Deus ex machina (disambiguation)

Deus ex machina is a Latin term meaning "god from a device", 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

Deus ex Machina (Daugherty), a composition for piano and orchestra by composer Michael Daugherty
Deus ex Machina (band), an Italian jazz-rock band
Deus Ex Machina (punk band), a Greek hardcore punk band
Deus Ex Machina (heavy metal band), a Singaporean death/trash metal band

Albums

Deus Ex Machina (Liv Kristine album), 1998
Deus Ex Machina (Paul Schütze album), 1989
Deus Ex Machina, a 2010 film industry-only release by audiomachine
Deus Ex Machinae (album), a 2004 album by Machinae Supremacy
The Deus Ex Machina Cycle, an album by Elodie Lauten

Songs

"Deus Ex Machina", a song by Moi Dix Mois from the album Beyond the Gate
"Deus Ex Machina", a song by Omar Rodríguez-López of The Mars Volta from the album A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume One
"Deus Ex Machina", a song by Laibach from the album Jesus Christ Superstars
"Deus Ex Machina," a song by The Smashing Pumpkins from the album Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music
"Deus Ex Machina", a song by Pure Reason Revolution from the album Amor Vincit Omnia
"Deus Ex Machina", a song by deadmau5 from the album W:/2016ALBUM/
"Deus Ex Machina", a song by Cavalera Conspiracy from the album Pandemonium
"Ghost Prototype II (Deus Ex Machina)", a song by Scar Symmetry from the album Holographic Universe

Television and film

"Deus Ex Machina" (Lost), a 2005 episode of the television series Lost
Ex Deus Machina, an episode of the television show Stargate SG-1
Ex Machina (film), a 2015 British science fiction film written and directed by Alex Garland
Deus Ex Machina, an episode of the anime Ergo Proxy and the title theme of its soundtrack
Deus Ex Machina, an episode of the sixth series of Waking the Dead
Deus Ex Machina, the English title of the 25th episode of the anime RahXephon
Deus Ex Machina, an episode of Jeremiah
"Deus Machina", the name of the mechas from the anime, manga and game Demonbane
Deus Ex Machina, a god character from the manga and anime Future Diary (未来日記 Mirai Nikki)
Deus Ex Machina, the name of the leader of the sentient machines in The Matrix Revolutions
Deus Ex Machina, a 2014 episode of the television series Person of Interest
Deus Ex Machina, the flagship of the WWII-era Millennium Battalion from the OVA anime series Hellsing Ultimate
Deus ex machina, organisation in You, Me and the Apocalypse

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
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

Deus Ex, a series of first-person video games developed by Ion Storm and released in 2000
- Deus Ex (video game), the first game in the series
- Deus Ex: Invisible War, a 2003 first-person video game developed by Ion Storm Inc. and published by Eidos Interactive
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the third game in the series, released in 2011
- Deus Ex: The Fall, prequel to Human Revolution, released in 2013
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, the fourth major game in the series, released in 2016
Deus Ex Machina (video game), a 1984 pseudo-multimedia computer game
Deus Ex Machina, the name of a metastreumonic force creature from the video game E.Y.E.: Divine Cybermancy
Deus Ex Machina, the name of a boss in the video game Final Fantasy X-2