Main Series: Recurring Characters | Final Destination | Final Destination 2 | Final Destination 3 | Final Destination 4 | Final Destination 5
Spinoffs: Dead Reckoning | Destination Zero | End of the Line | Dead Man's Hand | Looks Could Kill | Death of the Senses
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Alex Browning
Alex Browning
Played By: Devon Sawa
- Blessed with Suck: Alex has the horrific premonition of the plane exploding.
- Failure-to-Save Murder: The Waggner family all blame him for George and Tod's deaths.
- The Hero: He's the protagonist of the first film.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: After the plane tragedy, he's treated as a freak by his classmates and teachers, and some even believe that he is responsible.
- Killed Offscreen: Dies between films 1 and 2 when a brick bludgeons his head in.
- Kill It with Fire: How he dies in the premonition. He's burned alive as the plane explodes, and it's shown in graphic detail.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Tod Browning, director of Dracula and Freaks.
- The Paranoiac: He's introduced extremely paranoid and superstitious. After having a premonition of his death and realizing Death is coming for him and his friends, he gets even worse.
- Ship Tease: With Clear.
- Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: And offscreen.
- Wrongfully Accused: Is falsely suspected of being responsible for the deaths in the movie. He has to evade the police in order to save Clear.
Clear Rivers
- See the Recurring Characters page
Carter Horton
Carter Horton
Played By: Kerr Smith
- Character Development: Starts off as a jock who always picks fights with Alex, until saved by him. Afterwards, he still has a jerk-ish edge but has become more friendly, even going to France with Alex and Clear.
- Kill It with Fire/Disney Villain Death: Seeing as how the plane exploded in mid-air, one of these two is how Carter dies in the premonition.
- Jerk Jock: Throughout the movie, he's pretty much physically incapable of seeing Alex without picking fights. He even hits the brakes, does a 180, and races back to where Alex is to pick yet another fight the moment he sees him as he was driving to some other place with his girlfriend Terry (this pisses off Terry enough for her to dump him right then and there).
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite always fighting with him, he saves Alex's life at the end, but at the cost of his own.
- Oh, Crap!: Has one at the end of the movie when he realizes he's the next to die as the sign swings towards him.
- The Rival: Carter is in a feud with Alex from before the movie starts to the very end.
- Tempting Fate: At the end of the movie, he saves Alex's life from a falling sign, and says "I told you you were next!". When Alex says Death skipped him, Carter then asks, "So who's next?" Cue the sign swinging down on Carter and hitting him just as he realizes that he's next before the screen cuts to black and the film ends, going into the credits; the second movie makes it clear Carter didn't make it.
- Took a Level in Kindness: In the last part of the movie.
Valerie Lewton
Valerie Lewton
Played By: Kristen Cloke
- Asshole Victim: Despite being an adult and guardian, she reacts viciously to Alex, blaming him for the accident. This is likely a cover for her Survivor Guilt, as while Alex's actions saved her and others, her actions directly consigned a fellow teacher to death.
- Although she's a bitch, she's not at fault for the death. She, nor even Alex, actually believed the plane was gonna crash (this doesn't contradict that Alex's feeling was a vision, rather at the moment it was just a sudden panic attack)
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She starts off friendly, but shows her true colors as a Jerkass after the plane crash.
- Broken Bird: The Flight 180 crash really affected her.
- Foreshadowing: The opening titles show a human figure stabbed with a knife. Her home also has a dagger design on the front door with red and orange tones that echo the house fire.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Easily one of the most complicated, gruesome and longest deaths ever. The poor girl.
- Failed a Spot Check: Much like the case of Tod and the blue water, you'd think that she would've noticed the vodka spilling out of her cracked mug all over the floor. Or even worse, all over her computer monitor. Doubles as a case of Too Dumb to Live.
- Hate Sink: What she becomes after the plane crash, where she not only acts cruel towards Alex, as well as blaming him for the plane crash, but sends the FBI after him out of spite. As a result, her death later on in the film is quite Cathartic.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The first victim of an impalement in the Final Destination series, and the only one in the original movie. When trying to get up after getting stabbed by computer glass, she knocks down the knife block and one of them lands in her chest. The oven exploding finishes the job a few seconds later.
- Kill It with Fire: How she dies in the premonition. She is still on the plane when it blows up.
- While it doesn't kill her directly, her house is set on fire due to a leaky mug and her computer wiring, which starts the chain reaction that eventually kills her.
- Named After Somebody Famous: A clear reference to Val Lewton.
- Survivor Guilt: She keeps blaming herself for the death of a fellow teacher and gets a panic attack when she sees the school's insignia in her coffee mug.
Billy Hitchcock
Billy Hitchcock
Played By: Seann William Scott
- Death by Irony: His last words were about how Carter's going to die and not take him along. A piece of shrapnel from Carter's car is what decapitates him.
- Died Standing Up: He is half-decapitated standing straight up, while the rest are on the ground.
- Foreshadowing:
- The opening titles show a guillotine in Alex's room decorations.
- When Billy sees the plane taking off while at the airport, the camera shows him looking through the glass window, and the plane's reflection as it flies crosses Billy's head where he'll be decapitated later.
- Kill It with Fire/Disney Villain Death: One of these two is how he dies in the premonition plane explosion.
- Off with His Head!: What remains of Carter's car slices off his head from the mouth up.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Take a guess.
- The Pollyanna: Much like Alex, although in a more comedic way. Although not as brave as Alex, you can clearly tell that he tries to brave out the experiences, and his comedic moments show this, and give viewers a break at times from the death and grimness of the situation.Billy: (to Carter) Oh but you will be! You're dead! You're dead! AND YOU AIN'T TAKING ME WITH YOU!
Terry Chaney
Terry Chaney
Played By: Amanda Detmer
- Due to the Dead: She seems pretty respectful and subdued at the memorial.
- Foreshadowing: When the camera focuses on Terry as the group sees Flight 180 explode, there's a picture of a bus behind her on the wall, facing right towards her.
- Ironic Last Words: Literal seconds before she dies:"You can just drop fucking dead!"
- Kill It with Fire/Disney Villain Death: One of these two is how she dies in the premonition plane explosion.
- Look Both Ways: Gets run down by a bus.
- The Lost Lenore: Clearly is this to Carter after her death, with him tearfully carving her name onto the Flight 180 Memorial in one scene.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Both Lon Chaney and Lon Chaney Jr..
- Pet the Dog: Does seem a bit grateful towards Alex for saving their lives, and upset by Carter's continued nastiness towards him, leading to the Rage Breaking Point below.
- Rage Breaking Point: Finally gets fed up with her boyfriend's idiocy when he decides to do a 180 in the middle of the street and go pick on Alex one more time rather than drive to wherever they were going.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to Carter right before her death."I'm moving on, Carter. And if you want to waste your life beating the shit out of Alex every time you see him then you can just drop fucking dead!"
Tod Waggner
Tod Waggner
Played By: Chad Donella
- Angsty Surviving Twin: His fraternal twin brother dies on the plane and he's subdued but struggling to endear afterwards.
- Brooklyn Rage: He has that snarky attitude Alex has. And he definitely is very fierce towards Carter when he insults Alex. The only thing missing is him saying "scumbag".
- Cruel and Unusual Death: He only dies after several minutes of struggle.
- Decoy Protagonist: Or rather, decoy deuteragonist.
- Driven to Suicide: Subverted. His death is meant to look like this to complicate the situation further for Alex.
- Failed a Spot Check: The blue water on the bathroom floor should have been quite easy to spot against the white tiles.
- Foreshadowing: Alex's room in the opening titles has a decoration resembling a skeletal figure hanging from a noose.
- While still inside Flight 180, when Alex is asked to change seats with Blake and Christa, Tod does a motion with his hands to tell Alex he'd hang himself if he did.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Alex.
- Kill It with Fire/Disney Villain Death: One of these two is how he dies in the premonition plane explosion.
- Meaningful Name: "Tod" means "death" in German. He's the very first premonition survivor to die in the film series.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Tod Browning (like Alex) and George Waggner, director of The Wolf Man (1941).
Blake Dreyer
Blake Dreyer
Played By: Christine Chatelain
- Kill It with Fire/Disney Villain Death: One of these two is how she dies in the plane explosion.
- Male Gaze: Alex and Todd stare after her and Christa's butts as they walk onto the planes.
- Named After Somebody Famous: After Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer.
- Nice Girl: She seems polite to the main characters.
- Those Two Girls: She's always seen with Christa and wants to sit next to her on the plane.
- True Blue Femininity: A cute, soft spoken girl wearing a blue sweater and pants,
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Other than asking Alex to trade seats with someone, she is not onscreen for long, and she and Christa stay on the plane and die in the explosion.
Christa Marsh
Christa Marsh:
Played By: Lisa Marie Caruk
- Kill It with Fire/Disney Villain Death: One of these two is how she dies in the plane explosion.
- Male Gaze: On the receiving end from Alex and Todd.
- Nice Girl: She's pretty polite asking Alex to switch seats so she and Blake can sit together.
- Those Two Girls: She sticks pretty close with Blake.
- True Blue Femininity: She wears a blue jacket and a blue shirt beneath it.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Other than asking Alex to trade seats with someone, she is not onscreen for long, and she and Blake stay on the plane and die in the explosion.
William Bludworth
- See the Recurring Characters page
