History Characters / FinalDestination

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!! William Bludworth
--> '''Played by:''' Creator/TonyTodd
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->''"In death there are no accidents, no coincidences, no mishaps, and no escapes."''

%%* AmbiguouslyEvil
%%* ColdHam
* CreepyMortician: Works as a mortician and is the man who informs the premonition survivors that Death is after them.
%%* TheCreepyUndertaker
%%* DarkIsNotEvil
* EvilSoundsDeep: Averted. It isn't clear what Bludworth's role in everything is, but he appears to be at worst a neutral party and at best a guide for the survivors.
* {{Expy}}: Of Carl Bugenhagen from ''Film/TheOmen1976'', for being the MrExposition who provides the protagonists ways to avoid their fates, except if Bugenhagen was [[AdaptationalVillainy ambiguously ominous]] and had undergo RaceLift into becoming a ScaryBlackMan.
%%* MagicalNegro
%%* MrExposition
* ScaryBlackMan: He's played by ''Creator/TonyTodd''.
%%* SophisticatedAsHell
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Had he not talked about how to cheat death by [[spoiler:killing someone else off]], we wouldn't have [[spoiler:Peter to went JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope and try to kill Molly]]. Though it's up in the air if he intended for that to happen or not.

!! Death
* DeathSong: Many of Death's kills are signaled by music playing, either in the general area or near the survivor who received the initial premonition. The song is either a specific song that gets played multiple times, or a song that's relevant in some way to the current death. Examples include playing "Rollercoaster of Love" for the tanning bed deaths in ''3'' since a rollercoaster was the initial accident, and playing "Why Can't We Be Friends" when killing the racist jerk in ''The Final Destination''.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The reason it makes anyone who somehow escapes the initial accident of each film a CruelAndUnusualDeath. Trying to cheat it apparently ticks it off enough that it's going to make you suffer in the worst possible ways before you actually die and by the time it's over your corpse is going to be completely mangled.
* DramaticWind: Sometimes uses wind to help start the events that will kill people, like in Issac's case in the fifth film, where it sets a stand on fire and starts a chain reaction that leads to him getting his head squashed by a Buddha statue.
* EldritchAbomination: Death's real form is never seen and it is treated as an inhuman force of nature, its motives in causing such cruel deaths are inscrutible to all beings except itself, and it is so powerful and omnipresent that it can claim whatever humans it wants before directing its attention to some other corner of the planet.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Death seems to have a problem with racism.
** When Carter is preparing to burn a cross on George's lawn in ''The Final Destination'', Death causes his truck radio to start playing "Why Can't We Be Friends?"; then it kills him in a manner not too dissimilar to how racist lynch mobs would execute their victims.
** Death does the same thing to Isaac, an idiotic sleaze who tries to invoke a HappyEndingMassage at an Asian parlor after they point out that he's not at a brothel. Isaac's head is crushed by the same Buddha's statue he previously sneered at.
* {{Expy}}: The way Death makes his kills is no different from how [[Film/TheOmen Damien Thorn]] slaughters his opposers.
* ForTheEvulz: It's suggested in the novelization of the third film, and ''Dead Man's Hand'', that the extremely cruel deaths are such because Death finds them to be fun.
* TheGrimReaper: Kills people who cheat him.
* TheHeavy: For the entire series, Death is the main antagonist and the one the characters are tying to avoid.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Death has no physical form; he's effectively a force of nature.
* HopeSpot: If the theory that Death causes the premonitions itself in the first place is true, then it seems Death ''really'' enjoys lending people a bit of luck and then snatching it away as brutally as possible. Also, each movie generally features a hope spot as the protagonists seem to find a method to escape Death. While it would seem there ''are'' ways to slow Death down, even for as much as a year or two as Clear did, [[DownerEnding none of the methods actually beat Death in the long run]].
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: One of Death's personal favorite methods of killing. The first film only saw one impalement through a cleaving knife, but the other movies have Death use anything convenient to impale, both in premonitions and in real life.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Whenever an AssholeVictim is involved.
* KillItWithFire: Another signature Death tactic. Three of the five starting premonitions involve flames/explosions of some sort, and every film has at least one fire scene where someone dies (sometimes to the fire, sometimes not.)
* LivingShadow: What it is most commonly appears as.
* RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts: Some of Death's victims fall to this. [[spoiler:The best example are the ladies in the tanning beds when a leaking slushie and an air conditioner trap them in the beds and short-circuits them, causing the beds to overheat and eventually ignite in flames.]]
* TrapMaster: Some death scenes are set up to start a chain of events that activates a "booby trap".
* UltimateEvil: He's a completely invisible force taking out the Death-cheaters one by one.
* WouldHurtAChild: There's a baby onboard the plane that Death blows up in the first movie. He also crushed a young teenage kid under a plate glass window.

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[[folder:The Final Destination/Final Destination 4]]

!! Nick O'Bannon
--> '''Played by:''' Bobby Campo
* BloodFromTheMouth: When impaled in the premonition, some blood seeps from his mouth.
* DullSurprise: Spends most of the movie acting like he's in a coma, even when ''witnessing his best friend's death''.
%%* HeroesWantRedheads
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How he dies in the premonition. An explosion pushes him back into a pole.
* TeethFlying: [[spoiler:He loses several when he's slammed into a wall by the truck.]]

!! Lori Milligan
--> '''Played by:''' Shantel [=VanSanten=]
* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:Her head is twisted around by the truck]].
* LudicrousGibs: [[spoiler:In one premonition, she is sucked into some exposed gears and mangled. There isn't really much left of her afterwards]].

!! George Lanter
--> '''Played by:''' Creator/MykeltiWilliamson
* TheAlcoholic: Formerly.
* CallBack: [[spoiler:Dies the same way as Terry Chaney in the first film. Remember kids, LookBothWays before you cross]].
** Bonus: during an explanation of deja vu.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His wife and daughter died due to him driving drunk.
* DrivenToSuicide: All his attempts comically fail. [[spoiler:Eventually, Death finally grants his wish and runs him down with an ambulance.]]
* KillItWithFire: How he dies in the premonition. When a car explodes, he's engulfed in the fireball.
* LookBothWays: [[spoiler:Eventually, he gets his wish of dying, but it wasn't on his intent, and it involved him getting run over by an ambulance.]]
%%* NiceGuy
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: During his job as the race track security guard. Even when Carter Daniels threatens and quips a racial slur against him during the memorial when he blames him for his wife's death, George does not retaliate even though he was surprised and [[TranquilFury offended]] by Carter's racial insult and just politely asked him to leave.
* WidowerHero: He had a past with drunk driving, which killed his family. [[spoiler:A [[LookBothWays different kind of car accident]] sends him to them towards the end of the movie.]]

!! Jonathon Groves:
--> '''Played by:''' Jackson Walker
* NiceGuy: From what little we see of him.
* SquashedFlat: [[spoiler:Gets crushed by a falling bathtub in a hospital.]]

!! Janet Cunningham
--> '''Played by:''' Haley Webb
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Gets hit by flying debris from a cinema explosion. This was a premonition, however]]
* RichBitch: She's definitely wealthy, and is a bit on the bitchy side as well.
* SquashedFlat: [[spoiler:Janet has the misfortune of going right under the wheels of an 18-wheeler; X-ray shows her bones being crushed and splintered.]]

!! Hunt Wynorski
--> '''Played by:''' Nick Zano
%%* AssholeVictim: After acting like an insufferable [[JerkAss Jerkass]] for most of the movie, it's near impossible to feel sorry when Death catches up to him.
%%* DeathBySex: Even {{Lampshaded}}.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: It should, if you're a Creator/ChuckPalahniuk fan.
%%* TheFriendNobodyLikes
* GuttedLikeAFish: [[spoiler:His guts are ripped out... through his ass]].
%%* {{Jerkass}}
* NumberOneDime: His coin, [[spoiler:which leads to his demise in a pool drain when a errant golf ball from the nearby course knocks it into the pool]].
%%* PreppyName
* ShirtlessScene: At the pool, [[spoiler:which is his [[IncrediblyLamePun final destination]].]]
* TooDumbToLive: Yeah, didn't check where he was dropping the kid's water gun, and [[spoiler:dumps it in the area with the pool drain controls, which leads to his undoing.]]
* VitriolicBestFriends: Arguably with Nick.

!! Andy Kewzer
--> '''Played by:''' Andrew Fiscella
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How he dies in the premonition. He gets knocked back and his head falls on a spike.
* {{Jerkass}}: Initially. He gets better with his attitude just before [[spoiler:he gets impaled on the metal fence.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: Shame it doesn't last long.
* TorsoWithAView: [[spoiler:Is crushed into a metal fence so violently that most of him is forced through the gaps in it]].

!! Samantha Lane
--> '''Played by:''' Krista Allen
* BloodFromTheMouth: When she gets stepped on in the premonition, she begins bleeding from her mouth.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:A rock is shot into her eye by a lawnmower.]]
* SquashedFlat: How she dies in the premonition. A car engine flies out of the track and slams right into her. She was already dying from being stepped on and was on the ground, and the engine finishes her off.

!! Carter Daniels
--> '''Played by:''' Justin Welborn
* TheAlcoholic: He is seen drinking beer in his truck just before his attempted cross-burning, and then his death.
* AssholeVictim: A racist jerk whose death is mourned by a grand total of zero people.
* DeathByRacism: Went to George's house to burn a cross on his lawn [[UngratefulBastard because George stopped him from getting killed by going back to his wife inside the stadium]]. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Death does not approve]], to the point of [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments dragging him behind his truck while War's anti-racism song "Why Can't We Be Friends?" plays on his radio]].
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: How he dies in the premonition. A piece of shrapnel slices him and his wife in half.
* {{Jerkass}}: The guy was a drunk who was getting ready to burn a cross on George's lawn because he saved his life; Death proved with Carter's death that It has a sense of humor and honor.
* KillItWithFire: Gets burned alive, and his car explodes just to make sure.
* ManOnFire: Becomes soaked in gasoline, which is ignited by a chain being dragged down the street.
* OffWithHisHead: When Carter's truck explodes, his burning head is catapulted to George's lawn as a memento of Death's work.
* UngratefulBastard: While George is successful at saving Carter's life at the racetrack, Carter was incensed that he couldn't go and save his wife, which led to him trying to burn a cross on George's yard and giving Death the chance to rectify his survival.
** He's also viciously calls [[TheProtagonist Nick]] a "damn freak", despite the fact that his premonition was ''the only reason he was alive''.

!! Cynthia Daniels
--> '''Played by:''' Lara Glice
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: How she dies in the premonition. A piece of shrapnel slices her and her husband in half.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies in the accident, and George stopping her husband Carter from coming back led him to burn a cross on his lawn, which led to his death.
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[[folder:Final Destination 5]]

!!Sam Lawton
--> '''Played by:''' Nicholas D'Agosto
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: How he dies in the premonition. A piece of metal slices his body in half.
%%* TheHero
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Is immolated on the same plane that was destroyed in the first film's opening.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:He ensures Molly's death at the end of the film when he acts on his premonition; the premonition saw Molly survive the bridge collapse, but she doesn't survive the plane explosion.]]
* SupremeChef: Aspires to be this.

!!Molly Harper
--> '''Played by:''' Emma Bell
%%* EveryoneLovesBlondes
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Gets sucked out the window of the original film's plane and collides with the wing, which rips her in half.]]

!!Nathan Seers
--> '''Played by:''' Arlen Escarpeta
%%* BlackBestFriend
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Inverted. He dies last]].
* SquashedFlat: [[spoiler:Crushed by falling debris from the first movie's exploding plane.]]

!!Peter Friedkin:
--> '''Played by:''' Miles Fisher
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:At the climax.]]
* CompositeCharacter: If the series couldn't get any ''[[Film/TheOmen Omen]]''-esque enough, Peter at the climax eventually fulfills the role of that of [[spoiler:the Anti-Christ's protectors ([[Film/TheOmen1976 Mrs. Baylock]], [[Film/DamienOmenII Ann Thorn]], etc.) who are the BigBad's disciples who acts as the direct human antagonists.]]
** [[spoiler:Interestingly enough, both Peter and Mrs. Baylock both die in a kitchen when attempting to kill the protagonist, who kills him/her with cooking utensils (Mrs. Baylock by carving fork and Peter by skewer).]]
** Additionally, the way he dies in the premonition by having a bunch of poles coming down on him not only nods to Father Brennan's death (who only had one pole speared him) in the first ''Omen'' film, but also [[spoiler:ironically how Ann Thorn kills the second ''Omen'' film's protagonist Richard by stabbing him with three of the Daggers of Megiddo all at once.]]
* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:At the climax, he tries to kill Sam and Molly to save his own skin.]]
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Becomes this for Death.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Betrays his remaining friends and tries to kill them to appease Death.]]
* TheHeavy: [[spoiler:He is the only direct physical antagonist in the series, as Death never had a physical form and attacks protagonists in staged freak accidents unlike Peter who just outright tries to kill his remaining friends by his own direct hand.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Gets impaled with a large skewer by Sam to stop him killing Molly.]]
** This is also how he dies in the premonition. A bunch of poles would have come down on him, with one of the poles stabbing him in the head.
* InTheBack: [[spoiler:Where Sam impales him.]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: After [[spoiler: Candice's death]].
* LeaveNoWitnesses: [[spoiler: Tries to kill Molly after he shoots and kills Agent Block. But Sam stops him before he can.]]
* SanitySlippage: After [[spoiler:Candice's death]].
* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:Near the end of the movie.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: There's a reason most of his character tropes are whited out.

!!Agent Jim Block
--> '''Played by:''' Courtney B. Vance
* InTheBack: [[spoiler:Shot by Peter, who claims his life force to avoid Death; Block was the person investigating the bridge collapse, meaning he wasn't involved with the collapse himself and was therefore never in danger of dying.]]
%%* KilledMidSentence

!!Olivia Castle
--> '''Played by:''' Jacqueline [=MacInnes=] Wood
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: After the botched LASIK surgery, she stumbles out a window and falls onto a car.]]
* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Due to a malfunctioning LASIK machine.]]
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:After getting out of the laser machine, she is frazzled, distressed and blinded in one eye but otherwise alright. And then she trips up, falls through a window and falls to her death]].
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: At first, the audience expects Olivia to die from the haywire LASIK machine. Instead, they get thrown a curveball when she dies as a result of stepping her heel on a teddy bear's eye, which popped out earlier in the scene. She loses her balance and falls through the window and onto a car below]].\

!!Dennis Lapman
--> '''Played by:''' David Koechner
* WrenchWhack: [[spoiler:How he dies]].

!!Roy Carson
--> '''Played by:''' Brent Stait
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:DoubleSubverted. He is pushed off a collapsing catwalk and manages to catch a lifting hook before landing on a metal spike... except he caught the hook with his head.]]

!!Isaac Palmer
--> '''Played by:''' P. J. Byrne
* AssholeVictim: Makes a couple insults to the acupuncturist prior to her leaving the room, plus she doesn't like him bringing his phone in. She's the last person he ever sees, literally, and the place she puts his phone plays a part when it rings a second time.
* DeathByRacism: Makes a racist joke towards his acupuncturist and a Buddha statue, saying she can't understand him because she's Chinese, and then makes a "2 million people can't be Wong" snark. He dies via the Chinese Buddha figure falling on his head.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Wears glasses except for his death scene, and isn't particularly a nice guy.
* HumanPincushion: Was undergoing acupuncture treatment at the time of his death, and when his bed collapses, it drives the needles too far into his body; this helps with his eventual death.
* KillItWithFire: Subverted. Despite noticing a stand catching on fire and him knocking candles onto ointment that spreads the fire, he dies under the falling Buddha statue, and never suffers anything from the flames, which died down on both the stand and the ointment.
* YourHeadAsplode: Crushed under a Buddha ornament.

!!Candice Hooper
--> '''Played by:''' Ellen Wroe
* BloodFromTheMouth: After she lands like a twisted pretzel and breaks a good chunk of her body, some blood starts seeping from her mouth.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How she dies in the premonition. She falls off the bridge and lands on a boat mast.
* RedHerring: All the scene leading up to her death.
* SickeningCrunch: When she finally goes, you hear it. {{Squick}}.
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[[folder:Final Destination]]
!!Alex Browning
-->'''Played by:''' Devon Sawa
* BlessedWithSuck: Alex has the premonition of the plane exploding.
* FailureToSaveMurder: The Wagner family all blame him for George and Tod's deaths.
%%* TheHero
* HeroWithBadPublicity: After the plane tragedy, he's treated as a freak by his classmates ''and teachers'', and some even believe that he is responsible.
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Dies between films 1 and 2]].
* KillItWithFire: How he dies in the premonition. He's burned alive as the plane explodes, and it's shown in graphic detail.
* TheRival: Almost every scene with him and Carter results in some sort of fight until the end of the movie.
* ShipTease: With Clear.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: And offscreen.
* WrongfullyAccused: Is falsely suspected of being responsible for the deaths in the movie. He has to evade the police in order to save Clear.

!!Clear Rivers
--> '''Played by:''' Ali Larter
* BrokenBird: Checks herself into a mental institution for the second film, and she is not the same, [[spoiler:having lost all her friends anyway.]]
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Her father.
* FinalGirl: Of the original group, [[spoiler: but not in the second movie]].
* KillItWithFire: Almost explodes in her car if not Alex's intervention. [[spoiler: Death eventually gets her by incineration in the second film along with Eugene.]] This or DisneyVillainDeath is also how she dies in the premonition.
%%* TheLancer: In the second movie.
* ParentalNeglect: Her mother does this when her father is murdered and she becomes involved with a lowlife.
* ShipTease: With Alex.
%%* ShooTheDog
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Dies near the end of the second film with Eugene.
* TookALevelInBadass: As the only person who's dealt with death's design in the second film, she instructs everyone on what to do and how. She's the most observant and alert when it comes to the new cast of characters, fitting her to find death traps and put an end to them sooner than most of the others.

!!Carter Horton
--> '''Played by:''' Kerr Smith
* KillItWithFire[=/=]DisneyVillainDeath: Seeing as how the plane exploded in mid-air, one of these two is how Carter dies in the premonition.
* JerkJock: Throughout the movie, he's pretty much physically incapable of seeing Alex without picking fights.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Saves Alex's life at the end, but at the cost of his own.]]
* TheRival: Carter is in a feud with Alex from before the movie starts to the very end.
* TemptingFate: [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, he saves Alex's life from a falling sign, and says "I told you you were next!". When Alex says Death skipped him, Carter then asks, "So who's next?" Cue the sign swinging down on Carter and hitting him just as the screen cuts to black and the film ends, going into the credits; the second movie makes it clear Carter didn't make it.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: In the last part of the movie.

!!Valerie Lewton
--> '''Played by:''' Kristen Cloke
* BrokenBird: The Flight 180 crash really affected her.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Easily one of the most complicated, gruesome and longest deaths ever. The poor girl.
* FailedASpotCheck: Much like the case of Tod and the blue water, you'd think that she would've noticed the vodka spilling out of her cracked mug ''all over the floor''. Or even worse, all over her computer monitor. Doubles as a case of TooDumbToLive.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The first victim of an impalement in the ''Final Destination'' series, and the only one in the original movie. When trying to get up after getting stabbed by computer glass, she knocks down the knife block and one of them lands in her chest. The oven exploding finishes the job a few seconds later.
* KillItWithFire: How she dies in the premonition. She is still on the plane when it blows up.
%%* SurvivorGuilt

!!Billy Hitchcock
--> '''Played by:''' Seann William Scott
* DiedStandingUp: He is half-decapitated standing straight up, while the rest are on the ground.
%%* TheFool
* KillItWithFire[=/=]DisneyVillainDeath: One of these two is how he dies in the premonition plane explosion.
* OffWithHisHead: Just the top half.
* TemptingFate: Also his FamousLastWords.
--> (To Carter) '''Billy''':Oh but you will be! You're '''dead'''! You're '''dead'''! '''AND YOU AIN'T TAKING ME WITH YOU!'''

!!Terry Chaney
--> '''Played by:''' Amanda Detmer
* DeathByIrony: Her last words literal ''seconds'' before she dies:
--> "You can just drop [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] dead!"
* KillItWithFire[=/=]DisneyVillainDeath: One of these two is how she dies in the premonition plane explosion.
* LookBothWays: Gets run down by a bus.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to [[JerkAss Carter]] right before her death.

!!Tod Waggner
--> '''Played by:''' Chad Donella
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He only dies after several minutes of struggle.
* DrivenToSuicide: What his death looks like, but actually he was trying to move on.
* FailedASpotCheck: The blue water on the bathroom floor should have been quite easy to spot.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Alex.
* KillItWithFire[=/=]DisneyVillainDeath: One of these two is how he dies in the premonition plane explosion.
* MeaningfulName: "Tod" means "death" in German. He's the very first premonition survivor to die in the film series.

!!Blake Dreyer
--> '''Played by:''' Christine Chatelain
* KillItWithFire[=/=]DisneyVillainDeath: One of these two is how she dies in the plane explosion.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Other than asking Alex to trade seats with someone, she is not onscreen for long, and she and Marsha stay on the plane and die in the explosion.

!!Christa Marsh:
--> '''Played by:''' Lisa Marie Caruk
* KillItWithFire[=/=]DisneyVillainDeath: One of these two is how she dies in the plane explosion.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Other than asking Alex to trade seats with someone, she is not onscreen for long, and she and Blake stay on the plane and die in the explosion.
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[[folder:Final Destination 2]]
!!Kimberly Corman
--> '''Played by:''' A. J. Cook
* BlessedWithSuck: Kimberly gets the initial premonition of the highway pile-up.
* DaddysGirl: Though not very explored, it's obvious that she has a strong bond with her father.
%%* FinalGirl
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:She and Thomas die in a Death-inspired accident at some point between films 2 and 3; a newspaper clipping from a deleted scene and WordOfGod confirmed they're dead.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: Failing to stop her mother from being killed, it doesn't help that she had been distracted by watching a news report of Tod Waggner's death.
%%* IMissMom
%%* {{The Hero}}ine
* PropheticFallacy: She didn't foresee that [[spoiler: Isabella wasn't supposed to die in the accident]].
* ShipTease: With Burke.

!!Thomas Burke
--> '''Played by:''' Michael Landes
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:He and Kimberly die in a Death-inspired accident at some point between films 2 and 3; a newspaper clipping from a deleted scene and WordOfGod confirmed they're dead.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* ShipTease: With Kimberly.
* YourHeadAsplode: How he dies in the premonition. When the chain snaps and the logs start falling off, one of them smashes through his windshield and plows right through his head

!!Brian Gibbons
--> '''Played by:''' Noel Fisher
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Blown up by a grill.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Was meant to die a normal death (or at least get seriously hurt) by a speeding van, but Rory saves him. His grill then explodes on him at the end of the film.]]

!!Eugene Dix
--> '''Played by:''' Terrence C. Carson
* AgentScully: Until [[spoiler: Nora's death]].
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Averted; he's one of the last people to die]].
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:He attempts to shoot himself in the head after he witnesses Nora getting decapitated, but the gun doesn't fire. Death kills you when it's your turn, and no sooner; his move was an attempt to prove he was in control of his life.]]
* HopeSpot: He almost dies when his life support machines go out, but is saved at the last minute when the back-up battery kicks on. [[spoiler: It doesn't last, as he later dies in an explosion along with Clear]].
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Is incinerated along with Clear]].
* OffWithHerHead: [[spoiler:He winds up with Nora's head when the elevator decapitates her.]]
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Wears nerd glasses.
* TokenMinority: Is African-American.

!!Rory Peters
--> '''Played by:''' Jonathon Cherry
* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler:When he get killed.]]
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Rory is trisected by farm equipment that got caught up in the explosion of Kat's car after the cigarette in her hand falls into gasoline following her impalement on a piece of pipe from the car crashing.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:His intervention with Brian nearly getting run over by a van puts Brian on the list and ensures his death at the end.]]
%%* PluckyComicRelief
* PornStash: He asks Kimberly to hide it if he dies, along with the stuff that would "break his mother's heart".
* TookALevelInKindness: Shortly before his death, he asks Kimberly to go to his apartment and get rid of "anything that'll break his mother's heart"

!!Kat Jennings
--> '''Played by:''' Keegan Connor Tracy
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Just some moments after expressing actual concern for her companions of misfortune, [[spoiler:a fireman accidentally activates her car's airbag, which blows her head back into a piece of farm equipment jutting out of the headrest]].
* MustHaveNicotine: [[spoiler:Is smoking in her final scene, and after her death, the cigarette she was carrying drops into fuel and blows the car up, which blows away more farm equipment that kills Rory above.]]
* NervousWreck: She's already really nervous before the accident, but she becomes even worse after [[spoiler: Nora's death]].

!!Nora Carpenter
--> '''Played by:''' Lynda Boyd
* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler:As the elevator starts choking her and just before the doors and the ceiling slice her head off.]]
%%* GoodParents
* IDontWantToDie: Despite her accepting her upcoming death, she says this word for word when her death actually does come up. Granted, she was probably hoping that the way she died would be something more peaceful and wouldn't end with her suffering the way it did.
* KillItWithFire: How she and her son Tim die in the premonition. Their car rams into a log and blows up.
* MamaBear: [[spoiler:Tries to stop Tim from getting squashed by the pane glass, but a handyman restrains her.]]
* NotAfraidToDie: After [[spoiler: Tim's death]].
* OffWithHerHead: [[spoiler: Her head gets trapped inside an elevator booth with the rest of her stuck outside on the current floor. Then the elevator starts going up...]]

!!Tim Carpenter
--> '''Played by:''' James Kirk
* DeathByLookingUp: [[spoiler:When the glass is falling on him, he looks up, and it's the last thing he sees.]]
%%* DisappearedDad
* KillItWithFire: How he and his mother Nora die in the premonition. Their car rams into a log and blows up.
%%* MommasBoy
* SquashedFlat: [[spoiler:Gets crushed by falling glass when a flock of pigeons distracts the man handling it.]]
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:The first thing he does when he sees someone telling him to stay away from pigeons is to jump straight into a flock of pigeons, causing them to spook a machine operator and drop a huge pane of glass on him. What the hell were you thinking, Tim?]]

!!Isabella Hudson
--> '''Played by:''' Justina Machado
* MamaBear: When her water breaks while she's detained, she angrily demands the officer guarding her take her to the hospital.
%%* PregnantBadass
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: She wouldn't have died in the car accident, so she never was on Death's list; she survives the film and lives as a result.]]

!!Evan Lewis
--> '''Played by:''' David Paetkau
* EyeScream: After slipping on the trashed spaghetti, he lands under a ladder that falls, stops, and then lands on his eye.
* KillItWithFire: How he dies in the premonition. His car explodes after ramming into a log, and he burns alive trying to get out. Then a truck barrels over him. Death uses fire in his apartment as well.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: See EyeScream.
%%* JerkAss
* TooDumbToLive: The other survivors at least made some attempt to stop or avoid the pile up in the premonition, but Evan just speeds straight through, hoping for the best. Also, he makes some really stupid decisions during the scene at his apartment which leads to his death.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: The majority of his death scene is spent shirtless.
* TemptingFate: After escaping his burning apartment, he comments on how lucky he is, only to slip on some food (that he himself threw out the window) and land directly under the ladder that skewers him through his head.

!!Dano Estevez
--> '''Played by:''' Alejandro Rae
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies in the accident when a semi runs over his car.

!!Frankie Whitman
--> '''Played by:''' Shaun Sipos
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies in the accident when a semi runs over his car.

!!Shania [=McKlank=]
--> '''Played by:''' Sarah Carter
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies in the accident when a semi runs over her car.
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[[folder:Final Destination 3]]
!!Wendy Christensen
--> '''Played by:''' Creator/MaryElizabethWinstead
%%* DeathIsASadThing
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: [[spoiler: Happens with Frankie and Lewis's death.]]
* ControlFreak: By her own admission.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She is kinda cold and distant towards Kevin at first.
* DisneyVillainDeath: This is how Wendy dies in the premonition. She falls out of the malfunctioning roller coaster and is set to land on the tracks hard before the premonition ends.
%%* GreyRainOfDepression
%%* ForgetsToEat
* FromBadToWorse: She becomes highly depressed over the loss of Jason and Carrie. Cue to Death killing off the rest of her friends and then going after her sister Julie and Wendy herself.
%%* FinalGirl
%%* {{The Hero}}ine
* TheWoobie: Arguably the most sympathetic lead in the Final Destination series.

!!Kevin Fischer
--> '''Played by:''' Ryan Merriman
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: [[spoiler: Happens with Frankie and Lewis's death.]]
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe:
** [[spoiler:His fate in the train at the end of the film. He falls out a window and gets his body ripped in half.]]
** How he dies in the premonition. He's standing up when a broken piece of pipe rips his body in half.
%%* TheLancer: To Wendy
%%* LovableJock:
* PluckyComicRelief
--> ''Is it bad? Is it painful, or embarrassing? I mean, there's nothing like up my ass, is there?''

!!Ian [=McKinley=]
--> '''Played by:''' Kris Lemche
* AgentScully: Until [[spoiler: Erin's death]].
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Tries killing Wendy because Erin died.]]
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* DisneyVillainDeath: How he dies in the premonition. He falls from the roller coaster car when it's stuck on top of a loop.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Crushed by a crane, which cuts his body in half.]]
* JerkAss: Even before his [[spoiler: SanitySlippage]], Ian mocks Kevin & Wendy and suggesting that she kill herself. All for trying to warn him and Erin that death is coming for them.
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: After Erin dies.]]
* TheSmartGuy: He's interested in physics.
* SquashedFlat: [[spoiler:A falling crane smashes him.]]
* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler: Wendy saves Ian's life and he 'still' tries to kill her. His motive of "She killed Erin" becomes especially hollow when Wendy had absolutely nothing to do with Erin's death.]]

!!Perry Malinowski
--> '''Played by:''' Maggie Ma
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Impaled by a flagpole.]]

!!Erin Ulmer
--> '''Played by:''' Alexz Johnson
%%* AgentScully
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Not as much as her boyfriend, but still qualifies.]]
* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler: When her head is perforated, some blood seeps from her mouth.]]
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* DisneyVillainDeath: How she dies in the premonition. She falls from the roller coaster car when it's stuck on top of a loop.
%%* FieryRedhead
* HumanPincushion: [[spoiler:She's killed by nails shot through her head]].
* JerkAss: Like her boyfriend, she mocks and demeans Kevin and Wendy for trying to help them.
* TheSmartGuy: Like Ian, she's interested in physics as well.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Could be named "Ian in a wig." There's a reason that she and Ian have an almost identical set of tropes.

!! Lewis Romero
--> '''Played by:''' Texas Battle
* AngryBlackMan: Pretty much yelling at someone in every scene
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Like most the cast is]]
* DumbMuscle: Very muscular and not too bright on noticing anything or [[spoiler:checking his equipment after swords slice the weights loose.]]
* JerkJock: Makes a lot of jerky comments in the gym, including one about winning [[spoiler:before his head is smashed.]]
%%* TheFriendNobodyLikes
* JerkassHasAPoint: Butthole or not, he makes a very valid point that Kevin and Wendy's investigation may just be a strange way of their grief manifesting.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Possibly with Kevin.
* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler:Crushed between a pair of weights, like a melon.]]

!!Ashley Freund and Ashlyn Halperin
--> '''Played by:''' Chelan Simmons and Crystal Lowe, respectively
* TheDitz: Two of 'em. They were told by the tanning attendant NOT to take a slushie in with them, [[spoiler:and the slushie leads to their deaths. Otherwise, they would only have been locked in the beds until someone came in.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:They both die when their tanning beds malfunction and they are burned alive]].
* LovableAlphaBitch: Despite being characterized as the typical popular girls, they behave friendly towards Wendy, [[spoiler: and in their funeral,]] Ian mentions how they had never done anything bad to anybody.
* NiceGirl: They were good friends with Wendy.
* MeaningfulName: Both have names starting with "Ash", [[spoiler:which they get turned into alive when their tanning beds become a Rube Goldberg trap.]]
* MsFanservice: Oh my yes. Check out their trip to the tanning salon. [[spoiler:Until [[FanDisservice they are immolated]]]].
* TooDumbToLive: When they go to the tanning salon, a worker there tells Ashley to leave the slurpee she brought. She takes it in, and sets it on a table above the beds' power supply. [[spoiler:When the ice in the slurpee melts, it drops onto the power box and short-circuits it, causing the temperature in the beds to rise well above normal and eventually burst into flame, which the girls cannot escape when the AC pushes a bookshelf to lock them in.]]

!! Frankie Cheeks
--> '''Played by:''' Sam Easton
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:When he flips off Wendy,who was trying to save him. Cue the DeadlyRotaryFan destroying his head.]]
%%* CameraFiend
* CasanovaWannabe: To the Ashes. They aren't having any of it.
* DeadlyRotaryFan: [[spoiler:The spinning blades from a rotary fan utterly ''destroy'' his head]].
* StalkerWithACrush: To Ashley and Ashlyn.

!!Jason Wise
--> '''Played by:''' Jesse Moss
* NiceGuy: One of the only ones in the movie!
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: Dies in the accident]]

!!Carrie Dreyer
--> '''Played by:''' Gina Holden
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: Dies in the accident]]

[[/folder]]

* [[Characters/FinalDestination2]]
* [[Characters/FinalDestination3]]

* GenreSavvy: She institutionalizes herself between the first and the second film, which is the only reason she's lived so long, as mental institutions are more or less designed to keep you alive. [[spoiler: She's dead in a matter of days once she leaves.]]
** In the first movie, she's the only passenger to leave of her own accord following Alex's post-premonition breakdown.

** Additionally, the way he dies in the premonition by having a bunch of poles would have come down on him not only nods to Father Brennan's death (who only had one pole speared him) in the first ''Omen'' film, but also [[spoiler:ironically how Ann Thorn kills the second ''Omen'' film's protagonist Richard by stabbing him with three of the Daggers of Megiddo all at once.]]

%%* LargeHam

* DramaticWind: Sometimes uses wind to help start the events that will kill people, like in Issac's case in the fifth film, where it sets a stand on fire and starts a chain reaction that leads to him getting his head squashed by a Buddha statue.

* TrapMaster: Some death scenes are set up to start a chain of events that activates a "booby trap".

* TemptingFate:

--> '''Played by:''' Kat Jennings

* KilledOffscreen: Dies between films 1 and 2.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: How he dies in the premonition. He's standing up when a broken piece of pipe rips his body in half.

* FailureToSaveMurder: The Wagner family all blame him for George's death.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Like her boyfriend]]

* MsFanservice: Oh my yes. Check out their trip to the tanning salon. [[spoiler:Until they are immolated]].

%%* AssholeVictim

* BigBad: For the entire series, Death is the main antagonist and the one the characters are tying to avoid.

* UltimateEvil: He's a completely invisible villain taking out the Death-cheaters one by one.

* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:She and Thomas die in a Death-inspired accident at some point between films 2 and 3; a newspaper clipping from a deleted scene and WordOfGod confirmed they're dead.]]