History Franchise / FinalDestination

%%* BecauseDestinySaysSo

%%* BlessedWithSuck: The premonitions.

%%* CassandraTruth
* CheatedDeathDiedAnyway: The premise of every single film in the franchise is that a moment of premonition allows people to predict, and avoid, an accidental death. Then, a strange force [[JustifiedTrope ensures]] that all of those people will die soon afterwards in similar accidents.

%%* DiabolusExMachina: Again, Death.
%%* DisasterDominoes

%%* RubeGoldbergDevice

%%* YourHeadASplode
%%** [[spoiler:[[TemptingFate Lewis]] (Part 3)]]
%%** [[spoiler:Nadia "Have you all lost your fucking minds?" (Part 4)]]
%%** [[spoiler:Isaac (Part 5)]]

%%* EnemiesWithDeath

%%* PropheciesAreAlwaysRight

%%* YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive
%%* YourDaysAreNumbered

->''"In death there are no accidents, no coincidences, no mishaps...and no escapes."''

* ForTheEvulz: The only adequate explanation for why Death kills survivors so horribly. This is even offered as an explanation in the novelization of the third film, where Wendy also surmises that the reason why people are rarely ever killed while alone is because Death likes having an audience.

* YouCantFightFate: The premise of this film series. Even when the premonitions are avoided, most (and all in the long run) of the characters get their due death. A subversion occurs in the comic books: [[spoiler: TheReveal in one of the comic books is that the main character is ''the reincarnation of the goddess of fate'', and that she was used by death to enter our world, which might explain how the MainCharacters of the movies get the premonitions in the first place.]]

%%** [[spoiler: Nadia "Have you all lost your fucking minds?" (Part 4)]]

%%* ArcNumber: 180, 23.

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* TrainwreckEpisode: Every story begins with a premonition of an elaborate disaster unfolding around the MainCharacters.

* CrapsackWorld: Death is real and he either [[JerkassGod hates you]] or [[CosmicPlaything thinks your silly attempts to live are amusing]]. Also, because of Death, horrible accidents that involve dozens or even ''hundreds'' of people dying are commonplace. Everything, from ceiling fans to roller coasters to planes, is on the verge of falling apart or blowing up due to the slightest provocation. And when it does fall apart, it will do so in the way that is most likely to kill anyone around as it happens.

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: This is how Death gets you, who can use every implement imaginable in his task.

* RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts: And it goes off without a hitch almost every single time. Justified in that it is planned by [[TheGrimReaper Death]] and he undoubtedly had quite a lot of practice in setting these things up.
* SadistShow: The ''Final Destination'' film series pits normal humans against an immortal, undefeatable, omnipresent force explicitly identified as the Grim Reaper. The humans escaped their original deaths due to unexplained premonitions of their demises. Death wants to balance his books, and he goes about it in a spectacularly sadistic way. As a result the series mostly revolves around figuring out what horrible ways in which the MainCharacters end up dying.

* ForegoneConclusion: The first three films all ended with two or three of the main characters still alive, and the movies left it open-ended as to whether they ultimately survived or not. Eventually, however, it was revealed that every single one of them died, whether on-screen or off, whether it was explicitly established in the canonical films themselves (as with Alex and Clear) or simply because the creators said so (as with Kimberly, Thomas, Wendy, Julie, and Kevin). By the time the last two films came out, the audience was likely no longer expecting there to be any chance at all that any of the characters marked by Death would ultimately live, which may be why the filmmakers finally dispensed with the ambiguous endings and just killed off all of the characters onscreen.

* SentientCosmicForce: In the series, the main cast is faced off against "Mr. Dead", which is to say Death itself. Death has no form or body, but rather exists as a sentient force of nature that brings about the deaths of those that are meant to die. It's also rather [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch-y]], being an inscrutable and unstoppable entity picking off hapless mortals in ridiculously cruel ways for the sake of what seems like sheer cruelty.

%%* CosmicPlaything: All the MainCharacters.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Many of Death's kills are incredibly sadistic, as if the Reaper has a grudge against the MainCharacters for cheating it the first time.

* SadistShow: The ''Final Destination'' film series pits normal humans against an immortal, undefeatable, omnipresent force explicitly identified as the Grim Reaper. The humans escaped their original deaths due to unexplained premonitions of their demises. Death wants to balance his books, and he goes about it in a spectacularly sadistic way. As a result the series mostly revolves around figuring out what horrible ways in which the MainCharacters end up dying.

* TrainwreckEpisode: Every story begins with a premonition of an elaborate disaster unfolding around the MainCharacters.

* YouCantFightFate: The premise of this film series. Even when the premonitions are avoided, most (and all in the long run) of the characters get their due death. A subversion occurs in the comic books: [[spoiler: TheReveal in one of the comic books is that the main character is ''the reincarnation of the goddess of fate'', and that she was used by death to enter our world, which might explain how the MainCharacters of the movies get the premonitions in the first place.]]

%%* CosmicPlaything: All the MainCharacters.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Many of Death's kills are incredibly sadistic, as if the Reaper has a grudge against the MainCharacters for cheating it the first time.

* SadistShow: The ''Final Destination'' film series pits normal humans against an immortal, undefeatable, omnipresent force explicitly identified as the Grim Reaper. The humans escaped their original deaths due to unexplained premonitions of their demises. Death wants to balance his books, and he goes about it in a spectacularly sadistic way. As a result the series mostly revolves around figuring out what horrible ways in which the MainCharacters end up dying.

* TrainwreckEpisode: Every story begins with a premonition of an elaborate disaster unfolding around the MainCharacters.

* YouCantFightFate: The premise of this film series. Even when the premonitions are avoided, most (and all in the long run) of the characters get their due death. A subversion occurs in the comic books: [[spoiler: TheReveal in one of the comic books is that the main character is ''the reincarnation of the goddess of fate'', and that she was used by death to enter our world, which might explain how the MainCharacters of the movies get the premonitions in the first place.]]

%%* CosmicPlaything: All the MainCharacters.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Many of Death's kills are incredibly sadistic, as if the Reaper has a grudge against the MainCharacters for cheating it the first time.

* SadistShow: The ''Final Destination'' film series pits normal humans against an immortal, undefeatable, omnipresent force explicitly identified as the Grim Reaper. The humans escaped their original deaths due to unexplained premonitions of their demises. Death wants to balance his books, and he goes about it in a spectacularly sadistic way. As a result the series mostly revolves around figuring out what horrible ways in which the MainCharacters end up dying.

* TrainwreckEpisode: Every story begins with a premonition of an elaborate disaster unfolding around the MainCharacters.

* YouCantFightFate: The premise of this film series. Even when the premonitions are avoided, most (and all in the long run) of the characters get their due death. A subversion occurs in the comic books: [[spoiler: TheReveal in one of the comic books is that the main character is ''the reincarnation of the goddess of fate'', and that she was used by death to enter our world, which might explain how the MainCharacters of the movies get the premonitions in the first place.]]

%%* CosmicPlaything: All the MainCharacters.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Many of Death's kills are incredibly sadistic, as if the Reaper has a grudge against the MainCharacters for cheating it the first time.

* SadistShow: The ''Final Destination'' film series pits normal humans against an immortal, undefeatable, omnipresent force explicitly identified as the Grim Reaper. The humans escaped their original deaths due to unexplained premonitions of their demises. Death wants to balance his books, and he goes about it in a spectacularly sadistic way. As a result the series mostly revolves around figuring out what horrible ways in which the MainCharacters end up dying.

* TrainwreckEpisode: Every story begins with a premonition of an elaborate disaster unfolding around the MainCharacters.

* YouCantFightFate: The premise of this film series. Even when the premonitions are avoided, most (and all in the long run) of the characters get their due death. A subversion occurs in the comic books: [[spoiler: TheReveal in one of the comic books is that the main character is ''the reincarnation of the goddess of fate'', and that she was used by death to enter our world, which might explain how the MainCharacters of the movies get the premonitions in the first place.]]

%%* CosmicPlaything: All the MainCharacters.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Many of Death's kills are incredibly sadistic, as if the Reaper has a grudge against the MainCharacters for cheating it the first time.

* SadistShow: The ''Final Destination'' film series pits normal humans against an immortal, undefeatable, omnipresent force explicitly identified as the Grim Reaper. The humans escaped their original deaths due to unexplained premonitions of their demises. Death wants to balance his books, and he goes about it in a spectacularly sadistic way. As a result the series mostly revolves around figuring out what horrible ways in which the MainCharacters end up dying.

* TrainwreckEpisode: Every story begins with a premonition of an elaborate disaster unfolding around the MainCharacters.

* YouCantFightFate: The premise of this film series. Even when the premonitions are avoided, most (and all in the long run) of the characters get their due death. A subversion occurs in the comic books: [[spoiler: TheReveal in one of the comic books is that the main character is ''the reincarnation of the goddess of fate'', and that she was used by death to enter our world, which might explain how the MainCharacters of the movies get the premonitions in the first place.]]

%%* CosmicPlaything: All the MainCharacters.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Many of Death's kills are incredibly sadistic, as if the Reaper has a grudge against the MainCharacters for cheating it the first time.

* SadistShow: The ''Final Destination'' film series pits normal humans against an immortal, undefeatable, omnipresent force explicitly identified as the Grim Reaper. The humans escaped their original deaths due to unexplained premonitions of their demises. Death wants to balance his books, and he goes about it in a spectacularly sadistic way. As a result the series mostly revolves around figuring out what horrible ways in which the MainCharacters end up dying.

* TrainwreckEpisode: Every story begins with a premonition of an elaborate disaster unfolding around the MainCharacters.

* YouCantFightFate: The premise of this film series. Even when the premonitions are avoided, most (and all in the long run) of the characters get their due death. A subversion occurs in the comic books: [[spoiler: TheReveal in one of the comic books is that the main character is ''the reincarnation of the goddess of fate'', and that she was used by death to enter our world, which might explain how the MainCharacters of the movies get the premonitions in the first place.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Many of Death's kills are incredibly sadistic, as if the Reaper has a grudge against the MainCharactersfor cheating it the first time.

%%* CosmicPlaything: All the protagonists.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Many of Death's kills are incredibly sadistic, as if the Reaper has a grudge against the protagonists for cheating it the first time.

* SadistShow: The ''Final Destination'' film series pits normal humans against an immortal, undefeatable, omnipresent force explicitly identified as the Grim Reaper. The humans escaped their original deaths due to unexplained premonitions of their demises. Death wants to balance his books, and he goes about it in a spectacularly sadistic way. As a result the series mostly revolves around figuring out what horrible ways in which the protagonists end up dying.

* TrainwreckEpisode: Every story begins with a premonition of an elaborate disaster unfolding around the protagonists.

* YouCantFightFate: The premise of this film series. Even when the premonitions are avoided, most (and all in the long run) of the characters get their due death. A subversion occurs in the comic books: [[spoiler: TheReveal in one of the comic books is that the main character is ''the reincarnation of the goddess of fate'', and that she was used by death to enter our world, which might explain how the protagonists of the movies get the premonitions in the first place.]]