Carter Horton
A rebellious teen who escaped Flight 180, but couldn't outrun a falling brick.
Carter Horton is a high school student and classmate of Alex Browning who survives the explosion of Volée Airlines Flight 180 in the 2000 film Final Destination. He is one of the passengers removed from the plane after a fight breaks out between him and Alex. Carter is described as having a rebellious and confrontational attitude, which is evident when he stops his car at a train crossing to prove Alex's theory about Death's plan wrong. He is the boyfriend of Terry Chaney, who is killed by a speeding bus after leaving a café argument.
Quick Facts
- Role
- Supporting Survivor
- Affiliation
- Flight 180 Survivors
- First appearance
- Final Destination (Film)
Lore & Background
Carter Horton is a supporting survivor in Final Destination. After the plane explosion, he is among the group that includes Alex Browning, Clear Rivers, Tod Waggner, Terry Chaney, Valerie Lewton, and Billy Hitchcock. Carter is skeptical of Alex's theory that Death is reclaiming the survivors in the order they would have died on the plane. To prove Alex wrong, Carter stops his car at a train crossing, but Alex manages to save him just before the car is smashed by an oncoming train. The train knocks a piece of shrapnel into the air, decapitating Billy Hitchcock. Alex deduces that because he intervened in Carter's death, it skipped to the next person in the sequence. Six months later, Carter travels to Paris with Alex and Clear to celebrate their survival. When a bus collision hurls a parking sign towards a neon sign that begins falling toward Alex, Carter pushes Alex out of the way at the last second, but the sign swings back toward him, implying his death as the film abruptly cuts to the end credits.
Reader's Guide
Carter Horton is a supporting character in Final Destination (2000). He is a rebellious teenager who survives Flight 180 after a fight with Alex Browning. Carter is skeptical of Alex's theory about Death reclaiming survivors in the order they would have died. He attempts to disprove this by stopping his car at a train crossing, but Alex saves him just before the train hits. The resulting shrapnel kills Billy Hitchcock instead. Six months later, Carter travels to Paris with Alex and Clear. When a neon sign falls toward Alex, Carter pushes him out of the way, but the sign swings back toward Carter, implying his death. The film ends without showing his fate definitively.
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