
Protagonist Arata Mizunashi, who originally thought the "God of Death" moniker was for him, quickly catches on and asks the player for help directly. While staring directly into the screen and then smacking the camera.
In Death end re Quest, the Ax-Crazy Ripuka has the party on the ropes yet again, but instead of finishing them off immediately, taunts the "God of Death" for acting like a innocent bystander. All the efforts of the player party amount to being distraction (and almost getting killed) after accidentally falling into the villain's lair. until the rat broke the villain's protection circle the player characters didn't even know about). well a rat (steals the party's cheese previously) and Death (who sent the party on the quest to begin with, but expressly couldn't interfere. One of the early quests in Dark Law is solved by. A perfect example of the third Deus Ex Machina.
After the final boss, Coco brings up that the giant killer robot can be shut down if she simply had her "Transpalooper", which Crash conveniently has had this whole time. They are interrupted by Dr Cortex, and Crash simply pockets the device.
In Crash of the Titans, Coco Bandicoot requests Crash Bandicoot to hand her the "Transpalooper" a purple device.