History Film / FinalDestination4

* DeathByRacism: The ''first'' victim is a redneck named Carter Daniels who has NO compunctions whatsoever about calling African Americans "the N-word". ([[LampshadeHanging His character is actually listed as "Racist" in the end-credits.]]) He is given a spectacularly hilarious and humiliating end when he tried to burn a cross [[TheKlan KKK-style]] in front of the black lead's house; his tow truck, dragging his burning and screaming carcass, twists the knife by [[{{Irony}} playing War's anti-racism tract "Why Can't We Be Friends?" on the radio]] before it spectacularly explodes. The kicker? Dragging a black man from a car is a known (if uncommon) method of lynching, as seen with the murder of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr James Byrd, Jr.]] In other words, [[DeathByIrony the guy got lynched]].

[[caption-width-right:299:''[[TagLine Just because you know it's happening doesn't mean you'll see it coming.]]'']]

* AssholeVictim: Carter and Hunt. Carter in particular has maybe the most humiliating, mocking death in the entire franchise, implying Death hates the guy as much as the audience does.

* FoldSpindleMutilation: [[spoiler:Hunt]] dies when his organs are violently sucked out of his anus by a pool drain and catapulted in a gory display, along with the coin he tried to get from the bottom of the pool.

* KilledMidSentence: When leaving the hospital, George starts casually talking about how he has a feeling déjà vu, and then... Well, see LookBothWays below.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Although Nick, Lori, and Janet think they manage to escape Death when Nick stops the cinema disaster from happening, it turns out that Death is the one who gave Nick the premonitions. In other words, Death is just playing with them, and in the epilogue, he has had enough fun. Cue the truck crashing through the cafe.]]

** At the mall, [[spoiler: Lori's shoelace gets stuck in an escalator, hinting at her gory demise in Nick's premonition.]]
* FoldSpindleMutilation: [[spoiler: Hunt]] dies when his organs are violently sucked out of his anus by a pool drain and catapulted in a gory display, along with the coin he tried to get from the bottom of the pool.

** [[spoiler: The gang thinks that by saving Janet and George from their respective deaths, they have managed to cheat Death. Thus, Nick and Lori decide to take a vacation, but the latter wants to watch a movie first with Janet. However, Nick realizes that there is another survivor in the stadium collapse who is in Death's List before Janet/Hunt: the Cowboy, but because he didn't go with Nick outside in the stadium, he is still injured all the same. Nick and George fail to save him, and George abruptly dies from being hit by an ambulance. Followed by the cinema disaster....(which turns out to be another premonition).]]
** [[spoiler: After preventing the cinema disaster, Nick, Lori, and Janet think that Death may has finally skipped them from Death's List, hence they celebrate their survival in a cafe weeks afterward. Yet Nick realizes that it may have been very well that Death is the one who gave him the premonitions, and they are never safe to begin with. Followed by the speeding truck...]]

** [[spoiler: Nick gets an epic one when he realizes that there is another survivor in Death's List before Janet/Hunt.]]
** And again, this time [[spoiler: Nick, Lori, and Janet, when Nick reveals that Death is just playing them off.]]

** Likewise subverted with [[spoiler: Lori]] getting crushed in the escalator gears. [[spoiler: We do see that happen, but it turns out to be another premonition of Nick's.]]

* WhamLine: [[spoiler: Nick: "What if we didn't change anything, what if us being here, right now,...''was the plan from the beginning?''"]]

%%* BloodyHilarious

%%* HeroesWantRedheads: Nick's girlfriend Lori.

%%* OffWithHisHead: Nadia Monroy.

%%* TokenMinority: George.

%%* VaporTrail: Kills the redneck.

* AllAccordingToPlan: This film confirms that the premonitions throughout the series [[spoiler:are sent by Death himself]]. Everyone who seemingly escaped from the disasters were [[spoiler:actually meant to do it all along]]; Death just [[spoiler:really enjoys playing with his prey.]]

* DeathByRacism: The ''first'' victim is a redneck named Carter Daniels who has NO compunctions whatsoever about calling African Americans "the N-word". ([[LampshadeHanging His character is actually listed as "Racist" in the end-credits.]]) He is given a spectacularly hilarious and humiliating end when he tried to burn a cross [[TheKlan KKK-style]] in front of the black lead's house; his tow truck, dragging his burning and screaming carcass, twists the knife by [[{{Irony}} playing War's anti-racism tract "Why Can't We Be Friends?" on the radio before it spectacularly explodes. The kicker? Dragging a black man from a car is a known (if uncommon) method of lynching, as seen with the murder of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr James Byrd, Jr.]] In other words, [[DeathByIrony the guy got lynched]].

* DeathByRacism: The ''first'' victim is a redneck named Carter Daniels who has NO compunctions whatsoever about calling African Americans "the N-word". ([[LampshadeHanging His character is actually listed as "Racist" in the end-credits.]]) He is given a spectacularly hilarious and humiliating end when he tried to burn a cross [[TheKlan KKK-style]] in front of the black lead's house; his tow truck, dragging his burning and screaming carcass,]] twists the knife by [[{{Irony}} playing War's anti-racism tract "Why Can't We Be Friends?" on the radio before it spectacularly explodes. The kicker? Dragging a black man from a car is a known (if uncommon) method of lynching, as seen with the murder of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr James Byrd, Jr.]] In other words, [[DeathByIrony the guy got lynched]].

* DeathByRacism: The ''first'' victim is a redneck named Carter Daniels who has NO compunctions whatsoever about calling African Americans "the N-word". ([[LampshadeHanging His character is actually listed as "Racist" in the end-credits.]]) He is given a spectacularly hilarious and humiliating end when he tried to burn a cross [[TheKlan KKK-style]] in front of the black lead's house; [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments his tow truck, dragging his burning and screaming carcass,]] twists the knife by [[{{Irony}} playing War's anti-racism tract "Why Can't We Be Friends?" on the radio]] before it spectacularly explodes. The kicker? Dragging a black man from a car is a known (if uncommon) method of lynching, as seen with the murder of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr James Byrd, Jr.]] In other words, [[DeathByIrony the guy got lynched]].

* DeathBySex: Hunt, who actually came to terms of being next to die by getting laid first.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Taken to extremes. As if [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil the commercials weren't bad enough]] Nick has brief images depicting how a character will die just moments before their death.

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: The film outright confirms a theory that has been long postulated about the series: Death is the one who gave the protagonists the premonitions. And no one can truly escape Death's List. Ever. How everyone in the series died was always the way Death intended them to die in the first place.]]

* {{Fanservice}}: Our leading lady gratuitously stands around in her panties; later there is a graphic sex scene featuring a fully nude, well endowed young woman.

* {{Fanservice}}: There is a gratuitous and graphic sex scene featuring a fully nude, well endowed young woman.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Nick's girlfriend Lori.

* OffWithHisHead: Nadia Monroy.

* TokenMinority: George.

* VaporTrail: Kills the redneck.

* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler:Lori's]] death is in a way caused by this; her leg getting crushed by escalator gears somehow causes her to spit up a large amount of blood onto her arm, which the main character is holding on to. As he slips, more and more of her body is dragged in, and eventually she either dies or passes out from the trauma and falls in getting mulched into mince.

* AssholeVictim: Carter and Hunt.

** The opening sequence depicts the various deaths from the previous three films from the perspective of an x-ray camera.

* CallBack: The opening sequence showcases most of the deaths in the previous films, usually through x-ray shots of skeletal damage.
* CarFu: George Lanter VS an ambulance.
** [[spoiler:Nick,Lori and Janet VS a truck. The truck wins.]]