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Jonathan Groves is a character in the film The Final Destination. He is a modern-day cowboy and a survivor of the McKinley Speedway crash in The Final Destination.
Biography
Jonathan resided in McKinley, Pennsylvania, and he was a modern-day cowboy. He was shown to be calm and a bit responsible. He attended the McKinley Speedway to watch a race.
The Final Destination
Jonathan, with Janet at the McKinley Speedway.
Jonathan attends a race at McKinley Speedway, where he sits in front of Nick O'Bannon and his friends Lori Milligan, Janet Cunnigham, and Hunt Wynorski. After Nick, his friends, and several others leave (due to Nick making a scene after having a vision of a crash), Jonathan is caught in the disaster.
In Nick's vision, Jonathan, realizing his height and hat were blocking Lori's view of the race, offers to move to another seat, which leads to his death. Since Jonathan never needed to move due to Lori's leaving, he was only injured when the crash actually occurred.
Dug out of the rubble and taken to a hospital, Jonathan is listed as a John Doe until his family manages to get in touch with him.
He is the sixth survivor of McKinley Speedway to die.
Death
Jonathan gets crushed by an overfilled bathtub.
In the hospital, one of the orderlies leaves a tub running on the floor above Jonathan's, and it slowly begins to overflow and spill water all over the floor. The roof of Jonathan's floor began to leak water, and a wounded Jonathan tried to call for help. Some of the water gets on the help button and renders it useless.
Jonathan painfully gets out of bed and slides his way across the floor as the room begins to fill up with water. Suddenly, Nick and George Lanter show up in an attempt to rescue Jonathan. Just as they were about to, the tub on the floor above him falls through the roof and right on top of Jonathan, crushing him to death.
Signs/Clues
Jonathan Groves "Cowboy" Death Scene - The Final Destination (Premonição 4) HD
- In Nick's premonition at the speedway, Jonathan was killed when a burning car flew through the air and knocked him into a pillar.
- While packing for a trip to Amsterdam, Nick accidentally knocks a book on the floor. The book opens to a page that has a picture of a hand sticking out of a body of water.
- The aforementioned image causes Nick to have a vision of a death involving a tub of water, faucets, a soaked ceiling, and blood splattering on a wall.
- The war veteran, Mr. Suby, who was going through physical therapy on the floor above Jonathan, has the same surname as the detective Kimberly Corman talked to about the pile-up on Route 23 in Final Destination 2.
- In Nick's premonition, a message appears on the ceiling that reads, "IT'S HERE." However, this message appears in premonition throughout the movie.
Appearances
- The Final Destination (portrayed by Jackson Walker)
Trivia
- Jonathan's death is in the same fashion as Rinoka Aratsu's from the novel Final Destination: End of the Line.
- Jonathan dies out of order; he was supposed to die before Hunt and Janet. However, this may be because he "moved seats," and if he hadn't survived the speedway the second time around, his death would have placed him after their deaths. The same thing happened in the first movie - Alex was supposed to die before Clear, but because he didn't swap seats with Christa Marsh and Blake Dreyer, he was moved to after her.
- He's the only survivor to be severely injured in the opening disaster and was thought to be one of the casualties, but was later revealed to be safe before dying a bit later. He is also one of two survivors in the movie series who were seriously wounded before their turn to die - the second one is Eugene Dix.
- He is the only survivor who stayed at the place of catastrophe despite hearing the warning of the visionary. All other survivors left the place of the disaster voluntarily, were forcefully kicked out, or their access to the place was blocked (Route 23 survivors).
- In the script of The Final Destination, he is described as: JONATHAN GROVES, there is a scene where his mother visits him in hospital, and leaves shortly before he dies.
- Jonathan's death is often criticized by both fans and haters of The Final Destination due to its unrealism in the way it unfolds (even with the whole "Death is causing it" explanation, there is only so much unrealism that can be used). The parts most people seem to have problems with are the orderly forgetting to turn the water off, and the fact that the water didn't drain away when it should have. In the script, the death setup is more realistic (by Final Destination standards) - the orderly does turn the water off, but when he slams the door, an IV stand falls on the faucet and switches it back on, and later on, Suby throws a towel at the faucet to try and turn it off, but misses, and the towel lands on the floor, blocking the drains, causing the flood to get worse.
- It was believed by some that Jonathan would be electrocuted due to the audition scripts that circulated, only partly including his death.
| The Final Destination |
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| Disaster(s) |
| McKinley Speedway | Tagert Theatres 13 |
| Survivors |
| Nick O'Bannon | Lori Milligan | George Lanter | Hunt Wynorski | Janet Cunningham | Jonathan Groves | Andy Kewzer | Samantha Lane | Carter Daniels | Nadia Monroy |
| Casualties |
| Cynthia Daniels | Nadia Monroy | 51 unnamed people |
| Others |
| Edward Lane | Ryan Lane | Luke Lane | Danny Wall | Cheyenne | Richard | Dee Dee | Pedicurist | Pam Smith | Officer Craig Perry | Girl on Top | Homeless Man | Browning | Mrs. Lanter | Ms. Lanter | Larry | Usher | Mr. Suby | Scaffolder | Jackie Bissley | Jason Koffeman |
| Locations |
| Indianapolis, Indiana | McKinley Speedway | Death by Caffeine | Salon Dante | Grandstate Customs | Forest Lawn Country Club | Springfield Centre Mall | Tagert Theatres |
- ↑ Early drafts of the film explicitly state it takes place in Indianapolis, Indiana. However, it should also be noted that early drafts are not the final product unless you only ever want to write one draft and never touch it again, which was clearly not the case with the fourth film, as it underwent numerous script changes along the way, confirmed by producer Craig Perry himself.