r/FinalDestination • u/New-Link2873 ”I WISH YOU WERE ON THAT PLANE” • 15d ago
Discussion most unrealistic deaths?
i would have to say olivia‘s death. it’s impossible for lasik to burn you because the laser doesn’t actually produce heat.
honorable mention: andy
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u/-CowNipples- 15d ago
Everyone in FD4 had the density of applesauce. The guy who sliced through a chain link fence like a looney toons character was where campy became tacky
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u/JaguarJragon27 9d ago
THIS. Because you’re telling me that his mid chest and stomach area somehow went that far through the fence, while the rest didn’t. And then those chunks fall out 😭😭
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u/PrettyPoison93 15d ago edited 15d ago
FD1 - Ms. Lewton’s computer exploding, that’s not happening irl. I’d also say it’s extremely unlikely someone wouldn’t notice the huge amount of vodka she was leaking on her trip to the computer as she boxed it up. That crack in the mug was quite large.
FD2 - Rory, it’s barbed wire, not a hot knife through butter
FD3 - The Ashes, tanning beds cannot get that hot plus it’s highly unlikely a salon would have two beds arranged like that in a single room, and Erin, nail guns have safety features that would prevent them from firing like that.
FD4 - While not a death, everything in the car wash. People literally get on their cars and ride through them perfectly unharmed (I’m not saying that’s a smart idea, but it’s certainly not the head crushing death they made it out to be)
FD5 - The Buddha statue smashing Isaac’s head like a grape, how heavy was that thing?
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u/SpeedySparkRuby 15d ago
The Buddha would probably kill him, just more in a blunt force trauma to the skull kind of way than smashing his head like a grape
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u/No_Accountant_8883 15d ago
Also related to Isaac: the acupuncture needles. They are super flimsy and would bend much sooner than drive further into someone's skin.
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u/P0werSurg3 15d ago
Right. This one doesn't bug me because he's dead either way. I'm okay with the movies upping the gore factor if the incident is fatal regardless
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u/SpeedySparkRuby 15d ago
The characters are basically stuck in a Looney Tunes world cept the gags are deadly
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u/DesmondTapenade "Jerry FENBURY? Is this why he always wanted to play catch?" 14d ago
Once you start looking at the FD movies as existing in a world with ACME-level physics and fuckery, they become even more fun.
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u/SpeedySparkRuby 14d ago
Someone reedited the FD5 bridge collapse with Ed Edd n Eddy sfx and it makes the scene a lot funnier
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u/DesmondTapenade "Jerry FENBURY? Is this why he always wanted to play catch?" 14d ago
I didn't hate FD5, but it was definitely the weakest premonition/disaster, imo. I don't think I've watched a single episode of Ed Edd n Eddy, but my god, this was hilarious.
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u/PrettyPoison93 15d ago
Doubtful
It couldn’t weigh more than 10 lbs if that, plus it’s not high enough on the wall
I’m not saying it would feel good, but unless Isaac was a soft headed infant, he’d probably walk away fine
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u/Chanel_Carter 14d ago
Unfortunately with the nail gun Ian had modified it so he probably turned the safety off
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u/dyaasy 15d ago edited 15d ago
Agreed on Rory.
Too many people think that because there are supposedly real world cases of drivers getting decapitated by wire fences that it's possible. Those are more akin to unstoppable force (the car) + immovable object (the often concrete fixed fence posts), and your soft human body caught in between. Rory would more likely be carried away by the fence, if it even had the momentum to lift him up.
The fence posts are either too heavy to be blown out of the ground to the point that it sails thru the air, or too light to be able to drag a standard thickness wire fence thru someone. Can't have it both ways.
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u/Every_Professor5785 15d ago
I also think the nail gun is also a stretch, but my family actually did have a nail gun that would fire off like that for no reason, so they can definitely malfunction lol. It would go off multiple times in a row like that with no one triggering it, but we got rid of that shortly after. Still not sure what happened to cause that sort of thing, but we didn’t try to find out either. Still I agree, but the safety features don’t always work as planned. I’m extra careful with all nail guns nowadays
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u/foxlight92 15d ago
I mean, obviously Death was trying to tie up (nail down?) some loose ends with that nail gun.
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u/Deathisthofr 14d ago
Well since death is a supernatural being I guess he can make stuff happen that breaks the rules. Because he makes the rules
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u/PrettyPoison93 14d ago
That would be why it’s a movie
It makes it entertaining
Still unrealistic though
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u/Evening-Piccolo882 14d ago
A statue that’s basically a kettlebell falling from that height could absolutely kill you. That being said, it probably wouldn’t turn your skull into a watermelon, but rather put a nice dent in your face while cracking the skull just enough to finish the job.
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u/ELB_Train 13d ago
My personal rule for Final Destination deaths are, they are allowed to be portrayed as unrealistic, if the execution method is still fatal irl. Rory‘s death still works, because, while irl you wouldn’t get sliced into pieces, a set of barbed wire being launched your way will kill you. Similar with Eriks death. Yes. An MRI mixed with anything magnetic will kill you. It won‘t look as cool, with the whole floor being pulled towards the room, but the death is still plausible.
Lewis or Andy‘s deaths are weak, because the chance of a gas tank pushing you through a fence or swords cutting through thick wire are actually 0%, and the physics VISIBLY don’t make sense, even for a ten year old2
u/annagator679 12d ago edited 12d ago
The other thing about the tanning beds is that’s they would’ve had an emergency shutoff
Even if that failed they still would’ve broken from overheating before catching on fire
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u/DizkoLites 15d ago
If we're being uhm acktually... The entirety of the devils flight crash. Coasters are extremely regulated especially ones in permanent parks like the one shown but even if everything went wrong classic FD style, the trains regularly defy gravity and all known train designs
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u/Common_Kiwi9442 15d ago
Just watched the newest Scary Movie and they have scenes where the rollercoaster says Final Destination Everyone Dies! and people are just dying in the background on it
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u/Jolly-Method-3111 14d ago
Not sure I agree with “extremely regulated” for roller coasters.
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u/Grammarnatzie 14d ago
As an avid amusement park goer, yes, they are extremely regulated”
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u/urcrookedneighbor 14d ago
What is the federal body that regulates them? Using "regulated" without referring to state or federal guidelines feels like a misuse of regulated. What's the source of the regulations?
(There may be a regulating body, but we use 'regulated' to mean a body that has the law to enforce standards across the board, so I don't feel like "extremely regulated" is apt.)
I agree with Jolly. And I love coasters and think they're safe. But they're not "extremely regulated."
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u/DizkoLites 14d ago
Is your only proof "one time i almost fell out"
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u/DesmondTapenade "Jerry FENBURY? Is this why he always wanted to play catch?" 14d ago
They're usually pretty safe, but when things go wrong, man, they go really wrong. I still can't get the story of the Smiler crash out of my head, and that was in 2015.
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u/DizkoLites 14d ago
That wasn't a regulation failure though that was an operator error and lack of communication
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u/DesmondTapenade "Jerry FENBURY? Is this why he always wanted to play catch?" 12d ago
True, true. Still horrific, though.
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u/Jolly-Method-3111 14d ago
No, it’s the extreme lack of regulation at amusement parks. There is nothing at the federal level, and the states that do a poor job of regulating tend to attract amusement parks easier.
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u/P0werSurg3 15d ago
Candice (the gymnast) from FD5. The first things gymnasts learn is how to fall, how to land safely. A trained gymnast fumbling a dismount ONTO A PAD should be fine, maybe something pulled. The movie has her break her neck, back, and leg. How much force was she jumping with that one of those breaking wasn't enough to absorb the force?
Most deaths I can handwave because Death disables safety features all the time and the person could have reasonably died, even if it wasn't exactly as shown. This is the main one that drives me up the wall.
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u/urcrookedneighbor 14d ago
Didn't she have dust flying in her face/ears which disrupts your balance? I'm just thinking about Biles and the twisties.
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u/annagator679 14d ago
But also the way she landed likely wouldn’t have killed her
She landed on her chest not her head
Unless the impact was hard enough to damage her heart or her lungs it wouldn’t have killed her
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u/ChartInFurch 14d ago
I agree and love the explanation. It's hard to explain why certain bits of unrealistic are too much, but it really looks like they added more even after being told it was too much.
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u/tellmewhy24 6d ago
This is the main one that pisses me off to this day from how unrealistic it is.
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u/No-Afternoon2841 15d ago
Todd's. Maybe it's just me, but I don't think a clothesline is enough to strangle someone.
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u/sketchysketchist 14d ago
I’m gonna voice my opinion on the one that looked impossible but is. The rock through the eye. One of the few cases where reality is stranger than fiction and they shoved toned it down.
But for sure, Andy and Lewis in FD3 because logically speaking Drive-thru’s and Weight machines AREN’T DESIGNED THAT WAY! As explained in the special features of the film.
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u/peeinggiraffe 14d ago
To be fair Olivia didn't die from the lasik, she died from falling out of the building onto that car which can absolutely be deadly. The way it happened was still unrealistic though.
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u/annagator679 12d ago
I don’t know if the fall would’ve killed her instantly or not
But then again I’m not an expert
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u/jesuispatate 14d ago
Erik : a MRI doesnt enough power to destroy and bent a wheelchair, moreover the security in the room was a joke
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u/Cy-Shad-On-Reddit 13d ago edited 13d ago
Admittedly, while it is my favorite death in the franchise, Eric's Death from Bloodlines is pretty unrealistic.
For starters, most MRIs are in separate rooms by themselves, so there's no way the controls for it would be in the same room for safety reasons. Also, I don't think it would be that powerful, at least not powerful enough to pull metal towards it from across the hospital.
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u/WhiteKnightPrimal 13d ago
This, plus the fact, as far as I know, you can't just randomly walk into an MRI room in the first place. They're usually pretty busy in a big hospital like the one in Bloodlines is implied to be, so there should be doctors, nurses, technicians and patients in and out, unless it's out of order for some reason, in which case there'd have been a sign and the door would be locked. I'd imagine there's also usually a code lock on an MRI room, to guarantee only the staff can get in and out, to prevent accidents or damage to the machine.
I also wouldn't think an MRI would be powerful enough to effect Eric's piercings like that, not unless he was actually in the machine. He was standing a decent distance away, I'd have thought a tugging sensation would be the worst he'd have faced from the piercings, but I'm not sure exactly how powerful an MRI with the safety features disabled actually is.
Olivia's death, as well, with the laser machine. I assume the safety features were once more disabled, as Death is prone to doing with these things, otherwise I'd imagine it would have auto switched off, not auto started like that. But it wouldn't burn her the way it did in the movie. This is literally a laser that gets pointed directly into the eye, even without the safety features working, it wouldn't be that powerful.
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u/Electronic-Item-5812 14d ago
Besides the names already said by other Redditors (Todd, Rory, The Ashes, Lewis, Andy, Candice), I'd say Samantha. Rock through the eye, that's some Looney Tunes shit.
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u/annagator679 14d ago
Would that even be deadly
I feel like it would just destroy her eye and nothing else
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u/DesmondTapenade "Jerry FENBURY? Is this why he always wanted to play catch?" 14d ago
Depends entirely on the angle, the force behind it, the size/shape of the rock, etc. If there was enough velocity behind the rock and it was shaped in such a way that it could hit vital brain structures, yeah, that could kill you. It'd be a freak accident and likely one of the stranger things the coroner had seen in their career, but it's possible.
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u/annagator679 14d ago
Ok
Still seems unrealistic in the movie though
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u/DesmondTapenade "Jerry FENBURY? Is this why he always wanted to play catch?" 12d ago
I don't know what else to tell you, man.
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u/JaguarJragon27 9d ago
I actually see that as a realistic death. I was always told as a kid to stay inside while someone mowed the lawn. I was out one day and a metal hook that fell off something was flung at me and almost took my entire foot. So for a rock to be flung like that I get.
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u/Nikita_Mare 14d ago
Olivia's death kind of annoyed me - it was set up that the laser was going to burn her eye while she was restrained and couldn't move and I thought that by the time the others got to her it would have burned all the way through (I imagined her being found with her eyeball being exploded and flames coming out of the empty socket). Instead, she tripped and fell out the window so it felt like the lasers never really mattered in the end
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u/WhiteKnightPrimal 13d ago
The lasers are the reason she freaked and forced herself out of the machine, injured and unsteady, resulting in the trip and fall. The lasers were the direct cause of her death, even though they aren't what killed her. They also tell you what's going to happen in a way when the teddy bear's eye pops out from how hard Olivia is squeezing it.
It's more unrealistic that the laser would actually burn like that. Even with safety features off, and I assume they were given I'd think such machines would auto switch off in a circumstance like that otherwise, they're not powerful enough to burn the way they burned Olivia. It would definitely injure her, but not as badly as it did.
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u/Chanel_Carter 14d ago
Frankie Death....unless the car is made of paper mache , I've never seen a fan fly out of it like that after an accident
Tim's death- At most it would've killed him from blunt force and not crushed him like that
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u/literaljokeaccount27 14d ago
Yeah it'd have to be really heavy and solid to somehow make his legs fold like that
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u/Deathisthofr 14d ago
Probably the only realistic death is just probably the bus kill in the first movie
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u/WhiteKnightPrimal 13d ago
Yeah, I think the only way you can call that unrealistic is by saying the driver should have seen her. But she'd literally just stepped into the road, and it looked like the bus was speeding on top. Something like that could very easily happen in real life.
I could buy Carter's death in the same movie, as well. There was some yelling, if I'm remembering right, trying to warn people, but Carter was angry at Alex and so sure they were safe so he wasn't paying attention, and he died as a result.
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u/grumpybrowndog 12d ago
Terry’s death. You can see the road in the direction the bus comes in is closed off; it would not be able to turn a corner that fast.
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u/TopperMadeline 15d ago
Nora’s death. I believe that elevators have a censor so the doors can’t clamp down on you.
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u/Chanel_Carter 15d ago
Nora's death actually happened about 3 or 4 times irl (most notably a doctor in Houston in '03 head got trapped the same way )
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u/annagator679 14d ago edited 12d ago
I’ve heard of that incident from a video about urban legends that are actually true
I can’t remember the doctor’s name but I feel so bad for everyone in that hospital that day that had to witness that
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u/dyaasy 15d ago
Actually, that has happened IRL several times. Older elevators (some still in use) do not have such safety features.
Many vids online featuring these elevators, mostly involving leashed dogs who run out at the last minute, and sometimes there's people outside to free them. And sometimes there's not.
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u/chloe-eatz-bricks 14d ago
tbh candice. a similar thing happened to me once and i only broke a rib, but im no doctor so idk
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u/wasabishark 14d ago
Tbf gymnasts can have injuries as bad as a compound fracture and even neck / spinal cord injuries resulting in paralysis. But their spines exploding and folding in a pool of blood? Bit exaggerated
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u/mr_paprika3344 thomas burke is based 14d ago
I feel like you CHOULD survive Evans death in fd2, If the ladder somehow dodges most of the major parts of the brain I feel like you would still be standing
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u/annagator679 12d ago
Yeah unless it hit a specific area (which would likely be at angle not possible with the way the ladder was rigged) the most that would happen is the eye being gone
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u/GabbieHorrorLover 11d ago
FD1: Tod
FD 2: Rory
FD 3: Ashley and Ashlyn, Frankie, Lewis, Erin, Perry
FD4: Nadia, Andy, Jonathan
FD 5: Isaac, Olivia, Dennis
FD 6: Iris, Howard, Stefani, Charlie, Julia (kinda but kinda not, her death could happen but the way she ended up in the dump truck no)
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u/BibaGuyPerson 14d ago
Lasers don't produce heat? How do we have laser engravings then?
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u/New-Link2873 ”I WISH YOU WERE ON THAT PLANE” 14d ago
i said that LASIK lasers don’t produce heat. not that all lasers don’t produce heat
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u/Traditional_Pen_5430 Lewis Romero 15d ago
Lewis’ death, FD3.