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General

William Bludworth

• Ambiguously Evil
• Creepy Mortician
• The Creepy Undertaker
• Dark Is Not Evil
• Evil Sounds Deep: Averted. It isn't clear what Bludworth's role in everything is, but he appears to be at worst a neutral party and at best a guide for the survivors.
• Large Ham
• Magical Negro
• Mr. Exposition
• Scary Black Man: He's played by Tony Todd.
• Sophisticated As Hell

Death

• Big Bad
• Eldritch Abomination
• Even Evil Has Standards: When Carter is preparing to burn a cross on George's lawn in The Final Destination, Death causes his truck radio to start playing "Why Can't We Be Friends?"; then it kills him in a manner not too dissimilar to how racist lynch mobs would execute their victims.
• Dramatic Wind
• For the Evulz: Suggested in the novelization of the third film, and Dead Man's Hand.
• The Grim Reaper
• He Who Must Not Be Seen
• Living Shadow: What it is most commonly appears as.
• Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts
• Ultimate Evil
• Trap Master

Final Destination

Alex Browning

• Blessed with Suck
• The Hero
• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: And offscreen.

Clear Rivers

• Broken Bird
• Deceased Parents Are the Best: Her father.
• Final Girl: Of the original group, but not in the second movie.
• The Lancer: In the second movie.
• Shoo the Dog

Carter Horton

• Jerk Jock
• Tempting Fate
• Took a Level In Kindness: In the last part of the movie.

Valerie Lewton

• Cruel and Unusual Death / Rasputinian Death: Easily the most complicated, gruesome and longest deaths ever. The poor girl.
• Survivor Guilt

Billy Hitchcock

• Died Standing Up
• The Fool
• Off with His Head: Just the top half.

Terry Chaney

• Look Both Ways

Tod Waggner

• Driven to Suicide: What his death looks like, but actually he was trying to move on.
• Failed a Spot Check: The blue water on the bathroom floor would have been quite easy to spot.
• Meaningful Name: "Tod" means "death" in German.

Final Destination 2

Kimberly Corman

• Blessed with Suck
• Daddy's Girl: Though not very explored, it's obvious that she has a strong bond with her father.
• Final Girl
• The Heroine
• Prophetic Fallacy: She didn't foresee that Isabella wasn't supposed to die in the accident.

Eugene Dix

• Agent Scully: Until Nora's death.
• Black Dude Dies First: Averted.
• Token Minority

Rory Peters

• Half the Man He Used To Be
• Plucky Comic Relief
• Porn Stash: He asks Kimberly to hide it if he dies, along with the stuff that would "break his mother's heart".

Kat Jennings

• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Just some moments after expressing actual concern for her companions of misfortune.
• Must Have Nicotine
• Nervous Wreck: She's already really nervous before the accident, but she becomes even worse after Nora's death.

Nora Carpenter

• Good Mom
• Not Afraid to Die: After Tim's death.

Tim Carpenter

• Death by Looking Up
• Too Dumb to Live: The first thing he does when he sees someone telling him to stay away from pigeons is to jump straight into a flock of pigeons, causing them to spook a machine operator and drop a huge pane of glass on him. What the hell were you thinking, Tim?
• Squashed Flat

Isabella Hudson

• Pregnant Badass
• Red Herring: She wouldn't have died in the car accident, so she never was on Death's list.

Evan Lewis

• Eye Scream
• Jerkass

Final Destination 3

Wendy Christensen

• Blood-Splattered Innocents: Happens with Frankie and Lewis's death.
• Control Freak: By her own admission.
• Final Girl
• The Heroine

Kevin Fischer

• Blood-Splattered Innocents
• The Lancer

Ian McKinley

• Agent Scully: Until Erin's death.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Half the Man He Used To Be
• Sanity Slippage
• The Smart Guy: He's interested in physics.

Erin Ulmer

• Agent Scully
• Fiery Redhead
• Human Pincushion: She's killed by nails shot through her head.
• Perky Goth

Lewis Romero

• Angry Black Man
• Asshole Victim
• Dumb Muscle
• Jerk Jock
• Your Head Asplode: Crushed between a pair of weights, like a melon.

Ashley Freund and Ashlyn Halperin

• The Ditz: Two of 'em.
• Kill It with Fire: They both die when their tanning beds malfunction and they are burned alive.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Despite being characterized as the typical popular girls, they behave friendly towards Wendy, and in their funeral, Ian mentions how they had never done anything bad to anybody.
• Meaningful Name: Both have names starting with "Ash".
• Ms. Fanservice: Oh my yes. Check out their trip to the tanning salon. Until they are immolated.

Frankie Cheeks

• Asshole Victim
• Camera Fiend
• Casanova Wannabe
• Deadly Rotary Fan: The spinning blades from a rotary fan utterly destroy his head.
• Stalker with a Crush: To Ashley and Ashlyn.

The Final Destination

Janet Cunningham

• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice

Carter Daniels

• The Alcoholic
• Asshole Victim
• Death by Racism
• Jerkass
• Man On Fire: Becomes soaked in gasoline, which is ignited by a chain being dragged down the street.

Andy Kewzer

• The Danza
• Jerkass: Initially.
• Took a Level In Kindness: Shame it doesn't last long.
• Torso with a View: Is crushed into a metal fence so violently that most of him is forced through the gaps in it.

Samantha Lane

• Eye Scream: A rock is shot into her eye by a lawnmower.
• Hot Mom: To the point of even being credited as "MILF".

George Lanter

• The Alcoholic: Formerly.
• Call Back: Dies the same way as Terry Chaney in the first film. Remember kids, Look Both Ways before you cross.
• Dark and Troubled Past: His wife and daughter died due to him driving drunk.
• Driven to Suicide: All his attempts comically fail.
• Nice Guy

Lori Milligan

• Green Eyed Red Head
• Neck Snap: Her head is twisted around by the truck.
• Ludicrous Gibs: In one premonition, she is sucked into some exposed gears and mangled. There isn't really much left of her afterwards.

Nick O'Bannon

• Heroes Want Redheads
• Teeth Flying: He loses several when he's slammed into a wall by the truck.

Hunt Wynorski

• Asshole Victim
• Death by Sex: Even Lampshaded.
• The Friend Nobody Likes
• Gutted Like a Fish: His guts are ripped out... through his ass.
• Jerkass
• Number One Dime: His coin.
• Preppy Name
• Shirtless Scene

Final Destination 5

Agent Jim Block

• In the Back
• Killed Mid-Sentence

Olivia Castle

• Eye Scream
• Hope Spot: After getting out of the laser machine, she is frazzled, distressed and blinded in one eye but otherwise alright. And then she trips up, falls through a window and falls to her death.

Peter Friedkin

• Face Heel Turn
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
• Sanity Slippage: After Candice's death.

Molly Harper

• Half The Woman She Used To Be

Candice Hooper

• Red Herring: All the scene leading up to her death.
• Sickening Crunch: When she finally goes, you hear it. Squick.

Dennis Lapman

• Wrench Whack: How he dies.

Sam Lawton

• The Hero
• Kill It with Fire

Isaac Palmer

• Your Head Asplode: Crushed under a Buddha ornament.

Nathan Seers

• Black Best Friend
• Black Dude Dies First: Inverted. He dies last.
• Squashed Flat