Tropescilloscope: Deus ex Machina

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

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