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=== John Kramer/Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) ===

 

Jigsaw kidnaps people that he believes aren't valuing their lives, then forces them through sadistic "tests" where there are usually only two outcomes: live (and gain a new outlook on life) or die (and gain a new outlook on the afterlife). John was eventually killed by Jeff Denlon, one of the last of his direct victims. Events ensuring his legacy would live on, however, were already in motion -- Mark Hoffman, one of John's apprentices, continued Jigsaw's work after his death.

** Confirmed by [[Word of God]].

* [[Knight Templar Big Brother]]: When his sister is killed by her boyfriend and said boyfriend is let off on a technicality, he avenges his sister's death by killing the boyfriend in such a way that it would appear to be another Jigsaw killing.

* [[Wife-Basher Basher]]: His first murder victim was a [[Domestic Abuser]] who [[You Killed My Father|killed his sister]].

* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: He plays lightning rounds of this.

* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: Creates inescapable traps, unlike Jigsaw, who intends for his victims to survive.

* [[Holier Than Thou]]: Amanda became Jigsaw's apprentice after succesfully surviving a trap, but then perverts his philosophy by making inescapable traps designed to kill the victims as she believes they won't change if they do survive while arrogantly believing herself to be the sole exception.

* [[Posthumous Character]]: In ''VI''.

* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: She comes to think of John Kramer as a father figure and is intensely loyal to him. She says that he "helped [her]"... by kidnapping her when she was asleep/unconscious, duct-taping her to a chair with a Reverse Bear Trap on her head that we later find out causes a gory death if it goes off, and basically gets her to kill a guy to enable her very narrow escape from certain [[Death by Disfigurement]].

* [[Chained to a Railway]]: {{spoiler|Only in a dream, though.}}

* [[Damsel in Distress]]: She turns into this in ''Saw 3D''. Many fans were not pleased.

 

=== Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) ===

* {{spoiler|[[Deceased Fall Guy Gambit]]: Hoffman attempted to use him for this in ''Saw VI''. It failed.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Decoy Protagonist]]}}

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Nice job shoving Hoffman into the glass box.

* {{spoiler|[[Too Dumb to Live]]: He ignored John's recorded warning to not go down the hall and he winds up in the cube trap. He ignores Hoffman's recorded warning to go into the glass coffin and he gets squished like a grape}}.

** That depends on the lesson you think he was supposed to learn. {{spoiler|The wife and son of a man he decided not to save were the ones who had to decide whether to let him live or die. The fact that he let ALL his male employees die, as he did their husband/father, made him fail in their eyes; by supposedly choosing at random for the second save in the Carousel Trap, he ''did'' fail, since he let the trap choose who would live instead of deciding himself, which ''definitely'' didn't win him any more bonus points.}} In the eyes of these characters, he did not learn his lesson.

*** They say nothing about his choices though. The only thing they mention is that he's responsible for the death of their husband/father. It seems how he handled the traps were irrelevant.

*** Cruel? Maybe.

* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Debatable.

 

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