History Film / FinalDestination3

* InteractiveFiction: The DVD included a "Chose Their Fates" bonus feature, though all this really did was either have characters {{put on a bus}} instead of dying or die differently.

* IronicEcho: When Kevin tries to help Wendy in the aftermath of the rollercoaster disaster, she coldly dismisses him, saying that the only reason they ever hung out together was that they were dating each other's best friends. Wendy tells Kevin, "We don't even like each other." Later on, when Wendy says that she'll be freaking out every second, hoping that Kevin is okay, he teases her by asking, "Why? We don't even like each other." Wendy gives a weak laugh, and the two hug each other.

-->--'''Wendy''', ''Final Destination 3 ''trailer

Wendy and her high school friends are visiting an amusement park 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 that the ride is going to claim the lives of her and her friends. She suceeds in saving most of them, but many still die including her boyfriend Jason. Worse still, Wendy starts noticing the pictures she took of her peers seem to foreshadow their respective demises, and as Death chases the survivors to balance the books she takes it upon herself to try and save her friends.

* IronicEcho: When Kevin tries to help Wendy in the aftermath of the rollercoaster disaster, she coldly dismisses him, saying that the only reason they ever hung out together was because they were dating each other's best friends. Wendy tells Kevin, "We don't even like each other." Later on, when Wendy says that she'll be freaking out every second, hoping that Kevin is okay, he teases her by asking, "Why? We don't even like each other." Wendy gives a weak laugh, and the two hug each other.

** At the funeral, Frankie thinks that [[spoiler: 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 [[spoiler: 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.

* 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.]]

* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler: Julie snuck her way onto the rollercoaster despite being underage, along with her friend Perry. Both of them are around 15-16, making them younger than the protagonists.]]

** 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.

* AssholeVictim: Most of the characters - [[spoiler: Lewis, Frankie, Ian, Erin, Julie kind of]].

* 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.

* 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]].

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Julie was on the rollercoaster too]].
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Ian wants to take revenge against Wendy for having apparently caused Erin's death.]]

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

* 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.

** The loops are designed so that a free-rolling coaster won't actually hang on them, but will roll backwards. Coasters ''have'' locked up on loops before and it's a very scary and uncomfortable experience, but ultimately the riders were all rescued.

** And on top of all that, coasters have safety alarms and daily inspections; if hydraulic pressure started bleeding out, the ride would have immediately e-stopped.

** The train splitting in half would actually cause the coaster to ''slow down'' as it would suddenly have half the mass and momentum. ''Losing wheels'' would add even more drag. The end result would be the coaster either bottoming in a valley or locking up on a hill.

* FanDisservice: Two girls go inside a tanning bed nude, only to be burned alive when the machines malfunction.

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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]].]]

* FinalGirl: Wendy. [[spoiler:Subverted though, as she appears to only survive about 15 seconds longer than the other two friends killed in the subway crash.]]

* 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]].

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