Ian McKinley

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Ian McKinley
Full Name	Ian McKinley
AKA	Ian Logan Greene
Gender	Male
Hair Color	Black
Eye Color	Blue
Place of Origin	McKinley, Pennsylvania
Born	1988
Age	17
Status	Deceased
Died	Saturday June 4, 2005
Cause of Death	Bisected by a cherry picker
Occupation	High School student Hardware Store worker
Relations	Erin Ulmer - Girlfriend; Deceased Kevin Fischer - Enemy; Deceased Wendy Christensen - Enemy; Deceased
Actor	Kris Lemche
First Appearance	Final Destination 3
Last Appearance	Final Destination 5 (Closing credits)

"Ian McKinley". How pathetic is it that my last name is the same as my high school? Ian, on his family name.

Ian McKinley is a character in the film Final Destination 3. He is a high school goth and a survivor of the Devil's Flight derailment. He is also the boyfriend of Erin Ulmer. He is a supporting antagonist after his girlfriend died after being shot several times in the back of the head by a nail gun.

Biography

Ian lived in McKinley, Pennsylvania, and attended the fictional McKinley High School. Like his girlfriend Erin, he is shown to be very intelligent. He and Erin also work together at the local 'Build It' store.

Final Destination 3

Ian with Erin watching Wendy being drenched in the rain.

Ian attends the carnival with Erin for their senior class field trip. They both board Devil's Flight, but before the ride starts, classmate Wendy Christensen has a vision that the ride will crash, killing everyone on board. When she panics, a fight ensues between Lewis Romero and Kevin Fischer. When Lewis accidentally slaps Erin, Ian gets involved as well, and they are all thrown off the ride, shortly before the ride crashes as Wendy predicted.

Weeks later, he appears at the school, signing yearbooks with Erin, when they see a somber Wendy walking alone in the rain. He and Erin laugh a little when they see Ashley Freund and Ashlyn Halperin try to invite Wendy to a tanning salon.

After Ashley and Ashlyn die, he and Erin appear at their funeral. He makes a scene in front of the other guests when the minister says, "We are all equal in Death's eyes", before being led to his car by Lewis and Kevin Fischer. After Lewis and Frankie Cheeks die, Wendy and Kevin go to the Build it hardware store and try to warn Ian and Erin that Death is still after them and they are next on Death's list, but they are very skeptical about their warning.

Ian witnessing Erin's death.

Deciding to mock Wendy, Ian brings up a theory that if the last survivor were to kill themselves, it would ruin Death's plan and save everyone else on the list. Afterwards, he is nearly impaled by a falling stack of plywood. Wendy manages to push him out of the way at the last second, but Death immediately skips him and goes to Erin, who is shot in the back of the head with a nail gun. This leaves Ian devastated and causes him to resent Wendy, whom he blames for Erin's death.

Depending on the choices from Choose Their Fate, Ian can be either the sixth or seventh survivor of Devil's Flight to die.

Death

A cherry picker falls on top of Ian, brutally crushing him in half.

Ian's dead body, with his arm twitched to Wendy, Kevin and Julie.

Ian follows Wendy to McKinley's tricentennial fair. During the celebration, Ian confronts Kevin, Wendy, and Julie, believing that he will be the cause of Wendy's death. Wendy tells Ian that if he doesn't kill her, it will ruin Death's plan, and they will all be safe. However, since Ian has already been skipped, he doesn't care and still plans to kill her. Before he can do so, a set of fireworks goes off in their direction and barely misses Ian, hitting the cherry picker behind him instead. As Ian shouts that he's not going to die, the cherry picker, holding up the Tri-Centennial sign, falls. Ian looks up at the falling sign for a few seconds before it falls on him and brutally crushes him in half. The surviving half of his body is seen lying on the ground in a pool of blood. His body slightly twitches as he flips the bird to Wendy before succumbing to blood loss.

Ian McKinley Death Scene - Final Destination 3 (Premonição 3) HD

Ian and Erin's photo with the clues to show how they die.

Signs/Clues

Death's First Attempt

• The poster that shows "KILL" looks like it is made of wood, hinting at the planks that almost killed Ian.
• In his picture, Ian recoiled at the camera's flash, just like Kevin did in his own picture. Both their deaths in real life involved something blasting at them at point-blank range.
• In the picture, the word "SKILL" is shown, but the letter "S" is obscured. So, it shows the word "KILL".
• During the Tricentennial, Ian wears a black shirt with an "X", foreshadowing that it was going to be crushed.
• Wendy tells Ian to stay away from her if he wants to live. She is technically right since she saved her friends beforehand, while being unintentionally saved by Ian, causing Death to return to the beginning of the list and kill Ian. Alongside that, staying away from Wendy would technically save him, as Wendy was meant to be crushed by the cherry picker, but he stood in the way, skipping Wendy.
• The sign on the cherry picker is shaped as an irregular pentagon, a geometrical shape with five points and sides.
  • Ian was meant to be the fifth survivor to die, but his death was intervened by Wendy.
  • The giant sign that crushed Ian was pointing down at him, similar to the banners from Wendy's photo and the fence posts at the store.
• In the aftermath of the disaster, Ian is seen complaining to Erin about his last name also being the town's name (McKinley, Pennsylvania), writing "Ian" over the school's name, which is also McKinley. Coincidentally, the sign that crushes him also has "McKinley" written on it, only this time, Ian is below his own name.
• Just before Ian gets crushed, he looks up at the sign the same way he did when the fence posts nearly impaled him.
• In the picture of Ian, his legs are offscreen. Later, when Ian died, his lower body, including his legs, was completely crushed by the sign, which caused him to succumb to blood loss.

Appearances

• Final Destination 3 (portrayed by Kris Lemche)
• Final Destination 3 (novel)
• The Final Destination (reference in opening credits)
• Final Destination 5 (archive footage in ending credits) (portrayed by Kris Lemche)

The cherry picker that bisects Ian in the opening sequence of The Final Destination.

Trivia

• The cherry picker that bisects Ian appeared in the opening sequence of The Final Destination.
• Ian is referenced in the opening credits of Final Destination 5 through the fence posts from his picture and the part of the cherry picker that crashes towards the screen.
• According to the making of Final Destination 3, Ian was going to be called Logan.
• Ian's pet name was “Zip," which is a reference to the movie Freaks directed by (ironically) Tod Browning.
• In the alternate ending where Wendy smashes the camera, Ian is completely crushed by the cherry picker. This was actually the original ending of the film and also occurs in the novel.
• In a very early draft of the script of Final Destination 3, Ian (along with Erin) are described as: LOGAN GREENE and ERIN ULMER. They appear more like brother and sister than boyfriend and girlfriend. Intelligent and quietly intense, Logan wears a Bad Religion t-shirt while Erin has a pair of eyebrow rings. Loners, even together, it is not really by choice. Also, in this same draft, Ian (Logan) is charred by the explosion of fireworks, instead of being crushed by the Tri-Centennial sign.