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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--aboyfriend—a chance happening--includinghappening—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--ironicallyhospital—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--astory—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.

* Pretty much confirmed in <s>Final Destination 4</s> [[Spell My Name Withwith a "The"|THE]] [[Blatant Lies|Final Destination]].

[[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.

== The events of the film are the direct result of someone in America who has found [[Death Note (Manga)|a little black book]]. ==

* 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 [[Death Note (Manga)|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.)

== Most of the events of the films are caused by [[Death Note (Manga)|a Kira]] who went to the high school in the first movie. ==

== [[The Grim Reaper]] is the [[Super Smash Bros.|Master Hand.]] ==

* 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 Bastardsthe Real Monsters|Humans Are]] <s>Bastards</s> [[Scrub|Scrubs]]s and has set out to kill [[Scrub|Scrubs]]s as a warning to those who dare to have [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys|fun]] in video games.

* You mean this isn't [[Canon|canonicallycanon]]ically true? Bludworth is CREEPY.

== Death is a [[Mage: The Ascension (Tabletop Game)|Mage]]. ==

In other words, they're all dead and being tortured for various sins. The ones '[[Blessed Withwith Suck|blessed]]' with visions are the worst of the lot, but they [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|don't remember]] their past lives any more than anyone else. They ''think'' they can escape their fate and help others in the process, [[You Can't Fight Fate|but]]...

In the [[Crapsack World]] of ''[[Final Destination]]'', discovering you're 'special' [[Blessed Withwith Suck|is a]] ''[[Blessed Withwith Suck|very]]'' [[Blessed Withwith Suck|bad thing]]. Their society exposes them to so much [[Bloodier and Gorier|death, destruction, and tragedy]] that any potential [[Reality Warper|Reality Warpers]]s/espers have developed a ''potent'' [[Primal Fear|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—and [[Your Mind Makes It Real|cause it to happen]].

Thus, they become [[Tragic Hero|Tragic Heroes]]es of the worst sort -- completelysort—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 Warper|Reality Warpers]]s, 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 Note (Manga)|Kira]] got REALLY bored. ==

== The Death in this series is the replacement Death from the climax of ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]''. ==

[[Discworld]] fans may recall that one of Death's [[Berserk Button|berserk buttons]]s regarding the Auditor-nominated replacement was that Death 2.0 wanted to rule over humanity.

{{quote| '''Death:''' {{smallcaps|A ''crown''? I never wore a ''crown''!}} <br />

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 a 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.

Or to elaborate, The Grim Reaper is really a person who has premonotions during the course of the Reaper's Game. (No, not [[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|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.

During his time with Light Ryuk not only picked up Light's [[The Plan|knack for gambits]], but also Light's [[Pride|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 (Manga)|Death Note]] free of consequence. The rest is history.

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 compartments in the belly of the ship were ''not quite'' up to the ceiling as they should have been.

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 [[Canon|canonicalcanon]]ical?

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.

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

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 {{spoiler|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.

== [[Death Note (Manga)|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. ==

** 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.

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 [[Mc Kinley]]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: ==

* [[Death Note (Manga)|Light Yagami]].

Meanwhile, Death [[Chess Withwith Death|plays poker with William Bludworth]] on Fridays.

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?)))