History Fridge / FinalDestination

** [[spoiler: And with a bridge collapse, there's likely to be more tangible evidence as to the cause than when an aircraft explodes in midair. Yes, it's mostly on the bottom of the river, but at least the remains of the failed structure still ''exist'' and can be assessed.]]

* In ''Final Destination 5'', even after stealing Roy and Block's lives respectively, Nathan and Peter [[spoiler: still die.]] Sure, this could mean that the "kill or be killed" rule was simply a dud- but it could also mean that Death wanted Nathan and Sam to kill two terminally-fated people and get shortchanged all along. In which case, think about [[XanatosSpeedChess the chain of events required to manoeuvre Roy and Block into the protagonists' lives.]] Death may be [[TheChessmaster even more omnipotent]] than it seems.

* In ''Final Destination 5'', even after stealing Roy and Block's lives respectively, Nathan and Sam [[spoiler: still die at the hands of Flight 180.]] Sure, this could mean that the "kill or be killed" rule was simply a dud- but it could also mean that Death wanted Nathan and Sam to kill two terminally-fated people and get shortchanged all along. In which case, think about [[XanatosSpeedChess the chain of events required to manoeuvre Roy and Block into the protagonists' lives.]] Death may be [[TheChessmaster even more omnipotent]] than it seems.

*** [[spoiler: Someone from 2011 could have been a fan of Lisa Loeb when he was younger, and remained a fan of her's due to nostalgia.]]

** It's also very smart how they try to hide it on at least one occasion. [[spoiler:Before September 2001, while a possible cause for tragedy, terrorism could not have been the go-to explanation for police forces to try to comprehend such events. Similarly, it's the only movie not to make any reference to Flight 180 when people investigate the situation.]]

* Throughout the 4 movies chronologically following [[spoiler: ''Final Destination 5'', noone references the North Bay Bridge collapse or Sam's premonition despite continually mentioning Flight 180 and all the other disasters. On a meta level, this is obviously because ''Final Destination 5'' was made last. But this is also justified by the fact that there was nothing setting apart the people saved by Sam's premonitions from the rest of the bridge collapse survivors. Everyone who directly witnessed Sam's premonition died either on the bridge or in the ensuing accidents. Thus, to the outside world, they were just 8 people out of dozens who escaped. Also, the Flight 180 crash itself would have played a large role in overshadowing the bridge collapse in the media, happening a mere 3 weeks later.]]

* The whole RedHerring, RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts moments, where a convoluted series of events happen but usually the simplest one is what takes you out lend creedance to the theory that, while Death has a list, it doesn't control everything! whatever it is just has a kind of grudge list for whoever survives, but it cannot control the actions of people, so it starts up multiple ways for the character to get killed and hopes they pretty much walk into it, take 2 for example, it starts a house fire/explosion, and if it wasn't for luck adn quick thinking the guy would have died there and then, but when that fails, it makes him slip and get impaled,one nearly gets suffocated on laughing gas but yet again luck happens and instead gets crushed by a simple glass plate.It tries to set up elaborate awesome sadistic deaths (be honest if you had a choice, would you rather die in a huge explosion or slipping on some pasta?) for these people, but people don't react how it would like, so it throws a fit and just goes "screw this" and kills them in an simple way, basically its not Death, Ender of All, its just a sadistic childish force.

** Another subtle hint: "I see dead people". [[spoiler:Film/TheSixthSense 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]].]]

* In ''Final Destinations 1'' and ''5'', cops and detectives play major roles, each time questioning the role of the person who had the premonition and saved many from certain death, moments before it happens. In the second and fourth films, a cop or security guard is directly involved in the events, being a part of Death's List. However, starting with FD2 the cops involve themselves less into the major catastrophes opening each film. A logical reason would be that a car pileup, a roller coaster spinning out of control and a massive accident at a race car tournament can hardly be attributed to terrorism or the act of a single person, unlike a plane exploding or a suspended bridge collapsing, hence why they don't pay attention to the person with the premonition.

* An example that fits both Fridge Brilliance and Horror, at the end of ''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...]]

* 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 either jackknifed, or it's riding the force of all the other cars exploding behind it, or maybe both, 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.''
* It would make sense that the deaths in Final Destination 5 were toned down a bit. [[spoiler:The movie takes place ''before'' any of the other Final Destination movies, when SequelEscalation caused the deaths to go UpToEleven]].

* In Final Destination 1 and 5, cops and detectives play major roles, each time questioning the role of the person who had the premonition and saved many from certain death, moments before it happens. In the second and fourth films, a cop or security guard is directly involved in the events, being a part of Death's List. However, starting with FD2 the cops involve themselves less into the major catastrophes opening each film. A logical reason would be that a car pileup, a roller coaster spinning out of control and a massive accident at a race car tournament can hardly be attributed to terrorism or the act of a single person, unlike a plane exploding or a suspended bridge collapsing, hence why they don't pay attention to the person with the premonition.

*** 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 [[spoiler: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...]]

** It's also very smart how they try to hide it on at least one occasion. [[spoiler:Before September 2001, while a possible cause for tragedy, terrorism could not have been the go-to explanation for police forces to try to comprehend such events.]]

** Or if you want a ''serious'' MindScrew, [[spoiler: maybe Bludworth only ''told the characters about the kill-to-take-someone's-years rule'' because '''he''' gets a fraction of the years transferred, having personally contributed the motive for any resulting murders. His presence in the films might well be a deliberate strategy to cheat Death ''himself'', by approaching visionaries and their fellow-survivors, then feeling out which ones might be willing to kill others and informing them about the "rule"!]]

* In ''[[FinalDestination Final Destination 5]]'', cell-phone addict Isaac carries around an older, clunky model. This troper remembers thinking it was strange, until [[spoiler: we realize the movie is a prequel and that's the kind of cellphones they had back then]].

* An example 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...]]

* 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 continued 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.

* ''[[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.]]

** It's also very smart how they try to hide it on at least one occasion. [[spoiler:Before September 2001, who would have thought of terrorism as the cause of that bridge collapsing?]]

** The photos of Julie, Kevin and Wendy, in addition to containing clues about their intervened deaths, also contains clues about their [[spoiler: eventual deaths on the subway. Julie's photo has an oval-shaped light fixture next to her head that resembles the flying wheel that kills her, the overexposure in Kevin's photo resembles the flashing subway tunnel lights, and the blurred out face of Jason in Wendy's photo resembles the faces of passengers on the subway platform, as well as her McKinley grad shirt foreshadowing her being hit by a train bound for McKinley.]]

* In ''Final Destination 5'', even after stealing Roy and Block's lives respectively, Nathan and Sam [[spoiler: still die at the hands of Flight 180.]] Sure, this could mean that the "kill or be killed" rule was simply a dud- but it could also mean that Death wanted Nathan and Sam to kill two terminally-fated people and get shortchanged all along. In which case, think about [[XanatosSpeedChess the chain of events required to manoeuvre Roy and Block into the protagonists' lives.]] Death may be [[TheChessmaster even more omnipotent]] than it seems.

* 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. 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.

* Throughout the 4 movies chronologically following [[spoiler: ''Final Destination 5'', noone references the North Bay Bridge collapse or Sam's premonition despite continually mentioning Flight 180 and all the other disasters. On a meta level, this is obviously because ''Final Destination 5'' was made last. But this is also justified by the fact that there was nothing setting apart the people saved by Sam's premonitions from the rest of the bridge collapse survivors. Everyone who directly witnessed Sam's premonition died either on the bridge or in the ensuing accidents. Not to mention the Flight 180 crash itself would have played a large role in overshadowing the bridge collapse, happening a mere 3 weeks later.]]

* In ''Final Destination 5'', even after stealing Roy and Block's lives respectively, Nathan and Sam [[spoiler: still die at the hands of Flight 180.]] Sure, this could mean that the "kill or be killed" rule was simply a dud- but it could also mean that Death wanted Nathan and Sam to get shortchanged all along. In which case, think about [[XanatosSpeedChess the chain of events required to manoeuvre Roy and Block into the protagonists' lives.]] Death may be [[TheChessmaster even more omnipotent]] than it seems.

* In ''Final Destination 5'', even after stealing Roy and Block's lives respectively, Nathan and Sam [[spoiler: still die at the hands of Flight 180.]] Sure, this could mean that the "kill or be killed" rule was simply a dud- but it could also mean that Death wanted Nathan and Sam to kill and get shortchanged all along. In which case, think about [[XanatosSpeedChess the chain of events required to manoeuvre Roy and Block into the protagonists' lives.]] Death may be [[TheChessmaster even more omnipotent]] than it seems.

* 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. 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 Final Destination 5, even after stealing Roy and Block's lives respectively, Nathan and Sam [[spoiler: still die at the hands of Flight 180.]] Sure, this could mean that the "kill or be killed" rule was simply a dud- but it could also mean that Death wanted Nathan and Sam to kill and get shortchanged all along. In which case, think about [[XanatosSpeedChess the chain of events required to manoeuvre Roy and Block into the protagonists' lives.]] Death may be [[TheChessmaster even more omnipotent]] than it seems.

* In ''[[FinalDestination Final Destination 5]]'', cell-phone addict Dennis carries around an older, clunky model. This troper remembers thinking it was strange, until [[spoiler: we realize the movie is a prequel and that's the kind of cellphones they had back then]].

** The photos of Julie, Kevin and Wendy, in addition to containing clues about their intervened deaths, also contains clues about their [[spoiler: eventual deaths on the subway. Julie's photo has an oval-shaped light fixture next to her head that resembles the flying wheel that kills her, the overexposure in Kevin's photo resembles the flashing subway tunnel lights, and the blurred out face of Jason in Wendy's photo resembles the faces of passengers on the subway platform.]]