| “ | I'm moving on, Carter. And if you wanna waste your life beating the shit out of Alex every time you see him... then you can just drop fucking dead! | ” |
–Terry's last words before her abrupt death. | ||
Terry Chaney is a character in the film Final Destination. She is a Mt. Abraham High School senior student and a survivor of the Volée Airlines Flight 180 explosion. She is also the girlfriend of Carter Horton.
Biography
Terry was born and lived in Mt. Abraham, New York, and attended Mt. Abraham High School. She is very sassy and snobby, but has a loving relationship with Carter, whom she accompanies on their school's annual field trip to Paris.
Personality
Terry is characterized primarily by her sarcastic and dismissive attitude. She is often a source of cynicism and conflict, especially toward Alex Browning and his premonition of the plane crash. Terry is portrayed as a typical rebellious teenager of the time, often seen smoking and challenging authority, reflecting a sense of defiance that ultimately does not save her from her fate. Her most significant on-screen moment is her sudden and shocking death, where she is struck by a speeding bus immediately after yelling in frustration at her boyfriend, Carter Horton, which solidifies her role as a character who mocks the idea of a predetermined fate until it abruptly claims her life.
Final Destination
Terry and Carter on Flight 180.
Terry and Carter were first seen while they were walking inside the airport. Carter throws his bag to Billy Hitchcock, and they laugh. Inside the airport, they sat and kissed. Later, Larry Murnau told the students something in French, and Carter asked Terry ''What the fuck does he want?''. After Alex has a premonition that the plane will explode, a fight starts between him and Carter. The Co-pilot kicks off the people who were in the corridor, and Terry follows Carter off minutes before the flight explodes, just as Alex predicted. Several minutes later, the parents came and took their children, including Terry.
Terry before she comforts Alex at the memorial.
One month later, a funeral is held at the school for the victims. Carter wants to start a fight with Alex after the funeral, but Terry stops him and shows sympathy towards Alex for Carter's actions.
Terry is the second survivor of Volée Airlines Flight 180 to die.
Death
Terry is hit by a bus on the road.
Later, while Terry and Carter are driving in his car, they see Alex and Clear talking at a café. After Carter confronts Alex once again, Terry follows him, fearing another fight, and pleads for him to stop. Billy and Valerie Lewton arrive at the café shortly after. When Carter instigates another fight, she loses her temper and ends her relationship with Carter. After reprimanding him for his constant fights with Alex, she storms onto the road and is immediately hit by a speeding bus, splattering the other survivors with her blood, with them freezing in shock.
Terry Chaney Death Scene - Final Destination (Premonição) HD
Signs/Clues
- Alex sees the reflection of the bus on the window of the coffee shop, yet when he looks in the street, there is no bus.
- Alex asks Clear, "How do we know that, by sipping this coffee, or breathing the air, or even crossing the intersection... we haven't started in motion the events that will someday lead to our deaths." Ironically, as soon as Terry steps out onto the intersection, she is hit by the bus.
- The song "Into the Void" is playing on Carter's car radio right before her death. The song contains the lyrics "final destination".
- At the beginning of the movie, before and after the plane crash, a picture of a bus is behind Terry.
- The colored line scheme on the side of the bus is very similar to the color scheme of the plane's fuselage.
- School buses were present outside the airport before the plane explosion.
Final Destination 2
| “ | I don't know. I never made it. The bus I was on splattered some girl all over the road.
Kat, when she explains her story. Was that in Mt Abraham? Clear, questioning to Kat. Yes. How did you know? Kat, after she remembered the previous event. That bus you were on killed Terry Chaney. She was supposed to die on Flight 180. Clear, in reply to Kat. |
” |
Photograph of Terry's body at the scene, as shown on Thomas' computer.
Terry is mentioned in Final Destination 2 when Thomas Burke researches the survivors of Flight 180, and her mutilated body is seen in a picture.
She is also mentioned by Kat Jennings, a survivor of the Route 23 pile-up, who says that she was supposed to go to a bed-and-breakfast, but after the bus she was on hit Terry, she decided not to go, and avoided a gas leak that suffocated the guests.
Final Destination: Death of the Senses
| “ | I was on the outskirts of town heading for the Parkway, the roads were clear, the lights were green, so I decided to make up for lost time. And...and a girl stepped off the sidewalk right in front of me. | ” |
–Jack, revealing about his past to Amy. | ||
Terry is referenced as Jack Curtis explains to Amy Tom about what happened during his bus driving career that got him fired from his job and made him homeless.
Final Destination 5
| “ |
Oh, excuse me. Um... those passengers who got off the plane earlier... what was that all about? Passenger, explaining to the Flight Attendant. A kid had a panic attack and wanted off the plane. Said he had some kind of vision. Flight Attendant, in reply. |
” |
Terry is seen in the events of Final Destination 5.
Terry is seen being thrown off of Flight 180 moments before it explodes.
Appearances
- Final Destination (Amanda Detmer)
- Final Destination (novel)
- Final Destination 2 (reference, photo)
- Final Destination 2 (novel) (reference)
- Final Destination: Death of the Senses (reference)
- The Final Destination (reference in opening credits)
- Final Destination 5 (archive footage) (Amanda Detmer, unknown body double)
The bus that hit Terry is seen as the opening sequence of The Final Destination.
Trivia
- The bus that hit Terry was driven by Jack Curtis, who is the main character of the novel Death of the Senses.
- In The Final Destination, the bus that ran over Terry is seen during the opening credits.
- Her death was witnessed by all remaining survivors of Flight 180.
- Terry's original last name was Matthews. In the script of Final Destination, she is described as: TERRY MATHEWS, 18, hot now, but with no idea what time will do to her in just five years.
- In an early draft of the Final Destination 2 script, she, for some reason, is mentioned by Clear as Terry Mathers.
- Terry's last name is most likely a reference to the famous silent horror film actor Lon Chaney.
- When Alex is splattered by blood, it makes a number seven on the side of his face, the seven being the order in which he dies.
- In Final Destination 2, Kat Jennings claims that it was during May, when she was headed toward her bed-and-breakfast, that the bus she was on ran over Terry, even though the deaths of the Flight 180 survivors only began one month later, in June of the previous year. This is therefore considered a continuity error in the film.
- Terry is somewhat similar to Nadia Monroy. Both are the supportive girlfriends of a guy who antagonizes the protagonist/visionary. Both survive the crash after tagging along behind said boyfriend during a fight. And both are killed while yelling at the survivors over their actions, much to their boyfriend's horror. Both also say the f-word at the survivors right before they die. (Nadia says "Have you all lost your f**king minds?!", similar to Terry's "Then you can just drop f**king dead!")
- In a picture of the aftermath of the bus hitting her, it is revealed that her legs were somehow torn and twisted, and her jaw is literally sticking out of her body, exposing her skull.
- Test screen audiences for the movie took so long to calm down after Terry's abrupt death that the filmmakers added the next scene where Alex and Clear make Alka-Seltzer drinks to give the audiences time to calm themselves in time for more important scenes.
- She almost won the Golden Chainsaw award, but lost to Billy Hitchcock.