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Wild Mass Guesses about Final Destination include:

Every single event is a mental projection by Clear Rivers, who is in a psychiatric hospital the entire time after being unable to cope with the death of her boyfriend, being shown in order of her own imagined system of death that does not actually exist, and her own "death" ironically being in a hospital is a result of her own psychotic depression and delusional disorder combined with the death of her boyfriend. Everything shown, including the events leading up to the freak occurrence of her boyfriend's death, is nothing more than her way of making sense of things with an imaginary system, always with new details to fill in the gaps, so she can cope with her own despair.

Look at all the less-than-subtle odd references to her in every film. They're all over the place, most notably the "Clear Rivers" signs, and how so many places are, coincidentally, named "Clear Rivers". The constant occurrences could potentially mean everything is made up by Clear after she fails to cope with the death of her boyfriend—a chance happening—including her own death, which is what happens in Final Destination 2 as a result of leaving the institution while trying to save others, but is only her depression manifesting as a metaphor of her own death in even trying to accept the reality of it, which she is not mentally willing to do. In her attempt to "save" herself, she only causes the deaths of others, all of which die along with her. The ultimate Downer Ending and her own death in Final Destination 2 is her own conclusion that everything is completely hopeless regardless of her actions, so she chooses to hide inside herself, the only place where things can make any sense. The Final Destination prominently displays a place called "Clear Rivers", right by the site of where another death occurs. At the beginning of the second film, we see her in a psychiatric hospital, who is said to have voluntarily checked in to protect herself from Death, but is killed as a result of leaving the psychiatric hospital—ironically, in a futile attempt to prevent the deaths of others, along with herself and everything she's ever cared for. In other words, Death is just her own way of assigning blame for an accident that caused the death of her boyfriend. Clearly in a Despair Event Horizon after her boyfriend dies in Final Destination (and explained later in Final Destination 2), she makes sense of her own inner world and circumstances by inventing the system of Death and how it works, which is only a way for her to make sense of the death of her boyfriend by giving Death a sensible and logical "system" to which she consistently makes up new details with every story—a way to explain things which is only a single coincidence of her boyfriend's completely random and senseless death. She creates an entire imaginary timeline, with their own characters and added details and systems from film to film, filling in all the gaps in her own mind, with Final Destination 5 adding context she, herself, needs, in order for everything she has already created in the previous films to make sense. That's why it's a prequel: Clear needs the previous films, or stories in her mind, to make rational sense, at least to her.

Unable to cope with her boyfriend's death being nothing more than an accident, Death becomes her way of coping with the randomness of it and rationalizing it, with which she can't come to terms.

All the events of the Final Destination series were really caused by a lot of coincidences.

Those who got premonitions had panic attacks/mental breakdowns and it was simply chance that what they were worried about happening actually happened. All subsequent deaths were freak accidents.

Hey, it's not impossible.

Death's Visions

In Final Destination 5 there are still survivors alive when the vision ends. Since they didn't really die in the original accident proper they wouldn't have died if the protagonist hadn't intervened. In cases such as 4 and possibly 3 where they all needed to die elsewhere Death needs to send a false first vision. 1 is a unique case because none of the main characters were supposed to die somewhere else, Death was in fact counting on Molly and Sam to leave, since it wasn't there time yet with Sam having Block's life span and Molly not having gone to Paris if it weren't for Sam. Since they didn't escape Death had to deal with the events of 1 and 2. Finally it got back on track at the end of 4.

Death's abilities...

Are the same kind as the ones seen in Ghost Trick. Why else would Death have to work such convoluted death sequences? In the endi of Ghost Trick, it's revealed that having a time limit before you officially die was just a ruse, so don't get me there.

The visions come from that fate actually happening, but Death goes back in time 4 minutes and averts it, wanting to kill them in a certain way. Or perhaps he/she wants to kill them him/herself, for revenge.

The cause of all the horrible visions and deaths in Final Destination is Bernkastel.

Admit it, you know she'd do this.

The Grim Reaper is a sadistic bastard who is purposely giving the heroes visions of their upcoming deaths to ensure they and whoever they can save will die in more creative ways for his amusement.

How else are you going to explain why the protagonists get the visions in the first place? Then again...

Pretty much confirmed in ~~Final Destination 4~~ THE Final Destination.
- And then retconned in Final Destination 5.
- Final Destination 5 is a prequel, so probably not.
  - Yeah, they did. It's 100% established the characters cheat death and that they can beat it by killing someone else and taking their life. So no, the retcon is true. (That said, you could argue the vision in TFD was sent by death, but FDS 1, 2, 3, and 5 all featured protagonists who 100% cheated death)

Someone is giving the protagonists visions, but The Grim Reaper has no idea who.

Not only does it explain the visions - without something like this, there's no logical reason for both the visions and Death attempting to kill them - but it also explains why Grimmy can prevent some characters from taking their own life (in the second movie, one tries to kill themself with a fully-loaded gun, and it misfires every single time) but not others (like the protagonists' "dying" from lethal injection to be taken off Death's list).

The Grim Reaper should have infinite patience. Everybody will end up his guest eventually.
- Doesn't Death need people to die in the right order? Doesn't that mean that NOBODY should be able to die until Death finishes off the ones that get away? You'd think somebody might have mentioned if there hadn't been a single death between the first and second movies. Even if we limit it to the same incident, shouldn't even people who stayed in the initial death trap get away because those who were supposed to be killed in the middle of it aren't, which would screw up the order for everyone else?
Perhaps there's more than one Death, like in Dead Like Me or Discworld; the Death stalking this lot just happens to be the Death of Amazing Freak Accidents That Defy Audience Belief. There have been at least a couple Absurdly Overpowered Fireballs, haven't there?
- If so, more people should be coming back. He's bad at pirate slang. And the Disc has only three Deaths.
If whatever is giving the protagonists their visions is somehow opposed to the Reaper, then it sucks at its job; all its interference does is get its chosen ones killed in even more fantastically brutal ways.
- Perhaps it's Death playing a game of metaphysical Mouse Trap with God. God keeps trying to stop the mice (the humans) getting killed in Death's mousetrap (the elaborate deaths), but God just sucks at Mousetrap.
  - Hey, man, Mousetrap is hard.
- Unless it takes advantage of the disruption in ways we can't perceive or simply aren't informed of. This other entity doesn't necessarily care about saving people; it may just be using them to further its own supernatural ends.
  - Jossed. In the fourth movie, it's been revealed that Death's been giving them the visions all along.

The Grim Reaper and the source of the visions are the two warring entities from Tru Calling.

Final Destination shows a later stage of the conflict, when they've stopped using Jason Priestly and Eliza Dushku as proxies and are fighting more directly.

In the Final Destination series, Death's place has been usurped by the Anti-Christ.

That's right: Damien Thorne. Think about it: his M.O. is identical.

Not likely: he died in part 3.

The events of the film are the direct result of someone in America who has found a little black book.

Furthermore, he's a fan of gory movies, so he clearly wants to see how much he can get away with. Those visions were clearly exactly as planned.

The reason that all the victims previously escaped fatal accidents: The first time was either a case of psychic ability or a fluke. They then get mentioned on the news; the book wielder, who also possesses an extremely warped sense of humour, decides to use them as his next victims. He has so much fun doing so that the subsequent accidents are engineered by the note wielder via the simple method of writing things along the lines of 'X dies from Y, having previously escaped Z'. Whoever has the black book in question is a very sick puppy and might be someone who knows the victims, which would explain why he's so fond of this particular routine - that is, he finds the panicking entertaining in some way. (While one little black notebook ended up in the hands of someone who possesses some standards, twisted though they may be, this one ended-up in the possession of a total headcase.)
Alternatively, the visions were unrelated to the notebook in question. But its owner has been using it for so long that they've developed a death god-complex and have taken the idea of a group of people escaping death as a personal challenge or affront, which they respond to by trying to inflict maximum terror on their victims before killing them.

Most of the events of the films are caused by a Kira who went to the high school in the first movie.

He targeted his bullies on the plane. The survivors are all people whose names he didn't write down; he took the idea that that incident was survivable as a personal affront, and so went sadistic on the survivors. Each subsequent movie's initial "accidents" originally targeted, and killed, specific people whom he hated; he only went after the survivors afterwards.

The Grim Reaper is the Master Hand.

Think about it.

FOX ONLY! NO ITEMS!!
Alternatively, the Grim Reaper is supposed to represent competitive elitists; the kids represent casuals. The kids escaping death alludes to them being able to create their own style of play, while their dying at the hands of the Grim Reaper alludes to elitists always attempting to get casuals to conform to their style of play.
- Off topic, but this is usually the other way around, believe it or not.
- Nah, Death uses way too many items in his kills to be a Smash elitist.
Death was playing with some fellow human opponents, and one of them had the nerve to turn items on and pick Hyrule Temple. He came to the conclusion that Humans Are ~~Bastards~~ Scrubs and has set out to kill Scrubs as a warning to those who dare to have fun in video games.

The Grim Reaper is deliberately giving out the visions of death so that he can set up the Ultimate Kill.

Think about it: every time he gives someone a vision of their own death and they evade it, the Grim Reaper can set up an even more fantastic death, constantly one-upping himself. He's simply repeating this pattern over and over to hone his abilities; the final kill he sets up in this manner will be so awesome, even Kamina will have to look at it and say, "Damn, that is AWESOME!".

Maybe he's bored, and (unlike Discworld's Death) there's no-one he likes enough to make watching lives worthwhile; exploiting loopholes to allow cooler deaths is his only form of amusement.

Coroner Bludworth is Death personified.

Think about it. He knows exactly how death works, and he gives the kids hints to figure out where to go next; but he is never specific enough to help them directly without their having to decipher his comments. This is because, as Death, he toys with his victims, making them think they have a chance to survive. Also, his name can be looked at as a corruption of "worthy of blood." Rather ominous name...Plus, he's played by Tony Todd. That helps a lot.

You mean this isn't canonically true? Bludworth is CREEPY.
Also, his line "I'll see you soon" is a hint. Sure, since he's a coroner and knows the score thus far, it could be excused as a case of morbid humor; but it makes you wonder.
This troper has always thought this.
Jossed. Craig Perry has confirmed that William Bludworth is not Death.

The kids are all descendants of the Belmont family; hence, Death is after them.

Because this isn't 1691 or 1476, the kids don't have access to awesome Holy Water.

So, Hsu and Chan have Death after them from killing Dracula? That explains EGM and 1up.
- Uh, could you please explain EGM and 1up?

Death has a gore and Rube Goldberg contraption fetish.

The dude is likely moving stuff around with one hand and holding a box of tissues by the other.

There is no more Clear Rivers, and everyone is an immortal

The upcoming movie is a reboot, but there was no continuity in the previous movies. The only things linking them together were Clear Rivers and the concept of Death. Since the Retroactive Canon must erase something, that means both of those things got erased. That means:

Clear Rivers has been wiped out from existance
There is no more Death. Nobody ever dies. Everyone is now an immortal.

Exactly how this affects the plot of the reboot is uncertain.

None of the movies have been reboots.

The visions are people time-travelling to the past just before their death.

It's Mental Time Travel, natch.

Final Destination happen in the Dead Like Me universe

In Dead Like Me, when a reaper prevent the death of someone on his list, the Gravelings get angry and cause all sort of painful accidents to the reaper. In Final Destination, the deaths are prevented by the 'dead to be' themselves, and so they are the ones the Gravelings blame. Since mortals don't have a Healing Factor, the accidents are far more dangerous to them than they are to the reapers.

In addition, the visionaries become reapers after their deaths.

If you were a reaper, wouldn't precognition and sign seeing be a useful tool for your trade?

Death is a Mage.

Hey, even Nephandi need a vacation sometime, and that Qlippothic Entropy Sphere is just sitting there...

Death isn't The Grim Reaper, but an Eldritch Abomination

He either can't directly kill everyone and has to follow a strange set of rules, or he's bored and is causing disasters. When the disasters are stopped by visions (perhaps caused by latent psychic powers), he becomes interested in the people who escaped and decides to use them as part of a game of Disaster Dominoes. If he ever meets someone who manages to make it impossible to set up a fun chain of events, then he'll just give them an aneurysm or heart attack and move on.

Death's "true form" in one of the spin-off books kinda supports this.

The cast is already at their Final Destination.

In other words, they're all dead and being tortured for various sins. The ones 'blessed' with visions are the worst of the lot, but they don't remember their past lives any more than anyone else. They think they can escape their fate and help others in the process, but...

Death isn't a malevolent entity; the people having visions are causing everything.

In the Crapsack World of Final Destination, discovering you're 'special' is a very bad thing. Their society exposes them to so much death, destruction, and tragedy that any potential Reality Warpers/espers have developed a potent fear of death. When their powers awaken, they envision a worst-case scenario of how something as simple as riding a plane or a roller coaster could Go Horribly Wrong—and cause it to happen.

Thanks to their awakening power, they sense that it's about to happen and, understandably, panic. But everybody dies someday; that's unavoidable. Aware of this, they subconsciously influence their environment and cause things to 'correct' themselves.

Thus, they become Tragic Heroes of the worst sort—completely unaware that they're the cause of all the carnage until they wind up taking themselves out with their own powers. They're fighting a losing battle, but not the one they think they are. And since everyone with these abilities winds up killing themselves before realizing the truth and learning to rein in their powers, the Vicious Cycle continues unabated.

Or, the visions of the future are exactly what they look like and instead of being Reality Warpers, the people who get the visions are just subconsciously able to see the future and are subtly influencing events to cause the deaths that they prevented. If you intuitively know the consequences of every action before you take it, you can cause anything that could happen to happen. If you delay someone from crossing the street for just exactly the right amount of time, you can cause that person to get hit by a bus, and that's just the least subtle of ways to cause death. The sudden brush with death in the beginning of each movie just causes enough shock and morbid thinking to get the character with the visions to start subconsciously killing people.

Death is Rube Goldberg.

No evidence necessary. Watch ten minutes of any of the films.

Kira got REALLY bored.

This is what he does on a rainy day to screw with people.

The Death in this series is the replacement Death from the climax of Reaper Man.

Discworld fans may recall that one of Death's Berserk Buttons regarding the Auditor-nominated replacement was that Death 2.0 wanted to rule over humanity.

Death: A crown? I never wore a crown!
Death 2.0: You never wanted to rule.

This may have been more than professional pride - Death could perceive something Very Wrong with his replacement, and knew he needed to act quickly to prevent disaster on a cosmic scale. So, after Death throws down and gets his replacement oustered, the Auditors get the scolding of an eternity from Azrael and vanish. Where did they and their kingly nominee go? To the Destination-verse. But, after entering a world that was less dependent on magic and narrativium, their Death slipped his leash. In reality, the replacement Death was badly made and therefore insane, and the Auditors only discovered this too late - and imagine their horror upon seeing the chaos he sowed. The events of the movies are the result of the rogue Death messing up The Plan and the Auditors trying to clean things up.

Death is actually The Hero of the story

The villains are actually the humans that receive premonitions and try to avoid death, thereby disrupting the order of life and death, and we're supposed to cheer on how Death always gets his job done and preserve the balance. And Death is usually a Boring Invincible Hero, since nobody can touch or avoid him. And he always wins.

- Everyone has to die some day.

The Grim Reaper changes every movie

Or to elaborate, The Grim Reaper is really a person who has premonotions during the course of the Reaper's Game. (No, not THAT one) When said person dies, he/she replaces the previous reaper and begins to start his/her own Reaper's Game by giving another person premonotions, killing people in complicated ways, and so forth.

In other words: Who ever has the premontion powers in a Final Destination movie will become the Grim Reaper in the next. Alex Browning was the Reaper for FD 2, Kimberly was the Reaper for FD 3, Wendy was the Reaper for FD 4/TFD, and Nick will be the next Reaper for (Hopfully) FD 5. Although, it might be weird explaining how Alex and Kimberly become reapers in the first place do to them living. But someone might add to this thoery and make it make more sense.

- Actually, both of them died by the next respective movie. It's stated that Alex died in between 1 and 2 by... getting hit by a falling brick. Kimberly and the other survivor were sucked into a wood chipper in between 2 and 3. So this theory doesen't work.
  - Who says that they have to be still alive to become the new death? In fact it would make more sense for them to become the new death after they themselves have died.

Ryuk is Death.

During his time with Light Ryuk not only picked up Light's knack for gambits, but also Light's hatred of losing. After Light died Ryuk got really bored until one day he discovered a loophole in the shinigami rules that would allow him to indirectly kill humans without the Death Note free of consequence. The rest is history.

Final Destination 's Death caused the Titanic disaster.

If you really study the whys and wherefores of the Titanic disaster, it becomes clear that there were dozens of minor things eversoslightly not quite ideal with the design and the voyage:

The rivets on the bow of the ship were made of iron rather than the much stronger steel due to the inability of the riveting machine to deal with curves.
The compartments in the belly of the ship were not quite up to the ceiling as they should have been.
The planned route would have taken them much further south, allowing them to completely avoid any risk of icebergery.
Had the ship been travelling at a more sensible speed, they would have been able to avoid icebergery even on the new route.
The Titanic 's radioman cursed out the radioman of the California (the nearest ship at the time of impact) for sending iceberg warnings while he (Titanic 's guy) was trying to send out his own messages, leading California 's guy to shut off his radio and go to bed, leaving them unable to receive Titanic 's S.O.S.
There weren't nearly enough lifeboats because investors were concerned that they would mess up the "look" of the ship.
The night of the sinking was the night before the new moon, giving very little moonlight to help see the iceberg.
There was virtually no wind the night of the sinking, making the iceberg harder to see without breaking water.
There were no binoculars anywhere on the ship.

If any one of these had been different, it is quite likely that either the ship would have gotten to the States completely unscathed, or else not nearly as many people would have died in the disaster. Instead, over a thousand people drowned or died of hypothermia in the resulting Disaster Dominoes. The route change and the push for more speed caused them to encounter and fail to avoid an iceberg, which punctured the hull, causing water to rush in and over the incomplete compartment walls, causing the iron rivets to give way, causing the whole thing to ultimately fold in on itself while they tried in vain to raise the only ship within range to evacuate to, and half the passengers were left SOL when many of the (already inadequate number of) lifeboats were launched to safety only partially filled. While I don't generally invoke Diabolus Ex Machina in Real Life...

Problem with this one: Death doesn't seem to be able to manipulate people's conscious decisions in the films, else the characters could just be made to walk directly into traffic or whatever, and Clear couldn't have decided to lock herself away from danger. All the factors you mention except the weather conditions were a result of human bad judgement, not the kind of unthinking carelessness or one-in-a-million mechanical glitches that the films' Death is into.

Final Destination is actually a video game series along the lines of Deception.

'Death' is the player, whose goal is to kill NPCs in the most over-the-top fashion possible (the more complex the death, the more points gained from it).

Death gave the kids a second chance at life, all they have to do is survive.

Kind of like Gantz, wherein Death is Mr. Dudeball. Death saved the kids, either to fight aliens (probably what's really killling them) or was just kind and wanted to give them a second chance (and this one splits: he either kills them to to test their will to live, or is striking down those he feels are not deserving of his gift.)

- If the latter... My God...

It is true that only "new life" can stop Death. The people in the films just didn't understand what "new life" meant.

C'mon. You know what I mean. They had a choice to Mate or Die. They chose the wrong answer.

Original Troper returning from FD wiki: seems it was in an alternate ending. Does it mean this WMG is canonical?

It is true that only "new life" can stop Death. But what they meant was a life added to death's list

If a person saved by someone who is on death's list is also put on that list, a person who is on the list can save themselves by killing someone who is meant to live (not on the list). Death's books must be balanced, after all! Hopefully they'll realize it at the end of the fifth movie.

That's rumored to be the driving twist of the 5th movie.
- And that rumour was correct! Confirmed as of movie five.

William Bludworth isn't death himself, but an envoy of death

His ominous behavior towards the survivors of the accidents and the hints that he gives them seem imply this, as well as his line "See you soon" It also seems like in the trailer for the 5th movie he is everywhere that death is happening to the characters.

Bludworth will die in Final Destination 5.

In the trailer, there's a shot of someone walking towards him while holding a knife. In connection with the above WMG, Bludworth will reveal to that someone that he is Death's Messanger. After a brief conversation, the person will then stab and kill him. You heard it here first, people.

Nope. Like the first and second films, Bludworth only pops up in a couple scenes. After that, he just disappears, but he's still alive and well.

Pigeons work for death

Because they've managed to involve themselves in a good three deaths so far: Tim's in 2, Erin's in 3 and Janet's almost-death in 4.

Death just wants attention.

Death sends the premonitions that save them because he wants them to praise him for giving them a second chance, but they all give credit to the guy having the premonition or completely ignore it, so Death starts killing them in horrible ways as a sort of childish rage. Likewise they may get killed off because big brother Life makes Death kill off the people he saved because he doesn't want to deal with the extra lives that Death put on his plate. Of course this is a complete crack theory spurred by horror movies and sugar, so it shouldn't be taken seriously.

Bludworth was one of the first to have precog powers, but became a ghost after Death came for him.

It makes sense since how Bludworth would know more then the characters? Because he lived through the stuff he'd went through and survived either by cheating Death or giving another life, but later on after his precog events, he died from Death and lives as a ghost, appearing to those who are next in line.

The Scary Black Man Is death

He appears in every movie!

Almost. His voice is heard at the end of Final Destination 3, and he is not in The Final Destination.

Final Destination 5 is a prequel

This is a bit of a stretch here, as this is being concocted after watching the available trailers. There are no mentions of the previous disasters, at all. This can also explain how Bludworth knows just so damn much about how Death works in later movies, due to him experiencing it firsthand previously.

Also, the ending has been rumored to tie in with Final Destination The last two survivors are supposed to die on Flight 180, the disaster from Final Destination. Also, if this happens to correct, The Final Destination would be canonically the last movie of the series.

Confirmed. At the end of the movie, the two remaining survivors (Sam and Molly) board Flight 180, and witness Alex Browning and Carter Horton fighting before being thrown off the plane with the survivors of the FD 1 cast. When the plane blows up, Molly gets sucked out of the plane and bisected by the plane's wing while Sam burns to death.

Final Destination 3 and 4 take place in the Happy Tree Friends universe.

The deaths are nearly pointless and comedically over-the-top, and everyone just seems to come apart too easily for it to be otherwise.

The main "heroes" of the story are actually Kishin whom Death must destroy before they spread Madness.

Because, hey, why else would they be able to cheat death in the first place?

Kira got really really drunk one night and the events of the film were the result of him writing their names while on a bender.

Well, it all started that night L got Light really drunk at the karaoke bar in the hope of getting him to confess to being Kira. Gorn and hilarity ensued.

Death perceives humanity as being disrespectful of the idea of living.

Death was once a normal god, doing its duty of collecting souls ready to pass on. But, as centuries pass, it sees how humanity treats themselves through war. Bit by bit, this irks on his nerves, that people want to shorten their already short (by an immortal god's standards, anyway) lifespans. So, Death begins giving humanity what it believes humanity wants - short lives and brutal demises. Things began small, simple accidents here and there. But, a dark, cruel streak is born in the god, and the deaths slowly grow more and more brutal and sadistic as time goes on. But, despite all well-intentioned efforts, man's reverence for their own lives becomes less and less apparent. Feeling as though the world spurns the idea of Death and what it does, the maddened god goes to further lengths, setting up the figurative chess board for mass accidents. For a time, this worked. Then, somehow, people got these mysterious visions, and a few manage to escape - like Flight 180 and the other movies. This pisses Death off immensely, how dare these humans stand up to him! So, he goes after the survivors, to ensure those that meet him know he exists, and will always be there waiting.

- In that logic, other gods involved in this Universe would be the ones giving the humans visions. Think about it, this figurative Chess Board, needs two players. The second player would be another god equal too, but the opposite of death. Whom believes no matter what humans deserve a chance at life. These two are probably buddies, they can't kill each other because of their duties and their immortality. The Life God proposes that the humans deserve a chance at life. Though Death disagrees he is intrigued, and makes the game. The rules are simple. No direct contact on both sides. (Hence why death is never seen in the movie. As well as the deaths being domino style.) They would also have a referee (Bludworth) who is allowed to help but only in riddles. The Ref agrees and to insure that nothing happens to him he is granted eternal life. Natural life and death (babies being born and old people on death beds) still apply do to their duties. However each game has to begin with a major disaster. Death has it set up in order to make the disaster. The Life God draws a random name to pick as its visionary and the game begins.

William Bludworth knows so much about Death because he's the only survivor of a Flight 180 styled accident. Period.

Bludworth, the Coroner, knows the secret to actually living through one of these tragedies. He's seen these things before. He sticks around for the first few shown accidents before eventually disappearing entirely. When bringing up the fact he has experienced this he gets a look in his face of almost pure fear, or at least as much as Tony Todd can do. It just seems to be that he's the only person to have survived as long as he has. Obsessed with Death, he works in a job allowing him to be that close to it, so he can keep an eye on it and help others. Now, having the ability and funds to cover up certain situations to lead to this kind of lifestyle would be hard to do on a county labor salary, so he gets second and third jobs as a barker for a carnival and as a conductor for the metro. All in all, he's always there when these things happen, because he can see them coming before anyone else; he's dealt with Death for so long he's beginning to know more about the entity than it knows itself. Now the tables have turned. Sadly, he can't seem to even get his point across to anyone no matter how many times he explains it to them, and finally gives up after the deaths of Amber, Wendy, and Kevin. Moving on with his life, he lets death take him, hence why he has no involvement with the McKinley Speedway tragedy. With no one to help the survivors, the secret to immortality is lost forever, and Death wins ultimately having killed everyone ever involved, possibly once and for all ending the chain.

Some other events that were likely a Final Destination style disaster, or caused by one

World War I resulted in massive casualties all across the globe, and directly lead to even more gore and death in World War II, and was all started by a suspiciously narrowly successful assassination attempt in which every single thing that could have gone wrong did, yet the attempt succeeded.
The Silver Bridge collapse in The Film of the Book of The Mothman Prophecies. Possibly in reality as well.
- Which bodes ill for Connie, Victim #37. Perhaps Indrid Cold is the one giving the visions?

Death Is Actually A Really Nice Guy

There is no fate. Death is just someone who kills people who deserve it. The people who he killed were all going to live really crappy lives/cause the deaths or misery of others, so he killed them for the greater good.
- Alternatively, Death was just doing it's job killing people when they were supposed to. You know, like Real Life

Bludworth is a relative of a man named Richard Hallorann and death is an Eldritch Abomination, who was roosted from a town called Derry

Death itself is just a natural phenomena, but there is something out there setting up The Plan so that It can feed off of the death and fear It creates. Bludworth, and all of the precognitive characters, have "The Shine" which causes them to see that they may die. This Psychic energy draws It to the survivors, and It kills them off, feeding. Bludworth has survived multiple encounters with It because his family has encountered It, and because all of the Halloranns/Bludworths are so damned meta.

Death is...

Here are the candidates:

The characters are caught in a game of I Wanna Be the Guy.

Some of the deaths, you can almost hear the "Press R To Try Again" theme.

Everything is a result of two entities playing cosmic Xanatos Speed Chess.

Entity 1 sets up the disasters. Entity 2 gives the visions. Entity 1 sets up counter-disasters. Entity 2 sets up counter-visions. And round and round it goes.

Death is actually a nice guy. It's Fate that's being an ass.

Death is doing his job. He has nothing against any of the people involved, and as an outside observer, he finds is fascinating how creative people can get about their own survival if you give them little hints about what's going to happen. Fate thinks this is cheating and has a tantrum, but he can't exactly take his toys and go home, so he's teaching Death a lesson about not getting too close to the mortals.

Meanwhile, Death plays poker with William Bludworth on Fridays.

The Final Destination Franchise takes place in a form of hell based on Vancouver and some other bits of the world

Death, in fact grew up in Vancouver BC and always remembers his chilhood there. Ergo, he decided to put all the people who have pissed him off into his personal twisted version of Vancouver as a form of hell. To screw around with his little...pets...he decides to rename various bits into other names (ie Vancouver International Airport becomes "JFK Airprot", the "Corkscrew" is renamed "Death's Flight" and Lion's Gate Bridge is now "North Bay Bridge". When the miserable souls die, their minds get wiped and their souls are forced into a time loop by going back to their birth in this world.

This is all leading to the Apocalypse

Notice how in almost every single movie, there are loose ends that need tied up? The visions are being planted by some kind of Anti-Christ in order to bring about the End of Days. Death, furious that it seems these mere mortals have thwarted its plan, begins killing them all. Unfortunately, their very existence is bringing the world down around their ears. Just by existing, they change the outcome of things, by way of the Butterfly Effect. Death is trying his very best to keep the natural order of things. People have to die when they have to, otherwise things just get screwy. Death is just doing its job. But, like dominoes, things are starting to spiral out of control. Death, obviously not all powerful-

(Or everyone would just drop dead when they failed to die appropriately ((So what if a ton of people drop dead of heart attacks after narrowly averting death in a terrible car accident, or plane crash? The people died, and there is nothing that can say it was anything but a heart attack. What are they gonna do, arrest Death?)))

-, cannot just rewrite an entire plan that has spanned billions of years on a whim. Rather shortsightedly, Death is just killing people who are effected by the premonitions. Remember the butterfly effect? Everyone will eventually be effected by the premonitions. It's all just a matter of wiether or not it happens prior to 2012.

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