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Perry Malinowski is a character in the film Final Destination 3. She is a high school student and a survivor of the Devil's Flight derailment.
Biography
Perry lives in McKinley, Pennsylvania, and attends McKinley High School. She is friends with Julie Christensen and Amber Regan. She is shown to be a quiet, non-spoken person. Perry is of mixed Polish and an unknown Asian descent.
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Perry and Julie watching Wendy being drench in the rain.
Perry and her friends visit the carnival for McKinley's grad night (despite being sophomores themselves) and board Devil's Flight.

Perry at the funeral
Before the ride starts, Wendy Christensen has a premonition that the ride will crash and everyone aboard will die. When she panics, a fight breaks out and several people leave the ride, including Perry. Moments later the ride crashes as Wendy predicted, killing the remaining passengers on board. Perry is later seen at school signing yearbooks with Julie and Amber. She also attends the funerals for Ashley Freund and Ashlyn Halperin and later attends McKinley's tricentennial fair.
Perry is the sixth survivor of Devil's Flight to die.
Death

A flagpole is launched towards Perry's direction, impaling her.
After Julie is almost killed by a horse, Perry and Amber rush to comfort her. Wendy rushes over as well and demands to know who sat next to her on the roller coaster, because they are next on Death's list. Perry looks at the others in horror and slowly stands up realizing that she is next.
Suddenly the horse, who has been tied to a flagpole is frightened by the fireworks and runs off again, breaking the flagpole in half and launching it into the air. As Perry stands up, the flagpole impales her through her chest, spraying her blood all over her friends and killing her instantly. After she falls forward, her body slowly slides down the bloody flagpole.
Signs/Clues
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- The flag that impales her reads LIBERTY OR DEATH.
Perry and Julie's picture with the clues to show how they die.
- In the picture Wendy took of Julie and Perry on the night of the accident, an American flag can be seen behind Perry in the background.
- Also, in the picture, a horse is seen on a merry-go-round in the background. It looks like the horse that caused Perry's death and nearly killed Julie.
- In the picture as well, the horse has a pole through it, foreshadowing Perry's fate.
- In the opening credits, there is an image of a sword swallower. They're making the same jerking head move as Perry does during her death.
Trivia
- Perry's death appears in the opening sequence of The Final Destination showing the flagpole that impaled her.
- Perry is the only survivor in the movie franchise whose race is other than African American or Caucasian.
- Perry is the only character to die that doesn't speak at all in the film, the only sounds she makes are a scream when she falls from the rollercoaster. Ironically, it seemed as though she was going to say something shortly before her death.
- She, along with Julie, went through most fashion changes in the film. Having a short twin ponytail when Wendy took her picture, unknown haircut while wearing hoods, medium-length straight hair with small bun (similar to Julie) at Ashley's and Ashlyn's funeral, and long hair with long bun at the Tricentennial.
Perry's impalement in the skeletal version of The Final Destination.
- Perry is one of the least recognizable characters in the franchise due to her not speaking at all and having a very quick and forgettable death scene.
- She got killed seconds right after the previous survivor who was meant to die in the order but was saved by the visionary of the disaster that they survived similarly like Billy Hitchcock and Erin Ulmer.
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Disaster(s) |
Devil's Flight | Train 081 |
Survivors |
Wendy Christensen | Kevin Fischer | Perry Malinowski | Julie Christensen | Erin Ulmer | Ian McKinley | Lewis Romero | Frankie Cheeks | Ashlyn Halperin | Ashley Freund |
Casualties |
Jason Wise | Carrie Dreyer | Bob | Elle Dana | Jill | Marcus | Scott |
Others |
Stacy Kobayashi | Veronica | Amber Regan | Ethan | Harry | Ride Attendant | Mr. Christensen | Mrs. Christensen | Yuri | Minister | Jason Wise's brother | Mr. Fischer | Officar Clark | Officar Polanski | Ben Franklin | Payton | Kahill | Laura | Sean | Bludworth | Norman Goldstein |
Locations |
McKinley, Pennsylvania | McKinley Park | High Dive | McKinley High School | Phoenix Tanning Company | Andy's | Build it | McKinley Tri-Centennial |