1) Artificial plot device 2) Non-PC dramatic device 3) Solution provider
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[video game] Deus Ex Machina was a computer game designed and created by Mel Croucher and published by Automata UK for the ZX Spectrum in October 1984 and later converted to other popular 8-bit formats. The game was the first to be accompanied by a fully synchronised soundtrack which featured narration, celebrity artists and music. The cast...
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[composition] Deus ex Machina is a composition by Michael Daugherty. It is a 33 minute composition commissioned by the Charlotte, Nashville, New Jersey, Rochester and Syracuse Symphony Orchestras. It won the 2011 Grammy for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for a recording by soloist Terrance Wilson and the Nashville Symphony Orchestr...
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An unexpected NPC or plot-device, often only appearing for a single scene, that saves a seemingly hopeless situation. Generally seen as a bad design choice in adventure design. Derives from the classical term with stricter definition: a sudden and unexpected resolution to a seemingly intractable problem. Literally, the god from the machine, a solut...
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a person or thing that appears or is introduced into a situation suddenly and unexpectedly and provides an artificial or contrived solution to an ... [1 related articles]
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Theatrical device in which a far-fetched or unlikely event resolves an intractable difficulty. The phrase was originally used in classical Greek and Roman
tragedy to indicate a god lowered by...
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(from Greek theos apo mechanes) An unrealistic or unexpected intervention to rescue the protagonists
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The event or person that saves a situation in the nick of time. (from Latin = god from the machinery - a device by which gods were suspended above the stage in ancient theatre).
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Literally, God from the machine In a Roman play, the author would often reach the end of the performance and be totally stuck for an ending. So he would write in a sequence where a god would appear and magically solve the problems of all the characters.
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Deus ex Machina (a god out of the machine) is a phrase formerly used to designate the resorting to supernatural causes to explain phenomena that one is not able to account for by natural means. The phrase is taken from the former practice on the classical stage of introducing a god from above by means of some mechanical contrivance in order to effe...
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n] - any active agent who appears unexpectedly to solve and insoluble difficulty
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deus ex machina A god [or dea, goddess] out of a machine. A person or thing that suddenly resolves a problem or a device providing a contrived resolution in a play. In Greek, or Roman dramas, this was a device by which a god appeared on the stage at a crucial moment to help solve the dilemma. Now it refers to a person or thing that solves a probl...
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literally, “god from the machine”; refers to the character in classical Greek tragedy who entered the play from the heavens at the end of the drama to resolve or explain the conflict; in modern drama, refers to any arbitrary means of plot resolution.
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Deus ex machina is Latin for “a god from the machine.” It’s when some new character, force, or event suddenly shows up to solve a seemingly hopeless situation. The effect is usually much too abrupt, and it’s often disappointing for audiences.
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Latin for “god from a machine.” Refers to a playwright’s use of a forced or improbable solution to an unsolvable situation.
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person/thing/event which suddenly unexpectedly resolves a problem - also a contrived resolution of a plot in a dramatic work such as a play or film
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(Latin) literally god out of a machine ; indicates an otherwise unexplainable ending that can resolve any troubling matter; in ancient Greek drama, particularly that of Euripides, a god emerged with the help of a mechanical crane who could tie together the loose ends of a tricky situation, thereby resolving the drama.
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noun any active agent who appears unexpectedly to solve an insoluble difficulty
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Literally, the god from the machine; an allusion to the device whereby in ancient drama a god was brought on the stage, sometimes to provide a supernatural solution to a dramatic difficulty, hence any person, thing, or concept artificially introduced to solve a difficulty. -- G.R.M.
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Literally translates “god from a machine” and was originally a reference to the “god” (played by an actor lowered onto the stage on a “machine”) who descended at the end of the Greek and Roman plays to solve all the mortal characters’ problems and put everything in order for a happy ending.
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(in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the entanglements of the plot. · any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot.
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Literally, “God from the machine.” A happy ending, de rigeur in opera seria, arising not from the choices of the protagonist but from some exterior force, such as a god who enters on a theatrical machine (resembling a cloud, a thunderbolt, a rainbow, etc.) and who rewards the good, punishes the wicked, etc..
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Miraculous (often offstage) solution to an otherwise insoluble problem
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