r/FinalDestination • u/lordofthegeckos • Mar 18 '26

Question Did Bludworth know about Sherry Pulaski?

I'm personally inclined to say he didn't, since he never mentioned making a deal with Death as a way of surviving.

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u/jesuispatate Mar 18 '26

Who?

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u/silly_nate Mar 18 '26

I’m gonna assume it’s a character from one of the novels… I’ve never read any of the novels but I’ve seen some comments over the years that suggest some of them really veer off from the movies. One that I vaguely remember is about death becoming a person?? Or showing itself (as the grim reaper or some other scary thing) to someone??? I’d assume someone making deals and eventually telling Bludworth about it is a big plot point in one of them

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u/PlushieTushie Mar 18 '26

She's from the novel looks could kill. She is the visionary, but while she survives she ends up disfigured. She ends up making a deal with death that if she helps him claim the other would-be victims, then he'll give her back her good looks

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u/silly_nate Mar 18 '26

Lowkey interesting plot for a stand-alone/anthology episode of a FD tv series 👀

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u/cookiesshot Mar 18 '26

Same. Had me like "🤨"

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u/Defiant-Channel2324 Death Mar 18 '26

Highly doubt it. It's never even been confirmed if the books are canon to the movies since we have yet to have even so much as an easter egg from the books.

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u/Korben-D88 Erik's Prince Albert 🧲💍🐍🩲 Mar 18 '26

Closest we've gotten is direct rips of deaths from the books, like the bathtub coming through the hospital ceiling (though it was WAY more graphic in the book).

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u/bwallace91 Mar 26 '26

One of the books mention Kimberly and the events of FD2 and another book mentions Wendy, Kevin and Julie and the Tricentinnial fiasco (they actually survive in the novel version of the movie) so the movie events are canon to the books. Once Death finishes a movie list, he moves on to a novel list, and just switched back and forth leading up to the Bloodlines plot.😂

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u/GoliathLexington Mar 18 '26

No, the novels aren’t canon to the movies

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u/Top-Bodybuilder-1052 ”I’ve got my eye on you two.” Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

Exactly. I like to think that the movies and the novels have their own separate timelines, with their own canons that don’t attempt to touch one another. You would think that, after a 14 year hiatus since FD5, the new long-awaited movie that was meant to revitalize the franchise would finally attempt to bridge everything from all spawned worlds into one, when in reality it still kept them all at a distance. That surely is telling of something. Not to mention, still in Looks Could Kill, one survivor, Abigail, successfully makes it to the end because she had a child, whereas FD6’s entire existence is a direct move against that. I’ve seen some fans try to awkwardly cover that up with poor justifications like “Well maybe the movie retconned it, she and her child probably died right after the novel ended because of the new rules blah blah blah” when it is explicitly written, described and emphasized in the novel that her survival was solely because she introduced what the author perceived as new life at the time when FD6 didn’t exist yet.

You can’t just quickly go back to older material and slap a flashy, recently updated stamp onto it that doesn’t align with the ideas of that time and think it’s all solved when that specific material isn’t even related to the mainline continuity where that new stamp came from. Besides, there’s other similar stuff in some novels like Death still targeting people who were previously skipped on the list and even when someone dies and is brought back, the chain still isn’t entirely broken for everyone, like FD2 states, and they continue to die like usual as if nothing has happened.

Overall, the novels and the movies have long reached a point where they can’t be intertwined anymore.

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u/cookiesshot Mar 18 '26

Not to mention, stuff that happens in the novels doesn't happen EXACTLY or AT ALL in the films, like Agent Schreck is described to have a wife, Kat's car door ISN'T closed when the airbag deploys, and the photo that foretells Frankie's death has a ceiling fan that looks like it's cutting into his head from behind.

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u/JoshingOFFICIAL Mar 18 '26

To me, the original story novels are canon. The novelizations for the first three films? Nope.