'Final Destination Bloodlines': New Rules How to Trick Death, Explained

In all Final Destination movies, a group of people narrowly avoids a disaster. Later, Death takes them one by one, in the order they were initially supposed to die.

The exception is Final Destination 2, where the order is reversed – from the last victim to the first. In Final Destination Bloodlines, the rules for breaking the cycle were changed and updated.

The following text contains spoilers for Final Destination Bloodlines!

In 'Final Destination 2', William Claimed that Giving Birth Would Break the Cycle

In Final Destination 2, William Bludworth told Kimberly and her friends that having a baby would break the deadly cycle. Isabella Hudson, a pregnant woman, was supposed to die in a car accident.

The survivors went looking for her to ensure a safe delivery. However, the cycle was not broken when the woman gave birth. Kimberly had a vision revealing that Isabella was not supposed to die in the accident.

'Final Destination Bloodlines' Proves Giving Birth Can Only Postpone Death

This theory was revisited in Final Destination Bloodlines. In 1968, Iris Campbell, who was pregnant at the time, prevented a mass death in the Skyview tower thanks to a vision.

She married her boyfriend, Paul, and had two children with him. The births of children who shouldn't have been born forced Death to change its plans and hunt the survivors and their descendants for 56 years.

Death eventually reached the last name on the list: Iris, who was already old. This suggests that the birth of a child does not break the cycle, but only postpones death.

'Final Destination Bloodlines' Confirms That Clinical Death Is a Sure Way to Escape Death

Another way to break the deadly chain is clinical death. In the second film, Kimberly used this trick – she drove a van into the water, choked, and her heart stopped. However, doctors managed to resuscitate her in the hospital.

William tells about her in Bloodlines. Kimberly broke the cycle – she is the only survivor in the entire franchise.

Why Didn't Stefani's Clinical Death Trick Work?

In the finale of Bloodlines, Stefani was trapped in the white van by a faulty seatbelt and the van began to sink into a pond. Stefani lost consciousness, but Charlie saved her. They believed that they broke the cycle.

A week later, Stefani walked Charlie to the prom. Unexpectedly, Iris learned from a doctor that she had not actually been dead. Her heart had not stopped – the cycle had not been broken. Stefani and Charlie did not have time to do anything – they were killed by a train.

Why Did Erik Die Despite Not Being in the Deadly Cycle?

After Iris died, her relatives began dying from oldest to youngest. First were her eldest son, Howard, and his children, in the following order: Erik, Julia, and Bobby.

Next was her youngest daughter, Darlene, and her children: Stefani and Charlie. However, after Howard, Death switched to Julia instead of Erik – his mother confessed that Erik was born to another man.

Erik seemed safe, but he was sucked into an MRI machine and crushed by a wheelchair. Although he was not in the death cycle, Erik died.

When someone interferes with Death's plans, the course of events becomes unpredictable and the known rules no longer apply. Stefani, Charlie, and Darlene concluded that Death took Erik because of gross interference in its plans.