Deus ex machina (disambiguation)

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Deus ex machina is a Latin term 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 (punk band), (s. 1989), a Greek hardcore punk band
• Deus ex Machina (band), (s. 1990), an Italian jazz-rock band
• Deus Ex Machina (heavy metal band), (s. 2004), a Singaporean death/thrash metal band
• Deus ex Machina (Daugherty), a 2007 composition for piano and orchestra by composer Michael Daugherty

Albums

• Deus Ex Machina (Paul Schütze album), 1989
• Deus Ex Machina (Liv Kristine album), 1998
• The Deus Ex Machina Cycle, a 1999 album by Elodie Lauten
• Deus Ex Machinae (album), a 2004 album by Machinae Supremacy
• Deus Ex Machina, a 2010 film industry-only release by audiomachine

Songs

• "Deus Ex Machina", a song by Laibach from the 1996 album Jesus Christ Superstars
• "Deus Ex Machina," a song by The Smashing Pumpkins from the 2000 album Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music
• "Deus Ex Machina", a song by Omar Rodríguez-López of The Mars Volta from the 2004 album A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume One
• "Deus Ex Machina", a song by Moi Dix Mois from the 2006 album Beyond the Gate
• "Ghost Prototype II (Deus Ex Machina)", a song by Scar Symmetry from the 2008 album Holographic Universe
• "Deus Ex Machina", a song by Pure Reason Revolution from the 2009 album Amor Vincit Omnia
• "Deus Ex Machina", a song by Cavalera Conspiracy from the 2014 album Pandemonium
• "Deus Ex Machina", a song by Deadmau5 from the 2016 album W:/2016Album/

Television and film

• "Deus Ex Machina" (Lost), a 2005 episode of the television series Lost
• "Deus Ex Machina" (Person of Interest), a 2014 episode of the television series Person of Interest
• 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, 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
• 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

See also

• Ex Machina (disambiguation)
• "Ex Deus Machina", an episode of the television show Stargate SG-1