Alex Browning is the main protagonist of the horror movie Final Destination. He was a student at Mount Abraham High School who had qualified for the school's annual field trip to Paris in 1999. However, he experienced a vision in which the plane exploded, killing everyone aboard. After becoming hysterical and ranting about the impending catastrophe, he was removed from the plane, accompanied by his teacher Valerie Lewton and fellow students Clear Rivers, Tod Waggner, Billy Hitchcock, Carter Horton and Terry Chaney. When the plane took off without them, it exploded shortly after, just as Alex had predicted.
History[]
Final Destination[]
On May 13, 1999, forty-five students and five teachers from Mount Abraham High School boarded Volée Airlines Flight 180 at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York, bound for Paris, France. However, Alex experienced a premonition in which the plane exploded and began yelling in panic. He was escorted off the plane by the co-pilot and his teacher Ms. Lewton, followed by six other students. The group were not allowed back on the plane, which took off minutes later. Shortly after takeoff, the plane exploded, just as Alex had foreseen.
A month following the disaster, a memorial service was held for the thirty-nine students and four faculty members who had died on Flight 180. While Alex attended the funeral, he found himself being alienated by his peers, who all seemed to believe that the accident was somehow his fault. The night following the funeral, Alex's best friend Tod died after being strangled by a clothesline in his bathroom. Tod's parents also blamed Alex for this, believing that Tod's guilt for surviving the plane when his brother George had died had driven him to suicide.
That night, Alex and Clear snuck into the morgue where Tod's body was being examined, hoping to discover some clue as to what really happened to Tod. There, they met the mortician William Bludworth, who stated that he and the others had cheated Death by getting off the plane. This had led to Death targeting all of them specifically in order to complete its design, mentioning that Death keeps a list and will come for them in the order that they were meant to die on the flight. Bludworth also states that while one may be able to cheat Death again, it will have consequences for the other survivors.
The next day, while sitting with Clear outside a café discussing Death's design, Alex experiences another vision, seeing a bus reflected in a window then turning around only to see that there is no bus. A short while later, Terry Chaney is killed when a speeding bus comes out of nowhere and hits her. Because of his prediction and the mysterious nature of the deaths of two survivors of Flight 180, Alex found himself being questioned by two FBI agents. Ultimately, they had nothing to hold him on and let him go, but as he walked home, Alex noticed that his teacher Ms. Lewton's house was on fire. He ran inside the house to find Ms. Lewton on the kitchen floor, a knife sticking out of her chest. He tried to help, but a sudden explosion from the oven caused a chair to fall onto the knife, driving it into Lewton's heart and killing her. Alex grabbed the knife and pulled it out, only to then realize that he had just incriminated himself by putting his fingerprints on it. He then ran out of the house shortly before it exploded.
Later, Clear, Carter and Billy found Alex moping by the lake. The four drove through town in Carter's car and Alex explained Death's design to Carter and Billy. This caused Carter to get angry and he began driving erratically, scaring the others. Ranting about how he was the master of his own fate, Carter brought the car to a stop on a railway track. Alex, Clear and Billy got out of the car and urged Carter to do the same as a freight train was quickly approaching. Carter remained seated for a while before deciding to get out, but his seatbelt wouldn't unbuckle and the doors mysteriously locked by themselves. Carter rolled down his window and Alex and Clear tried to pull him out. Just as the train was nearly upon them, Carter's seatbelt snapped and he was pulled free. The trio got off the tracks just before the train slammed into the car and destroyed it.
While Carter had been saved, Billy would die a moment later when a piece of debris from the car was flung from the railway track and decapitated him. Since Carter had been saved at the last moment, Death had skipped over him and claimed the next victim in the order of its "list". Alex knew that he was next after Billy, but was determined to cheat Death. Following Billy's demise, he locked himself in a lakeside cabin that once belonged to Clear's late father, rigging the cabin to be as accident-proof as he could possibly make it. However, while in his isolation, he remembered that in his vision, he had switched seats with fellow students Christa and Blake, thus he had changed the order in which the survivors would die, meaning that Clear was next on Death's list.
Alex left the cabin and rushed to Clear's house in the hopes of saving her. He arrived in time to save Clear who was trapped in a car with a leaking gas tank, and surrounded by loose live wires. Grabbing the flailing wire, Alex subjected himself to an electric shock, allowing Clear to escape from the car seconds before it exploded. Alex was rendered unconscious by the shock, but survived.
Six months later, Alex, Clear and Carter visited Paris in celebration of cheating Death, believing that they had broken the design. This turned out not to be the case, however, as Death had simply returned to the top of the list and came back with a vengeance. While the trio were enjoying a drink, Alex witnessed another omen of death and left the table. A chain reaction caused him to nearly be hit by a falling neon sign, but Carter saved Alex at the last second, and Death skipped him. When Carter asked who was next on Death's list, the sign suddenly swung back down towards Carter, crushing him.
Final Destination 2[]
Alex does not appear in-person in Final Destination 2, having died between the ending of the first film and the events of the sequel. While investigating Kimberly Corman's claims of premonitions and Death's designs, police officer Thomas Burke comes across a newspaper article online that details the circumstance's of Alex's death. Apparently, after returning from Paris, Alex had locked himself away in his house for three months. When he finally had decided to go outside again, he was walking through an alley when a loose brick fell from above and hit his head, killing him instantly.