History Fridge / FinalDestination

*** Which itself goes into FridgeHorror that might also go into BlackComedy that CrossesTheLineTwice, depending on your point of view: [[spoiler:Death will still come and get Bludworth someday.]] We see in FD5 that those who manage to cheat Death [[spoilers:(Such as Sam, who got Agent Block's remaining weeks, or Nathan Seers, who got Roy's remaining weeks)]] will still end up dying in horrifying ways once their time comes. [[spoiler:Imagine Bludworth, age 80+, living in a residence for senior citizens, when Death comes to off him in a spectacular fashion, similarly to the final acts of F3, 4 and 5...]]

*** Goes back to being even more FridgeHorror: [[spoiler:if he did kill an infant, maybe his lifespan will be longer than any other human's. If said infant was destined to live a long life, that means Bludworth could live well beyond 100 years.]]
*** Which itself goes into FridgeHorror that might also go into BlackComedy that CrossesTheLineTwice, depending on your point of view: [[spoiler:Death will still come and get Bludworth someday.]] We see in FD5 that those who manage to cheat Death (Such as Sam, who got Agent Block's remaining weeks, or Nathan Seers, who got Roy's remaining weeks) will still end up dying in horrifying ways once their time comes. [[spoiler:Imagine Bludworth, age 80+, living in a residence for senior citizens, when Death comes to off him in a spectacular fashion, similarly to the final acts of F3, 4 and 5...]]

** Another popular theory is that he went through the same perils, but survived. How else could he know [[spoiler:that you get a person's remaining years by killing them]]?

* In Final Destination 3 the photos taken by Wendy before boarding Devil's Flight predict the nature of the deaths of all the survivors. This doesn't make sense if the premonitions aren't part of Death's design, as it would have no way of knowing that 10 people would get off the ride and die in other ways. The revelation in The Final Destination that [[spoiler: Death is actually the one sending the premonitions in order to lead people to their intended deaths]] clears this up.

* In the alternate beginning to ''[[FinalDestination Final Destination 3]]'' Wendy has her premonition of the roller-coaster crash while still in line and ends up saving Kevin, Jason and Carrie instead of the original survivors. We are then shown text describing how each of their lives continue following the crash, indicating that Death is no longer chasing them. This is explained by the "kill or be killed" rule introduced in Final Destination 5- since 4 new people took their seats on the ride, Wendy and the others inadvertently caused their deaths and got their lives.

** That point is usually explained by that all being part of death's overarching plan, as in [[death gave him the visions]] this is partially explained in the end when they are in death by caffeine and [[they get killed by the truck]]

** Another subtle hint: "I see dead people". [[spoiler:[i]TheSixthSense[/i] had come out in theaters barely a year prior to the events of the fifth Final Destination movie. Nowadays, that joke has been done [[IncrediblyLamePun to death]].]]
** It's also very smart how they try to hide it on at least one occasion. [[spoiler:Before September 2001, who would have thought about terrorism as the cause of that bridge collapsing?]]

* An exmple that fits both Fridge Brilliance and Horror, at the end of ''[[FinalDestination Final Destination 5]]''. [[spoiler: Peter kills Agent Block, Sam kills Peter, then he and Molly die in the plane's explosion. This technically means that Sam got Peter's years; yet, Peter had taken his years from the policeman. Which means that the policeman had only two weeks to live. Peter killing him was proven nearly useless, since he only gained two weeks. But he didn't know. And neither did Sam...]]

* An exmple that fits both Fridge Brillane and Horror, at the end of ''[[FinalDestination Final Destination 5]]''. [[spoiler: Peter kills Agent Block, Sam kills Peter, then he and Molly die in the plane's explosion. This technically means that Sam got Peter's years; yet, Peter had taken his years from the policeman. Which means that the policeman had only two weeks to live. Peter killing him was proven nearly useless, since he only gained two weeks. But he didn't know. And neither did Sam...]]

* ''[[FinalDestination Final Destination 5]]'': [[spoiler: ''This is just a prequel''. Yet [[ScaryBlackMan Bludworth]] stated that he has seen the events in the film happen ''before''. Think about it]].
** [[spoiler: Who knows? Maybe HE lived such a thing and managed to get out of it... it would also explain how he knows about the trick of "Killing someone to gain their years". But unlike both Sam and Nathan, he may have killed someone who still had a long time to live. His age is never explicitly stated, and he does look in his fifties, maybe he's even older than that. In fact, could he have killed an infant? Cue total horror.]]
* ''The Final Destination'': [[spoiler: All those people in the movie theatre and in the mall who would have died if Nick hadn't of saved them? ''They are all on Death's List now''.]]

* I just figured out one weird detail in the opening disaster of ''2''. In the premonition, the last girl due to go squish finds herself pinned by the wreckage of her car as she sees the grille of a big rig come barreling out of a wall of fire at her. At first I thought, okay, somehow this thing is riding the force of all the other cars exploding behind it, but this isn't the case. That was the same truck that took out the van with all her friends after saving a bunch of the would-be victims. It wasn't exactly caught up in the explosions or jackknifed or anything - ''it just couldn't stop in time.''

* Jonathan Grove dies in the fourth movie's vision because he's crushed against a concrete pylon by a flying wreck. He'd been asked to move to a new seat because his cowboy hat was blocking peoples' view. It was no coincidence that this placed him in such a dangerous spot: he'd chosen that spot to sit ''because'' the pylon was there, meaning no one else was directly behind him and his hat couldn't obstruct anyone ''else's'' view. Death by politeness!

* An exmple that fits both Fridge Brillane and Horror, at the end of ''[[FinalDestination Final Destination 5]]''. [[spoiler: Peter kills the policeman, Sam kills Peter, then he and Molly die in the plane's explosion. This technically means that Sam got Peter's years; yet, Peter had taken his years from the policeman. Which means that the policeman had only two weeks to live. Peter killing him was proven nearly useless, since he only gained two weeks. But he didn't know. And neither did Sam...]]

** [[spoiler: Who knows? Maybe HE lived such a thing and managed to get out of it... it would also explain how he knows about the trick of "Killing someone to gain their years". But unlike both Sam and Nathan, he killed someone who still had a long time to live. His age is never explicitly stated, and he does look in his fifties, maybe he's even older than that. In fact, could he have killed an infant?]]

** This troper went in knowing [[spoiler: it was a prequel, but found the subtle musical hattips in the opening scene pretty great. When the hell else but 2000 would someone have compared a girl to Lisa Loeb?]]

* ''The Final Destination'': [[spoiler: All those people in the movie theatre and in the mall who would have died if Andy hadn't of saved them? ''They are all on Death's List now''.]]

* The fourth movie in the series is not numbered, instead being called ''The Final Destination'', implying that it's the last movie in the series...and then ''Final Destination 5'' comes out. The brilliance only comes at [[TwistEnding the end]] of ''Final Destination 5'', when [[spoiler:the last two survivors of the bridge collapse die by being on board Flight 180--the opening disaster from ''Final Destination''. It's a prequel, which means the fourth movie is still chronologically the last.]]