History Main / DeusAxMachina

* In ''Film/{{Titanic}}'', Rose finds a fire ax to cut Jack out of his situation.

* ''TheTransporter''. Frank has to fight two villains with fire axes while trapped between them in a short corridor.

* Lana managed to find a fire ax in ''{{Smallville}}'' once. And inside Smallville High School no less.
* An episode of ''{{CSI}}'' began with a student going insane with a fire ax from the building where all his friends were murdered. [[spoiler:He was in the bathroom, just tripping on LSD that a couple of hookers had slipped him (hoping to steal some money he'd won earlier playing bingo) and their pimp (whom they'd shot and were trying to flee) was the one who used the ax to kill his friends.]]

* In a season 5 episode of ''{{Psych}}'', a group of convicts hijack a ferry. They take the other passengers hostage, and one of the convicts has a fire ax while he stands guard.

* This has occurred a few times in ''DarwinsSoldiers''. The examples are [[JustifiedTrope justified]], though.

* In ''Film/TheOne'' starring Jet Li, during the final battle, Ulaw grabs a fire ax that was just hanging on a nearby safety rail.

* The Comicbook/{{Batman}} villain known as [=KGBeast=] cut off his own hand with a fire ax when Batman trapped him by looping a rope around it, which of course leads to the question of why [=KGBeast=] didn't just cut the ''rope''.

** Similarly, Dominic Greene attacks JamesBond with a fire ax during the final battle in ''Film/QuantumOfSolace''

* During the final battle in ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', Dominic Greene attacks JamesBond with a fire ax.

* The Pyro from TeamFortress2 carries an axe as his melee weapon.

* While WebComic/AxeCop did find his ax "at the scene of a fire", it was just lying on the ground unattended.

* In {{Infocom}}'s ''The Lurking Horror'', one can find a fire emergency cabinet in the middle of the university hallway. The description even notes that the glass-fronted cabinet lacks a fire extinguisher or hose, but contains a fire ax.

* Lana managed to find a fire ax in ''{{Smallville}}'' once.

* A fire ax is the melee weapon for the Pyro in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''.

* In the first appearance of Spike on ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Joyce hits Spike in the back of the head with a fire ax that was hanging in the hallway.

* In ''TransformersPrime'' Miko finds an ax inside an observatory, which is promptly stolen by Soundwave. She finds another one inside a train, but the mooks leave [[BigDamnHeroes when Optimus arrives]]. She has yet to hit anything with an ax.

* Fire axes are everywhere in ''Left4Dead2''. May make sense in a shopping mall. But when they are scattered throughout a swamp, that's definitely Deus Ax Machina.

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* ''FalloutNewVegas'' has Fire Axes; though they do turn up in a fire station, where you'd expect them to be, you also find them in the hands of random bandits and while rifling through boxes in office buildings.

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* The season 3 finale of ''[[TwentyFour 24]]'', Chase was forced to cuff the final bomb to himself to keep it away from the villain. When Jack is unable to disable it and time is running short, Chase notices the fire ax on the wall and tells Jack to cut the hand off. (It's okay; they reattach it after the danger is over).

* This has occurred a few times in ''[[DarwinsSoldiers Darwin's Soldiers]]''. The examples are [[JustifiedTrope justified]], though.

* In the ''DoctorWho'' TV movie, the Eighth Doctor and Grace find a fire axe in a fire emergency cabinet when the Master's chasing them through an observatory, [[SubvertedTrope but they just use it to bar the doors behind them]].

* In the ''DoctorWho'' TV movie, the Eighth Doctor and Grace find a fire axe when the Master's chasing them through an observatory, [[SubvertedTrope but they just use it to bar the doors behind them]].

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* In ''{{Titanic}}'', Rose finds a fire ax to cut Jack out of his situation.
* During the final battle in ''QuantumOfSolace'', Dominic Greene attacks JamesBond with a fire ax.