Talk:Kamijou Touma/Abilities and Powers/@comment-60.53.116.30-20141121031951/@comment-5230978-20141129151851

As I told you, Deus ex machina is only a solution to a hopeless situation. If something/someone also has another function in addition to that of a solution, or doesn't solve anything, or the situation was solvable in another way, then it's not a Deus ex machina. So no, neither awakening nor the powers beyond IB are Dei ex machina.

Awakening, or to be more accurate the possibility of it occuring, is hinted in vol 3 during the dialogue about SYSTEM.