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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Sam Lawton
Sam Lawton
Played By: Nicholas D'Agosto
- Blessed with Suck: Like all of the visionaries in the series.
- The Fatalist: While he doesn't want to fall victim to Death, he does note how unlikely his odds of defeating it will be, and carries out his daily routine rather than try to run or hide, being aware of how nowhere is really safe.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: How he dies in the premonition. A piece of metal slices his body in half.
- The Hero: The protagonist of the film, and he manages to save some of his coworkers from the bridge collapsing. He also attempts to protect the people who survived, and kills Peter when he tries to kill Molly.
- Kill It with Fire: Is immolated on the same plane that was destroyed in the first film's opening.
- Nice Guy: He's supportive of his friends and coworkers and works to save people from Death.
- Supreme Chef: Aspires to be this.
Molly Harper
Molly Harper
Played By: Emma Bell
- Break the Cutie: She gets very badly shaken and traumatised by the deaths of (nearly) all of Sam's friends, having witnessed them or got told.
- Everyone Loves Blondes: She's a nice, blonde woman who Sam is crushed to lose his relationship with.
- Half the Woman She Used to Be: Gets sucked out the window of the original film's plane and collides with the wing, which rips her in half.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Has blonde hair and is the nicest of the cast.
- Love Martyr: Ultimately. She broke up with Sam, not because she didn't love him, but because she thought she was holding him back from his dream of going to Paris.
- Team Mom: although there's not as much of a team as there is in the other movies.
Nathan Seers
Nathan Seers
Played By: Arlen Escarpeta
- Born Unlucky: He came close to missing the bus in the first place - something which would have saved his life - gets mistreated by some of his subordinates at the plant, and the guy he ends up accidentally killing had an aneurysm, keeping Nathan from surviving due to getting his years.
- Due to the Dead: Zigzagged, he jokes a little at the initial memorial, but seems more somber after Candice dies and attends Roy's wake.
- Squashed Flat: Crushed by falling debris from the first movie's exploding plane.
- Token Black Friend: The sole black member of the main cast and a close friend of Sam and Peter.
Peter Friedkin
Peter Friedkin:
Played By: Miles Fisher
- Alas, Poor Villain: At the end of the day, Peter was just a random guy who saw his girlfriend die and didn't want to join her. What he did was brutal and wrong, but his original sin was just wanting to live.
- Ax-Crazy: At the climax.
- Composite Character: If the series couldn't get any Omen-esque enough, Peter at the climax eventually fulfills the role of that of the Anti-Christ's protectors (Mrs. Baylock, Ann Thorn, etc.) who are the Big Bad's disciples who acts as the direct human antagonists.
- Interestingly enough, both Peter and Mrs. Baylock both die in a kitchen when attempting to kill the protagonist, who kills him/her with cooking utensils (Mrs. Baylock by carving fork and Peter by skewer).
- Additionally, the way he dies in the premonition by having a bunch of poles coming down on him not only nods to Father Brennan's death (who only had one pole speared him) in the first Omen film, but also ironically how Ann Thorn kills the second Omen film's protagonist Richard by stabbing him with three of the Daggers of Megiddo all at once.
- Deadpan Snarker: Already had a bit of a downplayed Jerkass air to him before he goes crazy.
- Dirty Coward: At the climax, he tries to kill Sam and Molly to save his own skin.
- The Dragon: Becomes this for Death. Death, however, has a sense of honor and seems against Peter killing people not on the list, so Peter dies anyway.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Peter tells to his friends how he had the opportunity to kill random persons on the street, without any repercussion, stealing their remaining lifetime, but he refrained from doing so, because he couldn't see a reason for them deserving to die. His friends are much relieved. For a very short time, though, as then he starts getting more threatening.
- Face–Heel Turn: Betrays his remaining friends and tries to kill them to appease Death. Death, who has a sense of honor - even if it is a twisted and maniacal one - decides he won't have that and Peter goes out too!
- The Heavy: He is the only direct physical antagonist in the series, as Death never had a physical form and attacks protagonists in staged freak accidents unlike Peter who just outright tries to kill his remaining friends by his own direct hand.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Gets impaled with a large skewer by Sam to stop him killing Molly.
- This is also how he dies in the premonition. A bunch of poles would have come down on him, with one of the poles stabbing him in the head.
- In the Back: Where Sam impales him.
- Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: After Candice's death.
- Leave No Witnesses: Tries to kill Molly after he shoots and kills Agent Block. But Sam stops him before he can.
- Pet the Dog: He did try to warn Dennis about Death and his list, and seems reluctant at the idea of killing Sam.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Ultimately dies earlier than expected because he killed someone not on Death's list and was betraying everyone else, against Death's code of honor.
- Sanity Slippage: After Candice's death.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Near the end of the movie.
- Tragic Villain: Peter definitely lost his mind at the end, but the only reason why he’s so crazy is that he wants to live, even saying that he doesn't want to kill anyone, but he doesn't want to die either.
- Walking Spoiler: There's a reason most of his character tropes are censored.
Agent Jim Block
Agent Jim Block
Played By: Courtney B. Vance
- Agent Scully: Towards the whole "Death-is-following-us" thing. Subverted as the film goes on.
- Badass Longcoat: A tough, investigative man who wears a longboat.
- By-the-Book Cop: He conducts his investigation carefully, and without overstepping his bounds.
- In the Back: Shot by Peter, who claims his life force to avoid Death; Block was the person investigating the bridge collapse, meaning he wasn't involved with the collapse himself and was therefore never in danger of dying.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: He tries to call for backup while heading into Le Cafe Miro 81 to investigate a shooting in there, only for Peter to shoot him In the Back while he's talking.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He looks for any signs of suspicious activity, but is also willing to recognize the signs that Sam is innocent and still try to protect him and the others.
Olivia Castle
Olivia Castle
Played By: Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
- Beneath the Mask: Olivia acts flippant and unaffected by all of the deaths in the movie, but while talking to her optometrist, she implies that it's affected her a lot more deeply than that and has made her reassess her life.
- Disney Villain Death: After the botched LASIK surgery, she stumbles out a window and falls onto a car.
- Eye Scream: Due to a malfunctioning LASIK machine.
- Hope Spot: After getting out of the laser machine, she is frazzled, distressed and blinded in one eye, but she is able to be seen by the others entering the room and she begs for help. Before anyone can do so, she trips over, crashes through a window and falls to her death.
- Jerkass
- Naughty by Night: implied by how she shows up for work in a musicians van, wearing a revealing outfit before changing into something more conservative. The shooting script describes her as having some loose glitter from a nightclub in her hair.
- Nervous Wreck: She gets quite rattled before her eyes surgery.
- Ms. Fanservice: Considered one of the hottest characters of the series.
- Pet the Dog: Olivia puts her glasses into a donation bin while going to get LASIK surgery. She also doesn't treat Sam poorly after his vision of doom.
- Red Herring: At first, the audience expects Olivia to die from the haywire LASIK machine. Instead, they get thrown a curveball when she dies as a result of stepping her heel on a teddy bear's eye, which popped out earlier in the scene. She loses her balance and falls through the window and onto a car below.
- The Rival: To Candice Hooper.
Dennis Lapman
Dennis Lapman
Played By: David Koechner
- Cruel and Unusual Death: This is how Dennis dies in Sam's premonition, as he grabs hold of the bridge to save himself, only to have a load of hot tar from the roadworks fall on top of him, horrifically burning him and giving him a slow, agonising death as his skin melts away. His real death where he's impaled in the face by a flying wrench is almost merciful, as it's very quick and he probably didn't even see it coming.
- Hidden Depths: As the bodies start piling up, there's one scene where the others look into his office and see him with his head in his hands, apparently crying or otherwise emotionally affected.
- Mean Boss: You wouldn't really want to be under his wing...unless you liked being scolded.
- Obnoxious In-Laws: references having some.
- Wrench Whack: How he dies.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: in his interactions with Block, who asked him to keep an eye on Sam, asking if they should have codenames or something.
Roy Carson
Roy Carson
Played By: Brent Stait
- Asshole Victim: Spends most of his screentime berating Nathan, since he's sick of having a supervisor younger than him.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Jealous of Nathan for becoming a supervisor, since he has worked at the company longer than Nathan and feels like he deserves it more.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Double Subverted. He is pushed off a collapsing catwalk and manages to catch a lifting hook before landing on a metal spike... except he caught the hook with his head.
- Jerkass: To Nathan especially.
Isaac Palmer
Isaac Palmer
Played By: P. J. Byrne
- Asshole Victim: Goes around stealing things from his deceased co-workers's desks. If he hadn't been such a Jerkass, he wouldn't have found the gift card to the massage parlor he'd die at. Makes a couple insults to the acupuncturist prior to her leaving the room, plus she doesn't like him bringing his phone in. She's the last person he ever sees, literally, and the place she puts his phone plays a part when it rings a second time.
- Death by Racism: Makes a racist joke towards his acupuncturist and a Buddha statue, saying she can't understand him because she's Chinese, and then makes a "2 million people can't be Wong" snark. Death, who has a sense of honour and integrity, albeit a warped and twisted one, decides to take revenge and Isaac dies via the Chinese Buddha figure falling on his head.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Wears glasses except for his death scene, and isn't a particularly decent guy.
- Human Pincushion: Was undergoing acupuncture treatment at the time of his death, and when his bed collapses, it drives the needles too far into his body; this helps with his eventual death.
- Kill It with Fire: Subverted. Despite noticing a stand catching on fire and him knocking candles onto ointment that spreads the fire, he dies under the falling Buddha statue, and never suffers anything from the flames, which died down on both the stand and the ointment.
- Meaningful Name: His name is Isaac, and something falls on his head. Sound familiar?
- Your Head Asplode: Crushed under a Buddha ornament.
Candice Hooper
Candice Hooper
Played By: Ellen Wroe
- Blood from the Mouth: After she lands like a twisted pretzel and breaks a good chunk of her body, some blood starts seeping from her mouth.
- Hypocrite: Slutshames Olivia while she's the intern sleeping with her boss.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How she dies in the premonition. She falls off the bridge and lands on a boat mast.
- Jerkass to One: Her relationship with Olivia is mutually nasty, but she's on good terms with everyone else.
- Jerk Jock: A rare female example. She's a gymnast, and the opening scene has her calling Olivia (the film's Ms. Fanservice) fat and saying that she should go to the gym more often before calling her a slut on top of it.
- Red Herring: All the scene leading up to her death reveals some options to how Candice will bite it, including a water puddle on an exposed wire, a fallen fan screw on a beam, and some loose wire supports on a horizontal bar. However, none of these things actually kill her, though the screw ends up playing a vital role when someone else steps on it, knocking a bowl of powder which blinds Candice, who is quickly killed by falling down and breaking her back on the uneven parallel bars.
- Sickening "Crunch!": When she finally dies by breaking her back, you hear it.
