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* ShoutOut: The death-foreshadowing lines on the photographs are straight out of ''Film/TheOmen''.
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* ForegoneConclusion: If you saw the previous two films, then you know that [[spoiler: the characters just saving each other from death does not save them completely, it just moves them down the list meaning that Wendy, Kevin and Julie are pretty much doomed during the train crash sequence.]]

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* AssholeVictim: Most of the characters. Some aversions would be: Ashley, Ashlyn,Wendy, Jason.

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* AssholeVictim: Most of the characters. Some aversions would be: Ashley, Ashlyn,Wendy, Jason.Ashlyn, Wendy, Jason.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: While Ian is listing off people he thinks death seems to favor he lists Charlie Manson, Osama Bin Laden, pimps, and vice presidents.
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Wendy and her high school friends are visiting an amusement park when she receives a premonition of a a malfunctioning roller coaster ride that claims the lives of her and her friends. She fails to save most of them, including her boyfriend, and Death chases them to balance the books.

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Wendy and her high school friends are visiting an amusement park when with her graduating class. But after feeling of dread that follows her through the night and hopping on a roller coaster, she receives a premonition of a a malfunctioning roller coaster that the ride that claims is going to claim the lives of her and her friends. She fails to save suceeds in saving most of them, but many still die including her boyfriend, boyfriend Jason. Worse still, Wendy starts noticing the pictures she took of her peers seem to foreshadow their respective demises, and as Death chases them the survivors to balance the books.
books she takes it upon herself to try and save her friends.



* DenserAndWackier: The deaths in this are far more elaborate and over-the-top than in the previous two. Especially notable is [[spoiler: Julie getting dragged around by a horse at the 4th July celebration]].

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* DenserAndWackier: An extremely dark example. The deaths in this are far more elaborate and over-the-top than in the previous two. Especially notable is [[spoiler: Julie getting dragged around by a horse at the 4th July celebration]].
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Wendy and her high school friends are visiting an amusement park when she receives a premonition of a a malfunctioning roller coaster ride that claims the lives of her and her friends. She saves them all, but once again Death returns to balance the books.

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Wendy and her high school friends are visiting an amusement park when she receives a premonition of a a malfunctioning roller coaster ride that claims the lives of her and her friends. She saves them all, but once again fails to save most of them, including her boyfriend, and Death returns chases them to balance the books.
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Added hardware store to No Osha Compliance. On a related note, I'm pretty sure OSHA doesn't deal with school sports equipment but, ya know, whatever.


* NoOSHACompliance: Because otherwise many of the deaths wouldn't work. The tanning bed and weight machine, in particular.

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* NoOSHACompliance: Because otherwise many of the deaths wouldn't work. The hardware store, weight room, and tanning bed and weight machine, in particular.

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* ButNotTooWhite: Ashley and Ashlyn are already quite tanned, and yet decide to get touch-ups before graduation anyway.



* DenserAndWackier: The deaths in this are far more elaborate and over-the-top than in the previous two. Especially notable is [[spoiler: Julie getting dragged around by a horse at the 4th July celebration]].



* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: It looks like Wendy, Kevin, and Julie manage to cheat Death; Kevin and Julie have been saved by Wendy, while Wendy herself avoids being killed by Ian, who's apparently her cause of death. It even goes to skip three months afterward to show that they're still alive. However, it turns out that Wendy's cause of death isn't Ian, but trains (see RedHerring below), and because Kevin and Julie are with her, they get killed too (though They may already been doomed from the start, anyway, if one believes in the theory that Death is the one who gave Wendy the premonitions).]]

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[[spoiler: It looks like Wendy, Kevin, and Julie manage to cheat Death; Kevin and Julie have been saved by Wendy, while Wendy herself avoids being killed by Ian, who's apparently her cause of death. It even goes to skip three months afterward to show that they're still alive. However, it turns out that Wendy's cause of death isn't Ian, but trains (see RedHerring below), and because Kevin and Julie are with her, they get killed too (though They may already been doomed from the start, anyway, if one believes in the theory that Death is the one who gave Wendy the premonitions).]]]]
** The alternate version of the tanning bed deaths [[spoiler: has Ashlyn freeing herself from the bed, only to electrocute herself and Ashley when she tries to free her friend]].
* HufflepuffHouse: Julie has two friends, Amber and Perry. [[spoiler: Perry turns out to be the one who was on the rollercoaster with her, locking her as the next victim. Amber ends up a RedHerring]].


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* InformedAttribute: Wendy goes on and on about how much of a control freak she is, yet this trait never comes into play within the movie. In fact, she's perfectly happy to let Kevin help and sometimes take the lead.


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* {{Irony}}:
** Right before the rollercoaster accident, Carey says she's planning to dump Kevin soon. After the accident, Kevin wistfully tells Wendy that he was planning to propose to her.
** Wendy leaves Ashley and Ashlyn a message that ends with "sorry I was too late". [[spoiler: She means too late to join them at the tanning salon. It ends up meaning too late to save them]].


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* OneSteveLimit: Averted. The school name is [=McKinley=], while that is also Ian's last name. It comes up in the plot when Wendy has a vision of the name and assumes it's related to Ian in some way.


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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The employee at the tanning booth has to take a phone call outside. [[spoiler: As he's not at the counter, he doesn't know anything about the malfunction that leads to Ashley and Ashlyn's deaths]].

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* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler: The ending doesn't reveal whether Wendy, Kevin, and Julie manage to escape the train accident alive. According to the alternate ending and WordOfGod, [[DownerEnding they don't]].]]
* ChekhovsGun: The Christensen family's bracelet. [[spoiler: The unidentified figure on the Death's List after Ian/Erin also wore it, and Wendy is certain that she ''didn't'' wear it at the fair. Guess who did?]]



* EurekaMoment: Wendy, when she realizes that [[spoiler: Julie is the next on Death's List after Ian/Erin because the figure after them wore their family's heirloom bracelet, something that Julie has been nagging about.]]



* FailsafeFailure: The sunbed deaths combine this ''and'' NoOSHACompliance

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* EvilLaugh: The laugh of the devil statue at [=McKinley=]'s fair. It comes up a few times afterward, including in [[spoiler: the epilogue.]] Fittingly, it's provided by Creator/TonyTodd A.K.A. [[CreepyMortician William Bludworth]].
* FailsafeFailure: The sunbed deaths combine this ''and'' NoOSHAComplianceNoOSHACompliance.


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* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: It looks like Wendy, Kevin, and Julie manage to cheat Death; Kevin and Julie have been saved by Wendy, while Wendy herself avoids being killed by Ian, who's apparently her cause of death. It even goes to skip three months afterward to show that they're still alive. However, it turns out that Wendy's cause of death isn't Ian, but trains (see RedHerring below), and because Kevin and Julie are with her, they get killed too (though They may already been doomed from the start, anyway, if one believes in the theory that Death is the one who gave Wendy the premonitions).]]


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* InvisibleParents: Wendy and Julie's mother is briefly mentioned, but never makes it onscreen.


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* LighterAndSofter: Though none of the films is actually light on tone (well, except for the [[{{Camp}} fourth]], maybe), this film goes back to the teenage angsty tone of the first (they're directed by the same director) and thus isn't quite plot-heavy and mature as the second film, which is dark no matter how brutal the deaths for the later films are.


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* NoOSHACompliance: Because otherwise many of the deaths wouldn't work. The tanning bed and weight machine, in particular.
* TheNotLoveInterest: Wendy and Kevin slowly bond over their experiences of loss at the fair and the fact that they have to race together to save others (and themselves) from Death's List. While it can easily be interpreted as romantic, they are still grieving, and no love ever comes out of it.


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* RedHerring: Wendy thinks that the clue for her cause of death is her shirt she wore during the night at the fair, which has [="McKinley"=] written on it, which she interprets as [[spoiler: Ian]] being her cause of death. [[spoiler: It's not. The actual clue is Jason's blurred face. It represents the blurred faces of passengers of a train, which will be her true cause of death.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Ian wants to take revenge against Wendy for having apparently caused Erin's death.]]
* SoundOnlyDeath: [[spoiler: The movie closes with the viewers never knowing if Wendy, Kevin, and Julie manage to escape the train collision, though the sounds of the collision are there for everyone to guess. The chance is high for an unpleasant end.]]


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* YoungerAndHipper: After the adult-focused second film, the franchise went back to following the lives of senior high school students.
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* FinalGirl: Wendy. [[spoiler:Subverted though, as she appears to only survive about fifteen seconds longer than the other two friends killed in the subway crash.]]

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* FinalGirl: Wendy. [[spoiler:Subverted though, as she appears to only survive about fifteen 15 seconds longer than the other two friends killed in the subway crash.]]
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%%* TheDitz: Ashley and Ashlyn are textbook examples.



%%* {{Goth}}: Ian [=McKinley=] and Erin Ulmer
%%* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler: Ian]]
%%* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Perry]]



%%* LovableJock: Kevin



%%* PerkyGoth: Erin Ulmer



%%* {{Those Two G|uys}}irls: Ashley and Ashlyn.
%%* TokenMinority: Perry, Lewis, and Amber.
%%* ValleyGirl: Ashley and Ashlyn are textbook examples.



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* SpareByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Wendy, Julie and Kevin survived in the novel adaptation of the film. It helps that the novel ended before the train crash scene.]]

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* SpareByAdaptation: SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Wendy, Julie and Kevin survived in the novel adaptation of the film. It helps that the novel ended before the train crash scene.]]
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* SpareByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Wendy, Julie and Kevin survived in the novel adaptation of the film. It helps that the novel ended before the train crash scene.]]

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* InfantImmortality: Played straight when a group of young boys try to bluff their way onto the roller coaster, but are kicked off by the carnival staff for not being tall enough to ride it. Thus, the boys avoid dying in the crash, without any need for psychic visions to warn them away.


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* InfantImmortality: Played straight when a group of young boys try to bluff their way onto the roller coaster, but are kicked off by the carnival staff for not being tall enough to ride it. Thus, the boys avoid dying in the crash, without any need for psychic visions to warn them away.
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* FatalFireworks: The finale takes place at a tricentennial, featuring fireworks. Said fireworks set off a horse that manages to nearly kill one character (and upon failing to do so, kill another), and at the end of the scene, the fireworks nearly hit the three main characters, only to cause the death of the film's only human antagonist.
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* KillEmAll: As with the previous two films, we see every main cast member getting killed in a vision and/or in reality. [[spoiler:This time however, everyone actually ''does'' die, as Wendy's vision of the subway crash happens mere seconds before the actual crash, and she can't do anything to stop it in the short time that she has]].
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*** Also, [[AvertedTrope averted]] hardcore in the [[Film/FinalDestination2 second movie]] when [[spoiler: Eugene attempted to take his own life ahead of Death's plan.]]
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* {{Pun}}: Ashley and Ashlyn get [[spoiler:burned to ashes]].

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* {{Pun}}: PunnyName: Ashley and Ashlyn get [[spoiler:burned to ashes]].

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* TheDitz: Ashley and Ashlyn are textbook examples.

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* {{Goth}}: Ian [=McKinley=] and Erin Ulmer
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler: Ian]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Perry]]

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* LovableJock: Kevin

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* PerkyGoth: Erin Ulmer

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* {{Those Two G|uys}}irls: Ashley and Ashlyn.
* TokenMinority: Perry, Lewis, and Amber.
* ValleyGirl: Ashley and Ashlyn are textbook examples.

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* {{Pun}}: Ashley and Ashlyn get [[spoiler:burned to ashes]].
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* AssholeVictim: Most of the characters. Some aversions would be: Wendy, Jason.

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* AssholeVictim: Most of the characters. Some aversions would be: Wendy, Ashley, Ashlyn,Wendy, Jason.
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** Also, [[AvertedTrope averted]] hardcore in the [[Film/FinalDestination2 second movie]] when [[spoiler: Eugene attempted to take his own life ahead of Death's plan.]]

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** *** Also, [[AvertedTrope averted]] hardcore in the [[Film/FinalDestination2 second movie]] when [[spoiler: Eugene attempted to take his own life ahead of Death's plan.]]
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** Also, [[AvertedTrope averted]] hardcore in the [[Film/FinalDestination2 second movie]] when [[spoiler: Eugene attempted to take his own life ahead of Death's plan.]]
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** Ian makes some pretty valid points about how vague the concept of "signs of death" is, pointing out that virtually anything could be interpreted as a sign if you're looking hard enough. His suggestion that the last in line should attempt suicide to break the list is also fairly logical and actually followed through with in a deleted ending to the fourth movie.

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** Ian makes some pretty valid points about how vague the concept of "signs of death" is, are, pointing out that virtually anything could be interpreted as a sign if you're looking hard enough. His Also, his suggestion that the last in line should attempt suicide make the utilitarian sacrifice to break the list chain is also fairly pragmatically logical and actually even followed through with in a deleted ending to the fourth movie.movie [[spoiler: (although it doesn't work).]]
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** Ian makes some pretty valid points about how vague the concept of "signs of death" is, pointing out that virtually anything could be interpreted as a sign if you're looking hard enough.

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** Ian makes some pretty valid points about how vague the concept of "signs of death" is, pointing out that virtually anything could be interpreted as a sign if you're looking hard enough. His suggestion that the last in line should attempt suicide to break the list is also fairly logical and actually followed through with in a deleted ending to the fourth movie.
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* AssholeVictim: The entire cast. It'd be easier to list the aversions: Wendy, Jason, Carrie (?).

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* AssholeVictim: The entire cast. It'd be easier to list Most of the aversions: characters. Some aversions would be: Wendy, Jason, Carrie (?).Jason.



* DroppedABridgeOnHim: We knew Perry was next all of three seconds before she gets skewered.

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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: We knew Perry [[spoiler: Perry]] was next all of three seconds before she gets skewered.



* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Erin]] gets nails shot through her face by a nail gun accident...several of them go through her eyes.
* FailsafeFailure: The sunbed deaths in the third movie combine this ''and'' NoOSHACompliance

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* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Erin]] gets nails shot through her face by during a nail gun accident...several accident. Several of them go through her eyes.
* FailsafeFailure: The sunbed deaths in the third movie combine this ''and'' NoOSHACompliance



* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Ian
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Perry

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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Ian
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Perry[[spoiler: Perry]]



** At the funeral, Frankie thinks that Ashley and Ashlyn are dead because of him. When Julie asks why, he tells her that if men like him didn't see women as nothing but sex-toys, they wouldn't try so hard to look good by going on diets, exercising, and (in Ashley and Ashlyn's case, which is what led to their deaths), tanning. Too bad he ruins the moment when he tries to kiss Julie seconds later.

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** At the funeral, Frankie thinks that [[spoiler: Ashley and Ashlyn Ashlyn]] are dead because of him. When Julie asks why, he tells her that if men like him didn't see women as nothing but sex-toys, they wouldn't try so hard to look good by going on diets, exercising, and (in [[spoiler: Ashley and Ashlyn's Ashlyn's]] case, which is what led to their deaths), tanning. Too bad he ruins the moment when he tries to kiss Julie seconds later.
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''Final Destination 3'' is the third film in the ''Franchise/FinalDestination'' series, released in 2006.

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''Final Destination 3'' is the third film in the ''Franchise/FinalDestination'' ''Film/FinalDestination'' series, released in 2006.
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* EveryCarIsAPinto: Averted with the drive-through collision, probably because an explosion would've obscured the [[spoiler: fan-blade-to-the-head]] manner of the resulting death.


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* FailsafeFailure: The sunbed deaths in the third movie combine this ''and'' NoOSHACompliance
* FanDisservice: Two girls go inside a tanning bed nude, only to be burned alive when the machines malfunction.
* InfantImmortality: Played straight when a group of young boys try to bluff their way onto the roller coaster, but are kicked off by the carnival staff for not being tall enough to ride it. Thus, the boys avoid dying in the crash, without any need for psychic visions to warn them away.


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* {{Foreshadowing}}: A plot point; photographs taken of the various characters show the way that they'll end up dying.


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* TakeAMomentToCatchYourDeath: The football player narrowly avoid having his head cut off by ornamental scimitars while on a weight machine. Exuberant, he does another rep on the machine, not realizing that the scimitars have frayed the cables, resulting in them snapping and crushing his head between the weights. [[NoOSHACompliance Who would design a machine like that anyway?]]
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''Final Destination 3'' is the third film in the ''Film/FinalDestination'' series, released in 2006.

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''Final Destination 3'' is the third film in the ''Film/FinalDestination'' ''Franchise/FinalDestination'' series, released in 2006.
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''Final Destination 3'' is the second film in the ''Film/FinalDestination'' series, released in 2006.

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''Final Destination 3'' is the second third film in the ''Film/FinalDestination'' series, released in 2006.
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''Final Destination 3'' is the second film in the ''Film/FinalDestination'' series, released in 2006.

Wendy and her high school friends are visiting an amusement park when she receives a premonition of a a malfunctioning roller coaster ride that claims the lives of her and her friends. She saves them all, but once again Death returns to balance the books.

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!!This film provides examples of:

* AssholeVictim: The entire cast. It'd be easier to list the aversions: Wendy, Jason, Carrie (?).
* BigNo: Wendy at the end [[spoiler:when she realizes [[OhCrap a train is about to run her over.]]]]
* ChooseYourOwnAdventure: The "Choose Their Fate" feature on the Thrill Ride Edition on DVD. Somewhat subverted however, as it was simply a more creative way to show deleted scenes from the film, even including an alternate ending.
* TheDitz: Ashley and Ashlyn are textbook examples.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: We knew Perry was next all of three seconds before she gets skewered.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Erin]] gets nails shot through her face by a nail gun accident...several of them go through her eyes.
* FinalGirl: Wendy. [[spoiler:Subverted though, as she appears to only survive about fifteen seconds longer than the other two friends killed in the subway crash.]]
* ForkliftFu: A forklift goes haywire in the warehouse the leads are in, pushes over a shelf which almost sends dozens of pieces of fence wood into Ian, although Wendy manages to save him. [[spoiler:However, it leads to Erin's death almost right after.]]
* {{Goth}}: Ian [=McKinley=] and Erin Ulmer
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Ian
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Perry
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** At the funeral, Frankie thinks that Ashley and Ashlyn are dead because of him. When Julie asks why, he tells her that if men like him didn't see women as nothing but sex-toys, they wouldn't try so hard to look good by going on diets, exercising, and (in Ashley and Ashlyn's case, which is what led to their deaths), tanning. Too bad he ruins the moment when he tries to kiss Julie seconds later.
** Ian makes some pretty valid points about how vague the concept of "signs of death" is, pointing out that virtually anything could be interpreted as a sign if you're looking hard enough.
* LovableJock: Kevin
* MurderByCremation: The tanning bed deaths.
* [[MyHairCameOutGreen My Hair Came Out Pink]]: The novelization mentions why Frankie had shaved his head shortly before the events of the film. His attempt at dyeing it resulted in it turning pink.
* PerkyGoth: Erin Ulmer
* SpookyPhotographs: The source of the premonitions throughout the movie.
* {{Those Two G|uys}}irls: Ashley and Ashlyn.
* TokenMinority: Perry, Lewis, and Amber.
* ValleyGirl: Ashley and Ashlyn are textbook examples.
* YouMustBeThisTallToRide: A couple of boys who've ducked past the "You Must Be This Tall" sign are kicked off the Devil's Flight coaster by the attendant.

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