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* In the British sitcom ''[[Bottom]]'', Ritchie and Eddie are trapped atop a crumbling ferris wheel. Facing certain death they pray for their lives - literally. God's hand promptly appears and Ritchie and Eddie, looking stunned climb aboard. Normality is restored when they announce to the audience they don't believe in God; the hand dissappears and they fall to their doom.

* In the Disney movie ''[[The Emperor's New Groove]]'', a chase occurs where the Emperor Kuzco (who has been turned into a [[llama]]) and his friend Pacha are being pursued back to the palace by Kuzco's evil advisor Yzma and her assistant Kronk. During the chase, Yzma and Kronk are struck by lightning, and fall into a gorge, leaving Kuzco and Pacha seemingly free to return to the palace. Upon their return, they discover that Yzma and Kronk are already there, and when Kuzco asks Yzma how they got back before they did, she looks confused and asks Kronk. Kronk pulls out a map of the chase and says "Beats me. By all accounts it doesn't make sense.", showing the characters' awareness of the ''deus ex machina'' that has just been perpetrated.

* In [[Dodgeball]] the chest of money Peter wins at the end of the tournament has the words "deus ex machina" on it.

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