Can someone break this down for me? I’ve read explanations and I’m not grasping it. An example would be great. Cheers y’all
In: 1945
Deus ex machina is when a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly or abruptly solved by an unexpected and unlikely thing that happened.
it’s usually when some new event, character, ability, or object solves a problem that seems impossible in a sudden, unexpected way.
it’s a *solution* to a *problem*, it’s not a plot twist or giving the reader/viewer a new angle to look at the story
basically whenever the story introduces a problem that seems impossible and solves it with similarly impossible solution.
[this comic from the TV Trope page put it pretty well](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deus_ex_machina_5.png)
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