Deus ex machina (disambiguation)

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

• Deus ex Machina (composition) a composition for piano and orchestra by composer Michael Daugherty
• Deus ex Machina (Liv Kristine album)
• Deus Ex Machina (album), a film industry-only release 2010 by Audiomachine
• Deus Ex Machinae (album), a 2004 album by Machinae Supremacy
• Deus Ex Machina (album), a 1989 album by Paul Schütze
• The Deus Ex Machina Cycle, an album by Elodie Lauten
• 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/thrash metal band
• "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
• "Ghost Prototype II (Deus Ex Machina)", a song by Scar Symmetry from the album Holographic Universe
• "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 Cavalera Conspiracy from the album Pandemonium

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, 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 is the name of the leader of the sentient machines in the 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 Machina, or "Machine Doll", a type of doll created from the likeness of a human being in the anime series Unbreakable Machine-Doll
• 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, 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

• Deus Ex (series), a series of first-person video games developed by Ion Storm and released in 2000
  • Deus Ex, 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, upcoming fourth major game in the series
• 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