History WMG / FinalDestination

They're the ones sending the the protagonists visions and signs of Death's impending strikes. Why them? who knows, maybe because they're able to perceive them on some level. The fact that they're trying to help suggests that there is a way for the survivors to get a chance at a "full life"...or at least they think there's one.
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* If so, then it's not helping much and Death is "winning" since ''no character'' in the series ever survives. So much for that.

The death of living things are what simply give TheGrimReaper it's power. Thus, it creates a grand design for mortals to follow in order to continually fuel itself. Whenever someone deviates from the design, Death's is drained of energy causing a disruption the natural flow of cosmos that may increase exponentially if not resolved. When Death itself ceases to exist, nothing in the universe can die and an unimaginable imbalance will throw everything off. Always wondered why Death would take it so personally if things don't go as planned.

Rather, Death peeked at the photos, noted their contents, and devised deaths for the people depicted that reflected them, purely to troll the characters.

Hey, even [[EvilSorcerer Nephandi]] need a vacation sometime, and that [[ChaosAndEntropyMagic Qlippothic Entropy]] Sphere is just sitting there...

Look at all the less-than-subtle odd references to her in every film. They're all over the place, most notably the "Clear Rivers" signs, and how so many places are, coincidentally, named "Clear Rivers". The constant occurrences could potentially mean everything is made up by Clear after she fails to cope with the death of her boyfriend--a chance happening--including her own death, which is what happens in Final Destination 2 as a result of leaving the institution while trying to save others, but is only her depression manifesting as a metaphor of her own death in even trying to accept the reality of it, which she is not mentally willing to do. In her attempt to "save" herself, she only causes the deaths of others, all of which die along with her. The ultimate DownerEnding and her own death in ''Final Destination 2'' is her own conclusion that everything is completely hopeless regardless of her actions, so she chooses to hide inside herself, the only place where things can make any sense. The Final Destination prominently displays a place called "Clear Rivers", right by the site of where another death occurs. At the beginning of the second film, we see her in a psychiatric hospital, who is said to have voluntarily checked in to protect herself from Death, but is killed as a result of leaving the psychiatric hospital--ironically, in a futile attempt to prevent the deaths of others, along with herself and everything she's ever cared for. In other words, Death is just her own way of assigning blame for an accident that caused the death of her boyfriend. Clearly in a DespairEventHorizon after her boyfriend dies in Final Destination (and explained later in Final Destination 2), she makes sense of her own inner world and circumstances by inventing the system of Death and how it works, which is only a way for her to make sense of the death of her boyfriend by giving Death a sensible and logical "system" to which she consistently makes up new details with every story--a way to explain things which is only a single coincidence of her boyfriend's completely random and senseless death. She creates an entire imaginary timeline, with their own characters and added details and systems from film to film, filling in all the gaps in her own mind, with ''Final Destination 5'' adding context she, herself, needs, in order for everything she has already created in the previous films to make sense. That's why it's a prequel: Clear needs the previous films, or stories in her mind, to make rational sense, at least to her.

[[WMG: All the events of the Final Destination series ''were'' really caused by a lot of coincidences.]]

[[WMG:The cause of all the horrible visions and deaths in Final Destination is Bernkastel.]]

* Pretty much confirmed in [[strike:Final Destination 4]] [[SpellMyNameWithAThe THE]] [[BlatantLies Final Destination]].
** And then retconned in Final Destination 5.
** Final Destination 5 is a prequel, so probably not.
*** 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)
** Furthermore Final Destination 2 explicitly contradicts Final Destination 4's theory. The fact that Death reverses an entire list indicates that there is indeed a rift in it's design and that it doesn't just want to kill people in awful ways for the fun of it.

In other words: Who ever has the premontion powers in a Final Destination movie will become the Grim Reaper in the next. Alex Browning was the Reaper for FD2, Kimberly was the Reaper for FD3, Wendy was the Reaper for FD4/TFD, and Nick will be the next Reaper for (Hopfully) FD5. Although, it might be weird explaining how [[spoiler: Alex and Kimberly become reapers in the first place do to them living.]] But someone might add to this thoery and make it make more sense.

*** Since [[spoiler: ''FD5'' is a prequel of FD1, and Sam dies in the same accident that Alex Browning foresees]], this theory doesn't hold up.

Look at all the less-than-subtle odd references to her in every film. They're all over the place, most notably the "Clear Rivers" signs, and how so many places are, coincidentally, named "Clear Rivers". The constant occurrences could potentially mean everything is made up by Clear after she fails to cope with the death of her boyfriend--a chance happening--including her own death, which is what happens in Final Destination 2 as a result of leaving the institution while trying to save others, but is only her depression manifesting as a metaphor of her own death in even trying to accept the reality of it, which she is not mentally willing to do. In her attempt to "save" herself, she only causes the deaths of others, all of which die along with her. The ultimate DownerEnding and her own death in Final Destination 2 is her own conclusion that everything is completely hopeless regardless of her actions, so she chooses to hide inside herself, the only place where things can make any sense. The Final Destination prominently displays a place called "Clear Rivers", right by the site of where another death occurs. At the beginning of the second film, we see her in a psychiatric hospital, who is said to have voluntarily checked in to protect herself from Death, but is killed as a result of leaving the psychiatric hospital--ironically, in a futile attempt to prevent the deaths of others, along with herself and everything she's ever cared for. In other words, Death is just her own way of assigning blame for an accident that caused the death of her boyfriend. Clearly in a DespairEventHorizon after her boyfriend dies in Final Destination (and explained later in Final Destination 2), she makes sense of her own inner world and circumstances by inventing the system of Death and how it works, which is only a way for her to make sense of the death of her boyfriend by giving Death a sensible and logical "system" to which she consistently makes up new details with every story--a way to explain things which is only a single coincidence of her boyfriend's completely random and senseless death. She creates an entire imaginary timeline, with their own characters and added details and systems from film to film, filling in all the gaps in her own mind, with Final Destination 5 adding context she, herself, needs, in order for everything she has already created in the previous films to make sense. That's why it's a prequel: Clear needs the previous films, or stories in her mind, to make rational sense, at least to her.

The vision from ''4'' has Grove dying ''before'' Hunt or Janet, not after. By rights, Grove should've died before Hunt's death or Janet's rescue. But if something the other characters did ''inadvertently'' prolonged Grove's life, then the scenario still matches up. So perhaps Grove nearly suffered a death by medical malpractice - the wrong drug administered, a heat monitor shorting out, etc - but was saved by a hospital staff member who wouldn't have been on hand to do so, had the main characters not unwittingly intervened.

In Final Destination 5 there are still survivors alive when the vision ends. Since they didn't really die in the original accident proper they wouldn't have died if the protagonist hadn't intervened. In cases such as 4 and possibly 3 where they all needed to die elsewhere Death needs to send a false first vision.

*** Since [[spoiler: FD5 is a prequel of FD1, and Sam dies in the same accident that Alex Browning foresees]], this theory doesn't hold up.

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

Coroner Bludworth: See you soon.

[[WMG: The photographs from ''3'' do not predict the future.]]

** This would effectively make almost every human character in the series an AntiVillain as they don't realize or understand they ''should'' follow Death's plan and only want to live full lives.

[[WMG: Final Destination is actually a video game series along the lines of ''VideoGame/{{Deception}}''.]]

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

[[WMG: Bludworth will die in Final Destination 5.]]

[[WMG: Final Destination 5 is a prequel]]

[[WMG: The Final Destination Franchise takes place in a form of hell based on Vancouver and some other bits of the world]]

[[WMG: Death is Death from The Last Action Hero]]
During the Last Action Hero, the ticket that allows the characters to cross into the real world is lost and Death escapes into the real world, He is still around in the real world at the end of the Movie and being bored of the way people die here he is trying to shake things up abit.

[[WMG: The Final Destination series takes place in the same universe as the Supernatural tv show...]]

Essentially, Death is trying to stop Marvel's Cancerverse from taking hold.

[[WMG: Final Destination is actually a video game series along the lines of ''{{Deception}}''.]]

Sometime before the start of ''Dead Man's Hand'' Aldis was at a place where someone (who was a stranger to him) had a premonition of an accident and Aldis was one of the people who were saved. The visionary (and possibly some others) managed to track down Aldis and explained to him about Death's Design, and then saved him from whatever was going to kill him then (thus placing him at the end of the list), but Aldis brushes it off as a coincidence. The remaining survivors (including the visionary) all die, and Aldis continues with own life, when (at the start of ''Dead Man's Hand'') Death comes for him again and tries to kill him with the elevator, but fails (but he is not skipped, as he is the only survivor left on the list) - he notices [[SuspiciouslyAproposMusic the song on his iPod]] and remembers what the visionary told him about looking out for signs, and finally starts to believe, at list a little, and then dies in a car accident, which is again orchestrated by Death, finally closing that list.

Essentially, Death is trying to stop the Cancerverse from taking hold.

Sometime before the start of ''Dead Man's Hand'' Aldis was at a place where someone (who was a stranger to him) had a premonition of an accident and Aldis was one of the people who were saved. The visionary (and possibly some others) managed to track down Aldis and explained to him about Death's Design, and then saved him from whatever was going to kill him then (thus placing him at the end of the list), but Aldis brushes it off as a coincidence. The remaining survivors (including the visionary) all die, and Aldis continues with own life, when (at the start of ''Dead Man's Hand'') Death comes for him again and tries to kill him with the elevator, but fails (but he is not skipped, as he is the only survivor left on the list) - he notices [[SuspiciouslyAproposMusic the song on his iPod]] and remembers what the visionary told him about looking out for signs, and finally starts to believe, at list a little, and then dies in a car accident, which is again orchestrated by Death, finally closing that list.

He, in essence, is just checking off lists all day every day forever. So Hypnos has his son Morpheus send visions of their coming death to various people. Then they show Thanatos what they've done and Hades gives Thanatos full rein to take back these lost souls. Kind of like your boss given you a free pass to an amusement park. Soon all the deities of the Underworld are sitting in a cavern watching the master at work while eating pomegranate flavored popcorn and cheering Thanatos on. I always watch the movies from this perspective. It greatly adds to my entertainment.

[[WMG: ''FinalDestination'' 's Death caused the ''Titanic'' disaster.]]

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 [[GoneHorriblyWrong Go Horribly Wrong]]-- and [[YourMindMakesItReal cause it to happen]].

The vision from ''4'' has Grove dying ''before'' Hunt or Janet, not after. By rights, Grove should've died before Hunt's death or Janet's rescue. But if something the other characters did ''inadvertently'' prolonged Grove's life, then the scenario still matches up. So perhaps Grove nearly suffered a death by medical malpractice - the wrong drug administered, a heat monitor shorting out, etc - but was saved by a hospital staff member who wouldn't have been on hand to do so, had the main characters not unwittingly intervened. For example, perhaps one of the doctors ''would'' have been treating one of Andy the Mechanic's co-workers for an on-the-job injury, except that Andy's death forced the shop to close early for the day and consequently the injury never took place. (Had the others not shown up at the shop, Andy would have lived until the end of shift, long enough for his colleague to be injured.) End result: the doctor had a few minutes to spare to check up on Jonathan, and discovered the error in time to save him. Then the surviving main characters' own alertness kept them alive, ducking a few close calls they didn't even register, until Grove's turn came up again.

The vision from ''4'' has Grove dying ''before'' Hunt or Janet, not after. By rights, Grove should've died before Hunt's death or Janet's rescue. But if something the other characters did ''inadvertently'' prolonged Grove's life, then the scenario still matches up. So perhaps Grove nearly suffered a death by medical malpractice - the wrong drug administered, a heat monitor shorting out, etc - but was saved by a hospital staff member who wouldn't have been on hand to do so, had the main characters not unwittingly intervened. For example, perhaps one of the doctors ''would'' have been treating one of Andy the Mechanic's co-workers for an on-the-job injury, except that Andy's death forced the shop to close for the day and consequently the injury never took place. So, the doctor had a few minutes to spare to check up on Jonathan, and discovered the error in time to save him. Then the surviving main characters' own alertness kept them alive, ducking a few close calls they didn't even register, until Grove's turn came up again.

[[WMG: The Grim Reaper and the source of the visions are the two warring entities from TruCalling.]]
FinalDestination shows a later stage of the conflict, when they've stopped using Jason Priestly and Eliza Dushku as proxies and are fighting more directly.

* Perhaps there's more than one Death, like in DeadLikeMe or Literature/{{Discworld}}; the Death stalking this lot just happens to be the Death of Amazing Freak Accidents That Defy Audience Belief. There have been at least a couple Absurdly Overpowered Fireballs, haven't there?

[[WMG: FinalDestination happen in the DeadLikeMe universe]]
In DeadLikeMe, when a reaper prevent the death of someone on his list, the Gravelings get angry and cause all sort of painful accidents to the reaper. In FinalDestination, the deaths are prevented by the 'dead to be' themselves, and so they are the ones the Gravelings blame. Since mortals don't have a HealingFactor, the accidents are far more dangerous to them than they are to the reapers.

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

Well one troper likes to believe this is what happened.

He knows a lot about Death because he was programmed with that information inside him. He was designed to share this information and help those fighting against Death. He has no feelings, that's why he can talk about it without feeling fear or pity. However, he can't further help the characters because he isn't programmed to do it. However, and most importantly, he can learn things: that's why [[spoiler: he stopped talking about the "kill to save yourself" rule after FD5 (the first film in chronological order), where he did it and it resulted in one of the survivors trying to kill another one of them. This outcome is pretty predictable if you are a human and you know human nature, but maybe if he's some kind of robot he didn't see it coming until it happened, thus allowing him to stop talking about that rule in the future.]] This possibility could also have something to do with his voice being heard in Devil's Flight and the subway.

Bludworth, the Coroner, knows the secret to actually living through one of these tragedies. He's seen these things before. He sticks around for the first few shown accidents before eventually disappearing entirely. When bringing up the fact he has experienced this he gets a look in his face of almost pure fear, or at least as much as Tony Todd can do. It just seems to be that he's the only person to have survived as long as he has. Obsessed with Death, he works in a job allowing him to be that close to it, so he can keep an eye on it and help others. Now, having the ability and funds to cover up certain situations to lead to this kind of lifestyle would be hard to do on a county labor salary, so he gets second and third jobs as a barker for a carnival and as a conductor for the metro. All in all, he's always there when these things happen, because he can see them coming before anyone else; he's dealt with Death for so long he's beginning to know more about the entity than it knows itself. Now the tables have turned. Sadly, he can't seem to even get his point across to anyone no matter how many times he explains it to them, and finally gives up after the deaths of Amber, Wendy, and Kevin. Moving on with his life, he lets death take him, hence why he has no involvement with the McKinley Speedway tragedy. With no one to help the survivors, the secret to immortality is lost forever, and Death wins ultimately having killed everyone ever involved, possibly once and for all ending the chain.

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. 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.

Think about it: every time he gives someone a vision of their own death and they evade it, the Grim Reaper can set up an even more fantastic death, constantly one-upping himself. He's simply repeating this pattern over and over to hone his abilities; the final kill he sets up in this manner will be so awesome, even [[GurrenLagann Kamina]] will have to look at it and say, "Damn, that is AWESOME!".

* Satan

[[WMG: TheGrimReaper is the [[SuperSmashBros Master Hand.]]]]

[[WMG: The main "heroes" of the story are actually [[SoulEater Kishin whom Death must destroy before they spread Madness]].]]