Deus Ex Machina
Deus Ex Machina: translation is "god from the machine" -but what is relates to id the unsatisfying resolution of a story by some god-given miracle.
lightening strikes the villain in the last moment before he can Slay the hero, and kills the villain. A kind of Divine intervention..
Usually this is a lame addition to find an end to a story without developing the conflict and plot more creatively. Using a random event (even if an act of supernaturalism) is usually does not fulfil the complexity of conflict.
Sometimes it canned be toyed with and used cleverly, especially in comedies:
*Krawczyk and Novak
