7/22/2023 0 Comments Deus ex machinaAt the time, this appears to the human characters be an incredibly blatant example of the trope later in the series, it's revealed that during the desperate last-ditch combat at the Battle of the Line, the ship bearing the Minbari Grey Council captured a human fighter and interrogated its pilot, discovering in the process that he carried a reincarnated Minbari soul. The Minbari's goal was nothing short of Kill All Humans, but when the invasion fleet entered Earth orbit and wiped away the last remnants of the human fleet, they suddenly ceased fire and offered an immediate and unconditional surrender, just moments before turning Earth into a smoldering wasteland. During the Earth-Minbari War, the human forces lost every battle, without ever even managing to inflict significant losses on the Minbari. Subverted in the backstory of Babylon 5. Huge light = death to creepy monsters from "Darkest of the Dark Worlds". The power doesn't just exterminate demon slugs.Sure, we get that Cordy has new powers that we're still learning about, but they certainly lucked out that one of them just happened to be demon slug extermination. Episode 3.19, "The Price", the little demon slug things are all miraculously destroyed by a previously unknown and completely unexplored power of Cordelia's, that she managed to not figure out how to access earlier in the episode.On Angel, Lilah uses "Dead ex Machina" to describe the situation after Angelus tricks everyone into believing he was Angel again.It means that had they been able to keep the shop, paying for the damage would have ruined them financially and they'd be screwed. The car crashing through the window and/or the Aunt Charity canceling the check actually does save them in the end.Instead of saving them, this improbable event guarantees that there will be no going back, and the two will have to start working their way up from scratch again. Right after Caroline and Max sign the paperwork agreeing to a buyout of the lease on their months-old cupcake shop, a car crashes into the shop. However, this is inverted when she stops payment on the check, which she signed while on painkillers. 2 Broke Girls: Episode "And Not-so-Sweet Charity": The girls are about to lose their cupcake shop when they appeal to Caroline's heretofore unmentioned rich Aunt Charity, who writes them a check.
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