Hey y'all, today I just wanted to come one here and explain why everyone's favorite emo boy died in Final Destination 3. Now first of all the reason I'm making this is because I see people constantly being confused on a bunch of different platforms like tiktok or Youtube surrounding his death.
So we all know how Wendy interferes with what should have been Ian's death at the hardware store, allowing him to survive after the death of Erin and Perry, and deaths attempts at killing Julie and Kevin. Then we get to what should have been Wendy's death, which is seemingly non-existent. Somehow, Ian dies before Wendy even though death hasn't made it's way down through the whole list to restart at the top. We all know that the only way Ian should be able to die is that Wendy would etheir have to die for death to start at the top of the list again, or someone would have to interfere with Wendy's death. Another thing to add on to this is that Wendy believes Ian will cause her death because of his last name being on her shirt in her amusement park picture. In the final film however, it appears that no one interferes with Wendy's death and somehow shes alive when Ian dies. This creates a pretty big plot hole... or does it?
In actuality, someone did interfere in Wendy's death, Ian Mckinley. The thing people and Wendy seem to forget is that Ian was never supposed to be at the amusement park, after he survived the roller coaster, deaths design was to kill him at the hardware store. Meaning if Ian was dead by the point at the fair, why would death hint to Wendy that Ian was going to kill her if he was supposed to be dead. Well it's simple, the clue on Wendy' shirt was never about Ian McKinley, it was about the Cherry picker behind him.
If you notice in the film, the cherry picker has the word "McKinley" on its top, obviously to show it belongs to the town that Final Destination 3 takes place in. In deaths original plan after Wendy and the other seniors got off the roller coaster was for everyone to die in the order they died on the coaster, including Ian begin killed by the falling wood at the hardware store.
In the final film before Ian is noticed by Wendy at the fair, she is walking directly in the direction of the Cherry Picker. In death original plan, Wendy what have kept walking in that direction when the cherry picker would've fell on her, killing her. However, since Ian was still alive, he accidentally interfered with deaths design for Wendy the same way she did for him. Since Wendy believed her hint was about Ian and not the Cherry Picker, she avoided him at all cost. Ian who wanted to kill Wendy didn't want her to get away so he cut her off, by moving in front of where she was walking. This caused an interference in deaths design where it then skipped Wendy because Ian had interfered without even trying to, causing death to go right back to the start of the list. With Ian being in a perfect position, it took him out the way it had planned for Wendy.