Main Series: Recurring Characters | Final Destination | Final Destination 2 | Final Destination 3 | Final Destination 4 | Final Destination 5
Spinoffs: Dead Reckoning | Destination Zero | End of the Line | Dead Man's Hand | Looks Could Kill | Death of the Senses
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Daniel King
A Californian high-school graduate and Louise King's twin brother who saw the premonition of the train crash.
- The Hero Dies: Eventually meets his end when his motorcycle's brakes fail, causing him to be sent hurtling down a ravine.
Louise King
A Californian cross-country bike rider and Danny King's twin sister who joins him on his college trip to New York City.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Good job tampering with your brother's brakes on his motorcycle and sending him to his death, Louise.
- The Reveal: Louise became a servant for Death after Kate brought her back to life after accidentally killing her. She ends up inadvertently killing her brother.
James Barker
An English college student who is snobby and obnoxious.
- An Arm and a Leg: Loses his arm when Bodil tries to rescue him.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Chased out by hornets, has his arm ripped out from a speeding truck, flung to the department store and impaled by pointy umbrella. By then, James had already passed out from blood loss. Not that that's any less sadistic...
Bodil Raden
A Danish pot-head college student with a crush on James.
- Human Pincushion: Bodil Raden and James Barker are impaled by umbrellas, of all things.
- Out with a Bang: Goes right in hard on James... only for some umbrellas to off them both.
Mary-Beth Bradbury
An old lady who hosted the college trip. She had lost her baby after her former husband got her and himself involved in an accident.
- Chainsaw Good: Mary-Beth gets sliced apart by one that's haphazardly swinging from scaffolding.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Several years ago, her husband Tom lost his job and started drinking. One night, after drinking too much, Tom hit Mary-Beth with his pick-up truck as she was walking over to her brother's house. Tom quickly rushed her to the hospital, and he was forced to decide between saving his wife or his unborn child. He chose to save Mary-Beth, much to her horror. After she miscarried, Mary-Beth ended her marriage with Tom.
Jack Cohen
An old Jewish man who is about 100 years old.
- Death by Irony: Louise King goes over to Jack's apartment and explains to him Danny's theory on Death. Jack simply tells her that he's ready to go should his time come. After pulling out a fragment of his brain from a corkscrew, Jack quietly mutters he doesn't "want to let go" but he falls backward and dies from his wound.
- Eye Scream: Slips on a banana peel and falls on the ground, getting a corkscrew in his eye. Instinctively, he pulls it out, along with part of his brain.
Peter Hoffman
A German college student who is an overly devout Christian. His mother died in childbirth.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He was impaled in the chest by gazelle horns after being blasted by a firehose and thrown into the gazelle pit.
- Token Religious Teammate: He and his father are extremely restrictive Christians, while everyone else is mostly agnostic, except James, who is a proud atheist.
Rinoka Aratsu
A party-going Japanese college student with an affinity for anime and the underground life.
- Squashed Flat: Gets crushed by a falling bathtub in a hospital.
Kate Shelley
A nurse in medical school who was resurrected after she died during a session of Sux racing with her friends. She became a servant of Death and is responsible for the deaths of the survivors of the train crash, except for Danny's.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Kate suddenly realizes she is responsible for everyone's death and, in order to protect Danny from harm, Kate commits suicide, jamming a syringe into her chest and ripping her heart to pieces.
- Villain Protagonist: Unknowingly, Kate is responsible for almost every survivors' death in the novel. She accidentally gave a patient too much medication which made him fall asleep, allowing the water from the tub he was in to overflow and cause Rinoka's death as it broke through the floor. It was her purse that the fireman tripped over and accidentally shot Peter into the gazelle exhibit. It was her banana peel that Jack slipped on, causing the corkscrew to impale him in the eye. She loosened the bolts on a scaffold by brushing into it on her way to work, which collapsed and caused Mary-Beth's death. While in the hotel room that Bodil and James are in before they die, she uses the sink and a pipe begins to leak after she trips and jams it, slowly angering the hornets that cause their deaths, and she accidentally injected lidocaine into Louise, almost killing her.
