Editing Candice Hooper

{{Infobox Character 
|Title = Candice Hooper
|Image = Candicehoop.JPG
|Actor = [[Ellen Wroe]]
|First = ''[[Final Destination 5]]''
|Last = ''[[Final Destination 5]]''
|Name =Candice Martina Hooper 
|AKA = Candice Caldera (earlier script)
|Place = Austin, Texas
|Status = Deceased
|Gender = Female
|Hair = Brown
|Eyes = Hazel
|Height = 166 cm (5’5)
|Race = Caucasian/annoying
|Birth = Sunday<br>September 12 1976
|Death = Wednesday<br>April 28 1999
|DeathRe = Spine Snapped
|Age = 23
|Profession = college student<br>[[Presage Paper]] intern<br>gymnast
|Relationships = [[Peter Friedkin]] - Boyfriend; Deceased<br>[[Olivia Castle]] - Rival; Deceased<br>[[Molly Harper]] - Friend; Deceased<br>[[Sam Lawton]] - Friend; Deceased<br>[[Dennis Lapman]] - Boss; Deceased
|Images = Images of Candice Hooper
|Species = Human
|Weight=116 lbs}}

{{quote|"You know, if you want to get rid of that baby fat you should try the gym. They have these workout machines that you use on your back. You're good at that."|Candice, commenting on Olivia's breasts}}

'''Candice Martina Hooper''' is a main character in ''[[Final Destination 5]]'' and is a survivor of the [[North Bay Bridge]] collapse.

Candice is the first survivor of the North Bay Bridge collapse to die, and thus chronologically the first survivor to die in the entire Final Destination movie series.

== ''Biography'' ==
An athletic and vivacious girl, Candice was born on September 12, 1976 in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin,_Texas Austin, Texas]. After moving to New York to study at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stony_Brook_University Stony Brook University] while an athlete for their gymnastics team, she also found work as an intern at [[Presage Paper]], dating [[Peter Friedkin]] and becoming rivals with [[Olivia Castle]]. 

==''Final Destination 5''==
[[File:Candice_and_Peter.png|thumb|left|200px|Candice and Peter, before the company retreat.]]
Candice was on her way to a corporate retreat with her colleagues when [[Sam Lawton]] has a premonition that the bridge their bus is crossing will collapse and kill them all. Sam then panics and runs off the bus, with Peter going to check on him and also following, moments before the bridge collapses as Sam predicted.

After the accident, Candice and the others attended the memorial service for the victims.  

The next day, Candice heads to the gym with Peter to attend the last practice before her gymnastics competition. Candice is unwilling to go at first because she is still shaken up by the bridge collapse, but Peter eventually talks her into it.

==='''Death'''===
{{quote|"Well, they should have it fixed by now."|Candice's last words}}
[[File:Bend.jpg|thumb|250px|Candice's body immediately after she is killed during gymnastics practise by a freak accident.]]
While practicing, Candice complains about the heat and urges her coach to fix the air conditioning. When the air conditioning unit is finally fixed, it begins to shake, and a screw comes loose and lands on the balance beam. The screw goes unnoticed by Candice, who nearly steps on it.

While Candice is practicing on the high beams, [[Porter]] practices on the balance beam and steps on the screw. She falls off the beam, knocking over a bowl of powder which is then blown by a fan into Candice's face, temporarily blinding Candice while she is still swinging on the high beams. Unable to see, Candice loses her grip and flips mid-air before landing on the floor, causing her spine to crack and her legs to be folded over her head. She dies instantly with a lot of bleeding as Peter, her coaches, and the other gymnasts watch in horror.

====Signs/Clues====
*Candice feels a [[Death|black shadow]] pass by her.
*As she feels the gust of wind, the lights at the gym flicker briefly.
*Candice's comment on [[Olivia Castle]]'s breasts include the words back, workout, gym, and machine, and Candice dies by breaking her back while doing a workout at a gym using equipment that could be called a machine.
*Her good-luck rubber band that she twirls on her wrist snaps prior to beginning her gymnastics practice, hinting at the nature of her death, and how she would not be too lucky.
*During the conversation between Peter and herself, Peter repeatedly mentions that the practice is the "last one" for Candice before going to regional.
*Candice says her coach would kill her if she missed the practice.
*During her practice, right when she moves to the bars, her coach tells her to "stay loose".
*Candice is almost electrocuted by stepping in a puddle that had dripped onto an exposed wire, but she is interrupted and goes on to practice the high beams.
*Both in the premonition and afterwards, Candice dies by support beams. In the premonition, she is impaled by the beam/pole of the boat that holds onto the sails. In her practice, she is moving on the unfixed, loose beam.
*Both in the premonition and afterwards, Candice falls to her death with her spine being damaged. In the premonition, she falls and is impaled through the spine. In her practice, she falls on the ground, breaking her spine.
*When Candice feels the gust of wind blowing by, a girl is using the balance beams in the background. If you look closely, it looks like the girl is going to hit Candice's neck.
*Pay close attention to the cord that Candice steps on. After she is nearly electrocuted on a puddle, the cord appears to take on the shape of a skull.
*The screw that falls may be a pun on the term 'Don't screw it up' which means not to fail at something horribly, to which Candice had definitely done.
*Candice's last words ''"They should have it fixed by now."'' connects to Death's plan, as Death was indeed about to fix its mistake of her survival.
*Due to the creativity and popularity of her death scene it was said that Candice's death was a great head start to the film, both literally as she fatally landed on her head and due to the fact that her death was chronologically the first death.
*In the song "Dust in the Wind", the song Sam heard on the bridge has some lyrics containing the words dust and wind. In Candice's death, the chalk dust blows in the wind and this leads up to her grisly demise.

==Appearances==
*''[[Final Destination 5]]'' (portrayed by [[Ellen Wroe]])

==Trivia==
*Candice and [[Lewis Romero]] from ''[[Final Destination 3]]'' share some similarities in that they are both athletes who died in their respective gyms with a lot of witnesses around.
*In the premonition, her death is similar to [[Perry Malinowski]]'s from ''[[Final Destination 3]]''. Although, Perry was impaled in the chest while Candice was impaled in the abdomen.
*In one script draft she was going to be ''CANDICE HOOPER (real name: CANDICE CALDERA), 18, [[Dennis Lapman|Dennis Caldera]]'s daughter; Caldera being the original surname of Dennis Lapman.'' However, she was changed to being Candice Hooper, an intern at Presage Paper with Dennis as her boss instead. Producer [[Craig Perry]] later confirmed the change.
*Candice's zodiac sign is Virgo.
*Chronologically, she is the first survivor who is killed by [[Death]] on screen (and the first female one) in the movie series. [[Tod Waggner]] held this title before the release of ''Final Destination 5''.
*In one of the television edits when Candice's broken body is shown after her death there are no bones sticking out.
*Due to the suspense and planning of her death, Candice's death has become one of the franchises most popular death scenes.
*Her death causes her boyfriend become mad and causes his desire to kill other people. She has this trait same with [[Erin Ulmer]] and [[Cynthia Daniels]].
*Given the series tradition of naming characters after horror directors, Candice shares her surname with Tobe Hooper, creator of ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' franchise and director of ''Poltergeist (1982)''.

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