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AceNoctali
Since: Nov, 2009
5th Apr, 2011 01:32:26 PM
"Your kindness gives me the presentiment I can be reborn. Now, I want to believe at least in you." - Kaori Yae
nrjxll
Since: Nov, 2010
5th Apr, 2011 06:01:23 PM
A very specific form of Deus ex Machina, sounds like.
So the climax has passed, and you have defeated the White Witch, destroyed the ring, let your pet tigers back into the wild, captured the wolf with the help of the hunters, killed the wolf with the help of the woodsman, etc, but there is still something wrong. Your brother is dying, you are trapped on the erupting volcano, your tigers might become man-eaters, grandma is already eaten, the duck is already eaten, etc.
Just went it looks like you might have a Bittersweat ending, you suddenly remember your healing potion, eagles show up out of nowhere and rescue you, your tigers find their mother who will teach them to hunt, grandmother is cut out live from the woodsman, the wolf coughs up the live duck, etc.
Do we have any tropes that would describe this sort of last minute save? It is almost like a Belated Happy Ending, yet it is still in the main body of the story, if tacked on to the very end, or maybe the almost very end.