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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Kimberly Corman
Kimberly Corman
Played By: A.J. Cook
- Blessed with Suck: Kimberly gets the initial premonition of the highway pile-up.
- Daddy's Girl: Though not very explored, it's obvious that she has a strong bond with her father.
- Final Girl: Although if one counts the newspaper article from the alternate ending of the third film as canon, then she's dead.
- Killed Offscreen: She and Thomas die in a Death-inspired accident at some point between films 2 and 3 according to a newspaper clipping in a deleted scene; it may or may not be canon.
- My Greatest Failure: Failing to stop her mother from being killed, it doesn't help that she had been distracted by watching a news report of Tod Waggner's death.
- I Miss Mom: See above.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Continuing from the original, her last name is a not-so-subtle wink to Roger Corman.
- Prophetic Fallacy:She didn't foresee that Isabella wasn't supposed to die in the accident.
- Ship Tease: With Burke.
Thomas Burke
Thomas Burke
Played By: Michael Landes
- Brooklyn Rage: Although he's mostly mellow for most of the movie, he definitely has his moments.
- Failure Hero: He really tries to take the initiative, research what happened to Flight 180 and help people, but a lot of his decisions (such as having everyone leave the apartment they'd safe-proofed to find Isabella) backfire.
- Fair Cop: A good-looking state trooper.
- Killed Offscreen: He and Kimberly die in a Death-inspired accident at some point between films 2 and 3 according to a newspaper clipping in a deleted scene; it may or may not be canon.
- Ship Tease: With Kimberly.
- Tempting Fate: Says he isn't worried about Isabella, given how she's safe in a jail cell, right before a Gilligan Cut shows Isabella going into labor.
- Your Head Asplode: How he dies in the premonition. When the chain snaps and the logs start falling off, one of them smashes through his windshield and plows right through his head
Eugene Dix
Eugene Dix
Played By: Terrence C. Carson
- Agent Scully: Until Nora's death.
- Black Dude Dies First: Averted; he's one of the last people to die.
- Driven to Suicide: He attempts to shoot himself in the head after he witnesses Nora getting decapitated, but the (fully loaded) gun doesn't fire. Death kills you when it's your turn, and no sooner; his move was an attempt to prove he was in control of his life.
- Hope Spot: He almost dies when his life support machines go out, but is saved at the last minute when the back-up battery kicks on. It doesn't last, as he later dies in an explosion along with Clear.
- Kill It with Fire: Is incinerated along with Clear.
- Prophecy Armor: Played for drama and horror. Once it's clear how the whole situation with Death works and that he has nothing to expect but a horrible death, he snatches Burke's gun and tries to blow his brains out. All six shots in Burke's revolver turn out to be duds, which freaks him (and everybody else in the room) out even more.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: Wears nerd glasses.
- Token Minority: Is African-American. In fact, he's the first non-white survivor in the franchise.
Rory Peters
Rory Peters
Played By: Jonathon Cherry
- Blood from the Mouth: When he dies
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Rory is a drug addict and an asshole to others from strangers to the other people on death's list. But when he's next on the list after Kat (even after Kimberly says she seems like she'll make it), he hands Kimberly his keys and wallet, asking her to go to his apartment and get rid of his drugs, paraphernalia and porn if he dies since it'd break his mother's heart to find it.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Rory is trisected by farm equipment that got caught up in the explosion of Kat's car after the cigarette in her hand falls into gasoline following her impalement on a piece of pipe from the car crashing.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: His intervention with Brian nearly getting run over by a van puts Brian on the list and ensures his death at the end.
- Plucky Comic Relief: Much like Billy Hitchcock in the first film.
- Porn Stash: He asks Kimberly to hide it if he dies, along with all the stuff that would "break his mother's heart".
- Took a Level in Kindness: Shortly before his death, he asks Kimberly to go to his apartment and get rid of "anything that'll break his mother's heart."
Kat Jennings
Kat Jennings
Played By: Keegan Connor Tracy
- Blood-Splattered Innocents: She gets covered in blood while trying to save Nora from the elevator.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: The "eerie" part is downplayed (save for how nervous she is with all the threats around them) but she probably has the palest skin of her group of survivors and has pretty dark hair.
- Hidden Depths: She's more useful than she appeared to be at first glance, trying to save Nora, helping safe-proof Burke's apartment and going out to try and find Isabella.
- Hope Spot: She narrowly avoids being impaled when the car crashes, but the airbag rams her back into the blade a bit later.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Just some moments after expressing actual concern for her companions of misfortune, a fireman accidentally activates her car's airbag, which blows her head back into a piece of farm equipment jutting out of the headrest.
- Must Have Nicotine: Is smoking in her final scene, and after her death, the cigarette she was holding drops into fuel and blows the car up, which blows away more farm equipment that kills Rory above.
- Nervous Wreck: She's already a high-strung workaholic before the accident, but she becomes even more anxious after Nora's death.
- Oh, Crap!: When she sees the news report about Evan's death and realizes that there might really be some force after them.
- Sarcasm-Blind: Thinks the rescue working using the jaws of life on her is serious when he says he can turn them to quiet mode.
- Too Happy to Live: Played darkly for laughs when she goes into a nervous rant about how she's happy with her career, met a guy she likes and just bought her own house after being told that they're doomed.
- Workout Fanservice: Downplayed, but there's a scene where she's on the treadmill, talking to her mother on a headset and wearing spandex sweat pants and a tank top and opposed to her usual pantsuit.
Nora Carpenter
Nora Carpenter
Played By: Lynda Boyd
- Blood from the Mouth: As the elevator starts choking her and just before the doors and the ceiling slice her head off.
- Good Parents
- Ironic Last Words: Despite her accepting her upcoming death, she says "I don't want to die!" when her death actually does come up. Granted, she was probably hoping that the way she died would be something more peaceful and wouldn't end with her suffering the way it did.
- Kill It with Fire: How she and her son Tim die in the premonition. Their car rams into a log and blows up.
- Mama Bear: Tries to stop Tim from getting squashed by the pane glass, but a handyman restrains her.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Guess.
- Not Afraid to Die: After Tim's death.
- Off with Her Head!: Her head gets trapped inside an elevator booth with the rest of her stuck outside on the current floor. Then the elevator starts going up...
Tim Carpenter
Tim Carpenter
Played By: James Kirk
- Death by Looking Up: When the glass is falling on him, he looks up, and it's the last thing he sees.
- Disappeared Dad: His dad died 4 years before the events of the film.
- Kill It with Fire: How he and his mother Nora die in the premonition. Their car rams into a log and blows up.
- Momma's Boy: Tim has a close relationship with his mother, especially with his father being dead.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Guess.
- Too Dumb to Live: The first thing he does when he sees someone telling him to stay away from pigeons is to jump straight into a flock of pigeons, causing them to spook a machine operator and drop a huge pane of glass on him. What the hell were you thinking, Tim?note
- Squashed Flat: Gets crushed by falling glass when a flock of pigeons distracts the man handling it.
Isabella Hudson
Isabella Hudson
Played By: Justina Machado
- Mama Bear: When her water breaks while she's detained, she angrily demands the officer guarding her take her to the hospital.
- Red Herring: She wouldn't have died in the pileup, so she never was on Death's list; she survives the film and lives as a result.
Evan Lewis
Evan Lewis
Played By: David Paetkau
- Brooklyn Rage: He definitely has that cocky New York attitude. A more comedic version of Dante Hicks, from the movie Clerks, set in New Jersey.
- Conspicuous Consumption: It's abundantly clear he was using his lottery winnings to buy a bunch of stuff that had no purpose other than to flaunt how rich he was. Among them being a gold Rolex watch and a fancy ring. Both become contributing factors to his death.
- Eye Scream: After slipping on the trashed spaghetti, he lands under a ladder that falls, stops, and then lands on his eye.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: See Eye Scream.
- Kill It with Fire: How he dies in the premonition. His car explodes after ramming into a log, and he burns alive trying to get out. Then a truck barrels over him. Death uses fire in his apartment as well.
- Jerkass: He's a smug prick who won a small fortune in the lottery.
- Mr. Fanservice: He spends most of his screen time shirtless and he's very easy on the eyes.
- Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: He just won a fortune from the lottery, but otherwise appears to be an idiot. He does a lot of senseless things like toss old noodles out the window, cooks mozzarella sticks in the pan they were in without washing it first, spills cooking oil all over his gas stove while the fire is lit, and sticks his hand into a garbage disposal to get a ring while his microwave is sparking.
- Skewed Priorities: He drops his ring into the sink drain just as his microwave oven begins emitting sparks. Rather than deal with the obvious hazard, he instead opts to try and retrieve the ring, which leads to his hand getting stuck and leaves him unable to get his kitchen under control before it catches on fire.
- Too Dumb to Live: The other survivors at least made some attempt to stop or avoid the pile up in the premonition, but Evan just speeds straight through, hoping for the best. Also, he makes some really stupid decisions during the scene at his apartment which leads to his death - most notably throwing some spaghetti out the window that he later slips on.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: The majority of his death scene is spent shirtless.
- Tempting Fate: He escapes his burning apartment and proclaims his luck, only to slip on some food (that he himself threw out the window) and land directly under the ladder that kills him.
Dano Estevez
Dano Estevez
Played By: Alejandro Rae
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies in the accident when a semi runs over his car.
Frankie Whitman
Frankie Whitman
Played By: Shaun Sipos
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies in the accident when a semi runs over his car.
Shaina McKlank
Shaina McKlank
Played By: Sarah Carter
- Decoy Protagonist: Or deuteragonist. Just like Tod in the first movie, she's a best friend of the visionary, whose freaked out by the vision. She doesn't stop Kim from acting on it and trying to save people, but she still bites the dust so early on that it's questionable if she can even be counted as a survivor in the first place.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies in the accident when a semi runs over her car.
