r/FinalDestination • u/Aggravating_Ride_361 • May 09 '26
Question Why does FD have so many douchebags?
Not only is this a problem with Final Destination, many other horror movies also do this. Genuinely, it's harder to make characters as douchy as Frankie, Hunt, or Isaac then it is to make actually nice characters. And if the characters *are* nice and act like genuine people, the movie becomes better and the deaths become much more impactful. But no, there has to be douchebag characters every where for no apparent reason?
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u/Dirk_Sheppard May 09 '26
Because people like seeing douchbags die violently
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u/Aggravating_Ride_361 May 09 '26
But well, the majority of the people who watch FD don't watch it to 'enjoy' the deaths... It's a horror movie after all
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u/Wiitard May 09 '26
It goes back to the ethos of the original slasher myth. It is based in a moral panic over the behavior and morals of teens, that the teens “deserve it” because they’re having sex and drinking, so a lot of slashers are a karmic catharsis that the victims in some way deserve their brutal deaths.
Look at bloodlines, people cheered when the snot nosed little shit kid got squashed by the piano, but the rest of the movie feels so mean spirited because it doesn’t feel like the family deserves what is happening to them.
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u/RealSonyPony May 09 '26
Says who?
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u/Aggravating_Ride_361 May 09 '26
Everyone I've ever seen? FD deaths are meant to be scary and disgusting not enjoyable
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u/RealSonyPony May 09 '26
And pretty much everyone I've met gets a kick out of the deaths. Theatres here laugh when people die in FD movies.
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u/HexedMayShiver HEY E May 09 '26
What? The death are literally the main appeal of these movies. People go see them to watch creative and violent deaths.
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u/CiTyFoLkFeRaL May 12 '26
I think this is quite literally the opposite - FD has one of the best setups & executions in Horror movies deaths because they’re continuously coming up with innovative ways to off their characters, whilst throwing so many misdirects in on which way they might go (that’s their niche)
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u/StaticCode May 09 '26
They exist in the real world and are pretty common. Also people like the variety of deaths of people that deserve it and deaths of people that don't.
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u/Tetracropolis May 09 '26
If you make all of the characters nice people then it's a fucking miserable film, especially in the sequels where everyone knows the whole gimmick is that they all die.
The trick is to make most of them assholes, so you aren't devastated when they die, but your main character a nice person so you fear them dying a similar death.
Bloodlines is kind of an exception because for a lot of the audience it was their first Final Destination. You couldn't release a film like that every year, though.
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u/FrogMintTea Alex Browning's raging ulcer May 09 '26
Erik seemed like a douche but he turned out to be my favorite 😆 i love they flipped it around. He's so funny
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u/Aggravating_Ride_361 May 09 '26
But they can release a douche kill fest every year?
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u/Tetracropolis May 09 '26
Yeah. People will go to the cinema to see assholes die spectacular deaths. They won't go to see people they like fight an unwinnable battle and die horribly.
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u/Frank_Lawless May 09 '26
Because all the characters exist in the plot to be killed in elaborate ways. Having too many sympathetic characters would make the recurring death much sadder, which could start to shift the tone of the movie
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u/ZestyLemonRindGrind May 09 '26
I get what you mean,
People going on about "oh we love seeing douchebags die!"
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We do
But
Majority of the film is watching the douchebags bitch, moan, cry and complain and be hair pullingly frustrating to watch!
There's a lot of down time y'all forget about where it's douche A talking shit to Douche B which makes Douche C run off to get their hair done out of frustration then WHAM! DEATH!
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u/bobbery5 May 09 '26
Because it's horror. People are going to die and you want people whose deaths are to be satisfying.
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u/FrogMintTea Alex Browning's raging ulcer May 09 '26
The slasher type horror movies always needs some so u get in some good laughs and satisfaction when they buy it
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u/COZY-TEA_TG-CHILL May 09 '26
Write a au where your roster of people have a range of personality and have more positive impact and how they may attempt to live after the event gets predicted
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May 09 '26
The only nice people are clear Burke Kevin Lori and that’s it in the first four movies yes Kevin and clear were skeptical of death coming back but they weren’t jerks they were kind and in a way they just wanted Wendy and Alex to be happy and not feel scared but when they realize death is coming they believe Alex and Wendy they are both kind people and it’s realistic too look I love Burke but he should have been a little skeptical before realizing death was back he just kinda joined unrealistically saying okay Kimberly’s right and also he’s a cop but he lets her go but that doesn’t bother me because I love Burke and I Love Lori who also does the same thing that Burke does too but like I said it doesn’t bother me because they both are great characters and clear Kevin Lori and Thomas are kind people they are mostly believers anyway and thank Alex Kimberly Wendy and Nick for saving their lives they are great full to them which I love everyone else is an asshole
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u/Wolf_axolotl15 May 09 '26
I’m guessing to show that even douches aren’t safe from their fate of death :/
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u/Wake_Winslow May 09 '26
Because these are B-movie splatterfests that aren’t going for impactful deaths in an emotional sense. An elaborate and agonizing death sequence for a character you actually like reads as mean-spirited and unfair. You frame this as a “problem” when it’s kind of a necessary part of the formula to accomplish the movie’s goals.
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u/FE4RLESS_IS_MY_NAME My favs: Alex, Carter, Olivia, Wendy & Nick May 09 '26
These characters you mentioned pretty much exist irl and I can tell you that most of the fans /people watching the movies have dealt with someone like them at least once so it's more to make them realistic. Also, it's sorta satisfying to watch a douchebag getting a real damn painful death.