History Film / FinalDestination2

* EveryCarIsAPinto: In the car crash, there is a Ford Pinto, driven by Nora and Tim.

** [[spoiler: Clear too]]. Apparently [[spoiler: she was supposed to have died on the train at the end of the third film, but scheduling conflicts that came to light during the second film made that impossible, hence the sudden rapidity of her death.]]

** [[spoiler: This is made even clearer with the events of Final Destination 5, which reveals that the events of 5, 1 and 2 were ''all'' planned by Death. Molly escaped her death on the North Bay Bridge, so that she could survive to be attacked by Nathan in the kitchen. However, despite her apparent "cheating" of death there, she was ''meant'' to survive that, just like all her friends were meant to survive the bridge so that the events of 5 could play out... and get Molly and Sam onto Flight 180. Death then gives Alex the premonition so he and his friends can escape and Sam and Molly die on the plane and Death picks off the survivors of Flight 180, who were meant to escape the plane so that the survivors of the Route 23 pile-up could have escaped earlier unplanned deaths and the subsequent pile up to be in the right place at the right time throughout the events of ''Final Destination 2'' to die as foretold and planned by Death.]]
* CoolBigSis: the first half of the movie focuses on [[spoiler: Clear hating herself for her not being able to save Alex from his death.]] She even tells Kimberly, "This is what happened when I was responsible for Alex." You can sense the bond she had with him, like he was her little bro. Although their - Kimberly and Clear's - first meeting was rocky and not the best, Clear ends up helping Kimberly and bonds with her too, as though she's a little sis to her, until [[spoiler: Clear gets killed in a hospital tank explosion]]. Ali Larter is also older than Creator/AJCook by 2 years. Even before they fought, she did say, "If you're lucky you'll end up in here with me." A dark statement such as that does show Clear does have a desire to bond and grieve with a new friend, and also, that she does have a little bit of hope left of defeating death, subconsciously.
** In fact, Clear was Alex’s LoveInterest in the first film, and it was heavily implied they got together at some point after the movie, so losing him would’ve hit her especially hard.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The film is quite possibly the darkest in the series until the fifth one rolled out. Other than the primarily adult cast, the film puts the plot above the gore (as opposed to the other way around) with the whole drama of [[spoiler: the cast being put into Death's List not only because of the Road 23 pileup but because they have cheated their deaths a year before at the expense of the Flight 180 survivors.]]

* DiabolusExMachina: The Wiki-aptly named "Truck from Hell". Specifically, near the end of Kimberly's premonition, it's shown that Kimberly and her friends would have survived the pileup in the premonition had an ominous-looking truck don't abruptly burst through the flames, smash through Evan's car, and then Kimberly's. If you pay attention, this truck is also the same one that [[spoiler: smashes through Kimberly's car after she pulls it over, taking her friends with it]]. There's no explanation why it does so, though closer inspection reveals that [[spoiler: ''[[FridgeHorror the truck has no driver]]'']].

* DullSurprise: Kimberly didn't seem all that upset when [[spoiler: Rory was sliced up by wires]], other than having a little bit of nausea. Yet the random civilians around her were shouting or screaming "OH MY GOD!"

** Again this might be the first where [[spoiler: the main characters don't die later on.]]

* EyeScream: [[TemptingFate "Shit, I'm lucky!"]] [[spoiler: Just not lucky enough to avoid getting a fire escape to the eye.]]

* FinalGirl: Kimberly. Kind of downplayed though, since [[spoiler: Thomas is also with her and gets involved in the Death's List just as equally. It's just that Kimberly is the one who finally puts an end on the deaths once and for all.]]

** Kat was on a bus to a business meeting in Pennsylvania, when the vehicle hit [[spoiler: Terry]], preventing her from staying in a hotel where a gas leak suffocated all the guests during the night.
** Rory was in Paris when he witnessed [[spoiler: Carter]] get splattered by a falling sign. He was so shaken that he went home instead of the movies, avoiding a theatre that collapsed that night, killing everyone inside.
** Eugene was a substitute teacher filling in for [[spoiler: Ms. Lewton]], so he was elsewhere when his own sub was stabbed to death by a student.
** Burke had to clean up the remains of [[spoiler: Billy]], so he avoided the shootout that took his partner's life.
** Kimberly was distracted by a news report about [[spoiler: Tod's supposed suicide]], so she wasn't with her mother when she was mugged and killed.
* GenreSavvy: Both [[spoiler: Death and Clear]] take a ''huge'' gulp of this. [[spoiler: Clear knows that Death is aware that she can see the signs - she saw it at the end of the first film, which allowed Carter to save Alex, and Death knows that she knows that it knows. When the time does come for Clear to leave, she manages to avoid one death (by canoe, which would have knocked out out of a window into a substation which would have exploded) and Death has to ''cheat'', by giving her the signs ''too late to avoid'' to finally get rid of her.]]

** When Kimberly [[spoiler:is resuscitated after her attempted suicide, the film presents this as Kimberly gaining "new life," so she and Thomas have finally escaped Death.]] However, if one accepts that the newspaper article seen in an alternate ending of the third film is canonical (as producer Craig Perry said it is), then [[spoiler: sometime after the second movie, Kimberly and Thomas not only did die, but they died in a particularly gruesome way, by accidentally falling into a woodchipper.]]

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Kat Jennings.]]
* INeverToldYouMyName: Kimberly has this reaction after Bludworth warns her to “follow the signs”.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler: Tim gets offed by Death before his mom, Nora, does. This is so traumatic to Nora enough as she had lost her husband years before as well that she decides if [[NotAfraidToDie Death wants to take her, so be it.]] (Un)fortunately, she gets her wish not too long afterward.]]

* RedHerring: "Dr. Kalarjian is going to kill Isabella!". No, Kimberly, she won't. [[spoiler: She'll be the one who prevent ''you'' from dying.]]
* ResurrectionGambit: Kimberley's final plan to try and defeat death is that she drives herself into the lake, then is resurrected via [=CPR=], thus resetting Death's list and buying everyone more time. [[spoiler: It works in the film itself, but bonus materials for ''Film/FinalDestination3'' reveals that she [[CheatedDeathDiedAnyway died later by being dragged into a wood chipper.]]]]

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Tim and Nora exit the dentist's office, with Kimberly and Burke racing towards them, yelling at them to get away from the pigeons. Tim immediately sees a flock of pigeons, runs through them... and is crushed by a falling pane of glass. Really, people... the kid just had two near-death experiences. That said, he may have been chasing the pigeons away because he thought that were going to cause his death, not knowing he was causing them to do so. Plus, he was still under the influence of nitrous oxide.]]

* WorthyOpponent: Death seems to see [[spoiler: Clear]] as this. [[spoiler: According to Clear, she and Alex cheated death "a dozen times" between them and all her "escaped" deaths involved explosions. Death knows that Clear can see the signs of his approach - she did so at the end of the first film which allowed Carter to intervene and "save" Alex - and seems to respect her enough, find her ''worthy'' enough, to make it quick and relatively painless when she actually ''does'' die: the first time in this film is an attempt to knock her out of a window with a canoe into a substation box which is presumably going to explode and make it quick, and the actual time of her death is an unavoidable (albeit quick) explosion - remarkably painless.]]

* DiabolusExMachina: The [[TheWikiRule Wiki]]-aptly named "Truck from Hell". Specifically, near the end of Kimberly's premonition, it's shown that Kimberly and her friends would have survived the pileup in the premonition had an ominous-looking truck don't abruptly burst through the flames, smash through Evan's car, and then Kimberly's. If you pay attention, this truck is also the same one that [[spoiler: smashes through Kimberly's car after she pulls it over, taking her friends with it]]. There's no explanation why it does so, though closer inspection reveals that [[spoiler: ''[[FridgeHorror the truck has no driver]]'']].

** Subverted by [[spoiler:Kimberly]] in the movie itself. She is pulled away from a speeding truck just moments after her own premonition, and later only dies temporarily from drowning before being saved and revived. [[spoiler:However, she was later killed off in a BusCrash.]]

** Outside of the premise, halfway through it's revealed that the survivors of the highway accident also cheated death when the deaths of the previous film's survivors led to them not reaching their own.

* CoolBigSis: the first half of the movie focuses on [[spoiler: Clear hating herself for her not being able to save Alex from his death.]] She even tells Kimberly, "This is what happened when I was responsible for Alex." You can sense the bond she had with him, like he was her little bro. Although their - Kimberly and Clear's - first meeting was rocky and not the best, Clear ends up helping Kimberly and bonds with her too, as though she's a little sis to her, until [[spoiler: Clear gets killed in a hospital tank explosion]]. Ali Larter is also older than Creator/AJCook by 2 years. Even before they fought, she did say, "If you're lucky you'll end up in here with me." A dark statement such as that does show Clear does have a desire to bond and grieve with a new friend, and also, that she does have a little bit of hope left of defeating death, subconsciously.
** In fact, Clear was Alex’s LoveInterest in the first film, and it was heavily implied they got together at some point after the movie, so losing him would’ve hit her especially hard.

->''"Look I know this sounds crazy, but you guys all heard about Flight 180 right? The kid who got off the plane? What happened a year ago today?...my premonition was just like his."''

* WhamLine: [[spoiler:When the remaining survivors are driving to go find Isabella, they begin to discuss how this wasn’t the first time they’ve cheated death, but it’s when Kat further elaborates on her experience that Clear and the others realize that the original survivors of Flight 180 caused a ripple effect, which lead to these survivors not dying when they were supposed to, and the accident on the freeway was Death’s attempt at tying up loose ends.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Kat:''' Okay, so last May, I was supposed to stay at this cheesy little Bed & Breakfast in Pennsylvania, right? So anyhow, there’s this major gas leak that no one knows about, and all the guests ''suffocated'' during the night.\\

'''Kat:''' I-I don’t know, I never made it. [[Film/FinalDestination The bus I was on splattered some girl all over the road.]]\\

** When Isabella gives birth, [[spoiler:Kimberly and Thomas (later joined by Clear) are hugging and celebrating, believing that they have beaten Death. However, it turns out that Isabella was never going to die in the highway pileup in the first place, so she was never on Death's list, and the "new life" of her baby could not save the survivors.]]

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: [[spoiler:Rory]] is killed when a barb wire fence is sent flying by a nearby explosion. A barb wire fence doesn't even come close to having enough mass to be able to be thrown by a shockwave.

* BusCrash: [[spoiler:Alex Browning]], whose death was not only off screen, but the most unexciting death in the series. Admittedly, however, since Creator/DevonSawa had walked out between the first and second films over payment issues, [[RealLifeWritesThePlot they had no choice but to kill him off]] without showing it, since a death hadn't been filmed.

* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Nora]], with an elevator.

* BrokenBird: Clear.

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*** "''Rory: Maybe they're all duds.''"
*** "''Burke: Six in a row?! Never. That's impossible!''"

* FamousLastWords:
** "Jesus Christ!" *relieved chuckle* [[spoiler: Evan]]
** "[[TemptingFate I don't wanna die!]]" [[spoiler: Nora--literally one second before getting beheaded by the elevator doors]]