Tropescilloscope: Deus ex Machina

A miracle that saves the heroes at the last minute. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Aluminum Christmas Trees Abusive Parents Hero Antagonist Hidden Depths Police are Useless Meaningful Name Batman Gambit The Brute The Alcoholic Not What It Looks Like Early-Bird Cameo Evil Brit Scary Black Man Artistic License – Military Parental Incest Large Ham Never Found the Body Downer Ending Pre-Mortem One-Liner Worthy Opponent Spiritual Successor Blood Knight Auto Erotica Beware the Nice Ones Big Bad Duumvirate Central Theme Grey and Gray Morality Villain Opening Scene The Un-Reveal Cool Shades Hooker with a Heart of Gold Gratuitous English Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Left the Background Music On Cassandra Truth Brutal Honesty Big Damn Heroes Television Movie Index Fiery Redhead Closed Circle Apocalypse How Those Wacky Nazis Gold Digger Storming the Castle Same Language Dub As Long as It Sounds Foreign Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Psycho for Hire Too Dumb to Live Abhorrent Admirer Stuff Blowing Up A Minor Kidroduction I Have Your Wife 20 Minutes into the Future The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Due to the Dead Those Two Bad Guys Artistic License – Physics Hollywood Law Cool Old Guy Lock and Load Montage Eagleland Bury Your Gays Star-Crossed Lovers Honor Before Reason Award-Bait Song Lighter and Softer Even Evil Has Loved Ones Greater-Scope Villain Badass Bookworm Dutch Angle Maybe Ever After Bolivian Army Ending Adaptational Badass Break the Cutie Casting Gag Twist Ending Only a Flesh Wound It Will Never Catch On Bullying a Dragon An Aesop Made of Iron Really Gets Around Intrepid Reporter Protagonist Title Adaptational Heroism Spiteful Spit Anti-Villain The '50s Retirony Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Dying Moment of Awesome The Cavalry Cool Car It's All About Me Ship Tease Token Minority Improbable Weapon User Gilligan Cut Destination Defenestration And I Must Scream Shipper on Deck Silent Movie An Axe to Grind Parental Abandonment Rule of Cool Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Face Death with Dignity Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Australian Movies O.O.C. Is Serious Business Bloody Hilarious My God, What Have I Done? Disney Villain Death Darker and Edgier Parental Neglect Fish out of Water The Chick Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Works Set in World War II Motor Mouth Heterosexual Life-Partners No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Daylight Horror Epic Fail Pragmatic Adaptation Taking You with Me Epic Movie Babies Ever After Neck Lift Vomit Discretion Shot Bare Your Midriff Berserk Button Film Noir Mooks Market-Based Title Hypocritical Humor The End... Or Is It? Death Glare Roaring Rampage of Revenge The '90s Ambiguous Disorder Sir Swears-a-Lot Didn't Think This Through Poor Communication Kills Laser-Guided Karma It's Personal Half the Man He Used to Be An Arm and a Leg Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Obstructive Bureaucrat And Starring Bond Villain Stupidity Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Daddy's Girl timeperiod Asshole Victim World of Ham Wicked Cultured Match Cut Bad "Bad Acting" Ascended Extra Product Placement Flashback After the End Conspicuous CG Straight Gay Fatal Family Photo Chekhov's Gunman Unwitting Instigator of Doom What the Hell, Hero? Music Stories Karma Houdini Depraved Bisexual Captain Obvious Pretty Little Headshots Smug Snake Lampshade Hanging Driven to Suicide Grievous Bottley Harm Noodle Incident The Musical Last-Name Basis Domestic Abuse Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Rich Bitch Comically Missing the Point Bunny-Ears Lawyer Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Race Lift Not Even Bothering with the Accent Crazy Jealous Guy Chiaroscuro My Beloved Smother Agony of the Feet Hair-Trigger Temper Politically Incorrect Villain Big Bad Pretty in Mink Failed a Spot Check Author Avatar Chewing the Scenery Our Zombies Are Different Took a Level in Badass Bi the Way Fanservice The Great Depression Artistic License – Law Humans Are Bastards Pet the Dog Darkest Hour In the Back Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Suddenly SHOUTING! Major Injury Underreaction Nice Guy Affably Evil The Dreaded Face–Heel Turn Toplessness from the Back Combat Pragmatist Vitriolic Best Buds Chekhov's Gun Bad Boss Laughing Mad Artistic License – History Rule of Three Here We Go Again! Badass Boast Spanner in the Works Killed Mid-Sentence Hell Is That Noise Science Fiction Films "Shaggy Dog" Story Everyone Has Standards Ax-Crazy You Have Failed Me Redshirt Army Taking the Bullet Fake Shemp Mr. Exposition Friend to All Children One-Word Title Bittersweet Ending Be Careful What You Wish For Mexican Standoff Unusual Euphemism Guns Akimbo Enemy Mine Outrun the Fireball Eye Scream German Films Framing Device Training Montage The Dragon Aside Glance Bavarian Fire Drill Mugging the Monster Bowdlerise Adaptation Expansion Ass Shove Sole Survivor Instant Death Bullet Death by Adaptation Camera Abuse Character Development Big "NO!" Humiliation Conga Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Morality Pet Ripped from the Headlines Truth in Television Animal Title Index Deal with the Devil Evil Plan Disguised in Drag Hypocrite Boom, Headshot! Damsel in Distress Big-Bad Ensemble Love at First Sight Badass Normal Rewatch Bonus Anti-Hero Drugs Are Bad Actually Pretty Funny Empathic Environment Broken Pedestal "Well Done, Son!" Guy Self-Deprecation The Mafia Sexy Discretion Shot As the Good Book Says... Historical Hero Upgrade Film Noir Index Determinator Christmas Movies Index Riddle for the Ages Accidental Misnaming Red Herring Hate Sink In Medias Res Flipping the Bird Double Entendre Immune to Bullets Cat Fight Based on a True Story Arch-Enemy Freudian Excuse Covers Always Lie Irony Running Gag Real Life Advertised Extra Red Shirt B-Movie Blackmail Scare Chord Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday She Cleans Up Nicely Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Wham Line Dwindling Party Film Series Bloodless Carnage Zombie Stories Let's Get Dangerous! Race Against the Clock Foil Reality Has No Subtitles Ironic Echo Knife Nut Creepy Child Take a Third Option Anachronism Stew Dressing as the Enemy Defiant to the End Thriller Loads and Loads of Characters Jerk with a Heart of Gold Vomit Indiscretion Shot Mistaken for Gay Wounded Gazelle Gambit Papa Wolf Biopic Love Triangle Manic Pixie Dream Girl Drives Like Crazy Catch-Phrase Psychological Thriller Exact Words The Chessmaster And the Adventure Continues Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Pay Evil unto Evil Car Fu Logo Joke No-Sell Your Head A-Splode Dramedy Mundane Made Awesome Sadistic Choice Off with His Head! The Lancer Slashed Throat Action Survivor Meaningful Echo Martial Arts Movie Antagonist Title Suspiciously Specific Denial One Steve Limit Body Horror Wrong Genre Savvy Kick the Dog Despair Event Horizon Deconstruction Madness Mantra Pyrrhic Victory Handicapped Badass Broken Bird Stylistic Suck Kids Are Cruel Implacable Man Death Seeker Meaningful Background Event No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Real Life Writes the Plot Dual Wielding Rated M for Manly French Films Not So Different Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Affectionate Parody Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! For the Evulz Curse Cut Short Up to Eleven Evil Is Hammy War Is Hell '80s Hair Horror Comedy Foreshadowing Almost Kiss Dirty Cop Extreme Doormat Bloodier and Gorier Faux Affably Evil Alas, Poor Villain Costume Porn Death of a Child Back from the Dead Precision F-Strike Department of Redundancy Department Adaptational Villainy Demoted to Extra Betty and Veronica The Reveal Breaking the Fourth Wall Dark Is Not Evil Mighty Whitey The Ditz Reality Ensues "Awesome McCool" Name Pimped-Out Dress Air-Vent Passageway Sci-Fi Horror Annoying Younger Sibling Cain and Abel Amusing Injuries Sanity Slippage Developing Doomed Characters Adult Fear The Bully Monumental Damage Unusually Uninteresting Sight Frame-Up Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Silence Is Golden The Ace All for Nothing Green-Eyed Monster Blood from the Mouth Reasonable Authority Figure Author Appeal A.I. Is a Crapshoot Slap-Slap-Kiss Shout-Out Soft Glass The Mole Pragmatic Villainy The Oner British Films Villain Ball He Knows Too Much The '60s Disney Death Romantic False Lead Evil Counterpart Awesome, but Impractical Villain with Good Publicity Happily Married Only Known by Their Nickname folderlabel Armor-Piercing Question Offscreen Moment of Awesome Determinator aka: The Determinator Older Than They Look Slasher Movie Does This Remind You of Anything? The Casanova Novelization Crapsack World You Killed My Father Disproportionate Retribution Calling the Old Man Out Black Dude Dies First Becoming the Mask Refuge in Audacity Very Loosely Based on a True Story Get Out! Evil Laugh The Faceless Cowboy Cop Camp Gay Imagine Spot Action Genre Decoy Protagonist Stalker with a Crush Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Distracted by the Sexy Extremely Short Timespan Demonic Possession Bait-and-Switch Did Not Get the Girl Horror Films Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Ghost Call-Forward Leave the Camera Running Crazy-Prepared Heel Realization Book-Ends What Happened to the Mouse? Adorkable Documentary Dissonant Serenity Stepford Smiler Intergenerational Friendship How We Got Here Punch-Clock Villain Setting Update Deadpan Snarker Adaptation Name Change Beard of Evil Insistent Terminology Random Events Plot Wretched Hive Take That! Never Trust a Trailer The Dog Bites Back Vacation Films Belligerent Sexual Tension Sequel Escalation Alpha Bitch Malevolent Masked Men Homage Easily Forgiven Arc Words No Name Given Gory Discretion Shot Trailers Always Spoil Fun with Acronyms Early Installment Weirdness Expository Hairstyle Change Creative Closing Credits Dark Action Girl Superhero The Power of Love Reality Is Unrealistic All Just a Dream Only Sane Man Light Is Not Good The Sociopath Spell My Name with an "S" Black Best Friend Small Name, Big Ego Rule of Funny The Stinger Reckless Gun Usage A God Am I Bottomless Magazines Gainax Ending All Girls Want Bad Boys My Greatest Failure The Cameo Mythology Gag Dumb Blonde Beauty Is Never Tarnished Dark and Troubled Past Rousing Speech Nice Hat Jerk Jock Badass Longcoat Mad Scientist Cool Guns Mama Bear Shut Up, Hannibal! I Did What I Had to Do Unresolved Sexual Tension Tagline Gender Flip Dull Surprise Plot Hole Hero of Another Story Kick the Son of a Bitch Brick Joke NO INDOOR VOICE Adults Are Useless Your Cheating Heart Evil vs. Evil Anyone Can Die Eyepatch of Power Age Lift As You Know Deliberately Monochrome Black and Gray Morality Crucified Hero Shot Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Jitter Cam Unspoken Plan Guarantee Blatant Lies The Lost Lenore Dirty Old Man Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Black Comedy Rape Kubrick Stare Knight Templar Beta Couple Scenery Gorn Sports Stories Shoot the Shaggy Dog Men Are the Expendable Gender Good Is Not Nice Informed Ability The Quiet One Revenge BFG Would Hit a Girl No Antagonist The Hero Dies Eiffel Tower Effect Accidental Murder Victoria's Secret Compartment Cloudcuckoolander He Who Fights Monsters Fat Bastard Serious Business Well-Intentioned Extremist Together in Death Retired Badass Genre Throwback Spared by the Adaptation Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Bland-Name Product Throwing Your Sword Always Works Double-Meaning Title Needs Wiki Magic Love Famous Last Words Obfuscating Stupidity Ambiguously Gay Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Eldritch Abomination Man on Fire A Father to His Men True Companions Hope Spot Neck Snap Posthumous Character There Is No Kill Like Overkill Idiot Ball Loophole Abuse Freeze-Frame Bonus Deliberate Values Dissonance No OSHA Compliance Rule of Symbolism Heroes Want Redheads Fainting More Dakka Drowning My Sorrows Evil-Detecting Dog Badass in a Nice Suit Offscreen Teleportation "The Reason You Suck" Speech Not Quite Dead Break the Haughty Badass Grandpa Card-Carrying Villain Corpsing Kill 'em All Made of Explodium Unreliable Narrator The Film of the Book Tempting Fate All There in the Script Corrupt Corporate Executive No Ending Attempted Rape Red Right Hand Canadian Movies Historical-Domain Character Dirty Coward Facial Horror Cruel and Unusual Death Overly Long Gag Smoking Is Cool Have a Gay Old Time Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Index of Film Westerns Deus ex Machina Dark Reprise Sassy Black Woman The Bad Guy Wins Four-Temperament Ensemble Mercy Kill Recycled IN SPACE! Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Scenery Porn Brother–Sister Incest Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Red Oni, Blue Oni Artistic License – Biology Defrosting Ice Queen Woman in White Not So Above It All Ominous Latin Chanting Better to Die than Be Killed Names to Run Away from Really Fast She's Got Legs Chase Scene Translation Convention Only in It for the Money Fan Disservice Non-Indicative Name It Can Think Naïve Newcomer Big Applesauce Video Credits Broken Aesop The Vamp Authority Equals Asskicking Historical Villain Upgrade Visual Pun Ambiguous Ending Cat Scare Kill It with Fire Fanservice Extra Action Girl Military and Warfare Films Danny Peary Cult Movies List Country Matters Does Not Like Shoes La Résistance Coming-of-Age Story Important Haircut Fatal Flaw The Stoic Butt-Monkey Totally Radical From Nobody to Nightmare Artistic License – Geography Re-Cut Dogged Nice Guy Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Alliterative Name Evil Is Petty Naked People Are Funny Rasputinian Death Stealth Pun Plucky Comic Relief A Date with Rosie Palms You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Super Strength Leitmotif Improbable Aiming Skills Off-into-the-Distance Ending Villainous Breakdown Wham Shot Not Using the "Z" Word Creator Cameo Shown Their Work Sinister Minister Make It Look Like an Accident Sealed Evil in a Can Obviously Evil Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Not So Stoic Action Prologue Fire-Forged Friends Disappeared Dad Romantic Comedy Getting Crap Past the Radar Bound and Gagged In Name Only Death by Sex Historical In-Joke Canon Foreigner The Starscream Undying Loyalty Fantastic Racism As Himself Cluster F-Bomb Hoist by His Own Petard Establishing Character Moment Never My Fault Shell-Shocked Veteran The Hero What You Are in the Dark Yandere Drill Sergeant Nasty Femme Fatale Genre Shift Jerkass Continuity Nod I'm a Humanitarian The Big Guy Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Woman Scorned Properly Paranoid The Voiceless Those Two Guys Dramatic Gun Cock Put on a Bus Animal Motifs Heroic Sacrifice Title Drop Villain Song The Stoner Married to the Job Eureka Moment Interrupted Suicide Curb-Stomp Battle Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Big Fancy House Captain Ersatz For Want of a Nail Improvised Weapon Dropped a Bridge on Him Say My Name Big Eater One-Man Army Arranged Marriage Leaning on the Fourth Wall Cold-Blooded Torture Gorn I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Jump Scare Faking the Dead Jerkass Has a Point No Celebrities Were Harmed Fourth Date Marriage Word of God Parental Substitute The Smart Guy Stealth Hi/Bye Tranquil Fury Heroic BSoD I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Punny Name Final Girl Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Line-of-Sight Name Bilingual Bonus Bar Brawl Fate Worse than Death I Need a Freaking Drink You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Whole Plot Reference Composite Character Adaptational Attractiveness Credits Gag Ms. Fanservice Black Comedy The Alleged Car Manchild Retcon Gone Horribly Right Villain Protagonist Actor Allusion Paper-Thin Disguise Moment Killer The Atoner Bald of Evil Show Within a Show Call-Back Tap on the Head Fingore Shower Scene Amoral Attorney Sacrificial Lion Anguished Declaration of Love Death by Irony Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Bond One-Liner Mind Screw Bring My Brown Pants Brainless Beauty Mr. Fanservice The Remake Artistic License – Gun Safety Male Gaze Foregone Conclusion Our Vampires Are Different Fantasy Films May–December Romance Police Brutality Missing Mom Oh, Crap! Contrived Coincidence Heel–Face Turn The Load Vampire Fiction Diabolus ex Machina Henpecked Husband Adapted Out The '70s Public Domain Feature Films Time Skip All There in the Manual Russian Films Suspiciously Similar Substitute Karmic Death Skewed Priorities Red Eyes, Take Warning Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Shirtless Scene Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Italian Films Ghost Fiction Five-Man Band Mood Whiplash Would Hurt a Child Manipulative Bastard Psychopathic Manchild Manly Tears Insult Backfire Animated Credits Opening Peek-a-Boo Corpse Hong Kong Films Big Brother Instinct Room Full of Crazy Funny Background Event Sequel Hook Narrator Redemption Equals Death Evil Sounds Deep The X of Y Adaptation Dye-Job Genre Savvy Hollywood Darkness Adaptation Distillation Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Groin Attack This Is Gonna Suck Dramatic Irony Serial Killer Anachronic Order Ungrateful Bastard The Place Soundtrack Dissonance From Bad to Worse Exactly What It Says on the Tin Even Evil Has Standards Overprotective Dad Every Car Is a Pinto Cool Old Lady Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Took a Level in Jerkass Meet Cute Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Stock Footage Guile Hero Rape as Drama Playing Gertrude Male Frontal Nudity The Smurfette Principle Dies Wide Open Catapult Nightmare Expy Earn Your Happy Ending Only One Name Children Are Innocent N-Word Privileges "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Once More, with Clarity! MacGuffin The '80s Celebrity Paradox Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Slasher Smile All Men Are Perverts Mystery and Detective Films Japanese Films Insane Troll Logic Funny Foreigner Chekhov's Skill Nothing Is Scarier