Deus ex machina (disambiguation)

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Deus ex machina is a Latin term literally meaning "god from the machine", and is used to indicate a person or event which provides a sudden, unexpected solution to a story.

Deus ex machina may also refer to:

Music

Television and film

Literature

  • DeusExMachina, a 1999 book of black and white photographs by photographer Ralph Gibson
  • Deus Ex Machina, a short story by Richard Matheson
  • Deus Ex Machina, a story in the comic book Animal Man, and the title of the third collected edition
  • A Character in the book "The Thirteen and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear" by Walter Moers
  • Ex Machina (comics), a comic book written from 2004-2010 by Brian K. Vaughan, chronicling the life of protagonist Mitchell Hundred, a New York superhero and one-time Mayor.
  • Deus Machina, or "Machine Doll", a type of doll created from the likeness of a human being in the light novel and in the manga series Unbreakable Machine-Doll.
  • Deus Ex Machina, a novel by Andrew Foster Altschul.

Video games

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