The glove is the deus ex machina this series needs.
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The shooter was thwarted via a supernatural deus ex machina.
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Keep your deus ex machina out of my spy fiction!
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Empathy is a deus ex machina that conveniently solves both problems.
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The deus ex machina in this film is a Twitter icon.
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On the other hand, that was some deus ex machina, huh?
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I'm getting fed up with her deus ex-machina dragon scenes.
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Endgame leans into that, but not as a total deus ex-machina safeguard.
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A driverless deus ex machina might seem to spare governments some difficult decisions.
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He's been pulling the strings the entire season, a literal deus ex machina.
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The deus ex machina—never has anyone been so happy to see Littlefinger!
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As in a Greek play, Warren has appeared as a deus ex machina.
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A boozy deus ex machina for the online dating set, if you will.
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And there's no Deus Ex Machina election coming to save us from perpetuating it.
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In Mulholland Drive, they're the deus ex machina that get the dreamlike events started.
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Is he an interesting cipher or a copout deus ex machina of a character?
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Veronique is an elaborate deus ex machina, a character so purely evil she's almost convenient.
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The only difference is that is there is no deus ex machina in the offing.
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It appears that it would take a deus ex machina moment to change this course.
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It wants magic that is free and boundless and available for deus ex machina duty.
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Could it be a deus ex machina in the form of an email landing in Det.
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We do not need to reach for the deus ex machina Roth did to imagine escape.
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What if, instead of climate change or nuclear winter, we were delivered that deus ex machina?
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Autonomous cars are not a deus ex machina; current driving-safety programs must not be compromised.
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But what a silly image: a baseball-shaped, planet-sized deus ex machina zipping through the galaxy.
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Or, like so many other movies before it, does it become a deus ex machina cop-out?
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Throw in the deus ex machina of a magical helmet, and she's instantly crying and laughing again.
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They want a deus ex machina for a conflict, a plot hole that does not really exist.
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No doctor intervenes for a deus ex machina ending; no miraculous cures deliver a picture-perfect resolution.
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In some ways, Carmichael seems like a deus ex machina for the male-heavy world of genre filmmaking.
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Is that going to be the deus ex machina at the end of the season that solves everything?
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South Korea's team, the deus ex machina, scored twice in the final minutes of the game against Germany.
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One other way that popular entertainment misses the boat is by treating "hacking" as a deus ex machina.
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In the end of the film, they get their house back in an 11th-hour deus ex machina.
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I was friend, excuse, deus ex machina, joke, symptom, figment, specter, crutch, toy, phantom, gag, analyst and babysitter.
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He does not lean on the deus ex machina of a terrorist attack or a failed assassination attempt.
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But it can also offer a deus-ex-machina solution to the hedge funders' question about the Event.
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Plus, the characters are saved by a deus ex machina (more on this in item number five, below).
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Anastasia Vtorova is a Berlin-based producer who specializes in a special kind of deus ex machina techno.
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It's easier to accept the idiosyncrasies of human nature for inconsistency than uninvented technology as a deus ex machina.
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Eclipses were once perceived as a deus ex machina; now we know they bear no relation to terrestrial activities.
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Adult Michael is, understandably, thrilled by this monetary deus ex machina: his family, after all, can keep their home.
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Science in The Discovery is like a deus ex machina on steroids, serving whatever purpose the plot needs it to.
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There's also a deus ex machina involving a guinea pig that makes no sense, even within the episode's techno-mythos.
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It may seem at first a harsh ending — there is no deus ex machina for the brothers and their dreams.
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Evie comes perilously close to being embroiled in murder, but by the grace of deus ex machina, she avoids it.
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" Murray's deus ex machina drop-ins are an attempt, in Edwards's formulation, "to make real life more like the movies.
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Then there's a deus ex machina that throws into question everything we've seen in the movie up to that point.
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Even in sticky situations, some deus ex machina (or Bronn ex machina, in Jaime's case) shows up to save the day.
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Now General Mills seems to have decided it can't gamble on Congress providing a deus ex machina, and followed Campbell's lead.
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It's just a feel-good fantasy solution, a deus ex machina for a film that tacitly speculates whether there's even a God.
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An entire political entertainment system that feasted on the next day's hope for a deus ex machina now did eschatology as well.
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At this moment, we get our second ridiculous deus ex machina of the night, but who on earth is going to complain?
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As with much Republican election analysis, Kristol is putting a lot of faith in a deus ex machina intervention by the FBI.
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" Thankfully Lois Lane shows up like the deus ex machina this plot constantly needs, and lets Batman know "that's his mother's name.
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It's an uncomfortable but effective deus ex machina—Manny's inexplicable powers become the means by which Hank is able to save himself.
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And adding the deus ex machina of the Volkswagen Beetle at the end is a cheap narrative escape hatch under almost any circumstance.
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The first God's Not Dead movie is based on what's essentially an internet meme, with a deus ex machina tacked on at the end.
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She longed for a deus ex machina, something like the fire in The Magic Toyshop that would burn away her domestic life and leave
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Editorial Donald Trump's candidacy has left many Republicans yearning for a deus ex machina in this presidential race, but Evan McMullin is not it.
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The finale ended with a too-convenient deus ex machina, with a windfall from a federal flood disaster declaration solving the family's financial troubles.
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That might have been that, had a deus ex machina not intervened in the form of Ann Ziff, the chairwoman of the Met board.
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It is true that Palestinian leaders have a habit of investing unrealistic expectations in an international community as a kind of deus ex machina.
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Something mysterious and powerful—aka magical Assassin's Creed deus ex machina bullshit—is hidden beneath Siwa, and they're convinced Bayek knows how to access it.
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That's followed by an even worse ending featuring the most flagrant deus ex machina imaginable: the literal hand of God descending to save the day.
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Gordon himself would be extracted by the friendly Vortigaunts, an alien species that has served as a deus ex machina rescue force in previous installments.
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It's not that they think the algorithm is some deus ex machina that's going to instantly solve the important and difficult problems of refugee resettlement.
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The baby monitor becomes the ultimate deus ex machina when it catches Jane admitting that she's chosen Michael, and a crestfallen Rafael hears every word.
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The perverse narrative function of the menace stalking Angela is to swoop in like a deus ex machina, attempting in vain to rescue the play.
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Some two-and-a-half years into this routine, Democrats are still falling into the trap, waiting for a deus ex machina that never arrives.
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So is the way the film uses it as a deus ex machina, but there's no way to get into that without spoiling significant plot points.
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A dragon-led deus ex machina might feel a little cheap, but there's no denying it would be exhilarating to see a recuperated Drogon roasting wights.
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Mr. Cuomo appears to exert near-total control over the agency, and some doubt whether his latest deus ex machina was in fact the right move.
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The idea of Mueller as a kind of deus ex machina capable of rescuing the American people from the Trump presidency has taken on almost comical proportions.
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Flanagan hangs about a dozen Chekhov guns on the wall, which diminishes the payoff of each, and the deus ex machina shenanigans he pulls are obnoxiously typical.
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"What we need is a deus ex machina; we need a longer-lasting fertility-control agent and right now that's not to be seen," Mr. Gorey said.
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"Lordy, I hope there are tapes" is almost a prayer, a call for a deus ex machina to cut through political distortion and establish reality at last.
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The story's moral is elusive — keep a stiff upper lip, look on the bright side or just hope mom will arrive, deus ex machina, to help you.
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The next season will undoubtedly continue to use her as a deus ex machina, so can we maybe write this poor girl some actual history and motivation, please?
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A few thousand years later, and this model still stands: In order to fall in love, some deus ex machina better get involved, or else nothing will happen.
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But then, like a deus ex machina, the Google Lunar X Prize announced a set of interim goals—and rewards—that would give the flagging companies a carrot.
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Meredith's heedless actions once again precipitate a disastrous event, but in the second instance this is more deus ex machina than the organic product of what's come before.
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There is Mueller, something between an oracle and a demiurge, also physically absent, and there was Mueller's report, a promised deus ex machina hanging in the fly space above.
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Kaplan, in other words, employs racism as a deus ex machina — something that exists outside of history but that can be invoked as the ultimate explanation for historical events.
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For years the Europeans have ignored China's inroads into their territory; several, Greece for example, have positively welcomed Beijing as a deus ex machina for the country's economic ills.
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That makes the relentlessly upbeat ending — with its dutiful deus ex machina and an exhortation to just forget your worries since tomorrow has to be better — land with a thud.
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The temptation is to dismiss this as a long-term problem and hope that a deus ex machina, a sharp rise in bond yields or economic growth, will solve the problem.
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In March, the Department of Justice's highly-publicized legal battle with Apple over an encrypted iPhone belonging to a mass shooter in San Bernardino, California ended with a deus ex machina.
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A deus ex machina would have been if some hitherto unknown tree god intervened in the battle, scooping up the heroes and delivering them all from the Night King's icy hand.
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Mr. Fleming's translation also pokes fun, at times, at the structure of Molière's plays: One character mocks the idea of a deus ex machina ending precisely before "The Miser" introduces one.
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Yet Tacoma falls short in a real emotional connection with these stranded characters, especially as its deus ex machina ending (helped by the god-like AI) resolves everything a bit too neatly.
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When Thor is a literal deus ex machina in the battle for Wakanda, he and Captain America use the brief reprieve to poke fun at changes in their hair, faces, and otherwise.
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The show has shed George R.R. Martin's most frustrating tics, which ultimately weighed his story down: his insistence on meticulous world-building, on resisting deus ex machina resolutions, and on subverting fantasy tropes.
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We don't even have time to get into the deus ex machina that is Clay's hallucinated version of Hannah, who conveniently answers his burning questions about who she was and why she kept secrets.
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But then, in the third act, Molly's own dad appears as if in a deus ex machina—he quite literally seems like a vision at first—to explain her actions and offer his forgiveness.
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Recently however, hip new options including vegan cafes, music bars and housewares shops have sprouted among the local staples like Old Man's bar, Betelnut Café and Deus Ex Machina, a cafe and motorcycle shop.
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Wolfe casts Everett as the deus ex machina saving the world from a Chomsky whose hermetic linguistic geekery would have fooled no one without the reflected glory of his fame as a political pundit.
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The Duffer brothers have developed a bad habit of relying on El as a kind of deus ex machina to rescue her friends and make Eleventh-hour arrivals (get it?!) to save the day.
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It was just the latest instance of the British press's habit of seeing the German government as a deus ex machina that will make a crucial intervention in the closing acts of the Brexit drama.
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And that's all before the episode's conclusion, which features the very worst kind of deus ex machina: one that's just barely rooted in character in an attempt to cover up how out-of-nowhere it is.
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That Before the Storm seemed to recognize and capitalize on this, while ditching the deus ex machina storytelling that overly defined the first game, suggests these new storytellers actually know what made Life Is Strange click.
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Yet for all that capital, none of these companies developed a business model that could reliably generate profits or even show meaningful progress to that goal without a deus ex machina innovation like self-driving cars.
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And by limiting itself by stating that changing events in the past doesn't change the future but rather starts a new timeline, Endgame makes time travel feel consequential rather than a complete deus ex machina plot device.
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For instance, the wormhole option, which appears in everything from the 2014 film Interstellar to Rick and Morty, is a perennial favorite for science fiction creators, probably because it has a deus ex machina ease to it.
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Viserion's death reminds us that Daenerys' (Emilia Clarke) dragons are not a deus ex machina — they can be killed just like any other living thing, and can even be used as a weapon against the saviors of Westeros.
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When addressing those who have already concluded that the options on the table represent the two worst things that could happen to America, it is a mistake to dwell on the remote possibility of deus ex machina salvation.
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The season's finale takes place, unsurprisingly, inside the Starcourt Mall, and it's the best ending battle of the show to date, even if the thing has more last-minute, deus ex machina-style saves than a Sophocles play.
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Deus Bali This branch of the Australian surfboard-and-motorcycle line Deus Ex Machina doubles as the de facto community center of Canggu, with a gallery of rotating art exhibits and views of a bougainvillea-framed rice paddy.
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Without that sort of deus ex machina, though, Americans are left with a country where a very angry person can go into a store, buy a weapon, and a couple days later use it to kill 49 people.
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When Stick Man is forced to have sex with Stick Woman on reality TV in a 2005 story, Cartoon Man — the superhero protagonist of a 1987 story — alights on set to save them from the havoc, deus ex machina.
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Pension funds and endowments still have a dim memory of those days; that is why they hope hedge funds will act as a deus ex machina and deliver the outsize returns needed to fund the promises they have made.
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Songs like "Suck the Blood From My Wound" (where Mr. Furman rhymes "Pasadena" with "deus ex machina") use distinctly Springsteen-esque tropes — forbidden lovers, cars speeding toward state lines — to tell a story about life outside restrictive social binaries.
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"End of Days" (season 7, episode 21) Is that scythe Buffy finds, plus the bonus information from a mysterious, never-before-mentioned mystical lady in a mysterious, never-before-mentioned mausoleum, just a bit of a deus ex machina?
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It's essentially the same act she did in the popular dinner theater spectacle "Queen of the Night" and in Company XIV's "Nutcracker Rouge," but here it's a real deus ex machina, demonstrating the basic theatrical construction absent elsewhere in the production.
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She is the wife who was unfaithful in life but devoted in death, a deus ex machina who can be counted on to rescue Shadow whenever he finds himself in a particularly sticky situation and then disappear into the background.
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Silicon Valley is funny not in spite of its consistent use of deus ex machina band-aids to patch up each plot, but because of them; the twists are often so bonkers that they make a bizarre kind of sense.
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But this version of the story has a happy, deus ex machina ending: Earlier in January, Lin-Manuel Miranda and a few of his "Hamilton" colleagues bought the store, with plans to reopen at a new location later this year.
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In a deus ex machina stroke, she and Mr. Zorn received a message from Mr. Gosling: He had fractured his collarbone while on a vacation of his own, and he wasn't sure he would be able to play in Lisbon.
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Our down-on-its-luck protagonist would have just about given up on its dreams of pulling off a successful award show, until a deus ex machina spurs it towards success in a performance so masterful...well, it would win an Oscar.
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He turned up as a deus ex machina in Avengers: Age of Ultron and disappeared for a handful of films until the post-credit scene of Avengers: Infinity War, which featured Fury meeting his dusty end at the hand of Thanos's snap.
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Even if you have never seen the 1964 film or read one of P.L. Travers's books, the image of this floating woman — a deus ex machina who mysteriously, magically arrives in the most delightful way — still resonates in the Disney-nurtured cultural imagination.
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It grants him his "divine move" (a very literal deus ex machina) and the film's final scene frames this as both heroic and a pattern which humanity should always try to replicate in our future encounters with AI. You fight and you don't give up.
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That aspect takes a back seat, alas, to the dreamy love story, which begins with Daniel (Melton) spotting Shahidi's Natasha from afar in Grand Central Station, seeing the "Deus Ex Machina" slogan on her jacket and deciding that the two are destined to meet.
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The show addresses themes that are on a scale with those tackled in The OA, and then it manages to do something that's tricky to pull off in speculative genres — it ties everything smoothly together without the need for a deus ex machina ending.
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When you think about it, it makes sense: The Adult Swim sci-fi comedy and Bethesda's fourth iteration Fallout are both filled with senseless violence, surreal random creatures, and delightfully deus ex machina technology that either ruins or saves the day, depending on your perspective.
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In 1966, the 21-year-old Air Force pararescue jumper, or P.J. in military parlance, descended from a helicopter — a real-life deus ex machina — into the thick of a ground battle, where dozens of U.S. Army soldiers were being slaughtered in an ambush.
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Like Whitewater, the controversy was uncovered by a New York Times reporter; like Whitewater, it is regarded as a deus ex machina by Republicans facing political gloom; and like Whitewater, it will likely turn out to be more froth than flood, in Abramson's view.
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Magic is less of a deus ex machina and more of a trigger for trouble, which feels like a realistic result to expect when placing phenomenal cosmic power and stewardship of a world in the hands of normal — that is to say, irresponsible and flawed — 20-somethings.
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But if muddling through is to lead anywhere, we ought to be prepared for it, and prepared to make the most of it, rather than thinking a deus ex machina like a civil war or revolution or impeachment will blow the whole thing up in a stroke.
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Vanessa Marano, who plays Luke Danes' deus ex machina of a daughter April Nardini, gave a talk about the Christopher Reeve Foundation, a cause near to her heart after acting alongside Reeve shortly before his death in a film about a young woman who becomes a quadriplegic.
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The idea has shown up before in Star Wars mythology in the no-longer-canon Expanded Universe, and last week IGN took a look at so-called Force Healing to show that it isn't quite the newly created deus ex machina it might have seemed to be.
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Although it's not clear what the end goal of a statement like this is, Altschul, author of the novel Deus Ex Machina, explained to BuzzFeed News what he hoped it might do: What we hope to accomplish, most of all, is to loudly express the voice of our community.
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The deus ex machina in "Chapter 7" is David's construction of a "rational mind" — which is basically David, but with Dan Stevens's natural British accent — that appears out of nowhere to reveal that he's a safeguard David created in his own brain to take over in case of an emergency.
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And they're close to the WH." So ... our elected leaders have reached the point where they are semi-openly acknowledging that they are entirely powerless to reopen the government and need a deus ex machina -- people outraged at airport lines -- in order to have any hope of returning things to "normal.
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"This is precisely the sort of deus ex machina the organization needed, to give it room to operate and to allow it to break out of its current marginality," said Sam Heller, an analyst at the International Crisis Group who studies the fight against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS.
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The story that follows is told in hindsight, many years after America has persevered through what turns out to be a two-year Lindbergh presidency, one that ends with the deus ex machina of Lindbergh's mysterious disappearance and a special presidential election in November 1942 that restores Roosevelt to the White House.
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Then Daenerys and her dragons sweep in just when the battle is looking lost — a deus ex machina move Jon has to be getting used to by now, not least because it happens again when his uncle Benjen gallops in out of nowhere to hoist him on a horse and sacrifice himself in Jon's place.
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And so I keep clicking, waiting for some breaking news from that other, truer universe: Trump frog-marched out of the White House by the Justice Department, or a catastrophe of such enormity that even our government will be forced to acknowledge that climate change is a thing, or maybe a deus ex machina message from space.
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Who were these people who sat largely unmoved while our band of heroes rocked a bar mitzvah, reminisced about the roller coasters at Six Flags Great Adventure, and overcame numerous trials and obstacles to not only find love and happiness but receive a deus ex machina from none other than a fictional version of Aerosmith's Joe Perry?
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Sanders allies argue that he should win as many delegates as possible to influence the platform; some allies outside the campaign argue that he should stay put in case some deus ex machina brings down Biden, as they once hoped that the FBI probe of Hillary Clinton's email server would bring her down before the 2016 convention.
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Most striking of all in the Nixon impeachment was the deus ex machina revealed unexpectedly in the Watergate hearings that gripped the nation on television and radio — Mr. Nixon's supreme folly of crafting his conspiracies before the attentive microphones of a White House taping system to record his utterances for some imagined high place in history.
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The problem is that a system where electors feel free to override the will of the people if they don't like it — an idea idealized by many liberals who dreamed of a deus ex machina to block Trump from the White House — is also a system open to the somewhat random whims of those 538 people.
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What's more likely, according to many tech policy experts, is that Pai starts the FCC rulemaking process in order to give Republicans lawmakers political cover to step in with a Deus ex machina piece of legislation stripping away the FCC's Title II authority and handing broadband oversight, including privacy and enforcement monitoring, to the FTC, while asking ISPs to make voluntary open internet commitments.
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