History Film / SawX

* VillainousBreakdown: Cecilia remains remarkably calm and collected throughout the whole game up to her own trap... [[spoiler:until she [[OhCrap realizes]] that she's been OutGambitted and panics. As chemical gas spreads in the room she's trapped in, she frantically fights for her survival and murders Parker in order to poke her head through a make-shift hole out of the room to avoid suffocating. As John, Amanda, and Carlos leave, she frantically screams out for John as she's left to rot in the gas-filled room]].

* VillainousBreakdown: Cecilia remains remarkably calm and collected throughout the whole game up to her own trap... [[spoiler:Cecilia remains remarkably calm and collected throughout the whole game up to her own trap... until she [[OhCrap realizes]] that she's been OutGambitted and panics. As chemical gas spreads in the room she's trapped in, she frantically fights for her survival and murders Parker in order to poke her head through a make-shift hole out of the room to avoid suffocating. As John, Amanda, and Carlos leave, she frantically screams out for John as she's left to rot in the gas-filled room]].

** In this film, John personally interacts with victims, rather than his typical method of hiding behind a peephole/camera or disgusing himself in plain sight, and speaking to the victims via Billy, speakers or tapes.

** In this film, John personally interacts with victims, rather than his typical method of hiding behind a peephole/camera or disgusing himself in plain sight, and using Billy or speakers/tapes as mouthpieces.

** In this film, John personally interacts with victims instead him usually of hiding behind a camera and using Billy as a mouthpiece or using a speaker.

** [[He also fails to foresee Cecilia being evil enough to kill her own allies, which sadly leads to her killing Gabriela despite the latter passing her test]].

* Amanda admits that she and John aren’t saints, but it’s unknown if she’s referring the sins that she’s committed before meeting John or after becoming his apprentice.

** In terms of plot, ''Saw X'' is the only film out of the series to have no PoliceProcedural storyline or elements. It's also the first entirely linear movie in the franchise, with no flashbacks or {{Sequencing Deception}}s; everything in the whole runtime is presented in a single, forward motion.

* EvilIsPetty: [[spoiler: When Cecilia gets the upper hand over John at one point, John genuinely tries to plead with her to get Gabriela some help after Gabriela has won her game and is badly injured. Cecilia responds by killing Gabriela out of petty spite. She also decides to kill Carlos or at the least make sure he is harmed just because she knows he is an innocent kid and also because John got along with him.]]

** John has a great rapport with the handyman's young son Carlos and even calls him a friend. Amanda even has a fondness for the kid, keeping him close before the credits roll.

** [[spoiler: Additionally, John displays his trademark trap level hypocrisy. While he insists, like always, that he doesn't play favorites, that everyone will be both tested equally and given a fair chance, he is shown putting people he views as more culpable in far more difficult traps. Take Gabriela compared to Mateo. Both traps are still very deadly, but Gabriela only has to damage her hand and foot to escape. Mateo has to perform brain surgery on himself and without anesthesia, then complete a logic puzzle that involves: 1.) dissolving a chunk of his own brain, 2.) Melting said chunk to increase the density of a glass of water till it triggers a pressure pad, and 3.) grab and use a key in under three minutes. Furthermore, Mateo isn't given the option of not playing, getting shocked until he proceeds.]]

* IronicEcho: When Cecilia begs that what Jigsaw's putting her through isn't right, he disgustedly responds, "A lecture on moral decency? From ''you''?" When Cecilia turns the tables on him, and, more importantly, [[EvenEvilHasStandards forces an innocent child to play one of John's games]], Kramer pleads that this isn't right, and hears his own line shot back at him from Cecilia.

* MeaningfulEcho: "Jalar", the Spanish word meaning "to pull". Carlos first teaches the word to John while he's repairing his bike, and it comes back later when [[spoiler:the two of them wind up in the Bloodboard Trap. The trap revolves around its two victims having levers with which they can control the tilt of the platform they're on, and get the tap pouring blood on their face to turn off, by pulling their lever. John instructs Carlos "No ''jalar''!" several times during the trap]].

* OffWithHisHead: Valentina's trap involves her having to cut her leg off and extracting enough bone marrow from the leg or she will get her head chopped off by a wire. [[spoiler: She fails, with obvious results.]]
* OutGambitted: [[spoiler: Parker is revealed to not actually be another scammed patient but instead someone's partner (and Cecilia's lover) involved in the medical scheme. This is also later in the movie followed up by John and Amanda being revealed to have known about Parker all this time and had intentionally lured him to the building. Likewise, when Parker and Cecilia seemingly have the upper hand over John and Amanda, it was actually all part of the game for John and leads to the real final trap for both Cecilia and Parker.]]

** ZigZagged with the Eye Vacuum Trap. The tubes connecting to the victims' eyes aren't really in the X shape that the poster suggests, but the trailers already show what the trap will be like.

* VillainsOutShopping: John is given a lot of these moments. He's seen writing a will at a coffee shop, sleeping on a couch, traveling around Mexico, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick sitting at a park while sketching The Rack]], and going to a store to buy a liquor bottle to give as a gift.

* VillainousBreakdown: Cecilia remains remarkably calm and collected throughout the whole game up to her own trap... [[spoiler:until she realizes that she's been OutGambitted]].

* NiceGuy: In a movie where almost every character is either a terrible person or has at least done terrible things, Carlos is a nice, normal kid who [[spoiler: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]].

* NiceGuy: In a movie where almost every character is either a terrible person or has at least done terrible things, Carlos is a nice, normal kid [[spoiler: 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]].

* NiceGuy: In a movie where almost every character is either a terrible person or has at least done terrible things, Carlos is a nice, normal kid [[spoiler: who willingly waterboards himself with blood to protect a man he has met once]].

* BatmanGambit: Jigsaw's plan requires [[spoiler:Cecilia to get to the cell phone and call Parker, which is the only way they could get Parker to the game. It also requires Cecilia and Parker to put John and Amanda in their own trap.]]

* BatmanGambit: Jigsaw's plan requires [[spoiler:Cecilia to get to the cell phone and call Parker, which is the only way they could get Parker to the traps. It also requires Cecilia and Parker to put John and Amanda in their own trap.]]

* BondOneLiner: [[spoiler: Cecilia]] drops one after [[spoiler: breaking Gabriella's neck]].

* BondOneLiner: [[spoiler: Cecilia]] drops one after [[spoiler: severing Gabriella's spine.]]
--> ''Unfortunately... I don't think [[spoiler: she's]] gonna make it.''

* BullyingADragon: Cecilia and her crew have been grifting people with their fake cancer treatments, which is already monstrous. But little did they know they just ripped off ''the Jigsaw Killer''.

* BondOneLiner: [[spoiler: Cecelia]] drops one after [[spoiler: severing Gabriella's spine.]]

** As soon as Diego wakes up in his trap and spots John observing, he screams that he "told [John] what [he] wanted to know". [[spoiler: As the flashbacks later reveal, he ratted out Cecelia and Sears.]]

* Foreshadowing:

** Before Valentina's abduction, [[spoiler: she was in the midst of getting raped by a man who refused to pay her for prostitution services. Said man is shot by Amanda because [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou John wants Valentina to participate in the movie's game]]]].

** All the victims in this movie are willing participants in conning deathly ill cancer patients out of their money while lying about curing them, so they're naturally deserving of some punishment. That said, the nature of their punishment at Jigsaw's hands is much too extreme and some do display varying degrees of guilt or sympathy –- [[spoiler:except Cecilia, who is this trope and then some]].

* ComplexityAddiction: John, as usual for the series. He has Cecilia [[spoiler:and Parker held hostage early on. He could have simply locked them in the poison room. Instead he decides to trick them into the room by pretending not to know Parker is in league with Cecilia, giving him a disarmed gun, allowing him to free her, and then assuming they will both enter the room and leave John and Amanda alive outside of it. This plan also seems to rely on Amanda and himself being placed in the bloodboarding trap meaning he planned to have his apprentice and himself tortured for no reason]].
** John ''has'' to put people in traps, even if it undermines his long term goals. Case in point with Diego, who is kidnapped and tested even before John gets the name of his accomplices, even though if Diego failed, John would never be able to avenge himself.

* {{Fingore}}: In John's [[spoiler:imaginary]] Eye Vacuum Trap, the custodian is tasked to twist a dial using his left hand that will activate a device that breaks the fingers on his right hand one-by-one, in order to prevent the hoses from sucking his eyes out.

* OutGambitted: [[spoiler: Parker is revealed to not actually be another scammed patient but instead someone's partner (and Cecilia's lover) involved in the medical scheme. This is also later in the movie followed up by John and Amanda being revealed to have known about Parker all this time and had intentionally lured him to the building. Likewise, when Parker and Cecilia seemingly have the upper hand over John and Amanda, it was actually all part of the game for John and led to the real final trap for both Cecilia and Parker.]]

* SequelGoesForeign: Or Interquel, rather. Most of the film takes place in Mexico, where Kramer travels to for a supposed experimental cancer treatment. Also, most of his victims here are Mexican.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The trailer's shot of [[spoiler:a monitor showing Cecilia standing besides a beheaded corpse with a floral shirt, which Valentina wears during her trap]], indirectly confirms that [[spoiler:despite Amanda's recommendations, Valentina will not survive her trap]].

* DoorClosesEnding: Inverted. Every other film in the franchise has ended with The Jigsaw Killer himself, an apprentice, or [[Film/Spiral2021 a copycat]] slamming a door closed (or some variant thereof) on the final victim. This film instead ends with John and Amanda opening a pair of double doors, leading to the bright, sunny outdoors as dawn approaches.
* DoubleMeaning: When [[spoiler: Parker Sears arrives at the site of the climactic series of games]], he screams that he's come for his money, [[spoiler: implying that he's yet another cancer patient who was cheated by Cecilia's con. When it turns out that he's in on the con, the meaning of his words changes-- he's come for the money that John and Amanda have taken from Cecilia, and, by proxy, himself]].

* MeaningfulEcho: "Jalar", the Spanish word for "pull". Carlos first teaches the word to John while he's repairing his bike, and it comes back later when [[spoiler:the two of them wind up in the Bloodboard Trap. The trap revolves around its two victims having levers with which they can control the tilt of the elevated floor they're on, and get the pump pouring blood on their face to turn off. John instructs Carlos "No ''jalar''!" several times during the trap]].