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| “ | The mortician said that Death has a design, right? Now, what if you, me, Tod, Carter, Terry, Billy, Ms. Lewton messed up that design for whatever reason; I saw Death's plan and we cheated him. But what if it was our time? What if we were not meant to get off that plane? What if it still is our time? If it is, then it's not finished, and we will die, now, not later - unless, unless we find the patterns and cheat it again. | „ |
| ~ Alex explaining Death's design. |
Alexander Theodore "Alex" Browning is the main protagonist in the 2000 supernatural horror film Final Destination, the posthumous overarching protagonist in its 2003 sequel Final Destination 2 and a cameo character in Final Destination 5.
He is the visionary and a survivor of the infamous Flight 180 explosion, from which he also saved the lives of Carter Horton, Clear Rivers, Tod Waggner, Billy Hitchcock, Terry Chaney and Ms. Valerine Lewton. However, he discovers that Death was now actively correcting the rift he caused in its design by saving them, killing all of the survivors in the order they should have died in the plane, and is now doing his best to prevent Death from killing them, though it eventually succeeds at killing all of them.
He was portrayed by Devon Sawa, who also portrayed the human form of Casper McFadden in the 1995 titular film.
Biography[]
Final Destination[]
Alex, with his classmates and teachers, were getting ready to take the Flight 180 to head to Paris, but before the flight, Alex kept getting ominous feelings that something was wrong, as if something bad was about to happen with him. He witnesses some weird coincidences before taking the flight, such as the radio in the airport playing "Rocky Mountain High" by John Denver, who died in a plane accident, and the bad-looking conditions of the plane they were boarding in. While onboard, Alex had an ominous vision of the plane exploding in mid-air and killing everyone in it. After warning everyone about it, he and some of his friends are removed from the plane. While waiting at the airport, Alex tries explaining about the vision he had of the plain explosion, but engages in a fight with Carter again when he provokes him by considering it as just a dream, then all seven survivors witness the plane explode as Alex predicted. FBI agents Schreck and Weine interview the survivors afterwards and believe that Alex was a suicide terrorist. While attending the memorial for the victims, Alex notices both agents carefully observing him still in suspicion, and it's also where the people he saved have different reactions towards him. Carter remained arrogant with him and claimed that he would "never die", Ms. Valerine commanded him to keep his distance and not talk to her, being now afraid of him because his vision of Flight 180 came true, and both Tod Waggner and Clear Rivers thank him for having saved them, which is also when he begins developing a relationship with Clear Rivers.
That same night however, Alex foresees Tod's death by seeing a piece of paper of the magazine he threw at the window being torn by his fan and landing on his lap, which read the word "Tod". He tries going to Tod's house to intervene but it was too late, as Tod had already died by what seemed to be a suicide in his bathtub, being the first survivor of the plane explosion to die and causing the Waggner household's anger towards Alex's family grows further, even blaming Alex for Tod's death. Alex visits Clear's house the next day to talk about Tod's death and how closer he was feeling to Death than ever before and that he wised to see Tod one more time. With the help of Clear, they both get into the house Tod's body was being kept, which is where they meet William Bludworth, a mortician who reveals to know more about Death than anyone else. When Alex interprets that Tod's death had been actually an accident, William reveals that nothing about anyone's death was an accident or a mishap but that everyone's every move was controlled as part of Death's design, which will one day lead to certain people's deaths in a way or another, as well that Alex has disrupted its designed when he got off the Flight 180 alongside his friends, thus making them cheat Death, so now Death was personally correcting this flaw by killing them all off in the order they should have died in the plane.
Alex and Clear meet at a restaurant the next day and Alex tries explaining her why what the mortician said about Death and its design could be true, even showing her the piece of paper that foreshadowed Tod's death to him, but she doesn't believe him. He also witnesses what seemed to be a "ghost bus" which could was a clue to the next person's death in Death's list, since he saw the reflection of a bus on a window but there was no bus when he turned around to the street. All the survivors meet again outside the restaurant with Alex and Clear, where Carter and Alex were about to fight again, but Terry intervenes by calling out Carter's impulsive need to pick fights with Alex every time they meet and is hit by a bus when she gets in the middle of the road, much to everyone's shock.
Later that day, Alex realizes that Death is claiming back their lives which should've been lost on the plane, and is attacking them according to the order of their deaths on the plane. He manages to see Death's design thanks to the news giving a demonstration of how the plane exploded, allowing him to see the course of the explosions where each of them were sitting, also allowing him to find out Ms. Lewton was next, so he tried going to her house to try and save her. He checks if Lewton's car was safe since she was going on a trip the next day, but she notices him outside and calls agents Schreck and Weine to take him away, which allowed Death to set its plan to kill her in motion. When he was being interrogated by the agents again, he tries explaining them about the pattern of deaths that is happening ever since Flight 180's crash and that he was simply trying to stop it, but only Agent Schreck got close to believing him, which Agent Weine shames him for. When Alex is let out by the agents, he sees a guy cleaning a pile of burning leaves, the ashes of which begin floating around him, which were another of Death's clues on how Ms. Lewton was about to die. But when he got there, Death had already set her house on fire and stabbed her with the largest knife in her knife set. Alex tries desperately to do something about it, but a shelf collapse causes an explosion which twisted the knife deeper inside her, killing her instantly and forcing Alex to only run out before the house exploded. Billy witnesses the house exploding after Alex rushed out, but kept running after it exploded without saying anything to him.
He is found by Clear sitting on a shore after his failed attempt to save Ms. Lewton, and asks her if the ones killed in Flight 180 explosion were still flying peacefully in another realm after their deaths, from which is where Clear reveals to him her dark past about her parents' deaths and her mother's newborn negligence towards her and convinces Alex to came back with her alongside Carter and Billy, who were waiting behind in the car. As Alex tells them about how he knew Ms. Lewton was the next one to die, Carter freaks out over the fact they're being targeted by Death and starts driving recklessly down the road on the hopes he'd go out on his own accord. Everyone gets mad at him for that and tries telling him to stop with it, meanwhile Alex sees two clues which indicated how Carter would die in a few moments, his ripped seatbelt (which he sees was never ripped when he looks at it the second time) and a reflection of a train coming towards their car, like the bus he saw before Terry's death.
Carter still tries to kill himself by stopping the car in the middle of a train track right as a train begins closing in from the distance, just like the reflection Alex saw indicated. The other three freak out and eventually get out of the car and still trying to convince Carter get out of the car as well and that he didn't need to surrender. Carter naively claims that it wasn't his time to die and tries to start the car but with no success, he then panics while trying to open the door and unbuckle his seatbelt but it was too late as Death had already jammed the whole car so the train could kill Carter, until Alex steps in and saves Carter pulling him out of the car and off the tracks right as the train runs over the car, shattering it. He tells Clear that he knew he could save Carter since he had seen a sign that his belt would rip as one of the forewarnings of Carter's imminent death. Billy starts yelling about wanting to keep his distance from Carter and telling Alex and Clear to do so as well due to the idea he was next in Death's list, but right as he speaks, Death immediately causes the passing train to throw a piece of the car wreckage to fly towards Billy's head, decapitating him. With Billy's death, Alex notices that Death would skip to the next person in its list if its current target was saved, which is why Death killed Billy after saving Carter. Clear and Alex rush out of the scene to avoid encountering the incoming police and Clear takes Alex to her father's old cabin where the police wouldn't find him, especially after the fact Alex unintentionally left behind traces that would frame him for Ms. Lewton's death.
With Alex thinking he was next in Death's list, he tries making the cabin as safe as he could by covering nails and pointy objects with corks, eliminating any flammable substances and eating canned food to avoid having to cook. But he sees a gust of wind knocking over a bag of trash, which almost makes a fishing rod open a pantry full of sharp objects, rushing over to close the door in time and carefully seeing a rusted fishing hook, concluding that Death tried to give him Tetanus and gets cocky thinking he outsmarted Death an that he was ready to beat it there. But later, when he sees the newspaper of Ms. Lewton's death, he realizes he didn't actually exchanged seats with Christa in the plane like he did in his premonition, otherwise he'd have been next after Tod, and that Clear's seat was right in front of his original seat, figuring out that Clear is actually next in the list.
Alex runs towards Clear's house, crossing the lake and running through the forest while also avoiding the police, who were going after him. But Death strikes a lightning on a tree to fall and incapacitate him to go to Clear's house, but he manages to get out and continues his way to her house, where he finds Clear trapped inside her car and cornered by a raging cable trying to electrocute her. He tells her to stay inside and tries to fight off the cable, which tosses his shovel to the garage and triggers a fire that spreads around Clear's car to explode it, but Alex saves her by grabbing the cable and giving her time to jump out before it exploded, which also injures him and knocks him out unconscious, but is also saved by the agents later on.
Six months later, the three remaining survivors finally fly to Paris to celebrate and are at a restaurant having drinks and cheering for their deceased friends. But Alex still tries to analyze Death's design and to understand how he was alive if Death targeted him after he intervened in Clear's death, but when Carter jokes about Alex still being next, Alex begins felling the ominous presence of Death around him again while noticing a man singing John Denver's Rocky Mountain High, a butcher stabbing a big piece of meat, the waiter setting a heater aflame and his red wine spilling on the "Me" word in his plane seat map he was analyzing. Fearing Death was indeed after him, he asks Clear and Carter to stay remain in their table, but Clear sees the reflection of a bus and warns Alex in time before a bus could run him over, but this same bus causes a street light to tear a big neon sign down, which almost kills Alex until Carter saves him, who warns him about him being next. But Alex points out him being saved caused Death to skip him, and witnesses the same neon sign come back down and crush Carter to death after he asked who was next since it had skipped Alex.
Death and Final Destination 2[]
After Carter died, Alex hadn't left his home for three months in order to protect himself from Death. But the one day he gets out, Alex and Clear were next to a building in a back way alley. Near the back window, a fallings bricks suddenly fell and smashed Alex's head and he collapsed to the ground as blood started running from his head to his chin. Alex's body was next to a horrified Clear as a local merchant heard the scream and called the police to come to the scene. After that, Clear willingly offered herself to stay in a mental health institution without anything that Death could possibly turn into a deadly weapon against her.
With Alex having saved his six colleagues from the plane explosion, it makes him indirectly responsible for the events in the sequel, as the survival of the people he saved from the plane caused an even bigger rift in Death's design due to their prolonged survival having affected the lives of all the others who made it into Death's list after being saved from the Route 23 pile-up, which caused Death to revert the pile-up death order in the sequel as a strategy to tie up all the loose ends and seal the big rift Alex had caused in its design once and for all.
Final Destination 5[]
The fifth film of the franchise is revealed to be the prequel to the first one in the very ending, in which Sam Lawton and his girlfriend Molly Harper board the same flight 180 that Alex and his friends were taking, and where they see Alex and Carter fighting while being taken out of the plane and not knowing what it was about. Though when Sam finds out that the fight earlier was due to one of them having a vision of the plane crash, it's unfortunately too late as the plane had already taken off and there was nothing they could do to avoid their impending deaths.
Trivia[]
- He is the second character in the series to have a premonition, the first being Sam Lawton chronologically.
- Tobey Maguire was considered for the role.