| Final Destination 3 (Main) |
| Coin Flip: Tails |
| “ | You have to tell me who was sitting next to you on the roller coaster! Who?! She's next! | ” |
–Wendy, to Julie about the next person, Perry. | ||
Perry Malinowski is a character in the film Final Destination 3. She is a high school student and a survivor of the Devil's Flight derailment.
Biography
Perry lives in McKinley, Pennsylvania, and attends McKinley High School. She is friends with Julie Christensen and Amber Regan. She is shown to be a quiet, non-verbal person. She is of mixed Polish and an unknown Asian descent.
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Perry and Julie watching Wendy being drenched in the rain.
Perry and her friends visit the carnival for McKinley's grad night (despite not being seniors) and board Devil's Flight.
Perry at the funeral
Before the ride starts, Wendy Christensen has a premonition that the ride will crash and everyone aboard will die. When she panics, a fight breaks out and several people leave the ride, including Perry. Moments later, the ride crashes as Wendy predicted, killing the remaining passengers on board. Perry is later seen at school signing yearbooks with Julie and Amber. She also attends the funerals for Ashley Freund and Ashlyn Halperin and later attends McKinley's tricentennial fair.
Depending on the actions from Choose Their Fate, Perry can be either the fifth or sixth survivor of Devil's Flight to die.
Death
After Julie is almost killed by a horse, Perry and Amber rush to comfort her. Wendy rushes over as well and demands to know who sat next to her on the roller coaster, because they are next on Death's list. Perry and her friends look at each other in horror, and slowly she stands up, realizing that she is next.
Before Perry reveals that she's next, a flagpole launches towards Perry's direction, impaling her.
Suddenly, the horse, which has been tied to a flagpole, is frightened by the fireworks and runs off again, breaking the flagpole in half and launching it into the air. As Perry stands up, the flagpole impales her through her chest, spraying her blood all over her friends and killing her instantly. After she falls forward, her body slowly slides down the bloody flagpole.
Final Destination 3 - Perry's Death-0
Signs/Clues
- The flag that impales her reads LIBERTY OR DEATH.
Perry and Julie's picture shows the clues to how they die.
- In the picture Wendy took of Julie and Perry on the night of the accident, a U.S. flag can be seen behind Perry in the background.
- Also, in the picture, a horse is seen on a merry-go-round in the background. It looks like the horse that caused Perry's death and nearly killed Julie.
- In the picture as well, the horse has a pole through it, foreshadowing Perry's fate.
- In the opening credits, there is an image of a sword swallower. They're making the same jerking head move as Perry does during her death.
- Before she was impaled, she was wearing the same jacket she wore on Devil's Flight.
Trivia
Perry's impalement in the skeletal version of The Final Destination.
- Perry's death appears in the opening sequence of The Final Destination, showing the flagpole that impaled her.
- Perry has no lines in the film; the only sound she makes is when she screams when falling from the rollercoaster in Wendy's premonition, at which point her identity was not yet known.
- Ironically, it seemed as though she was going to say something shortly before her death.
- She, along with Julie, went through most fashion changes in the film. Having a short twin ponytail when Wendy took her picture, an unknown haircut while wearing a hood, medium-length straight hair with a small bun (similar to Julie) at Ashley's and Ashlyn's funeral, and long hair with a long bun at the Tricentennial.
- There is a mistake in the film when Perry dies; many people in the background just stare at the camera, and in the next shot, they are all gone or running.
- Perry is one of the least recognizable characters in the franchise due to her not speaking at all and having a very quick and forgettable death scene.
- The horse is the cause of death for Perry. Coincidentally, the last name of the actress is Ma ("horse" in Chinese).
- In the novelisation, She had lines
| Final Destination 3 |
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| Disaster(s) |
| Devil's Flight | Train 081 |
| Survivors |
| Wendy Christensen | Kevin Fischer | Perry Malinowski | Julie Christensen | Erin Ulmer | Ian McKinley | Lewis Romero | Frankie Cheeks | Ashlyn Halperin | Ashley Freund |
| Casualties |
| Jason Wise | Carrie Dreyer | Bob | Elle Dana | Jill | Marcus | Scott |
| Others |
| Stacy Kobayashi | Veronica | Amber Regan | Ethan | Harry | Ride Attendant | Mr. Christensen | Mrs. Christensen | Yuri | Minister | Jason Wise's brother | Mr. Fischer | Officar Clark | Officar Polanski | Ben Franklin | Payton | Kahill | Laura | Sean | Bludworth | Norman Goldstein |
| Locations |
| McKinley, Pennsylvania | McKinley Park | High Dive | McKinley High School | Phoenix Tanning Company | Andy's | Build it | McKinley Tri-Centennial |
- ↑ Perry is seen driving a car with 2 unaccompanied minors during the film. For her to legally do so in the state of Pennsylvania, she needs a junior driver's license. In PA, you can only get your driver's license after 6 months of driving with a learner's permit, which you can only get after turning 16. Perry also isn't a senior (As indicated by Wendy's dialogue), so she was born after August 1988, as most school districts ensure children are born before September 1st to admit them in for the school year.