAL REVIEW: Moulin Rouge''
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11	->''"I wasn't expecting Ammon to clap us on the back and say "Great job kid, now let's go home," but it'd be better than what we got. As it is, all our work, all our effort invested into [=NWN2=] as a game is undone in seconds because Obsidian wanted a 'tragic' ending. It is tragic, mind, but only for the player."''
12	--> -- [[http://lparchive.org/Neverwinter-Nights-2/Update%2085/ Let’s Play]] ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'', by Lt. Danger
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14	->'''Seth Gecko''': Yeah, those acts of God really stick it in and break it off, don't they?
15	->'''Jacob Fuller''': Yes, they do.
16	-->--''Film/FromDuskTillDawn''
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18	->''"You can do everything right and cheat death, and then be ruined by one false step.''"
19	-->--'''Michael Altman''', ''Literature/DeadSpaceMartyr''
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21	->'''Shakespeare:''' Master, I do write stories with happy endings from time to time, but... [[SickeninglySweet a fairytale world]] like this sure makes me want to write a bad ending.
22	->'''Protagonist:''' Stop it.
23	->'''Shakespeare:''' Ah, Master, it's dangerous. I really want to write that ending now! [[ContrivedClumsiness Hey, right hand, settle down!]]
24	--> -- ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder''
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26	-> '''Kuzco:''' No! It can't be! [[OffscreenTeleportation How did you get back here before us?]]\
27	'''[[BigBad Yzma]]:''' Ah... ''({{beat}})'' Uh... How ''did'' we, Kronk?\
28	'''Kronk:''' Well, ya got me. ''([[BreakingTheFourthWall pulls down the chase map the audience was looking at]])'' [[LampshadeHanging By all accounts, it doesn't make sense.]]\
29	'''Yzma:''' [[HandWave Oh, well.]] Back to business!
30	-->--''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''
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32	-> ''”What’s a bad miracle? They got a word for that?”''
33	-->--'''OJ Haywood''', ''{{Film/Nope}}''
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35	-> ''This is like a reverse DeusExMachina. Instead of creating a solution out of nowhere, they create a'' problem ''out of nowhere.''
36	-->--[[WebVideo/MonteFjanton Felix Recenserar]], ''Sune på Bilsemester''

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