History Film / FinalDestination1

->''"The mortician said that Death has a design, right? Now, what if you, me, Tod, Carter, Terri, Billy, Mrs. Lewton messed up that design for whatever reason; I-I saw Death's plan and we cheated it. But what if it was our time? What if we were not meant to get off that plane? What if it still is our time? If it is, then it's not finished and we will die, now, not later - unless,...unless we find the patterns and cheat it again."''

* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The three females in the cast. Terri Chaney is the blonde, Valerie Lewton is the brunette and Clear Rivers is a light brown substituting for redhead.

[Passing through the bulkhead to the next compartment, the duo see a patient and his carer in the front row.]\\

* TheDreaded: "Remember, the risk of cheating the plan, of disrespecting the design, could incite a fury that could terrorize even the GrimReaper...''and you don't even wanna [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] with that mack daddy''."

->''"The mortician said that Death has a design, right? Now, what if you, me, Tod, Carter, Terry, Billy, Mrs. Lewton messed up that design for whatever reason; I-I saw Death's plan and we cheated it. But what if it was our time? What if we were not meant to get off that plane? What if it still is our time? If it is, then it's not finished and we will die, now, not later - unless,...unless we find the patterns and cheat it again."''

* TheDreaded: "Remember, the risk of cheating the plan, of disrespecting the design, could incite a fury that could terrorize even the GrimReaper...and you don't even [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] with that mack daddy."

* TheDreaded: ''"...and you don't even [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] with that mack daddy."''

-->--'''Alex'''

->''"The mortician said that Death has a design, right? Now, what if you, me, Tod, Carter, Terry, Billy, Ms. Lewton messed up that design for whatever reason; I-I saw Death's plan and we cheated it. But what if it was our time? What if we were not meant to get off that plane? What if it still is our time? If it is, then it's not finished, and we will die, now, not later - unless,...unless we find the patterns and cheat it again."''

* InfantImmortality: Averted when both an infant AND a mentally handicapped patient wearing numerous breathing tubes die in the plane crash/explosion, even when one of the characters declares that the plane can't possibly crash due to this trope (Mercifully, their deaths aren't shown).:
-->[Alex sees a crying baby upon boarding the plane]\\
'''George:''' That's a good sign. Younger, the better. It'd be a fucked up God to take down this plane.\\
[Passing through the bulkhead to the next compartment, the duo see a patient and his carer in the front row.]\\
'''George:''' A ''really'' fucked up God.

** Also, a song playing in Carter's car contains the following lyrics:
--> "[[Music/NineInchNails Pictures in my head of the]] '''[[TitleDrop final destination]]'''..."

** In this film, there's often a black shadow on a reflective surface seen when Death is coming for someone, sometimes accompanied by gusts of wind from nowhere. Neither of these omens were used in any of the sequels.
*** ''Film/FinalDestination3'' used the gusts of wind before Erin and Ian's deaths.

* [[spoiler: MistakenForTerrorist: Alex ends up being the target of two police agents who suspect that he caused the Flight 180 explosion due to getting the others off the plane and knowing about the explosion]].

* OffWithHisHead: Billy Hitchcock. Well, half of it, anyway.
* OneDimensionalThinking: At one point, Alex Browning runs away from a falling tree in a straight line, which gets him stuck in a mud puddle that he eventually gets out of alive.

* InfantImmortality: Averted when both an infant AND a mentally handicapped individual die in the plane crash/explosion, even when one of the characters declares that the plane can't possibly crash due to this trope:

[they see a mental patient in the front row]\\

* BlondGuysAreEvil: Inverted. The hero is blond, the bumbling comic relief is also blond and the {{Jerkass}} in the cast is a brunet boy.

* CarFu: Terry Chaney VS a city bus.

* KilledMidSentence: Billy Hitchcock, cut off in midrant.

* EveryCarIsAPinto:
** The explosion of the plane is a bit too spectacular, really.
*** Or is it? The plane explosion and decompression is actually based on TWA Flight 800, where the effects on passengers would have been very similar.
** Subverted at the same time with Evan Lewis' original death in the same scene. He actually rams into a rig's gas tank, but his car doesn't explode; he remains ''trapped in the carriage of his car, screaming as he is burning to death''.

** The explosion of the plane is a bit too spectacular, really. Not to mention the car crash at the beginning of the second movie, where ''every car blows up''.

--> "Pictures in my head of the '''final destination'''..."

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In this film, there's often a black shadow on a reflective surface seen when Death is coming for someone, sometimes accompanied by gusts of wind from nowhere. Neither of these omens were used in any of the sequels.

* NobodyPoops: Averted. The buildup to Tod's death involves him using the toilet, which then starts to leak.

* RedHerring: The amount of focus given on the nose hair scissors in Tod's death scene implies that they'll play some factor in it - but they don't. It's all about that clothesline.

* JammedSeatbelts: A car stalled on train tracks has one seatbelt jam, trapping the occupant until the very last minute. Possibly justified, since every death in the series is set up in a Rube Goldberg style relying on a series of coincidences.

* AssholeVictim: Carter, initially. The openly and proudly insensitive prick of a boyfriend amongst the leads, with not '''one''' decent and good bone in his body. Throughout the movie, Carter performs a gradual HeelFaceTurn and becomes a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, even saving Alex's life in the ending.

* FocusGroupEnding: [[spoiler:The original ending featured a somewhat happy ending. The hero sleeps with his love interest, gets her pregnant, then dies. The movie closes on the 2 survivors standing by his grave a year later. Test audiences hated it and said they wanted more Rube Goldberg deathtraps. Ironically, the second film revolved around that plot point, just with different players involved.]]

** Also, a song playing in Carter's song contains the following lyrics: