User blog comment:Lemursrule/THE ARRANCAR ARC IS OVER!/@comment-1211470-20100928105600/@comment-1454424-20100928160617

sigh This is like a major pet peeve of mine. This plotkai business.

Plotkai = deus ex machina. None of those where Deus ex machina. The definition of a deus ex machina is "is a plot device whereby a seemingly inextricable problem is suddenly and abruptly solved with the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new character, ability, or object". Although, new ability in a fighting type manga is a given so I am not sure how much of a deus ex machina you can call the revelation of a new ability.

Still, point is, Kenpachi turning-up just in time to save Ichigo = Deus ex Machina. Byakuya defeating Zommari = not deus ex machina as he did not use a new ability, object and no new character intervened. He simply used his bankai, an established ability and his speed. The Mayuri fight is a bit touch and go, the bacteria thing and the medicine inside Nemu can both be considered Deus ex Machina but they are both in keeping with Mayuri's character. So you could also argue that they were not contrived or unexpected.

PS. You are getting the blunt of it because you keep making statements that have no foundation and easily disproved. This is wiki for crying out loud. Do you really expect to get away with saying plotline and storyline are to different things or just labelling something a plotkai without someone pointing out that plotkai is a Bleach fandom word for deus ex machina and that in Bleach fandom, anything that people don't agree with get's labelled "plotkai"? I am sorry but that just doesn't work. If a simple dictionary look-up unravels your argument, expect that to happen.