Lieutenant Olivia "Liv" Margaret Benson (born February 7, 1968) is the commanding officer of the Manhattan Special Victims Unit. Prior to taking over SVU, Benson. LAW & ORDER: SVU is a Wolf Films production in association with Universal Television. This hard-hitting and emotional series from NBC's "Law & Order" brand chronicles. Law & Order: SVU. When reports of sexual abuse surface at an elite private school, Detective Benson.

Elliot "El" Stabler (born October 20th, 1966) was a detective in the Manhattan Special Victims. This novella has been drawn from Vol. 5/6 of the American Reader, available here. A guide listing the titles and air dates for episodes of the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Diabolus ex Machina (Devil from the Machine) is the Evil Counterpart of Deus ex Machina: the introduction of an unexpected new event, character, ability, or object.

Diabolus ex Machina - TV Tropes. This is the convenient plot twist that makes them even more screwed. This could also be called Acute Dramatic Necessity Disorder. Like the Deus ex Machina, it only applies if it comes out of left field. Though it often overlaps with Ending Tropes, it should not be confused for one. Compare Diabolus ex Nihilo, Ass Pull, and Cruel Twist Ending, as well as Life Will Kill You. Often the cause of a Sudden Downer Ending.

Likely to be employed by writers who believe that True Art Is Angsty. But we'll try to keep you from getting too spoiled. Not only was she not an inherently villainous character, not only was death not the only way to resolve the situation, but killing her in the way she was ensures there can be no potential reconciliation with Izumi, who spends the rest of the series thinking her rival and crush murdered her best friend.

Gundam. Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO Episode 5: The very young recruit, Erwin, has survived the sortie, and talked his opponent into being taken prisoner rather than dying needlessly when a blast of laser fire from a distant Salamis kills them both. Something happens like this in the Gundam Side- Story Space, to the End of a Flash, where the pilot of the Gundam Unit 5 survives the battle of A Baoa Qu and is returning to the ship.. Especially when Setsuna finally reunites with his loved sister, a wacko angel girl shoots her and enrages Setsuna, causing The End of the World as We Know It. Given the number of times Lelouch has horrible events happen right in his moment of triumph, one might expect that he leaves an open place setting at his dinner table just for Diabolus. Of course, Zero's Geass just had to backfire at the . Only to slip up and stumble right into the Moral Event Horizon without even wanting to.

After this you just know there will be no happy ending for Lulu. Season 2 surpasses it when Lelouch commanding Suzaku to . It's like an Up to Eleven version of Season 1. In both seasons, every time the Order of Black Knights seems to be winning a battle, you can set your watch to some new Britannian super- Knightmare Frame showing up and sending everything to hell.

Honestly, you'd think they were pumping these things out of their asses faster than Evangelion with how many show up. He ends up collapsed against a mailbox, having a flashback of his former teammates, while the pedestrians walking past pay no attention to the guy apparently bleeding to death all over the sidewalk.

Played for laughs in the ending of every episode of Rock Lee's Springtime of Youth. Watch War On Everyone Online Mic there. She barely finishes, but it's looking up. The Seele army has been driven out, Rei, Shinji and Asuka are alive, Ritsuko's plan to detonate the entire complex failed, Shinji isn't in his psychopathic mother and Instrumentality has been averted.

Then Asuka gets speared by a Lance of Longinius, right as her power runs out. Her Eva is then partially EATEN ALIVE by the Mass Production EVAs, who simply regenerated the wounds Asuka inflicted on them, and skewered to death by even more fake Lances; Shinji gets in Unit 0. Rei fuses with Lilith, becomes a giant white god and turns all of humanity into orange juice on Shinji's orders. In the original series, everything is going fine, if not a tad angsty. Shinji's social skills are improving, Asuka's teamwork is going well and Rei is beginning to show some humanity.

A few episodes later and Asuka's been Mind Raped, Shinji is catatonic and Rei is dead, replaced by a clone. Rebuild 3. 0 takes this Up to Eleven; also an interesting example in that the Machina occurs entirely during the first half of it. Shinji manages to kill Zeruel and rescue Rei during a Moment of Awesome; 3. Shinji in turmoil resulting from the fully realized consequences of those actions. Time Skip, where Shinji learns that his actions have devastated the planet and killed most of the population; secondly, the crew of Wille claim that Rei actually died and was replaced by a clone.

A similar scene occurs in L/R. The bad guys are defeated and one of the partners of the title agency has fallen in love and is all set to live happily ever after. Unfortunately, while walking down the street near his office, one of the villains of the series pops into view and shoots him dead. He doesn't even get a poignant flashback. A non- death example: In Ojamajo Doremi Naisho, Hazuki has taken an unlikely lead in the final leg of a relay to decide a swim meet only to suddenly get a cramp on the way back, allowing the other room to easily win the race.

Particular arcs that come to mind are Onikakushi- hen, in which after finally getting rid of two girls who had been trying to murder him the entire arc, the main character dies by . Watch The Inflicted Streaming. In Minagoroshi- hen, Rika has spent more than a hundred years of constantly repeating the same month, knowing that she's going to die a horrendous, bloody death at the end. However, there is one world that Keiichi manages to change in the slightest way. A tiny little change leads to a string of minor miracles, with many a Heartwarming Moment. Then, right before the club can finally save Rika, the Big Bad reveals herself and shoots them all in the face. Then she ritualistically disembowels Rika and goes on to initiate the aforementioned poison gas attack on the village.

Although that chapter title (It translates to Everyone- killing chapter) is a bit of a tip- off.. Rika finally manages to end the endless loops of death. Watch America Brown Online Freeform. She's so happy that she gets all careless and runs into a truck, dying in the process and ending up in a perfect world where everybody is happy and there is no Watanagashi tragedy, but in which she has no good friends (Satoko is a bitch and Hanyuu just isn't there in that world) and the village will be destroyed due to the dam project.

She finally gets back to the old world by killing her own mother. Occurs in the Buu Saga of Dragon Ball Z, when Mr. Satan/Hercule, of all people, manages to stop Buu by befriending him.

Just when things are about to calm down, two gun- toting assholes show up and shoot both Mr. Satan/Hercule and the puppy Buu adopted, pissing him off and forming the Evil Buu, which starts the next part of the arc up. Satan did stop them before when they shot the puppy, but one of the goons came back for vengeance.

The timing of the whole thing does feel a little contrived though. Pretty quickly Goku finds that the only chance he has of winning is to use Kaioken attack at levels where it physically hurts him. After their famous Beam- O- War, Goku finds the only way he'll win using the spirit bomb, despite Vegeta losing said struggle. Vegeta reveals a previously unmentioned way to turn into a Oozaru and promptly crushes Goku within an inch of his life. Goku's just increased his strength to previously undreamed of levels by training in an atmosphere 1. Earth's gravity, and with his new strength is easily able to decimate the Ginyu Force, up until his fight with the Captain, who suddenly reveals his body switch power to steal Goku's body for himself. The events that occur because of this leave Goku heavily crippled when he does get his body back and out of action for a while.

In the Frieza saga, Piccolo is fighting Frieza in what is presumed to be his true form, losing, then powers up to full strength. Whether or not this would have made a difference because Frieza reveals he has two more transformations, transforms into the first one and demolishes Piccolo.

In the anime, Piccolo manages to take the upper hand, then Frieza transforms. Goku teleports him, along with himself away before he can, and both seemingly die(along with King Kai and his companions). Gohan and the other Z- Fighters briefly mourn, and then out of nowhere, Trunks gets a hole blown through his chest. It turns out Cell is back and even stronger than ever, now as Super- Perfect Cell. An interesting example in that even he himself thought he was a goner.