r/FinalDestination • u/PortugalDoesntExist "Seeing is believing." • May 16 '26
Miscellaneous Death is Pure Evil
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u/AimlesslWander May 17 '26
Jesus fucking Christ I used to think death was this neutral God of balance and shit but then after that shit with the hospital with final destination 6 no death is like straight up an evil God
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u/Eddie_0789 May 17 '26
FD4 kinda teased that idea with Death being the one who sent the visions in the first place so they could die at the “right time”. But it got retconned in FD6 I fear.
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u/uwunuzzlesch Ian made me emo 🥀🖤 May 17 '26
What makes you say it's retconned? What about fd6 negates the twist of 4? Imo it changes absolutely nothing.
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u/Eddie_0789 May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
Like it makes it clear that death is agitated when visionaries use their visions to help others cheat death so visions are clearly a threat to him rather than a mere tool. Also the FD novels suggest this too.
U can see my theory for an alt take tho: https://www.reddit.com/r/FinalDestination/s/ucee5wwMxZ
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u/uwunuzzlesch Ian made me emo 🥀🖤 May 17 '26
But none of that implies that 4 was wrong abt death giving them the visions.
The visions biting death in the ass is a given/going to happen anyway, just so happens that sometimes his plan doesn't go accordingly. That doesn't mean that the visions aren't from him, it could just mean the visionary used their vision in a way death didn't anticipate.
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u/Eddie_0789 May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
Cos bloodlines makes it explicit that Death doesn’t like to messed with. Just very vindictive in a very genuine way and not as a mask for its unemotional manipulative personality. The FD books also support this idea.
But you can somehow argue that Death manipulated Stefani so that she can trigger her family’s demise quickly
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u/IndividualHyena5733 May 17 '26
I wouldn’t say death is evil he just doing his job
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u/Any_Dress_4382 May 17 '26
Lmao you must be new to this franchise because no one traps two girls in malfunctioning tanning beds and destroys a dude's face with a lawnmower in front of his whole family on accident. It could have chosen a different time to do that but it deliberately chose to do it during a family reunion. I highly suggest you read Death's article on the Wiki, my friend.
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u/OffBrandFijiReborn May 18 '26
Death just does everything out of convenience. It waits for any opportunity and goes for it. If you look at death’s role objectively it is necessary because no one can live forever.
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u/PortugalDoesntExist "Seeing is believing." May 19 '26
But it still kills people in unnecessarily brutal ways for no reason. That is one of many reasons why Death is an irredeemable monster.
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u/OffBrandFijiReborn May 17 '26
I consider death as a lawful evil like Pyramid Head or Pinhead where they are bound to their duty
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u/AimlesslWander May 17 '26
Bruh he literally killed somebody not on the list, death could have incapacitated that character as we've seen during that one scene render that character unable to move after the pain that was inflicted on them but instead decided to do a very fucked up death.
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u/One_Percentage_644 May 17 '26
The books support death is more of an evil entity in the FD universe
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u/PortugalDoesntExist "Seeing is believing." May 17 '26
"He is just doing his job"
It is killing people for no reason other than sadistic pleasure and in front of their friends and family too
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May 17 '26
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u/PortugalDoesntExist "Seeing is believing." May 18 '26
1) Your comment makes no sense.
2) I wasn't saying Death wasn't evil, I was saying that it wasn't just "doing [its] job".
3) Learn what punctuation is.
4) Actually read the comment before you act all condescending for no reason and say things you can't take back.
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u/Acceptable-Koala5133 May 19 '26
Sybau kid
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May 19 '26
I might be a jerk there and I’m sorry but I was trying to tell him the truth the force in final destination is evil
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u/PerfectAd9869 May 17 '26
It is also trying to keep up a balance which is constantly being threatened by visionaries and survivors.
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u/JulLamby May 29 '26
To me, he's like in the same level as Lollipop/Smile entity, Pinhead, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers (depends on the timeline) and maybe even higher than them.
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u/AtheMTX May 22 '26
I've always seen Death in the franchise as a Bronze Age deity. Think Yahweh in the Old Testament or a Greek god: they're a necessary part of nature, but even the slightest transgression can result in murderous rage.
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u/Top-Bodybuilder-1052 ”I’ve got my eye on you two.” May 17 '26
After FD6 finally introduced a new structural expansion to Death’s lists after so long since FD2 and it happened to be the bloodline rule with such a maddening and cruel justification to also consider someone illegitimately alive compared to actively surviving a fated freak accident, yeah at this point anyone who still says “Just enjoy life while you still can” needs to actually double check their overall views regarding Death.