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The crocodile that killed LaRoche in "Adaptation". Of course, the whole point of it was that it was SUPPOSED to be obvious as a deus ex machina, because Robert McKee told Charlie NOT to use one in his screenplay, but Donald wrote it in anyway.
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Star Trek Voyager had a fair few examples of this. They would be stuck in a situation and five minutes before the end someone would say, "I know! If we reverse the tachyon flow through the neutron accelerators and remodulate the quantum regulators on the defelctor array to maximise the dispersal field it just might work!!!!" Or "I know! We use the magic beam!" Voyager not alone, many sci-fi movies/TV shows/Books do this. Not like Clarke or Asimov where they were finding genuinely clever and self-consistent solutions to situations they found themselves in. Asimov's robot stories are a great example.
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