Headscratchers / Final Destination 3

• Why are Wendy and Kevin wearing Sultan Scimeter merch after Lewis's death when that must be incredibly inappropriate? Because their clothes were splattered by the blood and the club must've given them replacements to wear after the investigation. The fact they have bloody clothes in a plastic bag only serves this point.
• Apart from Lewis, Frankie, Kevin and Wendy. You can notice that the planned deaths are usually paired together and happen in conjunction with the other. Ashley and Ashlyn, Ian and Erin, Julie and Perry] It seems strange at first, considering the mostly individual deaths in other Final Destination films. But it makes sense here because they were riding together and died in close conjunction. These groups are also friends/couples and often do similar activities together. Wendy mentioned she didn't even know whether it was Ashley or Ashlyn who died first. Frankie was sitting on his own, and so was Lewis which explains their individual deaths. Ian and Erin fell out of the rollercoaster seconds apart from each other and the worked in the same hardware shop where they were supposed to meet their ends happens seconds apart. The same thing applies to Julie and Perry at the Centennial celebrations who, much like Ian and Erin, died seconds apart and just as Julie survives her near-death experience, Perry immediately dies. While Kevin and Wendy were also sitting together, Kevin died first, and Wendy had longer to process Kevin's death before she met her own. Though there is still fierce debate whether her intended death was the McKinley sign at the Centennial or Train 081 (though probably the latter as Wendy was not initially going to go to the Centennial and the film seems to support it with how it used the photo near the end).
• They make it clear that Ian was supposed to die before Wendy - if Kevin hadn't saved him, he would have died earlier and been unable to cause Wendy's death. Makes a person wonder if the fan theory that the visions and survivors dying off are all part of Death's original design all along is true or if the writers just didn't think that one through.
• How exactly did the rollar coaster manage to derail? The premonition showed how the one guy's camera ended up on the tracks which caused everything to start derailing, but he was one of the people who got off the ride. Therefore, he wouldn't have dropped the camera and then no one would have died. Initially.
  • The hydraulics were already messed up. (When the attendant was snapping harnesses down, the pipes underneath the cars began to leak). While the camera wasn't present, Death may have instead found some convenient doohickey owned by another kid on the roller coaster and made it fall while they were on the loop. Or perhaps the emptiness of the back cars upset the balance of the already unstable coster and caused it. There's a slew of reasons.
  • The coaster's post-vision crash was yet another case of Death mucking around, taking out a whole bunch of people from the top of the To-Die list in one go. We just didn't get to see the exact mechanics of it, because we were following the main characters instead of watching the rails' malfunction.
    • We can actually see, in the movie that, because of the hydraulics, some of the track comes lose; the tires hit this bit of lose track, and since they stopped quick, the cart tipped, thus killing the people on board.
• During the scene with the girls dying in the tanning beds, the machine states that it can't be set any higher than a certain temperature. Why then, would it be built so it could?
  • This is an example of one of the more ludicrous kills in FD. Although many of them would actually work, (the nailgun through the back of the head later on for example), some of them just plain don't. Death would have had to actually break the laws of physics to get those tanning beds to do what they did, which brings the interesting question of why bother shorting out the machinery when you can apparently reprogram the entire thing and put new parts in it as well. There's no physical way to die that fast in a tanning bed, they're specifically designed not to do that, and of all the FD kills, the tanning bed comes in a tie for the most ludicrous with the car engine that leaps out of the bonnet and eats the guy in the car in front. Death likes rewriting physics it seems.
    • I have just been informed that some of the books have even more stupidly ridiculous ways of killing people, such as a liposuction machine. I take back my previous statement about the tanning beds being the most ridiculous way of killing someone.
    • Actually, liposuction deaths (or at least extreme organ damage) are possible, if the doctor is clumsy and sticks the vacuum into an organ instead of fat deposits.
    • I always wanted to see Death just drop the pretense and have a gun float into the room and shoot someone.
  • I don't know anything about tanning beds, but I am reminded of sinks that can turn the water so hot it causes damaging burns. WHY?
  • Sometimes you need extremely hot water to purify infectious stuff and don't have time to use the stove?
    • The sink is the outlet; the water heater is what heats it up. A water heater can be set between 120 and 180 Fahrenheit. It only takes 5 seconds with 140 Fahrenheit water to get burns.
  • You think that's ludicrous? Try the guy who gets his guts sucked out through his ass by a pool drainage system in the fourth movie. Tip for the writers: POOLS DON'T WORK THAT WAY! And, even if they did, he'd likely die due to drowning before he could die of anal disembowelment.
    • Not ludicrous at all, it -has- happend in real life. A handful of people have been disemboweled by pool drainage systems before.
    • Thank you for initially forgetting to spoiler that.
    • Even more ridiculous, the guy in the novels who gets killed by being sliced up with CDS and DVDs being fired at high speed from players. As in slicing through his spine, neck, and neatly cutting his hand off. I wish to call bullshit on this.
  • Technicalities aside, why would would the girls burn? I'd understood if they died of massive skin/lung burns or pain shock, but they torched like a pile of coal soaked with gasoline! What, is the tanning cream THAT flammable?
    • Be glad they burned; originally, Ashelin got out and opened the tanning bed of the other one who took her hand, fell through the bottom of the bed and elexctrocuted both of them... anyone for fried girl?
    • Hell, at least that would've been physically possible.
    • Fire appeared to be literally shooting out of the bulbs, much like an incinerator, rather than igniting the girls themselves, which is a complete impossibility for standard tanning bulbs. Chalk it up to Rule of Scary I suppose.
    • Maybe they weren't standard bulbs, but some other kind that wasn't meant to be used in that model of tanning bed. Or even one that (we hope!) had been withdrawn from the market because it was dangerous, that the tanning facility bought cheap on the sly? Remember that Death in this series takes full advantage of shoddy workmanship and cut-rate maintenance every chance it gets.