| “ | I saw it, like I don't know, I saw it. I saw it on the runway, I saw it take off, I saw out my window, I saw the ground and - the cabin, it starts to shake, right and and the left side blows up and then the whole plane just explodes. And it was so real just like how everything happens, you know. | ” |
–Alex Browning, explaining his vision of Flight 180. | ||
A Premonition is a type of prophecy the protagonists of the Final Destination franchise experience, consisting of an impressionable warning of a future event. This phenomenon is characterized by such sensations as anxiety, uneasiness, a vague feeling of disquiet suggesting impending disaster to actual visual or auditory hallucinations. Premonition is sometimes referred to as a "gut-level" feeling. The sensation tends to occur prior to disasters, accidents, deaths, and other traumatic and emotionally-charged events.
The sensation of premonition may be considered precognition at times because there is no clear-cut line between them. However, generally premonitions are sense-oriented, dominated by a syndrome of physical uneasiness, depression, or distress that is without discernible source or reason. It is an unexplainable feeling that "something is going to happen." Precognition, on the other hand, is more precise, involving visions or dream of the event that is to occur in the future. Throughout the series, these instances of precognition are often reffered to as a "Vision".
A premonition is a noun for: a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event; presentiment. It can also be described as a forewarning.
Final Destination films
Some have noted on the significance of premonitions throughout the series. Up to this point, it has never been fully explained how the main Visionaries suddenly got these premonitions. Although, The Final Destination has suggested that Death would give them ultimately as part of a ruse to set them for what was really the plan all along. Another possibility is that there is another force fighting against Death that gives premonitions to an individual who has the potential to save the largest amount of people as possible shortly before a deadly disaster occurs to alter Death's design and so all surviving people can get chances to live longer. Although, the most plausible reason for the characters getting premonitions is due to the fact that they possess a type of psychic ability.
Final Destination
Alex Browning had a premonition of the Flight 180 explosion while sleeping before takeoff.
Final Destination 2
Kimberly Corman had a premonition of the Route 23 pileup. She also had a premonition of drowning herself into a lake so she could be revived by Ellen Kalarjian to achieve new life that could defeat Death.
Final Destination 3
Wendy Christensen had two premonitions: the Devil's Flight roller coaster derailment and the Train 081 derailment.
The Final Destination
Nick O'Bannon had eight premonitions: the McKinley Speedway crash, the Tagert Theatres 13 explosions, and six individual premonition fragments as to how the survivors were going to die.
Final Destination 5
Sam Lawton had a premonition of the North Bay Bridge collapse.
Final Destination Bloodlines
Iris Campbell had a premonition of The Sky View collapse.
Final Destination novels
Final Destination: Dead Reckoning
Jessica Golden had a premonition of the Club Kitty collapse.
Final Destination: Destination Zero
Patricia Fuller had a premonition of the South Hill Meteroline bombing.
Juliet Collins had a premonition of the Mornington Crescent explosion.
Final Destination: End of the Line
Danny King had a premonition of the 34th Street train collision.
Final Destination: Dead Man's Hand
Allie Goodwin-Gaines had a premonition of the Merlin's Tower elevator collapse.
Final Destination: Looks Could Kill
Stephanie Pulaski had a premonition of the Coral Clipper disaster.
Final Destination: Death of the Senses
Jack Curtis had a premonition of the John Doe's murder spree.
The text of the premonition from Final Destination: Death of the Senses:
| “ |
The moon in the sky, phases flashing across it impossibly quickly... A circular table... Faces, blurred, distorted, flickering past too fast to see them... Distant laughter... Clouds speeding over the city, swallowing it in night... The moon turning to black... A flash. Light reflecting on metal. A knife... A dark, narrow passageway, the ground covered in snow... A woman's face... Blood gushing from a wound, a slashed throat... Another woman, screaming... Empty eye sockets, swimming with black, glistening ooze... The knife descending, stabbing into flesh... A man's face, ruined, a wet hole in its center... Severed hands, fingers still twitching... A woman wailing in pain, face running with streaks of blood... Another man clutching at his head... The knife slowly peeling through skin, an ear falling away like meat carved from a roast... A woman struggling for breath, eyes wide... A gaping mouth, white teeth speckled with red, nothing beyond them but emptiness... A face, somehow familiar yet oddly wrong, distorted in some bizarre way, lurching backwards, trying to escape from something unseen... The table again, seen from above, a five-pointed star with dark pools at each of the points, a bigger pool at the center, something resting in the dark liquid... The moon again, blooming from a tiny crescent to a full circle, blazing with light in the sky... And behind it all, a man's voice, "While the Eye of Artemis is at its widest, so shall my work be done. The senses of this city shall be purified..." Final Destination: Death of the Senses, Pages 15-16 |
” |
Final Destination: Wipeout
Ravyn Blackthorne had a premonition of a plane crash.
Final Destination comics
Final Destination: Sacrifice
The visionary known only as "The Narrator" had three premonitions: the multiple collision at the bus terminal, the factory explosion, and the gas explosion on I-80.
Final Destination: Spring Break
Carly Hagan had a premonition of the Hotel Grand Tzolk'in explosion.
Trivia
- Nick O'Bannon and Kimberly Corman are the visionaries with the most premonitions and are the only visionaries to have rapid interpretative visions.
- When a visionary has a vision, nothing visibly happens in real life. No matter how long a vision is, often spanning several minutes, it occurs instantaneously from the perspective of the outside world, with the visionary at most pausing for only a few seconds while experiencing it.[1]
- In a film, never has a vision came true in the exact way as seen in the visionaries' premonition. Often, accidents happen faster/sooner in real-life than in the vision.[2]
- The settings that appeared most often in the visions were railway environments (Patti, Wendy and Danny) and high-rise structures (Sam, Allie and Iris).
| Final Destination 2 |
|---|
| Disaster(s) |
| Route 23 |
| Survivors |
| Isabella Hudson | Isabella's baby | Kimberly Corman | Evan Lewis | Tim Carpenter | Nora Carpenter | Kat Jennings | Rory Peters | Eugene Dix | Thomas Burke | Dano | Shaina | Frankie | Biker | Biker’s Girlfriend |
| Casualties |
| Dano | Shaina | Frankie | 15 other people |
| Others |
| Michael Corman | Detective Suby | Nikki | Tawny | Mrs. Jennings | Physician | Clear Rivers | Jean | Dr. Lees | William Bludworth | Skate Punk | Marcus Hudson | Man in Elevator | Deputy Steve Adams | Mr. Carpenter | Man with Hooks | Frank | Mrs. Corman | Peter Gibbons | Mrs. Gibbons | Brian Gibbons | Mrs. Peters | Rescue Worker | Dr. Ellen Kalarjian | Trevor | Sheriff Mortimer Perry |
| Locations |
| White Plains, New York | Corman Household | Route 23 | Police Station | Evan's Apartment | Stonybrook Institution Psychiatric Treatment Center | Ellis Medical Complex | Bludworth Funeral Homes | Thomas's Apartment | Gibbons farm | Lakeview Hospital |
| Final Destination 3 |
|---|
| 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 |
| The Final Destination |
|---|
| 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 |
| Final Destination: Dead Reckoning |
|---|
| Disaster |
| Club Kitty |
| Survivors |
| Jessica Golden | Jamie | Eric Prescott | Ben | Macy | Marina Hewlett | Charlie Delgado | Amber | Sebastian Lebecque |
| Casualties |
| Becci | Cassie | Heather | Mrs. Golden | Tony | Club Kitty Bartender | Club Kitty Manager | At least 24 unnamed people |
| Others |
| Andy Adams | Bill | Janine | Jason | Jocelyn | John | Kevin | Chris Latshaw | Lou | Mr. Golden | Sharon | Spencer | The Homeless Man | Vladi |
| Locations |
| Club Kitty |
| Final Destination: End of the Line |
|---|
| Disaster(s) |
| 34th Street |
| Survivor(s) |
| Danny King | Louise King | James Barker | Bodil Raden | Mary-Beth Bradbury | Jack Cohen | Peter Hoffman | Rinoka Aratsu | At least 2 men | At least 2 women |
| Casualties |
| A mother | A child | An elderly woman | Two teenage girls | An Asian man | Numerous unnamed others |
| Others |
| Kate Shelley | William Bludworth | Borlace | Brad | Ted Bradbury | Tom Bradbury | Cal | Alec Cohen | Lilly Cohen | Doug | Dr. Curtis | Tony Forelli | Freddy | Jenny | Jess | Jimmy | Kichi | Lien | McGee | Mikey | Mr. O'Shaunessy | Olivia | Rico | Ronny | Saul | John Stanmore | Takai | Taxi Driver | Tim | Tony Two | Wantman | Andrew Williams |
| Locations |
| Hospital | Japan | Kate's & Brad's Apartment | Germany | Copenhagen, Denmark | Philadelphia | Upper East Side | Murray Hill Hostel | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | 34th Street | Manhattan, New York City |
| Final Destination: Dead Man's Hand |
|---|
| Disaster(s) |
| Merlin's Tower |
| Survivor(s) |
| Allie Goodwin-Gaines | Tom Gaines | Arlen Ploog | Warren Ackerman | Shawna Engels |
| Casualties |
| Tony Augustino | At least 40 unnamed people |
| Others |
| Andy | Brenda | Coburn | Roberto Diaz | Eric | Aldis Escobar | Terry Ferguson | Haslinger | Milos Hewetson | Hotz | Jasmine | Carolina Lavirra | Danny Lavirra | Lea | Olivier Mayo | Uriel Mayo | McBride | McGavin | McMurtry | Melina | Chip Moench | Charlie Montoya | Isabelle Montoya | Mr. Kim | Mrs. Alvarez | Mrs. Barker | Sean Murphy | Ethel Newton | Fred Newton | Carlie Rumbelow | Bartolo Sanchez | Marco Silfen | Socorro | Ellie Stanfield | Lou Summers | Tina |Dorrie Yungbluth |
| Locations |
| Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Final Destination: Looks Could Kill |
|---|
| Disaster |
| Coral Clipper |
| Survivors |
| Stephanie "Sherry" Pulaski | Sky Foster | Abigail "Cabernet" Foster | Gunter Nonhoff | William "Brut" Simms | Rosemarie "Rose" Dupree | Darla "Chardonnay" | Shirelle "Shiraz" Edelstein | Ruby "Chablis" |
| Causalities |
| Horace Fischer | Pier Merlot | Carlo | Sergei |
| Others |
| Cynthia | Frieda Dahmer | Becky Davis | Delbert Davis Jr. | Delbert Davis Sr. | Katie Davis | Lisa Davis | Jason | Jennifer | Julio |Justinian | Dr. Kronenberg | Ricky Leo | Leonide | Mandrake | Marisol | Millicent | Estelle Nicholls | Phil | Carla Pulaski | Ed Romero | Georgie Shapiro |Joan Simms | Michael Simms | Beau Taylor | Tweak | Wendy |
| Locations |
| TBA |
| Final Destination: Death of the Senses |
|---|
| Disaster |
| "John Doe"'s Murder Spree |
| Survivors |
| Jack Curtis | Amy Tom | Joshua Cornell III | Katie Astin | Dominique Swann | Dawson Donahue |Chelsea Cox |
| Others |
| Bill | Bill DiMaggio | Brad Fry | Broates | Cohen | Combs | David Tom | Dr. Klugman | Frank | George | Gunther | Harvey | Jennifer | "John Doe" | King | Lonnie | Luis | Morris | Mr. Tom | Mrs. Hassen | Mrs. Tom | Pete Beriev | Philips | Robert | Ted Roxbury | Vaughn Henderson |
| Locations |
| Manhattan, New York | Alleyway | N.Y.P.D Station | St. Vincent's Hospital | Amy's Apartment | 1329 Prescott | L'Opera | Joshua's Apartment | Homeless Shelter |
References
- ↑ Nick O'Bannon's premonition wake-up to the Tagert Theatres 13 explosion premonition.
- ↑ Ex. Route 23 Pile-Up happening roughly 2 minutes earlier to happen in real-life than in Kimberly's vision.