Clear Rivers

Clear Rivers
Full Name	Clear Rivers
AKA	Clear
Gender	Female
Hair Color	Blonde (Final Destination 2) Brown (Final Destination)
Eye Color	Blue
Place of Origin	Mt. Abraham, New York
Born	September 5, 1982
Age	19 (FD1) 20 (FD2)
Status	Deceased
Died	May 15, 2000
Cause of Death	Incinerated in an oxygen explosion
Occupation	Artist High School Student (Formerly)
Relations	Mr. Rivers－Father; Deceased Mrs. Rivers－Mother Alex Browning－ Boyfriend; Deceased Tod Waggner－Friend; Deceased Carter Horton－Rival then Friend; Deceased Valerie Lewton－Teacher; Deceased Kimberly Corman－Best Friend
Actor	Ali Larter
First Appearance	Final Destination
Last Appearance	"Final Destination Bloodlines (Indirectly mentioned) "Final Destination 2" (On screen)

How do we know that is isn't exactly what was meant to happen? That out of everyone on Flight 180 you, me and Carter were meant to live? Maybe that was the design all along. Clear Rivers, on Death's design.

Clear Rivers is a main character in the Final Destination series, serving as the deuteragonist of Final Destination and the tritagonist of Final Destination 2. She was a senior student of Mt. Abraham High School and was one of the students aboard Volée Airlines Flight 180, who, after surviving a plane explosion foreseen by Alex Browning, assists him in "cheating Death" by rescuing the other survivors from their impending doom. In the sequel, she aids Route 23 visionary Kimberly Corman in saving the new set of victims. Aside from William Bludworth, Clear is the only character to have a significant role in more than one film in the series.

Clear is the seventh and final survivor of Flight 180 to die. In the alternative ending of Final Destination, she, alongside Carter Horton, survives after Alex dies, and she gives birth to Alexander Browning.

Biography

Life became shit after that. My mom couldn't deal anymore. She married this asshole who my mom with my real dad would have crossed the street to avoid this guy. Clear, on her family after her father's death.

Clear was born to a couple from Mt. Abraham, New York. Clear was very close to her father, and they would often stay at a cabin in the woods and go fishing. However, one day, Clear's father was murdered at a 7-Eleven store, and Clear's mother took another husband.

Clear's new parents often neglected her, so she decided to move out and live on her own. Unaware of her troubled past, the other students at Mt. Abraham High School found her mysterious and sly. Clear was one of the students qualified to board Volée Airlines Flight 180 for the school's annual field trip to Paris, France. She is of English descent.

Final Destination

When Alex warns the other passengers about his vision of the plane exploding in mid-air, Clear disembarks on her own accord before it explodes, killing the other 287 passengers.

Clear at the airport.

When FBI agents Weine and Schreck interrogate her, she says that she believed Alex's claim that the plane would explode. When the surviving students' parents arrive, she was given a ride home by Alex and his father. At the memorial for the victims, Clear presents Alex with a white rose to show her gratitude for her safety. After Tod Waggner's death, Clear shows up at his house and advises Alex to flee rather than face Weine, Schreck, and Tod's parents, who held Alex responsible for his death. The next day, when Alex visits Clear, she reveals that she believed Alex because she felt what he felt. When Clear and Alex sneak into the mortuary to observe Tod's body, the mortician, William Bludworth, tells them that Death is claiming the lives of those who were meant to die on the plane.

The next day, while she and Alex discuss what the mortician said at a café, they encounter the rest of the survivors and witness Terry Chaney get run over by a bus. Now convinced that Death is still after them, she helps Alex to rescue the remaining survivors, yet they only manage to save Carter Horton.

During a thunderstorm the next night, high winds blow loose live wires around Clear's house. She notices Death's presence, and after releasing her dog Rex, a loose rotary clothesline that nearly impaled her earlier is blown into a portable pool of water that spills water around her, but Clear is able to jump onto the trellis before the cable conducts the water. She climbs onto the house and enters through the window as the wire hits the house's main breaker, short-circuiting all the appliances in her house and forcing Clear to run into the garage to escape in her car.

As the wire breaks through the garage door, Clear drives off, and the rails of the garage door hit the car's windshields. She manages to drive through, but the wire lands on top of the car, shutting off the car's battery and preventing her from escaping. The wire hits a spike that punctures a gasoline tank, which leaks under her car.

Clear, noticing the same prediction on Alex.

When Alex arrives at the house, he tries to knock the wire off the car with a shovel, but it flies out of his hands into a tank of acetylene that propels under the car and ignites the gasoline leak, spreading the fire around the car. With no other options, Alex grabs the wire, despite Clear's pleas for him to stop, allowing Clear to escape from the car seconds before it explodes.

Six months later, Clear travels to Paris along with a recovered Alex and Carter to celebrate their survival. However, as Alex rethinks about their triumph over Death, she notices a reflection of a bus behind her, an omen from Terry's death earlier. Clear warns Alex, saving him from a speeding bus, yet also witnesses Carter's demise, revealing that Death's plan is still in action.

Final Destination 2

Clear in her padded cell.

In the six months between the ending of the first film and the start of the second, Clear and Alex "cheated death dozens of times" between them. Unfortunately, Death got Alex in the end - by smashing a brick into his head while he and Clear were talking in an alleyway outside his house. Nearby merchants called an ambulance after hearing the Clear's screams, but Alex was long dead before the ambulance arrived.

Stalemating Death, she admits herself to the Stonybrook Mental Institution, until a car pileup happens and Kimberly Corman asks for Clear's help in cheating death. Clear tells her how the Deaths list works, explaining that the survivors are to die in the order they would've in the premonition. When Kimberly reveals that her friends died last in her premonition, but they had been killed first, it dawns on Clear that Death is working backwards. Clear tells Kimberly to watch out for the signs, asking if she's seen anything ominous or anything ironic, to which she replies that she has.

Kimberly begs her to help her, saying that she had cheated death, but Clear tells her that she hasn't given her current predicament. Kimberly becomes agitated, saying that she has a responsibility. Clear remarks that because her friends are all dead, especially given her sadness over Alex's death, Clear advises Kimberly to isolate herself and let the others perish, not wanting to risk her life for a stranger. Kimberly calls her a selfish coward and flips off the security monitor in front of Clear's cell before leaving. She soon realizes, after the first death of a survivor of Route 23, that she has no choice and that more innocent people would die if she stayed locked up. So, she decides to change her reclusive ways.

After Tim Carpenter's demise, Clear leaves the asylum and decides to help Kimberly. She revisits William, along with Kimberly and Officer Thomas Burke, who tells them that the only sure-fire way to cheat Death is via new life. While they're at a gas station, Clear has noticeably become paranoid and remains alert to any possible disasters that could lead to their deaths. While trying to figure out what William said to them, Thomas recalls that there was a pregnant woman on the ramp the day the pileup happened. This leads them to believe that if she has her baby, it could break the chain and give all of them a clean slate. They then find the vehicle information and the name of the pregnant woman: Isabella Hudson.

While Isabella is taken into custody, the survivors gather in Thomas' apartment. Clear tries to explain to them how to evade Death, although none of the other survivors believe her, especially Eugene Dix, who gives Clear an attitude, calling it bullshit, which leads to Clear firing back at Eugene to stay alive as long as he believes that he can, and they all leave, except for Rory Peters. After witnessing Nora Carpenter's death and Eugene's failed attempt at suicide because it wasn't his turn to die, the survivors are now convinced. She and the other survivors rush to the hospital after learning that Isabella has gone into labor.

As the group races to reach Isabella, they discover that they were all spared from Death once before because of the events set into motion by the survivors of Flight 180 through their deaths. Clear realizes that that's the reason why Death is working backwards on the Route 23. The SUV suffers a blowout, causing it to crash, and Eugene is taken to the hospital for a collapsed lung.

After Kat Jennings and Rory are killed, Clear, Kimberly, and Thomas rush to the hospital. Clear goes to find Eugene, while Kimberly and Thomas find Isabella. Clear couldn't find Eugene, but Kimberly and Thomas find Isabella, and she and her baby are alive, and celebrate the moment. However, after Kimberly recalls her vision, it is revealed that Isabella was never meant to die in the crash.

Death

Clear finally meets her demise when she is about to be incinerated.

Meanwhile, in Eugene's room, the air vents close, and two oxygen tanks start leaking. Something falls over and knocks into one of Eugene's life support machines, pulling its plug nearly out of the socket. The socket sparks because of the oxygen, but doesn't ignite yet. Clear rushes to Eugene's room and opens the door. She notices the signs but is too late to dodge; the plug is completely knocked out of the socket, which then creates a spark and ignites the oxygen around Clear and Eugene, incinerating them both and ending the Flight 180 list.

Clear's body after the explosion.

Eugene Dix and Clear Rivers Death Scene - Final Destination 2 (Premonição 2) HD

Clear and Eugene's Death

Kimberly and Thomas see the fire from further down the corridor and rush to Clear and Eugene. But before they get there, the hospital room explodes, hurling Clear's body out of the room and over to the feet of Kimberly and Thomas as they duck to the floor. Kimberly and Thomas turn to see Clear's charred body at their feet, ending her long cheating run with death.

Signs/Clues

• Kimberly told Clear, "In my opinion, you're already dead."
• Every time Clear was nearly killed, it always had something to do with explosions:
  • The mortician tells Clear that she has such a fire in her.
  • Clear previously hit a teen for smoking at a gas station.
  • When Alex is using a cigarette lighter, there's a spark which looks like lightning.
  • Clear saw someone drop a tank of propane.
  • In the opening credits of Final Destination 2, there's a mask with black ink on its face. It's like it was burned, implicating Clear's death, which shows how her skin was burned.
  • After Flight 180 blows up, behind Clear was an orange and red picture which might have echoed the explosion.
  • Clear was originally supposed to die from an explosion while on board Flight 180, and from an explosion in her car, if it weren't for the intervention of Alex.
  • The reason for Clear's death through an explosion might be Death mimicking the Flight 180 explosion, the disaster where Clear was originally supposed to die.
• She is also nearly killed while in Thomas' apartment when a canoeing boat falls and nearly impales her and throws her out the window that the canoe hit. This foreshadows Clear being thrown down the hallway in the explosion that killed her.
• In the Flight 180 seat configuration, Clear was seated in "Seat 23", a nod to Route 23.
• In some versions of the film, the coloration of her death scene is warm (red, orange, and yellow).
• In Clear's alternate death, when the spark ignited the oxygen, Clear smiles just before the room exploded. This could mean relief for her from the stress and paranoia, and given the fact that her loved ones have all died, it's very likely that Clear was ready to die.
• In the film (and promotional photos), as Evan Lewis climbs out of his apartment, the fire escape portion he is on looks like a seven with an explosion over it, foreshadowing Clear's death as the seventh survivor of Flight 180.
• Ironically, both she and Eugene, who died with her in the blast, were the seventh survivors of their respective lists.
• Clear was the first survivor to appear in 2 movies from the franchise.

Final Destination 5

Oh Excuse me, Um... Those passengers who got off the plane earlier, What was that all about? Passenger, explaining to the Flight Attendant. A kid had a panic attack and wanted off the plane. Said he had some kind of vision. Flight Attendant, in reply.

At the end of the movie, before Flight 180 explodes, Clear gets off the plane along with Alex, Tod, Carter, Terry, Billy, and Valerie.

Appearances

• Final Destination (portrayed by Ali Larter)
• Final Destination (novel)
• Final Destination 2 (portrayed by Ali Larter)
• Final Destination 2 (novel)
• The Final Destination (Archive footage, reference) (portrayed by Ali Larter)
• Final Destination 5 (Archive footage) (portrayed by Ali Larter)
• Final Destination Bloodlines (Indirectly mentioned)

Trivia

Clear's death being referenced in Final Destination 5's opening credits.

• Clear is referenced in the opening credits of Final Destination 5 by her charred body smashing into the screen.
• Clear is one of the six survivors in the series who is not a visionary to see signs and omens leading to their own death or someone else's. The others include Nathan, Rory, Kevin Fischer, Lori Milligan, and Olivia Castle.
• In the novelization, Clear smiles before the explosion, and her final thoughts are: "It's over. At least I can rest now."
• Kirsten Dunst was one of the first choices to play Clear, along with Tobey Maguire as Alex. Craig Perry confirmed that they also nearly cast Jessica Biel for the role.
• Kimberly indirectly caused Clear's death after having a vision of a van being thrown into a lake and warning her about it, as Clear went after Eugene.
• The way Clear looks and acts changes between films. In the first film, she dresses more like a 'good girl' and has brown hair. She is also a lot more caring and nicer in the first film. In the second film, she has changed due to her previous experiences. She still has her hair dyed blond since the events in Paris and Carter's death, but now she wears more bad girl outfits, and she has a more cynical attitude.
• She's one of the many people who appear in the opening credits of The Final Destination.
• In the alternate ending of Final Destination, Alex saves Clear from the wire that was meant to explode the car she was in, and instead of being electrocuted and passing out, he was caught on fire and died. Since he was killed despite the design he was supposed to die in, they defeated death, leaving Carter and her to live the rest of their lives. A while later, she was revealed to be pregnant and successfully delivered her child. The newborn boy had a small collar, written "Alexander Chance Browning," meaning Alex is the supposed father of the child. She then brings her baby to the memorial, where she meets Carter, and both of them pay their respects to Alex. This alternate ending inspired the rule that "new life defeats death" in the second film, since, in theory, the birth of Clear and Alex's son ensured that she and Carter were off the list for good.
  • This rule is invalidated as Final Destination Bloodlines reveals that even if one of Death’s targets gives birth, they will still be targeted by Death, and the child will be added to the list by extension.
• The Direction Commentary for Final Destination reveals that the name "Kimberly" was originally considered for Clear but wasn't used. This name was later used for the main character in Final Destination 2.
• An unused ending (mentioned on the Direction Commentary) for Final Destination would have had Clear as the last person alive, but still pregnant, and it would have been implied that Death spared her because she had "an innocent soul" within her. However, once the baby is born, the "shadow" that represents Death in Final Destination would be seen in the same room as Clear, implying that now that she's had the baby, Death is allowed to kill her again, and the movie would have ended, leaving the viewer to guess what happens.
• In the script of Final Destination, she is described as: The loner in the group, Clear wears dark colors against the insecurity of her sex appeal. She appears aloof and more wordy than the other students.
• In the script of Final Destination 2, she is described as: CLEAR RIVERS, 19, While still beautiful, this young woman bears few traces of her former self. Her eyes dart around suspiciously, maddened by chronic paranoia. Her hair is patchy, her eyes dark and haunted. Bordering on savage. Her movements are fidgety, erratic, always distracted by something unseen.
• In a TV edit for Final Destination 2, her death was slightly censored by cutting out the part where it shows a couple of frames showing her face getting burnt, and her body flying off was also cut.
• She and Eugene are the only two survivors who died together despite being from two different survival groups.
• A reference is made to Clear through an easter egg in The Final Destination, where Clear's name appears on a sign of a brand of water that reads "Clear Rivers Water". The sign triggers the movie's main visionary, Nick O'Bannon, and alerts him that water will cause an upcoming fatal accident.
• A reference is made to Clear through an easter egg in Final Destination Bloodlines, where Clear's name is indirectly mentioned by Darlene Campbell as she tries to remember the hospital's name where "JB" works.
• Clear is the only character, along with William Bludworth, to have a major role in more than one entry in the franchise.