Eugene Dix

Eugene Dix
Full Name	Eugene Dix
Gender	Male
Place of Origin	White Plains, New York
Status	Deceased
Died	Tuesday May 15, 2000
Cause of Death	Incinerated in an oxygen explosion
Occupation	Mt. Abraham High School Grade 12 English Teacher
Relations	Tim Carpenter - Student, deceased Brian Gibbons - Student, deceased Clear Rivers - Friend, deceased
Actor	T. C. Carson
First Appearance	Final Destination 2
Last Appearance	Final Destination 5 (closing credits)

So, if you had never gotten off the plane, we wouldn't be alive in the first place. Eugene's realization about Death's design.

Eugene Dix is a main character in Final Destination 2 and is a survivor of the Route 23 highway pileup. He is a high school teacher who was set to replace another teacher at Mt. Abraham High School.

Eugene is the sixth and final survivor of the Route 23 pileup to die.

Biography

Eugene lived somewhere in New York. He is shown to be very sensitive, skeptical, and sarcastic. He is also shown to have suicidal tendencies. Prior to the crash, Eugene was substituting for Ms. Valerie Lewton at Mt. Abraham High School when he learned that one of his students at his original school brought a knife to class and killed his substitute teacher.

Final Destination 2

Eugene attempting to commit suicide.

Eugene was riding his motorcycle to work, when a young woman named Kimberly Corman has a premonition of a pile up on Route 23. She blocks the road to prevent the other drivers from entering the highway, including Eugene. Moments later the accident occurs just as she predicted, killing several other people. After the accident, the other survivors are brought to the police station, where Eugene tells them about the curse of Flight 180, even though he himself is skeptical. He tells some insensitive jokes with Rory to Tim and Nora. 

The next day after Evan Lewis's death the remaining survivors reunite for safety, and Eugene expresses his disbelief that Death is still after them. He leaves the apartment and goes into an elevator along with another survivor named Nora Carpenter. While in the elevator, he witnessed Nora's death and becomes suicidal. He takes Thomas Burke's gun and tries to shoot himself, but none of the six shots go off, as it wasn't his turn to die. Now believing the group, he teams up with the rest of the group to try to find a way to cheat Death's plan.

Eugene remembers his near-death experience.

The next day, the group leaves the apartment to find Isabella Hudson. Along the way, their vehicle suffers a blowout and crashes onto a nearby farm. The back of the car is penetrated by PVC pipes, which puncture Eugene's lung, leaving him in serious conditions. He is then taken to the hospital.

Death

Eugene, before being incinerated in an explosion.

While in the hospital bed, Eugene watches helplessly as Death closes the vents in his room and snaps the tube to the oxygen tanks, spreading the pure oxygen into the air. His bed began to roll away from the wall and the plug supporting his defibrillator began to come out of its socket, unplugging his defibrillator. As Eugene gasps for air, the defibrillator goes into emergency mode, and Eugene is able to breathe again. Everything seems fine, until Clear Rivers shows up and opens his door. With the oxygen sifting in the room and the vents shut, the plug is pulled out and creates a spark. The oxygen is ignited and creates an explosion, incinerating both Eugene and Clear as well.

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

Clear and Eugene's Death

Signs/Clues

• Eugene tried to shoot himself with a handgun, but out of six shots, none of them went off. Clear confirmed that this was because it wasn't his time to die.
• When Eugene tried to shoot himself with the hand gun, the gun had six bullets in it, marking him as the sixth survivor to die.
• Eugene had a key chain of a pool ball with the 13 on it.
• During the time of his death, the milliliters go up to "1800".
• In Burke's apartment, Eugene says to Clear Rivers; "If Death is after you, why don't you just stay the hell away from us?" Unfortunately, they both die in the same explosion.

Appearances

• Final Destination 2 (portrayed by T.C. Carson)
• Final Destination 2 (novel) (as Eugene Hooper)
• The Final Destination (reference in opening credits)
• Final Destination 5 (archive footage in ending credits) (portrayed by T.C. Carson)

The Explosion that kills Eugene and Clear appearing as an archive footage in the opening sequence of The Final Destination.

Trivia

• The massive explosion that kills both him and Clear appears in the opening sequence of The Final Destination.
• Eugene Dix and Carter Horton share a few similarities:
  • Carter and Eugene both say they control their own lives. Also, they both decide to try to kill themselves, Eugene with a gun and Carter with a car and train.
• In the script for Final Destination 2, Eugene is described as: EUGENE DIX, 44, a English teacher.
• Eugene was supposed to be stabbed to death by a student, but was transferred to another school where he replaced Ms. Lewton following her death in Final Destination, so he wasn't around when the student showed up at his school. This is somewhat of a plot hole, as Eugene would still have to be transferred if Ms. Lewton had died on Flight 180.
  • ​Also, because another teacher was killed in his place, Eugene should have gotten that teachers remaining time (according to Final Destination 5) Since Eugene (with this other teacher's time) should have died in the pileup; it can be assumed that the unknown teacher would have died at the time of the crash.
• In a TV edit of the film, his premonition death scene was slightly censored by not showing the blood splatter out of him when his motorcycle hits him.
• While he was lying in the hospital, things inside the room start to move with no apparent reason. This could show Death was in full control, not relying on accidents for Clear's and Eugene's death.
• In the novel for Final Destination 2 it is revealed Eugene wasn't killed by the initial explosion but by shrapnel that was launched at him by the explosion.
• He is similar to Tim Carpenter from the same movie as both almost suffocated before their actual death.
• He is one of two African-Americans who died as the last survivors of the opening disasters. The second one is Nathan Sears (who chronologically died before Eugene). Neither of them also was a visionary.
• His motorcycle is either a 1991 or 1992 Kawasaki ZXR 750.