Matthew Upton is a character in the novel Final Destination: Destination Zero. Set in the late 1800s, Matthew is a survivor of the Mornington Crescent accident and is a newspaper editor for The Clarion. He is also a seemingly obese and unhygienic man. Several years before coming to England, Matthew was a soldier during a war in Afghanistan, where he witnessed many of his comrades get butchered by tribesmen, the memory haunting him ever since. Matthew, along with many other civilians went over to Madame Adrienne's house to perform a séance, when one of the attendees, Juliet Collins, witnessed a vision of the house exploding and incinerating everyone inside. Juliet freaks out and decides to back out of the séance, along with Bill Sangster. Matthew also agrees to leave with the rest of them,