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Death's original design is Tod, Terry, Ms. Lewton, Carter, Billy, Clear, Alex.
Actual Deaths
The order in which they actually die is different because some get saved and moved to the end of the order.The actual order of death is as follows:
Tod Waggner
:'Death: Strangulation.First, a gust of wind blows through an open window and shuts the door to the bathroom while Tod is in it, so as to minimize intervention.Water leaks out of a poorly screwed pipe in the back of his toilet, creating a puddle that he does not notice while grooming himself in the bathroom and is listening to the radio.He then walks over to the tub and slips on the puddle, causing him to fall on a clothesline cord, which snaps off the wall and, pulled by the velocity of Tod's fall, wraps around his neck and strangles him in the tub, while he struggles to stand up, but only manages to kick over bottles of shampoo and soap, spilling them inside the tub and making it slippery and preventing him from getting to his feet.The blood vessels in his eyes burst as he tries to break free from the wire and reach a pair of scissors on the counter across the room.He slowly weakens and finally dies, and then the water snakes its way back under the toilet, disappearing as if it never leaked. :Note: Tod's death is the only death in the trilogy in which an obvious malevolent hand is portrayed: the leak that causes the 'accident' is removed from the scene, making Tod's death look like the only suicide in all three movies.All other deaths occur as 'accidents' although the viewer knows Death causes them.
Terry Chaney
:Death: Blunt force trauma.Angry that Carter won't stop fighting with Alex, Terry tells him (Carter) that she's moving on, then she backs into a street as she continues to ridicule him, and is hit by an oncoming bus when she is about to walk away.
Ms. Valerie Lewton
:Death: Stabbing.She suffers the most violent and longest death.While she is packing, she makes some tea in a kettle on her stove.She sees a dark reflection on the kettle and turns around to check, but sees nothing.When she pours the tea into a mug, she notices that it bears her High School's name, freaks out, and throws out its contents.She then gets ahold of herself, gets a bottle of vodka out of the freezer, and pours it into the mug.The sudden drastic temperature change causes the mug to crack and leak, to which she is oblivious.She drinks the vodka as she walks over to her computer, leaving a trail of it on the floor, then she inadvertently holds it over her computer monitor as the vodka leaks into it and causes it to start to smoke and spark.She notices this, and when she walks up to the monitor to examine, it explodes and a glass shard from the screen flies into her neck, causing her to bleed extensively when she pulls it out.As she attempts to hold the blood in, a spark from the monitor ignites the vodka trail, following her to the kitchen where the stove ignites, the vodka bottle explodes on the counter, and she falls to the floor.She reaches up to the counter for a cloth, not realizing that it is draped over a block of knives.She pulls on the cloth, resulting in the fall of the knife block, and one of the knives impales her in the chest.Alex finally shows up to save her, but when he attempts to remove the knife, the stove explodes, knocking down a chair, which lodges it in further and kills her.Alex removes the knife, then realizes that she is dead and runs out of the house, immediately after which it explodes.
Carter Horton
:Death (intervened): Train accident.Carter drives his car onto railroad tracks to prove that death does not have a pattern.When the train comes, he calmly proceeds to get out of the car, only to realize that the door lock is stuck in the locked position and a train is coming.Alex, using his clairvoyant knowledge that Carter's seatbelt would rip, pulls him out of the car just before the train smashes into the car.
Billy Hitchcock
:Death: Decapitation.While Billy screams at Carter that he is next and that he's not staying around him, a chain dangling from the speeding train hits a piece of metal shrapnel on the ground left from Carter's car and propels it at Billy, slicing off the top half of his head, killing him instantly (The group was unaware, at this point, that Alex had, in fact, changed the order by intervening in Carter's death when Alex saved him).
Carter Horton
:Death: Blunt force trauma.Six months later, after Death's list was fully ran through, Clear, Alex, and Carter have finally get to Paris and are at a café.The long absence of close calls has led them to believe that all three had been skipped, and they can now have a chance at a full life.Alex is still pondering the chance of Death going after them again, but Carter assures him that as long as Alex is alive, Carter and Clear would be fine.Alex gets a feeling that something is about to happen (from signs such as a busker across the street playing Rocky Mountain High), and leaves the restaurant quickly, not wanting to endanger the others.As he's crossing the street, a passing bus swerves to avoid him and runs into a street lamp, which is knocked out of the ground and hits a large illuminated sign above the café, knocking it off its standpoint and causing it to swing towards Alex back on the ground.Carter pushes Alex out of the way just as the sign swings past him, saving him.As Carter stands up to wonder who is next in the design, the sign swings back across the street directly behind him, but the film cuts away to credits right before the audience sees Carter smashed by the sign.The sign has the words "LE CAFE MIRO 81" and if you reverse the O and 81, it becomes 180, obvious reference to the flight.
Alex Browning
:Death: Head trauma.Since Carter saved Alex from death, Alex was skipped and put after Clear on Death's list.Alex and Clear do not die in this film, but Alex dies in between Final Destination and Final Destination 2.According to the sequel, Alex is killed in an alley by a falling brick that was pushed by a gust of wind. :Note: Again, Alex did not die in this film, but his death was not a major plot to the sequel, as it was mentioned only briefly.Since he died shortly after Carter, it makes sense to include his death for this film page.In an alternate ending, Alex actually dies saving Clear; he is electrocuted and then burned to death.Additionally, there was a scene filmed in which Alex is set on fire when interveining in Clear's death, as well as a scene where he gets decapitated by a stray rudder from a downed helicopter, but eventually it was decided that Alex would survive in this film.
Clear Rivers
:Death: Explosion.Clear survives this film.In Final Desintation 2, the viewer learns that after the death of Clear's boyfriend, Alex Browning, she voluntarily enters a mental hospital, where she is kept in a padded room.But when Kimberley Corman, the protagonist of the second film, asks for her help, Clear checks out.Towards the end of the sequel, when things seem to be normal, she goes and checks on Eugene Dix.But by opening the door to the hospital room, it causes an explosion resulting to Clear and Eugene's immediate death. :Note: Clear was the ONLY survivor from Flight 180.She dies in the sequel, Final Destination 2.She was originally intended to die by incineration on the plane.
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