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[[WMG: ''Final Destination 3'' and ''4'' take place in the ''HappyTreeFriends'' universe.]]

[[WMG: Death is a renegade [[PantyandStockingWithGarterbelt]]. ]]

If the Butterfly Effect of cheating death is really as powerful as we see in Final Destination 2 and people cheating death really is as common as we see in Final Destination 5, then it's only a matter of time before it starts overtaking the world through rapid multiplication. What if the person who would have invented a cure for cancer or some remarkable vaccine cheats death, putting millions of people on the list? Eventually Death will probably just decide to call it a day and kill everyone with a meteor.]]

Far from being the mysterious mentor he appears to be in the films, Bludworth knows about the "kill someone to get their remaining time" thing because he's done it himself. Repeatedly. He sets up huge mechanical disasters (in the style of Mr. Glass in ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'') to have lots of people die him his place, giving himself functional immortality. And since nobody who escapes survives for long, nobody is in any position to figure this out and try to stop him.

* The Silver Bridge collapse in TheFilmOfTheBook of TheMothmanProphecies. Possibly in reality as well.

[[WMG: Death is not causing the accidents, it's [[Satan]] instead.]]
Death is actually a neutral being that only collects souls when people die from natural causes. Satan on the other hand is deliberately murdering people out of pure sadistic pleasure and is doing so after accidents in order to make his victims think they have ruined Death's design.

** If the latter... [[{{Saw}} My God...]]

That's right: [[Main/TheOmen Damien Thorne]]. Think about it: '''his M.O. is identical.'''

* [[TheOmen Damien Thorn]].

Think KarmicJackpot on a massive scale. Death makes these people's final moments all the more agonizing so they can be reborn into a life where they know no pain, fear, sickness, or despair. Basically, if you make the list, you'll be rewarded greatly when you're reborn. As for the premonitions, they're a SecretTestOfCharacter: if one survives the opening incident (Flight 180, the rollercoaster derailing, etc.), they die much more horribly. If they choose to act on this vision, then they, and anybody else who believes them, are rewarded even further on rebirth.

*** Or, maybe, Death could, in the first film, actually be giving a PetTheDog moment. People who have mental illnesses and babies are on Flight 180. Death makes this plane go boom. Yes, he's killing them... but people with mental illnesses have difficult lives... and babies may be abused if they were an accident. Was Death actually killing them off in a way that is, in all actuality, quick, to save them from future abuse? It could be why the main characters are killed off. Death knows their life is going to be crap... so ends it before it can get crap!

** Alternatively, Death was just doing it's job killing people when they were supposed to. You know, like RealLife

* Death isn't bored, he's just doing his job. Not everyone can have premonitions so when people die in a normal way it goes unquestioned. Some people (our universe included) can find synchronicity everywhere. The people who are able to have these visions are only MORE LIKELY to see the signs and whatever. So even if someone died in their sleep or from a disease there is still a chance they could've been warned in some way. Basically, everyone is born with a talent but not everyone has the same talent (in this case, visions). Hope this makes sense.

*** Yeah, they did. It's 100% established the characters cheat death and that they can beat it by killing someone else and taking their life. So no, the retcon is true. (That said, you could argue the vision in TFD was sent by death, but FDs 1, 2, 3, and 5 all featured protagonists who 100% cheated death)

* If one of the survivors were to treat their numbered days as a means to do everything they were otherwise afraid of, Death would not disgrace them with a painful and pitiful death. If a survivor were to spend their last days living out their dreams, then instead of some contrived, painful demise, death would more likely visit in the night and take them quietly with a sense of reverence.

* WorldWarI resulted in massive casualties all across the globe, and directly lead to even more gore and death in WorldWarII, and was all started by a [[DisasterDominoes suspiciously narrowly]] successful assassination attempt in which every single thing that could have gone wrong did, yet the attempt succeeded.

[[WMG:Final Destination is just a badly played game of TheSims.]]

How else do you explain the massive liberties the movies take with human anatomy and physics?

A universe where Death and Fate are two separate entities that try to do their jobs but are occasionally thwarted by the other. This would explain the visions; one entity is sending them as a warning while the other is trying to do their job by killing them off.

[[WMG: The kids are all descendants of the [[{{Castlevania}} Belmont family]]; hence, Death is after them.]]

Are the same kind as the ones seen in GhostTrick. Why else would Death have to work such convoluted death sequences? In the endi of GhostTrick, it's revealed that [[spoiler: having a time limit before you officially die was just a ruse, so don't get me there.]]

** this is also supported by the Death Note theory, only they person who has the note is a Kira, getting rid of the 'immoral people'

Indeed.

In the CrapsackWorld of ''FinalDestination'', discovering you're 'special' [[BlessedWithSuck is a]] ''[[BlessedWithSuck very]]'' [[BlessedWithSuck bad thing]]. Their society exposes them to so much [[BloodierAndGorier death, destruction, and tragedy]] that any potential {{Reality Warper}}s/espers have developed a ''potent'' [[PrimalFear fear of death]]. When their powers awaken, they envision a worst-case scenario of how something as simple as riding a plane or a roller coaster could GoHorriblyWrong -- and [[YourMindMakesItReal cause it to happen]].

Kind of like {{Gantz}}, wherein Death is [[GantzAbridged Mr. Dudeball.]] Death saved the kids, either to fight aliens (probably what's ''really'' killling them) or was just kind and wanted to give them a second chance (and this one splits: he either kills them to to test their will to live, or is striking down those he feels are not deserving of his gift.)

* Death was playing with some fellow human opponents, and one of them had the nerve to turn items on and pick Hyrule Temple. He came to the conclusion that [[HumansAreBastards Humans Are]] [[strike:Bastards]] {{Scrub}}s and has set out to kill {{Scrub}}s as a warning to those who dare to have [[StopHavingFunGuys fun]] in video games.

Unlike the Anarchy sisters, he was thrown out of Heaven for being unbelievably bloodthirsty. Possibly being a rogue version of the [[DCComics Spectre]].