Death’s connected screen stories, licensed prose, comics and alternate interactive outcomes. Calendar contradictions remain visible; a film’s release year is not automatically its story year.
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Final Destination: watch and reading order
Bloodlines reaches back to the late 1960s. Final Destination 5 leads into the original Flight 180 disaster, and Final Destination 2 follows one year later. Licensed original fiction remains inclusively assumed canon. Conflicting year props stay visible, and movie novelizations appear beside their source stories.
Story order follows events within a history. Release order follows when works came out. Use the filters below to compare them; estimates and earlier scenes stay labelled.
All six films share a history. Licensed original prose and comics remain inclusively assumed canon where no specific contradiction is established; exact original interiors still need inspection.
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Reading the timelineConfirmed, assumed and disputed stories appear together. “est.” marks inference. “After” means relative order. Separate continuities retain their own history.
An older London disaster parallels the contemporary investigation.
Placement Major historical storyline indexed separately, not hidden inside the modern date. 1888 is a secondary original-text lead pending a legal full interior.
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Late 1960s; intended 1969 Relative / stated chronology
Iris experiences a premonition at a tower restaurant.
Placement Institutional guide / directors identify 1969. A reported 1968 newspaper conflict remains to compare; late-1960s rail expresses the supported period without hiding the contradiction.
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est. 1999–2000; two weeks before Flight 180 Evidence-based estimate
Office workers escape a collapsing bridge.
Placement Prequel relation verified by Amazon. Original memorial and later boarding-pass years conflict; the two-week interval / original props still require direct reinspection. Sort before Flight 180 without splitting the connected films.
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est. May 1999–2000; conflicting year props Evidence-based estimate
Alex’s premonition saves several passengers from Flight 180.
Placement Reported first-film memorial says 1999; 5’s prop says 2000. Preserve this narrow conflicting window rather than silently turn a release year into a confirmed story date.
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est. May 1999–2000; expanded film story Evidence-based estimate
Expanded prose retelling of the corresponding film.
Placement Same-story format adaptation beside its source movie, even though published years later. Earlier / later nested scenes and prose-only details require full interior audit.
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One year after Flight 180; est. 2000–2001 Evidence-based estimate
Kimberly prevents drivers from entering a highway pileup.
Placement One-year anniversary is explicitly confirmed in Amazon’s editorial. Its 2003 theatrical release does not put the story three years after the first.
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One year after Flight 180; est. 2000–2001 Evidence-based estimate
Expanded prose retelling of the corresponding film.
Placement Same-story format adaptation beside its source movie, even though published years later. Earlier / later nested scenes and prose-only details require full interior audit.
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Modern era; exact calendar unverified Relative / stated chronology
Jim’s visions intertwine with a survivor’s fate.
Placement DVD-exclusive mini-comic is an original connected story, not a movie adaptation. Only edition / opening-line inventory inspected; no exact event calendar guessed.
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est. 2005 graduation season Evidence-based estimate
Wendy’s roller-coaster warning changes her classmates’ fates.
Placement Reported graduating class and six-year first-film reference support 2005. Exact original dates need viewing; not automatically set in release-year 2006.
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est. 2005; alternate script-based details Evidence-based estimate
Expanded prose retelling of the corresponding film.
Placement Same-story format adaptation beside its source movie, even though published years later. Earlier / later nested scenes and prose-only details require full interior audit.
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est. spring 2006; modern-era overlapping window Evidence-based estimate
A Cancun hotel premonition interrupts a holiday trip.
Placement Connected five-issue run grouped. 2006 story date is a secondary lead; actual publication stretched into 2007. Full lettered pages unavailable, so exact dates and nested jumps remain open.
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est. mid-2020s; contemporary main narrative Evidence-based estimate
Stefanie follows recurring nightmares back to her grandmother.
Placement Modern family generations follow the 1960s origin. Reported 2024 / 2025 props and elapsed dialogue need direct comparison; no exact year silently selected from the release.
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These entries still lack enough evidence for a useful story-era insertion. Supported estimates and source-story retellings appear in the main timeline; remaining gaps need further research.
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Alternate endings and promotional stories
1990s-style school era; parody calendar unstatedOVERLAPPING ERA
1990s-style school era; parody calendar unstated Relative / stated chronology
A school sitcom setting becomes a chain of deadly accidents.
Placement Creator describes an original viral promotion, not the actors’ film characters living a second plot. Full video / exact original upload link still to inspect.
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These entries still lack enough evidence for a useful story-era insertion. Supported estimates and source-story retellings appear in the main timeline; remaining gaps need further research.