History Characters / SawIVToVI

** The Knife Chair Trap being Jigsaw's first designed trap was fundamentally flawed, and Cecil unexpectedly managed to free himself because the chair he was sitting on gave away before he lost important organs (such as his eyes or his nose) to the blades on his face.

* AntiVillain: 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.

* AssholeVictim: She lended money and put people into serious debt for her selfish gain. While she survives her game, she is not a sympathetic survivor, to say the least. That being said...

* TheFarmerAndTheViper: 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 apprehension of being cut open, Debbie has no choice but to kill him.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: He passes all the tests and learns his lesson about helping people. [[spoiler: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. They choose not to, as they never forgave him, and he dies one of the most violent and painful deaths in the series.]]

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Downplayed; Jigsaw 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. However, William did develop his own so-called "formula" to determine who gets coverage and who doesn't, and is fully onboard with his subordinates poking holes in insurance applications and effectively screwing his clients out of their coverage for even minor and unintentional oversights. Ultimately, while he isn't a corrupt man personally, he was happily perpetuating the corrupt system of American health insurance before being subjected to Jigsaw's game.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive:
** Downplayed; Jigsaw 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. However, William did develop his own so-called "formula" to determine who gets coverage and who doesn't, and is fully onboard with his subordinates poking holes in insurance applications and effectively screwing his clients out of their coverage for even minor and unintentional oversights. Ultimately, while he isn't a corrupt man personally, he was happily perpetuating the corrupt system of American health insurance before being subjected to Jigsaw's game.

** 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, escalating things into a fight for no substantial reason. Unsurprisingly, Debbie's time runs out as a result, and she is killed.

** Subverted; Jigsaw 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 even tries to save everyone he can over the course of Jigsaw's test.
** It's still played straight in the clinic party scene, though, where William was talking with John, bragging about his so-called "formula" that he created himself to determine who gets coverage or not.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: 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.

* 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.

* BareYourMidriff: Wears a shirt that reveals her navel.

* AssholeVictim: Brutally murdered his girlfriend and received nowhere near the adequate punishment for it. That is, until Hoffman gets to him.

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->'''Played by:''' Julie Benz (Brit), Carlo Rota (Charles), Meagan Good (Luba), Laura Gordon (Ashley), Greg Bryke (Mallick)\\

* 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.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: 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.

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* UnwinnableByDesign: 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. Due to the expansive nature of William's trial, it seems Jigsaw was even aware of this and never expected Hank to win.

* UnwinnableByDesign: The Oxygen Crusher consists of two contraptions consisted of two big metal clamps aiming at the victims' bodies from the sides. Once the game began, a highly sensitive pump measured their breathing activity. Each time one of them took a breath, the clamps would close in and eventually crush their body. Once someone dies, the trap would deactivate with the second victim free to go. However, due to Hank's smoking habits and health issues, there is legitimately no way he could ''ever'' win against William even if the latter intentionally tried to lose. Due to the expansive nature of William's trial, it seems Jigsaw was even aware of this and never expected Hank to win.

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* AssholeVictim: Of all the victims with a connection to Easton, she was the most complicit in William's 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.

* CowardiceCallout: When William sentences Josh to die, [[spoiler:Josh]] calls William spineless among a tirade of other insults before meeting his end, and he ''hisses'' at William to look him in the eye as he's killing him. 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.

-->'''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)'' Please, Mr. Easton! Mr. Easton! Please! Follow the policy, Mr. Easton. Do it! Please! Mr. Easton, follow the policy! FOLLOW THE POLICY! ''(bam)''

-->"Aw, 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? Your policy is 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!'''''"

-->'''Aaron:''' Listen to me, Mr. Easton. I am the one who should live! ''(is stopped before the shotgun first)'' Jesus Christ! Please, Mr. Easton! MR. EASTON! PLEASE! FOLLOW THE POLICY, MR. EASTON! DO IT! PLEASE! MR. EASTON, FOLLOW THE POLICY! FOLLOW THE POLICY! ''(gets killed by the shotgun)''

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: He 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.

* BastardBoyfriend: He murdered his girlfriend, who also happened to be [[WifeBasherBasher Hoffman's sister]].