Characters / Final Destination 4

Final Destination Character Index
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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Nick O'Bannon

Nick O'Bannon

Played By: Bobby Campo

• Agent Mulder: Out of all of the visionaries, he probably comes to believe in the forces of Death the fastest.
• Blood from the Mouth: When impaled in the premonition, some blood seeps from his mouth.
• Car Fu: His death at the end of the movie came when an 18-wheeler truck crashes into him, Janet and Lori, killing all of them.
• Dull Surprise: Spends most of the movie acting like he's in a coma, even when witnessing his best friend's death.
• Failure Hero: Subverted (sort of) for once in the series. While it can be overlooked in the face of his Dull Surprise, Nick really does try to warn other people, or save them from Death, and while saving anyone else who died in the vision is pretty difficult he does manage to stop the explosion at the mall, which would have killed not just Lori, Janet, but a lot of other people. Then again, based on the ending he may have only achieved that because Death let him.
• Genre Blind: He accepts the idea that breaking death's chain will stop him a little too easily, although to be fair, how else was he supposed to take George's suicide attempts failing before he knew Jonathan Groves was still alive.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How he dies in the premonition. An explosion pushes him back into a pole.
• Intergenerational Friendship: He and Lori develop one with George.
• Living Is More than Surviving: He and Lori come to feel this way after the speedway accident, even before finding out that Death is after them.
• Official Couple: With Lori.
• Teeth Flying: He loses several when he's slammed into a wall by the truck.
• Walking the Earth: He and Lori talk about dropping out of college (or at least taking a break from it) in order to backpack across Europe if they survive.
• You Are Worth Hell: Firmly rejects his girlfriend's suggestion that he get away from her to increase his own chances of survival after she finds out that she died before Nick in his vision.

Lori Milligan

Lori Milligan

Played By: Shantel VanSanten

• Big Damn Heroes: She and George arrive just in time to save Janet at the car wash.
• Final Girl: Along with Janet. But it doesn't last.
• A Friend in Need: She doesn't hesitate to go and try and save Janet when she's next on Death's list.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She's a fairly feminine character, but apparently enjoys outdoor activities like backpacking.
• Neck Snap: According to the x-ray scene at the end, her head is twisted around by the truck.
• Ludicrous Gibs: In one premonition, she is sucked into some exposed gears and mangled. There isn't really much left of her afterwards.
• Ms. Fanservice: Is a very attractive redhead, and gets a very flattering scene in a tank top and pair of panties.◊
• Nice Girl: Good-natured and thoughtful.
• Official Couple: With Nick, who she shares an apartment with.
• Properly Paranoid: Even after thinking she's cheated death, she does watch for signs of it and show the appropriate concern when she sees them.
• Red-Headed Hero: She tries to help the others on Death's list and tells Nick that he should stay away from her once she's next on Death's list to improve his own chances.
• Redhead In Green: The aforementioned tank top scene has her in bright green bikini undies.
• Shoo the Dog: People are dying in the same order they did in Nick's premonition, and about two thirds of the way through the movie, Nick's girlfriend Lori's turn is coming up. She urges Nick to go far away from her so that he'll have a chance of surviving longer. He refuses.
• Squashed Flat: In the alternate ending where she and Janet are are crushed by an air conditioning unit.
• Walking the Earth: When Nick suggests taking time off college and backpacking across Europe to make the most of surviving, before they realize Death is still after them, and Lori happily gets on board with the idea.

George Lanter

George Lanter

Played By: Mykelti Williamson

• The Alcoholic: Formerly drunk alcoholic beverages on a frequent basis. He put a stop to his drinking habits, thanks to an incident where he drove under the influence.
• Call-Back: Dies the same way as Terry Chaney in the first film. Remember kids, Look Both Ways before you cross.
  • Bonus: during an explanation of deja vu.
• Dark and Troubled Past: His wife and daughter died due to him driving drunk.
• Driven to Suicide: All his attempts comically fail. Eventually, Death finally grants his wish and runs him down with an ambulance.
• Kill It with Fire: How he dies in the premonition. When a car explodes, he's engulfed in the fireball.
• Look Both Ways: Eventually, he gets his wish of dying, but it wasn't on his intent, and it involved him getting run over by an ambulance.
• Nice Guy: See Reasonable Authority Figure as evidence. He's surprised and angered by a racist slur used against him, but he just politely asks the offender to leave. He's also friendly to his chums inside and out.
• Pet the Dog: When Death finally kills him, it does do quickly and as painlessly as possible. Considering the extreme guilt he was feeling over his Dark and Troubled Past, and the fact that his suicide attempts for the most part would have been much more agonizing by comparison, one could arguably consider his run-in with the ambulance to be a Mercy Kill. And if you need further convincing, compare this with how "Racist" Carter Daniels got offed.
• Prophecy Armor: Played for drama. Once he accepts that Death is out to get him because he didn't die in the accident, he decides to kill himself to appease Death (considering that he is a widower, he even embraces the idea). When Nick and Lori find him, he's been trying to kill himself repeatedly all day through several means — swallowing poison, gas, car fumes, shooting himself and hanging from a noose — and all of them backfired somehow. This makes clear to the rest that Death won't allow any players in its game to die until it wants them to.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: During his job as the race track security guard. Even when Carter Daniels threatens and quips a racial slur against him during the memorial when he blames him for his wife's death, George does not retaliate even though he was surprised and offended by Carter's racial insult and just politely asked him to leave.

Jonathan Groves

Jonathan Groves:

Played By: Jackson Walker

• Nice Guy: From what little we see of him. He quickly, and politely offers to change seats when he realizes his hat is blocking Lori's view, without her even having to ask. Lori and Janet both acknowledge this.
  Janet: And I thought chivalry was dead.
• Squashed Flat: Gets crushed by a falling bathtub in a hospital.

Janet Cunningham

Janet Cunningham

Played By: Haley Webb

• Better as Friends: She's willing to hang out with Hunt, who she used to date, which she regrets.
• Due to the Dead: Averted, but played sympathetically. She refuses to go back to McKinley Park for the memorial for the accident victims, but only because she's traumatized by what they saw and doesn't want a reminder of it.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Subtly implied. Janet isn't shown drinking or partying in the film itself, but Lori has a picture of herself and Janet on vacation, and Janet is wearing a very large number of fiesta beads. Said beads are sometimes given out to girls on spring break when they drunkenly flash guys.
• Heroes Love Dogs: Janet is (usually) nice and is a good friend to the protagonist. One scene shows her watching the news on TV while petting a lap dog.
• Heroic BSoD: A panicked shutdown is likely the reason that she won't leave the theater or run when Nick and Lori say that Death isn't done with them.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Gets hit by flying debris from a cinema explosion. This was only a premonition, however.
• It Began with a Twist of Fate: She didn't want to be at the racetrack in the first place, and would have been safe from Death if she'd managed to convince her friends to go see a movie instead or went to it on her own. This fact weighs on her later.
• Out of Character Is Serious Business: Senses that something is wrong when she sees Carter's death on the news and calls Nick and Lori.
• Pink Means Feminine: Janet is the girliest character and wears pink in two scenes.
• Rich Bitch: She's definitely wealthy, and is a bit on the bitchy side as well.
• Squashed Flat: Janet has the misfortune of going right under the wheels of an 18-wheeler; X-ray shows her bones being crushed and splintered.
  • Also in the alternate ending where she and Lori are are crushed by an air conditioning unit.
• Tempting Fate: Done deliberately in a deleted scene, apparently set after they think they've cheated Death. It shows her walking across the street with her eyes closed, and narrowly being missed by several cars, then smiling in dazed relief at the other side, apparently having wanted to test whether Death really wasn't trying to kill them anymore and/or get it over with quickly if he was.
• When She Smiles: Smiling does a lot for her, as shown in the aforementioned deleted scene, and the ending when it really looks like they did defeat Death.

Hunt Wynorski

Hunt Wynorski

Played By: Nick Zano

• Asshole Victim: After acting like an insufferable Jerkass for most of the movie, it's near impossible to feel sorry when Death catches up to him. Even his friends aren't too concerned about it, even though they think it's too drawn out.
• Comically Missing the Point: The point he takes from Nick recounting the original premonition isn't a sense of worry, it's to assume that Nick has been getting into his alcohol, and that Samantha carries a lot of tampons for one woman.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: He has all of his internal organs sucked out by a pool drain through his ass. It also takes quite a while for him to fully die, too.
• Fun-Hating Confiscating Adult: He takes a kid's water gun who was only having innocent fun like everyone else at the pool.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: He's among the survivors of the crash, but his abrasive attitude is what makes his buddies not very comfy around him.
• Gutted Like a Fish: His guts are ripped out... through his ass.
• Jerkass: He's very obnoxious and insensitive to all of his buddies. He also doesn't care about the casualties of the car crash.
  Hunt: What people? The people who didn't have Dr. Xavier to tell them to get out of the way? People who don't have one of these? [shows #1 Dime]
• #1 Dime: His coin, which leads to his demise in a pool drain when an errant golf ball from the nearby course knocks it into the pool.
• Out with a Bang: Hunt Lampshades the trope by stating he wants to get laid, which is how a few folks died in the previous films. However, let's just say his death is far worse than this.
• Preppy Name: Hunt is his name and he's as snobbish and obnoxious as he comes.
• Shirtless Scene: At the pool, which is his final destination.
• Too Dumb to Live: Yeah, didn't check where he was dropping the kid's water gun, and dumps it in the area with the pool drain controls, which leads to his undoing.
• Vitriolic Best Friends: Arguably with Nick; they don't get along but at least they try to keep each other from dying.
• Would Hurt a Child: He heartlessly pops a kid's floatie, throws him off of it and into the water, takes his water gun away, and throws it over onto the drain control which was where his own fate began.

Andy Kewzer

Andy Kewzer

Played By: Andrew Fiscella

• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How he dies in the premonition. He gets knocked back and his head falls on a broken piece of the bench.
• Jerkass: Initially. He gets better with his attitude just before he gets impaled on the metal fence.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Shame it doesn't last long.
• Torso with a View: Is crushed into a metal fence so violently that most of him is forced through the gaps in it.

Samantha Lane

Samantha Lane

Played By: Krista Allen

• Blood from the Mouth: When she gets trampled on in the premonition, she begins bleeding from her mouth.
• Eye Scream: A rock is shot into her eye by a lawnmower.
• I Owe You My Life: Downplayed, but she does recognize Nick at the memorial and thanks him for saving her family.
• Squashed Flat: How she dies in the premonition. A car engine flies out of the track and slams right into her. She was already dying from being stepped on and was on the ground, and the engine finishes her off.

"Racist" Carter Daniels

Carter Daniels

Played By: Justin Welborn

• The Alcoholic: He is seen drinking beer in his truck just before his attempted cross-burning, and then his death.
• Asshole Victim: A racist jerk whose death is mourned by a grand total of zero people.
• Death by Irony: A white supremacist trying to burn a cross on someone's lawn gets killed in a manner evocative of a lynching.
• Death by Racism: Went to George's house to burn a cross on his lawn because George stopped him from getting killed by going back to his wife inside the stadium. Death does not approve, to the point of dragging him behind his truck while War's anti-racism song "Why Can't We Be Friends?" plays on his radio.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He's genuinely freaked out upon realizing that his wife is trapped inside the stadium and tries to get back inside to save her, heedless of the danger.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: How he dies in the premonition. A piece of shrapnel slices him and his wife in half.
• Hate Sink: For the little screen time he has, he proves to be a totally unlikable character with his racist behavior. It’s no wonder Death decided to target him first.
• Jerkass: The guy was a drunk who was getting ready to burn a cross on George's lawn because he saved his life; Death proved with Carter's death that It has a sense of humor and honor and zero tolerance for racism.
• Kill It with Fire: Gets burned alive, and his car explodes just to make sure.
• Man on Fire: Becomes soaked in gasoline, which is ignited by a chain being dragged down the street.
• Obviously Evil: In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, his Nazi tattoos can be clearly seen on his arms in the opening scene.
• Off with His Head!: When Carter's truck explodes, his burning head is catapulted to George's lawn as a memento of Death's work.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: The clue is in the name.
• Ungrateful Bastard: While George is successful at saving Carter's life at the racetrack, Carter was incensed that he couldn't go and save his wife, which led to him trying to burn a cross on George's yard and giving Death the chance to rectify his survival.
  • He's also viciously calls Nick a "damn freak", despite the fact that his premonition was the only reason he was alive.

Nadia Monroy

Nadia Monroy

Played By: Stephanie Honore

• Ironic Last Words: "Have you all lost your fucking minds?!" Looks who's talking, literally.
• Off with Her Head!: In the premonition, she gets decapitated by a flying tire. In reality, after escaping the stadium, the tire destroys more than just her head.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: First survivor to die, and she only lasts around one minute after the accident itself took place.

Cynthia Daniels

Cynthia Daniels

Played By: Lara Glice

• Half the Man He Used to Be: How she dies in the premonition. A piece of shrapnel slices her and her husband in half.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies in the accident, and George stopping her husband Carter from coming back led him to burn a cross on his lawn, which led to his death.

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