Alexander Theodore Browning is a fictional character in the Final Destination series created by Jeffrey Reddick and portrayed by Canadian actor Devon Sawa.

Abraham High School board Volée Airlines Flight 180, which is bound for departure from New York City's JFK International for Paris.

[4] In Final Destination 2, Clear reveals to Route 23 pile-up survivor Kimberly Corman that Alex died by being bludgeoned on the head by a dislodged brick from a nearby building.

[7] Alex is briefly mentioned in Final Destination 3 by Kevin Fischer, a survivor of the Devil's Flight roller coaster derailment while he explains to fellow survivor and visionary Wendy Christensen about the Flight 180 explosion and the sudden deaths of the survivors of the plane crash and appears via archive footage in Final Destination 5, in which he is being removed from Flight 180 and warns Sam Lawton and Molly Harper that the plane will explode during take-off, revealing that Final Destination 5 is actually a prequel to the original film.

Nine months later, Clear gives birth to Alexander "Alex" Chance Browning and reunites with Carter, safe in the knowledge that they have finally defeated Death.

Initially the role of Alex, the last one cast, was given to Tobey Maguire,[13] but later it went to Canadian actor Devon Sawa, who previously starred in the 1999 film Idle Hands.

Sawa commented that when "[he] read the script on a plane, it just freaked him out" and "[he] went down and met Glen and Jim and [he] thought they were amazing and already had some great ideas".

[11] The character's surname was based by writer Jeffrey Reddick to American director Tod Browning, who directed both horror classics Dracula and Freaks.

Stephen Holden of The New York Times commented that "The disaster and Alex's premonitions set up a heavy-handed fable about death and teenage illusions of invulnerability.

",[18] while Jami Bernard of the New York Daily News noted that "Sawa is solid as an Everyteen saddled with a rare and unwelcome gift".

[19] David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews remarked "Sawa's personable turn as the hero is matched by a uniformly effective supporting cast rife with familiar faces (i.e. Seann William Scott, Brendan Fehr, Tony Todd, etc)...";[20] while Joe Leydon of Variety pointed out that "Sawa is credible as the second-sighted Alex --- unlike many other actors cast a teen protagonists, he actually looks like he might still be attending high school --- but the supporting players are an uneven bunch.

The conflicting emotions he feels for his survival, which he comes to believe he wasn't meant to do, as well as the loss of the other passengers, is superbly and subtly acted on his part.