Diabolus Ex Machina: Difference between revisions

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* In [[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]], {{spoiler|right after defeating the [[Big Bad]] Corset via a seeming [[Deus Ex Machina]] from a giant heavenly being that is either God or P&S's mother, Stocking makes an off-handed comment, wondering if Heavenly weapons can kill angels. She then proceeds to ''slice Panty into 666 pieces'', reveal that she was a ''demon spy'' the entire time, and walks off with Corset (who just ''resurrected himself from Brief's penis'') to another city to try and open another gate to hell, leaving Garterbelt, Brief, and Chuck to gather Panty's pieces while chasing after her.}}

* A minor example of ''[[Ai Kora]]'': Hachibei's plan of [[It Makes Sense in Context|making Tsubame wear boots filled with clay so he can make a mold of her feet and ankles]] fails when she lets a friendly rival male driver she just met in that chapter ''wear her boots'', just because she thought they were comfortable. [[Sarcasm Mode|Because when your first meet someone, naturally you exchange footwear, of course!]]

* ''[[Shin Mazinger]]'' has a pretty brutal one at the end. {{spoiler|Kouji confronts and defeats Dr. Hell in one last climatic battle and it seems that Mazinger-Z stands triumphant. However, it turns out to be a [[Xanatos Gambit]] by ''Baron Ashura'', who sacrifices his/herself to allow the Mycene Empire to arrive on Earth. Cue [[Cliff Hanger]] Ending.}}

* ''[[Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-hen]]'' has a pretty brutal one at the end. {{spoiler|Kouji confronts and defeats Dr. Hell in one last climatic battle and it seems that Mazinger-Z stands triumphant. However, it turns out to be a [[Xanatos Gambit]] by ''Baron Ashura'', who sacrifices his/herself to allow the Mycene Empire to arrive on Earth. Cue [[Cliff Hanger]] Ending.}}

** This is based on the ending to the original [[Mazinger Z]], which had the Mycene Empire come out of nowhere to wreck the titular robot, only for [[Great Mazinger]] to equally [[Deus Ex Machina|come out of nowhere]] and save Kouji.

* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' ends the Nirvana arc by arresting the reformed {{spoiler|Hoteye and Jellal}}, and heavily implying that the latter will be executed (he does get a deah sentence later too), then proceeds to top that by revealing that everybody the [[Token Mini-Moe]] grew up knowing, with the exception of one man who was [[Dead All Along]] were just illusions created to keep her comapny and she'll never see them again. Never one to out do itself, ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' then ends the S-Class arc with {{spoiler|a dragon coming out of nowhere and leaving the entire core cast presumed dead, and even when they're recovered seven years later the world has changed tremendously in their absence.}}

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*** For that matter, Parker and Alex. They weren't disliked ''as much'' as their partners, but because everyone had to play in groups, they merely voted out the ''one'' person they disliked the most.

** Happens in ''[[The Amazing Race]]'' occasionally as well. In the fifth season finale, what the audience doesn't find out is that Colin and Christie ''would've'' caught up to the leading team, and possibly finished first, but their taxi got a flat tire. In several other seasons (seven and seventeen in particular), despite traveling around the world, it's a language barrier ''in a large American city'' (thanks to taxi drivers who come from non-English-speaking backgrounds) that ends up hurting teams the most.

* The [[~~Sci Fi Channel~~]] adaptation of the short story "[[The Cold Equations]]" ends on this. The basic premise of the story is that a young girl has stowed away on a spaceship carrying urgently needed medical supplies to a distant colony - and, because of her added mass, there isn't enough fuel to land the ship without crashing (and killing everyone on board), so, according to regulations, the pilot is supposed to throw the girl out the airlock so the cargo can arrive safely. It's established fairly early on that the cargo weighs about the same as the girl, and that jettisoning either the cargo or the girl would save the ship. Near the end, the two of them discover that the cargo wasn't what they thought it was, and jettison it, so they're safe now. That's when Diabolus shows up. To the surprise of the pilot and audience, the ship ''still'' has too much mass, because they waited too long and are now closer to the planet. So [[Someone Has to Die]] anyway.

* The [[Syfy]] adaptation of the short story "[[The Cold Equations]]" ends on this. The basic premise of the story is that a young girl has stowed away on a spaceship carrying urgently needed medical supplies to a distant colony - and, because of her added mass, there isn't enough fuel to land the ship without crashing (and killing everyone on board), so, according to regulations, the pilot is supposed to throw the girl out the airlock so the cargo can arrive safely. It's established fairly early on that the cargo weighs about the same as the girl, and that jettisoning either the cargo or the girl would save the ship. Near the end, the two of them discover that the cargo wasn't what they thought it was, and jettison it, so they're safe now. That's when Diabolus shows up. To the surprise of the pilot and audience, the ship ''still'' has too much mass, because they waited too long and are now closer to the planet. So [[Someone Has to Die]] anyway.

* The Series One finale of ''[[Sherlock]]'' has {{spoiler|Moriarty walk out fairly close to the end. Sherlock removes John's explosive-laden outer layers, [[Ho Yay|jokes are cracked]] and all seems to be right with the world. Then Moriarty comes back, and the series ends with Sherlock and John being aimed at by multiple snipers while Sherlock aims his own gun at the explosives, which are now at Moriarty's feet.}}

* While not the end of the series (although it could have served as such if the writers strike had not been resolved), season 4.1 finale "Revelations" of the ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' is a major [[Wham! Episode]] that also pulls this trope. Hard. (And things get worse before they get better.)

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'''Cecil''': [[Shmuck Bait|Tell them they'll live to regret this]].<br />

'''Bob''': ''You'll live to regret this!'' ...Oh, great. Now ''I'' sound crazy. }}

* ''[[Hey Arnold]]!'': The Devil sure loves stalking [[The Chew Toy|Eugene Horowitz]]...

* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]!'': The Devil sure loves stalking [[The Chew Toy|Eugene Horowitz]]...

* The show ''[[Cyberchase]]'' LOVED using these to keep the magical cure-all [[MacGuffin]] out of the protagonists hands. Hell, that's how they lost it in the first place.

* ''[[The Boondocks]]'' episode "Ballin" has Riley coming close to [[Broken Streak|finally]] winning a game when {{spoiler|the mentally challenged replacement center for his main competition turns out to be a child-prodigy at basketball}}. Of course, {{spoiler|[[Laser-Guided Karma|he ''really'' deserved that]], since he got that far by sending the previous center off crying when told her her mom did cocaine, was cheating on her dad at the country club, and her parents were waiting until after her birthday to tell her they were getting divorced}}.