Lewis Romero

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Lewis Romero
Full Name	Lewis Romero
AKA	Hector Romero
Gender	Male
Hair Color	Black
Eye Color	Brown
Place of Origin	McKinley, Pennsylvania
Age	17
Status	Deceased
Died	June 3, 2005
Cause of Death	Head crushed between two gym weights (film) Head crushed by multiple gym weights (novel)
Occupation	High school student Football player
Relations	Veronica－Girlfriend Kevin Fischer－Friend; Deceased
Actor	Texas Battle
First Appearance	Final Destination 3
Last Appearance	Final Destination 3 (on screen) Final Destination 5 (closing credits}

Whoo! What I tell you Kevin, huh? Fuck death! I just win! That's all I know how to do Kevin! Baby I just win! Lewis's last words, to Kevin.

Lewis Romero is a character in the film Final Destination 3. He is a high school student and a survivor of the Devil's Flight derailment.

Biography

Lewis lives in McKinley, Pennsylvania, and attends the fictional McKinley High School. He is the quarterback of McKinley High School's football team and is shown to be very competitive, arrogant, and loud-mouthed, which eventually comes back to bite him.

Final Destination 3

Lewis at the amusement park.

Lewis is first seen showing off his skill by playing a high striker. He later boards the Devil's Flight roller coaster. Before the ride starts, Wendy Christensen has a premonition that the ride will crash. When she panics, Lewis begins to mock her, causing a fight to erupt between him and Kevin Fischer. Lewis accidentally slaps Erin Ulmer across the face during the scuffle, causing Ian McKinley to join the fight. As a result, he is thrown off the ride, along with several other students, just moments before the ride crashes as Wendy predicted, killing the remaining passengers on board. Lewis later appears at the funeral of Ashley Freund and Ashlyn Halperin. After the service, Lewis tells Kevin how boring it was, and that if he ever has to come to his funeral, bring him a PSP. That way, he'd "have something to do".

Lewis is the fourth survivor of Devil's Flight to die.

Death

After Frankie Cheeks' death, Wendy and Kevin visit Lewis at a gym to warn him that Death is still after them, and he is next on Death's list. Lewis rudely rebuffs them, claiming the two are seeing things because of the trauma caused by the death of their loved ones, Jason Wise and Carrie Dreyer. Wendy begins to see several signs all around the gym that were in the photo she took of Lewis at the amusement park, as Lewis works out at a bow-flex machine and rants about his future football career, as well as mocking Death to the point where he believes that Death actually fears him.

A couple of gym weights fall on Lewis's head, crushing it like a watermelon.

In the midst of the rant, a weightlifter knocks the claw off a bear statue, which hits another weightlifter in the eye, and causes him to drop his weight-lifting bar. The force of the weights causes two staggering swords above the bow-flex machine to fall and cut through the wires that were holding the weights up, unbeknownst to Lewis and the others. Disbelieving that he was destined to die and technically challenging Death, Lewis lifts the weights once again, which swing down and crush his head, spraying viscera on Wendy and Kevin.

Lewis Romero Death Scene - Final Destination 3 (Premonição 3) HD

Lewis's Death

Signs/Clues

• When Lewis plays the hammer game at the Carnival, he hits the bell with so much force that it knocks away the wooden figure's head.
• Wendy took Lewis' picture the moment he sent the weight of the hammer game upwards. However, when she looks at the photo, the blurry weight seems to be coming downwards towards Lewis' head.
  • The way Lewis is hunched over, his head is obscured from view, as if he were headless.

    

    Lewis' picture, with hints at his death.

    • A cardboard sultan was also shown in the picture. Lewis's football team was named "The Sultans".
      • The aforementioned sultan wields a pair of swords identical to the ones on display in the gym.
      • A sign in the picture says "Hell's Gate".
• A toy bear was shown in Lewis' picture. The gym where Lewis works out has a large stuffed bear in it. The toy bear also seems to be upset, and the stuffed bear is being used as a punching bag by one of the gym-goers, as Lewis' team, the Sultans, are fierce rivals to the Bruins team. The bear statue may have been stolen from the Campus of the Bruins team.
• The sign with the swords on it has the line "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger", the same words Kevin told Jason back at McKinley Park.
• The song "Killing Time" by (Hed) Planet Earth plays on the radio at the gym.
• At the opening scene, a caricature of a sword-eater can be seen.
• Lewis continuously repeats "That is 3, number 3, number 3..." during the hammer game. If one is to consider Ashley and Ashlyn's death scenes as a single one, Lewis would have the third death scene in the movie.
• At the Carnival, Lewis says, "I JUST WIN!" when he scores at the hammer game. He says the same line seconds before the weights crush his head.
  • Lewis is also portrayed as a trash-talker throughout the movie, constantly swearing and insulting others, including Death itself, before he dies. His brutal way of dying could be interpreted as Death's way of silencing Lewis once and for all, both as a lesson and as a response to his insult.

Appearances

• Final Destination 3 (portrayed by Texas Battle)
• Final Destination 3 (novel)
• The Final Destination (archive footage in opening credits) (portrayed by Texas Battle)
• Final Destination 5 (archive footage in ending credits) (portrayed by Texas Battle)

Lewis's premonition death in archive footage in The Final Destination.

Trivia

• In the X-ray credit in the opening of The Final Destination, Lewis' death in Wendy's premonition is seen, although his true death isn't shown.
• According to the original script, Lewis was originally called Hector and was of Hispanic origin. Texas Battle's audition was so loved by the producers that they changed the character's origin to African.
• Lewis' surname was named after iconic horror director George Romero.
• A different clue was shown in the deleted scene; Wendy noticed that Lewis' school team logo appeared in the background of the photo.
• In an early draft of the script of Final Destination 3, Lewis is described as: HECTOR ROMERO. 6' 2", 230 pounds, sporting a Super Cuts version of the latest jock favored bad haircut. Hector is dressed in a Warren Sapp #99 silver and black Oakland Raiders jersey.
  • From "Behind the Scenes" of Final Destination 3, originally, Lewis was supposed to be a San Francisco 49ers fan, but was changed to an Oakland Raiders fan. Glen Morgan stated he thought 49ers fans would not find it appealing, but Raiders fans would find it amusing.