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Dr. Lawrence Gordon

Played By: Cary Elwes

Appearances: Saw I | Saw 3D

One of the two protagonists of the original Saw. The oncologist who was treating John at the hospital, he wasn't particularly caring towards his patients, being more interested in treating the disease than the person. He was also taking his family for granted. Jigsaw thinks he has a way to teach him to appreciate them more...

• Apologetic Attacker: He tells Adam he's sorry as he shoots him to save his wife and daughter, and breaks down screaming and crying afterwards.
• An Arm and a Leg: Cuts off his right foot in order to escape at the climax of the first film.
• Back for the Finale: He comes back for Saw 3D, which was planned to be the series' original finale. Up until this point, he hasn't been seen since the first film, six movies ago.
• Bleed 'Em and Weep: He was already desperate and near-tears when he picks up the gun to shoot Adam, but the second he pulls the trigger and Adam falls to the floor, he breaks down sobbing and screaming.
• Cluster F-Bomb: He delivers a litany of them during the climax of the first movie, after having kept himself completely devoid of swearing up until that point.
  Lawrence: [to Zep] You bastard! I'll fucking kill you! I'll fucking kill you! YOU FUCKING BASTARD! I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!
• Deadpan Snarker: In 3D, he only seems to show up to Bobby's meeting to snark at him.
• Fatal Family Photo: Notably averted. Gordon shows Adam a picture of his family in the first movie, and yet he's still alive in the seventh one. Considering the series' ludicrously high mortality rate, his survival would be impressive even if he didn't tempt fate with this trope.
• Freak Out: Goes completely nuts when he thinks his family has been killed, leading to him cutting off his foot and shooting Adam.
• "I Can't Look!" Gesture: As soon as Adam delivers the first blow to Zepp's skull, Lawrence immediately puts his head down and looks away.
• In-Series Nickname: Adam once refers to him as "Larry".
• Metaphorically True: In the first film, he says that newspapers dubbing the Jigsaw Killer as such is inaccurate, because technically speaking, he never killed anyone directly; he just puts them in situations where death is very likely. The point is really moot, as almost any jurisdiction would consider putting someone in such a situation to be murder, combined with other possible crimes like kidnapping. Saw II does at least have the Jerkass detective Eric call Jigsaw out on this defense: "putting a gun to someone's head and forcing them to pull the trigger is still murder." Plus, that ignores one of the flashbacks to Lawrence's explanation of Jigsaw, in which the latter lures Sing into a booby trap, resulting in his death; this was in turn preceded by a very straightforward attempt to murder Tapp by slashing his throat.
• Mr. Exposition: He serves this purpose in the first film to explain the previous Jigsaw incidents and Tapp's story.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Especially in the first film. Cary Elwes just didn't know how to fake an American accent. Especially in the more dramatic scenes, where his British accent tends to show up.
• Papa Wolf: In a desperate attempt to save his family from Zep, he cuts his right foot off and tries to murder Adam as part of their game. Thankfully for him, his family survived, and fortunately for himself, Adam's Not Quite Dead.
• Sanity Slippage: Word of God is that after surviving his game, he developed a severe mental instability that led to his wife divorcing him.
• Sarcastic Clapping: He does it (along with sarcastic verbal applause) at the Jigsaw Survivor Group meeting in Saw 3D after Bobby gives a particularly dramatic, self-serving speech to its members.
• Skewed Priorities: He used to have an affair with Carla and one day they decided to meet in a motel, probably to have sex. When he arrived at the hotel room they have booked, he chose to end the affair not because he felt guilty about deceiving his wife and daughter, but because he was upset with Carla paging him while he was at home and afraid that someone would've known about the affair. Too bad that David Tapp — and Adam too, by extension — ended up knowing about it anyway.
• That Liar Lies: After being told by his wife that Adam is lying. "Stop the lies! You're a liar!"
• Uncertain Doom: His fate was left hanging and never made clear until Saw 3D.
• White Shirt of Death: Averted. He wears a white T-shirt identical to Adam's during the first film in the Bathroom, but never gets covered in blood and survives the game.

Adam Stanheight

Played By: Leigh Whannell

Appearances: Saw I | Saw III

The other protagonist of the original Saw, locked in the bathroom with Lawrence. A photographer by trade, Adam was paid by Tapp to take pictures of Lawrence.

• Anti-Hero: For all of his flaws, he proves himself to be this, as shown when he manages to save Lawrence from Zep's attempted murder.
• Anti-Villain: It's revealed that Adam was hired by Tapp to stalk Lawrence out of suspicion, which he gleefuly accepted. Otherwise, he's not a bad guy.
• Bad "Bad Acting": His pathetic attempt to convince Jigsaw that he's been poisoned by a cigarette. It works as well as you would expect.
• Better with Non-Human Company: Is shown to spend most of his time around people in the shadows, watching them for the purposes of his job, and is shown as well-intentioned but awkward when he's actually interacts with them. A scrapped scene in the original script, however, shows that he affectionately feeds and pets the stray cat that hangs around his apartment. In another scrapped scene, he tells Lawrence that he really wanted to be a vet when he was younger, but decided it was a pipe dream when he saw the grades he would have needed to do it.
• Bleed 'Em and Weep: Breaks down sobbing as soon as Zep's dead, not just because he's just killed a man, but also from all the physical pain and mental trauma he's endured alongside Lawrence.
• Book Dumb: In the original script he tells Lawrence that he didn't finish high school, but he demonstrates both good problem-solving and intuition, and winds up saving Lawrence's life by Playing Possum and attacking and killing Zep when he's not expecting it.
• Cigarette of Anxiety: Adam and Lawrence manage to find a box hidden in one of the bathroom's walls, which has a cigarette and a note from Jigsaw inside. Lawrence proposes a plan — Adam will smoke the cigarette and pretend to die, since the note implies that it's laced with poison. Although the plan doesn't work, Adam is clearly elated to see the cigarette, and savors it while he smokes it, fluttering his eyelashes, dropping his shoulders and even smiling after he takes a drag.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Is left to slowly die in the bathroom trap from his injuries, dehydration, and starvation, and even Amanda's attempt to painlessly Mercy Kill him backfires when he wakes up halfway through it — he tries to fight back only to injure himself and die bloody and terrified.
• Darkness Equals Death: Happens to him twice.
  • On the night that he gets abducted, all of the light in his apartment is cut out.
  • Adam is ultimately left to die in the pitch-black bathroom.
• Deadpan Snarker: "I went to bed in my shithole apartment, and woke up in an actual shithole," amongst many other funny gems.
• Everyone Has Standards: He's an eager photographer and was willing to stalk on Lawrence out of Tapp's orders, but the moment the two met each other in person, he decides not to further antagonize him.
• Extreme Melee Revenge: He bludgeons Zep's head into a bloody pulp right as he's about to kill Lawrence.
• Face Death with Despair: At the end of the first film, Adam breaks down screaming when the actual Jigsaw killer closes the door to the Bathroom and leaves him to die from hunger or dehydration.
  John: Most people are so ungrateful to be alive... but not you. Not anymore. [walks out the door as Adam screams incoherently] Game over. [shuts the door]
  Adam: DON'T! DON'T! NOOO! [more incoherent screaming]
• Foil: To Lawrence. While Lawrence is a respected doctor who earns a high income, holds a lot of value to his community, and has a loving family, Adam is estranged from his family, lives in a "shithole apartment", and is only able to put food in his stomach by from spying on others for a living.
• Friend to All Living Things: A deleted scene shows that he feeds the stray cat that lives around his apartment, who specifically comes to his door, in yet another indication that he is a Nice Guy at the core.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Being one of the first Jigsaw victims in the franchise, he wonders as to how he and Lawrence even end up together in a fatal trap.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He tells Lawrence that his last girlfriend broke up with him for being too angry. Even Jigsaw describes him as angry in Adam's tape.
• Headbutt of Love: Shares one with Lawrence for comfort as they both lay bleeding on the floor.
• Horrible Housing: He dislikes his dumpy apartment, but admits it's not as awful as the bathroom Jigsaw put him in.
• Irony: He begs Lawrence not to leave him behind, and the latter promises that. Later on, Lawrence seemed to have forgotten about his old trapmate.
• Loser Protagonist: He's estranged from his family, has no job other than taking underhanded gigs of spying on people for cash, lives in a dingy apartment, and ultimately is captured by Jigsaw for being so "angry and apathetic". Cut dialogue in the original script shows that he's also passively suicidal, which further motivated Jigsaw to put him in the bathroom.
• Mercy Kill: By Amanda with a plastic bag — if only he hadn't woken up halfway through.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: For someone with a slim body, it's rather impressive for him to fight with Zep and use a toilet cover to stop the latter.
• Muzzle Flashlight: A variant. In a flashback, Adam has to use his camera flash to try and see if there's an intruder in his apartment when the power gets cut. Said intruder captures him.
• Nice Guy:
  • Even if his job was a little seedy. He expresses genuine concern about Lawrence's family, tries to comfort him and calm him down as he's breaking down towards the end of the film, and beats his would-be murderer to death. He didn't spy on people for fun; like he said, he just needed to eat.
  • When Lawrence tosses him his wallet to show him a picture of Alison and Diana, Adam flips through it and sees that the original picture has been replaced with one of them bound and gagged, left there for Lawrence to find. Adam shakily lies and tells Lawrence that the original picture isn't there before pocketing it. When he throws Lawrence his wallet back later and he sees the real photo, he tearily asks why Adam didn't show it to him, and he just says, "I couldn't." He knew how much pain it would put Lawrence in to see his family in danger, and even apologizes to him for not telling him.
  • It's telling that a Freeze-Frame Bonus in Saw V shows his name amongst the FBI's files full of Jigsaw victims, meaning that his kindness and overall decency meant enough to Lawrence that he, as an associate of Jigsaw, went to the trouble and the risk of making sure that his death would be known both to law enforcement and to any family members he had that cared and would have never known what had happened otherwise. (Given that all the bodies of everyone killed in the bathroom are still there by the time of 3D, it's a pretty fair assumption that the police weren't aware of its existence or of any of the games that took place there.)
• Not Quite Dead: Despite being shot by Lawrence, it turns out that he didn't die from it, as he was only his near his left shoulder.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Adam's actor, Leigh Whannell, is Australian, and though he's not perfect at hiding his Australian accent, he's leagues ahead of Lawrence's Cary Elwes.
• Organ Theft: He discusses this when he looks over his body and tells Lawrence that they're in a typical organ theft situation where someone has kidnapped them, took their kidneys and put them on sale in eBay. Lawrence assures Adam that's impossible, because if he had lost his kidneys, he would be in extreme pain or already dead.
• Perfect Poison: Invoked when he pretends to pass out from the poisoned cigarette after taking a couple of drags from it. It doesn't fool anyone.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: Begs Lawrence not to leave him in the bathroom alone, even though he promises that he's leaving to get help for the both of them.
• Tragic Dropout: In the original draft of the script, Adam says that he really wanted to be a veterinarian growing up, but thought it was impossible when he saw the grades he would need to get there. When Lawrence claims that he's seen kids graduate high school from a hospital bed, Adam says that they got farther than he did.
• White Shirt of Death: Adam wears a white T-shirt for the entire first movie, which ends up drenched in his and Zep's blood. Even when Amanda attempts to kill him with no bloodshed, he winds up breaking his nose when he instinctively struggles against her attempts to suffocate him and bangs his head into the sink, leaving his face drenched in blood when he finally dies.

Paul Leahy

Played By: Mike Butters

Appearances: Saw I | Saw V (flashbacks)

A suicidal man who Jigsaw deems ungrateful for his life.

• Self-Harm: The reason John kidnapped Paul was that he had run a straight razor across his wrists twice (either to gain attention or to kill himself, as John asks via tape).
• Symbolic Mutilation: The Razor Wire Maze forced Paul, who cut himself twice, to crawl carefully around razor wire.

Mark Wilson

Played By: Paul Gutrecht

Appearances: Saw I

A man who claims to be sick to shirk his responsibilities.

• Agony of the Feet: Mark's test was hindered by glass shards spread all around the room to trip his bare feet.
• Disproportionate Retribution: As the audience knows, Mark Wilson was a successful man enjoying life. Jigsaw's reason for kidnapping him? He liked to claim he was sick to get days off work.
• Kill It with Fire: Mark is covered head to toe in flammable jelly. He has to cautiously use a candle to navigate a dark room to discover a code for a safe in the center of it to get an antidote for his poison. He trips.
• Symbolic Mutilation: Mark, who called in sick to work even though he wasn't, had to find numbers with a candle to unlock a safe while he's covered in flammable jelly. He ended up burning to death, so he got fired.

Jeff Ridenhour

Played By: Ned Bellamy

Appearances: Saw I

A man who is held captive by Jigsaw and found by Tapp and Sing.

• Ascended Extra: Jeff is put in a trap in the film and has muffled lines because his mouth is gagged. He speaks and appears in another trap in the first video game.
  • That wasn't the first plan to bring him back in a larger role, however. According to the original script of Saw IV, he was meant to return in said film as a Jigsaw accomplice, being the one who placed the explosive Billy that knocked out Perez in the final film.
• Riddle for the Ages: Nothing is known about Jeff or why Jigsaw tested him.
• This Is a Drill: Jeff's test involves two drills coming at his neck. He has twenty seconds to find the right key in a chain of them. Fortunately, Sing aborts the game by destroying the drill contraptions with his pistol.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: He's never seen again after Sing saves him, not even in the Saw 3D survivor meeting. However if you take the video games as Canon, Jeff was captured and put in a trap again, rescued by Tapp, and killed himself from the trauma.

Donnie Greco

Played By: Oren Koules

Appearances: Saw I | Saw III (flashbacks)

A patient of the Homeward Bound Clinic and acquaintance of Amanda Young.

• Flat Character: Nothing is known about him other than being a drug addict and possible dealer. Despite this he arguably plays a huge part in the overarching storyline.
• Gutted Like a Fish: Amanda did this to a paralyzed Donnie to find the key in his stomach. Perhaps mercifully, he was so drugged up he supposedly couldn't feel much.
• No Name Given: Until V, he was only credited as "the man".
• Riddle for the Ages: Nothing is known about Donnie or why Jigsaw tested him. However, he is seen at Jill's clinic and was stated in the first film's original script to be Amanda's drug dealer, which could explain why he was part of her test.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Donnie is a somewhat notable figure across the storyline of the first three films, as while he's a minor victim who didn't speak a line and basically had the only purpose of dying, Amanda's killing of him is what sent her on a downward spiral into Jigsaw's mentorship.
• Swallow the Key: How Jigsaw apparently put the Reverse Beartrap's key in Donnie's stomach.

Alison and Diana Gordon

Played By: Monica Potter (Alison), Makenzie Vega (Diana)

Appearances: Saw I

Lawrence's unfortunate family held hostage by Zep, whom he has been ordered to murder if the doctor fails to either kill Adam Stanheight or escape by six o' clock.

• Action Girl: Downplayed with Alison, who is a normal woman and by no means a natural combatant, but she manages to break free from her binds and steal Zep’s gun, hold him at gun point, and wrestle with him long enough for Tapp to arrive and fight him.
• All There in the Manual: Word of God explains Alison divorced Lawrence and took Diana with her after he took a major Sanity Slippage following his survival.
• Break the Cutie: For Diana, an 8-year-old, it doesn't get worse than being held hostage by a sadistic monster and not knowing where your father is.
• Mama Bear: When Gordon fails his game, Alison isn't having Zep's sadistic shit and fights him with all her might to protect her child before Tapp bursts into the scene.
• When You Coming Home, Dad?: Diana often wonders why Lawrence is almost never at home. Of course, his wife doesn't really know either.

Carla Song

Played By: Alexandra Bokyun Chun

Appearances: Saw I

A medical student at the Angel of Mercy Hospital, where she was educated by the Lawrence, whom she tried to have an affair with.

• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: In the second video game, Carla meets her fate at Henry Jacobs' hands, who impales her with a pair of scissors.
• Karma Houdini: Averted in the second video game, where she is kidnapped and put to test by Jigsaw for smuggling drugs, not for her past affair with Lawrence.
• The Mistress: Carla engages in an affair with Lawrence, even though he has a wife and a daughter.
• Older Than They Look: Carla, a medical student, is played by Alexandra Bokyun Chun, who was 37 years old when the movie was released.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Her adultery with Lawrence kickstarts the latter's suffering streak. Lawrence's family slowly crumbles down, he becomes vulnerable and exposed to both Tapp and Jigsaw, and despite surviving his test, Word of God said that he later went through a Sanity Slippage that led to Alison divorcing and taking custody of Diana.
• Sympathetic Adulterer: She seems genuinely saddened when Lawrence decides to abruptly end their affair before it even begins, leading to the assumption that her feelings for Lawrence are real to some degree.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She had no way to know, but if she never dated Lawrence who was a married man, he wouldn't be stalked by Adam (on Tapp's order) and the whole story would've turned in a completely different way.

Brett

Played By: Benito Martinez

Appearances: Saw I

Lawrence's lawyer and close friend.

• Ascended Extra: A What Could Have Been example. In Saw IV, he was going to be the victim who had to set up the various traps seen in the film before Art Blank took his place.
• No Full Name Given: Only his first name is known.

Father

Played By: Avner Garbi

Appearances: Saw I

A neighbor of Lawrence and his family, who offers Alison and Diana to stay in his house when they escape from Zep.

• No Name Given: The film's credits only refer to him as "Father".

Nerve Gas House Victims

The unlucky group of convicts John Kramer abducted for the main game of Saw II. While most of them are indeed real criminals, what they all have in common is that they were framed by Eric for crimes they didn't commit. This is to potentially complicate the situation by having Daniel in the game.

• Blood from Every Orifice: Discussed when John tells Eric that his son and the rest of the victims in the Nerve Gas House are doomed to this fate. Eventually averted, however, as the only victim who actually dies from the gas, Laura, only gets Blood from the Mouth.
• Blood from the Mouth: A sign of the progression of the toxin's effects in the Nerve Gas House is coughing or vomiting up blood, which several victims end up doing.
• Characters Dropping Like Flies: All of them, except Daniel and Amanda, dies. Daniel wasn't even a real player, as Amanda was there to ensure his survival in preparation for Eric's game, meaning that all the victims basically failed.
• Death by Irony: The intention behind the house is for each victim to encounter an individually-tailored trap that could get them a dose of the antidote or kill them. However, the fast-acting nerve toxin and Xavier's rampage meant that most of the victims didn't even have a chance to discover their own tests.
• Riddle for the Ages: Each of the house's traps were designed specifically for each of the players. While Obi's was the furnace, Xavier's was the Needle Pit, Daniel probably didn't have one, and the writers explained that the Razor Box was made for Gus(Addison's was a waffle iron chair), we may never know what tests Jonas and Laura would've encountered had they not died early.
• Ten Little Murder Victims: A group of apparent strangers find themselves locked in an abandoned house, which is obviously full of Jigsaw's traps. They soon learn that something links them all together... and one of the "survivors" was actually in on it.

Daniel Matthews

Played By: Erik Knudsen

Appearances: Saw II

Eric Matthew's estranged son, who after another argument with his father, was kidnapped by the Jigsaw Killer. Eric's desperate efforts at finding the whereabouts of his son drive the plot of Saw II.

• Break the Cutie: He's just a troubled kid put into the trials of the city's most notorious Serial Killer despite having done nothing wrong to warrant it, considering the killer's twisted philosophy. As it turns out, his role in Jigsaw's game is merely part of a greater conspiracy concerning his father, and he's betrayed and subdued by the closest person he had to a friend in his ordeal. By the time the police discover him, he's completely broken on an emotional level.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He doesn't appear after Saw II, despite surviving and his father having further roles. He's only being mentioned again in the film's DVD short The Scott Tibbs Documentary, where Scott attempts to interview Daniel in a hospital before a security guard kicks him out. Word of God is that Daniel was meant to appear in the Jigsaw Survivor Group meeting in Saw 3D, but he couldn't be included due to scheduling issues with his actor Erik Knudsen.
• Delinquent: A troubled teenager who doesn’t get along with his dad and was caught shoplifting on at least one occasion.
• Disappeared Dad: Daniel never saw Eric again after the argument they had on the boardwalk.
• Disproportionate Retribution: He's made some bad decisions and disrespected his father a few times, something every kid has done every now and then, but nothing to warrant his place in a Deadly Game.
• Enclosed Space: After the Nerve Gas House game ended, Daniel is abducted and placed into a small metal container with an oxygen mask on his face.
• Improbable Infant Survival: While John Kramer isn't above harming children, Amanda was installed into the Nerve Gas House game specifically to ensure Daniel's safety, as his survival is necessary to test his father. After everyone else in the house dies, Amanda cures him of the nerve gas, knocks him out, and traps him in a safe with an oxygen mask in preparation for Eric Matthew's test.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite being a teen delinquent, Daniel is genuinely one of the kindest characters in the series and tries to be the most supportive of everyone during the Nerve Gas House Game. Eric even lampshades he's done absolutely nothing wrong for John to put him in his sick game.
• Parting-Words Regret: Daniel's final interaction with Eric prior to being abducted was being on the receiving end of his father’s fury, and since Eric was killed in IV six months after being abducted by Jigsaw, we know they never reconciled.
  Daniel: I just think I should go back to Mom's early.
  Eric: What did you say?
  Daniel: What, can you not hear me?
  Eric: No, I can't hear you. Say it again!
  Daniel: I think I should go back to Mom's...
  Eric: Well, then, GO!
  Daniel: Jesus...
• Ship Tease: The film seems to be setting him and Laura up for this, but it's abruptly cut short by her death, which comes mere seconds after she learns that he is the son of the detective who wrongfully convicted, which would have prevented anything from coming of this anyway.
• Sins of Our Fathers: Besides needing look at the back of his combination number, this is the second reason why Xavier wanted to kill Daniel personally. Even Addison and Amanda did not want to anything to do with him after they discovered he is the son of a corrupt police detective, specifically the one who framed them for crimes they did not do.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Daniel has quite the sailor mouth for a kid character, dropping multiple f-bombs and s-bombs throughout his screen time.
• Slashed Throat: Kills Xavier in this way with Dr. Gordon's hacksaw from the first film.
• Trauma Conga Line: After being thrust into the Nerve Gas House and witnessing several people die in absolutely nightmare-inducing ways, Daniel is finally forced to kill Xavier in self-defense and is left with a look of pure shock and horror as he realizes that he has just killed another man. There is absolutely zero doubt that Daniel will be left with major PTSD from this experience.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Even though Daniel survived the events of the second film, he seemingly disappears from the series entirely. The last time he's even mentioned is when Eric escapes from the bathroom in III. Even stranger still is the fact that he's seemingly been forgotten by the fourth film, since Eric doesn't so much as utter his name under his breath while he's hanging over the ice block; the only reference to Daniel in IV is a blink-and-you'll-miss photograph in Rigg's apartment.
• "X" Marks the Spot: The backside of a picture hanging on the wall with the glass shattered into an X reveals the true commonality the test subjects share—they were all falsely convicted by Daniel's father, Eric.

Jonas Singer

Played By: Glenn Plummer

Appearances: Saw II

A man who was framed by Eric Matthews.

• Team Dad: Jonas is by far the most reasonable member of the group, and tries to corral the rest of the party to work together. He even tries to relate to Xavier, but Xavier had gotten too Ax-Crazy by that point and ends up murdering him.
• Worf Had the Flu: When Xavier attacks Jonas for the code number behind his neck, Jonas overpowers him, but briefly succumbs to the nerve gas. This allows Xavier to win the fight.

Laura Hunter

Played By: Beverley Mitchell

Appearances: Saw II

A young woman who was framed by Eric Matthews.

• Beware the Nice Ones: Laura's arguably the nicest of the nerve gas house victims, but when she realized that Obi was her captor, she grew furious at him. Heck, she even broke a glass bottle in front of him as a form of threat.
• Break the Cutie: Laura, who appears to be the most innocent of the victims, breaks down crying at the halfway point, lamenting about her possible death and the fact that she's going to miss out on so many years of her life and so many people she could've met.
• Broken Bird: Laura gives off shades of this with her general fragility.
• Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: May we present Obi Tate, her captor?
• Morality Pet: Almost everyone, but particularly Daniel and Amanda, treats Laura protectively as she begins to weaken from the gas. The remaining survivors splinter after her death, though this is also because Daniel's connection to Eric has been exposed by that point.
• Ms. Fanservice: Laura's top gives a generous view of her cleavage, which was lampshaded by her actress Beverley Mitchell in the commentary of Saw II.
• Nervous Wreck: Laura is this in spades. Unfortunately, it contributes to her having the weakest will and she dies from the nerve gas quickly, despite facing none of the traps herself.
• Sacrificial Lamb: Laura, who is never presented as anything but kind and terrified, expires right before the rest of the cast begins to die en masse.
• Token Good Teammate: Quite possibly the least impulsive and most docile of the nerve gas house victims during Saw II.

Addison Corday

Played By: Emmanuelle Vaugier

Appearances: Saw II | Saw IV (flashbacks)

A prostitute who was framed by Eric Matthews.

• Broken Bird: Addison gives off shades of this with her general prickliness and fear of trusting others.
• Disposable Sex Worker: Addison is an apparent prostitute,^note Which Xavier is quick to use as an object of insult to her in response to her objecting his attempts to open one of the house's locked doors with brute force, telling her that "the only door [she knows] how to open is between her legs". though how active she is on said job is unknown. Her only known crime besides her connection to Eric is once having attempted to proposition John before he became Jigsaw.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's notably blunt and content with her life, but she won't hesitate in partaking cooperation with others.
• Ms. Fanservice: Addison's attire is somewhat revealing, especially considering the situation. In the commentary, it was discussed that a flashback scene was planned, but not filmed, that would have had Addison giving Eric a lapdance, much to Donnie Wahlberg's faux chagrin.
• Symbolic Mutilation: In a What Could Have Been example, Addison was originally going to have a different trap than the Razor Box (which was meant for Gus), in which she had to press her face onto a hot iron, sacrificing her looks (as a prostitute, that's one of her key features) to save her life.
• Too Dumb to Live: Addison has the dubious honor of being seen as the dumbest victim in the series by the fandom and squandering what is likely the easiest trap of them all. The Razor Box Trap is a hanging glass box with two holes to put one's hands in to retrieve an antidote. The only catch is if the victim does this, they will die from blood loss due to the holes being lined with trapping razor blades. However, on the other side of the box is a padlock with a key already loaded, meaning all the victim has to do to win is walk around the box. Addison, however, plunges her hands into the box the moment she enters the room and seals her fate. To be fair, though, she was extremely delirious from the nerve toxin by this point.

Gus Colyard

Played By: Tony Nappo

Appearances: Saw II

A businessman who was framed by Eric Matthews.

• Eye Scream: Gus dies checking into the peephole of a door with a revolver waiting on the other side when he was repeatedly warned not to.
• Nervous Wreck: Since he was so quick to agree with Xavier to disregard the warning not to use the key to open the armed door.
• Too Dumb to Live: Gus ignores every warning to not use a key to open a certain door. When he peeks into the peephole, he subsequently gets his eye blown out by the Magnum Eyehole.
• White Shirt of Death: Gus dies when his left eye is shot by the Magnum Eyehole, with the ensuing blood getting his white shirt drenched in the process.

Michael Marks

Played By: Noam Jenkins

Appearances: Saw II (onscreen) | Saw IV, Saw 3D (in flashbacks)

A former druggie, now police informant for Eric. He's introduced as the victim of the Death Mask trap in Saw II, kickstarting the plot when Jigsaw calls out for Eric at the scene of his death.

• Alliterative Name: Michael Marks.
• Big "SHUT UP!": He gives one to Cecil in Saw IV when the latter begins yelling about how long he's been waiting at the clinic. Cecil tells him to shut up back in response.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Jigsaw kidnaps Michael because he despises his role as an informant, describing him as a "voyeur." While the role of a criminal informant can be dirty, especially when it concerns someone like Eric, an informant can be invaluable in assisting law enforcement in saving lives and catching criminals. Plus, the fact John describes Michael as such is pretty rich, considering he spies extensively on his victim's personal lives before testing them.
• Eye Scream: The key to his Death Mask is hidden behind one of his eyes, which Jigsaw encourages to gouge out with a dinky scalpel given to him.
• Face Death with Despair: He gets terrified and can only let out Rapid-Fire "No!" just before the Death Mask kills him.
• Rage Quit: He gives up midway into his test, angrily throwing away his scalpel and screaming for help in vain until he dies.
• Rapid-Fire "No!": Shortly before the Death Mask closes.
• Symbolic Mutilation: Michael was a police informant to a corrupt cop who spied on people. In his test, he has to cut out one of his eyes to get the key that will free him from the trap.
• The Stool Pigeon: He's a criminal informant for Eric.

Jeff Denlon

Played By: Angus Macfadyen

Appearances: Saw III | Saw IV | Saw V

The main character of Saw III. His son was killed by a drunk driver. He is unable to let go, to the detriment of the rest of his family, including his daughter Corbett and his wife Lynn. Jigsaw devises a series of traps in an attempt to help him let go and forgive those responsible for his son's death.

• Aborted Arc: In Saw IV, the arc about saving his daughter by playing another game is abruptly cut short by Strahm shooting him dead.
• Chainsaw Good: When his pistol runs out of ammo, he uses a circular saw to kill Jigsaw.
• Decoy Protagonist: The last minute or so of Saw III sets him up as the protagonist for the next movie as well - "In order to save your daughter, you will need to play a game." Apparently, the new writers brought in for IV didn't want to follow up on that plotline, since he's shot by Strahm moments after he learns of this new game.
  • In a previous version of the Saw IV script, it was shown that Jeff had to play a game similar to Strahm's in Saw V but with saw blades, and would have had to get inside like a giant blender of sorts.^note This idea was later reused for the Cycle Trap in Jigsaw. He was still killed regardless.
• Excessive Mourning: What brings him onto Jigsaw's radar: Jeff is consumed by grief over his son's death, to the point he's neglecting the rest of his family. His first scene has him getting angry at his daughter for taking a toy bear from his son's room. His game is all about getting him to let go of his grief and anger. Too bad it didn't take.
• Multiple Gunshot Death: In Saw IV, as soon as he points Amanda's former pistol at him, Strahm repeatedly shoots Jeff in quick succession until he falls to the ground.
• Papa Wolf: All of his rage is over the death of his son. Anyone even remotely involved with the boy's death is responsible in his eyes.
• Parental Neglect: He's so busy grieving for his lost son that he has been neglecting his daughter.
• Pyrrhic Victory: The only victory he can really be said to have is that of putting an end to Jigsaw and his apprentice. Not that it matters much, since it condemns his wife to death and he himself gets killed by Strahm, leaving his daughter without either of her parents.
• Revenge Before Reason: His fatal flaw. He could have forgiven all those responsible, save them from death, and find peace for himself. He could have also chosen to live the rest of his life with his other family members, learning to live with his son's death, but he doesn't. The result? Every victim of the games dies, including his wife, and gets killed by Strahm shortly after, with his daughter being "saved" by Hoffman in Saw V.
• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Due to the Aborted Arc. The end of Saw III is a Sequel Hook about a new set of games for Jeff that will take place after John's death to save his daughter's life. Shortly after the Sequencing Deception of Saw IV is revealed and Jeff is reintroduced into the film going through the events of III, he is killed by Strahm right after. His daughter is rescued by Hoffman since Jeff was unable to go through the tests anyway.
• Too Dumb to Live: He draws Amanda's pistol on an armed FBI agent who warned him to stand down. Although to be fair, Jeff was definitely not in the right state of mind with everything he went through.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: When confronted with Timothy, he doesn't exactly feel too great about watching his torture device slowly kill him despite openly stating he's wanted to kill him for years. Jeff then tries to save him. Ironically, he didn't actually learn anything from this and tries to exact revenge on John after, which ends horribly for him.
• Villain Killer: Surprisingly ends up being this, as he's the one who ultimately kills both John and Amanda.

Lynn Denlon

Played By: Bahar Soomekh

Appearances: Saw III (onscreen) | Saw IV (voice-over) | Saw 3D (in flashbacks)

A major character in Saw III, Lynn is kidnapped by Amanda and forced to perform brain surgery on John to keep him alive. In order to ensure her cooperation, a device is placed on her neck that is hooked up to John's heart monitor, ensuring she only lives as long as he does.

• Bound and Gagged: Upon her abduction, she is strapped by the arms and legs to a wheelchair, and has a gag tied around her mouth.
• Dead Man's Switch: John has his heart rate monitor hooked up to the Shotgun Collar, which will kill Lynn if he flatlines; he eventually does when Jeff kills him. This example of the trope has a twist in that it's not about preventing somebody from killing him, but coercing them into keeping him alive (despite John's late-stage cancer) for as long as possible.
• Emotionless Girl: To some extent. Justified, as she's grieving for her and Jeff's deceased son.
• Hospital Hottie: She's a very attractive surgeon.
• Meatgrinder Surgery: Played for Drama. Without a surgical theater or any real operating tools, she's forced to use a power drill and small circular saw to cut away a piece of John's skull and relieve the cranial pressure.
• Nice Girl: Despite cheating on her husband, Lynn isn't a bad person at all underneath her cold exterior. In fact, she's so genuinely sympathetic and kind she wins John Kramer's heart over a conversation, enough for him to order Amanda to remove her shotgun collar.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: When John asks her how people will remember his horrific story, her response is short, but effective:
  John: Who am I?
  Lynn: A monster. A murderer.
• White Shirt of Death: She wears a white shirt when she's abducted and tested, and receives a bloody shot from the back by Amanda in the climax. The Shotgun Collar then seals her fate with Ludicrous Gibs when John flatlines.
• Your Head A-Splode: Her demise, thanks to her husband killing John.

A trio of people involved with the death of Jeff's son. Timothy Young recklessly ran over Dylan while drunk driving, causing a horrified Danica Scott to flee at the sight of the scene. As Danica was the only witness and did not testify, presiding judge Halden gave Timothy a light sentence of six months in prison. The game Jigsaw set up for Jeff has him simply run through a gauntlet of these people at his mercy, where he can satisfy his thirst for vengeance by leaving them to die or suffer some pain to save their lives and forgive them before confronting John Kramer.

• Asshole Victim: Subverted and deconstructed. All three of the victims are shown to be complex people with regrets and sympathetic qualities despite being involved with the accidental death of a child. The very idea of Jigsaw putting them into these death traps for honest mistakes in life calls into question how much of a sham his philosophy is throughout Saw III.

Danica Scott

Played By: Debra Lynne McCabe

Appearances: Saw III

A woman who witnessed the death of Jeff's son.

• Accomplice by Inaction: Jeff hates Danica because as the only witness to his son’s death, she should have stayed and testified to the court, but drove away from the scene. John firmly thinks she did it out of cowardice.
  Danica: I didn't do anything. I didn't do anything to you!
  Jeff: That's exactly it! You didn't do anything!
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Danica is left naked and tied up in a freezer room. She gets sprayed with extremely cold water until she dies freezing to death when Jeff fails to save her in time.
• Dirty Coward: John points out that if not for Danica's self-absorption and cowardice, Timothy could have gotten a harsher sentence in his role in accidentally killing Jeff's son.
• Fan Disservice: Danica in the Freezer Room; one movie critic once said that her scene may be the most un-erotic scene featuring a naked woman in all of horror movie history. She was invokedoriginally going to wear a tight T-shirt and panties, but the director Darren Lynn Bousman thought it would be too erotic for her to dress in such clothes and get wet, so they just decided to strip her completely.
• Shameful Strip: Danica is hung up by a chain on her wrists while completely naked as she's sprayed with ice-cold water in the Freezer Room.

Halden

Played By: Barry Flatman

Appearances: Saw III

The judge who sentenced Timothy Young.

• Cruel and Unusual Death: Halden is set to drown in the gore of rotting pig carcasses ground up above him, but it's subverted when Jeff saves his life. He later dies a comparatively much less horrific death of taking a shotgun blast to the side of his face.
• It's All Junk: A brutal forced example. In order to be able to save Halden, Jeff must turn on an incinerator that will destroy his son's toys (which he's been keeping in pristine condition).
• No Full Name Given: Only his surname is known.
• Too Dumb to Live: Halden stands directly in front of a shotgun's line of fire when Jeff was willing to take the blast to his arm to save Timothy.

Timothy Young

Played By: Mpho Koaho

Appearancdes: Saw III | Saw VI (flashbacks)

The driver who accidentally killed Dylan Denlon.

• Accidental Child-Killer Backstory: Timothy was driving drunk when he struck and killed Dylan. He felt horrible about the accident, but that didn't stop Jigsaw from putting him in a Death Trap to test Jeff's capacity for forgiveness.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Timothy, the prime object of Jeff's obsession for vengeance, gets the worst of the three victims in Jeff's trial. He's put into a device known as "The Rack" that will twist all his limbs apart before his neck unless Jeff chooses to save him. Jeff fails to do so despite trying his hardest.

Troy

Played By: J. Larose

Appearances: Saw III

A repeat convict who is the first victim of Amanda Young's rigged inescapable traps.

• Asshole Victim: Potentially, as he is a known repeat offending criminal, though exactly what his crimes were is never elaborated on, so it's unclear how bad he was.
• Attack the Mouth: One of the chains is hooked into his lower jaw. It's the only one he's unable to remove in time.
• Bit Character: His only real purpose is to set up the film's main mystery of someone having started to make rigged traps that contrast the surviving chance that those of Jigsaw's have.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: He was mutilated by having chains pierced through his body, and was forced to pull them out before being blown up with a nail bomb.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: If you are knowledgeable, you may realize that removing the chain from his lower jaw would be impossible for him to do with his bare hands.^note In fact, an earlier version of the Classroom Trap's scene had him attempting to remove the chain by stomping it with his feet, resulting in a comparable outcome wherein his jaw gets broken. This is a hint that his test was rigged to be nearly impossible to escape. Unless he could free himself from the other chains and grab the bomb to disarm it or throw it out one of the windows, he would have no way to survive. Even then, he would be forced to stay with his jaw hooked until help arrived, assuming he didn't bleed to death first.
• Ludicrous Gibs: From taking the explosion of a nail bomb point-blank.
• Morton's Fork: Even if he had been able to remove the final chain in time, the door to the room was welded shut. Technically, despite the attempt to rig his test, he could have possibly survived by cheating and removing the visible batteries from the bomb's timer or throwing the bomb out the window, but with the mercilessly short timer of a minute and 37 seconds and no foreknowledge of the door being welded shut, his chance of surviving is still virtually nonexistent, due to just how much of the time he would have spent getting out of the chains.
• Symbolic Mutilation: Troy repeatedly returned to prison despite having a good privileged life. In the Classroom Trap, numerous chains pierce his body and keep him enclosed like in a prison cell, which he has to pull out in order to free himself. Plus, the door to get out of the classroom was rigged by Amanda, which, while rendering the trap inescapable, can be seen as a metaphor to confinement.
• The Worf Effect: He's a fairly buff guy with a criminal record, so the fact that Amanda was able to subdue and execute him in an unwinnable trap should tell you how dangerous she is.

Cecil Adams

Played By: Billy Otis

Appearances: Saw IV | Saw VI

A drug addict and a thief, Cecil was Jigsaw's first test subject. He first appears in flashbacks of Saw IV, and makes another brief appearance in a flashback of Saw VI.

• Abhorrent Alpha Male: A drug addict and a petty thief, as well as a cowardly child killer, this guy clearly defines soulless masculinity.
• Asshole Victim: A mugger responsible for the miscarriage of a baby in one of his muggings. Even though it was later revealed that he was pressured into robbing the clinic by Amanda and was very uncomfortable doing so because Jill had been nice to him, Cecil quickly returned to his crooked way of life with no lasting remorse.
• Blatant Lies: Claims that he "[doesn't] have a fucking soul" to John... despite the fact that he's still living.
• Break the Haughty: As a proud drug addict and petty thief himself, he gets his comeuppance by becoming Jigsaw's first overall victim.
• Child Abuse Is a Special Kind of Evil: He caused Gideon's miscarriage (even if accidentally), and doesn't show any pity over it.
• The Corrupter: He's ultimately the one responsible for turning John Kramer into the Jigsaw Killer he is today, all because of a miscarriage he committed, but didn't feel pity for.
• Death by a Thousand Cuts: While getting his face sliced up by the Knife Chair Trap doesn't kill him, falling into a cage full of barbed wire certainly did.
• Determinator: Cecil is technically the first survivor of a Jigsaw test, the Knife Chair Trap.
• Dirty Coward: When he accidentally committed a miscarriage against Jill, instead of pitying her for it, he just runs away from the ordeal. Unfortunately for him, this gives him the status of being Jigsaw's first ever victim.
• Drugs Are Bad: Cecil is a drug addict, one of the reasons Jigsaw chooses to test him.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Subverted. When he caused Gideon's miscarriage, he was shocked by it, but instead of helping or even just pitying Jill over it, he just runs away from it.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: A twisted variety; John tells to him that his addiction to drugs has "corrupted [his] soul", but he insisted otherwise.
• Evil Is Petty: Cecil's a drug addict and a petty thief who shows NO sort of remorse for causing a miscarriage, even if it's accidental on his part.
• Facial Horror: After going through the Knife Chair, his face is caked in blood.
• Fatal Flaw: His impulsiveness and short temper. Despite surviving the test John set up for him, Cecil doesn't undergo any kind of spiritual enlightenment like John intended. Instead, he goes into a homicidal rage and tries to kill John, leading to his death when John easily evades his attack and Cecil charges into a cage of barbed wire behind him.
• Five-Finger Discount: Cecil is a thief. In a flashback in IV, he robs from Jill's rehabilitation clinic, an act that ultimately leads to him accidentally causing the miscarriage of John and Jill's son, Gideon.
• Good Is Impotent: Instead of comforting Jill for the miscarriage he caused, he just runs away from her out of pathetic cowardice.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Of the ENTIRE franchise, as it's his murder on Gideon that made John Kramer the Jigsaw Killer he is today.
• Hate Sink: There's nothing to sympathize for a cowardly infant killer, as instead of pitying Jill over it, he just runs away from it.
• Hypocrite: He states that "[he doesn't] have a fucking soul" to John during his test, yet he's a MAJOR Dirty Coward who wants to save his life from what John's doing to him.
• I'll Kill You!: The moment he's out of his test, he rages on about how John is going to die.
• Irony: He states that he "[doesn't] have a fucking soul", while his life is in the line thanks to John.
• Meaningless Villain Victory: He escapes the Knife Chair Trap by accident, but this further leads to his death when he attempts to attack John.
• No Honor Among Thieves: She was tasked by Amanda to get some drugs at a local hospital, but when he accidentally slammed a door into Jill's impregnated belly which caused her miscarriage, he decides to just leave Amanda behind out of petty cowardice.
• Posthumous Character: Long dead before the series started, he was Jigsaw's first victim.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He only appeared in a flashback and died at the end, but he inadvertently helped caused the rise of Jigsaw.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: While he's not the only reason John became Jigsaw, him causing the miscarriage of John's son was essentially the beginning of John's Start of Darkness. This also extends to John's ex-wife Jill, who became an accomplice of his because of Cecil.
• Very Punchable Man: Due to his Villainous Legacy as the culprit behind John's Start of Darkness, there's nothing to pity about him. Even the Knife Chair Trap just oozes punchability on him.
• Villainous Legacy: Had he never caused Gideon's miscarriage, then the whole Jigsaw spree wouldn't have occurred in the first place.
• Villains Want Mercy: When he wakes up to the situation John has put him in, he feebly begs for his life and makes half-hearted apologies about what he did to John.
• Would Hit a Girl: He's willing to threaten to murder a heavily pregnant Jill if she doesn't give him access to a local hospital.

Brenda

Played By: Sarain Boylan

Appearances: Saw IV

Brenda was a woman who worked as a pimp. She contacted other young women, made them dependent, and then forced them to work for her as prostitutes. Eventually, she was prosecuted for her crimes. However, she was acquitted due to the assistance of her lawyer, Art Blank.

• Asshole Victim: She was a pimp who made women into her slaves. No one would miss her after she was thrown into a mirror.
• Dirty Coward: Tried to kill Rigg after she was saved only to be killed when he threw her into a mirror.
• The Farmer and the Viper: She tries to kill Rigg after he saves her. However, she was ordered by Jigsaw to kill him should he save her.
• Femme Fatale: She was ordered to kill Rigg if he decided to save her.
• Flayed Alive: The trap starts to scalp her just as Rigg finds the three-digit number and saves her.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: Hair so long it's caught in the gears of her trap. It nearly would have scalped her had Rigg not found the combination and saved her.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: Which is caught in her trap.
• Villains Want Mercy: She begged Rigg to save her even though he was told not to.

Ivan Landsness

Played By: Marty Adams

Appearances: Saw IV

A serial rapist and proprietor of the run-down Alexander Motel. He becomes one of the subjects of Rigg's game.

• An Arm and a Leg: Both arms and one of his legs are torn off. When his body is later found by the SWAT team, it's sitting upright at the end of the bed with one leg left.
• Asshole Victim: The man is not only guilty of multiple counts of rape, but he's kept photos and videos of the acts, just so he can get off to them. While his death is probably one of the most horrific in the series, it can be said karma caught up to him.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He acts very friendly toward others in public, but in private is a sadistic rapist.
• Blatant Lies: Claims that his crimes were accidental, and he has paid for them. At no point does Rigg believe either statement.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: He tries to gouge out both his eyes, fails, and all his limbs are promptly torn off his body.
• Dirty Coward: He's absolutely terrified when he's at Rigg's mercy, begging to be let go and lying that he felt regret for his actions (despite clearly keeping evidence of them to look over for his own pleasure) and paid for them long ago, when he was actually never convicted.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He has a pet dog named Chance, whom he truly seems to love. Basically his only redeeming feature.
• Evil All Along: He seems like a polite motel owner by the time we first see him... until he turns out to be a Serial Rapist.
• Eye Scream: He's given a choice during his test: gouge out his own eyes or have all of his limbs torn off. He gets about halfway there before the timer runs out.
• Fat Bastard: He's obese and a shameless serial rapist.
• Faux Affably Evil: Only behaves sophisticatedly to his customers in order for him to hide his true nature.
• Get Out!: Says this to a stranger who's not doing anything inside his motel besides just sitting at the bench.
• Good Is Impotent: Upon seeing his past crime, he's reluctant in taking responsibility for causing it, even if it means strapping himself onto a trap in order to face his consequences.
• Hate Sink: Can you really sympathize with a serial rapist? Notably, he's also the only victim Rigg feels no compassion for, as the latter actually draws his gun to force Ivan into the Bedroom Trap.
• Ironic Name: Ivan means "God is gracious". So much for being a Serial Rapist himself...
• Irony: He's a serial rapist against women, yet his pet dog Chance is a girl.
• Karmic Death: Suffers one of the most fitting traps and deaths in the series. His trap and both Ivan and Rigg's involvement in it is analogous to Ivan's crimes in the following ways: He's forced into position by Officer Rigg like how Ivan forced his victims into position, strapped to the bed in a very similar fashion to his victims, and Ivan has to blind himself like he blindfolded his victims. The purpose of the trap, should he fail, is to tear him apart, like how the tape mentions how he tore apart his victim's lives.
• Psychopathic Manchild: He gets sick pleasures out of habitually raping women just like a child enjoying endless amounts of sweets.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: It's definitely hard to feel sympathy for the guy who's not only raped several women but kept photos and videos of them.
• Sadist: He filmed and photographed himself raping women to watch over and over again.
• Serial Rapist: Raped several women, even filming and photographing the acts to watch again.
• Shout-Out: He and the Bedroom Trap scenario he's put into comprise a big one to the cover art of Sodom's album Get What You Deserve, what with the bedroom location, the intense red lighting, the playing of a sex tape on a TV screen, and Ivan looking similar to the man on the cover (as well as befitting the cover's aesthetic by being a Serial Rapist). And he does, in fact, get what he deserves.
• The Sociopath: A blink and miss moment is when Jigsaw's game for Ivan plays his snuff films, he briefly smiles before Rigg turns to face him, indicating he has no remorse for his heinous crimes.
• Symbolic Mutilation: Ivan is forced to gouge his eyes, which have "led him blindly astray", in order to escape. If he doesn't, the trap will rip his body apart, which caused endless suffering to his victims.
• Very Punchable Man: The moment his sexual crimes have been revealed, any level of sympathy he has went down the drain. Heck, even Rigg was not hesitant from holding him at gunpoint while leading him to his intended trap.
• Villain Has a Point: You got to admit, he was right about that sitting beggar being a nuisance in his motel.
• Villains Want Mercy: He begs Rigg not to hurt him, whining about how he's already paid for his crimes, despite the fact that he's escaped conviction at least three times.
• White Shirt of Death: Wears a sleeveless white shirt, and doesn't last very long.

Morgan and Rex

Played By: Janet Land (Morgan), Ron Lea (Rex)

Appearances: Saw IV

The last of the victims Rigg has to go through before his final test. Rex was a tyrannical husband and father who viciously beat his wife and child on a daily basis. His wife Morgan was too terrified of Rex to testify against him. Rigg and Hoffman were once sent to investigate Rex's abuse, but due to inconclusive evidence other than implications from his quiet daughter, the case was dropped with the help of Art Blank.

• Already Done for You: Unlike Ivan and Brenda, Morgan is already through with her test by the time Rigg arrives and he has no further involvement with the situation. This is the last bit of foreshadowing Rigg should not be actively involved with the victim's games.
• Asshole Victim:
  • Rex is such a case of this that the game itself is solely Morgan's; the spikes impaling Morgan are non-lethal even if she removes them, but Rex has been impaled in such a way that removing his spikes would kill him.
  • On a less lethal note, getting his nose broken by Rigg after he taunts him and then the charges getting dropped when Hoffman lies that it was self-defense. Undoubtedly police brutality on Rigg's part and corruption on Hoffman's, and it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
• Domestic Abuse: Rex had regularly beaten his wife and daughter, Jane, into submission every day.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: In a deeply twisted way. Morgan has it fairly easy with her trap, and she's finally free of Rex and his abuse upon passing her test.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Morgan and Rex are bound by spikes that Morgan has to remove to free herself. Not the case with Rex, however, as he's doomed regardless of what he does.
• Loving Parent, Cruel Parent: Implied. Rex is a sadistic domestic abuser who brutalized his and Morgan's daughter, while Morgan's worst crime was covering for it. Morgan is treated as more redeemable and sympathetic for this reason and for being a fellow victim of the abuse, while Rex is a hate sink who deserves to die.
• Only a Flesh Wound: The spikes are placed such that Morgan can remove them from herself with only pain and a small amount of bleeding ensuing. However, they're also placed such that they're piercing several of Rex's arteries, so each one she pulls makes him bleed out ever faster.

Trevor

Played By: Kevin Rushton

Appearances: Saw IV

A man placed in a trap with Art Blank. He and Art are chained to a wrench that has them both trapped in a room. He has the key that will unlock both of their chain collars tied around the back of his own collar. His eyes have been sewn shut as has Art's mouth to prevent him from realizing the situation and complicate matters for both of them.

• Bit Character: We learn nothing about him, and his only role in the fourth movie is to function as part of the opening trap, which also serves as the introduction to Art Blank, who would become a major character throughout the rest of the film. He also appears in a Call-Back in 3D with the reveal that Dr. Gordon was the one who sewed his eyes shut.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: If he had only felt around the back of his neck, both he and Art could have gotten out of the situation easily.
• Eye Scream: His eyes are sewn shut so he's unaware of the situation, and Art's mouth has also been sewn shut so he can't communicate and explain it to him.
• Riddle for the Ages: Unlike most victims, we never learn why Trevor was targeted.

The Fatal Five (Brit Stevenson, Mallick Scott, Luba Gibbs, Charles Salomon, Ashley Kazon)

Played By: Julie Benz (Brit), Carlo Rota (Charles), Meagan Good (Luba), Laura Gordon (Ashley), Greg Bryke (Mallick)

Appearances: Saw V | Saw 3D (Mallick only)

The primary victims of the fifth film. Brit was a successful businesswoman and the senior vice president of the Marshvard Group, a real estate development company. One day, she hired a drug dealer to burn down an apartment building to get her hands on the property. However, the building was still inhabited by eight people, who all died in the fire. Nonetheless, the Marshvard Group was granted a building permit for the property by Luba Gibbs, a corrupt employee of the Department of City Planning. Soon afterward, Peter Strahm and Lindsey Perez, two special agents working on the case, eventually suspected Brit and almost discovered her involvement in the fire. They planned to bring a charge against Brit as well as four other suspects - Ashley Kazon, a fire inspector, Charles Salomon, a journalist, Mallick Scott, a drug addict, and Luba Gibbs. However, when the only witness suddenly disappeared, the investigation was dropped.

• An Arm and a Leg: Mallick comes close to losing his arm entirely in the final test, but it's subverted in that it is seen recovering in Saw 3D.
• Asshole Victim: Charles is a smug asshole who repeatedly prioritizes his own survival over the rest, namely Mallick. Later, he outright tries to kill Mallick and boasts of the test being "the survival of the fittest" before Luba helps Mallick and leaves Charles to die instead.
• Idle Rich: Mallick used his parents' money to finance his drug habit.
• Impromptu Tracheotomy: Brit kills Luba by stabbing her in the neck with one of the cords' sharp pointed attacher.
• Ironic Echo: "'Survival of the fittest' my ass!" told by Luba to Charles less than one minute after Charles bashed Mallick with a metal rod and proclaimed that it was "survival of the fittest" and a few seconds before Luba, Brit and Mallick left him to die when the explosives detonate.
• Iron Lady: Brit is the senior vice president of a real estate development company and will do whatever she wants to get her work done her way.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Charles may be no saint, but he's correct about Mallick's impulsivity being a factor to the Fatal Five's hindrance during the game.
• Jerkass to One: Charles is a Jerkass for the most part, but he is specially dismissive of Mallick, who he believes to be worthless.
• Karma Houdini: Despite Brit and Mallick being involved in an arson and the fact that Hoffman left evidence of it at the scene for the FBI to find, both are walking free by the time of Saw 3D with no apparent legal punishment whatsoever.
• Kill It with Fire: Mallick set fire to an abandoned building housing eight people in exchange for heroin, not knowing that it was inhabited - he's horrified both at the number of people he accidentally killed and the fact that due to his father's influence, he never spent a day in prison for the crime.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • Mallick is clearly distraught by the arson he committed, angrily lashing out at Brit after he learns she organized the scheme.
  • Judging by the tearful look on Brit's face when Mallick angrily asks her if she knew about the eight people living in the warehouse when she decided to have it burned down to take the property, she seems to finally grasp the gravity of what she's done.
• Off with Her Head!: Ashley is killed this way as the only victim of the first trial.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Mallick is horrified when he sees Brit killing Luba with seemingly no hesitation.
  • Brit and Mallick at the end realize too late that the traps could've been easily passed with minimal injury to themselves if all five players had worked together. See Power of Trust below.
    Mallick: "Your lifelong instincts tell you to do one thing but I implore you to do the opposite." Oh God.... whoops...
    Brit: Yeah, big fucking whoops!
• The One Guy: Of the 3/5 deceased victims from the Fatal Five, the only male of them is Charles.
• Power of Trust: Although the test the Fatal Five go through seems like a survival of the fittest competition at first, all of them could have survived if they cooperated as revealed later. However, through Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, only Mallick and Brit make it to the end, and they realize all too late that no one had to die.
• Pragmatic Hero: Brit kills Luba instead of Mallick because he would be less likely to turn against her.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: As the only male members, Mallick and Charles, respectively. Mallick is notably more impulsive, while Charles is definitively more collected, unless provoked.
• The Social Darwinist: Charles believes that the game is about survival of the fittest, and he seems to hold himself in high regard, while being dismissive of everyone else, specially Mallick. Ironically, while Charles is the second member of the Fatal Five to die, Mallick survives.
• Symbolic Mutilation: The final trap of their game reveals to the two remaining survivors that if they had worked together, they each could have given two pints of blood each instead of five.
• Token Minority: Luba is the only black person among the Fatal Five.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Ashley is killed minutes into their introduction, and we barely learn anything about her other than her role in the arson.

Seth Baxter

Played By: Joris Jarsky

Appearances: Saw V

The abusive boyfriend and eventual murderer of Hoffman's sister, Angelina Acomb. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for his murder, but was released five years later on a technicality. At that moment, Hoffman used his knowledge of Jigsaw to kill him in a frame-up Jigsaw trap scenario. When the real Jigsaw found out, he blackmailed Hoffman into becoming his accomplice.

• Abhorrent Alpha Male: Just how enough would he be classified as such the moment he brutally murders Angelina out of petty spite against her?
• Asshole Victim: Brutally murdered his girlfriend Angelina and received nowhere near the adequate punishment for it. That is, until her brother Hoffman gets to him. While subtle enough to be missed by most viewers, since the movie doesn't draw attention to it, his tattoos also feature white supremacy symbols, implying that he was affiliated to a racist group too.
• Bad Liar: He claims his murder of Angelina was "an accident", but a flashback with Hoffman shows that Angelina's throat was slit. Yeah, he "accidentally" slit her throat.
• Blatant Lies: Calls his murder "an accident" in an attempt to bargain with Hoffman to spare his life.
• Chaos Is Evil: Murders Angelina in cold-blood, and pathetically claims that "it was an accident".
• The Corrupter: To Hoffman, since he was the one who murdered Hoffman's sister Angelina, who was also his old girlfriend.
• Dirty Coward: As per usual with many of the franchise's victims, he whines, yells for help, says that what he did to Angelina was "an accident", and has trouble even completing the task of crushing his hands.
• Domestic Abuse: He abused his girlfriend regularly, and the moment he murdered her happened during a domestic dispute between the two. Hoffman doesn't let him get out alive with it.
• Entitled Bastard: He wants to be released from his imprisonment, despite being a relentless murderer himself.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In a twisted example, he wonders as to why he is in a fatal trap, not knowing that it's his murder of Angie that basically lead to it.
• Good Is Impotent: Tries to make his murder of Angie look like "an accident", as if he doesn't want to take any responsibility for causing it
• Greater-Scope Villain: Of the first four films, as he was the one responsible for Hoffman's descent into villainy.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Eventually, the pendulum-like blade of the trap he's put in lowers itself enough that it begins to slowly cut Seth in half, leading to his death.
• Hate Sink: His mistreatment of Angie was so brutal and unnecessarry, that he even has the nerve to lie about it, highlighting his Lack of Empathy. Not to mention he was the one responsible for Hoffman's corruption in the first place.
• Horrible Judge of Character: He indirectly attempts to persuade Hoffman that Angie's death was "an accident". Given how enraged Hoffman is, it obviously didn't work.
• I Lied: He tries to bargain a disguised Hoffman by saying that his murder of Angie is all "an accident". Naturally, Hoffman's not buying it.
• Insane Troll Logic: In a pathetic attempt to bargain Hoffman, he states that his murder of Angie was "an accident".
• Lack of Empathy: He is actually remorseless about his murder of Angie, even trying to lie that it was "an accident".
• Lean and Mean: A domestic abuser with a considerably slender body.
• Life-or-Limb Decision: He's told that, to escape, he has to place his hands into two vises and push the buttons to pulverize them. Of course, since the trap is inescapable, he gets the worst possible outcome.
• Off on a Technicality: He was originally sentenced to life in prison, but was released after only five years due to an unexplained legal technicality.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Implied. He has Neo-Nazi symbols tattooed on his body, and murdered a woman in cold blood. This possible Neo-Nazi affiliation might have given Hoffman another reason to kill Seth besides said woman being his sister, given his later track record with Neo-Nazis.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Oh, yes. Even though he only appears in Saw V's beginning, he was indirectly the one responsible for Hoffman's descent into villainy just with his murder of Angie.
• Symbolic Mutilation: He's told to destroy the things that have taken life (his hands) to save his own. Not only that, but after he goes through with it, his crushed hands are naturally dripping with blood, symbolic of how he was caught red-handed for Angelina's murder and should have served a life sentence.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His actions led to Hoffman becoming Jigsaw's accomplice, and killing many, many people.
• Very Punchable Man: Or in Hoffman's case, sliceable, as it's his murder of Angelina that caused Hoffman to detest him with passion.
• Villain Has a Point: His last words are used pointing out the fact that he did what he was told to do to pass his test and that he should have been allowed to live afterward. As Jigsaw later tells Hoffman, everybody deserves a fair chance, even murderers like Seth.
• Villainous Legacy: Essentially, if it weren't for his murder of Angie, then Hoffman wouldn't have become a Jigsaw killer in the first place.
• Villains Want Mercy: He begs Hoffman to release him, even lying to him that his murder of Angelina was "an accident", to no avail.

Angelina "Angie" Acomb

Played By: Sarah Power

Appearances: Saw V

Mark Hoffman's beloved sister and only known family member, who was brutally killed in a domestic dispute with her boyfriend, Seth Baxter. When Seth was released from his life imprisonment on a technicality, Hoffman killed him while framing Jigsaw in order to bring Angelina justice.

• Affectionate Nickname: Hoffman can be briefly heard calling her "Angie".
• Cradle of Loneliness: The flashbacks to her death briefly show Hoffman cradling the hand of her corpse, and no one willing to pull him away.
• Monster Brother, Cutie Sister: Implied to be the cutie sister to Hoffman's monster brother. Though her screentime is limited, the articles posted about her death imply she was the kinder of the two of them. Hoffman needs no explanation...
• Morality Pet: She seemed to be this for Hoffman, as after she died, all hinges on him went loose.
• Plot-Triggering Death: Her death is the start of Hoffman's mental spiral and delve into alcoholism. This leads to him murdering Seth, and triggers the rest of the events in his backstory.
• Posthumous Character: She's only shown through brief flashbacks before and of her death.
• Slashed Throat: How she was killed by Seth.

Pamela Jenkins

Played By: Samantha Lemole

Appearances: Saw V | Saw VI

A minor character in Saw V and a supporting character in Saw VI. The sister of William Easton, Pamela is an investigative journalist known for her sensationalist headlines. Her obsession with the Jigsaw case drew the ire of John Kramer when she wrote a book about him. Jigsaw kidnaps Pamela as an incentive for William to go through the game he set up for him.

• All There in the Manual: invokedWord of God claims that Pamela is relatively fine after the events of the movie. She was planned to make a cameo in the survivor meetup in Saw 3D, but she didn't make it into the film.
• Big "NO!": When Brent decides to execute William.
• Break the Cutie: It doesn't get much worse than seeing your sibling dissolved by acid in front of your own eyes.
• Damsel in Distress: She is kept in a cage for most of the running time of Saw VI.
• Motor Mouth: Befitting her sensationalist nature, she's very chatty and has little sense of personal space, which draws the ire of Jill and Hoffman.
• Spanner in the Works: Her obsession with Jigsaw leads her to find the letter Hoffman used to blackmail Amanda. While Jill denies knowledge of it when Pamela pesters her over it, she's actually furious enough over it to later sabotage Hoffman's game, making Hoffman go completely mad and have his identity ousted to the public when Jill seeks police protection in 3D.

William Easton

Played By: Peter Outerbridge

Appearances: Saw VI

The main character of Saw VI. William is a senior vice president at the local health insurance company Umbrella Health, and is in charge of, among other things, allowing or denying claims (he's the head of the company's department for membership and claims). One of his customers was John; William personally denied coverage for an experimental treatment for his cancer, which was probably not a good idea.

• All for Nothing:
  • He manages to guide Debbie out of the steam maze, incurring serious burns from hot air in the process, upon which they realize that the key to her freedom is sewn within William's side. As he tries to get it himself, Debbie begins swinging a nearby circular saw at him, wanting to kill him and get the key quicker. Unsurprisingly, Debbie's time runs out as a result, and she is killed.
  • His death could very much be considered this. After going through a series of demanding traps, which leads to him realizing the error of his ways and the value of the lives of the clients he had indirectly killed by denying coverage, William gets killed by the son of one of said rejected clients, ultimately making his redemption completely meaningless.
• Anti-Villain: By the end of the movie, William did learn a thing or two about helping people. If he had lived, he may have become a better person. Even from the beginning of the movie, he clearly takes no pleasure in refusing health coverage to his clients; he meets with them personally and even agrees with Harold calling him a criminal. Immediately after the game begins, he does everything possible to help the other victims, even being willing to cut himself open to help his lawyer while she's coming at him with a buzzsaw.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Downplayed; John considers him one, for denying customers coverage when it could have saved their lives or eased their sickness, but it's clear that doesn't enjoy doing so, and his interest is more in protecting company profits rather than actually wanting to hurt anyone. That said, William did develop his so-called "formula" to determine who gets coverage and who doesn't (even having bragged to John about it once), and is fully onboard with his subordinates poking holes in insurance applications and effectively screwing his clients out of their coverage for even minor or unintentional oversights. Ultimately, while William isn't a corrupt man personally, he was happily perpetuating a corrupt health insurance system before being subjected to a game.
• Decoy Protagonist: As he realizes, the main game isn't his: it's that of the family of one of the people he's let die.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: As the acid melts his torso, his upper body detaches itself.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: He passes all the tests and learns his lesson about helping people. Then it's revealed that the family of one of the people he let die are also playing a game: Letting him live or not. The son ultimately chooses to kill him, and he dies one of the most violent and painful deaths in the series.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: As it turns out in Saw X, the "experimental treatment" for John that William refused to cover was actually a scam, which William (presumably) had no way of knowing.
• Sadistic Choice: Most of his tests revolve around this. He first has to choose between two people and leave the other to be hanged, then must choose at least two out of six of his employees from being blasted by a shotgun.
• Shoot the Shaggy Dog: He may well be the biggest example of this in the series. In order, he had to hold his breath for a painful duration so that another guy will trigger a trap and get himself killed; choose whether to save an old, diabetic mother or a perfectly healthy loner; suffer severe steam burns while trying to help his company's lawyer escape a maze and then nearly get hacked open when she tries to find the key necessary to save her life; and then choose which two of his insurance analysts will live, condemning the other four to death. Eventually, it turns out that he was never really in control of his own fate, and he dies at the hands of an angry, vengeful teenager.
• White Shirt of Death: William wears a white shirt during his trial, which is stained in blood from the beginning due to him having had a key surgically placed inside him. He's eventually killed in the Acid Room.
• Would Hit a Girl: Justified as said girl was his attorney Debbie, who was trying to slice him open with a power saw.

Tara and Brent Abbott

Played By: Devon Bostick (Brent), Shauna MacDonald (Tara)

Appearances: Saw VI | Saw 3D (Tara only)

The remaining family of Harold Abbott, an ill man whom William coldly turned down health insurance for, leading to his death. Hoffman kidnapped them and left them in a cage adjacent to Pamela's with a timer counting down. John had no intention to test them, but instead wanted them to be left there for an opportunity to take revenge on William if he makes it through to the end of his trial.

• My God, What Have I Done?: After sentencing William to his death, Brent immediately realized after that revenge doesn't bring anything good, nor will it bring his father back, so he has to live with the fact that he irreversibly took a person's life that doesn't magically solve anything.
• Revenge Before Reason: Tara subverts this. She strongly considers killing William but ultimately can't bring herself to do it and forgives him. Brent on the other hand...
• Teens Are Monsters: Brent knowingly sentences a man to die by being dissolved in acid. To be fair, he is horrified immediatelyy after this.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: Brent kills William. But instead of gaining any satisfaction from it, he and his mother are horrified at his death and likely got PTSD for life.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Tara appears in the survivor meeting in Saw 3D, but not Brent.

Hank

Played By: Gerry Mendicino

Appearances: Saw VI

The first victim of William's trial, introduced in a trap with William known as the Oxygen Crusher. While hardly anything is known about him, he has gained great notoriety in the fandom for being tested simply because he smokes, despite having a whole history of health issues.

• Bring My Brown Pants: In the Oxygen Crusher game, he wets himself involuntarily as a combined result of his panicking and the growing pain from the clamps around his ribcage closing in on it.
• Disproportionate Retribution: While chain-smoking despite a history of health issues can be seen to be in line with John's philosophy of punishing people inconsiderate of their lives, that is still an absurdly petty reason to put someone in a death trap. Worse yet, Hank was merely a janitor for William's company and not complicit in his corrupt work at all.
• No Full Name Given: His surname is never stated.
• Potty Failure: He wets himself midway through the Oxygen Crusher game.
• Unwinnable by Design: The trap he was put in, the Oxygen Crusher, consists of two contraptions involving a pair big metal clamps aiming at the respective victims' bodies from the sides. Once the game begins, a highly sensitive pump measures their breathing activity. Each time one of them takes a breath, the clamps would close in and eventually crush their body. Once one of them dies, the trap would deactivate with the second victim free to go. Due to Hank's smoking habits and health issues, there was legitimately no way he could ever win against William even if the latter intentionally tried to lose. Given the expansive nature of William's trial, it seems Jigsaw was even aware of this and never expected Hank to win.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: One of the most underdeveloped victims in the series. We know his occupation and the ludicrous reason John tests him, but nothing more.

Allen and Addy

Played By: Shawn Ahmed (Allen), Janelle Hutchison (Addy)

Appearances: Saw VI | Saw 3D (Addy only)

A pair of victims in William's trial, introduced after he wins his game against Hank. Their game is fairly simple, with William merely choosing which one will be hanged and the other free to go.

• Disproportionate Retribution: On both counts.
  • Addy is notable for having done absolutely nothing wrong and enjoying her life. While she worked for William, she merely scheduled his appointments and was not complicit in his work.
  • Allen also merely maintained William's files and documents. Him dying means that he was basically punished for having no friends or a family of his own.
• Loners Are Freaks: Allen has no friends or family, and therefore no one to miss him if he dies unlike Addy. This is a fact Jigsaw uses to tip sympathy in Addy's favor.
• No Full Name Given: Neither of them have stated surnames.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Allen angrily calls William out when he realizes he chose Addy's life over his.
• White Shirt of Death: Allen is always seen wearing a white shirt, and is hanged bloodily in the Gallows.

Debbie

Played By: Caroline Cave

Appearances: Saw VI

The victim in William's third test. Debbie was Umbrella Insurance's legal counsel and defended William's corrupt policies by taking action towards anyone who tried to take legal proceedings against him, like the Abbott family.

• Amoral Attorney: Debbie fiercely fought back against anyone that threatened William or his company's policies.
• Asshole Victim: Of all the victims with a connection to William, she was the most complicit in his corrupt practices. Debbie also tried to viciously kill William, which while she can't necessarily be blamed for, makes her slightly more antagonistic than the rest.
• Boom, Headshot!: As she fails to kill William in time, the device attached to her chest launches a metal rod directly at her head, killing her instantly.
• Call-Back: Her game, where she must kill William to remove a key from his stomach in order to take off a device that will kill her, is a direct callback to Amanda's test in the first film.
• Fan Disservice: The steam causes her blouse to stick to her body rather tightly, but this is never focused on by the camera, and she dies in a rather gruesome manner before the scene can become true fanservice material.
• The Farmer and the Viper: Despite William helping her through the first half of her game, the steam maze, she immediately tries to kill him upon meeting him. Justified as the key to her survival was in William's stomach, and given William's natural apprehension of being cut open, Debbie has no incentive to be merciful.
• No Full Name Given: Her surname is never stated.

Shotgun Carousel Victims (Aaron, Emily, Gena, Dave, Shelby, Josh)

Played By: James Gilbert (Aaron), Larissa Gomes (Emily), Melanie Scrofano (Gena), Darius McCrary (Dave), Karen Cliche (Shelby), Shawn Mathieson (Josh)

Appearances: Saw VI | Saw 3D (Emily only)

A group of insurance analysts who used to work for William in finding errors in policies to potentially deny people health insurance (whom William himself referred to collectively as "the Dog Pit"). To survive, they have to rely on the help of William. Standing on a pedestal outside the enclosure was a room with two buttons inside. Every time the carousel came to a standstill, William has to simply press both buttons simultaneously in order to save the victim in front of the shotgun. In return, the shotgun would go into an upright position and shoot above the other person's head without harming them, before returning to its original position. However, only two people could be saved while the other four inevitably had to die.

• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Given all of them have their lives hinge on William's decisions and only two can make it out, every victim begs and pleads for their lives.
• Asshole Victim: Downplayed. They've all done terrible things in the name of William's policy but their deaths are so horrific it's clear none of them truly deserved this fate.
• Bad Liar: Gena makes a pathetic attempt at claiming she's pregnant to gain William's sympathy. Her stilted, panicked attitude make it obvious that she's lying, and Josh and Shelby call her out for it.
  Gena: Uhmm... I- I'm pregnant! I'm- I am pregnant!
  Josh: No, she's not! She's lying! She's fucking lying! Mr. Easton, she's lying!
  Shelby: Mr. Easton, she's lying!
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: As aforementioned, their jobs were looking for loopholes in William's policies to deny people health insurance, and most (if not all) don't seem to feel any remorse over it.
• Cowardice Callout: When William essentially sentences Josh to die by choosing to save Shelby, Josh calls William spineless among a tirade of other insults (including one about how both of the victims he saved, Emily and Shelby, are female) before meeting his end, and he hisses at William to look at him as he's about to die. He has a point in that up until he got caught in Jigsaw's games, William never had to watch the deaths of his company's healthcare recipients whom he sentenced to potentially-avoidable deaths based on a near-Darwinist company policy.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: Josh has what is absolutely, without a doubt, the most badass death speech in the whole franchise.
  "Oh, well, that's it, isn't it? It's over! You motherfucker! You spineless, pussy-whipped motherfucker! That's all it takes, eh? A bitch says one thing and it's all over! You know what, William? You know what, William? Your policy, it's bullshit! Fucking bullshit! Well, you listen to me, you son of a bitch! I did everything for you. Look at me! When you're killing me, you look at me!"
• Everyone Has Standards: In spite of all of their attempts to get William to spare them at the expense of the others, when it's Emily's turn, no one objects to her living, as they all know she has two kids that need her.
• Face Death with Dignity: Played with. Josh has his turn come around when he knows that his death is sealed. He has the mental wherewithal to deliver a furious Final Speech to William (listed under Dying Moment of Awesome above), but he notably whimpers right before he's killed.
• Green-Eyed Monster: When Josh sees that William decided to spare Shelby instead of him, he grows furious about it in his final moments.
• He-Man Woman Hater: Josh's comments carry an undertone of misogyny, calling Shelby and Gena bitches and William "pussy-whipped" for saving the former over himself.
• Hypocrite: In his final moments, Josh accuses William for their insurance business' faulty policy, when he himself has partially contributed to its implementation.
• I Have a Family: Emily gets saved from the shotgun after she tells William that she has two children who can't live without her.
• Men Are the Expendable Gender: In a 3-to-3 gender ratio, both survivors are women while all three men die.
• No Full Name Given: None of them have stated surnames.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Josh delivers what is easily the most epic one of these speeches in the series (listed under Dying Moment of Awesome above). Once his boss decides not to save him in favor of Emily and Shelby, Josh lets him have it shortly before the shotgun blasts a hole in his chest.
• Serendipitous Survival: William places his hand on the "save" button the second time before even seeing who it will spare: Shelby, at the expense of Josh.
• The Smurfette Principle: Gena's the only executed victim to be female.
• Symbolic Mutilation: William having to choose two of them (out of six) symbolizes that his policy only covered one third of the company's insurance cases. William must also give himself stigmata to save the two people he deems being hurt for.
• Tempting Fate: Aaron, the first victim to get killed.
  Aaron: Listen to me. Mr. Easton, I am the one who should live, okay? (is immediately stopped before the shotgun first) Fuck. (shotgun primes itself to fire) Jesus Christ! Please, Mr. Easton! Mr. Easton! Please! Follow the policy, Mr. Easton. Do it! Please! Mr. Easton, follow the policy! FOLLOW THE POLICY! (bam)
• That Liar Lies: A tirade of these rolls around between Josh and Shelby when Gena tries to convince William to save her by saying she's pregnant.
  Gena: Umm... I- I'm pregnant! I'm- I am pregnant!
  Josh: No, she's not! She's lying! She's fucking lying! Mr. Easton, she's lying!
  Shelby: Mr. Easton, she's lying!
  Gena: Fuck you!
  Josh: Mr. Easton, she's lying!
  Gena: I'm pregnant!
  Josh: She's lying!
  Gena: (as the carousel stops with her in front of the shotgun) No! No, fuck! I'm pregnant!
  Josh: No, she's lying! She's fucking lying!
  Shelby: Mr. Easton, it's not true!
  Gena: Please! Please! (the shotgun begins to arm) Fuck! Push the thing! PUSH THE THING!
  Josh: She's lying!
  Gena: No, Mr. Easton! Push it, push the thing!
• Token Black: Dave is the only African-American victim amongst them.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Emily appears in the Jigsaw Survivor Group in Saw 3D, but Shelby does not.

Simone

Played By: Tanedra Howard

Appearances: Saw VI | Saw 3D

A predatory money lender. Introduced in the opening scene of Saw VI with her fellow lender, Eddie, she survives her game while Eddie dies. At the expense of her arm.

• An Arm and a Leg: She chops off her left arm to survive her test.
• Asshole Victim: Played with. She lent money and put people into serious debt for her selfish gain, which got her on Jigsaw’s radar. She survives the game and realizes the error of her ways, even tearfully admitting to her faults, but she’s not even remotely grateful for what she went through, justifiably so as she points out that forcing her to chop off her arm doesn't qualify as an enlightening life lesson.
• Bait-and-Switch: When Hoffman visits her in the hospital, the way she mentions how Jigsaw "wanted them to learn" makes one think that she's like the other survivors, who act as though Jigsaw did teach them something. Instead, when Hoffman asks if she did learn anything, she snaps and demands to know what exactly chopping her arm off was supposed to teach her about valuing her life.
• Big "NO!": When she sees her time is running out, after which she makes the decision to chop off her arm.
• Determinator: After seeing Eddie about to win their competition trap, Simone goes into a frenzy and hacks her arm off. Her severed arm tips the weight scale of her trap to grant her the win over Eddie.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While she wasn’t a model citizen herself, she is one of the few individuals in the franchise who realizes that Jigsaw doesn't actually help people with his twisted philosophy, and is full of it.
  Simone: He wanted us to learn...
  Hoffman: And did you?
  Simone: ...Look at me. Look at my goddamn arm! What the FUCK am I supposed to learn from THIS, huh?!
• No Full Name Given: Her surname is never stated.
• Only Sane Woman: From what the Jigsaw Survivor Group meeting in Saw 3D implies, she's the only survivor who's aware that Jigsaw's games serve no other purpose than to torture victims, regardless of whether or not they deserve it, and his methods are beyond fucked up.
• Slow and Steady Wins the Race: Between her vs. Eddie in offering flesh to the scale in their game, Eddie was ahead of the race for the majority of it by offering his belly fat, but Simone hacks off her arm and was able to win at the last second.
• Symbolic Mutilation: The Pound of Flesh puts her against a fellow corrupt money lender, both giving all they had to give to survive.

Eddie

Played By: Marty Moreau

Appearances: Saw VI

Another predatory money lender and the other victim in the opening trap of Saw VI, who ends up dying.

• Asshole Victim: Even worse than his partner Simone. Not only is he a predatory lender, but he blames everything on Simone and tells her "I'm not dying for you, bitch!"
• Fat Bastard: He's a predatory lender and noticeably pudgy. His overweight condition actually comes into play when he tries to cut off his belly fat and use it for the pound of flesh scale.
• Never My Fault/No Honor Among Thieves: He blames everything on Simone, ignoring his own part in their dirty work. More notable is that he starts the test by leaning forward, despite Simone specifically telling him not to, yet still blames her for the situation.
• No Full Name Given: His surname is never stated.
• Symbolic Mutilation: The Pound of Flesh puts him against a fellow corrupt money lender, both giving all they had to give to survive.

Bobby Dagen

Played By: Sean Patrick Flanery

Appearances: Saw 3D

The main character of Saw 3D. Bobby is a writer who realized that Jigsaw victims could make a lot of money by telling their story — if they weren't so traumatized by the experience. To this end, Bobby decides to lie about being a victim, publish a book about his "experience", and go on the talk show circuit to rake in the cash and fame. Jigsaw takes issue with this...

• Asshole Victim: By proxy. While he himself lives by the end of the film (albeit injured), his friends and wife are killed due to him failing to save them.
• Becoming the Boast: He falsely claims to have survived one of Jigsaw's death traps, in which he put two hooks through his pectoral muscles and climbed the chains attached to them in order to pull himself up to safety. Guess what his final test is when he's put through one of Jigsaw's trials for real, with his wife Joyce's life on the line? It's cruelly subverted as the pectoral muscles simply aren't strong enough to support Bobby's full weight, and the hooks tear right out of his chest as he tries to climb the chains. Thanks to his lie, Bobby is Forced to Watch as Joyce suffers one of the most brutal deaths in the entire series.
• Bullying a Dragon: Emphatically so. Impersonating a victim of a serial killer who victimizes frauds was only ever going to end one way.
• Determinator: Bobby is an asshole for lying, but he was fully willing to do what it took to keep his friends and wife alive, even if that meant ripping out his own back teeth and recreating the trap he described in the book that had gotten him there in the first place.
• Didn't Think This Through: While Bobby's plan to make money isn't exactly terrible at a glance, he didn't make sure that Jigsaw was either behind bars or dead before publishing his fake story. Even that would have been risky since Jigsaw's accomplices (none of whom were known or identified by the police at the time) would have taken notice of him too.
• Foreshadowing: To foreshadow the fact that Bobby's a liar (which isn't shown for quite a few minutes until his trial begins), his trap is nowhere to be actually seen in the flashback to it. Given how the series almost always shows traps in action, this is a clue that Bobby's made-up game never happened in reality.
• Fun with Acronyms: Invoked with the title of his book, "S.U.R.V.I.V.E.", which stands for each of the lessons he claims he learned from his fake Jigsaw trap experience: "Start your life anew", "Understand your problems", "Redefine your priorities", "Verify your self-worth through commitment", "Ignore your detractors", "Value your loved ones" and "Embrace every day as if it is your last". As an Ironic Echo, each of these phrases are written on walls, doors and even a staircase at his trial.
• Happily Married: After getting fame for his false survival story against Jigsaw, he has a happy marriage with the woman he loves. Too bad the "happy" part was short-lived after he and anyone associated with him gets captured for one of Jigsaw's games. Bobby ultimately fails at saving all of them.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: His final test involves recreating the trap he lied about surviving in the first place: hoisting himself up by chains hooked through his chest muscles to stop a trap from springing. His failure to recreate the trap as he described it cost him dearly. There were, however, several things he could have done instead that would have made the trap rather trivial to complete (for instance, the hooks were big enough for him to simply stand in), which was more than likely intentional on Jigsaw's part.
• Ironic Echo: He created an acronym title for the book about his fake story with Jigsaw (S.U.R.V.I.V.E.), which supposedly imparts the lessons he learned from the apparent experience. When he actually takes part in a Jigsaw game, the phrases the acronym was meant to stand for are scrawled over various walls, doors and a staircase that he passes through, partially because they embody the values Jigsaw tries to instill in his victims.
• It's for a Book: Inverted. After seeing people explaining their own experiences in Jigsaw traps, Bobby uses them to make up his own experience as the theme for a book, down to scarring his own pectorals like the scars of said victims to make it seem more real. The success of the book kickstarts the film's main game, where Bobby is put in an actual trial by Hoffman long after Jigsaw took notice of him.
• Karma Houdini: Subverted. Although he lied about being a survivor of one of Jigsaw's traps simply to become rich and famous, he survives his trial (which was the last one Hoffman ran) with only a few injuries. That being said, his incompetence at successfully completing most of the traps lead to the deaths of his staff, best friend and wife, and in all likelihood, his career as a writer would be over with him being exposed as a fraud.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After lying about surviving his own Jigsaw game, John posthumously gets even by making him actually experience the games, only not to save himself, but to save those close to him. Bobby ultimately proves incompetent with his challenges, as everyone he tried to save ends up dying grisly deaths, leaving him with nothing but guilt.
• Liar Revealed: While he survives his trial, it's likely that he was publicly exposed as a liar afterwards.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: Making a false autobiography about being a Jigsaw victim has drastically costed his close associates' lives, including his wife Joyce's.
• Only in It for the Money: The reason why he published his false story about being a victim of Jigsaw. It would allow him to earn quick cash.
• Symbolic Mutilation: His final test is to recreate the trap he made up: piercing his pecs and hosting himself up to connect wires. It doesn't work when he does it exactly that way, but the hooks' size and design imply that he also had to think logically since he couldn't have known if the trap would have been actually possible in reality.
• Too Dumb to Live: Let's be honest, lying about being caught by a Serial Killer who specifically targets those who are guilty of something, including liars, is not a very smart move, especially while said criminal is active. Bobby should have known that his name would eventually come next, or have at least published the story after the events of the third movie when Jigsaw was already dead.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: While Saw 3D ends after his final test, Bobby's ultimate fate after his game is left unknown since he remained in the psychiatric hospital after the SWAT team who came to stop the game was killed. Neither Jigsaw nor Spiral add any information about his aftermath, although the script of one of the original drafted films from which 3D derived involved Bobby being taken to a hospital and meeting Gordon at the end.

Victims of Bobby's Trial (Cale, Suzanne, Nina, Joyce Dagen)

Played By: Dean Armstrong (Cale), Rebecca Marshall (Suzanne), Naomi Snieckus (Nina), Gina Holden (Joyce)

Appearances: Saw 3D

Bobby's best friend (Cale), lawyer (Suzanne), publicist (Nina) and wife (Joyce), kidnapped by Jigsaw for being complicit in his falsified story about surviving a Jigsaw game.

• Amoral Attorney: Since Suzanne was Bobby's lawyer during his scheme, handling the legal work, she counts as this as she knew she was defending his lies for money.
• Asshole Victim: All of them except Joyce, who was the only one kept in the dark about Bobby's lies and was only presented as a good person.
• Cruel and Unusual Death:
  • Nina gets her throat pierced by metal rods, Suzanne's face is impaled by metal spikes and Joyce gets burned alive by a brazen bull for Bobby's failures, which is horrifying for someone who did nothing wrong.
  • It's fortunately averted for Cale, who simply gets hanged.
• Disproportionate Retribution: While Joyce enjoyed the money from Bobby's false story, she didn't know he was lying. As a result, apart from being his unwitting wife, she literally did nothing to warrant being a victim of Jigsaw.
• No Full Name Given: Joyce is the only one of the victims with a stated surname.
• The One Guy: Cale is the only male victim from them whom Bobby has to save.
• Swallow the Key: In the Silence Circle, Bobby has to free Nina with a key in her stomach, which he has to pick with a fish hook. Due to this, he has to be careful when pulling it out, as the hook can tear her apart from the inside.
• Token Good Teammate: Joyce is the only victim from them to not actively participate in Bobby's scam.
• Too Dumb to Live: Suzanne and Cale really should have known taking part in a scheme to fake a Jigsaw victim while Jigsaw was still at large might make them targets of Jigsaw.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: A deleted scene shows that Cale was the one who suggested Bobby to pretend to be a Jigsaw survivor, thus kickstarting the movie's main game.

Brad and Ryan

Played By: Sebastian Pigott (Brad), Jon Cor (Ryan)

Appearances: Saw 3D

Two teenage victims of the opening trap in 3D, the Public Execution Trap. Deceived by a two-timing gold digger named Dina, they decide she's not worth it and let her die to save their lives instead.

• The Ace: Ryan is one of very few victims in one of Jigsaw's games to survive with no injuries whatsoever, and easily reconciles with Brad, who doesn't fare much worse.
• Armor-Piercing Question: Ryan ultimately convinces Brad that Dina isn’t worth killing over by asking him the following questions—
  Ryan: Brad! Brad, look at me! Is the chick that fucked me in your bed two days ago worth one of our lives? Not worth it, man. She's not worth it. Right?!
• Cock Fight: They spend a good minute trying to kill each other, until they realize that Dina was a two-timing, backstabbing adulterer who was playing them both, causing them to put Bros Before Hoes and get her cut in half.
• Face–Heel Turn: Word of God claims that they were the two pig-masked men who helped Lawrence in subduing Hoffman. Although this is arguably a Downplayed example, as Hoffman himself was very much an Asshole Victim who deserved what was coming to him and the two men aren't seen attacking innocents at any point...a prospect which is even more unlikely when you consider that Lawrence himself was one of the more moral apprentices who never killed people in traps himself.
• Love Triangle: They were both involved in relationships with Dina, so in the Public Execution Trap, Jigsaw gives them the choice to either attempt to kill each other with a table of saws in order to "prove who is the alpha male", or leave Dina to die. However, unlike most examples of this trope, the love triangle isn't resolved in favor of either "competitor", as when Dina's loyalty switches between whoever happens to be winning, both of them are convinced to call it a draw and allow Dina to be killed instead.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: Invoked and then subverted. They can either fight to the death over the woman they both love or let her die instead. Realizing that she doesn't care which one of them dies so long as one of them saves her, they agree to let her die so both of them can survive.
• No Full Name Given: Their surnames are never stated.
• We Used to Be Friends: Brad and Ryan's friendship was fractured by Dina's deception, but they reconcile after their test.

Dina

Played By: Anne Lee Greene

Appearances: Saw 3D

The girlfriend of Brad and Ryan, who manipulated them into committing crimes for her and played them against each other.

• Asshole Victim: She played her boyfriends against each other and got them to steal things for her to try and impress her. In the trap, she doesn't hesitate to try and get both of her boyfriends to kill the other so her own life can be saved. This eventually backfires on her as Brad and Ryan take notice of it and decide to sacrifice her instead.
• Bad Liar: Practically every line coming out of her mouth are nothing but lies. She’s quick to call Jigsaw the liar after she’s exposed as a cheater and eventually claims to love either Brad or Ryan when one tries to out-beat the other in a death match in order to save her own neck. It’s at that moment Ryan curses her out for being a lying slut for playing both him and Brad for fools and convinces the latter they should let her die.
• Fan Disservice: Dina is probably the biggest fanservice material in the whole franchise... until she's sawn in half and her intestines spill out, anyway.
• Karmic Death: While whether or not she actually deserved to die is questionable, her death is both her own fault and referential to why she is in her current circumstance. What seals her fate is her Opinion Flip-Flop, showing both her unwillingness to commit to one partner over the other and her lack of genuine love for either. Much like how her adultery is the result of being unable to make up her mind over who to be with, so too does her unwillingness to commit to one person over the other result in her death.
• Liar Revealed: She essentially exposes through an Opinion Flip-Flop that she's been playing both Brad and Ryan for money and comfort at the same time, thus cheating on both of them. Brad and Ryan decide to stop fighting in response, resulting in Dina's death.
• Manipulative Bitch: She manipulates Brad and Ryan to steal for her, and tries to get each of them to kill the other so her own life can be spared.
• No Full Name Given: Her surname is never stated.
• Opinion Flip-Flop: When Brad starts to get the upper hand, Dina roots for him to kill Ryan. When Ryan starts to turn the tables, she starts rooting for Ryan. This gets them to see that she really doesn't love either of them, which prompts them to let her die.
• Saying Too Much: Dina makes a mistake that proves fatal to her: she first cheers for Brad when it looks like Brad might win, but then when Ryan starts winning she immediately switches and starts cheering for Ryan. The fact that Dina is willing to "love" whichever man kills the other causes Ryan to realize that she doesn't genuinely love either man (or she would have been cheering only for the one she loved), so he voluntarily gives up the struggle and convinces Brad to do the same, and Dina is killed instead.
• Too Dumb to Live: Had she not rooted for Brad and Ryan to kill each other (or at least had chosen one of them and stuck with that choice), she may have lived.

The Skinheads (Evan, Kara, Dan, Jake)

Played By: Chester Bennington (Evan), Gabby West (Kara), Dru Viergever (Dan), Benjamin Clost (Jake)

Appearances: Saw 3D

A gang of Neo-Nazi skinheads that Hoffman decides to test with a trap of his own while on the run from the law. They are the victims of the Horsepower Trap.

• An Arm and a Leg: Dan's arms (and jaw) are torn right off his body when Evan fails to deactivate the trap.
• Asshole Victim: Every last one of them.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: As a result of Evan failing to win his game on time, Kara gets her head crushed by a moving tire, Dan's arms and jaw are torn off when Evan's car goes out of control, and Evan himself is sent flying out a windshield with all the skin on his back forcibly torn off his body, bleeding to death. Averted with Jake, who is simply run over by the front of the car Evan is in.
• Dead Star Walking: Evan, played by Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington, is the leader of the group and the one given the main objective to get them out alive in the Horsepower Trap. He fails, and everyone is killed.
• Flayed Alive: In the Horsepower Trap, Evan is superglued into the driver's seat of a car. In order to save himself and the others, he has to pull himself loose by ripping off the skin from his arms and back.
• Hate Crimes Are a Special Kind of Evil: As a group of racists, Hoffman tests them for this reason.
• Head Crushing: Kara is killed by having a running car tire crush her head into bloody pieces.
• No Full Name Given: None of them have stated surnames.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Being white supremacist skinheads, this is a given.
• The Smurfette Principle: Kara is the only female Skinhead amongst them.
• Symbolic Mutilation: They're put in a trap for being racists, in which Evan's competence is fundamental for the others' lives. His task? Peeling the skin off his back to reach the lever that will stop the trap.

Logan Nelson

Played By: Matt Passmore

Appearances: Jigsaw

The main character of Jigsaw. Logan is a military veteran who served in Iraq, where he experienced trauma that led to his discharge and has remained with him up to the present. Currently, he's a medical examiner who works with the police.

• Action Dad: He has a daughter, and he can also hold his own in a fight as a veteran.
• Catchphrase: "I speak for the dead."
• The Coroner: He's the main medical examiner involved in the second Jigsaw killing spree.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Was tortured as a prisoner of war during his time as a military medic.
• Good Parents: Is a loving father to his daughter Melissa.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: He has several scars on his back, which he presumably acquired when he was tortured.
• My Greatest Failure: Accidentally mislabeled John's cranial X-ray, resulting in his cancer being found too late for treatment, becoming indirectly responsible for setting off the chain of events that led to John becoming Jigsaw to begin with.
• Recovered Addict: A Freeze-Frame Bonus when Halloran is going through Logan's military file noticably mentions a "relapse" in the aftermath of his wife's death. What precisely that "relapse" involved is never revealed, but it's pretty evident that it wasn't anything good.
• Scarred Back Reveal: Early on, Logan Nelson gets out of bed and the camera is treated to his bare back, covered with scars the audience is meant to believe are from his past military tour.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: When he was still an intern, he accidentally mislabeled two x-rays, resulting in John's brain tumor not being found until it was too late.

Eleanor Bonneville

Played By: Hannah Emily Anderson

Appearances: Jigsaw

An assistant medical examiner assisting Logan in investigating the new Jigsaw murders, she is quickly made a suspect along with Logan for her fascination with the morbid.

• The Coroner: An assisting one to Logan, specifically.
• Hospital Hottie: An extremely attractive medical examiner.
• Nightmare Fetishist: She is absolutely obsessed with Jigsaw, to the point of trolling the dark web for sites and information on him and having an entire warehouse full of replicas of the various traps he built over the course of the series. But she is offended when Logan asks if she "gets off on this shit.''
• Red Herring: The viewers are led to believe that she's the new Jigsaw killer because she's a Fangirl of Jigsaw and has built replicas of many of his previous traps, but the real killer is Logan.
• Smoking Is Cool: Smokes a cigarette while Logan walks around and explores her studio.
• Stalker Shrine: She has one detailing most of Jigsaw's traps, including the Spiralizer.

Anna

Played By: Laura Vandervoort

Appearances: Jigsaw

Ryan

Played By: Paul Braunstein | Ryan Manning (young)

Appearances: Jigsaw

A victim of the Murderers' Trial and the tertiary protagonist of Jigsaw. While he's no saint, Ryan reluctantly takes a leadership role in the Murderers' Trial with the questionable mental states of his fellow victims.

• And I Must Scream: His possible fate after Anna destroys the keys for his last test. However, not only is Ryan implied to have taken it in stride, he possibly bled to death before dehydration or starvation would do him in.
• An Arm and a Leg: He gets caught in a booby trap that slices his leg into three pieces.
• Asshole Victim: Downplayed. Back in high school, his drunken, reckless behavior caused a car accident that killed two of his best friends and another driver, then he incriminated one of his said friends for it. As if this wasn't enough, he committed other crimes afterwards, like selling credits that could not be paid, selling cocaine, not paying state taxes, and cheating on his two wives. While pretty bad things, he's still one of the least reprehensible of the people in his game,^*Mitch knowingly sold a faulty motorcycle that got John's nephew killed, Anna killed her baby and framed her husband who proceeded to commit suicide, and Carly got an asthmatic woman she stole a purse from killed due to taking her inhaler. Logan is the only one less reprehensible since his only crime was accidentally mislabeling the x-ray that could have detected John's cancer earlier. and none of that was really worthy of him bleeding out on a dirty barn floor.
• Call-Back: Him trying to break open a door with a shovel is similar to a scene in Saw II, where Xavier does the same with a studded baseball bat.
• Conscience Makes You Go Back: When he's faced with the dilemma of losing his leg to save Anna and Mitch from the Grain Silo Trap, he adamantly refuses at first. After hearing enough of their desperate pleas, however, Ryan caves and gives up his leg.
• Face Death with Dignity: When he realizes he's doomed, he sincerely apologizes for everything bad he's done in life and lies down quietly next to Anna's corpse. The fact his corpse is in the same position in the present implies he didn't try to escape his fate (not that he could).
• Fatal Flaw: His temper and impulsiveness. The first instance of this is when he ignores Anna and Mitch's suggestions to not go through a door that Jigsaw warned them not to open. He loses a leg for this. The second and fatal instance of this is when Anna decides to kill him, believing that's the answer to the riddle behind their final test. Rather than try to reason with her, he immediately begins to panic and calls her a "psycho bitch," provoking her to finalize her decision to kill him.
• Flipping the Bird: In the barn game's first trap, he does this towards the speaker from which the instructions are told, complete with a loud "FUCK YOU!".
• I Did What I Had to Do: Ryan kills Carly when she refuses to make a critical decision, which would kill everyone in the game. When Mitch and Anna chew him out for it, he points this out to justify himself.
• Jerkass: Ryan is a very unpleasant man who's easy to anger.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Ryan is fairly abrasive, unfaithful to his two wives, reckless, and irresponsible. But unlike many of the other Barn victims, he is not nearly as self-absorbed or ill-intentioned. The deaths he caused are genuinely accidental, albeit brought on by his own recklessness. He also cuts off his leg to save Mitch and Anna, then refuses to shoot Anna at the end. He even tries to warn her at the last second what will happen if she fires the gun.
• No Full Name Given: Like most of the other barn game victims, his surname is never stated.
• That Liar Lies: When Carly hesitates to tell the truth about what she did. "YOU'RE LYING! YOU'RE LYING!"
• Villain Respect: Implied. At some point in the present, Ryan's decomposed corpse was covered with a blanket presumably from Logan, whereas Anna's is left untouched. In a way, this could represent how he was the only one who "won" the Barn game, as detailed in the Face Death with Dignity entry.

Mitch

Played By: Mandela Van Peebles

Appearances: Jigsaw

A victim of the Murderers' Trial.

• Asshole Victim: Despite passing himself off as a Nice Guy, he knowingly sold a bike with faulty brakes to a young man who just so happened to be Jigsaw's nephew, and covered it up in order to get full price for it, directly leading to the man's death in an accident. He ends up being sliced apart in a blender-like trap powered by a motorbike that had the exact engine from the original bike that he sold.
• Flayed Alive: He's sent tumbling into the coils of the Cycle Trap when Anna tries to help him get through it and is spat out as a mutilated corpse.
• Foreshadowing: Mitch's attempt to just cut his finger in the first game, only to have the chain jerk him forward and spill much more blood, foreshadows his reticence to reach his hand out to pull the brake in his trap later on, which ultimately dooms him.
• Greed: He knowingly sold a defective bike to a man and could only look at the cash rather than think of the consequences.
• Karmic Death: The faulty engine fueling the Cycle Trap that mutilates Mitch belongs to the bike he sold to John's nephew.
• No Full Name Given: Like most of the other barn game victims, his surname is never stated.
• Too Dumb to Live: Anna's interference with Mitch's trap disables the coils for a few minutes. Rather than use the time to pick up the handbrake that would ensure the trap is permanently disabled, Mitch simply celebrates thinking he's in the clear.

Carly

Played By: Brittany Allen

Appearances: Jigsaw

A victim of the Murderers' Trial.

• Asshole Victim: She's a purse snatcher who stole from an asthmatic woman, leading to the woman having an attack and dying. Carly could have helped her but chose to run away with $3.53. She refuses to risk her life for the other players despite the fact that all of them will die if she doesn't, and gets acid injected into her throat, dying an incredibly painful death.
• Blood from Every Orifice: This is how she dies when Ryan injects the three syringes of the Chain Hangers into her.
• Conscience Makes You Go Back: In the past, Carly robbed an asthmatic woman of her purse. Upon discovering her inhaler in the bag, she felt guilt over it and tried to return it to her. Unfortunately, she came back to find the woman already died of stress. This didn't stop Carly from keeping her money afterward, which is probably one of the main reasons John tested her.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Carly is forced into a decision where she must pick one of three syringes that will force her to confess how much money she stole from a woman who died from her thieving. She refuses to do so, and to save the group, Ryan injects her with all three. As a result, Carly is literally melted from the inside out by acid.
• The Ditherer: She's told that she was injected with poison, and has to choose between one of three needles to cure herself before all the victims end up being hanged: antidote, saline solution or acid. It's implied that she knows which one is the correct answer to not choose the one with a 3.53 number on it, but she's too frightened to do so. As the chains around her and the other subjects' necks begin to pull upwards, Ryan injects all three syringes into her. They are freed, but Carly painfully bleeds out and dies for her troubles.
• Evil Is Petty: When you boil it down, Carly effectively killed a woman for less than five dollars ($3.53, to be exact, as is the solution to the syringe puzzle).
• Never My Fault: Deconstructed. Unlike the rest of the group, Carly is adamant about not admitting any wrongdoing in the past, not even twisting a narrative to better suit her like with Anna. As this would kill all the victims, Ryan kills Carly to save them.
• No Full Name Given: Like most of the other barn game victims, her surname is never stated.

Carlos

Played By: Jorge Briseno

Appearances: Saw X

A kid that John meets and bonds with during his trip to Mexico.

• Blood-Splattered Innocents: Carlos is drenched in blood in the Bloodboard Trap, even though John takes the most of it.
• Children Are Innocent: Carlos is just an ordinary kid, but that didn't stop Cecilia from putting him in a trap, not because he committed any crimes, but solely to spite Kramer. Even Kramer thought that's a low blow.
• Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: Amanda covers Carlos's eyes when they witness Cecilia and Parker fight each other for survival inside of the gas chamber trap.
• Language Barrier: Carlos only speaks Spanish, which John has very limited knowledge of. He would teach him how to say pull in Spanish when he fixed his bike. This would come back when he and John are put in the bloodboard trap and John instructs him "No jalar" before starting.
• Morality Pet: He serves to show John and Amanda haven't become completely heartless.
• Nice Guy: An anomaly in a movie franchise where almost every character is either a terrible person or has at least done terrible things, Carlos is a nice, normal kid who willingly waterboards himself with blood to protect a man he has met once, and is one of the only purely innocent people to be involved in Jigsaw's traps.
• Water Torture: Or, in this case, blood torture. Carlos was stuck in a trap in which he would be waterboarded with blood (or 'bloodboarded,' as Cecilia put it).

Custodian

Played By: Isan Beomhyun Lee

Appearances: Saw X

An unnamed janitor at the hospital where John stays before coming to The Pederson Project's "clinic". When John sees him rifling through a patient's things and pocketing some valuables, he considers putting the janitor in a horrific trap. Fortunately, the janitor notices John and returns the goods.

• Advertised Extra: His appearance in the Eye Vacuum Trap is featured in the movie's teaser poster, despite him being a nameless minor character and the trap in question being only an Imagine Spot of John.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Jigsaw was going to have the janitor tested for petty theft had he gone through with it. Jigsaw has had janitors tested for less, you know.
• Eye Scream: His (imagined) trap would have involved him having two vacuum tubes strapped over his eyes. If he didn't win the game, his eyes would've been sucked out into the tubes.
• Fingore: His (imagined) game would have involved turning a dial to activate a mechanism that would break all five fingers on his right hand one at a time, as punishment for his petty theft.
• No Name Given: The first person Jigsaw considered in turning one of his victims not to be given a name. John not mentioning his name in the Eye Vacuum Trap's tape is a hint that the custodian's game isn't actually happening.
• Oh, Crap!: Panickingly puts the belongings he was stealing back once he finds John Kramer watching him. A good choice.

David

Played By: Leigh Whannell

Appearances: Saw (short film)

The protagonist of the original Saw short film. David was a hospital orderly abducted and put through a grueling test by a serial killer because of his arrogant attitude.

• Decomposite Character: In the first film, his character is split between several ones:
  • Adam is played by the same actor as him, Leigh Whannell, and displays a similar attitude.
  • Tapp takes David's name as his first name.
  • Amanda is put through the same test as David.
  • Like David, Zep is a hospital orderly.
• No Full Name Given: His surname is never stated.

Rich Skidmore

Played By: Rich Skidmore

Appearances: Full Disclosure Report

The host of the Full Disclosure Report documentary series, which addresses the aftermath of the first film's events in the short film of the same title.

• As Himself: He has the same name as his actor.

Scott Tibbs

Played By: Zach Starr

Appearances: The Scott Tibbs Documentary

The frontman of the in-universe band Wrath of the Gods and Adam's friend. When Adam goes missing with found connections to the Jigsaw case, Scott decides to make a documentary regarding Jigsaw in The Scott Tibbs Documentary, eventually setting up a Jigsaw-type trap with his bandmates for him to test Jigsaw's method.

• Ascended Extra: Scott was briefly mentioned by Adam in the first film. He's then the star of his own documentary.
• Ax-Crazy: Downplayed. While he's not violent or clearly dangerous, his behavior gets more and more unhinged when he can't get information on the larger Jigsaw case, including harassing random strangers at a gas station, including young kids. This culminates in him building a copycat trap with his bandmates, which he tests himself in order to prove John's philosophy.
• Lecherous Licking: When harassing a girl at a gas station, he licks a stripe across her car window after she rolls it up to put a barrier between them.
• Uncertain Doom: It's unclear whether he escaped his self-made trap or died in it, since his bandmates took the camera when they left the room. Considering the fact that Scott was clearly panicking and unable to free himself as the timer ticked down, it's safe to say he probably didn't make it out.
• With Friends Like These...: He not only shows no concern for Adam after he goes missing, but he actually mocks him and flippantly says that he's probably dead. Not to mention the fact that he stabbed him on his sixth birthday. There's a reason why he's clear that Scott isn't his best friend like he was when they were kids.