In Final Destination 2, the list is reversed to kill the survivors from Route 23 backwards, killing the last survivor of Flight 180 in the end and gaining a clean slate.
It follows the order the victims were supposed to die in said accident, but is also a pretty malleable list.
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However, as he develops a paranoia that pushes him to kill Molly Harper - the only person on Sam Lawton's vision (and Sam's girlfriend) that wasn't supposed to die on the bridge - he ends up dead anyway when Sam stabs him with a cooking skewer, passing Block's life to him, but consequently causing Molly to cheat Death, adding her to the list and causing both Sam and her to die aboard Flight 180 (the fifth movie is actually a prequel to the first one), indicating that the life Sam acquired wasn't enough to save him.Ī term given to Death's pattern, this is the reason why every character in the movie dies in the end. That theory is proven when Peter Friedkin kills agent Jim Block with a handgun, acquiring his remaining days. However, in " Final Destination 5", Bludworth also reveals to the survivors of the bridge collapse that they can avoid Death if they take someone else's life by killing another person. The other time is in the Looks Could Kill novel, where Stephanie Pulaski regrets having to kill her friend, Cabernet, and allows her to have her baby, removing herself from Death's list. Protagonist Kimberly Corman thought that protecting Isabella long enough so she could have her baby, would save everyone from being killed, but another premonition from Kimberly shows that Isabella was never meant to die in the car pile-up, resulting in a big explosion that kills Eugene Dix and Flight 180 survivor Clear Rivers. However, the only times this theory is shown are in the second movie by Isabella Hudson, a pregnant woman that witnessed the pile-up at Route 23. The interference would cause Death to stop the pattern and spare the remaining (if not all) victims. In other words, if one of the intended victims has a baby, thus creating a new Life, the chain will be broken due to the baby being an interference in the pattern, as Death cannot kill a being that just began a new life. Mortician William Bludworth stated in Final Destination 2 that "only new Life can defeat Death". Moments later, whilst she did her uneven bars, she literally stayed loose after being accidentally flung into the air after the dust that was blown by a fan blinded her eyes, which eventually led her body to be gruesomely contorted. For example, when gymnast Candice Hooper uses the bars, her coach tells her to stay loose. Often, Death assigns its victim's death in a specific time in order to create unfortunate cases of irony.
Usually, one of the victims is saved, but in the end (or after some seconds), he/she is still killed as intended due to "Death's list", resulting in the protagonist and some friends being killed in the end (or in the space between the sequels).
However, after one of the survivors is killed in a terrible "accident", the protagonist begins to notice Death wants revenge, killing the survivors in the order they were supposed to die. He/she then freaks out, getting some people out of the location with them, right in the moment the accident happens as expected. The plot remains the same throughout the franchise (except in the Looks Could Kill novel): a teenager and his/her friends is about to participate in an important event, but he/she has a premonition that shows a terrible accident happening in the event that kills everybody on it.