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| Name=Carter Horton
 
| Name=Carter Horton
 
| Actor=[[Kerr Smith]]
 
| Actor=[[Kerr Smith]]
| First=''Final Destination''
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| First=''[[Final Destination]]''
 
| Last=''[[Final Destination 5]]''
 
| Last=''[[Final Destination 5]]''
| Place=Mt. Abraham, New York
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| Place=[[Mt. Abraham, New York]]
| Birth=11 March 1982
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| Birth=Thursday<br>11 March 1982 (Pisces sign)
 
| AKA=Carter
 
| AKA=Carter
 
| Height=6'0"
 
| Height=6'0"
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| Species=Human
 
| Species=Human
 
| Death=December 2000
 
| Death=December 2000
| DeathRe=Crushed by a neon sign (off-screen)
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| DeathRe=Crushed by a neon sign
 
| Status=Deceased
 
| Status=Deceased
 
| Profession=High School Student <small>(Formerly)</small>
 
| Profession=High School Student <small>(Formerly)</small>
| Relationships=[[Terry Chaney]]-Girlfriend; Deceased<br>
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| Relationships=[[Terry Chaney]]-Former Girlfriend; Deceased<br>
 
[[Alex Browning]]-Former rival, now friend; Deceased<br>
 
[[Alex Browning]]-Former rival, now friend; Deceased<br>
 
[[Clear Rivers]]-Friend; Deceased<br>
 
[[Clear Rivers]]-Friend; Deceased<br>
[[Billy Hitchcock]]-Classmate; Deceased
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[[Billy Hitchcock]]-Rival; Deceased
 
| Images=Images of Carter Horton}}
 
| Images=Images of Carter Horton}}
   
 
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''Wait, whoa! We get thrown off the plane, We blow what? A half a day in Paris? All because Browning has a bad fucking dream?''
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''Wait, whoa! We get thrown off the plane, we blow what? A half a day in Paris? All because Browning has a bad fucking dream?''
   
'''Carter, complaining about Alex'''
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'''Carter, complaining about Alex.'''
 
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'''Carter Horton''' was one of the survivors of [[Volée Airlines Flight 180]] in ''[[Final Destination]]''. He is a senior jock at [[Mt. Abraham High School]] and the rival of [[Alex Browning]]. Carter was among the students who aboard the plane.
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'''Carter Horton''' is a main character in ''[[Final Destination]]'' and is a survivor of the [[Volée Airlines Flight 180]] plane crash. He was a senior jock at [[Mt. Abraham High School]] and the rival of [[Alex Browning]]. Carter was among the students who board the plane.
   
 
Carter was the fifth survivor of [[Flight 180]] to die.
 
Carter was the fifth survivor of [[Flight 180]] to die.
   
 
==Biography==
 
==Biography==
Carter was born on March 11th, 1982, in Mt. Abraham, New York. He is very arrogant and hot-tempered, and often fights with Alex whenever they're together. He is also dating Terry Chaney, and the two go on the school's annual field trip to Paris together.
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Carter was born on March 11th, 1982, in [[Mt. Abraham, New York]]. He is very arrogant and hot-tempered, and often fights with Alex whenever they're together. He is also dating Terry Chaney, and the two go on the school's annual field trip to Paris together.
   
 
==''Final Destination''==
 
==''Final Destination''==
[[File:Fd13_L.png|thumb|left|224px|Carter, with Terry after the plane explosion]] Carter boarded Flight 180, with his girlfriend [[Terry Chaney]]. When Alex attempts to warn the other passengers about Flight 180 exploding, Carter believes he is making it the whole thing up as a joke, and tries to fight him. As a result, both of them are removed from the plane, along with Terry and four others. After the plane departs, Carter began to criticize and mock Alex, who fights with him at the terminal. While the guards manage to separate them, the plane explodes shortly after, as Alex predicted.
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[[File:Fd13_L.png|thumb|left|224px|Carter, with Terry after the plane explosion]] Carter boarded Flight 180, with his girlfriend [[Terry Chaney|Terry]]. When Alex attempts to warn the other passengers about the plane exploding, Carter believes he is making the whole thing up as a joke, and tries to fight him. As a result, both of them are removed from the plane, along with Terry and five others. After the plane departs, Carter began to criticise and mock Alex, who fights with him at the terminal. While the guards manage to separate them, the plane explodes shortly after, as Alex predicted.
   
In the aftermath, Carter continued to show hostility towards Alex refusing to admit that he saved him. At the memorial, he tells Alex that he doesn't owe him anything and that he is in charge of his own life. Later, Carter is driving with Terry when he sees Alex and Clear talking at a cafe. When he confronts Alex, Terry storms on in frustration and is suddenly killed by a speeding bus, leaving Carter devastated.
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In the aftermath, Carter continued to show hostility towards Alex refusing to admit that he saved him. At the memorial service, he tells Alex that he doesn't owe him anything and that he is in charge of his own life. Later, Carter is driving with Terry when he sees Alex and Clear talking at a cafe. When he confronts Alex, Terry storms on in frustration and is suddenly killed by a speeding bus, leaving Carter devastated.
 
[[File:Fd_still005.png|thumb|200px|left|Carter confronts Alex at the cafe]]
 
[[File:Fd_still005.png|thumb|200px|left|Carter confronts Alex at the cafe]]
When the survivors reunite, Alex explains that Death is claiming the lives of those who were meant to die on the plane. After learning that he is next on Death's list, Carter, frustrated over having no control over his life, begins to drive recklessly through the street despite the others trying to stop him. He stalls his car on a railroad track, wanting to die on his own terms. Carter changes his mind at the last minute but finds himself trapped inside the car when the doors are locked and his seat belt jams. Alex manages to save him at the last second, just before his car is smashed by an oncoming train, and Death skips him.
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When the survivors reunite, Alex explains that Death is claiming the lives of those who were meant to die on the plane. After learning that he is next on Death's list, Carter, frustrated over having no control over his life, begins to drive recklessly through the street despite the others trying to stop him. He finally stalls his car on a railroad track, wanting to die on his own terms. Carter changes his mind at the last minute but finds himself trapped inside the car when the doors are locked and his seat belt jams. However, Alex manages to save him at the last second, just before his car is smashed by an oncoming train, and Death skips him.
   
 
==='''Death'''===
 
==='''Death'''===
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[[File:CarterHortonDeath.jpg|thumb|302px|Carter, immediately before he is crushed by the neon sign.]]
 
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Six months later, Carter, Alex and Clear travel to Paris to celebrate their survival. While relaxing outside a French restaurant, Alex starts to see more omens foreshadowing his death and Carter playfully taunted Alex, claiming that he is next. After Alex leaves the table he is almost hit by a bus, but it swerves and crashes into a pole, that flies into the air and knocks [[180 Sign|a sign]] of its hinges. The sign comes swinging down towards Alex, but Carter shoves Alex out of the way at the last second, claiming that he was right which Alex responds that he just skipped him.
 
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''For all I know it could circle back and get us all again, but I am the safest fucker in the world, because [[Alex Browning|you]]'re still '''next'''.''
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'''Carter, just a few minutes before his death.'''
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[[File:CarterHortonDeath.jpg|thumb|302px|"So who's next?" Carter, immediately before he is crushed by the neon sign.]]
 
Six months later, Carter, Alex and Clear travel to Paris to celebrate their survival. While relaxing outside a French restaurant, Alex starts to see more omens foreshadowing his death and Carter playfully taunted Alex, claiming that he is next. After Alex leaves the table he is almost hit by a bus, but it swerves and crashes into a pole, that flies into the air and knocks [[180 Sign|a sign]] of its hinges. The sign comes swinging down towards Alex, but Carter shoves Alex out of the way at the last second, claiming that he was right to which Alex responds that Death just skipped him.
   
When Carter questions who is next, the sign swings back down towards Carter, crushing him and revealed that if Death skips someone it will eventually come back for them.
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When Carter questions who is next, the sign swings back down towards Carter, crushing him and revealing that if Death skips someone it will eventually come back for them.
   
 
====Signs/Clues====
 
====Signs/Clues====
 
*The sign that hits Carter reads '''180''' backwards.
 
*The sign that hits Carter reads '''180''' backwards.
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*[[Sam Lawton]] the first visionary worked in the restaurant and then [[Peter Friedkin]] died there too.
 
*A man is singing 'Rocky Mountain High' in French.
 
*A man is singing 'Rocky Mountain High' in French.
 
*Before the accident that causes his death Alex sees a butchered piece of meat.
 
*Before the accident that causes his death Alex sees a butchered piece of meat.
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*Alex is nearly ran over by a bus, the same way that Terry died.
 
*Alex is nearly ran over by a bus, the same way that Terry died.
 
*After Terry dies, the bloodstain on Carter's face really looks like number "5". He was the fifth survivor to die, after Death skipped him earlier.
 
*After Terry dies, the bloodstain on Carter's face really looks like number "5". He was the fifth survivor to die, after Death skipped him earlier.
*The plate number is RFK- 575 which is for Robert F. Kennedy who was shot
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*The plate number is RFK- 575 which is for Robert F. Kennedy who was shot.
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=== Alternative Ending (Alive) ===
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In the alternative ending, Carter can be seen in front of the Flight 180 memorial, crying. After seeing Clear and the son she just gave birth to——Alex, named after his deceased father, Carter wipes his tears and says that Alex will never have chance to see him, but Clear responds that “he sees him, every day.” Later Carter says that Alex was right about the design, and claims that they beat death, but Clear responds that they only won a chance at a full life, before a leaf lands on the camera ending the movie.
   
 
==''Final Destination 2''==
 
==''Final Destination 2''==
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''Hey, do you guys remember that theatre in Paris that collapsed last year and killed everybody inside? Well, I had tickets to go but one night, I'm in Paris and I'm just tripping on acid and sipping lattes and such. And then all of a sudden, this dude out of nowhere just get whacked by this falling sign.''
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''Hey, do you guys remember that theatre in Paris that collapsed last year and killed everybody inside? Well, I had tickets to go but one night, I'm in Paris and I'm just tripping on acid and sipping lattes and such. And then all of a sudden, this dude out of nowhere just gets whacked by this falling sign.''
   
 
'''Rory, sharing his story to the survivors.'''
 
'''Rory, sharing his story to the survivors.'''
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'''Clear, when she notices the previous event.'''
 
'''Clear, when she notices the previous event.'''
 
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[[File:Carterinthenewspaper.jpg|thumb|149px|The newspaper involving Carter's death.]] Carter was briefly mentioned in ''[[Final Destination 2]]'', by [[Rory Peters]], a survivor of the [[Route 23]] disaster. Rory reveals that he was supposed to go inside a theater that collapsed on the guests, but decided not to go after witnessing Carter's death.
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[[File:Carterinthenewspaper.jpg|thumb|149px|The newspaper involving Carter's death.]] Carter was briefly mentioned in ''[[Final Destination 2]]'', by [[Rory Peters]], a survivor of the [[Route 23]] disaster. Rory reveals that he was supposed to go inside a theatre that collapsed on the guests, but decided not to go after witnessing Carter's death.
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== The Final Destination ==
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Though Carter is not mentioned in ''[[The Final Destination]]'', the character [[Carter Daniels]] is named as an allusion to him. Additionally, a car resembling Horton's is briefly seen.
   
 
==''Final Destination 5''==
 
==''Final Destination 5''==
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''Oh Excuse me Um... Those passengers who got off the plane earlier, What was that all about?''
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''Oh, excuse me. Um... those passengers who got off the plane earlier — what was that all about?''
   
'''Passenger, explaining to the Flight Attendant.'''
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'''A passenger to the flight attendant.'''
   
 
''A kid had a panic attack and wanted off the plane. Said he had some kind of vision.''
 
''A kid had a panic attack and wanted off the plane. Said he had some kind of vision.''
   
'''Flight Atttendant, in reply.'''
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'''The flight attendant, in reply.'''
 
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[[File:377162_306508786038065_100000368371542_1055029_421686121_n.jpg|thumb|Carter as seen in ''Final Destination 5''.]] Carter is seen being thrown off of Flight 180 at the end of ''[[Final Destination 5]]''. The group of arguing classmates pass by the seats of [[Sam Lawton]] and [[Molly Harper]], before the planes destruction.
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[[File:377162_306508786038065_100000368371542_1055029_421686121_n.jpg|thumb|Carter as seen in ''Final Destination 5''.]] Carter is seen being thrown off of Flight 180 at the end of ''[[Final Destination 5]]''. The group of arguing classmates pass by the seats of [[Sam Lawton]] and [[Molly Harper]], before the plane explodes.
   
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Horton, Carter}}Trivia==
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*He was the first survivor to die off-screen.
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*Ironically when Terry is hit by a bus, he was the only one not showing clear shock.
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*In the script for ''Final Destination'' he is described as, CARTER HORTON, the class dickhead who mix and matches his role models in the most superficial manner.       
   
 
==Appearances==
 
==Appearances==
*[[Final Destination 5|''Final Destination 5'']] (chronological first appearance)
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*[[Final Destination|''Final Destination'']] (first appearance) (portrayed by [[Kerr Smith]])
*[[Final Destination|''Final Destination'']] (first appearance)
 
 
*[[Final Destination (novel)|''Final Destination'' (novel)]]
 
*[[Final Destination (novel)|''Final Destination'' (novel)]]
 
*[[Final Destination 2|''Final Destination 2'']] (in a photo)
 
*[[Final Destination 2|''Final Destination 2'']] (in a photo)
 
*[[Final Destination 2 (novel)|''Final Destination 2'' (novel)]] (in a photo)
 
*[[Final Destination 2 (novel)|''Final Destination 2'' (novel)]] (in a photo)
 
*[[Final Destination 5|''Final Destination 5'']] (archive footage) (portrayed by [[Kerr Smith]])
   
 
{{Final Destination}}
 
{{Final Destination}}
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[[Category:Characters Who Alternatively Survive]]
 
[[Category:Men who have their girlfriend]]
 
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[[Category:Images of Carter Horton]]
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[[Category:Death's Servants]]
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[[Category:Final Destination 2 characters]]

Revision as of 04:05, 24 October 2019

Wait, whoa! We get thrown off the plane, we blow what? A half a day in Paris? All because Browning has a bad fucking dream?

Carter, complaining about Alex.

Carter Horton is a main character in Final Destination and is a survivor of the Volée Airlines Flight 180 plane crash. He was a senior jock at Mt. Abraham High School and the rival of Alex Browning. Carter was among the students who board the plane.

Carter was the fifth survivor of Flight 180 to die.

Biography

Carter was born on March 11th, 1982, in Mt. Abraham, New York. He is very arrogant and hot-tempered, and often fights with Alex whenever they're together. He is also dating Terry Chaney, and the two go on the school's annual field trip to Paris together.

Final Destination

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Carter, with Terry after the plane explosion

Carter boarded Flight 180, with his girlfriend Terry. When Alex attempts to warn the other passengers about the plane exploding, Carter believes he is making the whole thing up as a joke, and tries to fight him. As a result, both of them are removed from the plane, along with Terry and five others. After the plane departs, Carter began to criticise and mock Alex, who fights with him at the terminal. While the guards manage to separate them, the plane explodes shortly after, as Alex predicted.

In the aftermath, Carter continued to show hostility towards Alex refusing to admit that he saved him. At the memorial service, he tells Alex that he doesn't owe him anything and that he is in charge of his own life. Later, Carter is driving with Terry when he sees Alex and Clear talking at a cafe. When he confronts Alex, Terry storms on in frustration and is suddenly killed by a speeding bus, leaving Carter devastated.

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Carter confronts Alex at the cafe

When the survivors reunite, Alex explains that Death is claiming the lives of those who were meant to die on the plane. After learning that he is next on Death's list, Carter, frustrated over having no control over his life, begins to drive recklessly through the street despite the others trying to stop him. He finally stalls his car on a railroad track, wanting to die on his own terms. Carter changes his mind at the last minute but finds himself trapped inside the car when the doors are locked and his seat belt jams. However, Alex manages to save him at the last second, just before his car is smashed by an oncoming train, and Death skips him.

Death

For all I know it could circle back and get us all again, but I am the safest fucker in the world, because you're still next.

Carter, just a few minutes before his death.

CarterHortonDeath

"So who's next?" Carter, immediately before he is crushed by the neon sign.

Six months later, Carter, Alex and Clear travel to Paris to celebrate their survival. While relaxing outside a French restaurant, Alex starts to see more omens foreshadowing his death and Carter playfully taunted Alex, claiming that he is next. After Alex leaves the table he is almost hit by a bus, but it swerves and crashes into a pole, that flies into the air and knocks a sign of its hinges. The sign comes swinging down towards Alex, but Carter shoves Alex out of the way at the last second, claiming that he was right to which Alex responds that Death just skipped him.

When Carter questions who is next, the sign swings back down towards Carter, crushing him and revealing that if Death skips someone it will eventually come back for them.

Signs/Clues

  • The sign that hits Carter reads 180 backwards.
  • Sam Lawton the first visionary worked in the restaurant and then Peter Friedkin died there too.
  • A man is singing 'Rocky Mountain High' in French.
  • Before the accident that causes his death Alex sees a butchered piece of meat.
  • A gust of wind blows when Alex starts seeing omens, hinting at Death's presence.
  • Carter almost died when a train almost ran his car over, but Alex saved him at the last second. In return, Carter helped Alex from the sign at the last second.
  • Alex is nearly ran over by a bus, the same way that Terry died.
  • After Terry dies, the bloodstain on Carter's face really looks like number "5". He was the fifth survivor to die, after Death skipped him earlier.
  • The plate number is RFK- 575 which is for Robert F. Kennedy who was shot.

Alternative Ending (Alive)

In the alternative ending, Carter can be seen in front of the Flight 180 memorial, crying. After seeing Clear and the son she just gave birth to——Alex, named after his deceased father, Carter wipes his tears and says that Alex will never have chance to see him, but Clear responds that “he sees him, every day.” Later Carter says that Alex was right about the design, and claims that they beat death, but Clear responds that they only won a chance at a full life, before a leaf lands on the camera ending the movie.

Final Destination 2

Hey, do you guys remember that theatre in Paris that collapsed last year and killed everybody inside? Well, I had tickets to go but one night, I'm in Paris and I'm just tripping on acid and sipping lattes and such. And then all of a sudden, this dude out of nowhere just gets whacked by this falling sign.

Rory, sharing his story to the survivors.

Carter.

Clear, when she notices the previous event.

Carterinthenewspaper

The newspaper involving Carter's death.

Carter was briefly mentioned in Final Destination 2, by Rory Peters, a survivor of the Route 23 disaster. Rory reveals that he was supposed to go inside a theatre that collapsed on the guests, but decided not to go after witnessing Carter's death.

The Final Destination

Though Carter is not mentioned in The Final Destination, the character Carter Daniels is named as an allusion to him. Additionally, a car resembling Horton's is briefly seen.

Final Destination 5

Oh, excuse me. Um... those passengers who got off the plane earlier — what was that all about?

A passenger to the flight attendant.

A kid had a panic attack and wanted off the plane. Said he had some kind of vision.

The flight attendant, in reply.

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Carter as seen in Final Destination 5.

Carter is seen being thrown off of Flight 180 at the end of Final Destination 5. The group of arguing classmates pass by the seats of Sam Lawton and Molly Harper, before the plane explodes.

== Trivia==

  • He was the first survivor to die off-screen.
  • Ironically when Terry is hit by a bus, he was the only one not showing clear shock.
  • In the script for Final Destination he is described as, CARTER HORTON, the class dickhead who mix and matches his role models in the most superficial manner.       

Appearances

Final Destination
Disaster(s)
Volée Airlines Flight 180
Survivors
Alex Browning | Clear Rivers | Billy Hitchcock | Carter Horton | Valerie Lewton | Terry Chaney | Tod Waggner
Casualties
Larry Murnau | George Waggner | Christa Marsh | Blake Dreyer | Dave Anderson | William Burns | Jody Chow | Todd A. Emde | Kate Elise Heslup | Wm. Carle Heslup | Lisa Rose Hudson | Sally Hudson | Stephen Jackson | Lee M. Jenkinson | Joey Jow | Lynn | Marko Lytviak | Terry Mackay | Johanna Ingrid Masur | Brooke Karen McGill | Derick McLeod | Pamela McLeod | William McMahon | Bryan Pederson | Julie Anne Slater | Terry Sonderhoff | Mary Lou Storey | Anneke Van Oort | Kirstie Van Oort | Carie Lynn Wallis | John B. Willett | Dustin | Co-pilot | Flight 180 female flight attendant 1 | Flight 180 female flight attendant 2 | Mr. Smith | Male flight attendant | Jetway employee | Mr. Smith | Lou Gehrig's Man | Lou Gehrig's Man's wife
Others
Barbara Browning | Ken Browning | Jerry Waggner | Hare Krishna | Howard Siegel | Agent Weine | Agent Schreck | Linda Waggner | Mr. Rivers | Mrs. Rivers | William Bludworth | Mrs Lewton | Farkus Lewton | Waldo Lewton | Laura | Alexander Browning
Locations
Mt. Abraham, New York | John F. Kennedy International Airport | Mt. Abraham High School | Bludworth Funeral Homes | Coffee Beanery | Le Cáfe Miro 81
Final Destination 5
Disaster(s)
North Bay Bridge | Volée Airlines Flight 180
Survivors
Molly Harper | Sam Lawton | Peter Friedkin | Dennis Lapman | Nathan Sears | Olivia Castle | Isaac Palmer | Candice Hooper
Casualties
Jennifer Alcott | Armond Babaian | Bradley Breyer | Chris Boylan | David Buckler | Bus Driver | Construction Worker | Kathy Fulton | Kelly Gaither | Marie Green | Bruce Higgs | Robert Johnson | Man | Clive Morin | Stacy Nadu | Richard Sanchez | Heather Slay | Debbie White | Trevor Winn | Jane Woo
Others
Rocker | Roy Carson | John | Agent Jim Block | Reporter | William Bludworth | Chef | Mike | Coach | Campus Security | Porter | Spa Receptionist | Cho | Dr. Leonetti | Dotty | Line Cook | Woman on the street | Alex Browning | Carter Horton | Valerie Lewton | Billy Hitchcock | Terry Chaney | George Waggner | Larry Murnau | Co-pilot | Male flight attendant | Mr. Smith | Flight 180 female flight attendant 3 | Flight 180 female passenger
Locations
Presage Paper | 180 Corporate Consulting | Le Cáfe Miro 81 | Ming Yun Spa | Eastfield LaserEye Center | Mt. Abraham, New York | John F. Kennedy International Airport | Cocktails