1. Jason White - Superman Returns
The worst deus ex machine in recent film history has to be when Lois Lane was saved by her pusillanimous son lobbing a piano at a Lex Luthor henchman. When the it was revealed that it was not Superman, but that asthmatic kid who threw the grand piano across the room like that, audiences laughed at the unintentional funniness of the scene and cringed a second later on account of the further implications behind it. As it turns out, that kid was Superman's bastard son all along. But leaving bastard children around the galaxy seems so un-Superman-like. Didn't Marlon Brando's mumbling Jor El warn his son not to interfere with human history? That clearly didn't stop him from mingling with a reporter or two.
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