Awesome / Final Destination

• The first movie, 2, and 4 all have some cool, albeit brief, scenes of characters who believe in the impending disaster working to eliminate all of the dangerous objects in the rooms that they're in to elude Death (putting tape around scissors, etc.)
• In 2, Clear has managed to escape from Death for an entire year and gets some impressive Action Survivor moments. This is best shown with the nonchalant way that she dodges a falling canoe at the culmination of a Rube Goldberg Device and then says "Should've seen that coming."
• Three moments in 3 stand out (although the first is only in an alternate version present in a Story Branching bonus feature on the DVD).
  • Ashlyn manages to escape from her burning tanning bed and saves Ashley from hers before the two girls get electrocuted anyway.
  • In Wendy's vision, Lewis manages to hang onto the edge of the moving roller coaster for a while after being knocked out of his seat, and Kevin nearly pulls him back inside.
  • When Julie is simultaneously being dragged behind a horse and hanged (the rope is around her neck), Kevin grabs a sword that's being used as a fair prop and cuts the rope as the horse passes him, saving Julie.
• 4 has a couple of moments, despite its Sequelitis status.
  • Lori and George's Big Damn Heroes moment at the car wash. Once Janet's neck is stuck in the malfunctioning sunroof, George drives his car into Janet's car so it won't keep taking her closer to death. Lori then climbs onto the roof of her car and manages to get Janet out before she can be killed by a falling pipe.
  • Nick manages to stop a fire from destroying the movie theater while one of his arms is nailed to the wall. Granted, that was part of Death's plan all along, but it's still surprisingly impressive for a character who most people view as The Scrappy.
  • One Deleted Scene has Janet testing whether Death is still after the group by walking across a busy intersection without looking,
• The bridge disaster in 5 not only has some Visual Effects of Awesome, but also has the victims in Sam's vision make pretty game efforts to survive the disaster.
  • With a little prompting from Sam, Molly manages to make it over the collapsed section of the bridge by walking along a narrow support beam, making her the only significant character not to die in the vision of the disaster. Then, rather than go next himself, Sam helps Olivia (who's lost her glasses) get onto the beam while giving her directions and reassurances (although she fails to make it across). In a Deleted Scene, Sam also helps two extras get across between Molly and Olivia. Molly also gets points for remaining on the unstable bridge to try and help Olivia and Sam rather than running to safety.
  • While Soft Water physics might be at play, Olivia deserves some credit for managing to hit the water in the right position to survive the extremely long fall. She is poised to swim to safety, before a car falls off the bridge and lands right on top of her.
  • As the section of the bridge that they're on collapses, Sam and Peter manage to leap to near-safety and grab a piece of railing dangling from the other side. If not for some falling debris, they would have survived without Sam's vision and never been on Death's list.
• The ending of Final Destination 5 - the revelation that Sam and Molly are on Flight 180 is ridiculously awesome.
  • The death montage covering the first four films shown after the end is also awesome for its use of AC/DC's "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)" and for showing Tony Todd as Bludworth in the last shot saying: "You all just be careful now"
• Any time you can see Death considering Clear a worthy opponent. She's so dangerous to his plans and has successfully escaped him at least eight times herself and saved Alex from seven more of Death's attempts on his life (six before he died and once that allowed Carter to save him at the cost of his own life) that she confines herself to an Asylum - not because she's insane, but because it forces Death into a stalemate. When Clear actively chooses to step back onto the chessboard and take the fight to him, Death has an "Oh, fuck" moment at her return and abandons its own list (it should be Nora who dies next, not Clear, who should be last on the list) to finish her off as quickly as possible - by attempting to have a kayak knock her out of a window into an electric box; none of its usual sneakiness, just sheer blunt force to finish her off. Clear, of course, knows that Death is coming for her and escapes with her reaction being less of a "I'm going to die" reaction and more of an "OK, so this is how we're doing it, is it?" reaction. And Death knows that she knows. And she knows that Death knows that she knows. Having briefly escaped, Death goes back to its list and, in the end, has to make her Death inescapable by blowing her up to finally, finally, finish her off.