History Characters / SawIVToVI

** 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 brutality on Rigg's part and corruption on Hoffman's and it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

!!Angelina Acomb

!!!'''Played By:''' Gerry Mendicino

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Being Jigsaw's first designed trap, the Knife Chair was fundamentally flawed, and Cecil quickly freed himself from it because the chair gave away before he could fully pass his face through the blade contraption.
** Cecil doesn't develop StockholmSyndrome or forgive John for putting him in a death trap. No, he's royally pissed off and once he gets out, he immediately bum-rushes him with every intent of kicking his ass.

-->--John talking to Hoffman about Angelina

-->--'''John talking to Hoffman about Angelina'''

->''"I know about your sister. I know how you cared for her. I know she was your only family."''\\
->--'''John talking to Hoffman about Angelina'''

--'''John talking to Hoffman about Angelina'''

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Implied. He has Neo-Nazi symbols tattooed on his body, and murdered a woman in cold blood. This might have given Hoffman another reason to kill Seth besides said woman being his sister, [[Film/Saw3D given his later track record with Neo-Nazis]].
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His actions lead to Hoffman becoming Jigsaw's accomplice, and killing many, ''many'' people.

Mark Hoffman's beloved sister and only known family member. She was brutally killed in a domestic dispute with her boyfriend, Seth Baxter. When her killer was released on a technicality, Hoffman killed him and framed it on Jigsaw in order to bring her justice.

[[folder:Seth Baxter]]
!!Seth Baxter
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!!!'''Played By:''' Joris Jarsky
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/SawV''

The abusive boyfriend and eventual murderer of Hoffman's sister. Hoffman used his knowledge of Jigsaw to kill him and frame Jigsaw. When the real Jigsaw found out, he blackmailed Hoffman into becoming his accomplice.

* AssholeVictim: Brutally murdered his girlfriend and received nowhere near the adequate punishment for it. That is, until 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.
* BlatantLies: He claims the murder was an accident, but a flashback shows that his girlfriend's throat was slit. Yeah, he "accidentally" slit her throat.
* DirtyCoward: He whines, yells for help, says it was an [[BlatantLies accident,]] and has trouble even completing the task of crushing his hands.
* DomesticAbuser: He murdered his girlfriend, who also happened to be [[WifeBasherBasher Hoffman's sister]].
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Eventually, the pendulum lowers itself enough that it begins to slowly cut him in half, despite completing his test.
* OffOnATechnicality: He was originally sentenced to life in prison, but was released after only five years due to an unexplained legal technicality.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Implied. He has Neo-Nazi symbols tattooed on his body, and murdered a woman in cold blood. This might have given Hoffman another reason to kill him besides said woman being his sister, [[Film/Saw3D given his later track record with Neo-Nazis]].
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His actions lead to Hoffman becoming Jigsaw's accomplice, and killing many, ''many'' people.
* VillainHasAPoint: 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.

[[folder:Angelina Acomb]]
!!Angelina Acomb
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!!!'''Played By:''' Sarah Power

->''"I know about your sister. I know how you cared for her. I know she was your only family."''\\
--'''John talking to Hoffman about Angelina'''

Mark Hoffman's beloved sister and only known family member. She was brutally killed in a domestic dispute with her boyfriend, Seth Baxter. When her killer was released on a technicality, Hoffman killed him and framed it on Jigsaw in order to bring her justice.

* CradleOfLoneliness: The flashbacks to her death briefly show Hoffman cradling the hand of her corpse, and no one willing to pull him away.
* MonsterBrotherCutieSister: 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. [[SerialKiller Hoffman needs no explanation...]]
* MoralityPet: She seemed to be this for Hoffman, as after she died, all hinges on him went loose.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: 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.
* PosthumousCharacter: She's only shown through brief flashbacks before and of her death.
* SlashedThroat: How she was killed by Seth.

[[folder:The Fatal Five]]
!!The Fatal Five (Brit Stevenson, Mallick Scott, Luba Gibbs, Charles Salomon, Ashley Kazon)
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[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Brit, Charles, Luba, Ashley, Mallick]]
!!!'''Played By:''' Creator/JulieBenz (Brit), Carlo Rota (Charles), Creator/MeaganGood (Luba), Laura Gordon (Ashley), Greg Bryke (Mallick)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/SawV'' | ''Film/Saw3D'' (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.

* AssholeVictim: 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 [[KarmicDeath Luba helps Mallick and leaves Charles to die instead.]]
* AnArmAndALeg: 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''.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: An inversion. Luba is the last fatality, dying in the second-to-last trap.
* IdleRich: Mallick used his parents' money to finance his drug habit.
* IronicEcho: "'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.
* IronLady: Brit is the senior vice president of a real estate development company, and will do sketchy things to get her work done her way.
* JerkassToOne: Charles is a {{Jerkass}} for the most part, but he is specially dismissive of Mallick, who he believes to be worthless.
* KarmaHoudini: 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.
* KillItWithFire: Mallick set a building with people living in it on fire, all to get a fix.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** Mallick is clearly distraught by the arson he committed, angrily lashing out at Brit after he learns she organized the scheme
** Judging by the look on her 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, Brit seems to have realized the gravity of what she's done.
* OffWithHerHead: Ashley is killed this way as the only victim of the first trial.
* OhCrap: 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 PowerOfTrust 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!
* PowerOfTrust: 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 ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, only Mallick and Brit make it to the end, with Brit making it clear she would have likely killed Mallick if she had to.
* PragmaticHero: Brit kills Luba instead of Mallick because he would be less likely to turn against her.
* TheSocialDarwinist: 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 to the events of the film.
* SymbolicMutilation: 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.
* TokenMinority: Luba is the only black person among the Fatal Five.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Ashley is killed minutes into their introduction, and we barely learn anything about her other than her role in the arson.

The boyfriend and murderer of Hoffman's sister. Hoffman used his knowledge of Jigsaw to kill him and frame Jigsaw. When the real Jigsaw found out, he blackmailed Hoffman into becoming his accomplice.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain. Implied. He had Neo-Nazi symbols tattooed on his body and murdered a woman in cold blood. Besides killing his sister, this might have given Hoffman more of a reason to have him killed [[Film/Saw3D given his track record with Neo-Nazis]].

* AlasPoorVillain: Although Seth is a piece of shit for what he did to Angelina, it can be hard not to feel sorry for him during his trap. While we are told Seth was a murderer during the opening trap, we don’t see any physical evidence of it, and in many ways he just seems like an innocent victim up until we find out what he did to Hoffman’s sister much later in the film. It can be hard to completely lose any sympathy you have for Seth once you find that out, especially after spending so long feeling sorry for him.

* SeredipidousSurvival: William places his hand on the "save" button the second time before even seeing who it will spare: Shelby, at the expense of Josh.