Citations:deae ex machinis

Noun: plural of

 * 1981: Roger Burke Dooley, From Scarface to Scarlett: American Films in the 1930s, page 212 (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; ISBN 0151337896, 9780151337897)
 * C. Henry Gordon, who had also sneered his way through Renegades and The Devil’s in Love, was the standard sadistic officer, whose villainy causes the death of the hero’s brother and almost that of the hero himself (Paul Kelly), abandoned in the desert until rescued by the heroine (Lorna Gray) in her private plane — surely a new high in deae ex machinis.
 * 2013, Charles Newman, In Partial Disgrace:
 * Let's clear the set—reel in the prop foliage, crank to the rafters those deae ex machinis of ever-fresher, ever-younger lovers, those student saving graces or muses with the wings of angels but demonic T&A.