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== 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--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.
 
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.
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** 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 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.
 
== [[The Grim Reaper]] is deliberately giving out the visions of death so that he can set up the Ultimate Kill. ==
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== 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 [[Canon|canonicallycanon]]ically 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.
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== Death isn't a malevolent entity; the people having visions are causing everything. ==
In the [[Crapsack World]] of ''[[Final Destination]]'', discovering you're 'special' [[Blessed with Suck|is a]] ''[[Blessed with Suck|very]]'' [[Blessed with 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]].
 
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 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 is Rube Goldberg. ==
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== 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 [[Canon|canonicalcanon]]ical?
 
== It is true that only "new life" can stop Death. But what they meant was a life added to death's list ==
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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 [[Disaster Dominoes|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.
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